Den hemmelighetsfulle leiligheten (The mysterious apartment|) is a 1948 Norwegian

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...

 drama film

Drama film

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

 directed by Tancred Ibsen, starring Ola Isene

Ola Isene

Ola Isene was a Norwegian opera singer and actor.Isene studied at the Musikkonservatoriet in Kristiania, and made his debut at the Mayol-teatret in 1923...

 and Sonja Wigert

Sonja Wigert

Sonja Wigert was a Norwegian actress. She appeared in 34 films between 1934 and 1960.-Selected filmography:* Blood and Fire * Onsdagsväninnan * Letter from the Dead...

. The film is based on a short story by Kristian Elster d.y.

Kristian Elster (born 1881)

Kristian Elster was a Norwegian novelist, literary historian, theatre critic and biographer, the son of Kristian Elster d.e.. He made his literary début in 1907 with the story collection Fortællinger. His liteary breakthrough was the novel trilogy I lære, Landeveien and Mester, published from 1911...

. A bachelor in his forties buys an apartment owned by an artist who died a sudden death. The peculiar atmosphere of the place, and the sudden appearance of the artist's girlfriend, shakes the conservative man out of his habits.