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Jan Trygve Røyneland
Jan Trygve Røyneland (born 4 June 1981) is a Norwegian television and film writer. His notable works include '' The Kings Choice'', a film that depicted how Norway entered World War II. For this film, Røyneland was awarded the Amanda Prize for Best Original Screenplay. Background Røyneland was born on June 4, 1981, in Lillesand, Aust-Agder, Norway. He completed a screenplay writing study track at the Norwegian Film School in 2010. On Christmas eve of 2010, he was offered the job of assistant to Erik Poppe, and began working full-time for the Norwegian film company Paradox. Career and awards Røyneland wrote the short films ''Cut Paste'' (2008) and ''Om Avstand'' (2010); co-wrote ''Tusen ganger god natt'' (2013); and, wrote all 26 episodes of the 2013-14 television series ''Kampen. He also'' contributed to the internationally recognized and controversial TV series '' Okkupert'' ('' Occupied'', 2015), which depicted the Russian invasion of Norway. He has won a number of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lillesand
Lillesand () is municipality in Agder county, Norway. It is part of the traditional district of Sørlandet. The administrative center of the municipality is the town of Lillesand. Some of the larger villages in Lillesand municipality include Åkerøyhamn, Brekkestø, Gamle Hellesund, Helldal, Høvåg, Ribe, Skottevik, Trøe, Ulvøysund, and Vesterhus. The municipality is the 306th largest by area out of the 356 municipalities in Norway. Lillesand is the 100th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 11,419. The municipality's population density is and its population has increased by 13.8% over the previous 10-year period. General information The town of Lillesand was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt law). During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the Schei Committee. On 1 January 1962, the following areas were merged into a new, larger municipality of Lillesand: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of European mainland, the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The UK includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland, and most of List of islands of the United Kingdom, the smaller islands within the British Isles, covering . Northern Ireland shares Republic of Ireland–United Kingdom border, a land border with the Republic of Ireland; otherwise, the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel, the Celtic Sea and the Irish Sea. It maintains sovereignty over the British Overseas Territories, which are located across various oceans and seas globally. The UK had an estimated population of over 68.2 million people in 2023. The capital and largest city of both England and the UK is London. The cities o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1981 Births
Events January * January 1 ** Greece enters the European Economic Community, predecessor of the European Union. ** Palau becomes a self-governing territory. * January 6 – A funeral service is held in West Germany for Nazi Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz following his death on December 24. * January 10 – Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensive, gaining control of most of Morazán and Chalatenango departments. * January 15 – Pope John Paul II receives a delegation led by Polish Solidarity leader Lech Wałęsa at the Vatican. * January 20 – Iran releases the 52 Americans held for 444 days, minutes after Ronald Reagan is sworn in as the 40th President of the United States, ending the Iran hostage crisis. * January 21 – The first DeLorean automobile, a stainless steel sports car with gull-wing doors, rolls off the production line in Dunmurry, Northern Ireland. * January 24 – An earthquake of magnitude in Sichuan, China, kil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TV 2 (Norway)
TV 2 Direkte (''English language, English: TV 2 Live'') is a Norway, Norwegian terrestrial television channel. Its headquarters are located in Bergen, Norway, Bergen. TV 2 began test broadcasting on 13 November 1991, and a year later, it was officially launched on 5 September 1992, becoming Norway's first commercial free-to-air television channel. In 1992, TV 2 Aksjeselskap, A/S was admitted as full active member of the European Broadcasting Union. As is common with television (and cinema) in Norway, most foreign-language shows and segments of local programmes with foreign language dialogues (e.g. interviews with foreigners) are Subtitle (captioning), subtitled in Norwegian language, Norwegian, not Dubbing (filmmaking), dubbed (with a notable exception being children's programmes). Since 2012, TV 2 has been owned by one of its co-founders, the Denmark, Danish media company Egmont Group. The channel was renamed from TV 2 to TV 2 Direkte in 2023, in an attempt to differentiate it f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1,000 Times Good Night
''A Thousand Times Good Night'' () is an Irish-Norwegian produced English language 2013 drama film directed by Erik Poppe and starring Juliette Binoche, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Larry Mullen Jr. and Mads Ousdal. Plot Rebecca is a photo journalist obsessed with reporting in dangerous war zones. Documenting a group of female suicide bombers in Afghanistan, she accompanies one of them to Kabul, where the premature detonation of the bomb severely injures her. While recuperating at her home in Ireland, Rebecca is confronted by her husband Marcus and her daughter Steph, who force her to choose between covering war zones, or her family. She chooses her family. Steph is intrigued by her mother's photographs and interested in humanitarian work in Africa, so Rebecca proposes a photography trip with her daughter to a refugee camp in Kenya. Marcus agrees, assuming that the trip will be safe. Instead, the camp is attacked by an armed group that begins murdering people i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikael Salomon
Mikael Salomon (born 24 February 1945) is a Danish cinematographer, director and producer of film and television. After a long cinematography career in Danish cinema, he transitioned to the Hollywood film industry in the late 1980s, earning two Academy Award nominations. Salomon then transitioned to a television director career, with credits that include '' Band of Brothers, Salem's Lot, Rome,'' and ''The Andromeda Strain''. His directing awards and nominations include a Primetime Emmy Award and a Directors Guild of America Award. Life and career Born in Copenhagen, Denmark, Salomon is of Jewish descent on one parent's side. Salomon photographed dozens of films in his native country, earning awards including the Robert Award and Bodil Awards. In the late 1980s, he relocated to Hollywood and shot his first mainstream American film with ''Torch Song Trilogy'', a 1988 comedy-drama starring Harvey Fierstein, Anne Bancroft, and Matthew Broderick. The following year, he sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carsten Jensen
