Norwegian and Sámi film, music, and TV

Kvitebjørn: Østenfor sol og vestenfor måne (White Bear: East of the Sun and West of the Moon) will be released Christmas 2024.

In the epic fairy tale The White Bear, we meet the fearless and daunting Liv, who longs to leave the valley she lives in. By the mountains she meets the polar bear White Bear, and she becomes both curious about and fascinated by this beautiful creature. In White Bears ice palace, a warm friendship blossoms between the two, because White Bear is not just a bear, he is also the prince Valemon, cursed by a witch who threatens to ruin the entire world. However, can the curse be broken so that they can save the world, and find happiness...? Based on Asbjørnsen and Moe's classic fairytale.

Unofficial translation of the song in the video:

Who is he? Who are you? White Bear, tell me now. You're my friend, of that I believe.

The bear that comes in the day is my friend, I know that now, But what about Valemon? Who is he?

I know nothing about you, While you know all about me. White Bear, Valemon, White Bear, Valemon, Who is he? Yes, who are you?

Yes, who is he? Who are you? You are in the night and the ice, But in a weird way it's like warmth and light oozes from you, like a breeze So what, Valemon? Who are you?

I know nothing about you, While you know all about me White Bear, Valemon, White Bear, Valemon, Who is he? Yes, who are you?

Yes, who are you? Who is he? Yes, who are you? Ugly or beautiful? Kind or cruel? Boring, loving, wise or stupid?

No, I know nothing about you while you know all about me White Bear, Valemon, White Bear, Valemon, Who is he? Yes, who are you?

White Bear, Valemon, White Bear, Valemon, Who is he? Yes, who are you? Who are you…?

Harajuku, 23rd September, 2018.

GENRE: Drama DIRECTOR: Eirik Svensson WRITER: Sebastian Torngren Wartin CAST: Ines Høysæter Asserson, Nicolai Cleve Broch, Ingrid Olava

It is the day before Christmas, and Vilde is with her friends in Oslo S. When she hears that her mother has been in an accident, she is forced to contact her biological father. Vilde tries to escape from everything and everyone with a one-way ticket to Tokyo, but on the way she gets caught in an emotional first meeting with her father.

(Harajuku - Filmweb)

Unofficial translations to the trailer:

VILDE: Mom?

MOM: Oh, oh... Wow, it still works.

WOMAN: Pardon, are you Vilde? We were wondering if you could join us for a moment.

WOMAN: Her... wounds were too grave.

VILDE: No... I’m not going to a foster home. MAN: Is there someone else we can call? What about your father?

VILDE: (in phone) Hello, Einar. It’s Vilde. Something’s happened. WIFE: Is everything all right? FATHER: Yeah...

VILDE: I don’t have a dad.

WOMAN: Vilde, I’m coming in now.

FRIEND: You can’t go to Japan, Vilde. VILDE: Sure I can go to Japan. I can get money, I can get a ticket.

FATHER: Vilde called. WIFE: It might be brutal of me, but you should put that aside and spend Christmas with the family. It is too late.

VILDE: Hi. FATHER: Hi.

FATHER: Do you want to know what it was like?

FATHER: I had to choose.

FATHER: I have a wife, I have two children- VILDE: You have three children.

VILDE: You haven’t even met me for fifteen years.

VILDE: Don’t touch me. FATHER: No, don’t leave.

VILDE: I’m not going anywhere with you. Don’t you get it? NO!

FATHER: Things don’t always turn out the way you plan it.

FATHER: I don’t have any good answer.

For vi er gutta (”Because we are guys”), in cinemas 28th September, 2018.

The title is a reference to Jokke & Valentinerne’s song “Gutta” (Guys).

Every Tuesday, 25 buddies come together to drink beer, tell jokes and... sing off-key. “Mannskoret” was founded by DumDumBoys-vocalist Prepple Houmb and others for almost 15 years ago. Behind closed doors in Kampen Bistro in Oslo, the boys are allowed to be themselves in their own funny freezone, and sing rock and punk, and once every blue moon some “real music”.

Now, Mannskoret have gotten their biggest and most absurd gig: They are going to be the warm-up band for Black Sabbath in front of 10′000 people. However, trouble brews behind the scenes: One of the choir guys have little time left to live and might not even be alive for the big concert. Their running joke, that the choir’s purpose is for the members to sing at each other’s funerals, has suddenly become a reality. Now their love of singing, their humour and their brotherhood have become something bigger than the guys ever imagined.

