Victoria, Norwegian Movie

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While Bill is over the sea (well, at least from my geographical situation) in Canada, let’s have a look at his second, European, project of this year that we could definitely look forward to.

Our tall green eyed guy was casted for the role of Otto in upcoming Norwegian movie Victoria based on the book of the same name written by Nobel Prize winner, Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun. The story of the book is quite a typical love story and I bet you will love it from the first moment! It is also for the very first time when this story will be presented in film with purely Norwegian dialogues. Website of the Norwegian film institute says following information about the story:

Nobel Prize winner Knut Hamsun’s immortal novel “Victoria” from 1898 was the original love story. It has everything a filmmaker and a cinema audience could wish for: young love, class differences, success against all odds, costumes, glorious settings and a heartbreaking ending when Victoria confesses her true love to the man she didn’t get but should have had – before she succumbs to tuberculosis.

It is going to be a sad story but I trust director Torun Lian that it will be unforgettable, lovely movie. Speaking of something unforgettable and lovely, check out the beautiful photos of the cast (and Bill especially) in their late 19th century costumes. There’s something about tall guys in the historic suits that just can’t keep my eyes off. I should add that the pretty young lady playing Victoria is called Iben Akerlie and “the other guy” Johannes who is winning her heart is Jakob Oftebro, a son of another famous father. Well, see them for yourself:

The filming of Victoria was held mostly in Oslo, Norway and in beautiful Dalsland province in Sweden. Actually, to see a bit more how it looks like there on North you can (and should) definitely look at the Facebook page (in Norwegian) of the film. There are lots of amazing photos of set and nature around it.

Wrapped up in late June, now it’s the time for all those post-production things that normal immortals simply don’t understand. Release date is planned for winter 2013, so embrace yourself with patience until the winter comes…

By Leni in Victoria

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PRODUCTION FACTS

Original Title: Victoria
Country of Origin: Sweden
Production Year: 2012
First Release: March 1st, 2013
Language: Norwegian
Genre: Drama
Director: Torun Lian
Production: Filmkameratene AS
Producer: John M. Jacobsen, Pancho Kohner & Sveinung Golimo
Cast: Iben Akerlie, Bill Skarsgård, Jakob Oftebro
Script: Torun Lian
Based on: a novel by Nobel Prize winner Knut Hamsun

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Published in 1898, Victoria follows the love story of Johannes, the miller’s son (Oftebro), and Victoria, the daughter of a wealthy landowner. He fights social hierarchy and becomes a successful author, while she is forced to marry another (Skarsgård) to save the family’s troubled finances. When they are finally ready to own up to their feelings, it proves too late.

Lian’s first feature since the award-winning The Colour of Milk, Victoria – which she has herself adapted – has been filmed before, most recently by Swedish director Bo Widerberg, whose Swedish-German cast version was launched in competition in Cannes. German director Carl Hoffmann’s Viktoria was released in 1935.

Nobel Prize winner Knut Hamsun’s immortal novel “Victoria” from 1898 was the original love story. It has everything a filmmaker and a cinema audience could wish for: young love, class differences, success against all odds, costumes, glorious settings and a heartbreaking ending when Victoria confesses her true love to the man she didn’t get but should have had – before she succumbs to tuberculosis.

It is going to be a sad story but I trust director Torun Lian that it will be unforgettable, lovely movie. Speaking of something unforgettable and lovely, check out the beautiful photos of the cast (and Bill especially) in their late 19th century costumes. There’s something about tall guys in the historic suits that just can’t keep my eyes off. I should add that the pretty young lady playing Victoria is called Iben Akerlie and “the other guy” Johannes who is winning her heart is Jakob Oftebro, a son of another famous father.

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VICTORIA - OFFICIAL TRAILER1/18/2013Nobel Prize winner Knut Hamsun's immortal novel "Victoria" from 1898 is the original Love Story about young love, class differences, success against all odds ...

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Google Translated

It's not Hollywood love we are committed



Iben Akerlie, Bill Skarsgård og Jakob Oftebro spiller hovedrollene i Torun Lians filmatisering av Hamsuns klassiker «Victoria».

Foto: Jan Ung/ Filmkameratene

Knut Hamsun's "Victoria" is one of the most famous depictions of love in Norwegian literature, and now it's coming to the movies. What is it that makes the story hit us just as strongly over a hundred years after the book came out?
Ana Leticia Sigvartsen [e-mail]


The film about the tragic love affair between Miller's son John, and upper-class girl Victoria premiere 1 March.

Torun Lian has script and direction, Iben Akerlie has the title role and James Oftebro and Bill Skarsgard plays rivals John and Otto.

Bokbloggen: What is your favorite love story?

Victoria, which was released in 1898, was shot several times previously - the first time in Germany in the 1930s.

What is it that makes the story still feels relevant today?
- He says everything without saying it
Juni Dahr (Photo: Ana Leticia Sigvartsen / NRK)

Actress Juni Dahr has even played the role of Victoria.
Photo: Ana Leticia Sigvartsen / NRK

- I find that when I make Victoria or other classic texts, it is recognizable at once, for both young and older, says actress Juni Dahr.

Together with Lars Martin Myhre has Dahr set up Victoria as a concert performance, and she plays the female lead.

- It is amazing with Hamsun, the way he says it all without saying it. Thus it becomes a tension in the language, a fortettethet. One can sense the eroticism and emotions without it being said in big letters, explaining Dahr.

Victoria tells the story of John, who since his youth has loved Victoria, landlord's daughter. The landlord will have economic problems, and Victoria have engaged to Otto, the son of a wealthy chamberlain, to save his father.

Because of the social divisions is the relationship between Victoria and John impossible. The actor says it's one of the reasons why the story still captivates new readers.

- It's not Hollywood love we are concerned, it is the real love. I think that there are many people who go with the unresolved and perhaps dream of a love that was never the way you had planned or dreamed, says Dahr.

She says that there were meetings between the young girl and the young boy who fascinated her.

- The dream of each other all the time, a stock photo on the other, the poet apart into their own love story. Hamsun is incredibly good at describing situations and moments.

"Yes, what was love? A wind caressing the Rosernes, no one yellow phosphorescence in the blood. Love was one helvedeshet music that makes even old men hjærter to dance. It was like margeritan who opens herself wide open væg the night progressed, and it was like anemone which closes himself for a breath and dying to touch.

That was love.

It can ruin their mand, restore him brændemærke him: he could love me today, tomorrow and dig him tomorrow nat, as was the fugitive. But it could also keep the firm as an unbreakable seal and flare like unquenchable to death while, so it was forever. "
Knut Hamsun Victoria, Gyldendal, 6 Issue 1995


www.nrk.no/nyheter/kultur/litteratur/1.10866332