Carsten Jensen (born 24 July 1952) is a Danish author and political columnist. He first earned recognition as a literary critic for the Copenhagen daily, ''Politiken.'' His books, including ''I Have Seen the World Begin'' (1996), deal with knowledge of the world. For this novel he won the Danish booksellers award De Gyldne Laurbær (The Golden Laurel) in 1996. The year 2006 saw the publication of his novel ''Vi, de druknede'' (''We, the Drowned''), a chronicle about the birth of modern Denmark, seen through the history of his hometown Marstal. In 2009, he was awarded the Olof Palme Prize. In 2012 he was awarded the Søren Gyldendal Prize. In 2015, ''Den første sten'' (''The First Stone'') appeared, a monumental novel about the experiences of a group of Danish soldiers who have volunteered for service in Afghanistan. Through their eyes, we are presented with a wide and disturbing panorama of the war in Afghanistan. As of March 2018, the novel has been translated into German, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Man Of War
Man of war may refer to: * Man-of-war, refers to any type of heavily armed warship from the 16th to the 19th centuries * Man-of-war fish, a driftfish generally found in open sea or close to the Portuguese man o' war * '' Max Manus: Man of War'', a 2008 Norwegian World War II film * Portuguese man o' war, also referred to as Portuguese man of war, a floating marine colonial hydrozoa * "Man of War" (song), a song by Radiohead * ''Man of War'' (video game), a 1997 naval combat strategy game * Man of War gneisses, a sequence of metamorphosed igneous rocks found on the Lizard peninsular in Cornwall, UK * Man of War, Fingal, Ireland, a small populated place See also * Man o' War (1917–1947), an American Thoroughbred racehorse * Manowar Manowar is an American heavy metal band from Auburn, New York. Formed in 1980, the group is known for lyrics based on fantasy (particularly sword and sorcery) and mythology (particularly Norse mythology and Greco-Roman mythology), as well as n . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Kanon Award
The Kanon Award is one of the movie awards of Norwegian film festival Kosmorama. Every year during ''Kosmorama'', the Kanon Award is given to a selected individual within a category. The categories include Best Actor, Best Director and Best Producer. Categories Best Director Best Producer Best Main Actor Best Supporting Actor Best Cinematographer Best Writer Best Editing Best Sound Design Best Soundtrack Best Innovation People's Choice Award The Kanon Award 2005 Best Director: Hans Petter Moland - The Beautiful Country Best Writer: Aksel Hennie - Uno Best Editing: Einar Egeland - Hawaii, Oslo Best Cinematographer: ''John Andreas Andersen'' - Uno Best Main Actor: Aksel Hennie - Uno Best Supporting Actor: Stig Henrik Hoff - "Hawaii, Oslo" Best Producer: ''Jørgen Storm Rosenberg'' - Uno People's Choice Award: Uno The Kanon Award 2006 Best Director: Sara Johnsen - Vinterkyss Best Sound Design: ''Christian Schaanning'' - Naboer Best Cinematographer: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Internet Fraud
Internet fraud is a type of cybercrime fraud or deception which makes use of the Internet and could involve hiding of information or providing incorrect information for the purpose of tricking victims out of money, property, and inheritance. Internet fraud is not considered a single, distinctive crime but covers a range of illegal and illicit actions that are committed in cyberspace. It is differentiated from theft since, in this case, the victim voluntarily and knowingly provides the information, money or property to the perpetrator. It is also distinguished by the way it involves temporally and spatially separated offenders. The most common cybercrimes involving the internet fraud increasingly entail the Social engineering (security), social engineering, phishing, Cryptocurrency and crime, cryptocurrency frauds, romance scams including the pig butchering scam, etc In the FBI's 2017 Internet Crime Report, the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received about 300,000 complaints. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nigeria
Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean to the south. It covers an area of . With Demographics of Nigeria, a population of more than 230 million, it is the List of African countries by population, most populous country in Africa, and the List of countries and dependencies by population, world's sixth-most populous country. Nigeria borders Niger in Niger–Nigeria border, the north, Chad in Chad–Nigeria border, the northeast, Cameroon in Cameroon–Nigeria border, the east, and Benin in Benin–Nigeria border, the west. Nigeria is a Federation, federal republic comprising 36 States of Nigeria, states and the Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria, Federal Capital Territory, where its capital, Abuja, is located. The List of Nigerian cities by population, largest city in Nigeria by population is Lagos, one of the largest List of largest cities, metr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kosmorama
Kosmorama is the annual international film festival in the city of Trondheim, Norway first held in 2005. Festival name The word “kosmorama” (in English: cosmorama) means an exhibition of perspective pictures of (usually) landmarks of the world. In other words: a display of different perspectives and vistas from around the World. The film festival has been named Kosmorama after one of Trondheim's first big cinemas. Kosmorama Theater was founded in 1910 by Paul Kraüsslich. In addition to running the cinema, Kraüsslich travelled all around the country, filming everything from the fisheries in Lofoten to the World Speed Skating Championship. In 1906, he filmed the coronation of King Haakon VII of Norway in the Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim, and was able to show his film of that event just three hours later to the public. In 1908, he had the additional honour of showing films for the Royal Family at The Royal Palace Stiftsgården in Trondheim. Organization The Kosmorama Fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