“For vi er gutta” is an intimate look into a world where tough men find true friendship.

UNOFFICIAL TRANSLATION (taken from subtitles):

MAN: We are Mannskoret. We like to sing and drink beer.

ANNOUNCER: Now the famous Mannskoret is here.

MAN: We also wrote in the rules that we are to sing in each other’s funerals. Which will be a bit of a bummer for the second-to-last guy.

(Mannskoret has gotten the dream job) (They will be warm-up for Black Sabbath)

MAN 2: In June, in the Tons of Rock concert, we will warm up the audience for Black Sabbath.

MAN 3: I think we should sing “Gabriella’s sång”. MAN 4: We have so many women who think that is the greatest song in the world.

CHOIR: (singing Raga Rocker’s “Fritt liv”, “free life”) “Free life!” DIRECTOR: One, two three! CHOIR: “I live as if I was rich, though no money I have // Driving through the city eating caviar. // Living as it suits me and taking what I can get // Ain’t needing a peg to hang my life on.”

DIRECTOR: They always knew that the rules say they will be singing in the funerals of their members. And, as it looks like now, I’m going to be the first man out.

MAN 5: If I had been sick and given the death sentence, I’m not sure if I’d been able to direct a choir. But that’s what he loves to do. MAN: And I think he loves us. MAN 5; And we love him.

MAN 5: We live until he is no longer here, and after... we will see.

MAN 2: You are the boss on this; you decide.

MAN: It’s going to be an amazing concert.

MAN: He is going to keep going until that concert. He is going to be on that scene when it happens.

MAN 6: Krogh has sent me a message where he writes, with no typos: I’ll direct Tons of Rock if I’m not dead.

La meg være ung (”Let Me be Young”) by SERVED.

Unofficially translated lyrics:

Everyone thinks it is about being the best Everyone looks around and thinks “Am I the most beautiful?” I wish that I could be invisible Invisible

Cause the world watches, we never get any peace They look at us through a magnifying glass I feel so naked right now; I’m trying, after all Everyone are so alike and keep me stuck.

(chorus) Let me be the one I want to be Let me fail so I can learn Let me be young Leave me be Leave me be

Let me be young, yeah, yeah Leave me be Leave me be Let me be young, yeah, yeah Leave me be Leave me be

Let me be young Just let me live Just let me walk my own path Just let me say something before you have opinions Let me live my life as me! (end of chorus)

I want to dance till I get dizzy Sleep all night underneath open skies Everyone tries to tell me who I should become But I aint like ‘em.

If the world entire watches Let them see If you don’t like it, you can look away I feel so naked now, but let it be I don’t wanna regret what I didn’t get to do.

Which movie? “Kule kidz gråter ikke” or “Askeladden”? I am sure Askeladden will get official English subtitles in the future, considering its budget and response.

At any rate, I would not be able to subtitle an entire movie. When I made this blog, it was in mind of translating trailers, songs and other things like that, which don’t require as much work and knowledge in video editing. Translating movies or books is too much work at this time, and I don’t know how to distribute those subtitles in a legal way.

I am not that interested in translating entire books in this blog. It is mostly for translating songs, which are much shorter anyway, and to help give meaning to other visual media from Norway by translating trailers’ dialogue and such. Especially since the original Dutch book is about 175 pages.

Askeladden i Dovregubbens hall (The Ash Lad in the Old Man of Dovre’s Hall”) will be released in 29th of September, 2017.

The movie is largely inspired by the Norwegian fairytales of Espen Askeladd, Espen the Ash Lad. A lot of the fairytale imaginary in the movie is inspired by art and poetry over the years.

We are in Norway a long, long time ago. The poor farmer’s son Espen and his brothers go on a dangerous adventure to save the Princess of the kingdom, as the rewards can save the family farm. The Princess is kidnapped by the Old Man of Dovre himself; a horrible troll that is said to be unbeatable.

Unofficial translation of dialogue:

Espen: Oh! I found something, I found something! Per: What did you find this time, ash lad?

Espen: Good morning, brothers! Per: What do you mean, morning? We’ve been up and working since sunrise. Espen: Work isn’t everything in life.

Father: We’ll go hunt. Espen: Can I join? Father and Brothers: NO.

