Ungen

Ungen
Directed byRasmus Breistein
Oskar Braaten
Written byRasmus Breistein
Oskar Braaten
Based onOskar Braaten's play Ungen: folkeliv i fire akter
Produced byJohannes Jensen
StarringEva Sletto
Harald Heide Steen
Ragnhild Hald
CinematographyGunnar Nilsen-Vig
Edited byGunnar Nilsen-Vig
Distributed byNorsk film A/S
Release date
  • 1938 (1938)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryNorway
LanguageNorwegian

Ungen (The Child[1] or The Kid[2]) is a Norwegian drama film from 1938 directed by Rasmus Breistein.[1] The lead roles are played by Eva Sletto, Harald Heide Steen, and Ragnhild Hald. It is a film adaptation of Oskar Braaten's 1911 play Ungen: folkeliv i fire akter (The Child: Everyday Life in Four Acts).[1] A new version of the film was made in 1974 as a musical.[3]

  1. ^ a b c "Norway". Review of Foreign Film Markets. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Commerce: 110. 1939.
  2. ^ Ove Solum (2016). "The Rise and Fall of Norwegian Municipal Cinemas". In Hjort, Mette; Lindqvist, Ursula (eds.). A Companion to Nordic Cinema. Wiley-Blackwell. p. 195.
  3. ^ Costello, Tom (1994). International Guide to Literature on Film. London: Bowker-Saur. p. 31.