Fant (film)

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Fant
Directed by Tancred Ibsen
Written byTancred Ibsen
Based on Gabriel Scott's novel Fant
Produced byTancred Ibsen
Starring Alfred Maurstad
Sonja Wigert
Guri Stormoen
Lars Tvinde
Oscar Egede-Nissen
CinematographyAdrian Bjurman
Edited by Titus Vibe-Müller
Music by Thode Fagelund
Distributed byNorsk Film A/S
Release date
  • December 26, 1937 (1937-12-26)
Running time
95 minutes
CountryNorway
LanguageNorwegian

Fant (The Gypsy) [1] [2] is a Norwegian film from 1937 based on Gabriel Scott's 1928 novel of the same name. [3] The film was directed by Tancred Ibsen, who also wrote the script for the film. The film premiered on December 26, 1937 at the Eldorado Cinema in Oslo. [3]

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The film is about a young orphaned girl Josefa (played by Sonja Wigert), who escapes from her wicked uncle (played by Einar Tveito) and eventually falls in love with a Roma named Fændrik (played by Alfred Maurstad). Fændrik belongs to a seafaring group of Roma that travel around Southern Norway, and in many ways the film is typical of the contemporary view of the Roma people and their culture.

Guri Stormoen, who played the role of Mathilde, said that during the production her opponent Alfred Maurstad had stabbed her in the stomach with a knife during the filming of a fight scene, and that director Ibsen had ordered the actors to "fight seriously, otherwise it would look idiotic, of course. And with that, we had to yell at each other, and then—it was absolutely awful!" The actors had to lie in their beds the day after this scene was filmed, according to Stormoen, because they were battered and full of bruises. [4]

Fant was received well by both the critics and the public when it was released, and Alfred Maurstad in particular was praised for his role as the ruthless layabout Fændrik. [5]

Cast

Sequel

Leif Sinding made a sequel to Tancred Ibsen's Fant in 1943 or 1944. This sequel was titled Fant II or Josepha. However, the film was never released, and only fragments of it have been preserved. [3] [6]

Literature

Fant is discussed in Thor Gotaas's comprehensive 2003 work Taterne: livskampen og eventyret (Travelers: The Struggle for Life and the Adventure), in which the author discusses the extent to which the film—and Gabriel Scott's novel of the same name—provides an authentic image of Roma culture. [7]

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References

  1. ↑ Cowie, Peter (1992). Scandinavian Cinema: A Survey of the Films and Film-Makers of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. London: Tantivy Press. p. 275.
  2. ↑ Leiren, Terje; Sjåvik, Jan (2019). Historical Dictionary of Norway. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 63.
  3. 1 2 3 Dahl, Truls Erik (1998). Gabriel Scott: et levnetsløp. Fjellhamar: Juni Forlag. pp. 250, 255. ISBN   82-91674-15-9.
  4. ↑ "Teaterspeilet". NRK TV. March 17, 1969. Retrieved March 6, 2021.
  5. ↑ Dokka, Ingrid K. (2008). 100 norske filmer du må se. Oslo: Orion Forlag. p. 31.
  6. ↑ Smogeli, Svein Oskar (2015). Leif Sinding – Fra filmpioner til landssviker (Master's thesis). Oslo: University of Oslo. p. 102.
  7. ↑ Gotaas, Thor (2017). Taterne: livskampen og eventyret. Oslo: Dreyers Forlag.
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