Jan Gunnar Røise
Birthday: Born in 1975-09-24 in Eidsvoll, Norway
Deathday: Alive
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Alt er lov
Character: Fast deltaker
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Pørni
Character: Finn
Pørni is about the dilemmas that you end up in when you, to the best of your abilities, try to do the right thing for your loved ones, and yourself. In that order. Pørni has two daughters with a jerk of an ex who has moved to Copenhagen, who focuses mainly on himself....
Makta
Character: Reiulf Steen
The incredible story of Gro Harlem Brundtland, who in the late 70s works as a young doctor, fighting for self-determined abortion, when she almost by accident, stumbles into politics. As the government implodes around her, Gro learns to play her own games of power, climbing the ranks until she is the last woman standing in the ruins of Labour’s celebrated social democracy, ending up as Norway’s first female Prime Minister in 1981....
ZombieLars
Character: Bengt - Annas Far
In the fictitious town of Bekkebakken, conformity is a virtue and all things otherwordly are frowned upon. Twelve year old Lars, half zombie, and his just as special friends with certain supernatural characteristics, have a series of strange adventures suppressing their true natures in order to fit in....
Uti vår hage
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Uti vår hage was a Norwegian sketch comedy television program which had two different runs on TV in 2003 and 2008 on the Norwegian state channel NRK. The show starred the three well-known comedians: Atle Antonsen, Harald Eia and Bård Tufte Johansen. The format of the show was one main storyline that would gradually branch off into several separate minor storylines. Two series of the show have been produced, and the second series carries the title Uti vår hage 2. The show has introduced popular c...
I kveld med Ylvis
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Fenris
Character: Asbjørn Kolomoen
When Emma hears that her father has stopped doing his job as a wolf researcher, she takes her son Leo to Østbygda to find out what's going on. At the same time, a young boy disappears without a trace from the village....
Julestorm
Character: David
A group of people arrive at Oslo airport. Some to welcome their loved ones, some to fly home to their families, and some who want to fly away and escape Christmas. But in one way or another, their Christmas mission goes awry. They are all stranded at the airport and the clock is ticking… only 24 hours till Christmas – so what do they do?...
Lilyhammer
Character: Max Nordahl
After Frank The Fixer Tagliano testifies against his Mafia boss in New York, he enters the Witness Protection Program and makes an unusual demand: he wants to be set up with a new life in the Norwegian small town of Lillehammer or as he calls it, Lilyhammer....
Toll
Character: Kommentarer
Every day someone tries to smuggle drugs, money, weapons, alcohol and other illegal goods into Norway. In this documentary series, you get an exclusive insight into the job the customs officers do on several transitions along Norway's long border....
Torsdag kveld fra Nydalen
Character: Jan Gunnar Røise
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Nothing to Laugh About
Character: Doctor 2
Kasper Berntsen is a successful stand-up comedian, who has everything he could wish for. One day everything changes. He learns that he has a serious illness, and his girlfriend puts an end to it....
Kitchen Stories
Character: Vaktmesterassistent
Swedish efficiency researchers come to Norway for a study of Norwegian men, to optimize their use of their kitchen. Folke Nilsson (Tomas Norström) is assigned to study the habits of Isak Bjørvik (Joachim Calmeyer). By the rules of the research institute, Folke has to sit on an umpire's chair in Isak's kitchen and observe him from there, but never talk to him. Isak stops using his kitchen and observes Folke through a hole in the ceiling instead. However, the two lonely men slowly overcome the ini...
A Somewhat Gentle Man
Character: Geir
After serving a 12-year sentence for killing the man that slept with his wife, a man ponders whether he should try and reconcile with his family, or take revenge on those who turned him in....
Comrade Pedersen
Character: Werner Ludal
A drama focused on Norwegian society in the 1970s, an era politically influenced by Marxism and Leninism....
