Movies: Fredrik Barth

The film was commissioned by the Workers' Information Association to motivate rural voters to vote....

The film is often referred to as a «labor film», because it is one of several film dramas from the 1930s that the Norwegian labor movement supported and which should give the audience an understanding of the labor movement's politics....

The film deals with poverty in Oslo in the 1930s...

The film is a so-called "worker's film", which was made on behalf of the Workers' Information Association to motivate voters in the cities to vote for the Labor Party in the 1936 parliamentary elections....

Based on the true story of Norway's first labor strike, by female workers at a match factory in 1889....

It is about life in the working-class youth groups, the work of the abstinence movement, about friendship, unity and love between young people....

The story tells of the many misadventures, some comical, and trials and tribulations that Bør Børson, Jr. has to go through and endure in proving himself a citizen worthy enough to marry the squire's daughter....