Kari Simonsen

Acting

Kari Simonsen

Born 1937-06-05 · Oslo, Norway

Acting credits

Just Super poster
5.7

11-year-old gaming enthusiast Hedvig finds her life turned upside down when she is forced to replace her father as the town’s superhero much earlier than expected. But Hedvig is no superhero, and the challenges are far greater than her coaching father anticipated.

Just Super

2022

Captain Sabertooth and the Magical Diamond poster
7.2

Captain Sabertooth and his crew are up against a sunburnt vampire, a manipulating queen, a violent monkey army and two young pirates while on the hunt for the magical diamond.

Captain Sabertooth and the Magical Diamond

2020

Asphalt Burning poster
5.5

The third and final instalment in the Burnout trilogy. This time, the road leads through Norway, to Sweden, Denmark and finally Germany to race on the famous racing track, Nürburgring.

Asphalt Burning

2020

Unns Kjærlighet poster
NR

Unn is 80 years old, lives in a nursery home and is looking for love. Her body bear witness of a long life, but on the inside beats the heart of a twenty year old girl. When a 25 year old boy becomes Unns new nurse, her heart beats faster and faster, and an old love bloom.

Unns Kjærlighet

2012

Absolute Hangover poster
4.4

John and Siri Lill are a couple who have been together for most of their forty something years, but are yet to be married. He works for a newspaper, and is a heavy drinker. She is a respected hairdresser, working for Birger, a commom friend. John, usually, bottle-in-hand is an ace at being at the wrong place at the wrong time. Tired of John's drinking, Siri decides to leave him and move to her parents' house. John's drinking then worsens, and their apartment becomes a mess. Siri decides to return to her and John's place, and that's when the Absolute Hangover really begins with a vengeance.

Absolute Hangover

1999

The Art of Negative Thinking poster
6.7

The local disability support group visits an involuntary member, not realizing that it will bring them to a critical mass.

The Art of Negative Thinking

2006

The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix poster
7.8

100 miles north, a bit east and up, is Pinchcliffe, the home of bicycle repairman Reodor Felgen and his two assistants, Solan Gundersen and Ludvig. Sponsored by oil sheik Ben Redic Fy Fazan, they build the car "Il Tempo Gigante" to race against Reodor's former assistant Rudolf Blodstrupmoen, who has stolen one of Reodor's inventions to become a world racing champion.

The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix

1975

Pink Champagne poster
NR

Eva turns 70 and is losing direction in life. A young man named Alex makes her feel young again. A film about starting a new life when the old one ends. And a story of aging, but not getting old.

Pink Champagne

2024

Asfaltevangeliet poster
8.0

The controversial story about "Jesus", placed in Oslo today. Jesus drinks, curses and attends to prostitutes, to fit in to modern life.

Asfaltevangeliet

2004

Cellophane poster
4.3

Marianne visits her dying father in the hospital who tells of a box of old letters that she must promise to destroy. Marianne chooses to do the opposite, and reads them instead. There she finds shocking accusations against her father, who allegedly murdered a young woman 25 years ago.

Cellophane

1998

The Crossing poster
6.2

One day, just before Christmas in 1942, Gerda's and Otto's parents are arrested for being part of the Norwegian resistance movement during the Second World War, leaving the siblings on their own. Following the arrest, they discover two Jewish children, Sarah and Daniel, hidden in a secret cupboard in their basement at home. It is now up to Gerda and Otto to finish what their parents started: To help Sarah and Daniel flee from the Nazis cross the border to neutral Sweden and reunite them with their parents.

The Crossing

2020

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

Sophie's World poster
6.3

One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you? and "Where does the world come from?

Sophie's World

1999

Aberdeen poster
6.4

Kaisa is a Scot, a successful London lawyer, who snorts coke and has one-night stands with strangers. Her mother calls from Aberdeen with some story begging her to fly to Norway and collect her alcoholic dad whom she hasn't seen in years.

Aberdeen

2000

Visiting Hours poster
2.0

Last summer Kristian celebrated finishing school with Interrail in Europe. A year later, the situation is completely different and Kristian is hospitalized with cancer. Unvarnished and unsentimental, we are presented with both his own and his friends' reactions to the disease.

Visiting Hours

1990

Surrounded poster
5.5

The film describes how resistance fighter Knut Magne Haugland operated an illegal telegraph station on the roof of the National Hospital in 1944 during World War II.

Surrounded

1960

Cabin Fever poster
6.1

The entire extended family is happily on its way to a nostalgic Christmas at a rented cabin in the mountains. The cabin becomes cramped, however, when mom and dad and four grown-up children with their respective families, a dog and in-laws from Poland squeeze inside the frozen cabin walls in 30-below-zero weather.

Cabin Fever

2000

Lucie poster
10.0

The late 19th century Christiania (Oslo) could offer a rich variety of entertainment. There were several variety theatres and brothels, and poor women could earn money based on their looks. The beautiful variety actress Lucie has met a lawyer by the name Gerner, a refined gentleman. Flowers and encounters outside the theatre develops into an erotic relationship. Lucie knows how to play on Gerner's jealousy and masculine pride, and finally she reaches her goal: becoming Mrs Gerner. For Lucie this means climbing the social ladder, but she'll soon notice the problems. Living in the upperclass society keeps reminding her of her poor background and her lack of etiquette. All this affects Gerner in a negative way, who is plagued by jealousy regarding people from Lucie's past. The relationship between the married couple keeps getting worse.

Lucie

1979

Out of Order! poster
5.8

A labor party leader is having an affair with the opposing party's secretary. Unfortunately for them, there seems to be a corpse in their hotel room just as they managed to sneak in unnoticed.

Out of Order!

1992

Vacuum poster
10.0

A vacuum-cleaner salesman rings on the door of a lonely woman on a rainy night. There dust blows off painful memories.

Vacuum

2004

The Olsen Gang and Dynamite-Harry poster
6.4

A foreign criminal gang makes a large-scale bank coup. The suspicion falls on the Olsen Gang. They escape, take up the hunt for the real criminals and thus it all starts. The police are looking for the Olsen Gang, and they are looking for the real criminals.

The Olsen Gang and Dynamite-Harry

1970

Detective Downs poster
5.5

Detective Robert has his own office, a trench coat, a Bogart hat and Downs syndrome. The only thing he is missing is a case. Then a lady comes to his rescue.

Detective Downs

2013

Final Forever poster
NR

Struggling against the increasing frailties of advanced age, Carmen (Wenche Medbøe) and her wife Nina (Kari Simonsen) refuse to lose their agency and can’t bear the thought of either losing the other. They work to finish a homemade rocket, aspiring to leave together and see what their futures may hold. Norwegian director Tess Quatri has made a beautiful and compelling film that just may have you in tears.

Final Forever

2022

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