René Bjerke

With Bent Rognlien he founded the Kinoteket in Oslo (1980) a few years after they started the street companies in Uranienborg terrace. For TV3 he directed the program René's Cinema 3 around 1987-88. Prior to that, he played in the radio programs Nattkino and Notabene at P2, as well as a film writer for Aftenposten. He is also one of many Hotel Cæsar-directors.

Daddy blue (1994)

16 year old LP (Håkon Bolstad) has just graduated from junior high school. He lives in Oslo and he's the only-child to a middle-class couple. Wanting to get away from his parents he steals a sailboat, vaguely envisioning to look up some girl he once knew a bit down ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  René Bjerke
CAST:  Håkon Bolstad  •  Benedikte Lindbeck  •  Nils Ole Oftebro  •  Grethe Ryen

16 year old LP (Håkon Bolstad) has just graduated from junior high school. He lives in Oslo and he's the only-child to a middle-class couple. Wanting to get away from his parents he steals a sailboat, vaguely envisioning to look up some girl he once knew a bit down ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  René Bjerke
CAST:  Håkon Bolstad  •  Benedikte Lindbeck  •  Nils Ole Oftebro  •  Grethe Ryen

 (more)

DIRECTION:  René Bjerke
CAST:  Arne Skouen  •  René Bjerke

Møte med Halldis (1995)

A lecture with poet Halldis Moren Vesaas.  (more)

DIRECTION:  René Bjerke
CAST:  Halldis Moren Vesaas

A lecture with poet Halldis Moren Vesaas.  (more)

DIRECTION:  René Bjerke
CAST:  Halldis Moren Vesaas

The Palace Theater (1982)

Palassteateret (The Palace Theater) was a cinema in Oslo that had one last performance before it got demolished.  (more)

DIRECTION:  René Bjerke
CAST: 

Palassteateret (The Palace Theater) was a cinema in Oslo that had one last performance before it got demolished.  (more)

DIRECTION:  René Bjerke
CAST: 

Hvilken vei skal du? (1984)

A man, a woman, see each other, flirt, have sex, stay together, be together, have trouble, slip apart again.  (more)

DIRECTION:  René Bjerke
CAST:  Liv Bernhoft Osa  •  Per Frisch

A man, a woman, see each other, flirt, have sex, stay together, be together, have trouble, slip apart again.  (more)

DIRECTION:  René Bjerke
CAST:  Liv Bernhoft Osa  •  Per Frisch

21 Years (1990)

Two brothers live on a remote yard in Telemark. That's where the pretty girl Hild comes to work in the shed. A quiet fight between the brothers begins. Who dares to take the decisive step? Who will get her heart?  (more)

DIRECTION:  René Bjerke
CAST:  Gunhild Berdal  •  Aasmund Nordstoga  •  Stig Høgetveit  •  Olav Nordstoga

Two brothers live on a remote yard in Telemark. That's where the pretty girl Hild comes to work in the shed. A quiet fight between the brothers begins. Who dares to take the decisive step? Who will get her heart?  (more)

DIRECTION:  René Bjerke
CAST:  Gunhild Berdal  •  Aasmund Nordstoga  •  Stig Høgetveit  •  Olav Nordstoga

Det rare (1991)

A young boy is waiting for the bus. For a long time the bus arrives, but it is almost completely full. Just one seat is available, one seat in the middle of four beautiful girls ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  René Bjerke
CAST:  Odd Norstoga  •  Guri Tuvin  •  Herborg Kråkevik  •  Øyvor Bakke

A young boy is waiting for the bus. For a long time the bus arrives, but it is almost completely full. Just one seat is available, one seat in the middle of four beautiful girls ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  René Bjerke
CAST:  Odd Norstoga  •  Guri Tuvin  •  Herborg Kråkevik  •  Øyvor Bakke

Over open avgrunn (1997)

A portrait of Norwegian poet and novelist Tarjei Vesaas (1897 - 1970).  (more)

DIRECTION:  Trygve Hagen  •  René Bjerke
CAST:  Trygve Hagen  •  Randi Versto  •  Tarjei Vesaas  •  Jan Erik Vold

A portrait of Norwegian poet and novelist Tarjei Vesaas (1897 - 1970).  (more)

DIRECTION:  Trygve Hagen  •  René Bjerke
CAST:  Trygve Hagen  •  Randi Versto  •  Tarjei Vesaas  •  Jan Erik Vold