Directed by:
Berit NesheimCinematography:
Arne BorsheimCast:
Marie Theisen, Hildegun Riise, Bjørn Sundquist, Jørgen Langhelle, Hallvard Holmen, Kai Kennet Hanson, Petter Width Kristiansen, Sylvia Salvesen (more)Plots(1)
Each Sunday at five minutes to eleven, the vicars young daughter sits in church. She has calculated that by the time of her confirmation, she will have spent 640 hours in the uncomfortable, wooden pew. She feels trapped in the joyless, enforced Christian atmosphere that permeated Norway in the fifties. Maria (Marie Theisen) longs for life outside this prison. She wants to become something different than the church hags; the lumpy masses of grey, joyless women in hats and shapeless coats that occupy the pews behind the vicars family in the church. She wants to be like the other kind of women around the county, the kind with perky breasts and sinful bodies, that wont get into heaven. She wants to live! Through her friendship with Mrs. Tunheim (Hildegun Riise), an elder of the church and the only woman among the congregation who seems vital and alive; a proud and lovely woman who admits to her own body, Maria is given the strength to disobey her strict father and the congregation, and strike out on her own. Marias path leads her away from the church hags and towards the youth of the fifties. With a group of youngsters, she sneaks off on trips to the cottage and other forbidden adventures, to discover a dizzying puberty.
The Other Side of Sunday is a film full of humor and warmth, but the meetings between the sexes are not always romantic. According to the moral code of those times, this is not only sinful, but unclean and bound to lead straight to hell! (Norsk Filminstitutt)
(more)Cast
Marie Theisen
Norway
Best movies:
The Other Side of Sunday (1996)
Hildegun Riise
Norway
Best movies:
The Other Side of Sunday (1996)
In Order of Disappearance (2014)
Falling Sky (2002)
Bjørn Sundquist
Norway
Best movies:
The Other Side of Sunday (1996)
The Kautokeino Rebellion (2007)
The Warrior's Heart (1992)
Jørgen Langhelle
Norway
Best movies:
The Other Side of Sunday (1996)
Kristin Lavransdatter (1995)
Hold My Heart (2002)
Hallvard Holmen
Norway
Best movies:
The Other Side of Sunday (1996)
The Kautokeino Rebellion (2007)
Women in Oversized Men's Shirts (2015)
Kai Kennet Hanson
Norway
Best movies:
The Other Side of Sunday (1996)
Petter Width Kristiansen
Best movies:
The Other Side of Sunday (1996)
Oslo, August 31st (2011)
Falling Sky (2002)
Sylvia Salvesen
Best movies:
The Other Side of Sunday (1996)
Ina Sofie Brodahl
Best movies:
The Other Side of Sunday (1996)
Martin Dahl Garfalk
Best movies:
The Other Side of Sunday (1996)
Ann Kristin Rasmussen
Best movies:
The Other Side of Sunday (1996)