Fri, Jan 8, 1999
Drama documentary about the Norwegian poet Henrik Wergeland (1808-1845), based on contemporary memoirs, letters, diaries and poetry, by Tone Bengtsson. At full gallop on his little brown horse and with a freshly picked flower in his buttonhole storms the young Henrik Wergeland into Norwegian poetry in the 1830s Today, Henrik Wergeland is a beloved national poet, an almost mythical figure in the Norwegian public consciousness.
Fri, Jan 15, 1999
"...all that my longing has dreamed". Drama documentary about the Norwegian poet Johan Sebastian Welhaven (1807-1873), based on contemporary memoirs, letters, diaries and poetry, by Tone Bengtsson. Welhaven is a poor and fatherless rural student in Kristiania in the 1830s. He dreams of introducing a new refined and intellectually superior European education in his backward and uncivilized country. He is a broken and complicated person, who can show great arrogance and aggression, but he also writes naked and poignant poems about his depression and longing for love.
Fri, Jan 22, 1999
"...a cry, my life's long suppressed" Drama documentary about the Norwegian writer Camilla Collett, née Wergeland (1813-1895), based on contemporary memoirs, letters, diaries and literary texts, by Tone Bengtsson. Camilla Collett was the youngest sister of the poet Henrik Wergeland. In social life in 1830's Kristiania, she makes great fortune with her charm and beauty. She falls passionately in love with the young, beautiful poet Johan Sebastian Welhaven, her brother's bitterest enemy. She never gets over the fact that Welhaven finally breaks up with her and she saves all his letters and her own reflections in a black box, where the basis for her entire socially critical writing is found, she says herself.