Knut Erik Jensen

Knut Erik Jensen

Birth : 1940-10-08, Honningsvåg, Norway

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Knut Erik Jensen

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Darkness
Writer
Local citizens are gathered at the dock of a small fishing village. Hitler has decided that they shall all be forcefully evacuated. A girl witnesses and experiences a catastrophe again.
Darkness
Director
Local citizens are gathered at the dock of a small fishing village. Hitler has decided that they shall all be forcefully evacuated. A girl witnesses and experiences a catastrophe again.
The Memorial
Director
A young couple roams through a landscape of ruins, devasted by war. Time seems to disappear to remind us that what has already taken place can happen again.
Du må våkne
"Du må våkne" (You must wake up) is the only dialogue line in the feature film STELLA POLARIS, by the Norwegian director Knut Erik Jensen. An experimental portrait of the director in the reflections in the windows of a train.
Morgen
Director
A surreal portrait of the landscape of Finnmark, Norway
Avalanche Forest
Director
In the Avalanche forest, a boy and a girl give free rein to their dreams and imagination. Past and present intertwine, time fades.
My Home in Honningsvag
Director
This is a music film: ”When I am chilled by the sun, and burnt by frost, when I feel everything is lost. There is still a light burning in the fog, My home in Honningsvag...”
Livets Røst
Writer
An ambivalent, vague and nostalgic journey into the night; a woman and a man move dream-like down a desolate Hollywood Boulevard.
Livets Røst
Director
An ambivalent, vague and nostalgic journey into the night; a woman and a man move dream-like down a desolate Hollywood Boulevard.
Det akutte menneske
Cinematography
The acute man is a film about hope and despair. It is the story of idealism and arrogance of power, a story of friendship across borders and religions. But above all it is the story of a person who refuses to give in, a doctor who has a goal to work for.
Det akutte menneske
Director
The acute man is a film about hope and despair. It is the story of idealism and arrogance of power, a story of friendship across borders and religions. But above all it is the story of a person who refuses to give in, a doctor who has a goal to work for.
Iskyss
Director
Iskyss is a strong and poetic love story based on Gunvor Galtung Haavik’s double life through 30 years. During the Cold War, she was employed by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and assigned to the Norwegian Embassy in Moscow. With the information she had access to in the capacity of her position as interpreter and secretary, she frequently fed the KGB secret information.
På hau' i havet
Writer
A fresh and colorful meet with the local revue on the island Magerøya in Finnmark county in North-Norway. We get to know all the local people in the revue - old, young, women and men - and hear their own stories.
På hau' i havet
Director
A fresh and colorful meet with the local revue on the island Magerøya in Finnmark county in North-Norway. We get to know all the local people in the revue - old, young, women and men - and hear their own stories.
Cool & Crazy On The Road
Director
A follow up to the original "Cool and Crazy" about the mens choir in Berlevåg in Northern Norway. Here they go on a trip to the United States, after being famous as a result of the first movie.
Cool & Crazy
Director
Men in an isolated fishing village on Norway's North Cape find an outlet in song.
Når mørket er forbi
Writer
"Passing Darkness" - Oslo lawyer Josef Omgang returns to his native village on the Finnmark coast, where he finds his father's seafood company in trouble. International buyers have started trawling the market, and Josef realizes that the vital natural resources are in the hands of organized crime.
Når mørket er forbi
Director
"Passing Darkness" - Oslo lawyer Josef Omgang returns to his native village on the Finnmark coast, where he finds his father's seafood company in trouble. International buyers have started trawling the market, and Josef realizes that the vital natural resources are in the hands of organized crime.
Rosornas väg
Director
A love affair between a Swedish nurse and a Russian prisoner of war during World War II.
Burnt by Frost
Writer
When is an enemy not an enemy, when is an ally not an ally? The answer to these questions determines the fate of a man. Simons struggle is played out against the rugged landscape of northern Norway. Raised in a close-knit community, he bears the scars of a childhood haunted by rumors. During World War II, the Russians and Americans become a presence in this remote landscape, which will have far-ranging consequences. Victimized by rumor and Norways shifting political allegiances, Simon is denied the final reconciliation he longs for with his community and with himself. When the Berlin Wall falls, his life is once more turned upside down.
Burnt by Frost
Director
When is an enemy not an enemy, when is an ally not an ally? The answer to these questions determines the fate of a man. Simons struggle is played out against the rugged landscape of northern Norway. Raised in a close-knit community, he bears the scars of a childhood haunted by rumors. During World War II, the Russians and Americans become a presence in this remote landscape, which will have far-ranging consequences. Victimized by rumor and Norways shifting political allegiances, Simon is denied the final reconciliation he longs for with his community and with himself. When the Berlin Wall falls, his life is once more turned upside down.
Stella Polaris
Writer
Knut Erik Jensen's personal visual poem, an Elegy for a culture that no longer exists. Stella Polaris is a personal document in fiction form of a bygone era and culture in the northernmost part of Norway. At the same time described the current Finnmark in the scene from our own time. The story is narrated by a woman's eyes, both as children in the busy fishing village and as an adult in the present. She returns to the birthplace and remember how life was before the fishing village was closed. Love story between her and her childhood friend is central to the action. 'Stella Polaris' is in the form of associative told with an unconventional dramaturgy.
Stella Polaris
Director
Knut Erik Jensen's personal visual poem, an Elegy for a culture that no longer exists. Stella Polaris is a personal document in fiction form of a bygone era and culture in the northernmost part of Norway. At the same time described the current Finnmark in the scene from our own time. The story is narrated by a woman's eyes, both as children in the busy fishing village and as an adult in the present. She returns to the birthplace and remember how life was before the fishing village was closed. Love story between her and her childhood friend is central to the action. 'Stella Polaris' is in the form of associative told with an unconventional dramaturgy.
Oluf
Co-Director
What Does It Mean to Be Human?
Cinematography
A film that conveys some of Peter Wessel Zapffe’s philosophical ideas.
Svart hav
Assistant Director
In a dystopian future set in the northern part of Norway, a big corporation have stripped the sea of fish leaving locals without food and income.
Longing for Today
Writer
A young girl tries to find her own way through life in the ruins after a war that has left everything desolate.
Longing for Today
Director
A young girl tries to find her own way through life in the ruins after a war that has left everything desolate.