Olav Dalgard

Olav Dalgard, born Olaf Hanssen on 19 June 1898 in Folldal, studied literature and art history in Oslo. A critic, then dramatic adviser to the Det Norske Teatret from 1931, he learned filmmaking in the Soviet Union and made films for the labour movement in the 1930s; he was active in the Labour Party and in the Mot Dag group. Detained from 1942 to 1945, notably at Sachsenhausen, he afterwards helped found the Norwegian Film Institute. He died in Bærum on 25 December 1980.

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• CinemaGryr i NordenOlav Dalgard · 1939Cinema