Kommer du, Elsa?

Kommer du, Elsa?
Directed by	Toralf Sandø
Written by	Victor Borg Toralf Sandø
Based on	Victor Borg's play Kommer du, Elsa?
Starring	Aase Bye Erling Drangsholt Harald Schwenzen
Cinematography	Reidar Lund
Edited by	Olav Engebretsen
Music by	Jolly Kramer-Johansen
Distributed by	Alliance Film A/S
Release date	March 20, 1944 (1944-03-20)
Running time	105 minutes
Country	Norway
Language	Norwegian

Kommer du, Elsa? (Are You Coming, Elsa?) is a Norwegian drama film from 1944 directed by Toralf Sandø.[1][2][3] The script was written by Sandø and Victor Borg, and it is based on Borg's play Kommer du, Elsa? The cast includes Aase Bye,[4] Erling Drangsholt,[5] and Harald Schwenzen.

Plot

Leif Rieber is a famous conductor. He has a promising young son who plays the violin, and his father features him as a soloist in one of his major concerts. The son has tuberculosis and dies during the concert. The father blames himself for the son's death and takes to drinking. Later he is affected by marital problems and illness.[6]

Cast

• Aase Bye as Elsa Rieber, Leif Rieber's wife
• Erling Drangsholt as Leif Rieber, a musician
• Harald Schwenzen as Øistein Werner, Rieber's friend
• Bjarne Larsen as Harald Rieber, Elsa and Leif Rieber's son
• Liv Blom as Kari, Harald's friend
• Oscar Egede-Nissen as a vagabond
• Tore Foss as Smith, a doctor and patient
• Gunvor Hall as Mrs. Kramer, a patient at the sanatorium
• Erling Hanson as Bjerke, a doctor at the sanatorium
• Alfred Helgeby as Jørgensen, a caretaker at the sanatorium
• Birger Lødner as Borgen, a doctor
• Gunnar Olram as the professor, a patient at the sanatorium
• Erna Schøyen as Kristine, a maid at the Rieber home
• Liv Uchermann Selmer as Miss Enger
• Einar Vaage as the senior physician
• Aage Wallin as the concertmaster and violinist at Aulaen Hall

References

1. Krawc, Alfred (1986). International Directory of Cinematographers, Set- and Costume Designers in Film: Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden (from the Beginnings to 1984). Munich: Saur. p. 274.
2. Sánchez López, Roberto (1997). El cartel de cine: arte y publicidad. Zaragoza: Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza. pp. 124, 211.
3. Béranger, Jean (1968). Le Nouveau cinéma scandinave, de 1957 à 1968. Paris: E. Losfeld. p. 325.
4. Krefting, Ruth (1963). Skuespillerinnen Aase Bye. Oslo: Gyldendal. pp. 70, 201.
5. Gjesdahl, Paul (1964). Centralteaterets historie. Oslo: Gyldendal Norsk Forlag. p. 243.
6. "Kommer du, Elsa?". Norsk filmografi. Nasjonalbiblioteket. Retrieved May 17, 2021.

External links

• Kommer du, Elsa? at IMDb
• Kommer du, Elsa? at the National Library of Norway