Rasmus Breistein

Rasmus Breistein is regarded as the silent filmmakers most significant filmmaker In the period referred to as the national breakthrough for Norwegian film 19201930 he directed five films With these films he challenged the Swedish films then power position and excited both critics and the audience Breistein was a farmers son and learned to play fiddle in his youth He played for dances at weddings in Western Norway When Det Norske Teateret was established in 1913 he started as an actor at the theater He became preoccupied with the new medium of film after watching Peter LykkeSeests films he wanted to make films in a completely different way It started with FanteAnne In an interview he stated that the film was the beginning of something to a Norwegian production of a more national character And that was the beginning of the Norwegian great age of silent films