Pål Sverre Hagen

Acting

Pål Sverre Hagen

Born

1980-11-06 (45)

Place of birth

Stavanger, Norway

Known for

Acting

Credits

52 titles

Pål Sverre Hagen (born 6 November 1980) is a Norwegian stage and screen actor. He appeared in the hit Norwegian film Max Manus and played Thor Heyerdahl in the Oscar-nominated 2012 film Kon-Tiki.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 12 titles

The Secret Woman poster
6.6

After discovering she has a family and a shipping empire, a woman with amnesia returns to a wealthy and seemingly perfect past to uncover why she left.

The Secret Woman

2026

A Mouse Hunt for Christmas poster
6.6

A small mouse family plans a quiet Christmas outside the city, but their celebration is disrupted when humans unexpectedly appear. As the mice try to hide their preparations, the humans react to the noises behind the walls with determination.

A Mouse Hunt for Christmas

2025

The Middle Man poster
6.1

Frank Farrelli takes on the job as a middle man in the God-forsaken town of Karmack, USA, a community in a depression so deep that they need a middle man to professionally communicate more of the bad news.

The Middle Man

2021

Diana's Wedding poster
5.8

It's July 29, 1981. In the majestic St Paul's Cathedral in London, Lady Diana Spencer marries Prince Charles. The same day, another celebration takes place in the canteen of a Norwegian small-town factory. It’s the newly-weds LIV and TERJE'S wedding party. In the pram lies their new-born daughter, DIANA, who, like her famous namesake, will be facing a lot of chaos in the years to come thanks to her parents. The wedding, and following years, are less glamorous than the royal counterpart, but indisputably much more fun. Through the eyes of Diana, we witness the rollercoaster of her parent’s marriage. To her, they are the worst parents in the world. Miles away from doing a decent job, constantly fighting yet still in love by the time Diana is preparing for her own marriage 30 years later.

Diana's Wedding

2020

Let Go poster
7.9

A jaded mother makes a last-ditch effort to keep her family together by taking them on a trip to their teenage daughter’s pole dancing competition.

Let Go

2024

No artwork available
NR

Upcomming movie based on Norways most sold frozen pizza. Grandiosa

Ekte kjærlighet

2027

Everybody Hates Johan poster
5.9

Johan, a loner with horses and explosives, is never accepted by the local community. We follow his struggle for belonging in the village and the lifelong, unrequited love for the girl next door, which he accidentally blew up in his youth.

Everybody Hates Johan

2022

Maybe Elephants poster
6.1

Three rebellious teenage daughters, a restless mother, a father struggling with potatoes, and maybe some elephants, find themselves in Nairobi. What could possibly go wrong?

Maybe Elephants

2024

The End of It poster
4.0

In a near-future world where ageing can be cured and death is now optional, Claire, a former provocative artist approaching her 250th birthday, decides she’s had enough, she wants to die.

The End of It

2026

Vampyr poster
NR

A struggling author, obsessed with Edvard Munch, finds himself on the verge of madness when he's dragged into a dangerous murder mystery surrounding the world-famous painter.

Vampyr

2027

The Nation's Gambit poster
6.7

Norway's Prime Minister is kidnapped by a terrorist who makes only one demand – that the politicians in power play a game of chess over the Prime Minister's life. Each chess piece represents people who work for the state or leaders in society. If the politicians win the game, the prime minister will live, but every piece lost on the chess boards means the loss of a human life. The politicians and their appointed rescue team, the Delta Squad, are faced with an impossible dilemma: can they afford to sacrifice human lives in an attempt to save the Prime Minister? With only 24 hours to win the game and save the prime minister, they have no choice but to play the deadly game.

The Nation's Gambit

2026

War Sailor poster
6.6

War Sailor is a magnificent drama that tells the story of the more than 30,000 Norwegian war sailors and their families' fate during and after the Second World War.

War Sailor

2022

2010s · 16 titles

The Girl in the Spider's Web poster
6.2

After being enlisted to recover a dangerous computer program, hacker Lisbeth Salander and journalist Mikael Blomkvist find themselves caught in a web of spies, cybercriminals and corrupt government officials.

The Girl in the Spider's Web

2018

What Happened to Monday poster
7.1

In a world where families are limited to one child due to overpopulation, a set of identical septuplets must avoid being put to a long sleep by the government and dangerous infighting while investigating the disappearance of one of their own.

What Happened to Monday

2017

In Order of Disappearance poster
6.9

Upstanding community leader Nils has just won an award for "Citizen of the Year" when he learns the news that his son has died of a heroin overdose. Suspecting foul play, Nils begins to investigate, and soon finds himself at the center of an escalating underworld gang war between Serbian drug dealers and a sociopathic criminal mastermind known only as “The Count.”

