Karjolsteinen

Karjolsteinen
Directed byKnut Andersen
Written byKnut Andersen
Based ona novel by Sigbjørn Hølmebakk
Produced bySvein H. Toreg
StarringErik Øksnes
Marit Grønhaug
Sverre Anker Ousdal
Are Sjaastad
Grethe Ryen
Siri Hølmebakk
Arne Lindtner Næss
Arne Lendl
Marion Eilertsen
Rolf Søder
Liv Thorsen
Åsta Voss
Harald Heide Steen
Arne Lie
Lars Andreas Larssen
Pål Bucher Skjønberg
Knut Hultgren
Frimann Falck Clausen
Eva Solbakken
Anne Semmingsen
Roy Bjørnstad
Gunhild Grünfeld
Thorleif Reiss
Alf Malland
Distributed byTeamfilm A/S
Release date
  • December 26, 1977 (1977-12-26)
Running time
106 minutes
CountryNorway
LanguageNorwegian

Karjolsteinen (The Carriage Stone) is a Norwegian drama film from 1977.[1][2] The film was directed by Knut Andersen based on a novel by Sigbjørn Hølmebakk with the same name.[3]

Plot

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The radical author Olav Klungeland feels divided and inadequate both as a writer, as a politician, and as a fellow human being. He gradually becomes more acquainted with a former priest, Eilif Grøtteland, who comes from a small place in the southwest and lives in a hotel in Oslo at the same time as his wife is in the hospital, sick with cancer. On a rainy April night, the two young men are sitting in the hotel room. The older man tells the younger one about his life, from his childhood in small conditions further south in the country, through his youth and as a young man at the same time as he worked as a priest in Finnmark.

In the postwar period, the priest's own brother Lars was affected by the treason settlement, and indirectly himself. A gnawing doubt hits him, undermining the love of his wife Elna and their daughter Lillian. The meeting between this priest and the young author will soon prove to be of decisive importance for both of their further lives. During a celebration on May 1, the author Olav is expected to give a fiery speech about the liberating power of socialism. The older man's account makes up most of the story, about his encounters with various people that have meant a lot to his development and attitudes.

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