
Directing
Dec 18, 1944
Bergen, Norway
Arne Lindtner Næss
Directing
Biography
Arne Lindtner Næss (born 19 December 1944) is a Norwegian actor, director, television producer, and writer. He is best known as Frode Birkeland in the Norwegian television series Familiesagaen De syv søstre.
Feature Films (18)

Two women share a room in a hospital. One has just given birth to a stillborn child, the other has had her ovaries removed. Bonding over their trauma, past and present, both women in turn taking care of the other, they become friends and try to help each other upon leaving the hospital.
The Women

Two very different crimes, a post office robbery and a murder, happens at the same time. Two detectives at the Bergen police station get each their case. But could there be a connection?
Rygg i rand, to i spann

Casper is reluctant to start at a new daycare, but when he arrives he meets Emma who has a stuffed animal that can come to life. From that day Casper and Emma are best friends.
Casper and Emma: Best Friends

Marianne is going on 17, she feels too fat, and struggles with the ideals girls have to live up to to get accepted. When she meets her penpal Svein for the first time things look up, but she soon has to face new and unexpected problems when she discovers she is pregnant. Not being able to get support even from her own family, she has to make her life's most difficult decision on her own.
Snart 17

Little Ida's mother is working for the Germans during WW2, and she is also having a relationship with a German SS-officer. Ida is experiencing the problems of having a mother who is involved with the enemy, without being old enough to understand what is actually going on.
Little Ida

Pioneer is set in the early '80s, at the beginning of the Norwegian Oil Boom. Enormous oil and gas deposits are discovered in the North Sea and the authorities aim to bring the oil ashore through a pipeline from depths of 500 meters. A professional diver, Petter, obsessed with reaching the bottom of the Norwegian Sea has the discipline, strength and courage to take on the world's most dangerous mission. But a sudden, tragic accident changes everything. Petter is sent on a perilous journey where he loses sight of who's pulling the strings. Gradually he realizes that he is in way over his head and that his life is at stake.
Pioneer

Fredrik isn’t the bravest of men, but now he is faced with a great responsibility and an enormous task - to get the entire Norwegian gold reserve away from the Nazis during the invasion of Norway.
Gold Run

Together with colleagues Jan goes to a seminar on the Canary Islands. Already on the first day we starts an erotic relation to a stewardess, and during a swim with his boss his life changes dramatically.
Kanarifuglen

An old farmer struggles to take care of his rundown farm alone, when a stranger appears and uninvited begins to help him.
Stranger

The ageing communist Olav is starting to question his own faith after an encounter with the former priest Eilif who tells the story of how he lost his faith in God.
Karjolsteinen

This black-and-white Norwegian film is a great rarity: a film with comic elements set in a mental ward which does not overstep the bounds of common sense or good taste.
Closed Ward
Television & Series (3)

Norwegian miniseries. The story takes place in a jumbo jet on a route between Copenhagen and New York. SAS route 917 takes off from Copenhagen Airport with 350 passengers on board. Among the passengers in first class are four Nordic directors of an American cosmetics group. The atmosphere between them is tense. Shortly after departure, a business manager dies of a heart attack. Later on the journey, someone discovers a dead man in the toilet room. A ruthless murderer is on board the plane.
SK 917 har nettopp landet

Familiesagaen De syv søstre is a Norwegian soap opera that was broadcasted from 1996 to 2000.


