Sven Nordin

Sven Nordin

1957-02-06 Oslo, Norway 34 Credits

Biography

This Norwegian actor is an employee of Oslo Nye Teater (Oslo's New Theatre) since 1981. On stage he has starred in everything from Shakespeare to modern drama like Tennessee William's The Glass Menagerie, and musicals like Guys and Dolls. Got his big breakthrough as a Norwegian resistance fighter in the suspenseful WWII mini-series "Röd snö" in 1985. In 1993-97 he starred as Nils in "Mot i brøstet", if not the best, certainly one of the most popular Norwegian sitcom's off all time, even resultin...

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Mot i brøstet – 30th Anniversary

Mot i brøstet – 30th Anniversary

2023

as Himself

Acting

A 30th anniversary special celebrating the Norwegian sitcom Mot i brøstet. Actors Nils Vogt, Sven Nordin and Hilde Lyrån share their memories.

Gold Run

Gold Run

2022

as Odd Henry

6.5
Acting

Fredrik isn’t the bravest of men, but now he is faced with a great responsibility and an enormous task - to get the entire Norwegian gold reserve away...

Asphalt Burning

Asphalt Burning

2020

as Doffen

5.5
Acting

The third and final instalment in the Burnout trilogy. This time, the road leads through Norway, to Sweden, Denmark and finally Germany to race on the...

Burning 2

Burning 2

2016

as Doffen

6.3
Acting

After two years in prison for participating in an illegal street race, Roy says no to a new illegal winter race from Bergen to Murmansk. But then he h...

A Serious Game

A Serious Game

2016

as Markus Roslin

5.7
Acting

In the 1910s, journalist Arvid Stjärnblom and painter's daughter Lydia Stille fall in love with each other.

Gentlemen

Gentlemen

2014

as Förläggare Franzén

6.4
Acting

Beaten up, bruised, and scared, a young writer hides in a Stockholm apartment, writing the story of its disappeared inhabitants: the flamboyant and ch...

Burning

Burning

2014

as Doffen

6.3
Acting

For all who remember Cannonball Run. Here is a modern twist on the subject. The longest, wildest and funniest car race, ever. From Oslo to the North C...

Detective Downs

Detective Downs

2013

as Olav Stjernen

5.2
Acting

Detective Robert has his own office, a trench coat, a Bogart hat and Downs syndrome. The only thing he is missing is a case. Then a lady comes to his ...

Call Girl

Call Girl

2012

as Glenn

6.3
Acting

Stockholm, late 1970s. Within a stone’s throw of government buildings and juvenile homes lies the seductive world of sex clubs, discotheques and priva...

Two Lives

Two Lives

2012

as Bjarte

6.6
Acting

Europe 1990, the Berlin wall has just crumbled: Katrine, raised in East Germany, but now living in Norway for the last 20 years, is a “war child”; the...

An Enemy to Die For

An Enemy to Die For

2012

as Captain

5.7
Acting

Despite the threat of war in the fall of 1939, the Germans decide to launch a sea expedition in search of evidence for Pangaea. Although the multi nat...

Sons of Norway

Sons of Norway

2011

as Magnus

6.7
Acting

It’s not easy to rebel when your dad wants to join the party... One day (in 1979), Magnus and his son Nikolaj hit the wall in their new terrace house ...

Shameless

Shameless

2010

as Førstebetjent Ahlsen

5.3
Acting

It's the summer of 1951 in Oslo. Lillian and Amund Wang are blessed with their first and only child. Adrian Wang - a boy or a girl?

Wallander: The Heritage

Wallander: The Heritage

2010

as Manfred

4.8
Acting

When Manfred Stjarne is stabbed to death outside the Brada cider factory his wife Claire has inherited - suspicion falls on Polish worker Jan Kowalski...

The Accident

The Accident

2009

as Espen

Acting

Jonas, a successful car-salesman is being suspected having driven over a child. His life is turned upside down and he realize that that we are all res...

