Marianne Nielsen

Marianne Nielsen

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Marianne Nielsen

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Varg Veum - Sleeping Beauty
Vigdis Halle
After extricating 17-year-old Lisa Halle from a life of prostitution in Copenhagen, private investigator Varg Veum becomes ensnared in a tangle of parental neglect and bad love when he is hired to locate Lisa's boyfriend, Peter Werner.
Comrade Pedersen
Tillitsvalgt
A drama focused on Norwegian society in the 1970s, an era politically influenced by Marxism and Leninism.
Solo
She
An adventure can occur anywhere. Also at the bus stop.
Stop
Mother
A boy witnesses his father lose his temper in the face of a stranger.
Hard asfalt
Åse
This melodrama is based on the best-selling autobiography of Ida Halvorsen, a part-time prostitute with a life that was difficult to survive. Ida (Kristin Kajander) grew up with an alcoholic father, and after she married an alcoholic, her life went from early marital bliss to misery. She had a child during that marriage, took drugs, and turned to prostitution to get the money she needed. Along the way, many characters she met were dangerous and in more than one instance almost killed her. For Norwegians who are familiar with her story, the ending to the film will be recognized as incomplete, the story continues. For other audiences the ending might be a little grim.
Fanny and Alexander
Selma
As children in the loving Ekdahl family, Fanny and Alexander enjoy a happy life with their parents, who run a theater company. After their father dies unexpectedly, however, the siblings end up in a joyless home when their mother, Emilie, marries a stern bishop. The bleak situation gradually grows worse as the bishop becomes more controlling, but dedicated relatives make a valiant attempt to aid Emilie, Fanny and Alexander.
Mordvapen till salu
A man witness an automobile accident. He takes care of one of the survivors. They suspect that something was wrong with the car and track it to a dubious salesman.
The Judge
Krister and his fiancé Brita return to Stockholm after a stay in Italy. Shortly upon their return Krister learns that all his assets left to him by his father has disappeared. Together with Brita he tries to obtain justice in a aristocratic and corrupt legal system.
The Phantom Carriage
The third film adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf's novel of the same name. The drinker David Holm gets killed right on the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve will face the death coachman, which happens to be his old friend Georges. Together, reliving the events of the past, and David becomes aware that he ruined the lives of two women who both loved him.
Pettersson i Annorlunda
Gustav's wife
Swedish propaganda film for the Social Democrats.