""Times when we had the powers that be on the run."" 17 November 1978 Drama, History 95 mins
The bittersweet story of young lovers caught up in a political struggle waged by farmers against the grain trade, the banks, and the railroads. Set in 1915–16 North Dakota, a largely forgotten era of American history.
Watch the official Northern Lights 1978 trailer in HD below or find more Northern Lights videos on Vidimovie.
Robert Behling as Ray Sorensen
Joe Spano as John Sorensen
Susan Lynch as Inga Olsness
Ray Ness as Henrik Sorensen
Marianna Åström-De Fina as Kari
Helen Ness as Jenny Sorensen
Thorbjörn Rue as Thor
Nick Eldredge as Sven
Jon Ness as Howard
Gary Hanisch as Charlie Forsythe
Melvin Rodvold as Ole Olsness
Adelaide Thorntveidt as Adelaide Olsness
Mabel Rue as Grandma
Krist Toresen as Krist
Rob Nilsson Producer
John Hanson Producer
Sandra Schulberg Associate Producer
John Hanson Director
John Hanson Writer
Rob Nilsson Editor
Rob Nilsson Director
Rob Nilsson Writer
John Hanson Editor
Joan Musante Sound
Judy Irola Director of Photography
Marianna Åström-De Fina Production Design
David Ozzie Ahlers Original Music Composer
Germany 25 May 1979
France 01 May 1979
Portugal 01 September 1979
Russia 30 June 2011
United States 12 July 1978
If you liked the Northern Lights trailer, you may like these ones:
06 November 2025
Sarah Rector, a Black girl born in early 20th-century Oklahoma Indian Territory, believes there is oil beneath the barren land she’s allotted, and her faith proves right.
19 March 1975
After a series of traumatic childhood events, a psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind boy becomes a master pinball player and the object of a religious cult.
19 January 2024
Fresh out of rehab, Rona returns to the Orkney Islands—a place both wild and beautiful, right off the Scottish coast.
22 May 1992
A young free-spirited Irish woman from an affluent Protestant family spontaneously befriends a street-smart commoner cheated by her family’s hostile land takeovers.
06 October 1979
A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumour that their families are from the same line.
11 April 2003
A socially awkward veterinary assistant with a lazy eye and obsession with perfection descends into depravity after developing a crush on a boy with perfect hands.
17 December 1982
As children in the loving Ekdahl family, Fanny and Alexander enjoy a happy life with their parents, who run a theater company.
17 June 1970
An all-girl rock band moves to Hollywood in the hope of achieving success, only to fall into a whirlpool of wickedness and decadence.
26 July 2024
In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can't teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love your mom.
03 July 1958
The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the perspective of the ocean liner's second officer, Charles Lightoller.
24 December 2024
In 1909, several years after Korea is forced into becoming a Japanese colony, freedom fighters plot the daring assassination of Japan's prime minister during their quest for independence.
07 July 2023
Liam, an aspiring and ambitious young writer, eagerly accepts a tutoring position at the family estate of his idol, renowned author J.
More movie trailers, teasers, and clips from Northern Lights:
Northern Lights (2009) Northern Lights (2009) Northern Lights (2009
Northern Lights:: NORTHERN LIGHTS has the feel of an old black and white photograph discovered in an attic. The bitter-sweet story of ...
In 1978 John Hanson set out to produce a low budget film set in North Dakota chronicling the Nonpartisan League a political movement in the early 1900s that ...
In this Cannes Film Festival award-winning drama Norwegian North Dakota farmer Ray Sorenson resists his neighbor's attempts to make him join the ...
"Top Of The Pops" (27 July 1978
This is a film about immigrant Norwegian farmers in North Dakota. This is my all-time favorite scene.
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1978:
24 October 1978
Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween Night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.
30 June 1978
Autumn, 1941. Tito's partisans are ordered to attack a railway network system used by the Germans, their Bulgarian allies and local collaborators.
08 June 1978
The Billion Dollar Bubble is a 1976 film made for the BBC series Horizon and directed by Brian Gibson about the story of the two billion dollar insurance embezzlement scheme involving Equity Funding Corporation of America.
14 July 1978
After an accident, Shanti develops extra sensory perception. Since she can foresee future events, people believe she has divine powers.
16 May 1978
Based on the 1971 novel "Atti relativi alla morte di Raymond Roussel" (Acts Related to the Death of Raymond Roussel) by co-writer Leonardo Sciascia.
30 December 1978
A young man, very talented in the martial arts, appears in a troubled part of the country and rids it of brigandry with his fighting skills.
01 January 1978
A comic strip detective and a superhero are hired to investigate separatedly the successive murders of CEOs within a real life corporation symbolizing a nation, while subversive groups and members of the establishment lead a war for power.
11 October 1978
Carmen is a beautiful woman working in a business that is dedicated to smuggling. One day, Carmen fights and hurts to a smuggler woman, so a sergeant in the National Guard, José Navarro, stops detain her.
01 January 1978
The film tells the story of the suffering endured by a blind lover.
Have you watched Northern Lights yet? What did you think about it?
Artwork, screen shots, trailers and other imagery is © 1978 New Front Films, Cine Manifest.