Erik Skjoldbjærg

Erik Skjoldbjærg

1964-12-14 Tromsø, Norway 12 Credits

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.

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Narvik

Narvik

2022

Story, Director

6.8
Writing Directing

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

Pyromaniac

2016

Director

6.2
Directing

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'

Erik Skjoldbjærg and Stellan Skarsgard on 'Insomnia'

2014

as Himself

Acting

Conversation between Erik Skjoldbjærg and Stellan Skarsgard on the making of the 1997 film 'Insomnia'

Pioneer

Pioneer

2013

Director, Screenplay

5.8
Directing Writing

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

NOKAS

2010

Director

6.2
Directing

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

An Enemy of the People

2005

Director, Writer

6.1
Directing Writing

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

Insomnia

2002

Original Film Writer

6.9
Writing

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

Prozac Nation

2001

Director

6.3
Directing

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

Insomnia

1997

Director, Writer

7.1
Directing Writing

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

Directing Writing

Norwegian short film

Close to Home

Close to Home

1994

Director, Writer

6.2
Directing Writing

A man faces police questioning after helping a drunk girl the night before.

Near Winter

Near Winter

1993

Writer, Director

5.4
Writing Directing

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...