Hamsun (film)

Hamsun is a 1996 internationally coproduced drama film directed by Jan Troell, about the later life of the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun Max von Sydow, who together with his wife Marie Hamsun Ghita Nrby, went from being national saints to national traitors after supporting Nazi Germany during their occupation of Norway during World War II.

The plans for the film have a history from 1979, when Thorkild Hansen, the author of the book Processen mod Hamsun contacted Troell, wanting him to direct a Norwegian television series based on the book. Max von Sydow was meant to do the part as Hamsun already then. But NRK dropped out on the project, believing it would be too controversial.Fourteen years later, in 1993, von Sydow brought the project back to life when he got the Danish production company Nordisk Film interested in adapting the book, this time with Per Olov Enquist, who had written Troells previous film Il Capitano, providing the screenplay. ........

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