Acting

Else Heiberg

Born 1910-11-05 · Kragerø, Norway

Acting credits

The Greatest Gamble poster
6.3

This is a movie about a local resistance group and its leader Gunvald Tomstad, in the southern part of Norway. Gunvald takes on a heavy burden as he pretends to be a devoted Hitlerjugend-leader and soon he becomes a trusted friend of the German occupants.

The Greatest Gamble

1967

Stompa, selvfølgelig! poster
6.6

Langåsen boarding school has its 50th year anniversary, and the students are to make a celebration show in the auditorium. Trouble is brewing when a school inspector is to visit the school at the same time.

Stompa, selvfølgelig!

1963

Nydelige nelliker poster
6.3

Classic Norwegian Comedy from the 1960's. The Capital City of Norway is changing for the alleged better after WWII, yet not everyone wants anything to change, Living in their own way, not willing to accept truth, free enterprise and each other, As a result they spend plenty of time inside prison...

Nydelige nelliker

1964

Krane's Confectionery poster
7.0

Seamstress Katinka Stordal is a lonely and tired woman in search of love and freedom. When everyday life gets too much, she goes to Krane's pastry shop.

Krane's Confectionery

1963

The Ashlad and the Hungry Troll poster
7.6

An exuberant story about Askeladden, the hero of Norwegian traditional fairy tales, outwitting the good-natured troll.

The Ashlad and the Hungry Troll

1967

Hunger poster
7.2

In 1890, Pontus, the starving writer, wanders the streets of Christiania, in search of love and a chance to get his work published. All he meets is defeat and suffering while his sense of reality is withering. One moment he is delighted and the next he curses everybody. All the time he manages to maintain human dignity and pride.

Hunger

1966

The Wild Duck poster
5.3

The play opens in the study at Hakon Werle's house during a dinner party for the return of Werle's son, Gregers, from the Hoidal mines. Gregers has not come home for fifteen years. Old Ekdal appears before two servants, begging to be let into the office. Ekdal was an army officer and partner to Werle until a forestry scandal sent him to prison over some scandal. He now works as one of Werle's copyists.

The Wild Duck

1963

No artwork available
8.0

The Conservative party's election film for 1936. It showcased, among other things, how unnecessary the workers' strikes were and how unnecessarily high taxes were.

Vi vil oss et land...

1936

Morderen uten ansikt poster
9.0

Tragic events and murders on the landowner's farm lead to Captain Rye becoming a suspect. Private detective Asbjørn Krag is a friend whom Rye calls upon to solve the case.

Morderen uten ansikt

1936

No artwork available
7.0

Based on a play by Harold Pinter.

Går ut i kveld

No artwork available
5.0

A retired professor has returned to his estate to live with his beautiful young wife, Elena.

Onkel Vanja

1963

The Dangerous Game poster
7.0

Known architect Jean Blomis married with two kids, living in a modern condo, though being very outgoing, his wife isn't. After learning about scientist Holm's new hormone, he hopes to feed his wife with it to get her pepped up.

The Dangerous Game

1942

No artwork available
NR

"Helplessly made", says the director herself about this film. Seen against the backdrop of many other Norwegian short films, we don't agree with that. A film about man on the garbage heap of history?

Ingenmannsland

1973

Elskere poster
3.8

Ludvina is considered a woman of loose morals in her small home town. When she becomes pregnant, she decides to raise the child without the help of a man.

Elskere

1963

No artwork available
10.0

Milja, living in Kristiania in the late 1800s, becomes pregnant, but the father of the child, Julius, is not around after the child has been born and Milja decides to adopt it. Milja struggles to live with her decision.

Ungen

1960

No artwork available
9.0

Based on a play by Tom Eyen.

22 november - den store leiegården

1969