Elsa Lystad

Acting

Elsa Lystad

Born — Died

1930-07-09 — 2023-12-26

Place of birth

Oslo, Norway

Known for

Acting

Credits

42 titles

Lystad was a Norwegian actress.

Known for

Film credits

1990s · 5 titles

1980s · 8 titles

Sweetwater poster
4.2

Allan and Lisa flee the war-torn city of Sweetwater with their young son for the safety of the municipal dump in this sleepy war drama. They join other displaced survivors who were driven from their homes, looking for a better life on the outskirts of Sweetwater.

Sweetwater

1988

Viva Villaveien! poster
5.5

Viva Villa Road deals with a handful of neighbors who completely unaware manages to go to Gran Canaria at the same time. For many, this would be a nice, but for Swedish Reidar Frank (Brass Brännström), pensioner Sigurd Vatne (Sverre Hansen) and crazy Alice Lindblad (Elsa Lystad) this is the worst thing that could have occurred. After countless neighborhood feuds they all had, by coincidence, decided to travel to the Canary Islands to escape the unwanted situation of Villa Road. Therefore, the disputes continue also in the holiday paradise of the other family members' great despair. This surprisingly leads to a lot of funny episodes that contain both problems with the travel company, absurd misunderstandings and intricate entanglement that eventually tie up to a pretty successful movie.

Viva Villaveien!

1989

Fabel poster
5.0

A woman runs over a dog, and the accident is investigated by the police. She meets a man in a gallery, and they begin a relationship. But aside from this straightforward storyline, nothing about Fabel is simple. It is an absurd film, inspired by Eugène Ionesco and Samuel Beckett’s theatre of the absurd.

Fabel

1980

A Handful of Time poster
5.1

Gothic thriller about Old Martin who heeds the voice of Anna, who calls him back to the mountain cabin where he left her to die while she gave birth to their surviving son.

A Handful of Time

1989

Plastposen poster
5.7

He went out to empty the trash, but he should never have done that! Just listen to what happened to our hero Reinert Andersen in the early morning. In his bathrobe he goes quiet out to throw his garbage bag. But the bin is overfilled, and the neighbor shows up when he tries to sneak it into his. A tricky situation. He takes the speed to heave it over the hedge ... At the same time in a neighborhood bank, Henry and his gang make a successful coup, starting with the escape police pursuit. The only thing that gets in their way, are Reinerts garbage bag. It lands right in the front window, and the remains of it in the face of the policeman who is about to catch the robbers on a motorcycle. Double-flap! And Reinert? a bit naive and nice guy really is suddenly as the focal point in a series of events in his wild imagination would have thought was possible.

Plastposen

1986

Deilig er fjorden poster
5.0

For many years, Terje Svahberg saved up to buy a cabin. But then something happened, suddenly and unexpectedly. He became obsessed with boats. And before anyone really knew what was happening, he had made transactions that made him the proud owner of a luxury boat...and everything that goes with it.

Deilig er fjorden

1985

Den grønne heisen poster
5.0

Preben Bang visits the Borkmann family and invites Mrs. Lissen to the opera. Her husband Fredrik says he wants to stay home. The Borkmann family is also visited by their friends Einar and Topsy Lorck Mathiesen. And while Preben takes Lissen and Einar to the opera, Topsy and Fredrik are left alone in the apartment. The two "left behind" soon find comfort in each other's company.

Den grønne heisen

1981

Belønningen poster
9.0

A company director and a tramp bumps into each other, with the result of a broken liquor bottle, and a fight emerges, as well as the police. They are old working buddies taking to different roads during WW2. They wind up in court.

Belønningen

1980

1970s · 7 titles

Glade vrinsk poster
6.5

Based on Oslo Nye Teater's revue "Jubileumsrevyen 7 1/2" (The 7 1/2 Anniversary Revue), which premiered on August 19, 1974. Begins with interviews with Torvald Maurstad, Arve Opsahl, Aud Schønemann, and Rolf Just Nilsen. Interviews by Knut Bohwim. Followed by preparations for the revue.

Glade vrinsk

1975

The Olsen Gang and Dynamite-Harry Goes Wild poster
7.2

Egon and the gang is about to commit their biggest heist – stealing 6 millions from an undercover operation at a freight company. The money is stored in the most advanced security vault ever constructed, guarded by professional gorillas.