Kristin: I do NOT want to marry!

King: The King ORDERS you to marry Fredrik!

King: KRISTIN!

Man: The King has decreed that the one to find the Princess will get her and half the kingdom. Espen: Is he just going to give her to whoever...? Fredrik: The Princess shall marry me.

Father: You have to find the Princess.

Espen: Saving the Princess is my only hope. Troll Woman: Hmm...

Troll Woman: Forget it! It’s too dangerous! The Old Man of Dovre has her. Espen: Isn’t that just a fairytale? Troll Woman: There is always some truth in all fairytales.

Prist: The Old Man of Dovre...! Woman: It’s just an old myth and you know it.

Fredrik: Tell me where she is! Espen: No.

Per: The Princess isn’t our responsibility! Do you REALLY think she’d want to marry you?

Alle snakker sant (”Everyone speaks the truth”) by Siri Nilsen, from the album of the same name in 2011.

Unofficial translation:

Where will you go when every road leads to a wall and on that wall there are cracks from your head in the past?

Who do you listen to when everyone speaks the truth and say “Listen” and you’ve heard it a thousand times already? And you wonder...

Where will you go? You need a new road, right now

And the trains leave and others manage just fine taking the right train at the right time. You always wake up in the wrong city

How long will hope last when you think you will manage but your feet only know one road? And you wonder...

Where will you go? You need a new road, right now... ...when you don’t have fight left in you anymore. You close your eyes and only see black Your map is blank.

And then, who will you defeat? Who do you have to defeat in duel when the only one you go against is yourself again and again and...?

How many times will you walk the same road, time and again because it’s the only one you know while you ask with your clearest voice: “Where will you go?”?

Rosemari, 9th of September, 2016.

GENRE: Drama AGE RATING: 12 years DIRECTOR: Sara Johnsen WRITER: Sara Johnsen CAST: Ruby Dagnall, Tuva Novotny, Laila Goody

In the middle of her wedding celebration, the doubting bride Unn Tove finds a newborn girl in the hotel’s toilet. She leaves the child to the child welfare.

Sixteen years later, a young and energic girl appears on Unn Tove’s door. It is Rosemari, the baby from the wedding. They decide to find out who her biological parents are.

Together they imagine a story about a young pair who loved each other; an eccentric ex-boxer with an erotic edge and a mother who chose to hide a big secret. This is a touching and fun story about how sex, lies and biology created a beautiful flower, Rosemari.

(Rosemari - 2016 - Filmweb)

UNOFFICIAL TRANSLATION:

UNN TOVE: Hello...?

UNN TOVE: Is she going to be adopted? I mean, she can just live with me. NURSE: It is nice that you care, but as I said, you are not allowed to be here.

ROSEMARI: What do you think? FOSTER MOTHER: She’s cool. ROSEMARI: But do you think we look alike?

ROSEMARI: I’ve lived with the same people in twelve years. I received these papers a couple of weeks ago. UNN TOVE: The only reason my name’s on this, is because it was I who found you. We didn’t find your mother.

ROSEMARI: Maybe she just thought she was going to the toilet, and then I just came out. UNN TOVE: I’ve birthed two children. It really hurts a lot.

UNN’S FRIEND: Why in the world do you want to find her? It could actually be the best thing to happen to a person, to grow up without a mother.

ROSEMARI: Who leaves their child in the toilet? UNN TOVE: Maybe that’s what we’ll find out.

WOMAN: It’s not the first time someone is born in the toilet.

MAN: I’d thought it might be Gypsies, but you don’t really look like that.

ROSEMARI: So you knew my mother? MAN2: She was a phenomenal woman. A really delicious woman.

MAN3: She owed money to people you shouldn’t owe money to.

ROSEMARI: You can’t see her face.

UNN’S FRIEND: You’ve got to remember that genes aren’t everything. Anyway, everyone in Norway is related. There’s been a whole lot of inbreeding...

ROSEMARI: I wish you were my mother.

A new trailer for Kongens nei (”The King’s Rejection”) is out.

UNOFFICIAL TRANSLATION OF TRAILER:

KING: Found you! CHILD: Grandfather! KING: Can you help me find the girls? GIRLS: Harald, you cheat! HARALD: No, I didn’t! KING: He was just helping an old man.

MAN: Your Majesty, foreign warships are on their way through the outer part of Oslo fjord.

