An interesting look into 1931, a year of unemployment and misery in the forests of Norway. The movie is important as both film history and social portrayal. We get insight into working conditions class differences between loggers and forest owners. Based on the events of the Julussa conflict the...
The film is a so-called "worker's film", which was made on behalf of the Workers' Information Association to motivate voters in the cities to vote for the Labor Party in the 1936 parliamentary elections.
The film is often referred to as a «labor film», because it is one of several film dramas from the 1930s that the Norwegian labor movement supported and which should give the audience an understanding of the labor movement's politics.
On Jæren, the large farmer Ommunn Brattevoll is in the process of organizing other farmers for cooperative membership. Finally, most people are convinced after a trip to Stavanger where they are given a tour of the consumer team's factories. The big farmer's daughter finds her new boyfriend and...