Himmeluret
Sign in to saveHimmeluret (The Clock of Heaven or The Celestial Clockwork) is a Norwegian silent film from 1925 directed by Amund Rydland and Leif Sinding. Sinding also wrote the screenplay, which is based on Gabriel Scott's comedy Himmeluret (play 1905, novella 1908). David Knudsen, Gunvor Fjørtoft, and Hjalmar Fries appeared in the main roles. Footage described as a "closeup of a naked woman" (naken kvinne forstørret) was cut from the film by censors. The film is now considered lost.
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3.7In Rørland in the South of Norway the ship monger's daughter is in love with her childhood friend salve to her father's dislike. Salve goes out at sea and misses her, but get no answers to his letters from abroad.
Cast
- David Knudsen as Gutter Fladen, skipsreder
- Gunvor Fjørtoft as Nina, skipsrederens datter
- Hjalmar Fries as Salve, skipper
- Amund Rydland as Broder Daniel
- Katie Rolfsen as Theodine
- Lars Tvinde as Lars Timiansbakken
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- Norway
- Director
- Leif Sinding
- Screenwriter
- Leif Sinding
- Cast member
- Johanne Voss
- Duration
- 95
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- publication date
- 1925-10-29
- title
- Himmeluret
- color
- black-and-white
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- Plot
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Himmeluret (The Clock of Heaven or The Celestial Clockwork) is a Norwegian silent film from 1925 directed by Amund Rydland and Leif Sinding. Sinding also wrote the screenplay, which is based on Gabriel Scott's comedy Himmeluret (play 1905, novella 1908). David Knudsen, Gunvor Fjørtoft, and Hjalmar Fries appeared in the main roles. Footage described as a "closeup of a naked woman" (naken kvinne forstørret) was cut from the film by censors. The film is now considered lost.
==Plot== In Rørland, the ship owner Gutter Fladen is the dominant personality in the town. His daughter Nina has just returned from Paris, and she spends the spring evenings with her childhood love Salve, a skipper on Gutter's boat Haabet.
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