Biography
Erik Skjoldbjærg (born December 14, 1964 in Tromsø, Norway) is a Norwegian director and writer best known for co-writing and directing the film Insomnia and directing Prozac Nation. His film Pioneer was selected to be screened in the Special Presentation section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Narvik
2022
Story, Director
April, 1940. The eyes of the world are on Narvik, a small town in northern Norway, a source of the iron ore needed for Hitler's war machine. Through t...
Pyromaniac
2016
Director
In the darkness of a peaceful village, a pyromaniac ignites his first fire. As more fires break out, the society panics. An inferno lurks under the su...
Erik Skjoldbjærg and Stellan Skarsgard on 'Insomnia'
2014
as Himself
Conversation between Erik Skjoldbjærg and Stellan Skarsgard on the making of the 1997 film 'Insomnia'
Pioneer
2013
Director, Screenplay
Pioneer is set in the early '80s, at the beginning of the Norwegian Oil Boom. Enormous oil and gas deposits are discovered in the North Sea and the au...
NOKAS
2010
Director
On the 5th of April 2004, the greatest bank robbery in Norwegian history was carried out in Stavanger. The events are seen through the eyes of those w...
An Enemy of the People
2005
Director, Writer
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...
Insomnia
2002
Original Film Writer
Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.
Prozac Nation
2001
Director
When talented young writer Elizabeth Wurtzel earns a scholarship to Harvard, she sees it as her chance to escape the pressures of her working-class ba...
Insomnia
1997
Director, Writer
Detectives Jonas and Erik are called to the midnight sun country of northern Norway to investigate a recent homicide, but their plan to arrest the kil...
Spor
1996
Director, Writer
Norwegian short film
Close to Home
1994
Director, Writer
A man faces police questioning after helping a drunk girl the night before.
Near Winter
1993
Writer, Director
Near Winter tells of a young Norwegian man returning home to an isolated farm with his English girlfriend only to find something is wrong with his her...