Op med hodet!

Op med hodet!
Directed by	Tancred Ibsen
Written by	Tancred Ibsen
Produced by	Erling Bergendahl
Starring	Lillebil Ibsen Tore Foss Julie Lampe Egil Hjorth-Jenssen Leif Amble-Næss David Knudsen Gogo Mowinckel-Nilsen Sverre Arnesen Carsten Carlsen Lalla Carlsen Leif Enger Herbert Herding-Herberth Leif Juster Olaf Kronstad Per Kvist Ella Peaters Einar Vaage
Cinematography	Harald Berglund
Edited by	Tancred Ibsen
Music by	Kristian Hauger
Distributed by	Specialfilms AS
Release date	January 22, 1934 (1934-01-22)
Running time	86 minutes
Country	Norway
Language	Norwegian

Op med hodet! (literally, Up with Your Head!, or Cheer Up!)[1][2] is a Norwegian comedy film from 1934. It was directed by Tancred Ibsen and produced by Erling Bergendahl. The actors appearing in the film include Lillebil Ibsen, Lalla Carlsen, and Leif Juster.[3][4] The film was very experimental for its time,[3] and it included special effects, multiple exposures, reverse motion, and color sequences.[1]

The title of the film is a reference to the opening line of a poem in Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson's novel En glad Gut (A Happy Boy): "Løft ditt hode, du raske gutt!" (Lift your head, you restless youth!), spoken by a Bjørnson statue in the film.[1]

Cast

• Lillebil Ibsen as Lill, a ballet dancer
• Tore Foss as Theobald Tordenstam
• Julie Lampe as Theobald's mother
• Egil Hjorth-Jenssen as the theater manager
• Leif Amble-Næss as a ballet instructor
• David Knudsen as the bartender
• August Mowinckel-Nilsen as the theater director
• Sverre Arnesen as a stage worker
• Carsten Carlsen as the music director
• Lalla Carlsen as an actress
• Leif Enger as a scriptwriter
• Herbert Herding as an actor
• Leif Juster as an actor
• Olaf Kronstad as an actor
• Per Kvist as an actor
• Ella Peaters as Gerda, a dancer and singer
• Eugen Skjønberg (not credited)
• Einar Vaage as an audience member
• Finn Bø as himself
• Arne Svendsen as himself
• Kristian Hauger as a pianist

References

1. Lunde, Arne (2010). "Op med hodet: Tancred Ibsen's 1933 Experiment in Cinematic Modernism" (PDF). Scandinavian-Canadian Studies. 19: 56–71. Retrieved July 30, 2019.
2. "Cheer Up!". IMDb. Retrieved July 30, 2019.
3. "Tancred Ibsen". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Retrieved July 30, 2019.
4. "Leif Juster". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Retrieved July 30, 2019.

External links

• Op med hodet! at IMDb
• Op med hodet! at the National Library of Norway