Om Tilla

Om Tilla (About Tilla) is a Norwegian drama film from 1963 directed by Arne Skouen.^[1][2][3] Skouen wrote the screenplay, which was based on his 1959 novel Bare om barn. It contained a series of articles from the newspaper Verdens Gang, in which Skouen pointed out that children with intellectual disabilities and children with behavioral difficulties did not receive sufficient financial support or professional help.^[4][5]

Om Tilla
Directed by	Arne Skouen
Written by	Arne Skouen
Based on	Arne Skouen's novel Bare om barn
Starring	Eva Henning Toralv Maurstad Synne Skouen
Cinematography	Ragnar Sørensen
Edited by	Sølve Kern
Music by	Gunnar Sønstevold
Distributed by	Kommunenes filmcentral
Release date	September 12, 1963 (1963-09-12)
Running time	77 minutes
Country	Norway
Language	Norwegian

Plot

The child psychologist Ivar visits Tilla's mother, Maria, one day at the Botanical Garden in Oslo. Ivar had Tilla under observation a few months earlier, but Maria did not return with her daughter. The child psychologist manages to persuade Maria to come with Tilla to the children's psychiatric clinic so that they can start treating her. At the clinic, they meet the chief physician Mimi Backer. Tilla has not spoken in a year and a half. In the observation room at the clinic, the first small glimmer of light falls on the mystery. There, the girl builds up her secret world through toys she chooses to express herself.^[6]

Cast

• Eva Henning as Maria
• Toralv Maurstad as Ivar
• Wenche Foss as Mimi Backer, the chief physician
• Synne Skouen as Tilla, Maria's daughter
• Egil Lorck as Bernhard, a gardener
• Tore Foss as Haugen, the ship inspector
• Erik Gløersen as Terje
• Johannes Eckhoff as the school psychologist
• Pål Virik as a teenager
• Roy Bjørnstad as a gardener
• Kai Remlov as a teenager
• Bonne Gauguin