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Morten Tyldum Morten Tyldum (born 19 May 1967) is a Norwegian film director. He is best known for directing internationally successful films such as "Headhunters" (2011), a thriller based on a novel by Jo Nesbø, and "The Imitation Game" (2014), a historical drama for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director.
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Headhunters (film) Headhunters (Norwegian: "Hodejegerne" ) is a 2011 Norwegian action thriller film, based on the 2008 novel of the same name by Jo Nesbø. The film was directed by Morten Tyldum and stars Aksel Hennie, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Synnøve Macody Lund. Hennie portrays the successful but insecure corporate recruiter Roger Brown who lives a double life as an art thief to fund his lavish lifestyle. He finds out that one of his job prospects is in possession of a valuable painting and sets out to steal it.
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Marit Haugan Marit Haugan was a Norwegian movie actress. She is best remembered for appearing in the role of Anne, the servant girl, in the comedy - thriller film "Simen Mustrøens besynderlige opplevelser" (released September 20, 1926) by silent film director Harry Iverson. The movie was based upon the novel of the same name written by Norwegian author, Johan Petter Falkberget.
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The Viking (1928 film) The Viking (1928) was the first feature-length Technicolor film that featured a soundtrack, and the first film made in Technicolor's Process 3. It stars Pauline Starke, Donald Crisp and LeRoy Mason. The film is based on the novel "The Thrall of Leif the Lucky".
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Wayfarers (film) Wayfarers (Norwegian: "Landstrykere" ) is a 1989 Norwegian feature film directed by Ola Solum. The screenplay was written by Hans Lindgren, Lars Saabye Christensen, and Solum. It is based on the 1927 novel "Wayfarers" by Knut Hamsun. The film depicts Nordland during the transition between the era of the "privileged traders" and modernity in the 1860s.
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Sandor slash Ida (film) Sandor slash Ida is a Swedish tragicomedy which was released to cinemas in Sweden on 4 February 2005, directed by Henrik Georgsson, starring Aliette Opheim and Andrej Lunusjkin. It is based on the in Sweden best selling novel Sandor slash Ida by Sara Kadefors. It is one of a few Swedish youth movies from the 2000s.
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The Brothers Lionheart (1977 film) The Brothers Lionheart (Swedish: Bröderna Lejonhjärta ) is a Swedish fantasy film which was released to cinemas in Sweden on 23 September 1977, directed by Olle Hellbom and based on the book with the same name, written by Astrid Lindgren. It won Sweden's Guldbagge Award for Best Director in 1978.
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Audition (novel) Audition (オーディション ) is a Japanese novel by Ryu Murakami published in 1997 and published in English in 2009. It was the basis for the film by Takashi Miike released in 1999 and an upcoming English-language film adaptation.
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Don't Look Back (novel) Don't Look Back (Norwegian: "Se deg ikke tilbake!" , 1996) is a novel by Norwegian writer Karin Fossum, the second to feature Inspector Konrad Sejer. The novel is the first book of Fossum which was translated into English. It won the Glass Key Award in 1997. It was filmed in 2007 as "La ragazza del lago" (aka "The Girl by the Lake").
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The Virgin Suicides The Virgin Suicides is the 1993 debut novel by American writer Jeffrey Eugenides. The fictional story, which is set in Grosse Pointe, Michigan during the 1970s, centers on the lives of five sisters, the Lisbon girls. The novel is written in first person plural from the perspective of an anonymous group of teenage boys who struggle to find an explanation for the Lisbons' deaths. The book's first chapter appeared in "The Paris Review" in 1990, and won the 1991 Aga Khan Prize for Fiction. Eugenides told "3am Magazine": "I think that if my name hadn't been Eugenides, people wouldn't have called the narrator a Greek chorus". The novel was adapted into a 1999 movie by director Sofia Coppola.
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In Your Veins In Your Veins is a 2009 Swedish/Norwegian drama film. It is based on the autobiographical novel by Lotta Thell. The film adaption was produced by Anna Croneman and directed by Beata Gårdeler, with the screenplay written by Karin Arrhenius. Its Swedish language title is "I skuggan av värmen", which approximately translates to "In the shadow of the warmth".