An ordinary day at work
Character: Håvard Melnæs
A young man dreams of becoming a journalist, in order to write stories which may change the world. This does not turn out as planned, and instead he ends up as a reporter for the celebrity magazine Se og Hør. We are observing a man who gradually loses all inhibitions in order to reach the top in the country's largest weekly magazine....
Twigson
Character: Father
The film Twigson is all about a tough, naughty, quick-witted and brave boy. Lillebror has just moved, and has not made any new friends yet, when his imaginary friend – the wooden twig Knerten – appears in the middle of a pile of firewood......
Most People Live in China
Character: Farmer (segment "Heimat")
A movie inspired by eight Norwegian political parties, written by six writers and directed by nine directors: a man gets a nasty surprise skinny dipping, a cow eats a cell phone, a lesbian couple loses a child, a blind girl sells dubious lottery tickets, a boy falls in love, a man picks up a hitchhiker, three girls get help from a man in pajamas, and nine old men find a young girl stuck in a swamp....
Hawaii, Oslo
Character: Leon
Hawaii, Oslo is the story of a handful of people who cross each other's path without necessarily knowing each other, during the hottest day of the year, in Oslo. We follow Frode and Milla. They are having their first child, who they are told will not live long. We follow Bobbie-Pop, a faded singer who tries to commit suicide. We follow Leon, an institutionalized kleptomaniac who is loking for Åsa, to whom he has a ten year old deal to get married. We meet Leon's brother, Trygve, who fetches Leon...
The Thing
Character: Olav
When paleontologist Kate Lloyd travels to an isolated outpost in Antarctica for the expedition of a lifetime, she joins an international team that unearths a remarkable discovery. Their elation quickly turns to fear as they realize that their experiment has freed a mysterious being from its frozen prison. Paranoia spreads like an epidemic as a creature that can mimic anything it touches will pit human against human as it tries to survive and flourish in this spine-tingling thriller....
Magic Silver
Character: Halvor
Princess Bluerose is a small gnome living deep in the Norwegian mountains. A small community of gnomes is responsible for making the transition between daylight and night. This is called the magic hour, and is created by the magic silver which only these gnomes possess. When the silver is stolen, the world is transformed into eternal night. Princess Bluerose sets out on a remarkable journey to retrieve the silver and save the world from eternal darkness. Magic Silver is based on the popular Norw...
Svein and the Rat
Character: Trumma
Svein's best friend is a fancy rat named Halvorsen who goes missing during a pet contest, leading to chaos with newspapers reporting a rat invasion. To avoid losing both Halvorsen and the competition, Svein must work to keep his parents unaware of the situation....
Full dekning
Character: Vegard
Seven long-time friends meet for dinner. They decide to share their text messages, emails and phone calls. Secrets are unveiled. Harmony trembles....
Twigson Ties the Knot
Character: Father
When Lillebror's mother is mysteriously hurt in a biking accident, Lillebror and Knerten turn the town upside down trying to find the culprit....
I Belong
Character: Instruktøren
A nurse gets into a dispute at work because she switches to speaking English when she gets nervous. A translator compromises her integrity when persuaded to translate a book she doesn't believe in. An elderly woman and her daughter are humiliated when offered a present of one million kroner from a relative. A warm and nuanced film about people who all mean well, but end up hurting one another....
The 7 Deadly Sins
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Feature film length collection of seven short films about the biblical seven sins by preliminary younger Norwegian directors....
In Order of Disappearance
Character: Jappe
Upstanding community leader Nils has just won an award for "Citizen of the Year" when he learns the news that his son has died of a heroin overdose. Suspecting foul play, Nils begins to investigate, and soon finds himself at the center of an escalating underworld gang war between Serbian drug dealers and a sociopathic criminal mastermind known only as “The Count.”...
Norwegian Offspring
Character: Stein
A mother passes away, and her estranged son – obsessed with theories about the repression of male sexuality in modern society – starts longing for offspring of his own....
