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Tom Alandh

Birthday: Born in 1944-06-13 in Stockholm

Deathday: Alive

Tom Hardy Alandh, (born 13 June 1944) is a Swedish journalist and documentary director.

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Hej och tack för mig

Character: self

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Tomtens Minnesluckor

Character: Self - Speakerröst

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Silbersky

Character: Narrator (voice)

Leif Silbersky has been a defender in many of Sweden's most media-acclaimed trials over the past fifty years. And in this three-part documentary, he tells himself about how it has been....


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Alltid På Mors Dag - Elitloppet

Character: Self - Speakerröst

Tom Alandh tells both about his soul and the story of the Elite Race. As every year goes off the rails on Mother's Day...

Mörtfors-Tarzan

Character: Himself

Dark as ebony and agile as a panther was Tom Alandh's father. Many said that the darkness and wildness of him made him look like Tarzan, even though he only came from Åmål....

Oscar och Greta och huset de byggde

Character: Himself

Tom Alandh found a box that has been standing in his basement for almost 40 years, untouched. When he started to go through the contents, he found what was left of his foster parents' lives together: Photographs, old bills, receipts and letters he had never seen....

När bollen var rund

Character: Narrator (voice)

Chronicles the hosting of Euro '92 in Sweden and the journey of the Swedish team in that tournament....

Det svåra livet

Character: Self - Speakerröst

This documentary follows Pia, who is homeless. She is struggling with her drug addiction. During the day she (and many other homeless people) sells the newspaper Situation Sthlm....

Det Sköra Livet

Character: Self - Speakerröst

Pia Sjögren was the subject of three documentaries by director Tom Alandh, beginning in 2001. He first saw her on the street selling newspapers, homeless, addicted to drugs, trying to make enough money for the day. Since then, she has become clean, and now gives lectures about her experiences, sharing her knowledge. This is the fourth film about her, filmed between 2011-2020. At the start of this installment, Pia has recently begun having heart and breathing issues, her own daughter is in prison...

Musikmakarna

Character: Self - Speakerröst

Monica & Carl-Axel Dominique have been married for over 60 years and have played music for as long as they can remember. They have worked with some of Sweden's biggest names. Tom Alandh finally gets the chance to make his documentary about them, something he has wanted to do for two decades....

Beskedet

Character: Self - Speakerröst

Pianist Stefan Nilsson died in his home on May 25. He is best known as a composer of music for popular films and television series. In February 2023, after a period of illness, he received shocking news - he had the incurable disease ALS. Stefan Nilsson and his wife Charlotte Hasselquist Nilsson then contacted Tom Alandh and it resulted in a conversation about life, love and Stefan Nilsson's rich musical work....

När världen kom till Ronneby

Character: Self - Speakerröst

With the refugee influx in 2015, Ronneby gained 3,000 new inhabitants and the schools 1,000 new students. Tom Alandh traveled to Ronneby to find out how this has affected society and its inhabitants and their real and perceived security....

Ett par dagar i november med Jan Troell

Character: Self - Speakerröst

A film about Jan Troell who turns 90 this summer. We get to see Jan Troell's own pictures, but also a conversation about childhood happiness and the joy of creation....

Partiledaren som klev ut ur kylan

Character: Self - Speakerröst

Håkan Juholt came from the reserve bench and became captain of the whole team. A high-stakes bet that hardly anyone had dared to bet on. But after only 303 days, Håkan Juholt's time as party leader for the Social Democrats was over....

Martina har sett alla mina filmer

Character: Self - Speakerröst

'Martina och jag', from 2008, was intended to be the last film about Martina Schaub, a woman with Down's Syndrome. But now, another ten years later, director Tom Alandh returns to Martina's world once more. She has been a part of Tom Alandh's filmography since she was five, and now at fifty, new challenges present themselves....

Cheers Kosovo, Hang in There!

Character: Self - Speakerröst

There will be no 2018 World Cup in Russia for the new small nation of Kosovo. Only three goals scored, one point earned and last place in their qualifying group. In Kosovo, there is talk of crisis and disaster. But in Sweden, life goes on as usual for the NT stars Arber Zeneli and Albert Bunjaku....

Muck! men sen då, Kenneth Viken?

Character: Self - Speakerröst

For almost half of his life, Kenneth Viken has been in prison, and he does not know how many times he has been released, only to soon return . In January 2016 he is released again....

Ibland är det tungt att vara människa

Character: Self - Speakerröst

Balder's premises are located in Norrtull's old hospital in Stockholm, a couple of rooms, a kitchen, some simple furniture, a piano that Lars could play on, if he only dared....

Krokiga vägen till Lyckliga gatan

Character: Self - Speakerröst

A film about dreams and opportunities, not about problems....

Ur Svennis Skugga

Character: Self - Speakerröst

Tord Grip is only 1.72 tall, but still one of the greats in Swedish football. Yes, he is the baker from Ytterhogdal who through football got the world as a workplace. But constantly in the shadow of Sven-Göran "Svennis" Eriksson....

Hellre En Skrynklig Själ Än Ett Slätstruket Liv

Character: Self - Speakerröst

Lars Nordlander often bases his lyrics on his own life. He has written lyrics to Monica Zetterlund, Lill Lindfors, Lill-Babs, Tommy Körberg and Björn Skifs for more than 40 years....

