Per Oscarsson
Birthday: Born in 1927-01-28 in Stockholm, Sweden
Deathday: 2010-12-31
Per Oscar Heinrich Oscarsson (28 January 1927 – 31 December 2010) was a Swedish actor. He is best known for his role in the 1966 film Hunger, which earned him a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Per Oscarsson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Skärgårdsdoktorn
Character: Kalle Norman
TV series about the doctor Johan Steen who returns to Sweden after working in Somalia. He takes over his father in law's practice in the archipelago and together with his daughter Wilma, they try to make a new life for themselves....
ABC Stage 67
Character: Olaf Helton
ABC Stage 67 is the umbrella title for a series of 26 weekly shows that included dramas, variety shows, documentaries, and original musicals. It premiered on American Broadcasting Company on September 14, 1966 with Murray Schisgal's The Love Song of Barney Kempinksi, directed by Stanley Prager and starring Alan Arkin as a man enjoying the sights and sounds of New York City in his last remaining hours of bachelorhood. Arkin was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance By An...
Nattseilere
Character: With
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Partaj
Character: Guest
Partaj (Party) is a swedish classical humor TV series from 1969. Known actors and comdians deliver sketches and short stories. Among the participants you'll find among others, Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt, Lars Ekborg, Jarl Borssén, Sonya Hedenbratt, Margareta Sjödin, Roffe Bengtson and Mille Schmidt. The series used the same concept as the popular US show Laugh-In....
Julkalendern
Character: Kaspars morfar
An annual Swedish Christmas calendar television series....
Julkalendern
Character: Gränsemyr
An annual Swedish Christmas calendar television series....
Julkalendern
Character: Generalen
An annual Swedish Christmas calendar television series....
Kallocain
Character: Försöksperson nr 135
A dramatization of the Karin Boye's last novel. A nightmarish existence in a future regimented society. In this welfare state introduced the drug Kallocain that may reveal the crimes of dissent....
Sparvöga
Character: Bokrabblaren
It's the early 1950s and Sparvöga's father has lost his job and is suffering from tuberculosis. The whole family is forced to move back in with his parents but for Sparvöga this is the beginning of a great adventure....
Fasadklättraren
Character: Larsson
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Kejsarn av Portugallien
Character: Ol-Bengtsa
A Swedish farmer gets crazy and imagines that his daughter has become emperor of Portugallien and he himself emperor....
Charlotte Löwensköld och Anna Svärd
Character: Pontus Friman
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Harry H.
Character: Harry H
Harry H. is a detective who prefers to sit by the water and fish but can never say no to a case when someone is in need....
Polisen i Strömstad
Character: Gustav Jörgensson
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Ronja Rövardotter
Character: Borka
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Dieselråttor och sjömansmöss
Character: Oraklet i oljetråget
Siblings Ofelia and Philémon are on their way home to Sweden to celebrate Christmas with their grandmother. Onboard the ferry, their father spends most of his time playing cards in the lounge, leaving the children to fend for themselves. One day, he discovers that some rats have chewed up the money kept in a box in their cabin. He then offers a reward: a coin for every rat tail the children can collect. But the clever diesel rats Lucky Closette and Don Calzone catch wind of the plan — and Lucky,...
Skattejakten
Character: Ulrik Sterner
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Polisen och domarmordet
Character: Gustav Jörgensson
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Millennium
Character: Holger Palmgren
Investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist is drawn into an endlessly dark world, with enigmatic hacker Lisbeth Salander his only guide....
Kaspar i Nudådalen
Character: Morfar
Advent calendar series about 8-year-old Kaspar who lives in a small house with his grandfather. Kaspar is a philosophizing little boy who ponders both big and small....
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Ronia: The Robber's Daughter
Character: Borka
Ronia lives happily in her father's castle until she comes across a new playmate, Birk, in the nearby dark forest. The two explore the wilderness, braving dangerous Witchbirds and Rump-Gnomes. But when their families find out Birk and Ronia have been playing together, they forbid them to see each other again. Indeed, their fathers are competing robber chieftains and bitter enemies. Now the two spunky children must try to tear down the barriers that have kept their families apart for so long....