Kaptein Sabeltann og jakten på den magiske diamant
Character: Soldat 2
En liten gutt er på flukt gjennom jungelen. Marco heter han og er Pinkys lillebror. Pinky og Sunniva har dratt av sted for å prøve å finne ham. Samtidig har selveste Kaptein Sabeltann seilt fra Det Usynlige Land. I årevis har han vært på jakt etter Den Magiske Diamant. Nå fører ryktene ham til Shangri La, en avsidesliggende sydhavsstrand. Inne i jungelen, på den andre siden av hengebroene, lurer en livsfarlig fiende, nemlig Maga Kahn, jungelens onde fyrste, og hans dronning Sirikit. Det er duket...
Thomas vs. Thomas (A Sensational Theory Regarding an Insignificant Life in the Multiverse)
Character: Bjørn
A quantum physicist is about to have the breakthrough of the century, but as he closes in on his goal, versions of him from parallel realities force him to untangle the mystery of his own existence; how to be a present father for his son....
Teddy's Christmas
Character: Roger
While visiting a Christmas market in her Norwegian town, eight year old Mariann spots a talking teddy bear at a carnival game booth. However, when someone else wins it, she embarks on a quest to find the adorable bear that captured her heart....
Sex
Character: Feier
Two men in heterosexual marriages whose unexpected experiences challenge their perceptions of sexuality, gender and identity....
Twigson in Trouble
Character: Father
I den tredje filmen om Knerten har Lillebror og familien hans flyttet. Knerten har fått en sønn, Lille-Knerten, og lykken er stor. Men mor og far er bekymret for Lillebror. De har bodd i Bessby i et par måneder, men han har fremdeles ikke fått seg noen nye venner. Lillebror bryr seg ikke. Han liker ikke de andre guttene i gata uansett, og dessuten har han jo Knerten. De to gjør en avtale om ikke å ha noen andre venner. For alltid. Men en dag forsvinner Knerten sporløst…...
Titina
Character: Umberto Nobile (voice)
Italian airship engineer Umberto Nobile enjoys a quiet life with his beloved dog Titina. One day, Norwegian explorer superstar Roald Amundsen contacts him and orders an airship to conquer The North Pole....
The Professor and the Story of the Origami Girl
Character: The Director
A director feels he is about to lose himself to the market forces and thinks that the only way he can protest is by making a political film. He contacts Thomas Hylland Eriksen, who will become his mouthpiece and articulate what is wrong. But along the way the director becomes distracted by another person, a young, fumbling girl reminiscent of himself....
Mr. K
Character: Anton
Mr. K, a traveling magician, finds himself in a Kafkaesque nightmare when he can’t find the exit of the hotel, he has slept in. His attempts to get out only pull him deeper, entangling him further with the hotel and its curious inhabitants....
Kaptein Sabeltann og den forheksede øya
Character: Lucifer
When Kaptein Sabeltann and his men land on the mysterious island Gral, they are warned by the sorceress Miriam av Gral, that the lord of the island, Greven av Gral (the Count of Gral), is cruel and mad, and would like to replace Kaptein Sabeltann as the king of the sea....
Anolit
Character: Roger
A circling roadmovie told from the back seat of a styled BMW....
37½
Character: Axel
A woman, Selma, almost 40 years old, figures that she has not achieved what she wanted in life and wonders "what now?"...
The Beast of Beauty
Character: Sjenert Prins
Lotte and her father moves in with Kristin, a former beauty queen, and her daughter, Vendela. Kristin is grooming Vendela to win the Little Miss Norway contest, and as a result both girls get more and more preoccupied with their looks. When Lotte is allowed to participate in the contest, it soon becomes clear that being too vain can be a frightening experience....
Girlfriend Experience
Character: Trond
Kath is selling sex in Oslo, alongside her best friend, Andrea. When Andrea decides to walk away, Kath tries to ignore it and maintain their business on her own. But the presence of Andrea is following her, and Kath is forced to face her grief....
