Alf Malland Movies
- 1987
A Norwegian doctor is pursued by NATO agents when he uncovers evidence of a radiation leak in this political exploitation thriller. He is chased by police in cahoots with the military who want to silence him from revealing the fact that a ship in the Arctic Circle is doomed to radioactive destruction. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi
- Starring:
- Sverre Anker Ousdal, Ewa Carlsson, (more)
Sean Connery stars in Caspar Wrede's hostage melodrama, featuring lustrous cinematography by Sven Nykvist. A group of terrorists hijack an airplane and hold the passengers at bay until political prisoners are released. Sent in to stop them is Scandinavian government agent Nils Tahlvik (Sean Connery). The ensuing battle-of-wills gives the terrorists the edge. But when they try to make it out of the country, Nils is after them in hot pursuit. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi
- Starring:
- Sean Connery, Ian McShane, (more)
- 1971
In this film, Norwegian writer, director, cameraman and musician Ragnar Lasse has fashioned an intricate, exquisitely photographed and multilayered examination of the lives, problems and relationships of a father and this two children, a boy and a girl. The story ranges over a wide time period and is covered in multiple flashbacks and from a number of different points of view. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- 1971
Alexander Solzhenitsyn's novel about brutal individual survival in a Russian labor camp in the 1950s is brought to the screen in this stark and spare adaptation by director Caspar Wrede, writer Ronald Harwood, and cinematographer Sven Nykvist. Tom Courtenay is Ivan, who is a prisoner in the eighth year of a ten-year sentence at a Siberian labor camp. Ivan's day consists of small accomplishments that enable Ivan to retain his humanity during conditions of extreme oppression -- he does not get sick, he grabs an extra smoke, he discovers a saw, and he helps to work on a concrete wall. When he prepares for sleep, Ivan is contented that the guards have not beaten him and that he has gotten through the day in one piece. And tomorrow morning, Ivan must start all over again. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi
- Starring:
- Tom Courtenay, Espen Skjønberg, (more)
