Gryr i Norden

{{Infobox film

| name = Gryr i Norden

| image =

| caption =

| director = Olav Dalgard

| producer =

| writer = Olav Dalgard

| based_on =

| starring = Martin Gisti
Betzy Holter
Ragnhild Hald
Solveig Haugan
Gunvor Hall
Ragnhild Hagen
Kolbjørn Brenda
Jack Fjeldstad
Tryggve Larssen
Joachim Holst-Jensen

| music = Jolly Kramer-Johansen

| cinematography = Reidar Lund

| editing = Reidar Lund

| distributor = Norsk Film A/S

| released = {{Film date|1939|10|06}}

| runtime = 67 minutes

| country = Norway

| language = Norwegian

| budget =

}}

Gryr i Norden (Dawn in the North){{cite book |last1=de Heusch |first1=Luc |title=The Cinema and Social Science: A Survey of Ethnographic and Sociological Films |date=1975 |publisher=UNESCO |location=Paris |page=33}} is a Norwegian film from 1939 that was directed by Olav Dalgard.{{cite book |last1=Iverson |first1=Gunnar |last2=Widding |first2=Astrid Soderbergh |last3=Soila |first3=Tytti |title=Nordic National Cinemas |date=2005 |publisher=Routledge |location=London |page=107}} Gryr i Norden is the last film in the "worker trilogy." The other two films are Det drønner gjennom dalen (1938) and Lenkene brytes (1938).{{cite book |last1=Sundholm |first1=John |last2=Thorsen |first2=Isak |last3=Andersson |first3=Lars Gustaf |title=Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Cinema |date=2012 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |location=Lanham, MD |page=111}}{{cite book |last1=Brunetta |first1=Gian Piero |title=Storia del cinema mondiale: L'Europa: le cinematografie nazionali |date=1999 |publisher=Einaudi |location=Turin |page=404}}

The film is about the first major women's strike in Norway, the match workers' strike in Kristiania (now Oslo) in 1889. On the morning of October 23, 1889, the match workers at the Bryn and Grønvold match factories in the city went on strike.{{cite book |last1=Thorsen |first1=Liv Emma |title=Kvinnene på Kampen: en undersøkelse av arbeiderkvinners levekår 1890–1930 |date=1979 |publisher=Institutt for folkelivsgranskning, Universitetet i Oslo |location=Oslo |page=145}}{{cite book |last1=Thuesen |first1=Nils Petter |title=Norges historie i årstall: fra steinalderen til i dag |date=2000 |publisher=Orion |location=Oslo |page=271}} Working conditions were miserable, and most of the young women ended up with ruined health after a short period of performing the hazardous work, affected by phosphorus necrosis.{{cite book |last1=Broch |first1=Lisbeth |title=Kvinnereising |date=1946 |publisher=Cappelen |location=Oslo |page=32}}{{cite book |last1=Alnæs |first1=Karsten |title=Historien om Norge: Mot moderne tider |date=1996 |publisher=Gyldendal |location=Oslo |page=636}}