Gryr i Norden

Gryr i Norden
Directed byOlav Dalgard
Written byOlav Dalgard
StarringMartin Gisti
Betzy Holter
Ragnhild Hald
Solveig Haugan
Gunvor Hall
Ragnhild Hagen
Kolbjørn Brenda
Jack Fjeldstad
Tryggve Larssen
Joachim Holst-Jensen
CinematographyReidar Lund
Edited byReidar Lund
Music byJolly Kramer-Johansen
Distributed byNorsk Film A/S
Release date
  • October 6, 1939 (1939-10-06)
Running time
67 minutes
CountryNorway
LanguageNorwegian

Gryr i Norden (Dawn in the North)[1] is a Norwegian film from 1939 that was directed by Olav Dalgard.[2] Gryr i Norden is the last film in the "worker trilogy." The other two films are Det drønner gjennom dalen (1938) and Lenkene brytes (1938).[3][4]

The film is about the first major women's strike in Norway, the match workers' strike in Kristiania (now Oslo) in 1889. On the morning of October 23, 1889, the match workers at the Bryn and Grønvold match factories in the city went on strike.[5][6] Working conditions were miserable, and most of the young women ended up with ruined health after a short period of performing the hazardous work, affected by phosphorus necrosis.[7][8]

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  2. ^ Iverson, Gunnar; Widding, Astrid Soderbergh; Soila, Tytti (2005). Nordic National Cinemas. London: Routledge. p. 107.
  3. ^ Sundholm, John; Thorsen, Isak; Andersson, Lars Gustaf (2012). Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Cinema. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. p. 111.
  4. ^ Brunetta, Gian Piero (1999). Storia del cinema mondiale: L'Europa: le cinematografie nazionali. Turin: Einaudi. p. 404.
  5. ^ Thorsen, Liv Emma (1979). Kvinnene på Kampen: en undersøkelse av arbeiderkvinners levekår 1890–1930. Oslo: Institutt for folkelivsgranskning, Universitetet i Oslo. p. 145.
  6. ^ Thuesen, Nils Petter (2000). Norges historie i årstall: fra steinalderen til i dag. Oslo: Orion. p. 271.
  7. ^ Broch, Lisbeth (1946). Kvinnereising. Oslo: Cappelen. p. 32.
  8. ^ Alnæs, Karsten (1996). Historien om Norge: Mot moderne tider. Oslo: Gyldendal. p. 636.