Gryr i Norden (1939)

Directed by

Olav Dalgard

Genre

drama film

Country

Norway

Runtime

1h 07m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This Norwegian drama is about the first major women's strike in Norway in 1889. The match workers at two factories went on strike because working conditions were miserable and the hazardous work was ruining the young women's health.

historicalserioussturdygrittyearnestslow-pacedpolitically charged

What happens

Gryr i Norden (Dawn in the North) is a Norwegian film from 1939 that was directed by Olav Dalgard. Gryr i Norden is the last film in the "worker trilogy." The other two films are Det drønner gjennom dalen (1938) and Lenkene brytes (1938). The film is about the first major women's strike in Norway, the match workers' strike in Kristiania (now Oslo) in 1889. On the morning of October 23, 1889, the match workers at the Bryn and Grønvold match factories in the city went on strike. Working conditions were miserable, and most of the young women ended up with ruined health after a short period of performing the hazardous work, affected by phosphorus necrosis. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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