Celebrating Knut Hamsun’s 150th anniversary, NFD offered two lectures about the famous writer:
on 20th of October – Viktors Freiberg’s lecture Hamsun and Film: Cinematic Qualities of Literary Text in cooperation with Nordic Council of Ministers’ Office in Latvia;
on 21th of October - Jan Erik Holst’s (Nordic Film Foundation) lecture Hamsun on the screen.
Commemorating Knut Hamsun, there were also 2 special free entrance screenings: (more…)
Knut Hamsun ranks among Europe’s leading novelists. His works have been adapted for film and television in many countries. A total of over 20 films have been produced, in addition to several short films, teleplays, 2 documentary films and 2 biographical films about the author himself. The periods in which his novels were adapted for film are: the Scandinavian National Romantic era in the silent film decade of the 1920s, the German National Romantic era in the 1930s, various independent works in the 1960s and 1970s, and a new Nordic (more…)
