Op med hodet!

1934 Norwegian film
  • January 22, 1934 (1934-01-22)
Running time
86 minutesCountryNorwayLanguageNorwegian

Op med hodet! (literally, Up with Your Head!, or Cheer Up!)[1][2] is a Norwegian comedy film from 1934. It was directed by Tancred Ibsen and produced by Erling Bergendahl. The actors appearing in the film include Lillebil Ibsen, Lalla Carlsen, and Leif Juster.[3][4] The film was very experimental for its time,[3] and it included special effects, multiple exposures, reverse motion, and color sequences.[1]

The title of the film is a reference to the opening line of a poem in Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson's novel En glad Gut (A Happy Boy): "Løft ditt hode, du raske gutt!" (Lift your head, you restless youth!), spoken by a Bjørnson statue in the film.[1]

Cast

  • Lillebil Ibsen as Lill, a ballet dancer
  • Tore Foss as Theobald Tordenstam
  • Julie Lampe as Theobald's mother
  • Egil Hjorth-Jenssen as the theater manager
  • Leif Amble-Næss as a ballet instructor
  • David Knudsen as the bartender
  • August Mowinckel-Nilsen as the theater director
  • Sverre Arnesen as a stage worker
  • Carsten Carlsen as the music director
  • Lalla Carlsen as an actress
  • Leif Enger as a scriptwriter
  • Herbert Herding as an actor
  • Leif Juster as an actor
  • Olaf Kronstad as an actor
  • Per Kvist as an actor
  • Ella Peaters as Gerda, a dancer and singer
  • Eugen Skjønberg (not credited)
  • Einar Vaage as an audience member
  • Finn Bø as himself
  • Arne Svendsen as himself
  • Kristian Hauger as a pianist

References

  1. ^ a b c Lunde, Arne (2010). "Op med hodet: Tancred Ibsen's 1933 Experiment in Cinematic Modernism" (PDF). Scandinavian-Canadian Studies. 19: 56–71. Retrieved July 30, 2019.
  2. ^ "Cheer Up!". IMDb. Retrieved July 30, 2019.
  3. ^ a b "Tancred Ibsen". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Retrieved July 30, 2019.
  4. ^ "Leif Juster". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Retrieved July 30, 2019.