Bente Børsum

Acting

Bente Børsum

Born

1934-06-21 (92)

Place of birth

Oslo, Norway

Known for

Acting

Credits

35 titles

Bente Børsum (born June 21, 1934) is a Norwegian actress, probably best known for her role in the movie "Reisen til julestjernen" (1976). Børsum had her debut in the movie "The Chasers" in 1959, and worked at Oslo Nye Teater from 1979.

Known for

Sentimental Value poster
7.5

Sisters Nora and Agnes reunite with their estranged father, the charismatic Gustav, a once-renowned director who offers stage actress Nora a role in what he hopes will be his comeback film. When Nora turns it down, she soon discovers he has given her part to an eager young Hollywood star.

Sentimental Value

2025

Exit poster
7.4

Exit is based on the true stories of four men in their mid-30s, who all became multi-millionaires before the age of thirty. Attempting to escape from their obligations, expectations and families, they employ drugs, prostitutes, and their very own set of morals.

Exit

2019

Handling the Undead poster
5.8

On a hot summer day in Oslo, the dead mysteriously awaken, and three families are thrown into chaos when their deceased loved ones come back to them. Who are they, and what do they want?

Handling the Undead

2024

Mot i brøstet poster
6.1

Follows Karl (Nils Vogt), economist and accountant, after he is fired from his job and subsequently divorced by his greedy wife. After being helped out by his former colleague, Nils (Sven Nordin) and a travelling salesman, Henry (Arve Opsahl), the three become roommates.

Mot i brøstet

1993

Jul i Svingen poster
7.7

There is a lot going on in Svingen in December, some things are quite common Christmas traditions, while others are a little more special. The children celebrate Lucia Day, the annual ski relay takes place, there is a competition to find the most beautiful Christmas tree, huge quantities of gingerbread are baked, the children go caroling, they rescue a fox that has been hit by a car, and they build a snow castle and end up in a real fight with the Sletta gang.

Jul i Svingen

2006

Cadaver poster
5.6

In the aftermath of a nuclear disaster, a starving family finds hope in a charismatic hotel owner. Lured by the prospect of a free dinner, they discover that the evening's entertainment blurs the lines between performance and reality. Will they wind up the spectators or the spectacle?

Cadaver

2020

Film credits

2020s · 4 titles

1970s · 14 titles

Five Days in August poster
3.0

Viveca is 31, divorced, and has a son of 6 years. She and her friend Aud have left the hectic everyday life and moved in with bohemians and artists. We follow these two women for five days, as they come in contact with many different people.

Five Days in August

1973

House on the Rocks poster
3.9

Elena, the wife of a very rich man, spends the summer on an island in the Aegean Sea, doing archaeological research. One day her son comes to visit her son from her first marriage. The sea, the sun, the shepherds with ancient half-lingual rites, a handsome youth, not yet an old woman - no one remembered what happened in Ancient Greece ...

House on the Rocks

1974

His Mother's House poster
5.2

A young man returns home from college during a holiday break to visit his widowed mother. Along the way he meets an attractive woman and they hit it off so well during his return trip that she accepts an invitation from him to stay at his Mother's house during his stay. But his Mother is not pleased with this surprise as she has rather strong feelings for her own son and desires to keep him all for herself.

His Mother's House

1974

No artwork available
NR

After her mother dies an isolated woman falls for their tenant. Based on a story by Odd Eidem.

Det skjeve tårn

1978

Journey to the Christmas Star poster
6.5

Once upon a time a little girl went out to find the Christmas Star.

Journey to the Christmas Star

1976

A Doll's House poster
7.0

Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed lives in fear of her husband's finding out and of the shame such a revelation would bring to his career. But when the truth comes out, Nora is shocked to learn where she really stands in her husband's esteem.

A Doll's House

1973

Kosmetikkrevolusjonen poster
5.2

The film opens in a small theatre, where the management of the company Clinox A/S watches their latest advertising push for the red condom Ding Dong . Everyone is excited and expect that here has been really could become a big bestseller . But the day after optimism disappears , Consumer Council prohibits the new condom . It is election year and the government is afraid the color offensive . Meanwhile, a mysterious woman named Lucy Ferner goes towards Oslo . She represents a Hong Kong group that is looking for a place where they can develop their energy consuming cosmetics industries.

