Knut hamsun 1859 1952 was, alongside henrik ibsen, the most famous figure in norwegian literature. Norwegian nobel laureate knut hamsuns controversial support for the nazi regime during ww2 and its consequences. Hamsun published works over an astonishing span of 70 years. Hamsun attempts to answer the questions surrounding the author and his wifes treachery. Knut hamsun august 4, 1859 february 19, 1952 was a norwegian writer who was awarded the nobel prize in literature in 1920. Also in 1997 came the frenchlanguage hamsun adaptation. Russia, the united states, and canada guy maddins 1997 twilight of the ice nymphs. Hamsun is a 1996 internationally coproduced drama film directed by jan troell, about the later. Although the 153 films produced in the decade from 1997 to 2006 vary widely in. The sacrifice was tarkovskys third film as a soviet expatriate, after nostalghia and the documentary voyage in time, and was also his last, as he died shortly. Norwegian nobel laureate knut hamsun s controversial support for the nazi regime during ww2 and its consequences for the hamsun family after the war. He won the nobel prize in literature in 1920, by which time he was probably his nations most internationally famous citizen. Knut hamsun is norways most famous and admired author. Hamsun s work spans more than 70 years and shows variation with regard to consciousness, subject, perspective and environment.
By the time the war erupted, hamsun was an elderly curmudgeon who could barely hear. Known as a traitor in norway, knut hamsun, in this film, is portrayed as a true. As a family man, the film finds hamsun fitting the familiar mode of the detached. His wife marie, who in norway is still more vilified than her husband, also had her reasons to support the german party. Nations producing or coproducing hamsun films include norway, sweden, denmark. Ever since he was young he has hated the english for the starvation they caused norway during wwi. The film is based on a true occurrence in sweden in 1988.
Foreign language film submissions to the 69th academy awards held in 1997 to get an oscar nomination in the best nonenglish movie category. From his olympian heights, deaf to the alarm below the new. He published more than 20 novels, a collection of poetry, some short stories and plays, a travelogue, works of nonfiction and some essays. General question about the swedish film database there are fact errors on the page i would like to add information we strengthen and promote film the swedish film institute has a duty to support production, distribution and screening of valuable film, to preserve and make accessible the swedish film heritage and to represent swedish film abroad. Pdf knut hamsun at the movies in transnational contexts knut.
Hamsun er en dansksvensknorsktysk film fra 1996, instrueret af jan troell. Nilsons condescending conclusion fails to consider hamsuns originality and how his performance as an. Offret is a 1986 drama film written and directed by andrei tarkovsky. He went on to found a truly modern school of fiction with his works pan, mysteries, and. Towards the novels conclusion, the bailiff geissler happily ascertains that the num. In the most recent example troells film hamsun the authors nazism is cast as a per. This center dedicated to hamsun is located above the arctic circle near the village of. Knut hamsun inspired an unusually large number of films in the 1990s. The norwegian novelist knut hamsuns erratic behavior during the 1930s and early. Knut hamsun, norways most inventive twentiethcentury writer, fabricated new forms of expression in his first novel hunger. A profoundly lonely man with hatred of british imperialism, he was an easy target for nazi propaganda. This film mentions his glory days, but takes place. Starring erland josephson, it centers on a middleaged intellectual who attempts to bargain with god to stop an impending nuclear holocaust.
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