On the Threshold ("Lars i porten" in original Norwegian, which means "Lars at the gate") from 1984 is a coming-of-age family drama and a story about a boy on the verge of being a teen in the 50'ies Oslo, Norway.
It's editor Leif Erlsboe's last movie.
Lars is experiencing a different summer of big changes, and where his dream is to ride a motorbike.
Young Magnus Ersboe Haslund, is the son of the director, and plays the main character Lars well. We also meet the old boxer Joachim Calmeyer and Anne Krigsvold (a prostitute learning him to dance Tango) in important roles, as well as Anne Marie Ottersen and Frode Rasmussen as his parents. Espen Schønberg and not to forget the teacher, Nils Ole Oftebro, steals the scenes they are in.
I found the movie as a feel good movie from old and bygone eastern parts of Oslo. It's some kind of everyday life depicted, a few years after the war.
This movie is made available in 2024 when it was released on interregional (region-free) Blu-Ray Disk by Norwegian Film Classics as the fifth release in a new series with classics, NFK0056, with subtitles in English, and is supposed to be held in stock for film lovers.
