Fant (film)
Fant (The Gypsy) is a Norwegian film from 1937 based on Gabriel Scott's 1928 novel "Fant" (The Gypsy). The film was directed by Tancred Ibsen, who was also wrote the script for the film. The film premiered on December 26, 1937 at the Eldorado Cinema in Oslo. The film is about a young orphaned girl Josefa (played by Sonja Wigert), who escapes from her wicked uncle (played by Einar Tveito) and eventually falls in love with a Roma named Fændrik (played by Alfred Maurstad). Fændrik belongs to a seafaring group of Roma that travel around Southern Norway , and in many ways the film is typical of the contemporary view of the Roma people and their culture. Guri Stormoen, who played the role of Mathilde, said that during the production her opponent Alfred Maurstad had stabbed her in the stomach with a knife during the filming of a fight scene, and that director Ibsen had ordered the actors to "fight seriously, otherwise it would look idiotic, of course. And with that, we had to yell at each other, and then—it was absolutely awful!" The actors had to lie in their beds the day after this scene was  filmed, according to Stormoen, because they were battered and full of bruises. "Fant" was received well by both the critics and the public when it was released, and Alfred Maurstad in particular was praised for his role as the ruthless layabout Fændrik. Sequel. Leif Sinding made a sequel to Tancred Ibsen's "Fant" in 1943 or 1944. This sequel was titled "Fant II" or "Josepha". However, the film was never released, and only fragments of it have been preserved. Literature. The film found is discussed in Thor Gotaas's comprehensive 2003 work "Taterne: livskampen og eventyret" (Travelers: The Struggle for  Life and the Adventure), in which the author discusses the extent to which the film—and Gabriel Scott's novel of the same name—provides an authentic image of Roma culture.