Maj SjowallFilmography

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Beck

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Peter Haber, Mikael Persbrandt, Figge Norling, Stina Rautelin, Per Morberg

Synopsis: Stockholm policeman Martin Beck (Peter Haber), created by novelists Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo, is seen in this thriller about the search for a pedophile who kills his young victims. The Sjowall-Wahloo character has previously been adapted to numerous films by directors Stuart Rosenberg (The Laughing Policeman, Read More

1997
Beck 2: Spar I Morker

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Peter Haber, Mikael Persbrandt, Stina Rautelin, Cecilia Hall, Carlo Schmidt

Synopsis: This is the second in the 1997-98 series of films featuring Stockholm Inspector Martin Beck (Peter Haber), the character created by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo, in new stories set in present-day Stockholm. In the first part of the series, Beck went after a murdering pedophile. In this follow-up Read More

1997
Brandbilen Som Försvann

Crew: Book Author

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

1993
Polis Polis Potatismos

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Gösta Ekman, Jr., Kjell Bergqvist, Rolf Lassgård

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

1993
Roseanna

Crew: Short Story Author

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

1993
Beck

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Jan Decleir, Els Dottermans

Synopsis: This Belgian/Dutch co-production could easily be confused with the Swedish-German-Danish 1997 film with the same title, since the later production is based on the same fictional character and was intended as the first in a sixteen-part series. However, this film is based on a different book by Read More

1992
Kamikaze '89

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Günther Kaufmann, Boy Gobert, Arnold Marquis, Richy Mueller

Synopsis: Famed filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder stars as a futuristic cop who must sniff out a bomb stashed somewhere in a 30-story Berlin office building. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1982
Mannen Som Gick Upp I Roek

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Derek Jacobi, Ferenc Bacs, Judy Winter

Synopsis: The celebrated Martin Beck (Derek Jacoby) of the Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo novels is back as the Stockholm police lieutenant who is now on the trail of a missing journalist. (The character of Beck also appeared in the 1974 film The Laughing Policeman, with Walter Matthau in the lead role.) Read More

1981
Mannen på taket

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: Politics and crime cross paths in this action drama in which the police are attempting to capture alive the murderer of a police official who grievously abused his power. The official was murdered in his hospital bed, and his murderer's identity is carefully uncovered by painstaking police work. Read More

1976
The Laughing Policeman

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Dave Belrose, Walter Matthau, Bruce Dern, Louis Gossett, Jr., Albert Paulsen, Anthony Zerbe

Synopsis: Stuart Rosenberg's taut police thriller, based on the Martin Beck novel by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahlöö, concerns a serial killer who is targeting bus riders. When a bus full of innocent commuters are killed on a San Francisco street, Jake Martin (Walter Matthau) is assigned to track down the Read More

1973

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Maj SjowallFilmography

Beck

Beck 2: Spar I Morker

Brandbilen Som Försvann

Polis Polis Potatismos

Roseanna

Beck

Kamikaze '89

Mannen Som Gick Upp I Roek

Mannen på taket

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