The Lion Woman
Character: Parson
Eva Arctander is born with hypertrichosis, meaning that she is covered from head to toe with fine blonde hair. Her father is so ashamed of her that he hides her away from the world in their apartment. However, Eva’s nanny fights for her right to be treated like everyone else....
The Last Joint Venture
Character: Espen
The decade of the hippies is at an end and the 80's are approaching fast. Carl and Robert are two doped out guys who lives in harmony with the world around them and let life pass by in an eternal hash high. They have been peddling hashish for a decade, hitting an all time high with this last batch: 45 Kilos of pure, high grade Nepalese Hashish. Following the delivery, the police are on their tail....
Cold Lunch
Character: Erlend
Bird droppings on a work shirt lead to extreme unintended consequences....
A Swan Lake
Character: The Artist
The Artist proposes to the distrustful and skeptical Producer the staging of a new ballet starring… swans? What is the story? That of Prince Siegfried and his love for the beautiful Odette, victim of the spell cast by the evil sorcerer Rothbart, an enchantment that turns her and her friends into swans when the light of day tears the dark shadows of night. (The Norwegian National Opera and Ballet, April 26th, 2014.)...
Beware of Children
Character: Anders
During a break in school 13 year-old Lykke, the daughter of a prominent Labour Party member, seriously injures her classmate Jamie, the son of a high profile right-wing politician....
Forgotten Christmas
Character: Ole
Carpenter Andersen and Santa Claus are back and this time they have to help little Elise save christmas before it's too late....
Out Stealing Horses
Character: Priest
November 1999. 67-year-old Trond lives in new-found solitude and looks forward to spending New Year's Eve 2000 alone. As winter arrives he discovers he has a neighbor, a man Trond knew back in 1948, the summer he turned 15 and the summer Trond's father prepared him to carry the burden of his forthcoming betrayal and disappearance....
The Ash Lad: In Search of the Golden Castle
Character: Royal Messenger
When the King and Queen are poisoned, brothers Per and Pål get arrested, suspected of being behind it. Younger brother Espen "Ash Lad" and Princess Kristin set out on a quest to find the mythical Soria Moria castle, which is said to be built of pure gold. In Soria Moria, there sits a well containing the Water of Life; the only thing that can cure Kristin's parents. But some wicked Danes are also on the hunt to find the castle. If Espen and Kristin fail, it will spell the end for the brothers, th...
The Tunnel
Character: Gunnar
When a truck crashes inside a tunnel, people on their way home for Christmas are brutally trapped in a deadly fire. With a blizzard raging outside, and the first responders struggling to get to the accident, it's every man for himself....
What Will People Say
Character: Man in Shop
Sixteen year-old Nisha lives a double life. At home with her family she is the perfect Pakistani daughter, but when out with her friends, she is a normal Norwegian teenager. When her father catches her in bed with her boyfriend, Nisha's two worlds brutally collide. To set an example, Nisha's parents decide to kidnap her and place her with relatives in Pakistan. Here, in a country she has never been to before, Nisha is forced to adapt to her parents' culture....
5 grøss fra Vestlandet
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5 directors were invited to direct their own short film - a horror story. The idea was to let the directors tell their own worst nightmare. 5 short films were produced and edited together as one movie for the cinema with the duration of 33 minutes. An unusual cinema project, but then again, more exciting!...
Stevens Johnson
Character: Hugo
A confrontation between a mysterious man and a charming Italian chef develops into an extortion where pride stands high for both parties....
The Polar Bear Prince
Character: Hovmester
The fearless, curious and adventurous girl, Liv dreams of leaving her home in the woods. When the polar bear Valemon offers her family a way out of poverty if she comes with him, she accepts. A compassionate friendship starts to form between the two, a friendship that could well turn into something deeper. For Valemon is not only a bear, but a prince who was once cursed by a witch. Fearless as she is, and with her charming animal friends by her side, Liv sets out on a journey to confront the dan...