Erik Hivju

Erik Hivju

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Hans Nielsen Hauge

Hans Nielsen Hauge

2025

Acting

At the age of 25, Hauge had an experience of God that changed both him and the whole of Norway. Through preaching, writing and publishing their own bo...

Number 24

Number 24

2024

as Gunnar Sønsteby (old)

7.1
Acting

On the brink of the Second World War, a young Norwegian man's drive to resist the Nazis sets a new course for his future – and the future of his count...

Landslagspausen

Landslagspausen

2024

as Butten Tranmo

Acting
The Spy

The Spy

2019

as Sigvald Hansen

6.1
Acting

Sonja Wigert, Scandinavia's most acclaimed female movie star, enlists as a spy for Swedish intelligence but ends up becoming entangled with the German...

The Ash Lad: In Search of the Golden Castle

The Ash Lad: In Search of the Golden Castle

2019

as The King's Doctor

6.5
Acting

When the King and Queen are poisoned, brothers Per and Pål get arrested, suspected of being behind it. Younger brother Espen "Ash Lad" and Princess Kr...

Frozen Memories

Frozen Memories

2018

as Harald

Acting

A retired farmer, battling dementia and the loss of his wife, receives help from his son to realize that life on the farm is no longer what it used to...

Kings Bay

Kings Bay

2017

as Johan Peder Berg

5.8
Acting

21 died in the explosion in the kings bay-accident in Ny-Ålesund in Spitsbergen i 1962. The accident led to the fall of the Norwegian labor party gove...

Santa Swap: Merry Christmas Mr. Andersen

Santa Swap: Merry Christmas Mr. Andersen

2016

as Gamlenissen

5.6
Acting

Carpenter Andersen and Santa Claus makes a deal which saves Christmas for them both.

The King's Choice

The King's Choice

2016

as Birger Eriksen

6.9
Acting

On 9 April 1940, German soldiers arrive in the city of Oslo. The King of Norway faces a choice that will change his country forever. The King's Choic...

Grand Hotel

Grand Hotel

2016

as Gunnar

5.1
Acting

A pompous, aging alcoholic and a tourettes-inflicted ten-year-old boy are forced to spend a week together at a high-end hotel. The only thing these tw...

Mysteriet Holst

Mysteriet Holst

2013

as (Narrator)

6.0
Acting

June 27th, 1945. The norwegian resistance fighter Kai Holst travels to Stockholm. According to witnesses, he's going to "sort something out", and some...

Journey to the Christmas Star

Journey to the Christmas Star

2012

as Forteller (voice)

6.0
Acting

13 year old kind-hearted Sonja arrives at a tiny village together with a company of bandits. But there is a curse on the village. A long time ago, the...

Little Grey Fergie and His New Friend Clunky

Little Grey Fergie and His New Friend Clunky

2011

as Narrator (voice)

7.5
Acting

Little Grey Fergie has settled in on his life on the farm, but sometimes he feels lonely as the only machine. One day a random event brings the metal ...

Flax

2008

Acting

Two hit-men are waiting for their next victim. A fight is evolving - about friendship and a lottery-ticket.

Night of the Wolf

Night of the Wolf

2008

as Secretary of State

5.3
Acting

During a live broadcast of a talk show on a TV channel, a group of armed Chechen terrorists take several hostages. The terrorists demand the hostage d...

Isle of Darkness

Isle of Darkness

1997

as Sheriff Quist

4.0
Acting

Julie is a young and newly qualified teacher from Copenhagen, Denmark. Fed up with her unfaithful boyfriend and big city life, she takes a job as a te...

Blessed Are Those Who Thirst

Blessed Are Those Who Thirst

1997

as Kaldbakken

5.3
Acting

Adapted from a novel by Norway's justice minister Anne Holt. Lesbian policewoman Hanne Wilhelmsen (Kjersti Elvik), who has a live-in lover, tools abou...

1996: Pust på meg!

1996: Pust på meg!

1997

as Luftbader

5.0
Acting

On a day in April 1996, four stories play out in the confines of a flat in the heart of Oslo.

Hamsun

Hamsun

1996

7.2
Acting

Knut Hamsun is Norway's most famous and admired author. Ever since he was young he has hated the English for the starvation they caused Norway during ...

Peer Gynt

Peer Gynt

1993

as Dovregubben

Acting

The classic tale by Henrik Ibsen; a complete opposite of a hero, is banished from his village for his (in)actions. He then travels the world with more...

Frida - Straight from the Heart

Frida - Straight from the Heart

1991

as Fridas far

6.0
Acting

Frida, aged 13, has discovered a book by psychoanalyst Erich Fromm called "The art of loving". Using it as a reference she sets out to better the love...

Karachi

Karachi

1989

as Advokat Finstad

3.9
Acting

Sara Philips is pressured into smuggling 2 kg heroin into Norway. She meets up with the narcotics agent Ted Hansen and lets him use her in a scheme to...

Du kan da ikke bare gå

1985

as Knut

8.0
Acting

Standard Norwegian TV-drama from the 1980's

Farewell Illusions

Farewell Illusions

1985

as Bjarne

3.8
Acting

A harrowing and ironic story about the first big and well educated generation born after WW2, living without any major concerns between 1965 and 1975.

Krypskyttere

Krypskyttere

1982

Acting

A conflict between the Norwegian military and the civilian population during the cold war. A disagreement arises about the right to a military shootin...

Little Ida

Little Ida

1981

as Tysk soldat

5.3
Acting

Little Ida's mother is working for the Germans during WW2, and she is also having a relationship with a German SS-officer. Ida is experiencing the pro...

Arme, syndige menneske

Arme, syndige menneske

1980

as Mentalpasient

2.0
Acting

The alcoholic Oslo journalist Erik Mogensen goes to Copenhagen to make a story about youth and drugs. Inevitably this goes wrong for Erik.

Blood of the Railroad Workers

Blood of the Railroad Workers

1979

as Stinus

2.0
Acting

A group of migratory rail road workers arrive in a small town in Norway, and cause social conflict. One of the men, Sjugur, stands apart as a strong, ...

Operation Cobra

Operation Cobra

1978

as Læreren

5.0
Acting

The US Secretary of State is on an official visit to Oslo. Among other things, the Middle East conflict will be discussed at the meeting. The Norwegia...

Dagny

Dagny

1977

as Knut Hamsun (nie występuje w napisach)

2.0
Acting

Dagny Juell was the doctors daughter who left Kongsvinger for Berlin to study music, and became famous painter Edvard Munchs mistress and model. Than ...

Oss

Oss

1976

as Plyndringsmann

3.0
Acting

Following political upheaval, traditionally poor countries have stopped exporting raw materials. The Western world is entering an economic crisis, whi...

Them and Us

Them and Us

1976

5.8
Acting

Lasse & Geir, two suburban boys in their late teens, kick up a row on the bus into town, making the driver call the police. They get arrested and ...

Closed Ward

Closed Ward

1972

as Harry

5.2
Acting

This black-and-white Norwegian film is a great rarity: a film with comic elements set in a mental ward which does not overstep the bounds of common se...