Notable Adaptations
The Norwegian composer Guttorm Guttormsen wrote his Terje Vigen for Bass soloist and orchestra in 1977. In 1994/5 Jon Mostad wrote music for Terje Vigen for resitation, choir (SSA) and symphonic wind band.
Film maker Torstein Blixfjord directed a major multimedia adaptation in Yokohama, Japan in November 2006. The production involved a film projected across five cinema screens set up on Shinko Pier, which was accompanied by dancers. The film featured the poem narrated by Masato Ibu. The project formed the basis of Blixfjord's 2008/9 project id Identity of the Soul, which also featured contributions from the great Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish.
Also in 2006, Composer & Producer Kjell-Ole Haune developed Terje Vigen into a multi media musical. This production went on tour in Norway and USA in 2006 and 2007 and was staged in London's West End in 2008.
In 1917 a Swedish film based on the poem was made with Victor Sjöström as director. See Terje Vigen (film). German remake of 1933 "Das Meer ruft", set on a fictional Baltic island under Russian occupation during the First World War, with Heinrich George.
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