Kosmetikkrevolusjonen

1977

Rødblått paradis poster
5.5

Per is a newly qualified social worker entering professional life. Through Per, we are confronted with welfare Norway in 1970. Over the course of a couple of short summer months, we get to know Per. He is a fairly ordinary, intelligent person. He has his problems in relation to himself and the opposite sex. He is in the process of becoming an adult. He is testing his attitudes and perceptions. He must find answers to questions that could be crucial to his future place in society.

Rødblått paradis

1971

Spring Night poster
4.3

A story of two siblings who for the first time spend a night without their parents, and are visited by strangers who ask for room for the night. Based on the novel by Norwegian writer Tarjei Vesaas.

Spring Night

1976

Bobby's War poster
5.9

Robert Lund (Roy Bjornstad) is a weary man, and his days as a starring saxophone player seem to be near their end. The Nazis have occupied Norway for some time, and he has been passing the time by telling his son Bobby (Erik Andersson) some tales of his previous exploits.

Bobby's War

1974

The Women poster
4.5

Two women share a room in a hospital. One has just given birth to a stillborn child, the other has had her ovaries removed. Bonding over their trauma, past and present, both women in turn taking care of the other, they become friends and try to help each other upon leaving the hospital.

The Women

1979

Rape poster
6.6

It's winter in a suburb. A housewife is brutally raped. A young woman becomes a victim of attempted rape. The Police tighten noose on Anders, a young road worker who was seen on the site in both cases. The two women think they recognize him in the lineup, and police investigators use all their strength to solve the case. Anders is a common and simple individual. He could be any youth. The meeting with the ongoing investigation and the solid judiciary, forces him out of a seemingly monotonous, habitual life and forces him to react and think.

Rape

1971

3 poster
5.9

Teacher Jan, who is married to Ingrid office lady, falls in love with the divorced teacher Tone. Ingrid agree that Tone moves in with them, and that the two women has Jan together as theire lover After a crisis is Jan and Ingrid divorced. Jan finds a third woman, while Ingrid and Tone holds together

3

1971

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Aller kjæresten min

1975

Series credits

Exit poster
7.4

Exit is based on the true stories of four men in their mid-30s, who all became multi-millionaires before the age of thirty. Attempting to escape from their obligations, expectations and families, they employ drugs, prostitutes, and their very own set of morals.

Exit

2019

Mot i brøstet poster
6.1

Follows Karl (Nils Vogt), economist and accountant, after he is fired from his job and subsequently divorced by his greedy wife. After being helped out by his former colleague, Nils (Sven Nordin) and a travelling salesman, Henry (Arve Opsahl), the three become roommates.

Mot i brøstet

1993

Jul i Svingen poster
7.7

There is a lot going on in Svingen in December, some things are quite common Christmas traditions, while others are a little more special. The children celebrate Lucia Day, the annual ski relay takes place, there is a competition to find the most beautiful Christmas tree, huge quantities of gingerbread are baked, the children go caroling, they rescue a fox that has been hit by a car, and they build a snow castle and end up in a real fight with the Sletta gang.

Jul i Svingen

2006

The Nine O'Clock News Murder poster
9.0

We are in NRK’s Nine O’Clock News studio at Marienlyst. As usual, Kjell Tue is at the microphone, and in the control room, Totto Osvold is at the helm. Bank manager Hugo Oswald is to be interviewed live, but suddenly collapses dead in the studio, poisoned in front of an open microphone. Police detectives Helmer and Sigurdson are assigned to the case. Pensioner Brockmann, the murdered bank manager’s neighbour, also becomes heavily involved in the investigation.

The Nine O'Clock News Murder

1976

No artwork available
7.0

Jenny Winge tries to make a career as a painter by going to Rome.

Jenny

1983

Gåten Knut Hamsun poster
NR

Knut Hamsun through his years as a wandering peddler and starving poet, and are with him in his life's highs and lows.

Gåten Knut Hamsun

1997

Saken Ruth Vang poster
7.0

One morning Ruth Vang comes running out of the apartment, falls down the stairs and is left unconscious. In her apartment the body of the land lord, Otto Hagenberg is discovered. Helmer and Sigurdson search to uncover the killer.

Saken Ruth Vang

1981

Ibsens dramatiske kvinner poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ibsens dramatiske kvinner

2011