Vi vil leve

Vi vil leve
Directed byOlav Dalgard
Rolf Randall
Written byOlav Dalgard
Rolf Randall
StarringHarald Heide Steen
Berit Alten
Stig Egede-Nissen
Kari Frisell
CinematographyReidar Lund
Music byArne Dørumsgaard
Distributed byA/S Folkefilm
Release date
  • 1946 (1946)
Running time
111 minutes
CountryNorway
LanguageNorwegian

Vi vil leve (We Want to Live)[1] is a Norwegian film from 1946 directed by Olav Dalgard and Rolf Randall. The film deals with the German occupation of Norway. The film studies professor Gunnar Iversen characterizes it as "an uneven and choppy film that is marred by melodramatization that undermines authentic material."[2]

Dalgard and Randal wrote the manuscript while confined at the Grini detention camp and had it smuggled out before being sent to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.[3]

  1. ^ Gunnar Iversen (2005). "Kampen om tungtvannet / Operation Swallow". In Soila, Tytti (ed.). The Cinema of Scandinavia. London: Wallflower Press. p. 97.
  2. ^ Iversen, Gunnar (March 20, 2012). "En av de store i filmhistorien". Rushprint. Retrieved August 3, 2019.
  3. ^ Kvalvik, Bent (2016). "De første norske filmene om krigen". Aftenpostens historiemagasin. No. 5. p. 108.