X Nordic film days
16th - 24th of October, 2009

Posts Tagged ‘The Growth of the Soil’

Lecture about Hamsun

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

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…)

The Growth of the Soil

Saturday, October 3rd, 2009

The film is based upon Knut Hamsun’s novel The Growth of the Soil which won him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. The film score is composed by the first Norwegian film composer Leif Halvorsen. (more…)