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Gjest Baardsen is a Norwegian film from 1939 written and directed by Tancred Ibsen. Alfred Maurstad played the title role. The film is based on the life of the outlaw Gjest Baardsen, but it is a blend of fact and fiction. The plot is taken from a chapbook published by Holger Sinding under the pseudonym Halle Sira.

The film was shot at the Fuhr farm in Luster Municipality, at Turtagrø in the Sognefjellet mountains in Luster Municipality, and at Videseter in the Strynefjellet mountains in Stryn Municipality.

The film was screened in the United States with English subtitles in the 1940s.

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