GERMAN: Heil Hitler! GERMAN2: Heil Hitler.

SOLDIER: 1200 meters and sinking!

GERMAN: The time has come. GERMAN2: For what?

COMMANDER: Fire!

PRINCE: Are you ready? KING: Where are the children? PRINCE: They are in the car.

GERMAN: Norway is the Fuhrer’s first priority.

KING: What do you mean? WOMAN: That we can’t end up on the wrong side of this war.

KING: Have you heard that the government have escaped?

GERMAN2: Let me negotiate. GERMAN: Then find them! Or we will find them!

PRINCE: They broke their own truce, and now you want to send my father back to the lion’s den?

GERMAN2: Your Majesty. Do You really want the blood of Norwegian men and women on Your hands? GERMAN2: This opportunity will only be offered once. You can save Norway from war, Your Majesty.

MAN: Norway is in war. Germany has only one goal: Get to the King. Our job is to stop the Germans.

PRINCE: I’m going to sign for servie. I will be more useful in the field than here. KING: This is not about what your personally wish or not. PRINCE: Don’t be scared to stand for something. KING: Do not call me scared.

Supervention, 25th of October, 2013.

GENRE: Documentary AGE RATING: Everyone DIRECTOR: Filip Christensen, Even Sigstad, Lasse Nyhaugen, Jan Petter Aarskog

Supervention is a documentary about modern ski and snowboarding. [...] Spectaculare nature film is mixed with raw skiing and snowboarding, personal stories and extreme experiences in nature with snowy action. Follow a clip of the world’s rawest skiers and snowboarders on an intense journey through exotic destinations in Norway, Sweden, Canada, USA and New Zealand. Everything is documented so that you can feel the want for adventure, the joy and the personalities to those involved in the production, before and behind the camera.

Snekker Andersen og julenissen (”Andersen the Carpenter and Santa Claus”), 11th of November, 2016.

Based on a beloved children’s book by famed Alf Prøysen.

GENRE: Family AGE RATING: Everyone DIRECTOR: Terje Rangnes WRITER: John Kåre Raake LANGUAGE: Norwegian/Swedish

Andersen the carpenter is a real Christmas enthusiast who does everything so that the family every year can experience a proper Christmas. And the most important with Christmas is, after all, the famous visit by Santa Claus himself. This Christmas, however, things don’t go as planned. Andersen the Carpenter, clad in Santa Claus costume, slips and crashes into the real Santa Claus. The two of them decide to do an exchange. “I go to your children and you go to mine.” Claus’ family have never been visited by a real carpenter, and Anderson’s family have never been visited by the real Santa Claus.

(Snekker Andersen of julenissen - 2016 - Filmweb)

UNOFFICIAL TRANSLATION OF TRAILER: Note: Andersen speaks with a heavy dialect, so for Americans it might equal to the southern accent.

(One of our most beloved Christmas tales)

ANDERSEN: You can keep a secret, right? SON: Yes. ANDERSEN: That’s good, because this... this is a really big one.

(The story of a magical meeting) (That has entertained many Norwegians through generations)

 Gilberts grusomme hevn (”Gilbert’s Horrible Revenge”), 16th of September, 2016.

Based on the book Eggg (”Egggs”) by Stein Erik Lunde.

GENRE: Comedy AGE RATING: Everyone. DIRECTOR: Hanne Larsen WRITER: Hanne Larsen, Kathrine Valen Zeiner CAST: Simon Hobbel Rosendahl, Gisken Armand, Hannah Dybvand, Frida Hallgren, Egil Hegeberg, Sindre-Bendict Hendricks

Gilbert and eggs are not a good combination. For Gilbert, the egg allergy have brought him only bullying and humiliation. When Gilbert and his family move, he does everything he can to keep the allergy secret for his new friends, especially Line, the girl next door, who is captein of the hockey team. However, when the really egoistic aunt Doris appears as a babysitter the week before Christmas, Gilbert’s new living condition goes literally to the toilet. The aunt gives him egg on purpose! Gilbert soon learns that attack is the best defence and he creates an unbelievably revenge-driven plan for Christmas eve.