Peer Gynt from the Streets

Peer Gynt from the Streets

2008

as Dialogtrener

Acting

A group of street people plays in a cinematographic version of the 5th act of Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt. The movie contains both fiction and docum...

Ole Bull - Himmelstormeren

2006

as Storyteller

7.5
Acting

The violinist Ole Bull was Norway's first superstar. He played at the top of the Great Pyramid of Giza, founded the first Norwegian theater and his ow...

Love Me Tomorrow

Love Me Tomorrow

2005

as Kjell Bjarne

6.8
Acting

Three years have passed since Elling moved to town together with Kjell Bjarne, his roommate from the institution at Brøynes. Elling now lives on his o...

An Enemy of the People

An Enemy of the People

2005

as Peter Stockman

6.1
Acting

In a modern version of Ibsen's stage play, we meet TV-celebrity Tomas Stockman returning to his native village to produce the world's purest bottled w...

Deadline Torp

Deadline Torp

2005

as Per Kristian Hoveng

4.7
Acting

On September 28th, 1994, two Swedish men robbed a bank in the small Norwegian town of Larvik. Soon, with a massive police hunt underway, the robbers e...

Let's Play House

Let's Play House

2003

as Ivar

6.0
Acting

Married Jonny meets married Rebecka.

The Sea

The Sea

2002

as Morten

6.4
Acting

Wealthy, aging patriarch Thordur assembles his scattered heirs in his remote Icelandic fishing village to discuss the future of the family fishery. Bu...

Most People Live in China

Most People Live in China

2002

as Marius (segment "Dressmann")

6.0
Acting

A movie inspired by eight Norwegian political parties, written by six writers and directed by nine directors: a man gets a nasty surprise skinny dippi...

I Am Dina

I Am Dina

2002

as Prison Gov.

5.5
Acting

In Northern Norway during the 1860s, a little girl named Dina accidentally causes her mother's death. Overcome with grief, her father refuses to raise...

Elling

Elling

2001

as Kjell Bjarne

7.2
Acting

40-year-old Elling, sensitive, would-be poet, is sent to live in a state institution when his mother, who has sheltered him his entire life, dies. The...

Tusenårsfesten

Tusenårsfesten

1999

as Nils Svendsen

5.4
Acting

As the new millenium approaches, Karl & Ulf ('Karl & Co') begin planning a big party, reuniting Karl with some old friends he thought he'd seen the la...

Eva's Eye

Eva's Eye

1999

as Jostein Magnus

3.8
Acting

While Eva Magnus and her daughter, Jenny, are taking a walk, they discover a dead body floating along the riverside. Eva runs to the nearest phone boo...

The Prompter

The Prompter

1999

as Fred

6.8
Acting

Siv works as a prompter for the Norwegian opera. As the rehearsals for Aida starts, she marries a demanding man, Fred, who still has a strong connecti...

Rett i lomma

Rett i lomma

1998

as Norman Bassfjord

Acting

Erik Bruun (Nils Vogt) milks the social security system by making up a lot of tenants with one social security-entitled defect worse than the other, h...

Smykketyven

Smykketyven

1990

as Legen

2.0
Acting

Jan Strøm has always been popular with women and is used to getting what he wants. But one day he is drawn into dramatic events beyond his control, an...

Albertine

Albertine

1988

as Student Helgesen

3.0
Acting

Albertine's destiny during the 1880s Christiania. A dramatization of Christian Krogh's book Albertine.

På stigende kurs

På stigende kurs

1987

as Bankraner

4.0
Acting

Struggling worker tries his luck in the stock market - with great success. But it doesn't last.

The Feldmann Case

The Feldmann Case

1987

as Vitne Jensen

6.8
Acting

"The Feldmann Case" - Jacob and Rachel was killed on their flight from the Nazi occupation to Sweden in 1942. A year later their bodies are discovered...

På ville veier

N/A

Acting

The play revolves around a government official who checks into a hotel to meet his mistress, but things quickly spiral into chaos as unexpected visito...