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Actors: Gösta Ekman, Jr., Robert Gustafsson, Gustaf Hammarsten, Magnus Roosmann, Kristina Tornqvist
Actors: Gösta Ekman, Jr., Örjan Ramberg, Dan Ekborg, Lena Nyman, Rolf Skoglund
Synopsis: A tiny theatrical company turns into a war zone of egos as a new play goes into rehearsal in this broad comedy from Sweden. A camera crew from a television outlet is on hand to shoot a commercial as a harried director (Tova Mahnusson Norling) tries to put her cast through their paces. Not Read More
Actors: Josefin Nilsson, Marie Richardson, Jacob Ericksson, Bibi Andersson
Synopsis: Mans Herngren directs this quiet, sad family comedy about love and jealousy. The film focuses on a trio of sisters: Sophia (Josefin Nilsson), who is expecting a child with her significant other Freddie (Jacob Ericksson); Gina (Marie Richardson), who is married to Roffe (Peter Dalle) and remains Read More
Actors: Lena Endre, Suzanne Reuter, Peter Dalle, Johan Ulvesson, Kicki Bramberg
Synopsis: Writer-director-actor Peter Dalle is the talent behind this satire on relationships, reuniting several cast members of the TV series Lorry. A childless couple, Marie (Lena Endre) and David (Dalle), have lived together for years, despite their many disagreements. They argue often, but their Read More
Synopsis: In this black comedy, a charming family man's response to his own tendency to take on too much work is to periodically indulge in bouts of drinking. Rather than say that he is drunk, his family has taken to saying "Dad's tired and emotional again." One of the highlights of the film is Gosta Read More
Synopsis: Unemployment is the subject of this black Swedish comedy and though it is generally funny, it will be most enjoyable with those familiar with Sweden's culture and economic climate. It is the story of Torsten, a bank clerk who is fired by his boss. Devastated and ashamed, poor Torsten becomes so Read More
Actors: Gösta Ekman, Jr., Kjell Bergqvist, Rolf Lassgård, Lena Nilsson
Synopsis: This Swedish thriller is based upon one of a 10 part series of novels by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo. Two of their books have been made into films. In this first filmed episode, after an American tourist is mysteriously killed and tossed off a tour boat, the local police are baffled by the lack of Read More
Actors: Gösta Ekman, Jr., Kjell Bergqvist, Rolf Lassgård
Synopsis: Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö are writers of a series of immensely popular "police procedurals," or novels in which the police, while carefully following their own real-life rules and procedures, solve a crime or close a case. Many of these novels have been translated into English, and they have done Read More
Synopsis: This is the fourth in a series of films based on the police detective novels of Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo. In this story, the police only have one witness to a series of crimes which have electrified the country, the rape and murder of a number of beautiful young women. Unfortunately, the witness Read More
Synopsis: This Swedish thriller is based upon one of a 10 part series of novels by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo. Two of their books have been made into films. In this third filmed episode, a notorious industrialist is hot while eating dinner at a Malmo Hotel. Enter Martin Beck and friend who investigate the Read More
Actors: Gösta Ekman, Jr., Gunnel Fred
Synopsis: In this warm drama, Nils is in the hospital but is sufficiently ambulatory to get into the sorts of trouble ten-year-old boys everywhere get into. He's full of curiosity about everything and everyone, including the two other people in his room. One is an old man named Carson, who doesn't seem Read More
Actors: Ernst-Hugo Järegård, Margareta Krook, Gösta Ekman, Jr., Carl Billquist
Synopsis: In this odd feature, played completely straight, a long-married middle-aged couple quietly arrange the apparent end of their relationship. The wife ties up her unresisting husband and feeds him poison, saying she's done with him. Then she leaves. It turns out that he hadn't taken the poison after Read More
Actors: Marika Lagercrantz, Gösta Ekman, Jr.
