An-Magritt

Norway

1969

101 Min

Color

Norwegian, German

Currently 3.0/5 Stars.
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CAST Liv Ullmann, Per Oscarsson, Wolf von Gersum, Claes Gill, Georg Løkkeberg, Lars Tvinde, Elisabeth Bang, Arne Bang-Hansen, Thomas Bergh-Monsen, Finn Bernhoft, Roy Bjørnstad, Erik Melbye Brekke, Oscar Egede-Nissen, Dan Fosse, Alf Malland, Toralf Sandø, Liv Thorsen

MUSIC Gunnar Sønstevold, Maj Sønstevold

An-Magritt is born from rape. She grows up in a small mountain village in Norway in the 17th century. Her mother has comitted suicide, so it is her grandfather who takes care of her in this misogynist society. An-Magritt is alone among the men and has to fight as they do against cold and hunger. —Linternaute

Director

Arne Skouen

Arne Skouen (b. 1913, Oslo) is a legend of Norwegian cinematography. He started out in the 1930s, first as a journalist and dramatist. As a director he debuted in 1949, and over the next twenty years shot 16 more features, many of which had a major influence on the development of Norwegian film. Selected filmography: Street Kids (Gategutter, 1949), Fire in the Night (Det brenner i natt, 1955), Cold Tracks (Kalde spor, 1962), About Tilla (Om Tilla, 1963), An-Magritt (1969). Skouen’s Nine Lives (Ni liv, 1957), proclaimed in 1991 as the best Norwegian film ever made, is one of the country’s few movies to be nominated for an Oscar. An-Magritt is a film adaptation of a Norwegian national work which features an outstanding performance by Liv Ullmann in the title role, and picturesque camerawork by Swedish director of photography Sven Nykvist. —KVIFF