Under_forvandlingens_lov
Under forvandlingens lov
1911 film
Under forvandlingens lov (Under the Law of Change)[1][2] or Jo tykkere, jo bedre (The Thicker, the Better) is a Norwegian silent film from 1911. It is the oldest known surviving Norwegian film,[1][3] and it was directed by Halfdan Nobel Roede.[1][2] The film has been characterized as an erotic melodrama,[4] and it premiered in Kristiania (now Oslo) on December 4, 1911.[5] The script for the film was written by Peter Lykke-Seest under the pseudonym Søløvenskjold Pedersen.[5]
In 1992, Gunnar Iversen claimed that Roede's lost 1912 silent film I frihetens bur (In the Cage of Freedom) is actually the same film as Under forvandlingens lov.[6]