Op med hodet! (literally, Up with Your Head!, or Cheer Up!)[1][2] is a Norwegian comedy film from 1934. It was directed by Tancred Ibsen and produced by Erling Bergendahl. The actors appearing in the film include Lillebil Ibsen, Lalla Carlsen, and Leif Juster.[3][4] The film was very experimental for its time,[3] and it included special effects, multiple exposures, reverse motion, and color sequences.[1]
| Op med hodet! | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Tancred Ibsen |
| Written by | Tancred Ibsen |
| Produced by | Erling Bergendahl |
| Starring | Lillebil Ibsen Tore Foss Julie Lampe Egil Hjorth-Jenssen Leif Amble-Næss David Knudsen Gogo Mowinckel-Nilsen Sverre Arnesen Carsten Carlsen Lalla Carlsen Leif Enger Herbert Herding-Herberth Leif Juster Olaf Kronstad Per Kvist Ella Peaters Einar Vaage |
| Cinematography | Harald Berglund |
| Edited by | Tancred Ibsen |
| Music by | Kristian Hauger |
| Distributed by | Specialfilms AS |
Release date |
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Running time | 86 minutes |
| Country | Norway |
| Language | Norwegian |
The title of the film is a reference to the opening line of a poem in Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson's novel En glad Gut (A Happy Boy): "Løft ditt hode, du raske gutt!" (Lift your head, you restless youth!), spoken by a Bjørnson statue in the film.[1]
Cast edit
- Lillebil Ibsen as Lill, a ballet dancer
- Tore Foss as Theobald Tordenstam
- Julie Lampe as Theobald's mother
- Egil Hjorth-Jenssen as the theater manager
- Leif Amble-Næss as a ballet instructor
- David Knudsen as the bartender
- August Mowinckel-Nilsen as the theater director
- Sverre Arnesen as a stage worker
- Carsten Carlsen as the music director
- Lalla Carlsen as an actress
- Leif Enger as a scriptwriter
- Herbert Herding as an actor
- Leif Juster as an actor
- Olaf Kronstad as an actor
- Per Kvist as an actor
- Ella Peaters as Gerda, a dancer and singer
- Eugen Skjønberg (not credited)
- Einar Vaage as an audience member
- Finn Bø as himself
- Arne Svendsen as himself
- Kristian Hauger as a pianist
References edit
- ^ a b c Lunde, Arne (2010). "Op med hodet: Tancred Ibsen's 1933 Experiment in Cinematic Modernism" (PDF). Scandinavian-Canadian Studies. 19: 56–71. Retrieved July 30, 2019.
- ^ "Cheer Up!". IMDb. Retrieved July 30, 2019.
- ^ a b "Tancred Ibsen". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Retrieved July 30, 2019.
- ^ "Leif Juster". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Retrieved July 30, 2019.