In Order of Disappearance

2014

A Conspiracy of Faith poster
6.9

Denmark, 2016. A blurred note is found in a bottle that has traveled across the ocean for a long time. After deciphering the cryptic note, Department Q follow a sinister trail that leads them to investigate a case that occurred in 2008. At the same time, new tragic events take place that test their faith and deepest beliefs.

A Conspiracy of Faith

2016

Amundsen poster
6.0

The story of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, the leader of the first expedition to reach the South Pole in 1911, and the first person to reach both the North and South Poles in 1926. Follows his all-consuming drive as a polar explorer and the tragedy he brought on himself and others by sacrificing everything in the icy wastelands to achieve his dream.

Amundsen

2019

Kon-Tiki poster
6.9

The true story about legendary explorer Thor Heyerdahl and his epic crossing of the Pacific on a balsa wood raft in 1947, in an effort to prove it was possible for South Americans to settle in Polynesia in pre-Columbian times.

Kon-Tiki

2012

Out Stealing Horses poster
6.3

November 1999. 67-year-old Trond lives in new-found solitude and looks forward to spending New Year's Eve 2000 alone. As winter arrives he discovers he has a neighbor, a man Trond knew back in 1948, the summer he turned 15 and the summer Trond's father prepared him to carry the burden of his forthcoming betrayal and disappearance.

Out Stealing Horses

2019

Ragnarok poster
5.7

Archaeologist Sigurd Svendsen discovers that the Oseberg ship hides a secret from the Viking Age. Along with his two children put Sigurd out on a quest to find the truth. The mystery leads them into "No Man's Land" between Norway and Russia where no man traveling in modern times. Old runes take on new meaning when the secret they uncover is more frightening than anyone could have imagined.

Ragnarok

2013

The Last King poster
5.7

Norway, 1204. A civil war between the birkebeiners —the king's men— and the baglers —supporters of the Norwegian aristocracy and the Church— ravages the country. Two men must protect a baby, the illegitimate son of King Håkon, who will be the future king and peacemaker, from those who want to kill him.

The Last King

2016

Sonja: The White Swan poster
6.2

The true story of Sonja Henie, one of the world's greatest athletes and the inventor of modern figure skating, who decides to go to Hollywood in 1936 to become a movie star.

Sonja: The White Swan

2018

I Travel Alone poster
6.1

Jarle Klepp is a 25-year-old student of literature with a passion for Adorno, Proust and grown-up women - and definitely not Tamagotchis, Lady Di and small kids. The news that he is the father of a seven year old girl - and that she will come visiting next week - enters his life like a nuclear bomb. Jarle Klepp has to become an adult.

I Travel Alone

2011

Must Have Been Love poster
6.0

A Finnish-Norwegian love story with an unexpected shape and development. Shot in Oslo, Helsinki, Istanbul and Berlin. The film focuses on showing the actual moments that lead to getting to know one another, building a relationship and to breaking up. The film takes part in Kaisa’s attempt of getting involved with two different men that look almost exactly the same, questioning where the thin line is between someone potentially being the love of your life or not. Shooting the film with the approach of a workshop and closely involving the actors allows the film to take shape as a unique, unpredictable cinematic expression touching the basis and complexity of human behavior.

Must Have Been Love

2012

Beyond Sleep poster
4.8

A young geologist ventures out into the vast tundra of northern Norway to finish his research on meteorite craters, only to get hopelessly lost in both the wilderness and his own mind.

Beyond Sleep

2016

Operation Mummy poster
6.8

When a mummy display arrives in Elvestad, numerous unexplainable accidents happen to the employees at the museum. Rumors has it that they are haunted by pharao Tutankhamon's curse.

Operation Mummy

2019

Operation Shadowman poster
3.5

Mysterious holes in the ground appear during the night, causing Oliver's bicycle to be destroyed. Who made these holes and why? The child detectives Tiril and Oliver will have to be as smart as Sherlock Holmes to find out.

Operation Shadowman

2018

Lifeboat poster
6.0

Iben and Thomas, a couple from Scandinavia, are on vacation on a sail boat in the Greek archipelago. Suddenly, one night, Iben hear a cry for help from the water.

Lifeboat

2018

2000s · 10 titles

Max Manus: Man of War poster
7.1

Max Manus is a Norwegian 2008 biographic war film based on the real events of the life of resistance fighter Max Manus (1914–96), after his contribution in the Winter War against the Soviet Union. The story follows Manus through the outbreak of World War II in Norway until peacetime in 1945.

Max Manus: Man of War

2008

Troubled Water poster
7.1

A man with a troubled past is released on parole. He finds work as a church organist and develops a rewarding relationship with a priest and her young son. However, his past soon catches up with him.

