Movies: Toralv Maurstad

100 miles north, a bit east and up, is Pinchcliffe, the home of bicycle repairman Reodor Felgen and his two assistants, Solan Gundersen and Ludvig. Sponsored by oil sheik Ben Redic Fy Fazan, they build the car "Il Tempo Gigante" to race against Reodo...

A gnome named Gurin wakes up with a foxtail as punishment for his practical jokes....

Once 8 year old Simon gets shrunk down to a microscopic level by a talking teddy bear, he ventures into the body of his ailing grandfather in search of the source of his illness....

The small town of Pinchcliffe is experiencing a great lack of snow, which is why the inventor Reodor Felgen is asked to create a snow machine. However, things do not go as planned....

It's the harshest winter in memory, and the gnomes' very existence is in danger. Eager to help, Queen Fjellrose betrays one of their strictest rules and goes out looking for the Blue Horn, a magical instrument that can alter the weather....

The Gang form The Dynamites. After winning a talent competition they are told by manager Pop-Johansen that the band will be huge in the U.S. But is he only after their prize money?...

An exuberant story about Askeladden, the hero of Norwegian traditional fairy tales, outwitting the good-natured troll....

Askeladden (Norwegian "The Ash Lad") is the main character in many Norwegian folktales....

Like the play from which it derived, the film tells of the early struggles of composer Edvard Grieg and his attempts to develop an authentic Norwegian national music. It stars Toralv Maurstad as Grieg and features an international cast including Flor...

A princess falls in love with a man of the people, and their love must be a secret. But when someone takes a photo of them together, the scandal is a fact....

A youthful drama about a young guy and his struggles with his hatred of his father. Not even a relationship with a good-looking girl seems to cool his emotions....

Fandango is the director of a traveling circus. He brings with him a handful of artists who have to stick together to succeed, but there is a clear conflict between the director and the artists....

A woman who has sacrificed everything for her family meets a man who makes her reassess her life...

Two boys who were found sick on a boat in the sea near northern Norway, are hospitalized with mysterious symptoms. The secret service starts investigating the case, confiscates the bodies. When Hoff notices that the whole event shall be kept secret, ...

Four sailors stranded in Rio are about to retrieve their salary for a salvage. The only requirement is that they ALL must be sober....

Andrine and Kjell are both 17, and attends a private high school. Many things disturb their way to the spring exams, and fall in love. The come from different backgrounds, but gets common problems when she rents a room at Kjells parents....

A six year old boy runs away from home with the family's big dog, a St. Berhard, who the grown ups wants to put down....

70 years after Det Norske Teatret first staged Peer Gynt, Erik Ulfsby and his excellent team have developed a new version, with the role of old Peer congenially filled by Toralv Maurstad. The play’s original chronology has been broken up and fragment...

An orphan, Josefa, runs away from her threatening uncle with whom she is living, and stows away on traveller Fændrik's boat. She is no better off with him, however, as he forces himself on her and makes her steal and beg for a living. Meanwhile Fændr...

Trysil-Knut is a Norwegian film from 1942. Directed by veteran Rasmus Breistein and is a ski themed melodrama about the legendary skier Trysil-Knut from Trysil. He is a powerful patriot, who in the early 1800s prevent that a war breaks out between No...