Gryr i Norden (Dawn in the North)[1] is a Norwegian film from 1939 that was directed by Olav Dalgard.
[2] Gryr i Norden is the last film in the "worker trilogy."
The other two films are Det drønner gjennom dalen (1938) and Lenkene brytes (1938).
[3][4] The film is about the first major women's strike in Norway, the match workers' strike in Kristiania (now Oslo) in 1889.
[5][6] Working conditions were miserable, and most of the young women ended up with ruined health after a short period of performing the hazardous work, affected by phosphorus necrosis.