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ALDRI ANNET ENN BRÅK

 

Title: Aldri annet enn bråk
English translation of title: Nothing But Trouble [literally: Never anything but commotion]
Year of Release: 1954
Director: Edith Carlmar
Country of Production: Norway
Principal Boy Actors: Sven Libaek (as Sverre), Svein Bruun-Lie (Olaf), Burre Lech-Hanssen (Willy), and Andreas Diesen (Roy)
Genre: Drama
Length: 1 hr 17 min
Language: Norwegian
Availability: official DVD release from Nordisk Film
English subtitles: included on the DVD

Synopsis
The Bråten family live in an apartment bloc in Oslo, where the father, mother and five children (three boys and two girls) are crammed into a kitchen and one other room. Erik, the eldest of the children, is 18. Next oldest is Maiken, who has just turned 16. 14-year-old Sverre is friends with a neighbour boy, Olaf, whose step mother wants to put him in an institution and who is unkindly treated by his half-brother, Willy. The next oldest Bråten child is Vesla, and the youngest is Roy (7). The plot revolves mainly around the headstrong Maiken, who is encouraged by her closest friend to leave her family, and Sverre, who is taken to the police station along with Olaf and Willy for making off with, and trashing, a car, but whose sense of justice, and kindness towards the more emotionally vulnerable Olaf, leads him to confront Willy.

A Danish remake of this film entitled Altid ballade (Eng. Nothing But Trouble, lit. 'Always Trouble') was released in 1955.

Screenshots
(First row shows, left, Andreas Diesen as Roy, and right, Burre Lech-Hanssen as Willy; second row left shows Svein Bruun-Lie as Olaf, and third row left shows Sven Libaek as Sverre.)