Sangen til livet

Sangen til livet
Directed by	Leif Sinding
Written by	Leif Sinding
Based on	Johan Bojer's play Sigurd Braa
Produced by	Leif Sinding
Starring	Erling Drangsholt Else Budde Finn Lange
Cinematography	Kåre Bergstrøm
Edited by	Olav Engebretsen
Music by	Jolly Kramer-Johansen
Distributed by	Skandinavisk film-central
Release date	1943 (1943)
Running time	108 minutes
Country	Norway
Language	Norwegian

Sangen til livet (The Song of Life) is a Norwegian film from 1943 based on Johan Bojer's play Sigurd Braa. ^{[1] [2] [3]} It was directed by Leif Sinding. ^[2] The film premiered on October 25, 1943.

Plot

The film is a melodrama about a factory director who is loved by his workers and a power struggle between a good and evil capitalist.

Cast

• Erling Drangsholt as Sigurd Braa, the director general
• Else Budde as Eli Braa, his wife
• Lilleba Svenssen as Gerda Braa, his daughter
• Liv Uchermann Selmer as Mrs. Kamp, Eli Braa's mother
• Finn Lange as Jørgen Roll, a factory director
• Einar Vaage as Brahm, a lawyer
• Oscar Amundsen as Rud, overingeniør
• Folkman Schaanning as Storm, a doctor
• Joachim Holst-Jensen as Graali, an editor
• Ragnhild Østerbye as Laura Graali, the editor's wife
• Tryggve Larssen as Lars Utgaren
• Henny Skjønberg as Amanda Sivertsen, the housekeeper at the Braa home
• Gunnar Simenstad as Nordahl
• Erna Schøyen as Miss Dahle, a teacher

References

1. Sinding, Leif (1943). Sangen til livet: etter Johan Bojers skuespil "Sigurd Braa". Oslo: Norden Forlag.
2. Bjørn Sørenssen (2012). "Norwegian Film during the Nazi Occupation 1940-45". In Vande Winkel, Roel; Welch, David (eds.). Cinema and the Swastika: The International Expansion of Third Reich Cinema. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 227.
3. "Frislipp av 2600 stillbilder fra norske langfilmer". Rushprint. August 13, 2018. Retrieved June 16, 2019.

External links

• Sangen til livet at IMDb
• Sangen til livet at the National Library of Norway