The classic movie from 1938 is an adaptation of Oscar Braatens play. Eva Sletto plays the young factory worker Milja, and Harald Heide Steen as her unfaithful boyfriend Julius.Milja and Julius are a happy couple working at the factory, and everything is good until Petrina shows up at the arena. Julius is bewitched by the girl, who gets him to drink and steal.Milja is soon left alone with the shame - and a bastard child. The child is placed with Hønse-Lovisa while Milja is at the factory, but a doctor casts his eyes on Milja`s young. He's looking for children to adopt to rich westside people. In her desperation, Milja gives away the dearest thing she owns, for the kid to have better conditions than she manages to give him.It is Hønse-Lovisa that convinces her that the material benefits can never compensate for real love and care.
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Cast
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Eva Sletto
Milja
Also in
Dei svarte hestane
Gullfjellet
Harald Heide Steen
Julius
Also in
The Ashlad and His Good Helpers
Fire in the Night
Ragnhild Hald
Hønse-Lovisa
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Cold Tracks
Gullfjellet
Tove Bryn
Petrina
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Gullfjellet
Astrid Sommer
Krestena
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Kjære Maren
Andrine and Kjell
Agnethe Schibsted-Hansson
Gurina
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The Big Christening
Hans Bille
Doktoren
Also in
Pan
Den nye lægen
Hauk Aabel
Krestoffer
Also in
Alexander the Great
A Happy Boy
Hauk Gisti
Engebret
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Liv Uchermann Selmer
Lagreta, mor til Julius
Also in
The Mysterious Apartment
Clocks in the Moonlight
Signe Ramberg
Olina
Also in
Two Living and One Dead
The Big Christening
Maj Nielsen-Sæther
Sesjant-Petra
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Life's Just Great
Rasmus Breistein Director · Oskar Braaten Author Anton Holme Composer
First release October 6, 1938 · Produced in Norway · Original title Ungen
Production
Norway
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Original title
Ungen
Original language
Norwegian
Spoken on screen
Norwegian
Release dates
Norway · October 6, 1938
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No release date listed for United States.
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