Twelfth Night
Character: Andreas Blek af Nosen
Television adaptation of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night...
Terror of Frankenstein
Character: The Monster
Victor Frankenstein's search for the secret of life leads to the creation of a monster that consumes his life and family....
Per Oscarsson - Bakom rubrikerna och replikerna
Character: Self
Documentary about the Swedish actor Per Oscarsson mostly consisting of long interviews with him in his home on a farm....
The Brothers Lionheart
Character: Orvar
After brothers Jonathan and Crusty pass away, they reunite in Nangijala, the land of eternal spring. Casting a long shadow over their world is the tyrant Tengil, ruler of the country Karmanjaka, where he’s building his new fortress up in the Ancient Mountains....
Who Pulled the Plug?
Character: Ulf Svensson
To secure an order for 1 000 cruise ships from an Arab prince, two companies have to compete by racing each other by canal from Stockholm to Gothenburg. A small family owned company on the brink of bankruptcy is pitted against their major competitor and they both have to resort to dirty tricks in order to reach the goal line first. Plot by Mattias Thuresson....
The Girl Who Played with Fire
Character: Holger Palmgren
Mikael Blomkvist, publisher of Millennium magazine, has made his living exposing the crooked and corrupt practices of establishment Swedish figures. So when a young journalist approaches him with a meticulously researched thesis about sex trafficking in Sweden and those in high office who abuse underage girls, Blomkvist immediately throws himself into the investigation....
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Character: Holger Palmgren
After taking a bullet to the head, Salander is under close supervision in a hospital and is set to face trial for attempted murder on her eventual release. With the help of journalist Mikael Blomkvist and his researchers at Millennium magazine, Salander must prove her innocence. In doing this she plays against powerful enemies and her own past....
Ebon Lundin
Character: Ebon Lundin
Ebon Lundin is the anonymous but odd living man, who becomes a Christ-like, misunderstood figure who suffer much scorn and derision of the cruel reality....
The Bouncer
Character: Karl
Based on a true story the film tells the story of Svend who fights to save his elderly parents' marriage even though it has made his life almost unbearable. When he meets Lizzie he discovers how big a part of his family's hatred and jealousy he himself is. The only thing left is the ultimate break off, or the ultimate forgiveness....
Here Is Your Life
Character: Niklas
A working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving through a series of jobs and romances that gradually shape his future....
House of Angels
Character: Erik Zander
In a small village in Västergötland, everything is turned upside-down when the local loner dies and his cottage is inherited by his unknown relative Fanny. She rides into town on a big black motorcycle with her androgynous boyfriend Zack, wearing black leather and spikes. When they decide to stay, Flogfält's plans to buy the cottage are upset....
Endless Night
Character: Santonix
Shiftless dreamer Michael Rogers fantasizes about a lifestyle above his means and marries a wealthy, young girl who just came of age. They hire a famous architect to build their dream home amidst a series of suspicious incidents. The spouse has dark intentions toward his naive, inexperienced bride. Secrets from his past and sinister ties to their house guest Greta lead to a terrible turn of unexpected events....
The New Land
Character: Pastor Törner
A Swedish immigrant family struggles to adapt to their new life on the American frontier during the second half of the 19th century amidst civil war, native uprising and the lure of gold in California....
The Last Valley
Character: Father Sebastian
People in a small German village in the last valley to remain untouched by the devastating Thirty Years' War try to exist in peace with a group of soldiers occupying the valley....
Rika barn leka bäst
Character: Vilhelm
Six women get fired from a bank while the director gets a huge raise....
Midsummer
Character: Persson
It is the last day of school for Christian and his younger sister Sophie. They are heading to a party at his friend Trina. High school graduation is just around the corner and after the freedom and future. But behind the idyllic facade lurks tragedy and secrets. That evening Sophie commits suicide....
The Last Viking
Character: Skrælling
The son of Viking Harald is left behind in his village with women and children, when his father joins a group of rebels. They are revolving against the king, but the king takes revenge by overtaking the village and tyrannizing the population....
