Per Christian Ellefsen

Acting

Per Christian Ellefsen

Born February 14, 1954 · Norway (age 72)

Per Christian Ellefsen (born 14 February 1954) is a Norwegian actor. He became a star in Norway because of his title role of Elling (2001) after more than 20 years as a leading stage actor.

Known For

Rare Exports: A Christmas TaleRare Exports: A Christmas Tale · 2010
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
6.22010
MovieFantasyHorror
Young Pietari lives with his reindeer-herding father in arctic Finland. On the eve of Christmas, a nearby excavation makes a frightening discovery and an evil Santa Claus is unleashed…
Absolute HangoverAbsolute Hangover · 1999
Absolute Hangover
4.41999
MovieComedy
John and Siri Lill are a couple who have been together for most of their forty something years, but are yet to be married. He works for a newspaper, and is a heavy drinker. She is a respected hairdresser, working for Birger, a commom friend. John, usually, bottle-in-hand is an ace at being at the wrong place at the wrong time. Tired of John's drinking, Siri decides to leave him and move to her parents' house. John's drinking then worsens, and their apartment becomes a mess. Siri decides to return to her and John's place, and that's when the Absolute Hangover really begins with a vengeance.
The TV ManThe TV Man
The TV Man
MovieDramaFantasy
A discarded TV comes to life on a landfill and tries to get back home to its former owner.
I Am DinaI Am Dina · 2002
I Am Dina
5.62002
MovieDrama
In Northern Norway during the 1860s, a little girl named Dina accidentally causes her mother's death. Overcome with grief, her father refuses to raise her, leaving her in the care of the household servants. Dina grows up wild and unmanageable, with her only friend being the stable boy, Tomas. She summons her mother's ghost and develops a strange fascination with death as well as a passion for living.
Women of HopeWomen of Hope · 1986
Women of Hope
8.01986
MovieDramaFamily
A black and a white woman meets in Dar es Salam because of their men, and starts a friendship, despite their different background.
Mother's EllingMother's Elling · 2003
Mother's Elling
5.72003
MovieComedyDrama
Elling has lived with his mother all his life. Mom is the practical one, while Elling ponders the more theoretical aspects of life. He spends his time in their apartment reading books and looking at the neighbours through the living room window. Elling doesn't seem to need to be around others like most people. That's why Elling is less than enthusiastic when his mother suddenly decides to take her son on a beach vacation to Spain. Reluctantly, Elling agrees. After all, a lady at her age needs a good man by her side. But what Elling refuses to realize is that Mom is not only old, but also sick. Very sick. On her last vacation she tries to get Elling to see that life is bigger than their living room.
EllingElling · 2001
Elling
7.12001
MovieComedyDrama
40-year-old Elling, sensitive, would-be poet, is sent to live in a state institution when his mother, who has sheltered him his entire life, dies. There he meets Kjell Bjarne, a gentle giant and female-obsessed virgin, also in his 40s.
AsfaltevangelietAsfaltevangeliet · 2004
Asfaltevangeliet
8.02004
MovieDrama
The controversial story about "Jesus", placed in Oslo today. Jesus drinks, curses and attends to prostitutes, to fit in to modern life.

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My Sister's Kids in the SnowMy Sister's Kids in the Snow · 2002
My Sister's Kids in the Snow
6.42002
MovieComedyFamily
The whole family is going on a skiing holiday in Norway when Dad breaks his leg. So Uncle Erik takes the five oldest children. On the ferry, Amalie meets ski instructor Dan, and Uncle Erik gets very seasick. It turns out that Dad has rented a very small, leaky cabin, but Jan and Michael sort it out so they can move into a large suite. It turns out that it has been rented to Mrs. Flinth and her friends, and she causes a lot of trouble. The family is thrown out, but once again Jan and Michael fix the situation. They claim that Erik Lund is a famous singer. Erik is busy looking after Amalie, but when she discovers Dan's flirting with another girl, she gets the boys to help her. Meanwhile, Erik also finds time to go ice skating with Mrs. Flint.

Bjørn

Love Me TomorrowLove Me Tomorrow · 2005
Love Me Tomorrow
6.72005
MovieComedyDrama
Three years have passed since Elling moved to town together with Kjell Bjarne, his roommate from the institution at Brøynes. Elling now lives on his own in the apartment. Kjell Bjarne has moved up one floor, to Reidun and her little daughter Mojo. Elling feels like an outsider, and he isolates himself more and more. He observes humankind with astonishment, and wonders at how everyone else seems to be adjusting so well. Finally, Kjell Bjarne takes care of the situation. Elling protests, but he is still pretty happy as he is transformed into a new man, clean, fully rested and well dressed. Deep inside, he also knows what's lacking, and one evening he finally finds the woman he knows is able to fill the void in his life. He's willing to do anything to win her trust and conquer her love. But when he is invited home to his new girlfriend for dinner, a few objections appear to Elling, and the story doesn't end quite the way he had thought it would.

Elling

PlastposenPlastposen · 1986
Plastposen
5.71986
MovieComedyCrime
He went out to empty the trash, but he should never have done that! Just listen to what happened to our hero Reinert Andersen in the early morning. In his bathrobe he goes quiet out to throw his garbage bag. But the bin is overfilled, and the neighbor shows up when he tries to sneak it into his. A tricky situation. He takes the speed to heave it over the hedge ... At the same time in a neighborhood bank, Henry and his gang make a successful coup, starting with the escape police pursuit. The only thing that gets in their way, are Reinerts garbage bag. It lands right in the front window, and the remains of it in the face of the policeman who is about to catch the robbers on a motorcycle. Double-flap! And Reinert? a bit naive and nice guy really is suddenly as the focal point in a series of events in his wild imagination would have thought was possible.

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