ABSTRACT
The year 1920 marks the beginning of professional, continuous film production in Norway, when a ‘national breakthrough’ took place. Calls for a national cinema had been made against the popular Swedish adaptations of famous Norwegian authors like Henrik Ibsen and Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson-Victor Sjöström’s Terje Vigen (1916) is the most famous example-and Norwegian film-makers sought a new style and content, and started to explore the sense of national identity, through national romanticism and films set in a rural environment.
