Based on the awards winning novel by Tarjei Vesaas, The Birds tells the tale of Mattis, a mentally disabled man cared for by his lonely older sister, Hege. Their routine, isolated existence is interrupted when a lumberjack arrives at their lakeside cottage and falls in love with Hege, leaving Mattis fearful that he will lose his sister. With a limited understanding of the unpre...
This drama is an attempt to bring to the screen the 1927 Nobel Prize-winning novel of Norwegian Knut Hamsen, Landstrykere. The story concerns Edevart (Trond Peter Stamso Munch), a young man who is learning about life an his place in it. In the story, he at first takes up with August (Helge Jordal), a charming trader who is at least half con-man. After trailing along with him fo...
1820年冬天瑞典北部的一个小镇，神秘的魔法师师梅斯纳想得到受人尊敬的瑟兰德博士的信任，博士要信任这个奇怪的医治者的动机是：他美丽的女儿玛利亚从小就双目失明，而任何科学都解释不了这种现象，当魔法师神奇地恢复了她的视力时，他不仅获得了镇上居民的尊敬，还赢得了玛利亚的心。但是这种成功和崇拜产生了其它的东西——嫉妒，极度的热情和对权利的贪欲。当梅斯纳冷漠在慢慢走过时，这一切是那么的明显。
魔法师真的赋有神奇的力量吗？或者他是一个高明的骗子？也许两者都是，或者更多：一个个处处寻觅的人厌倦了自己的斗争，开始寻找爱情和休息，但是如果病人不是被药物治好的，真相是否比治愈更重要呢？
"The subject of "Wives" is that of those who here consider themselves a subject-race: women. It is a Norwegian film that makes its points far more effectively on behalf of that downtrodden species - the film's suggestion, not mine - because it can afford to joke about its ideas.... And it also see that men, too, have their problems in the way society sees the martial state.
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