Synopsis: In this detective mystery based on the novel Kronvittnet or Experiment in Murder by Maarten Hart, a respected scientist is suspected of murder when a young woman who has recently visited his laboratory is discovered to be missing. Police detective Lambert (Gosta Ekman) investigates the case, and Read More
Actors: Benny Haag, Melinda Kinnaman, Lill Lindfors, Gunnar Eyjólfsson, Per Mattsson
Synopsis: A young boy wandering with a band of gypsies is endangered when a royal proclamation grants people permission to shoot gypsies on sight. Benny Haag plays Inge and his twin brother Arild, the latter who fights with his father against the "undesirables." The father sends mercenaries to wipe out the Read More
Crew: Screenwriter
Actors: Ulf Brunnberg, Birgitta Andersson, Per Grunden
Synopsis: The police are characteristically clumsy and the trio of thieves at the heart of this farce are at least partially inept, the comedy somehow falls between the cracks. Sickan Jonsson (Gosta Ekman Jr.) is the head of the trio of thieves, Ragnar (Ulf Brunnberg) and Dynamite Harry (Bjorn Gustafson) Read More
Crew: Director, Screenwriter
Actors: Gösta Ekman, Jr., Margareta Krook, Lena Nyman, Kent Andersson, Sten Ljunggren
Synopsis: This light farce chronicles the eventual emancipation of rebellious "Mama's boy" Claes-Henrik (Gosta Ekman), who falls into more than one funny mishap before the apron strings are cut. Prone to practical jokes and intent on making a living as a con artist, Claes-Henrik, who goes by the nickname of Read More
Actors: Gösta Ekman, Jr., Sten Ljunggren, Karin Miller
Synopsis: In this tour-de-force, an amusing and successful low-budget crime-comedy, Tobbe (Gosta Ekman) gains consciousness in his bed one morning with a world-class hangover, and groaning, realizes that there is a woman sleeping next to him. In pops Bertil (Sten Ljunggren), who was also at the party but is Read More
Actors: Dennis Hopper, Hardy Kruger, Gösta Ekman, Jr., Cory Molder, David Wilson
Synopsis: The internationally produced The Inside Man was inspired by a true story. In 1981, a Soviet submarine ran aground on the coast of Sweden. The sub was carrying a hush-hush laser search device, which promptly vanished. In this 1984 recreation of the incident, Dennis Hopper is cast as the CIA agent Read More
Actors: Gösta Ekman, Jr., Janne Carlsson, Marika Lindstrom, Lena Nyman, Mona Seilitz
Synopsis: When Gary (Goesta Ekman), a somewhat staid and stable architect, and Lasse (Janne Carlsson), a good-time mechanic, end up becoming friends just at the time both of their wives have left town for a week, they each have their idyllic time-off disrupted. Gary wants a bit of introspective relaxation Read More
Actors: Bjorn Skifs, Gösta Ekman, Jr., Roland Jansson, Stig Ossian Ericson
Synopsis: In this comedic children's film, a little girl is left under the care of a chemistry student researcher while her father tries to escape from two gangsters (who occasion several laughs). The young chemistry student is not only "saddled" with the girl, but with homework for a crazy professor, and Read More
Actors: Gösta Ekman, Jr., Lasse Aberg, Brasse Brannstrom, Ayse Emel Mesci, Sten Ljunggren
Synopsis: This is a visually opulent story -- geared to a young adult level -- of King Charles the XII of Sweden and how he once tried for five years (1709-1714) to convince the Turks to help him conquer Czar Peter the Great of Russia -- and failed. According to this filmed version of history, seen through Read More
Actors: Brasse Braennstrom, Grynet Molvig, Lena Nyman, Gösta Ekman, Jr., Allan Edwall
Synopsis: The title of this comedy is the first indication of the absurd: "sopor" means "trash" in Swedish and the acronym that is the film's title is playing with words to name a make-believe organization that stands up for the lowly or forgotten in society. About 1000 children of SOPOR unload from the Read More
Actors: Gösta Ekman, Jr., Anita Ekström
Synopsis: Consumed by sexual passion, David Jernberg pursues his relationship with Eva despite the fact that this marginally attractive woman is having a destructive effect on his life and everything he values. David, a scientist with a wife and a middle-class life, is a mature man who is just beginning to Read More
Actors: Inger Lise Rypdal, Gösta Ekman, Jr., Kari Simonsen
Synopsis: In this film based on a novel by Amalie Skram, Lucie is a dance-hall girl in 1880s Norway who is overjoyed at the prospect of marriage to a wealthy, upper-class lawyer. After their marriage, she discovers that not only will she be forever shunned by Oslo society, but that her husband is a Read More
