Op med hodet! (literally, Up with Your Head!, or Cheer Up!)[1][2] is a Norwegian comedy film from 1934. It was directed by Tancred Ibsen and produced by Erling Bergendahl. The actors appearing in the film include Lillebil Ibsen, Lalla Carlsen, and Leif Juster.[3][4] The film was very experimental for its time,[3] and it included special effects, multiple exposures, reverse motion, and color sequences.[1]

Op med hodet!
Directed byTancred Ibsen
Written byTancred Ibsen
Produced byErling Bergendahl
StarringLillebil Ibsen
Tore Foss
Julie Lampe
Egil Hjorth-Jenssen
Leif Amble-Næss
David Knudsen
Gogo Mowinckel-Nilsen
Sverre Arnesen
Carsten Carlsen
Lalla Carlsen
Leif Enger
Herbert Herding-Herberth
Leif Juster
Olaf Kronstad
Per Kvist
Ella Peaters
Einar Vaage
CinematographyHarald Berglund
Edited byTancred Ibsen
Music byKristian Hauger
Distributed bySpecialfilms AS
Release date
  • January 22, 1934 (1934-01-22)
Running time
86 minutes
CountryNorway
LanguageNorwegian

The title of the film is a reference to the opening line of a poem in Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson's novel En glad Gut (A Happy Boy): "Løft ditt hode, du raske gutt!" (Lift your head, you restless youth!), spoken by a Bjørnson statue in the film.[1]

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  1. ^ a b c Lunde, Arne (2010). "Op med hodet: Tancred Ibsen's 1933 Experiment in Cinematic Modernism" (PDF). Scandinavian-Canadian Studies. 19: 56–71. Retrieved July 30, 2019.
  2. ^ "Cheer Up!". IMDb. Retrieved July 30, 2019.
  3. ^ a b "Tancred Ibsen". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Retrieved July 30, 2019.
  4. ^ "Leif Juster". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Retrieved July 30, 2019.
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