Bare et liv – historien om Fridtjof Nansen

Only One Life: the Story of Fridtjof Nansen[1] (Bokmål: Bare et liv – Historien om Fridtjof Nansen) is a 1968 Norwegian/Soviet[2] biographical drama film directed by Sergei Mikaelyan, starring Knut Wigert and Veslemøy Haslund. The film depicts three important episodes in the life of Fridtjof Nansen (Wigert): his North Pole expedition, his diplomatic work with the League of Nations and his humanitarian work during the 1930s famine in Ukraine.

Just a Life: the Story of Fridtjof Nansen
Directed bySergei Mikaelyan
Written byOdd Bang-Hansen
Yuli Dunsky
StarringKnut Wigert
Veslemøy Haslund
Rolf Sand
Joachim Calmeyer
Jack Fjeldstad
Production
companies
Release date
  • October 10, 1968 (1968-10-10)
(Norway)
Running time
89 minutes (Norway)
85 minutes (Soviet Union)
CountryNorway
LanguageNorwegian

The title is sometimes translated as Storm Over Catastrophe[3] or Just One Life.[2]

References edit

  1. ^ Rollberg, Peter (2008-11-07). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6268-5.
  2. ^ a b Herzberg, Julia; Renner, Andreas; Schierle, Ingrid (2021-08-13). The Russian Cold: Histories of Ice, Frost, and Snow. Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-80073-128-8.
  3. ^ Kelly, Catriona (2021). Soviet Art House: Lenfilm Studio Under Brezhnev. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-754836-3.

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