"Istanbul"

"Istanbul"
Alternate title: "Istanbul: Keep Your Eyes Open"
1989
Genre: Suspense
Language:
Running time: 88 minutes

Directed by Mats Ahren
Written by Mats Arehn, Bo Sigvard Nilsson, Thomas Samuelsson

Cast includes:

Timothy Bottoms as Frank Collins
Twiggy as Maud
...
Sverre Anker Ousdal as The councilor

Overview: "'Istanbul', also released as 'Istanbul, Keep Your Eyes Open', is an old-fashioned, shallow, unbelievable thriller. Frank Collins (Bottoms) is an American reporter living in Sweden. Collins receives a video from his stepson's real father and goes to Istanbul, leaving his stepson at home, but taking his daughter. While in Istanbul, Collins meets Maud. Collins daughter is kidnapped and he finds out about a weapons-smuggling ring. The convoluted plot then involves false identities, murders and evidence of an impending assassination, with a number of car chases. The entire movie is jumbled, confusing and finally concludes in a downbeat, unconvincing muddle with most of the lost strings still untied. Views should beware of this low-rent rip-off of Roman Polanski's 'Frantic' or Alfred Hitchcock's 'The Man Who Knew Too Much'. (Linda Rasmussen, All Movie Guide)"

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"The Jingle Knife"

"The Jingle Knife"
Alternate title: "Ringlekniven"
1989
Genre: Short
Language: English?
Running time 15 minutes

Directed by Runar Wiik

Cast: Sverre Anker Ousdal
Cordelia Roche
Niven Boyd

"Virtuoso"

"Virtuoso"
Television movie
1989
Genre: Biographical/Drama
Language: English
Running time: 120 minutes

Directed by Tony Smith
Written by William Humble

Cast includes:

Alfred Molina as John Ogdon
Alison Steadman as Brenda Ogdon
John Heard as Michael Johnson
Sverre Anker Ousdal as Gerard Schurmann

Overview: "British character actor Alfred Molina contributes another top-rank characterization in Virtuoso. Molina essays the role of real-life concert pianist John Ogden. The film touches briefly upon Ogden's performing genius, then takes a dark turn by concentrating on his descent into mental illness. Alison Steadman co-stars in this made-for-British-TV production. Virtuoso was first seen in the US over the A&E cable network. (Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide)"

"Dykket"

"Dykket"
Alternate title: "The Dive"
1989
Genre: Action/Suspense
Language: Norwegian, English
Running time: 90 minutes

Directed by Tristan DeVere Cole
Written by Leidulv Risan, Carlos Wiggen

Cast includes:

Bjørn Sundquist as Gunnar
Eindride Eidsvold as Rolf
Marika Lagercrantz as Ann
Michael Kitchen as Bricks
Sverre Anker Ousdal as Captain

Overview: "In this action drama, after putting in a full shift, two deep sea divers return to the deep to perform a quick repair to a piece of equipment and wind up trapped 100 yards below the surface for hours, and before long they are cut off from the lines which connect them to the surface. Frantic efforts are made by those on the surface to find some way to rescue them before their air completely runs out. (Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide)"

"7 mai 1945"

"7 mai 1945"
1989
Genre: Short
Language: Swedish
Running time: 16 minutes

Written and directed by Thomas Wahlberg

Cast:

Stefan Sauk
Gösta Ekman
Anne Krigsvoll
Sverre Anker Ousdal
Pernilla August

"Intergirl"

"Intergirl"
Alternate title: "Interdevochka", "Interdevočka", "Интердевочка", "Tanya"
1989
Genre: Drama
Language: Russian
Running time: 151 minutes

Directed by Pyotr Todorovski
Written by Vladimir Kunin

Cast includes:

Elena Yakovleva as Tatiana
Tomas Laustiola as Edvard
Larisa Malevannaya as Alla Sergeyevna
Anastasiya Nemolyayeva as Lyalka
...
Sverre Anker Ousdal as Thorell

Overview: "Tatyana (Yelena Yakovleva) works as a nurse in a hospital in Leningrad. However, she has wants that her salary cannot provide for her, and sometimes she earns some hard currency by sleeping with foreign tourists. One of these is an uninspiring Swedish man, who offers to marry her. She is tempted, because she believes that the material aspect of life in Sweden is infinitely superior to that in Russia. Overcoming the resistence of the bureaucracy to her marriage, she succeeds in moving to Sweden with her new husband. Alas, she is soon bored with her new existence, and returns to her old hooking habits. (Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide)"

Elena Yakovleva (as Tatiana) and Sverre Anker Ousdal in "Interdevochka"