Sangen til livet
{{Infobox film
| name = Sangen til livet
| image =
| caption =
| director = Leif Sinding
| producer = Leif Sinding
| writer = Leif Sinding
| based_on = Johan Bojer's play Sigurd Braa
| starring = Erling Drangsholt
Else Budde
Finn Lange
| music = Jolly Kramer-Johansen
| cinematography = Kåre Bergstrøm
| editing = Olav Engebretsen
| distributor = Skandinavisk film-central
| released = {{Film date|1943}}
| runtime = 108 minutes
| country = Norway
| language = Norwegian
| budget =
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Sangen til livet (The Song of Life) is a Norwegian film from 1943 based on Johan Bojer's play Sigurd Braa.{{cite book |last1=Sinding |first1=Leif |title=Sangen til livet: etter Johan Bojers skuespil "Sigurd Braa" |date=1943 |publisher=Norden Forlag |location=Oslo}}{{cite book |author1=Bjørn Sørenssen |editor1-last=Vande Winkel |editor1-first=Roel |editor2-last=Welch |editor2-first=David| title=Cinema and the Swastika: The International Expansion of Third Reich Cinema |date=2012 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |location=Basingstoke, UK |page=227 |chapter=Norwegian Film during the Nazi Occupation 1940-45}}{{cite news |title=Frislipp av 2600 stillbilder fra norske langfilmer |url=https://rushprint.no/2018/08/frislipp-av-2600-stillbilder-fra-norske-langfilmer/ |accessdate=June 16, 2019 |work=Rushprint |date=August 13, 2018}} It was directed by Leif Sinding. The film premiered on October 25, 1943.
Plot
The film is a melodrama about a factory director who is loved by his workers and a power struggle between a good and evil capitalist.
Cast
- Erling Drangsholt as Sigurd Braa, the director general
- Else Budde as Eli Braa, his wife
- Lilleba Svenssen as Gerda Braa, his daughter
- Liv Uchermann Selmer as Mrs. Kamp, Eli Braa's mother
- Finn Lange as Jørgen Roll, a factory director
- Einar Vaage as Brahm, a lawyer
- Oscar Amundsen as Rud, overingeniør
- Folkman Schaanning as Storm, a doctor
- Joachim Holst-Jensen as Graali, an editor
- Ragnhild Østerbye as Laura Graali, the editor's wife
- Tryggve Larssen as Lars Utgaren
- Henny Skjønberg as Amanda Sivertsen, the housekeeper at the Braa home
- Gunnar Simenstad as Nordahl
- Erna Schøyen as Miss Dahle, a teacher
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|0036329}}
- [https://www.nb.no/filmografi/show?id=14189 Sangen til livet] at the National Library of Norway
Category:Norwegian black-and-white films
Category:Norwegian drama films
Category:Norwegian films based on plays
Category:1940s Norwegian-language films