Other films directed by him, are the crime thriller Varg Veum - Bitter Flowers (2007) and the slacker comedy The Last Joint Venture (2008).
[1] Ulrik Imtiaz Rolfsen directed part two (episodes 3&4) of In The Dark, a four-part drama, starting MyAnna Buring, written by Bafta-winning writer Danny Brocklehurst (Ordinary Lies, The Driver, Exile) for BBC One.
Adapted from the books by best-selling novelist Mark Billingham, In The Dark centers around the engaging and complex female detective Helen Weeks, in two separate stories.
Instead of attending college, he moved to New York City 1992-1993 to work as a photographer's assistant as well as serving as an intern editing documentary films.
In 2008 Ulrik Imtiaz Rolfsen directed the Norwegian movie The Last Joint Venture (Den Siste Revejakta), based on Ingvar Ambjørnsen's cult novel of the same name.
The movie, set in 1979, is a comedy/drama portraying two friends in Oslo who fight hard drugs, while dealing weed - trying to remain hippies as the 80's comes charging.
In 2007 Ulrik Imtiaz Rolfsen helmed Varg Veum - Bitter Flowers (Bitre Blomster), a Norwegian crime thriller that was released theatrically in Norway in August 2007.
It is the first in a series of twelve films about the private detective Varg Veum financed by German TV station ARD Degeto, based on the books by Gunnar Staalesen.