The Olsen Gang and Dynamite-Harry Goes Wild

1973

Dear Little Norway poster
6.8

A filming of and around a Chat Noir show revue from 1972.

Dear Little Norway

1973

No artwork available
NR

Based on a play by Jules Feiffer. America is involved in a war that has lasted a long time and cost many lives. Military authorities are tempted to resort to illegal methods of warfare in an attempt to bring the war to an end.

Mord i det hvite hus

1972

Closed Ward poster
5.8

This black-and-white Norwegian film is a great rarity: a film with comic elements set in a mental ward which does not overstep the bounds of common sense or good taste.

Closed Ward

1972

Bør Børson Jr. poster
5.9

Bør Børson Jr. will become a great man quickly, but will be ridiculed when lower class in Olderdalen crashes with modern Norway.

Bør Børson Jr.

1974

No artwork available
NR

Drama by Henrik Ibsen (1882). Edited and instructed by Per Bronken. The action is set in a coastal town in southern Norway which is known for its healthy bathing establishment.

An Enemy of the People

1972

1960s · 10 titles

Smugglers poster
7.0

For many, the happy twenties were not very happy, with high unemployment, poverty and a bitter disillusioned youth. But at the same time there was prohibition in Norway, with large-scale smuggling and easy-earned money. Ernst, an unemployed architect, stumbles onto the smuggler path, and replaces a gray, boring life with a lush, rowdy and colorful world. Klara, the girl he loves, walks away from him, and Jenny becomes his new girlfriend. Together with Hugo and Elsa, these four make a number of smuggling trips by car - with big profits - but it's not enough. So Ernst invests in boats, and that's when the really messy smuggling starts. He operates in the entire Oslo Fjord, all the way down to Rotterdam, pursued by police and customs, with his infamous torpedo boats. We follow Ernst all the way to the so-called Bygdøyslaget, where smugglers and police brutaly clash together.

Smugglers

1968

The Man Who Could Not Laugh poster
5.5

A man who can not laugh gets help by a psychiatrist.

The Man Who Could Not Laugh

1968

Love Thy Neighbour poster
4.6

Sven Gjeholm is a writer of sex books. His wife finds this a bit odd, considering he's not really into sex. Since Sven can't get any peace to write his books because of journalists and other curious folks who want to see how a sex writer lives, he decides to move to the small Norwegian town of Mårböosen. However, the town's residents have already heard about Sven and his writing, and he is not welcomed with open arms. Soon, however, the town's residents realize that Sven attracts a lot of tourists, and when Sven decides to flee once again, good advice is hard to come by. Sven has no choice but to stay in town.

Love Thy Neighbour

1967

No artwork available
9.0

Based on a play by Tom Eyen.

22 november - den store leiegården

1969

Daddy's Success poster
5.2

One day, Laffen, a family man, homeowner, and watchmaker, overhears his 17-year-old son lecturing his younger siblings. He gives them a shocking analysis of their poor father. The father puts on his workout clothes and goes for a jog in the neighborhood, to the amusement of his neighbors and the despair of his family. After a lucky shot, he wins the gold medal in athletics.

Daddy's Success

1964

The Market of the Unknowns poster
7.5

The Market of the Unknowns is a burlesque and socially critical tale of a flea market in Oslo, which is organized for the benefit of slum dwellers in Lima. Based a on novel by Åge Rønning.

The Market of the Unknowns

1968

Congratulations Andersens! poster
6.7

Father and mother Andersen and their four children live in a closed down farmside storehouse in the outskirts of Oslo. They enjoy life here, but the many neibours surrounding them are less enthusiastic about the family's lack of respect towards the supposed social order and decency they live by.

Congratulations Andersens!

1966

Freske fraspark poster
6.7

Per has won the 50 kilometer in Holmenkollen, but which village is he from, Alvdal or Tynset?

Freske fraspark

1963

Liv poster
6.9

A day in the life of photo model Liv. But it's no ordinary day. She breaks up with her fiance, father and her own empty life as a model, and has to find a new place to live. But is it that easy to make a clean break?

Liv

1967

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

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