Vi vil oss et land... (film)

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Vi vil oss et land...
Directed by Leif Sinding
Ernst Ottersen
Starring Eugen Skjønberg
Erna Schøyen
Else Heiberg
Jon Lennart Mjøen
Leif Norder
Sophus Dahl
Einar Tveito
Arne Kleve
Oscar Egede-Nissen
Per Kvist
Ellen Siding
Cinematography Ottar Gladtvet
Edited by Harry Ivarson
Leif Sinding
Music byErling Røberg
Willie Vieth
Distributed byGladtvet film
Release date
  • 1936 (1936)
Running time
40 minutes
CountryNorway
LanguageNorwegian

Vi vil oss et land... (We Want Ourselves a Country) was a 1936 election propaganda film for the Norwegian Conservative Party, directed by Leif Sinding. [1] The title is taken from a poem by Per Sivle.

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The film showed, among other things, how unnecessary the workers' strikes were and how unnecessarily high the taxes were. In one scene, a man in a suit is pulled by trolls to Dovregubben's Hall. Dovregubben turns out to be ruled by the evil "communist" Norwegian Labor Party.

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References

  1. "Leif Sinding". Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Retrieved June 7, 2019.