Troubled Water

2008

Miracle poster
5.8

Karsten (35) is at a standstill. He has been since his wife died four years ago. He thinks he's fine, until he meets what could be the love of his life - but isn't she all what he despises in a woman?

Miracle

2006

Cry in the Woods poster
5.5

An unfortunate bank robber takes an escaped mental patient, wanted for murder, as hostage.

Cry in the Woods

2004

Cold Lunch poster
3.8

Bird droppings on a work shirt lead to extreme unintended consequences.

Cold Lunch

2008

The Storm in My Heart poster
5.9

Jernanger is a tale about the tempered Eivind who isn't scared of anything- except love. Eivind, lives aboard a boat in the South of Norway. The boat lies low and lopsided in the water. Thirty years ago Eivind left his homestead and his teenage sweetheart behind, and he has not been back since. He was meant to go back when everything was honky-dory- only that never happened. Then young Kris appears...

The Storm in My Heart

2009

No artwork available
5.0

A foreign ice skater moves to a very small norwegian village

Mine

2006

No artwork available
0.5

In a city where young, rich people will spend whatever it takes to get what they want, Thomas provides them with a service no one else will.

Amor

2009

House of Fools poster
6.2

At the psychiatric clinic Varden the attendants are mad and the inmates are sane.

House of Fools

2008

No artwork available
7.0

Christian and William are high-flying economics graduates from elite educational establishments. They are both attending the final interview for a top position with the renowned company, Roswell Enterprises. By coincidence they meet in the men’s room just before the interview begun. Their live™s worst job interview has just begun.

Roswell Enterprises

2006

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

The Shift poster
8.0

Midwife Ella runs the best maternity ward in Denmark. The close-knit team goes about their work with conviction and fine ideals, but all too often the mental and physical strain pushes them to their personal limits.

The Shift

2022

Furia poster
7.1

Policeman Asgeir moves to an idyllic town in the west part of Norway. After a local conflict, he meets a mysterious woman named Ragna, and soon they are both trapped in a network of right-wing radical forces that threaten Europe.

Furia

2021

Beforeigners poster
7.5

In the near future a new phenomenon starts happening all over the world with powerful flashes of light occurring in the ocean and people from the past mysteriously reappearing. Called "beforeigners," these people come from three separate time periods: the Stone Age, the Viking era and late 19th century. A couple of years later, Alfhildr – who comes from the Viking Age – has to partner up with a burned-out police officer, Lars Haaland, to investigate the murder of a beforeigner. The pair begins to unravel a larger conspiracy behind the origin of the mysterious mass arrivals.

Beforeigners

2019

Beforeigners poster
7.5

In the near future a new phenomenon starts happening all over the world with powerful flashes of light occurring in the ocean and people from the past mysteriously reappearing. Called "beforeigners," these people come from three separate time periods: the Stone Age, the Viking era and late 19th century. A couple of years later, Alfhildr – who comes from the Viking Age – has to partner up with a burned-out police officer, Lars Haaland, to investigate the murder of a beforeigner. The pair begins to unravel a larger conspiracy behind the origin of the mysterious mass arrivals.

Beforeigners

2019

War Sailor poster
7.7

When WWII erupts, two sailors on a Norwegian merchant ship face brutal conditions as they fight to survive a conflict they were never asked to join. Based on true stories of Norwegian merchant sailors and their families during and after World War II.

War Sailor

2023

Fallen poster
6.8

A cold case turns topical again and turns everything upside down, intertwining the lives of several people.

Fallen

2023

Valkyrien poster
6.6

In an illegal hospital, hidden in an Oslo underground station, a physician is desperately trying to find a cure for his wife's terminal illness.

Valkyrien

2017

Blind Tracks poster
3.5

A heavy snowstorm, a train collides with an avalanche forcing passengers to shelter in an isolated mountain hotel. A suspended police officer finds herself investigating mysterious murders occurring there.

Blind Tracks

2025

Svarte sekunder poster
6.0

Helga Joner's daughter Ida leaves home bound for the local shop riding a yellow bicycle and wearing a red cycle helmet. Helga is shown to be an over-anxious mother who worries excessively about her daughter. She even resorts to calculating the approximate time Ida will take to reach the shop. As night starts to fall, and Ida doesn't return, Helga becomes worried about her daughter, going so far as to phone the shop to see if Ida is there, but she is told that Ida never arrived. Helga and her sister Ruth search for Ida but to no avail. Finally they call the police.

Svarte sekunder

2006

Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion? poster
7.0

A man which is almost obsessed by being anonymous, and never the best in anything. Being second means that you are not noticed, forgotten, but still important as a human.

Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion?

2011

Requiem for Selina poster
5.5

In the early 2000s, 17-year-old Selina, a controversial beauty blogger, gained popularity and influence, becoming Norway's top blogger and top icon.

Requiem for Selina

2025