The Telegraphist
1993 · Movie · 102 min. · Denmark
Ove Rolandsen (Bjørn Floberg) is preoccupied with getting ahead in the world, and having a bit of fun while he does that. It's 1903, and he works as a telegraph operator in a town on the northern coast of Norway. He'd also like to marry Elise (Marie Richardson), the daughter of a local factory owner. She's very nice looking, and she's also interested in him, but there are two obstacles to their getting married. In the first place, she is the fiancee of a ship-owner whose connections are useful to her father's business. In the second place, he's not very well off. He applies himself to his second vocation, inventing, in the hopes of discovering something which will rectify his poverty, and in the meantime, doesn't mind going to bed with the town pastor's pretty wife.
Direction Erik Gustavson
Cast Bjørn Floberg · Marie Richardson · Jarl Kulle · Ole Ernst · Kjersti Holmen · Bjørn Sundquist · Elisabeth Sand · Svein Sturla Hungnes · Camilla Strøm-Henriksen · Johan H:son Kjellgren · Knut Haugmark · Reidar Sørensen · Maria Bonnevie · Per Jansen · Gørild Mauseth
Soundtrack Randall Meyers
Screenplay Lars Saabye Christensen · Knut Hamsun
Cinematography Philip Øgaard
Original title Telegrafisten
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Not rated (FilmAffinity)
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