Jan Trygve Røyneland

History

Jan Trygve Røyneland is a Norwegian television and film writer.

Movies

The Spy
Writer
Sonja Wigert, Scandinavia's most acclaimed female movie star, enlists as a spy for Swedish intelligence but ends up becoming entangled with the German Reichskommissar Terboven.
Utøya: July 22
Script Consultant
The movie tells the story about a girl who has to hide and survive from a right wing terrorist while looking for her little sister during the terrorist attacks in Norway on the island Utøya, July 22nd.
Twigson the Explorer
Writer
Lillebror moves with Twigson and his family to the western part of Norway, but he dreams of even bigger expeditions, like going to the North Pole.
The King's Choice
Screenplay
On 9 April 1940, German soldiers arrive in the city of Oslo. The King of Norway faces a choice that will change his country forever. The King's Choice is a story about the three most dramatic days in Norway's history, the royal family's escape and King Haakon's difficult choice after Nazi Germany's invasion of Norway.
A Thousand Times Good Night
Co-Writer
On assignment while photographing a female suicide bomber in Kabul, Rebecca – one of the world’s top war photojournalists - gets badly hurt. Back home, another bomb drops as her husband and daughters give her an ultimatum: her work or her family.