(Grand Hotel - 2015 - Filmweb)

UNOFFICIAL TRANSLATION OF THE TRAILER:

GILBERT: My name is Gilbert, I might be the most egg-allergic person in the world. To be Gilbert would be weird enough, but to be Vomit-bert was impossible. KIDS: Vomit-bert! Vomit-bert! GILBERT: So when Mom got a new job, I got a new chance, in a new place.

LINE: Hello. Uh... I’m going to have a birthday party...

MOTHER: But that won’t work, Gilbert, we’re going to travel. GILBERT: But I can be home alone. MOTHER: What? FATHER: Well, anyway, we can’t get a babysitter right now. MOTHER: We can ask your sister, though? FATHER: Doris?!

DORIS: You know what, we’re gonna have a real home party!

FATHER: You remember that he is egg-allergic, right?

GILBERT: What... is it really with Doris? DORIS: (Aaagh, that’s how much it hurst!) FATHER: She is... lonely and... DORIS: Here I am, and there you are. Best friends, you know.

DORIS: You don’t have to go to that birthday party, you know. GILBERT: But I AM going to that party, right...?

DORIS: Aren’t you going to bring your egg cake?

DORIS: I’m dying, Gilbert, I’m dying! GILBERT: But I’m off to train!

DORIS: Lies and deception, Gilbert, are the worst I know.

DORIS: Hahah! It’s a relief that it’s only egg and sugar! GILBERT: Monster-face...

GILBERT: If Aunt Doris wanted war, that was what she was going to get.

LINE: Have you turned CRAZY?!

(kindle liquid + super-hot chili)

Kongens nei (”The King’s Rejection”), 23rd of September, 2016.

GENRE: Drama/War AGE RATING: N/A DIRECTOR: Erik Poppe WRITER: Harald Rosenløw Eeg, Jan Trygve Røyneland LANGUAGE: Norwegian/Danish CAST: Jesper Christensen, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Tuva Novotny, Sofie Falkgård, Ingrid Ross Raftemo, Magnus Ketilsson Dobbe, Lage Kongsrud, Karl Markovics, Katharina Schüttler, Ketil Høegh, Gerald Pettersen, Jan Frostad, Hans Jacob Sand, Erik Hivju, Rolf Kristian Larsen

“Kongens nei” is about the three suspensful days and nights in April 1940, where the Norwegian king receives an impossible ultimatum from the German warforce: Surrender or die.

With German planes and soldiers at their heels, the royal family is forced to flee. They decide to split without knowing if they will ever see each other again. Crown princess Märtha travels with the children to Sweden, while King Haakon and Crown prince Olav stay in Norway to continue the battle.

After three days of running, King Haakon realizes his final decision. He refuses to capilate even if it might cost the lives of himself, his family and many innocent Norwegians.

(Kongens nei - 2015 - Filmweb)

UNOFFICIAL TRANSLATION OF TRAILER

ADMIRAL: Commanding admiral reports: Tonight German warships have passed the fortress of Oslofjord. At 04.30 there have been reports of intense fighting with the fortress’ batteries.

MAN: The cars are waiting, father. We have to leave now.

HAAKON: Where do we stand, military-wise?

MAN: “Surprising”? You mean that all this seems suprising to you?

NAZI: Heil Hitler.

MAN: It’s only been hours since they shot our soldiers in an attempt at getting to us-... to His Majesty the King.

A new trailer for Løvekvinnen (”The Lion Woman”).

UNOFFICIAL TRANSLATION OF TRAILER:

GUSTAV: What happened?

GUSTAV: I can’t lose her. You have to promise you’ll do all you can.

DOCTOR: I’m sorry. But the child is alive. GUSTAV: That is no child.

GUSTAV: Is there really nothing you can do? DOCTOR: Unfortunately. We just have to hope it will fall off.

MAN: Dr. Levin has found a wet nurse. MAN2: She really needs this job.

WOMAN: Watch over her.

DOCTOR2: Amazing. GUSTAV: But all that hair, when will it go away? DOCTOR2: It will never go away.

GUSTAV: She shall never be closer to the window than this. Understand? WET NURSE: I understand.

EVA: No!

WET NURSE: She can’t be alone so much, it isn’t healthy! GUSTAV: She isn’t lonely, she has us.

EVA: I love you.

EVA: Gnisten!

EVA: Just let them...

EVA: If only I had been as pretty as you. WOMAN: When you are young, you believe that beauty is life itself. But what is beauty, really?

(A unique person) (An amazing life) (An unforgettable movie)