Jan Gunnar Røise
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Known For:Acting
Birthday:1975-09-24
Place of Birth:Eidsvoll, Norway
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Nothing to Laugh About (2021)
Kasper Berntsen is a successful stand-up comedian, who has everything he could wish for. One day everything changes. He learns that he has a serious...

Kitchen Stories (2003)
Swedish efficiency researchers come to Norway for a study of Norwegian men, to optimize their use of their kitchen. Folke Nilsson (Tomas...

A Somewhat Gentle Man (2010)
After serving a 12-year sentence for killing the man that slept with his wife, a man ponders whether he should try and reconcile with his family, or...

Comrade Pedersen (2006)
A drama focused on Norwegian society in the 1970s, an era politically influenced by Marxism and Leninism.

En helt vanlig dag på jobben (2010)
A young man dreams of becoming a journalist, in order to write stories which may change the world. This does not turn out as planned, and instead he...

Gompen og andre beretninger om overvåking i Norge 1948-1989 (2014)
Gomp: Tales of surveillance in Norway 1948-1989 is a film from a staged hearing focusing on the surveillance of dissidents during the Cold War....

Twigson (2009)
The film Twigson is all about a tough, naughty, quick-witted and brave boy. Lillebror has just moved, and has not made any new friends yet, when his...

Most People Live in China (2002)
A movie inspired by eight Norwegian political parties, written by six writers and directed by nine directors: a man gets a nasty surprise skinny...

Hawaii, Oslo (2004)
Hawaii, Oslo is the story of a handful of people who cross each other's path without necessarily knowing each other, during the hottest day of the...

The Thing (2011)
When paleontologist Kate Lloyd travels to an isolated outpost in Antarctica for the expedition of a lifetime, she joins an international team that...

Magic Silver (2009)
Princess Bluerose is a small gnome living deep in the Norwegian mountains. A small community of gnomes is responsible for making the transition...

Svein and the Rat (2006)
Svein's best friend is a fancy rat named Halvorsen who goes missing during a pet contest, leading to chaos with newspapers reporting a rat invasion....

Full dekning (2022)
Seven long-time friends meet for dinner. They decide to share their text messages, emails and phone calls. Secrets are unveiled. Harmony trembles.

Twigson Ties the Knot (2010)
When Lillebror's mother is mysteriously hurt in a biking accident, Lillebror and Knerten turn the town upside down trying to find the culprit.

I Belong (2012)
A nurse gets into a dispute at work because she switches to speaking English when she gets nervous. A translator compromises her integrity when...

The 7 Deadly Sins (2000)
Feature film length collection of seven short films about the biblical seven sins by preliminary younger Norwegian directors.

In Order of Disappearance (2014)
Upstanding community leader Nils has just won an award for "Citizen of the Year" when he learns the news that his son has died of a heroin overdose....

Norwegian Offspring (2023)
A mother passes away, and her estranged son – obsessed with theories about the repression of male sexuality in modern society – starts...

Kaptein Sabeltann og jakten på den magiske diamant (2002)
En liten gutt er på flukt gjennom jungelen. Marco heter han og er Pinkys lillebror. Pinky og Sunniva har dratt av sted for å prøve...

Thomas vs. Thomas (A Sensational Theory Regarding an Insignificant Life in the Multiverse) (2022)
A quantum physicist is about to have the breakthrough of the century, but as he closes in on his goal, versions of him from parallel realities force...

Teddy's Christmas (2022)
While visiting a Christmas market in her Norwegian town, eight year old Mariann spots a talking teddy bear at a carnival game booth. However, when...

Sex (2024)
Two men in heterosexual marriages whose unexpected experiences challenge their perceptions of sexuality, gender and identity.

Twigson in Trouble (2011)
I den tredje filmen om Knerten har Lillebror og familien hans flyttet. Knerten har fått en sønn, Lille-Knerten, og lykken er stor. Men...

Titina (2022)
Italian airship engineer Umberto Nobile enjoys a quiet life with his beloved dog Titina. One day, Norwegian explorer superstar Roald Amundsen...

The Professor and the Story of the Origami Girl (2005)
A director feels he is about to lose himself to the market forces and thinks that the only way he can protest is by making a political film. He...

Mr. K (2025)
Mr. K, a traveling magician, finds himself in a Kafkaesque nightmare when he can’t find the exit of the hotel, he has slept in. His attempts to...

