Dagny (film)
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Dagny is a 1977 Norwegian
-Polish
documentary film
directed by Haakon Sandøy. It is narrated by, among others, Lise Fjeldstad
, Daniel Olbrychski
, Per Oscarsson
and Nils Ole Oftebro. The subject of the film is the Norwegian writer Dagny Juel
(Fjeldstad), and her relationship to such men as Stanisław Przybyszewski (Olbrychski), Edvard Munch
(Oftebro) and August Strindberg
(Oscarsson).
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
-Polish
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
documentary film
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
directed by Haakon Sandøy. It is narrated by, among others, Lise Fjeldstad
Lise Fjeldstad
Lise Barbra Skappel Fjeldstad is a Norwegian actress, and daughter of the conductor and violinist Øivin Fjeldstad. She graduated from the Norwegian National Academy of Theatre in 1963, and immediately started working at Det Norske Teatret...
, Daniel Olbrychski
Daniel Olbrychski
Daniel Olbrychski is a Polish actor best known for leading roles in several Andrzej Wajda movies and also known for playing the Russian defector and spymaster Vassily Orlov, alongside Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie in the movie Salt....
, Per Oscarsson
Per Oscarsson
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and Nils Ole Oftebro. The subject of the film is the Norwegian writer Dagny Juel
Dagny Juel
Dagny Juel-Przybyszewska was a Norwegian writer, famous for her liaisons with various prominent artists, and for the dramatic circumstances of her death. She was the model for some of Edvard Munch's paintings. She had relationships with Munch and briefly with August Strindberg. In 1893, she...
(Fjeldstad), and her relationship to such men as Stanisław Przybyszewski (Olbrychski), Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch was a Norwegian Symbolist painter, printmaker and an important forerunner of expressionist art. His best-known composition, The Scream, is part of a series The Frieze of Life, in which Munch explored the themes of love, fear, death, melancholia, and anxiety.- Childhood :Edvard Munch...
(Oftebro) and August Strindberg
August Strindberg
Johan August Strindberg was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg's career spanned four decades, during which time he wrote over 60 plays and more than 30 works of fiction, autobiography,...
(Oscarsson).
External links
- Dead Madonna – Dagny Juel Przybyszewska at the Norwegian Film Institute