Original title: Gategutter
AKA: Boys from the Streets
Year: 1949
Runtime: 1 hour, 14 minutes
Country: Norway
Language: Norwegian
Subtitles: English (.srt)
Genre: Drama
Director: Ulf Greber, Arne Skouen
Cast:
Tom Tellefsen … Karsten
Ivar Thorkildsen … Gotfred
Pål Bang-Hansen … Sofus
Svein Byhring … Høna
Per Arne Knobelauch … Reidar
Ella Hval … Karstens mor
Jack Fjeldstad … Styggen
Plot/Synopsis:
Unquestionably one of Norway’s greatest filmmakers, Arne Skouen started out as a novelist and journalist. One day Skouen was invited to the offices of Kristoffer Aamot, the general manager of one of the principal Norwegian film company before the war, where he noticed a copy of his novel Street Urchins on the desk. Aamot wanted the film rights for the novel and Skouen to direct it. Beyond having spent little time in Hollywood a few years before, Skouen had no film experience, but with the help of photographer Ulf Greber, brought his work to the screen. Street Urchins launched an important career and became a Norwegian film classic. Set in the 1920s, the film follows a gang of boys from working-class families who begin to realize how few prospects the future holds for them. Although in school, they spend most of their time looking for jobs to help their families or engaging in petty crime. A stark contrast to a film like The Big Christening, which offers a far more sentimental vision of working-class life, Street Urchins continuously sets the boys’ actions and antics against the realities of strikes, labor lockouts, and growing protests that define their parents’ lives and livelihoods. The film has been compared to Italian Neorealist films of the period, but Skouen himself cited French ‘poetic realism’ of Marcel Carné and Julien Duvivier as his major influence.
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Street Urchins (1949)
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