Biography
Hans Petter Moland (born 1955) is a Norwegian film director. Hans Petter was the first born son of Odd Moland and Sigrid Eid Moland, and has a younger brother named Morten Moland. He is a film graduate from Emerson College in the United States. When living in Boston Hans Petter met a college student Elizabeth (Lisa) Pacini whom he married, and later moved back to Norway with. When living in Norway he had three children; Nicolai (1985), Anna Marina (1987) and Max Emil (1989). In 1992 Hans Petter ...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Absolution
2024
as Larry the Drunk
An aging ex-boxer gangster working as muscle for a Boston crime boss receives an upsetting diagnosis. Despite a faltering memory, he attempts to rect...
Absolution
2024
Director
An aging ex-boxer gangster working as muscle for a Boston crime boss receives an upsetting diagnosis. Despite a faltering memory, he attempts to rect...
Hope
2019
Thanks
Together for 20 years, a couple that has grown apart over time receives difficult news that will impact the entire family. As they try to make sense o...
Out Stealing Horses
2019
Director, Screenplay
November 1999. 67-year-old Trond lives in new-found solitude and looks forward to spending New Year's Eve 2000 alone. As winter arrives he discovers h...
Cold Pursuit
2019
Director
The quiet family life of Nels Coxman, a snowplow driver, is upended after his son's murder. Nels begins a vengeful hunt for Viking, the drug lord he h...
A Conspiracy of Faith
2016
Director
Denmark, 2016. A blurred note is found in a bottle that has traveled across the ocean for a long time. After deciphering the cryptic note, Department ...
In Order of Disappearance
2014
Director, Story, Executive Producer
Upstanding community leader Nils has just won an award for "Citizen of the Year" when he learns the news that his son has died of a heroin overdose. S...
When Bubbles Burst
2012
Director
It is becoming increasingly difficult to protect ourselves from extreme financial volatility. This feature documentary will examine the mechanics behi...
A Somewhat Gentle Man
2010
Director
After serving a 12-year sentence for killing the man that slept with his wife, a man ponders whether he should try and reconcile with his family, or t...
Rottenetter
2009
as Advokat Hodne
Stavanger is no longer a small fishing town on the West Coast of Norway. People are wealthier, the cars more expensive and the houses more luxurious. ...
Comrade Pedersen
2006
Director
A drama focused on Norwegian society in the 1970s, an era politically influenced by Marxism and Leninism.
The Beautiful Country
2004
Director
After reuniting with his mother in Ho Chi Minh City, a family tragedy causes Binh to flee from Viet Nam to America. Landing in New York, Binh begins a...
United We Stand
2003
Director
Nine oldtimers come upon a young woman stuck in a swamp.
Most People Live in China
2002
Director
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...
Aberdeen
2000
Director, Idea, Screenplay
Kaisa is a Scot, a successful London lawyer, who snorts coke and has one-night stands with strangers. Her mother calls from Aberdeen with some story b...
Zero Kelvin
1995
Director, Co-Writer
Larsen, an aspiring poet in '20s Oslo, leaves his girlfriend to spend a year as a trapper in East Greenland. There he is teamed with a seemingly rough...
The Last Lieutenant
1993
Director, Co-Writer
Norwegian war drama. The old sea-captain retires, but the next day German WWII occupation of Norway begins. He then kisses his wife good-bye and is of...
Life Is Hard and Then You Die
1990
Editor
A pitch black comedy about how blue a Monday morning can be.
The Indian Bride
N/A
Director
Psychological drama with a tragic love story underlining.