Biography
Anja Breien (1940-2026) was educated at the French film school L'Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (IDHEC), graduating in 1964, after first having studied french at the University of Oslo, as well as having had her start in the movie-business working as a script supervisor on Nils R. Müllers film Det Store Varpet in 1961. She made her directorial debut with the short film Growing Up in 1967, based on a medieval legend. The short was later to become part of the portmanteau film Days From A Thousand Years in 1970. Her feature film debut was the criminal drama Rape in 1971, which received favorable reviews, and has in recent years been released on DVD as part of the 'Norwegian Classics'-line. Breien's second film followed in 1975, and has since become one of the most commented and analyzed films in Norwegian cinema history: The cheerful and decidedly feminist comedyWives became a box-office success, and made editor of International Film Guide, Peter Cowie, refer to Breien as a dogme-director twenty years ahead of time. The film also spurred to popular sequels; Wives - Ten Years After (1985) and Wives III (1995), examining the lives of the characters of the original film t…
Directed
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Wives (1975) — Director
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The Witch Hunt (1981) — Director
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Next of Kin (1979) — Director
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Rape (1971) — Director
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Wives - Ten Years After (1985) — Director
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Games of Love and Loneliness (1977) — Director
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Smykketyven (1990) — Director
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Wives III (1996) — Director
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Dager fra 1000 år (1970) — Director
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Solvorn (1997) — Director
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Å se en båt med seil (2001) — Director
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Untitled (2005) — Director
- 17th of May - A film regarding rituals (1969) — Director
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Paper Bird (1984) — Director
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Herbergistene (1973) — Director
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Fjellet (1989) — Director
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Gamle (1975) — Director
- Jezidi (2009) — Director
- Vokse opp (1967) — Director
- Etchings (2009) — Director
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Oslofilm: Ansikter (1969) — Director
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Murer rundt fengslet (1972) — Director
- Mine søsken goddag (1973) — Director
