Ungen

Ungen (1974)

The young factory girl Milja comes in disaster on board fishing with Julius, who fails her for the beautiful and unreliable Petrina. The people from the bourgeoisie despise factory girls and their bastard, they are vile and promiscuous. In his despair will Milja give away the kid for it to get a better life than she can provide it. But Onsea-Lovisa ready to change her opinion.

Date of release
1974-12-26
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (2)
Runtime
2h 1m
Genres
Drama, Music
Director
Barthold Halle

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Ungen

Ungen is a Norwegian film musical and drama film from 1974 directed by Barthold Halle. The main roles are played by Britt Langlie, Bjørn Skagestad, Kirsti Kolstad, and Sølvi Wang. The film is loosely based on Oskar Braaten's play Ungen: folkeliv i fire akter from 1911, which is about the young unmarried and pregnant factory worker Milja. The film can be characterized as a musical drama with certain comedic elements.

Background and production

Braaten's play Ungen was first staged at the National Theater in 1913. In 1938 the first film adaptation was released, and in 1960 a television version of the play was aired.

Braaten was strongly connected with the Norwegian Theater, and the theatrical premiere of the musical took place at the theater in 1973. The film is based on this theater production. The musical has been staged several times on Norwegian stages, including at the Torshov Theater in the fall of 2014, where it received very positive reviews in Aftenposten.

Braaten had an intimate knowledge of the environment he described and the innermost thoughts of the factory workers. The main character, Milja, has features of Oskar Braaten's own mother, who moved to Sagene in Oslo and was a housewife from Ullensaker.

Egil Monn-Iversen integrated the music into the story itself, although Braaten's story is unchanged. Monn-Iversen drew on the broadside ballad tradition for inspiration for the music.

Harald Heide Steen appeared in both the original film and the musical. He played Julius in the 1938 film, and he played the defense lawyer Engebret in the 1974 film.

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