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| Times of Darkness |
| Original title |
Mørketid - kvinners møte med nazismen |
| Type |
Documentaries |
| Director |
Karoline Frogner |
| Short summary |
Times of Darkness depicts the conditions under which women lived in Norway during the Second World War and the contribution made by them. |
| Summary |
Times of Darkness is feature-length documentary for the cinema and for television. It depicts the conditions under which women lived in Norway during the Second World War, and the contribution made by them; women's everyday encounters with the German war machine and their opposition to it, their imprisonment, torture and deportation to a foreign country. The film mixes three modes: interviews with ten women who participated in the resistance, archive material, and dramatisation of a number of wartime episodes. The result is a collective portrait of women fighting against injustice, brutality and oppression. |
| Cast |
Janne Kokkin, Anne Ryg, Hans Jacob Sand, Gro Solemdal |
| Screenplay |
Karoline Frogner |
| D.O.P |
Helge Semb |
| Producer |
Axel Helgeland |
| Production company |
Northern Lights A/S |
| Country of origin |
Norway |
| Release date (national) |
1995-03-08 |
| Technical information |
| Format |
35mm |
| Screen ratio |
1:1,66 |
| Colour |
Colour |
| Sound System |
Dolby SR |
| Distributor (Norway only) |
NRK Documentary Dept. |
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Director biography:
 Born Feb. 3,1961. Educated as a photographer. Frogner has worked with photography and has written several books. She has been working with film since the early 1980ies. She established her own production company in the fall of 2003, Integritet Film AS, under which a number of films have been produced or are in the planning stage.
FILMOGRAPHY
2009 Intwari – Feature Doc, 85 min
2009 Kirsten Flagstad’s Square – Doc, 57min
2009 The Children of Genocide – TV doc, 52 min
2004 Tradra – Feature doc, 85min
Nominated for the National Film Award "Amanda” for Best Documentary
1998 Thived Time – Short fiction, 34 min
1995 Times of Darkness – Feature doc, 90min
Critics’ Favourite of the Year 1995
National Film Award “Amanda” for Best Documentary Film
Janne Kokkin, female lead, was nominated for an “Amanda” for Best Actress
Best Documentary at Cinema delle Donne, Torino
Best Documentary at Nordic Glory, Finland
The Osterød Award for humanitarian work
Represented the Norwegian broadcaster NRK at INPUT
Selected TV film of the week on all channels by Nå magazine
The Norwegian Forest in Israel – The Norwegian Jewish Society has planted four trees in honour of the film
1995 Women and children first – Doc, 30min
Made in cooperation with director Liv Sandvik
1994 Asil – Doc, 30min
1990 Whistling not allowed – Short doc, 6min
Best short at the Nordische Filmtage Lübeck
1989 God bless the child –Short doc, 8min
1989 A portrait of Anja Breien – Doc, 45min
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1997 Portrait of a neighbour – Cappelen
1995 Times of darkness – Cappelen
1992 Suffering without limits – Cappelen
1991 Children of the Intifada – PAX
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