Jan Allan och trumpeten som försvann

Character: Self - Speakerröst

For 35 years, Jan Allan played the same trumpet, a Bach bought in New York in 1965. And he had intended to play it until the very last note. But then Jan Allan's beloved trumpet was stolen, and what happened to his airy lyrical tone?...

Gymnasten Som Lärde Sig Gå

Character: Self - Speakerröst

He was 19 years old and promising gymnast. But one volt went wrong, one in a hundred thousand, and he broke his neck. Never go again, the doctors thought. And never again breathe on your own, without a respirator....

What happened to the children?

Character: Self - Speakerröst

In this documentary we meet five children in Sweden and see what happened in their lives. Robin was nine years old, but he already knew what a prison looked like and the bad a punishment can do. Frida was not yet born when we filmed her mother Angela in 1983. Her sister Malin lived for several years in a foster family. Bosse was 14 years old and in 9th grade when we met him in 1978. He was the only guy in the class who had glasses. Marie received many postcards and letters from her father, but ...

Vad hände med grabbarna på kåken

Character: Self - Speakerröst

Sonny was in Hällby Prison in 1990. Kenneth, Sture, Anders, Pertti and Johnny were also in the same ward. Six ordinary prisoners, far from headlines and media interest....

Bergmans Hushållerska

Character: Self - Speakerröst

Anita Haglöf was Ingmar Bergman's housekeeper for eight years, in his home at Karlaplan in Stockholm and at Fårö. She constantly accused him of harassment in her diary, but didn't quit the job....

100-åringen som tror på framtiden

Character: Self

Bo wanted to become an explorer when he was young, but realized that everything had already been discovered. Instead, he came out into the world as a filmmaker. He tells about his travels and about the pioneer days of Swedish television....

Kåge Jonsson - Vardagens betraktare

Character: Self - Speakerröst

Despite having made some of television's most popular documentaries, Kåge Jonsson is almost unknown. For 35 years he and Tom Alandh have been workmates and for just as long they have grumbled about what a documentary film really is. Leif Furhammar's definition reads "a piece of reality, seen through a temperament"....

Anna Lindh 1957 - 2003

Character: Self - Speakerröst

Anna Lindh, the successful and popular, became history and a monument, in Sweden and around the world. But who was she really, the living Anna Lindh?...

Sämsta bandet ever?

Character: Narrator (voice)

In the 1980s there was a punk band in Stockholm who put out one single, got torn apart by local music critics and went away. 35 years later they are contacted by a music label from New York interested in their music....

Min död är min

Character: Self - Speakerröst

Stefan Nilsson chose to end his life on May 25, 2023, just months after being diagnosed with ALS. This follow-up documentary by Tom Alandh brings to the surface the issues revolving euthanasia when there seems to be nothing left to do....

The Road of a Hustler - There and Back Again

Character:

Ulf Berner is home again - who was faster than the Swedish justice system and so snobbishly disappeared from prosecutors and bailiffs in the mid-80s. - Serious tax crimes, said the prosecutor, and the bailiff wanted thirteen million....

Diskuskastarens dröm

Character:

Stefan Fernholm would throw the discus farther than anyone else and win glory and money and Olympic gold, and he was prepared to sacrifice everything to reach his goal. At the age of 37, he died at the kitchen table in Västerås....

Jan Johansson - en liten film om en stor konstnär

Character: Self - Speakerröst

"A small film about a great artist" - The Swedish pianist Jan Johansson (1931-1968), one of the most celebrated jazz/folk music pianist's of Northern Europe. The film tracks the pianist's coming greatness through the great masters Schubert, Mozart, and Hayden, to jazz music and Jan Johansson's transformation of Swedish folk songs, records on the album "Jazz på svenska"....

Martina - med lust och glädje stor...

Character: Self

The fourth film in a long series about Martina Schaub, a woman with Down's Syndrome. Tom Alandh documented part of her life from age 5 to 50. In this film, she is in her early twenties....

Inlandsbanan: De som tog tåget

Character: Self - Speakerröst

A journey along the Inlandsbanan, from Mora to Gällivare, in the last summer of 1991 when the passenger traffic is to be shut down. A decision and its consequences. A film about the view of Norrland in these EC times....

Samtal med Bengt Lagerkvist

Character: Self - Speakerröst

Meeting with Bengt Lagerkvist...

Martina och jag

Character: Self - Speakerröst

In 1974 documentary film maker Tom Alandh did a TV story about institutions for the mentally retarded. Then he met Martina, who was five and who had Down syndrome. For 35 years, which is unique in the Swedish television history, Tom Alandh and photographer Björn Henriksson has followed Martina's struggles against all odds....

Martina

Character: Self - Speakerröst

Nine years ago Tom Alandh included five year old Martina Schaub as part of a program about how society dealt with people with various handicaps. Martina, who has Down's Syndrome, is now fifteen years old....

Underbart är kort - en film om Monica Zetterlund

Character: Self - Speakerröst

A portrait of Swedish jazz singer Monica Zetterlund....


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