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Chemmeen (novel) Chemmeen (Malayalam: ചെമ്മീൻ , cemmīn ] , lit. prawn) is a Malayalam novel written by Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai in 1956. "Chemmeen" tells the story of the relationship between Karuthamma, the daughter of a Hindu fisherman, and Pareekutti, the son of a Muslim fish wholesaler. The theme of the novel is a myth among the fishermen communities along the coastal Kerala State in the Southern India. The myth is about chastity. If the married fisher woman was infidel when her husband was in the sea, the Sea Goddess ("Kadalamma" literally means Mother Sea) would consume him. It is to perpetuate this myth that Thakazhi wrote this beautiful novel. It was adapted into a film of same name, which won critical acclaim and commercial success.
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Offspring (2009 film) Offspring is a horror film about survivors of a feral flesh-eating clan who abduct locals. It is based on the novel of the same name by Jack Ketchum, which is itself the sequel to "Off Season". Pollyanna McIntosh reprises her role in the sequel, "The Woman". Before he began to direct the film, a friend of van den Houten's specifically requested that he keep The Woman alive so she could appear in a sequel. The cannibals in this film speak a language of grunts which is subtitled for the viewer. This did not happen in the sequel, as it only contains one of them.
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Simon and the Oaks Simon and the Oaks (Swedish: Simon och ekarna) is a 1985 novel by Marianne Fredriksson. The book is set predominantly during the 1940s and uses the persecution of Jewish people during World War II as a backdrop. The book was later adapted into a Guldbagge Award-winning feature film by the same name starring Bill Skarsgård. After its release "Simon and the Oaks" became a bestseller and has since been translated into 25 languages.
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The Fated Sky The Fated Sky is the title of a historical novel for young adults by English author Henrietta Branford, first published in Great Britain in 1996 by Hodder Children's Books. Set in Norway and Iceland during the Viking period, it depicts the stirring but bleak existence of Dark Age Europeans at a time of insecurity and constant threat from raiders. The story follows a young woman called Ran from the time she loses her mother in a wolf attack, and a subsequent attempt to kill her as a human sacrifice, to her escape with a blind harper, Toki, to a new life in Iceland. Even there however the threat of sudden violence hangs over small and isolated farming communities. The book does not dwell on bloodshed but is honest about the hardship, unpredictability and cruelty of the period, showing even sympathetic central characters as not immune to painful death. Moral choices are also at times difficult.
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Tokyo Fiancée Tokyo Fiancée (French: Ni d'Ève ni d'Adam "Neither Eve nor Adam") is a novel by the Belgian writer Amélie Nothomb. It appeared on 20 August 2007 published by Éditions Albin Michel. A film adaptation was released in 2014.
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Pole Poppenspäler (1954 film) Pole Poppenspäler is an East German film. It was released in 1954. It is based on the 1874 novel "Pole Poppenspäler" by 19th-century German author Theodor Storm.
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Peter Schønau Fog Peter Schønau Fog (born 20 April 1971) is a Danish film director. Fog's debut feature film, "Kunsten at græde i kor" (English: "The Art of Crying"), based on Erling Jepsen's novel of the same name, premiered 27 April 2007 and received critical acclaim. For the film, he received the Nordic Council Film Prize for Best Film of 2007 as well as the 2007 Robert Award for Best Danish Film and 2008 Bodil Award for Best Danish Film.
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Nightwing (novel) Nightwing is a 1977 thriller novel by Martin Cruz Smith, who adapted it for a 1979 film with the same title directed by Arthur Hiller.
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Jar City (film) Jar City (Icelandic: Mýrin – "The Bog") is a 2006 Icelandic film directed by Baltasar Kormákur. It is based on "Mýrin", a novel written by Arnaldur Indriðason and released in English as "Jar City".
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To levende og en død (novel) The novel has been turned into feature films on three occasions: a 1937 Norwegian film "To levende og en død" was made, directed by Gyda Christensen and Tancred Ibsen, a 1947 Czech film "A Dead Man Among the Living" directed by Borivoj Zeman and a 1961 British-Swedish film "Two Living, One Dead" directed by Anthony Asquith.
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To levende og en død (film) To levende og en død is a 1937 Norwegian thriller film directed by Gyda Christensen and Tancred Ibsen and starring Hans Jacob Nilsen, Unni Torkildsen and Jan Vaage. It is based on the 1931 novel "To levende og en død" by Sigurd Christiansen. A post office worker is left wrestling with his conscience following a robbery at his workplace.