Bare et liv – Historien om Fridtjof Nansen
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Bare et liv – Historien om Fridtjof Nansen (Just a life – the story of Fridtjof Nansen|) is a 1968 Norwegian
/Soviet
drama film
directed by Sergei Mikaelyan
, starring Knut Wigert
and Veslemøy Haslund. The film depicts three important episodes in the life of Fridtjof Nansen
(Wigert): his North Pole expedition
, his diplomatic work with the League of Nations
and his humanitarian work during the 1930s famine
in Ukraine.
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
/Soviet
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
drama film
Drama film
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...
directed by Sergei Mikaelyan
Sergei Mikaelyan
Sergey Gerasimovich Mikaelyan is a Soviet film director and winner of the USSR State Prize . He directed ten films between 1965 and 1986...
, starring Knut Wigert
Knut Wigert
Knut Wigert was a Norwegian actor, known for his many Ibsen roles and the establishment of an Ibsen museum in Oslo.-Personal life:...
and Veslemøy Haslund. The film depicts three important episodes in the life of Fridtjof Nansen
Fridtjof Nansen
Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen was a Norwegian explorer, scientist, diplomat, humanitarian and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. In his youth a champion skier and ice skater, he led the team that made the first crossing of the Greenland interior in 1888, and won international fame after reaching a...
(Wigert): his North Pole expedition
Nansen's Fram expedition
Nansen's Fram expedition, 1893–1896, was an attempt by the Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen to reach the geographical North Pole by harnessing the natural east–west current of the Arctic Ocean...
, his diplomatic work with the League of Nations
League of Nations
The League of Nations was an intergovernmental organization founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. It was the first permanent international organization whose principal mission was to maintain world peace...
and his humanitarian work during the 1930s famine
Holodomor
The Holodomor was a man-made famine in the Ukrainian SSR between 1932 and 1933. During the famine, which is also known as the "terror-famine in Ukraine" and "famine-genocide in Ukraine", millions of Ukrainians died of starvation in a peacetime catastrophe unprecedented in the history of...
in Ukraine.
External links
- Bare et liv – Historien om Fridtjof Nansen at Filmweb.no (Norwegian)