John Sigurd Kristensen

Acting

John Sigurd Kristensen

Known for

Acting

Credits

40 titles

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 8 titles

Elias and the Treasure of the Sea poster
4.7

The annual winter fisheries are about to start, but the great catch never seems to come. It turns out that large industrial trawlers have emptied the ocean of fish, and the ordinary little fishing boats will have a hard time surviving. Elias gathers all his friends in order to save the future of his tiny coastal community.

Elias and the Treasure of the Sea

2010

I Am Yours poster
5.1

An unhappy single mother in Norway's Pakistani expatriate community begins to ignore her young son in favor of placating a Swedish filmmaker she thinks could change her life for the better.

I Am Yours

2013

Things We Do for Love poster
5.2

Vaarala, a reserved romantic photographer, has an odd artistic vision of loneliness: he takes serial photos of an empty park bench in remote spaces of nature. When he meets and falls in love with the spirited, unruly Ansa, his ‘bench’ is suddenly filled. But in order to be with her he has to not only overcome his own frailties, but also the impending danger of Ansa’s volatile ex-con ex, and then Ansa herself, a woman prone to impulsiveness and impetuousness.

Things We Do for Love

2013

Kurt Josef Wagle and the Murder Mystery on the Hurtigruta poster
4.2

The crazy fisher man Kurt Josef, an early pensioner, and his odd musical friend Rock Fjellstad has landed a job at Hurtigruta, only to discover that someone has killed off a famous artist, the former M2M-member Marion Ravn.

Kurt Josef Wagle and the Murder Mystery on the Hurtigruta

2017

Out of Nature poster
6.3

Out of Nature is a journey inside Martins head. A family father in his 30s living in a small town of Norway. He feels alienated in his own life and longs to get away. Away from his job, away from his family, into the woods, up to the mountains. While spending a weekend alone on a hiking trip, he is forced to confront the way he lives his life. Out of Nature is an original, funny and tender film about how to take part in your own life as a husband, father and son.

Out of Nature

2014

DIVE poster
NR

DIVE tells the story of Johan, a former fisherman, who lives a life full of routines: swimming, chopping wood and fixing his rhubarb nest. When his son Andreas moves back home and starts to interfere with Johan's life, their already bad relationship is put to the test.

DIVE

2015

Zakariassen Must Die poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Zakariassen Must Die

2011

Glass Dolls poster
5.4

A mother reports her student daughter Lisa missing, but detective Aslak Eira is getting too little information, and she is found in a lake. The more they investigate, the less they seem to understand. Then Lisa's best friend goes missing too.

Glass Dolls

2014

2000s · 9 titles

The Kautokeino Rebellion poster
6.1

Religious and cultural reawakening inspires rebellion in a 19th century Norwegian village.

The Kautokeino Rebellion

2008

Lille Frø poster
6.0

Story about a girl who spends most of her time with her grandmother as her parents are often away.

Lille Frø

2009

Parat poster
NR

Mr. Harald Isaksen is convinced he will die anytime. He is not completely happy with how life evolved - he'd love embellishing memories to be fully prepared to leave it - that day it will happen. A black comedy about the longstanding ability of tragicomic vanity.

Parat

2009

No artwork available
10.0

The Soviet Union, 1991: Captain Igor Fedorov is about to set a new record for solo space flight when he loses contact with the base in Kazakhstan.

The Cosmonaut

2003

No artwork available
7.0

Joakims mother has a new boyfriend. He named Reidar and has two sons the same age as Joakim. But mother and Susan is so engrossed by their infatuation that they do not see how differently their boys are. Dive is a film about constellation "your children and my children", where reality is anything but idyllic despite the sun is shining and it's twenty degrees in the water.

Dykk

2002

Hold My Heart poster
6.6

Tyven, Tyven ("Hold My Heart") follows the tense relationship between a father and his young daughter. The father, Harald, has divorced Cecilie, his wife, after an ugly breakup which involved accusations of spousal abuse and child molesting. Furious, Harald kidnaps his 7-year-old daughter, Lisa, who he has been forbidden any contact with. Over the course of a few days, the father and daughter grow closer. The police, meanwhile, have organized a manhunt for Harald, and only one policewoman believes he is not a dangerous man.

Hold My Heart

2002

No artwork available
NR

Julie has left her boyfriend because of an argument. The Family supports her decision when her brother tells them that he really is a criminal. Surprisingly the boyfriend turns up not knowing what to expect him.

