
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
8.0Trygdekontoret is a Norwegian themed talk show and debate program with Thomas Seltzer that aired on NRK 2009 - 2019.
Trygdekontoret talkshow
2009
6.7Hos Martin is a Norwegian situation comedy that premiered on TV2 on January 6, 2004.
Hos Martin
2004
6.7A classic Norwegian sitcom set in a small Oslo clothing factory run by the uptight yet well-meaning director Peder Fredriksson. Surrounded by a group of outspoken seamstresses and quirky staff, Fredriksson struggles to maintain order amid everyday chaos, gossip, and comic misunderstandings. The show blends workplace humor with sharp social observation and became a beloved portrait of Norwegian working life in the early 1990s.
Fredrikssons fabrikk
1990
6.7A serial killer is on the loose in Oslo. He kills and leaves mysterious notes under the bodies with lines from a children's song. Problems pile up for investigator Cato Isaksen, both in relation to his two families and the murder cases.
Slangebæreren
2005
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Kontorsjef Tangen
1966
4.2Allan 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
Film credits
2010s · 3 titles
4.5An anti-authority rogue in an old folks' home breaks all the rules and causes mayhem honoring his friend's dying wish to be buried at sea.
All at Sea
2012
4.3It's the harshest winter in memory, and the gnomes' very existence is in danger. Eager to help, Queen Fjellrose betrays one of their strictest rules and goes out looking for the Blue Horn, a magical instrument that can alter the weather.
Magic Silver 2
2011
5.5In desperate need of $150,000 for his father's heart transplant, Simen tries to blackmail a dysfunctional robber.
Blackmail for Beginners
2011
2000s · 2 titles
1990s · 5 titles
7.7While her mama is at the hospital to give birth, and her dad has gone off with a mistress, Maja has to survive by herself and her grandma, thanks to her Indian costume and her second Indian identity as Maja Stoneface.
Maja Stoneface
1996
6.1Frida, aged 13, has discovered a book by psychoanalyst Erich Fromm called "The art of loving". Using it as a reference she sets out to better the love lives of her family and friends. But love works in mysterious ways...
Frida - Straight from the Heart
1991
6.5Newly divorced factory manager Fredriksson has found a new partner, and has hired her as chief designer at the factory. Her role models are the top fashion houses in Paris, and she has plans ready for renovations. But how do the employees react? Pia, Kari, Oddveig, Margit and Tommy? And what happens when everyone is laid off due to declining order intake?
Fredrikssons fabrikk – The movie
1994
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Latterbrøl med Arve Opsahl
1992
NRErik Bruun (Nils Vogt) milks the social security system by making up a lot of tenants with one social security-entitled defect worse than the other, he starts this after he is fired two years earlier. His wife Linda (Kjersti Døvigen) knows nothing about this, but then one day when social security inspector Fylking (Ole Jørgen Nilsen) suddenly knocks on the door to check the conditions, a huge and increasingly complicated and intricate process starts for Bruun in the hope of avoiding to be revealed.
Rett i lomma
1998
1980s · 8 titles
4.2Allan 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
5.5Viva 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
5.0A 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
5.1Gothic 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
5.7He 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
5.0For 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
5.0Preben 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
9.0A 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
6.5Based 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
7.2Egon 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
6.8A filming of and around a Chat Noir show revue from 1972.
Dear Little Norway
1973
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
5.8This 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
5.9Bør 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
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
7.0For 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
5.5A man who can not laugh gets help by a psychiatrist.
The Man Who Could Not Laugh
1968
4.6Sven 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
Based on a play by Tom Eyen.
22 november - den store leiegården
1969
5.2One 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
7.5The 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
6.7Father 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
6.7Per has won the 50 kilometer in Holmenkollen, but which village is he from, Alvdal or Tynset?
Freske fraspark
1963
6.9A 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
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
Series credits
8.0Trygdekontoret is a Norwegian themed talk show and debate program with Thomas Seltzer that aired on NRK 2009 - 2019.
Trygdekontoret talkshow
2009
6.7Hos Martin is a Norwegian situation comedy that premiered on TV2 on January 6, 2004.
Hos Martin
2004
6.7A classic Norwegian sitcom set in a small Oslo clothing factory run by the uptight yet well-meaning director Peder Fredriksson. Surrounded by a group of outspoken seamstresses and quirky staff, Fredriksson struggles to maintain order amid everyday chaos, gossip, and comic misunderstandings. The show blends workplace humor with sharp social observation and became a beloved portrait of Norwegian working life in the early 1990s.
Fredrikssons fabrikk
1990
6.7A serial killer is on the loose in Oslo. He kills and leaves mysterious notes under the bodies with lines from a children's song. Problems pile up for investigator Cato Isaksen, both in relation to his two families and the murder cases.
Slangebæreren
2005
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Kontorsjef Tangen
1966
10.0A Norwegian drama about a struggling musician who turns to blackmail after witnessing a murder.
Good Night, Darling
2009