Kaptein Sabeltann og den forheksede øya (2000)
When Kaptein Sabeltann and his men land on the mysterious island Gral, they are warned by the sorceress Miriam av Gral, that the lord of the island,...

Anolit (2002)
A circling roadmovie told from the back seat of a styled BMW.

Deconstruction Workers (2008)
Two construction workers have a serious conversation about life.

Polaroid (2014)
A brief meeting between a man and a woman on a night train. A meeting that remains a mystery to the man for the rest of his life.

37½ (2005)
A woman, Selma, almost 40 years old, figures that she has not achieved what she wanted in life and wonders "what now?"

The Beast of Beauty (2003)
Lotte and her father moves in with Kristin, a former beauty queen, and her daughter, Vendela. Kristin is grooming Vendela to win the Little Miss...

Girlfriend Experience (1970)
Kath is selling sex in Oslo, alongside her best friend, Andrea. When Andrea decides to walk away, Kath tries to ignore it and maintain their business...

Jeppe on the Hill (2004)
A television broadcast of the National Theatre's performance Jeppe på Bjerget with Bjarte Hjelmeland's critically acclaimed and award-winning...

The Lion Woman (2016)
Eva Arctander is born with hypertrichosis, meaning that she is covered from head to toe with fine blonde hair. Her father is so ashamed of her that...

The Last Joint Venture (2008)
The decade of the hippies is at an end and the 80's are approaching fast. Carl and Robert are two doped out guys who lives in harmony with the world...

Cold Lunch (2008)
Bird droppings on a work shirt lead to extreme unintended consequences.

A Swan Lake (2014)
The Artist proposes to the distrustful and skeptical Producer the staging of a new ballet starring… swans? What is the story? That of Prince...

Beware of Children (2019)
During a break in school 13 year-old Lykke, the daughter of a prominent Labour Party member, seriously injures her classmate Jamie, the son of a high...

Forgotten Christmas (2019)
Carpenter Andersen and Santa Claus are back and this time they have to help little Elise save christmas before it's too late.

Out Stealing Horses (2019)
November 1999. 67-year-old Trond lives in new-found solitude and looks forward to spending New Year's Eve 2000 alone. As winter arrives he discovers...

The Ash Lad: In Search of the Golden Castle (2019)
When the King and Queen are poisoned, brothers Per and Pål get arrested, suspected of being behind it. Younger brother Espen "Ash Lad" and...

The Tunnel (2019)
When a truck crashes inside a tunnel, people on their way home for Christmas are brutally trapped in a deadly fire. With a blizzard raging outside,...

What Will People Say (2017)
Sixteen year-old Nisha lives a double life. At home with her family she is the perfect Pakistani daughter, but when out with her friends, she is a...

5 grøss fra Vestlandet (2007)
5 directors were invited to direct their own short film - a horror story. The idea was to let the directors tell their own worst nightmare. 5 short...

Stargate (2025)
Christmas is approaching, and when their father loses his job as a Christmas tree seller, Ronja and Melissa take over the responsibility. While their...

Stevens Johnson (2021)
A confrontation between a mysterious man and a charming Italian chef develops into an extortion where pride stands high for both parties.

The Polar Bear Prince (2024)
The fearless, curious and adventurous girl, Liv dreams of leaving her home in the woods. When the polar bear Valemon offers her family a way out of...

Pernille (2021)
Pørni is about the dilemmas that you end up in when you, to the best of your abilities, try to do the right thing for your loved ones, and...

Power Play (2023)
The incredible story of Gro Harlem Brundtland, who in the late 70s works as a young doctor, fighting for self-determined abortion, when she almost by...

ZombieLars (2017)
In the fictitious town of Bekkebakken, conformity is a virtue and all things otherwordly are frowned upon. Twelve year old Lars, half zombie, and his...

Uti vår hage (2003)
Uti vår hage was a Norwegian sketch comedy television program which had two different runs on TV in 2003 and 2008 on the Norwegian state...

Fenris (2022)
When Emma hears that her father has stopped doing his job as a wolf researcher, she takes her son Leo to Østbygda to find out what's going on....

A Storm for Christmas (2022)
A group of people arrive at Oslo airport. Some to welcome their loved ones, some to fly home to their families, and some who want to fly away and...

Lilyhammer (2012)
After Frank The Fixer Tagliano testifies against his Mafia boss in New York, he enters the Witness Protection Program and makes an unusual demand: he...

Toll (2020)
Every day someone tries to smuggle drugs, money, weapons, alcohol and other illegal goods into Norway. In this documentary series, you get an...