Actors: Gösta Ekman, Jr., Inger Lise Rypdal, Margareta Krook, Sif Ruud, Irma Christensson
Synopsis: Either a failed love affair or the Swedish winter would be enough to send almost anyone off on a Mediterranean holiday. Torc has had to endure both of these. So it's little wonder that he overdoes a bit during his first few days in Cyprus, even if his getting drunk and going nude bathing on a Read More
Actors: Gösta Ekman, Jr., Hans Alfredson, Birgitta Andersson, Bernard Cribbins
Synopsis: Rarely does a film do homage to a serious artist through the medium of a madcap farce, as this one does; however, Picasso was known for an irreverent and ribald sense of humor which is quite in line with this Swedish film, Picassos Aeventyr. In a skit recounting his birth, a woman's heavy Read More
Actors: Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, Gunnar Björnstrand, Kari Sylwan
Synopsis: Liv Ullmann plays Dr. Jenny Isakson, a psychiatrist who is taking a vacation while her husband Dr. Erik Isakson (Sven Lindberg) is elsewhere. Haunted by visions of an old woman, Jenny suffers from profound, inexplicable depression. Desperately in search of a escape from her doldrums, she has an Read More
Actors: Gösta Ekman, Jr., Max von Sydow, Birgitta Andersson, Hans Alfredson
Synopsis: Swedish director Hans Alfredson adapted his own novel Pojken i Vattnet into Ägget är löst!, this musical tragicomedy starring Max von Sydow as The Father, the patriarch of a seemingly nameless family. A factory owner whose workers transform eggs into specialized tools for scratching certain Read More
Actors: Tage Danielsson, Ernst-Hugo Järegård, Margareta Krook, Gösta Ekman, Jr.
Synopsis: Tender hearts unite an unlikely couple: Tage Danielsson here plays a giant of a man, Lena Nyman his quite tiny wife. In their happy household they have two of everything. For example, they have large and small beds, chairs, toilets, alarm clocks, etc. Tage reminisces about his childhood when he Read More
Synopsis: The subtitle of this Swedish comedy is "Tage Danielsson's Divine Comedy." It recounts the trials of a man named Dante Alighieri (Gosta Ekman) as he attempts to quit smoking. He is worried about backsliding, so he hires a pair of private detectives to keep him from smoking even a single cigarette. Read More
Synopsis: This Swedish satire/fantasy presciently lampoons the high-minded scheme of a multinational conglomerate to transform a large section of Sweden into a nature preserve and vacation resort, long before such issues arose in the development of Disney World/Paris. The corporation intends to transform a Read More
Actors: Adriana Asti, Gösta Ekman, Jr., Lars Ekborg, Agneta Ekmanner
Synopsis: A university professor (Gosta Ekman) and his wife (Adriana Asti) hire a young man (Lars Ekborg) to help the professor arrange his papers for publication. The young man comes to live with the couple and leaves his mistress (Agneta Ekmanner) to take the position. The young man discovers very quickly Read More
Synopsis: This dark and extremely grim Swedish drama is set at the end of the 19th century and centers upon an imprisoned woman awaiting her execution. Her story is told via flashback. The trouble began when she and her son were tried for murder and incest. Before the trial, rumors were spread about the Read More
Actors: Agneta Ekmanner, Dexter Gordon
Synopsis: Old morals fall by the wayside as a young couple agrees to have a child out of wedlock. The woman is a young veterinarian who is drifting apart from her lover. She agrees to have his baby even though their future as a couple is clouded, and they vow to stay together at least until the baby is Read More
Actors: Tage Danielsson, Monica Zetterlund, Birgitta Andersson, Lars Ekborg, Georg Rydeberg
Synopsis: This satirical comedy examines the loneliness of men and women from the Swedish perspective and their resolve to find Mr. or Miss Right or Mr. or Miss Right-Now. Couples try to find their soulmates in a series of vignettes and sight gags. Director Tage Danielsson co-wrote the script with Hans Alfredson Read More
Crew: Producer
Synopsis: A troubled young woman resists reform and pays the consequences in this drama. The new trouble begins after she is paroled from reform school and is sent to work in the country. She is not interested in working and so violates her parole and returns to Stockholm to hang out with members of her old Read More
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