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- In 1890, Pontus, the starving writer, wanders the streets of Christiania, in search of love and a chance to get his work published. All he meets is defeat and suffering while his sense of reality is withering. One moment his is delighted and the next he curses everybody. All the time he manages to maintain human dignity and pride.
- An orphan, Josefa, runs away from her threatening uncle with whom she is living, and stows away on traveller Fændrik's boat. She is no better off with him, however, as he forces himself on her and makes her steal and beg for a living. Meanwhile Fændrik's sister, who has been left penniless on shore by her deceitful brother, joins forces with Josefa's fiancé, Oscar, in a search for the missing pair.
- In the poor Norway in the early 1800s Gjest Baardsen starts off like a Robin Hood, stealing from the rich, giving to the poor. Based on the real character which became the poor mans hero, and got lots of help to get away from the law.
- The story of an orphaned girl brought up by the Storlein family. Young Anne (Asta Nielsen) is brought as an infant to the Storlein farm by her mother, who has been traveling and is in need of a rest. The two are turned away at the door, and the mother takes her young daughter to the barn to sleep. The farmhand Jon discovers them in the morning but the mother has not made it through the night, so young Anne is taken in and raised by the family. She is a rambunctious little girl, always getting her younger (step) brother into trouble. Finally mother Storlein has had enough, and lets slip that she never should have taken Anne in. Young Anne goes to Jon and learns the truth of her arrival at the farm. Years pass, and she and her younger step-brother are now smitten. But Jon, the farmhand who found her in the barn all those years ago is also in love with Anne. Anne will be betrayed by one and saved from a life in prison by the other, and in the end will find true happiness in a new land.
- In Norway in the 1600s, An-Magritt is born as the result of a rape.
- Vigdis (20) loves to have fun, but have strict parents who want her to attend church more are afraid she will ruin her reputation. The fear that is well grounded. But she flirts, but goes no further, well, until she becomes pregnant.
- Knut Skaret, nicknamed Trysil-Knut because of his skiing abilities is in love with Åse to her father's disbelief. A major conflict arises between Sweden and Norway, and Knut is assigned to ski all the way to Stockholm to prevent a war.
- Erik Dahl escapes from the prison where he sows a sentence for smuggling. He visits his family, but the police have already been there and he has to flee. Erik changes his appearance and starts a new life as a fishmonger in a small town, but he wants to get out of the country.
- We meet some of the poorer inhabitants of Vika in Oslo in the hard 30'ies, and get a glimpse of their lives. the people you are likely to meet when it's dark, the shoelace seller who came on doors and those living their nights in shelters.
- The story tells of the many misadventures, some comical, and trials and tribulations that Bor Borson, Jr. has to go through and endure in proving himself a citizen worthy enough to marry the squire's daughter. Released in the USA in 1939, with no English titles.
- The play is the second in a trilogy about two working-class families and their socialist ideals.
- The landowner Hans is approached by workers for a raise, but is shocked by their radical socialist ideas. Later he talks to another more sympathetic landowner, realizing the advantages of labour government and the necessity of cooperation.
- The priest wife dies in childbirth, and the child also dies while awful weather is thundering outside, which also makes a ship go down, with only a three-month-old baby surviving. Felix grows up like a heaven-sent blessing.
- David has just been released from the prison. He meets the prostitute Maggi and follows her home. They decide to start a new life together and move to the countryside.
- Two young girls go to the big city to work in a food store. The owner's wife believes she's sick, and the owner is more than interested in the two girls.
- Young Jonas (14) grows up on a farm run by his grandmother and uncle. They recruit a Finnish worker, Ahti, which is disliked by many while being Jonas' best friend. They befriend an Englishman, and together they see at strange ritual.
- Yoing Tone's uncle gets the much poorer young man Tellef sent out to the sea after she falls in love with him. The pledge eternal love, and stays unmarried, but Tellef is told she is to marry. But Tellef turns up again.
- In Rørland in the South of Norway the ship monger's daughter is in love with her childhood friend salve to her father's dislike. Salve goes out at sea and misses her, but get no answers to his letters from abroad.