Under forvandlingens lov

{{short description|1911 film}}

{{Infobox film

| name = Under forvandlingens lov

| image =

| caption =

| director = Halfdan Nobel Roede

| producer =

| writer = Peter Lykke-Seest

| based_on =

| narrator =

| starring = Olaf Hanson
Ingeborg Hauge
Birger Widt
Signe Danning
Hans Ingi Hedemark
Bertha Ræstad
Botten Soot
Hedvig Dietrichson
Christian Danning

| music =

| cinematography = Henrik Jaenzon

| editing =

| distributor = Internationalt Filmskompani

| released = {{Film date|1911|12|04}}

| runtime = 26 minutes

| country = Norway

| language = Norwegian

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Under forvandlingens lov (Under the Law of Change){{cite book |author1=Gunnar Iversen |editor1-last=Dahlquist |editor1-first=Marina |editor2-last=Galili |editor2-first=Doron |editor3-last=Olsson |editor3-first=Jan |editor4-last=Robert |editor4-first=Valentine |title=Corporeality in Early Cinema: Viscera, Skin, and Physical Form |date=2018 |publisher=Indiana University Press |location=Bloomington, IN |page=134 |chapter=Dancing and Boxing in Early Norwegian Cinema}}{{cite book |last1=Sundholm |first1=John |last2=Thorsen |first2=Isak |last3=Andersson |first3=Lars Gustaf |last4=Hedling |first4=Olof |last5=Iversen |first5=Gunnar |last6=Møller |first6=Birgir Thor |title=Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Cinema |date=2012 |publisher=The Scarecrow Press |location=Lanham, MD |page=265}} or Jo tykkere, jo bedre (The Thicker, the Better) is a Norwegian silent film from 1911. It is the oldest known surviving Norwegian film,{{cite news |last1=Iversen |first1=Gunnar |title=Med hjertet i dansen (2016) |url=https://montages.no/2016/11/analysen-med-hjertet-i-dansen-2016/ |access-date=December 24, 2020 |work=Montages |date=November 25, 2016}} and it was directed by Halfdan Nobel Roede. The film has been characterized as an erotic melodrama,{{cite book |last1=Iversen |first1=Gunnar |last2=Solum |first2=Ove |title=Nærbilder: artikler om norsk filmhistorie |date=1997 |publisher=Universitetsforlaget |location=Oslo |pages=15–18}} and it premiered in Kristiania (now Oslo) on December 4, 1911.{{cite book |last1=Braaten |first1=Lars Thomas |title=Filmen i Norge: norske kinofilmer gjennom 100 år |date=1995 |publisher=Ad Notam Gyldendal |location=Oslo |isbn=8241701950 |page=75}} The script for the film was written by Peter Lykke-Seest under the pseudonym Søløvenskjold Pedersen.

In 1992, Gunnar Iversen claimed that Roede's lost 1912 silent film I frihetens bur (In the Cage of Freedom) is actually the same film as Under forvandlingens lov.{{cite book |last1=Myrstad |first1=Anne Marit |title=Melodrama, kjønn og nasjon: en studie av norske bygdefilmer 1920–1930 |date=1997 |publisher=Senter for kvinneforskning, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet |location=Dragvoll}}