Hver søndag hos mor

2000

50 år med Oluf poster
10.0

Oluf Raillkattli is one of Norways most beloved humor characters. How's it been? How did the stories come to life? What's the story behind the 100-year phenomenon Oluf? These are some of the questions that's raised when Arthur Arntzen and his longtime partner in crime Tore Skoglund meet up at Folkets Hus in Narvik. The occasion is Arthurs 70th birthday and a look back at 50 years of memorable Oluf moments on stage and TV.

50 år med Oluf

2007

You Really Got Me poster
6.6

Jan's fastfood-business is going bankrupt, his girlfriend has left him, and he is being exploited by his live-in father. Therefore, he has nothing to lose when he gets mixed up in the kidnapping of famous rock star Iver Mo. But Jan has never been able to do anything right his whole life, and there are others who want to get their hands on the ransom money.

You Really Got Me

2001

1990s · 9 titles

Bussene poster
NR

Larry likes to look for usable wreckage in a bus graveyard. One day he makes a nasty discovery.

Bussene

1993

Misery Harbour poster
4.9

A young writer named Espen Arnakke tells the story of his escape from the small Danish town of Jante. Espen boards a ship headed to Newfoundland, but the harsh conditions on board makes him jump ship, and he ends up in the little town of Misery Harbour. There he meets the girl of his dreams. But his passion shifts to jealousy when one of the men from the ship mysteriously appears in town, and sets out to make Espen's life a misery.

Misery Harbour

1999

Isle of Darkness poster
4.4

Julie is a young and newly qualified teacher from Copenhagen, Denmark. Fed up with her unfaithful boyfriend and big city life, she takes a job as a teacher on an idyllic island in southern Norway. Julie finds it difficult to be accepted in the closed-net community of the island. Slowly but surely, she discovers that the idyllic island hides many dark secrets.

Isle of Darkness

1997

No artwork available
9.0

12 year old Torgeir is dyslectic, and his best friend Asta is hearing disabled. Together they make up a fantasy world, when and his grandmother has told about kids set out in the woods back in old times.

Utbor-opprøret

1996

No artwork available
9.0

Drama Series in four sections that tell a serious story in a humorous way. 15 year old Maja ( Idun Krøvel ) discovers that she has a father no one has told her about . She travels halfway across the country to get in touch with him . But she is as secretive as their guardians , and she will not tell anyone about what plans she has . A movies about the search for identity , love, friendship , jealousy and generational contrasts - universal problems in a typical Norwegian coastal environment of our time.

Kjære Kamera(t)

1995

Solens sønn og månens datter poster
NR

Birte from Aursfjord, a strong-willed young woman with extraordinary psychic abilities, falls in love with a Sámi, but is forced to marry a local man.

Solens sønn og månens datter

1993

Shipwrecked poster
6.7

A young Norwegian boy in 1850s England goes to work as a cabin boy and discovers some of his shipmates are actually pirates.

Shipwrecked

1990

40 år med Oluf poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

40 år med Oluf

1999

Den fordømte nordlendingen poster
8.7

No synopsis available yet.

Den fordømte nordlendingen

1997

1980s · 4 titles

Series credits

Elias: The Little Rescue Boat poster
5.7

This animated series follows the adventures of Elias the rescue boat and his friends as they work together to keep their home of Cozy Cove safe.

Elias: The Little Rescue Boat

2005

Himmelblå poster
6.0

Himmelblå is a Norwegian drama series which aired on NRK1 in Norway, on SVT in Sweden and on RÚV in Iceland. It is based on the British TV drama Two Thousand Acres of Sky written by Timothy Prager and produced by Adrian Bate.

Himmelblå

2008

TWIN poster
7.2

When a young mother is responsible for the accidental death of her husband, she persuades the dead husband's identical twin to take his identity.

TWIN

2019

Soria Moria poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Soria Moria

2000

Kaotokeino-opprøret (TV-serien) poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kaotokeino-opprøret (TV-serien)

2008

The River poster
5.9

A young girl playing by "Djupelv" finds the remains of a body. The family doesn't want to get involved and calls in an anonymous tip, but the same day the girl runs away from home.

The River

2017

Nattseilere poster
7.7

No synopsis available yet.

Nattseilere

1988

Marerittet poster
6.5

«Marerittet» is a Norwegian-Swedish drama-thriller series. Nils (Tomas von Brömssen) and Eva Lind (Kjersti Holmen) are a married couple whose mountain trek in Northern Norway goes awry. After Nils injures his foot, they descend into a remote fishing village in Lofoten. Though the setting appears idyllic, its inhabitants are cold and hostile. As tensions escalate, unsettling events reveal that sinister forces may be at play beneath the surface. It was filmed in Vestvågøya in the Lofoten Islands in Norway during the Summer of 1989.

Marerittet

1989

Solens sønn og månens datter poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Solens sønn og månens datter

1993