Directed by:
Bentein BaardsonCinematography:
Erling Thurmann-AndersenComposer:
Håkon BergeCast:
Per Sunderland, Kjersti Holmen, Anders T. Andersen, Lars Øyno, Petronella Barker, Edith Carlmar, Samuel Fröler, Per Gørvell, Erik Hivju, Sigmund Sæverud (more)Plots(1)
At the age of nine, Knut Hamsun was turned over to his strict religious uncle in return for his parents debt. Six years later, he left his childhood home in Nordland and started a journey filled with self-denial and triumphs, humiliation and arrogance, love and contempt, intoxication and bitterness, flowers and blood. We follow Hamsun through his years as a wandering peddler and starving poet and we are with him during his triumphs and victories. We are there when he seduces his women and bewitches his audiences, when he meets his bride Marie and when he accepts the Nobel Prize. When we at last take our leave from Knut Hamsun, he is at Norholm, ruined and despised. What is it that forms a man, for better or worse, and what drove Knut Hamsun to make the decisions he did? The Enigma provides no answers, but shows us the many aspects of his life. (Norsk Filminstitutt)
(more)Cast
Per Sunderland
Norway
Best movies:
Trees Grow on the Stones Too (1985)
Kjersti Holmen
Norway
Best movies:
The Art of Negative Thinking (2006)
Man of War (2008)
The Telegraphist (1993)
Anders T. Andersen
Norway
Best movies:
Aberdeen (2000)
Hawaii, Oslo (2004)
Only Clouds Move the Stars (1998)
Petronella Barker
UK
Best movies:
Trees Grow on the Stones Too (1985)
Hawaii, Oslo (2004)
The Bothersome Man (2006)
Edith Carlmar
Norway
Best movies:
Fools in the Mountains (1957)
Samuel Fröler
Sweden
Best movies:
The Best Intentions (1992)
Beloved (2010)
Headhunter (2009)
Per Gørvell
Norway
Best movies:
King of Devil's Island (2010)
Elling (2001)
Hope (2019)
Erik Hivju
Norway
Best movies:
The Last Place on Earth (1985) (series)
Hamsun (1996)
Man of War (2008)
Sigmund Sæverud
Norway
Best movies:
Reprise (2006)
Varg Veum - De døde har det godt (2012)
Magic Silver (2009)
Ingunn Beate Øyen
Norway
Best movies:
The Kautokeino Rebellion (2007)
Women in Oversized Men's Shirts (2015)
Everybody Hates Johan (2022)
Günter Bothur
Best movies:
Blindfolded Eyes (1978)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
My Mother's Courage (1995)
Petter Width Kristiansen
Best movies:
The Other Side of Sunday (1996)
Oslo, August 31st (2011)
Falling Sky (2002)
Lasse Lindtner
Norway
Best movies:
An Enemy of the People (2005)
Sverre Hansen
Norway
Best movies:
Kristin Lavransdatter (1995)
Hunger (1966)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1970)
Randi Brænne
Norway
Bente Børsum
Norway
Best movies:
The Hunt (1959)
The Prompter (1999)
Late Summer (2016)
Svein Erik Brodal
Norway
Best movies:
Kristin Lavransdatter (1995)
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Johannes Eckhoff
Norway