Two of these have played at NC--and they are the ones name-checked in the rather breathless blurb below...

The dark cloud of disillusionment that spread across international screens in the wake of World War II didn’t spare the land of the midnight sun, as evidenced by this selection of stylishly shadowy, ripe-for-discovery crime dramas from Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. Precursors to the Scandinavian crime-fiction boom, these moody thrillers--including Edith Carlmar’s twisted melodrama Death Is a Caress, the first Norwegian film directed by a woman; and Hasse Ekman’s daring mystery Girl with Hyacinths, fascinating for its taboo-breaking queer themes--imbue noir fatalism with a stark social realism and brooding psychological depth befitting the homeland of Ibsen and Strindberg.

FEATURING: Death Is a Caress (1949), Girl with Hyacinths (1950), Two Minutes Late (1952), Hidden in the Fog (1953)

HIDDEN IN THE FOG (I DIMMA DOLD) is from Sweden, and is one we'd not been able to access when we were assembling our three international noir shows in 2015, 2017 and 2023. Our long-time compatriot DB Dumonteil has good things to say about it:

A fine film noir ,mainly in its first part: after the murder of her husband, the wife escapes and wanders in the streets of the town, where every inhabitant is a living threat (close shots on the face). She becomes the first suspect and the headlines of the newspapers mention her name and her photograph for all to see.

The second part is more conventional, in the tradition of Agatha Christie (but not as brilliant as her plots), where the detective knows the name of the murderer but has no evidence, the gathering of all suspects to set a trap to catch him...It occurs just after WW2, and there is a hint at Himmler's and Goering's suicides , because the victim was actually murdered twice...

The flashbacks reveal a hateful victim, who took his lover at home and imposed a menage à trois on his wife; and as it turns out, not only the distraught wife but other people had motives to get rid of this go-getter: the husband's brother, in love with his sister-in-law; the cousin, Olle, who has a crush on her too and wants to run the business; the aunt, a past master in poisons (she used to work in a pharmacy).

Eva Henning has a Hitchcockian look, which brightens up this mist.

TWO MINUTES LATE (TO MINUTTER FOR SENT) is from Denmark and missed the cut for our lineups in 2017 and 2023 (and the final lineup for MIDCENTURY MADNESS in 2022). It swings even further into melo-noir territory.

There is just one IMDB review, rather sketchy:

After an interesting first quarter the film gets bogged down in a relational triangle before picking up for the final scenes.

The story is more drama than thriller and most of the time the police are invisible as two sisters vie for the attentions of a former playboy who is married to one of them. It's the see-sawing between of emotions that becomes tiresome. Nevertheless the ending is quite a surprise although the original murderer was quite obvious from an early stage.

Interesting location photography especially in the opening scenes as a car drives through Copenhagen with bicycles everywhere ignoring other traffic.