Martin Gisti Movies

Based on the true story of Norway's first labor strike, by female workers at a match factory in 1889.

A meta-film about a film and the common man in our own political reality. A reality that is just scenes of a film without any cinematic development,...

The story takes place in a hedmark built during some summer weeks.

On a farm in east-Norway lives Jonas Værn. He befriends a traveling finn Ahti who tells about his lost love and the man that took it from him....

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...

The poor but skilled woodcutter Simen is conned by the rich Pikajord. Simen's answer is to reenact his own death through disappearance, and come back...

In 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...

In beautiful Telemark, a young boy grows up on a rich farm. To his fathers dislike, he wants to be a fiddle player, just like the son at the poorer...

An interesting look into 1931, a year of unemployment and misery in the forests of Norway. The movie is important as both film history and social...

The city boy Rolf gets a job on a big farm, and soon lies about finding gold. We see the rise of gold fever while the corn rots away.

In the difficult 30'ies, the poor working family Jensen is struggling in affording their sons education, and it ends in tragedy. The son befriends...

Knut Storlien walks over the mountain on his way home to his parents' farm after several years in South America. He does not quite remember the road...