Lars Saabye Christensen

For ten years, Bent has had his hair cut at Frank's Barber's Shop. He has also faithfully brought his father dinner every day, and he is never absent from work. In short, Bent lives a rather stable and predictable life. One day Susuie moves into the neighbourhood with her aroma-therapy practice. Frank the haridresser is instantly sceptical towards the newcomer... (nfi.no)

A man facing surgery finds comfort in the painting of a pig hanging in his hospital room. (oscar.com)

The story concerns Edevart (Trond Peter Stamso Munch), a young man who is learning about life and his place in it. He at first takes up with August (Helge Jordal), a charming trader who is at least half con-man. After trailing along with him for a while, he decides that August is not a man he wants to model his life after. He becomes acquainted with and falls in love with Lovise Margrete (Marika Lagercrantz) a woman living alone on a sheep farm. (allmovie.com)

Ove Rolandsen (Bjørn Floberg) is preoccupied with getting ahead in the world, and having a bit of fun while he does that. It's 1903, and he works as a telegraph operator in a town on the northern coast of Norway. He'd also like to marry Elise (Marie Richardson), the daughter of a local factory owner, but there are two obstacles. In the first place, she is the fiancee of a ship-owner whose connections are useful to her father's business. In the second place, he's not very well off. (allmovie.com)

On the boys home Bastoy, a new inmate leads the boys to a violent uprising against a brutal regime. How far is he willing to go to attain freedom?

"Herman", based on Lars Saabye Christensen's novel of the same name, tells the story of the young boy Herman who suddenly loses his hair and becomes bald at the age of eleven. He follows him through what is a very difficult period in his life, through big mood swings and irrational behaviour until he finally learns to accept himself for who he is. (imdb)

Otto's family isn't going away for the summer break like almost everyone else in town. His parents can't afford it. He finds himself alone until an older mysterious stranger named Frank shows up. With no others his own age around, Otto begins to glimpse the world of the adults around him. (imdb)

When Adrian confirms a terrible family secret, he plans a destructive counter attack which proves fatal.

Irony abounds in this comical Norwegian story of two comedians married to each other. At first husband Stig is the star, a stand-up comic noted for his bawdy monologues and cutting remarks about his many friends and acquaintances. He loves his career and has a great time until the terrible night that his greatest fan, a stuffy insurance broker laughs himself to death in the audience. After that poor Stig cannot perform without seeing the broker's face staring back. (imdb)

Poetry video built over poems by Lars Saabye Christensen.