The Adventures of Picasso
Character: Apollinaire
A farcical biopic about Pablo Picasso, from his early years, to his middle years, to the years right before his death, and some of the years before and in-between that....
Heja Sverige!
Character:
Heja Sverige! presents a lot of short sequences in the 'candid camera' style....
The Night Visitor
Character: Dr. Anton Jenks
An insane Swedish farmer escapes from an asylum to get revenge on his sister, her husband and others....
Montenegro
Character: Dr. Aram Pazardjian
Marilyn Jordan, an American, lives in Stockholm with her Swedish husband and family. Her behavior is bizarre, perhaps mad: she poisons the dog's milk and advises the dog not to drink it; she sets the sheets afire as her husband sleeps; she crawls under the dining table to sing. While detained at airport customs for carrying pruning shears, she meets a young Yugoslav woman and goes with her to a Gypsy enclave where she's fought over, takes a lover, helps with the sordid entertainment at a bar, an...
Kan du vissla Johanna?
Character: Nils
Young Berra has a friend, Ulf. Ulf has a grandfather which he likes very much, he gives Ulf presents and takes him on fishing trips. Berra doesn't have a grandfather, but he wants one that's nice to him and who can teach him to whistle. Ulf knows where to find a grandfather - at a home for senior citizens. They go searching together and Berra finds a great pretend grandfather, Nils....
Hunger
Character: Pontus
In 1890, Pontus, the starving writer, wanders the streets of Christiania, in search of love and a chance to get his work published. All he meets is defeat and suffering while his sense of reality is withering. One moment he is delighted and the next he curses everybody. All the time he manages to maintain human dignity and pride....
Storm
Character:
A gentleman, who likes to tell himself that he lives a life of quiet calm and resignation, gets a visit from his brother one day and mysterious things begin to happen....
No Robbers in the Woods
Character: Fiolito
A short movie based on a script written by children's author Astrid Lindgren....
An-Magritt
Character: Hedström
In Norway in the 1600s, An-Magritt is born as the result of a rape....
My Sister My Love
Character: Jacob
Sweden, 1782. Jacob, a young noble, somewhat wild and vehement, returns from his studies in France. After his absence, he returns home happy, but is even happier of meeting his beloved sister Charlotte again. However, she has been promised to the Baron Alsmeden, a man of great influence at court, and this fact will awake a feeling like jealousy in Jacob....
The Quiet Game
Character: Oscar
Three women inherit a manor from a lady called Dolores whom none of them knows. The women are complete strangers to each other, so they meet up at the neglected mansion. Unexpectedly, the big house is occupied by a 40 year old man who had lived together with Dolores for almost a decade. Christian says he doesn’t know anything about Dolores’ earlier life, and he does everything within his power to show them that the manor is morally his and that it is all a mistake. The women stay on the estate f...
Who Saw Him Die?
Character: Sören Mårtensson
Sören Mårtensson is a middle school teacher. His classroom occupied by half-grown children. His work is tormenting him and at night he is haunted by nightmares....
Dreaming of Rita
Character: Bob
When Bob's wife dies, he's determined to find Sabine, a woman he loved 30 years before. Even though he's had little to do with his daughter Rita, he begs her to take him to Denmark to find this lost love. She agrees and unceremoniously drops her baby off at her husband Steff's office where he's been working overtime to avoid bankruptcy. Rita and Bob pick up a hitchhiker, Erik, who plays to Rita's longing for freedom. Steff, with baby and teenage daughter, sets out in pursuit of his wife, jealous...
The Doll
Character: Lundgren
A lonely nightwatchman at a department store develops a fixation on one of the store's mannequins. He soon steals her and takes her to his home, where he can be with her all the time. One day, she comes to life......
Karin Månsdotter
Character: Anders
Karin does not belong to the nobility but nevertheless marries the mentally ill king Erik XIV and becomes queen of Sweden. The king's skilled counsellor Göran Persson wants a royal policy supporting the people and supported by it. But in relation to the nobility the king oscillates between provocative strength and unpredictable weakness. Göran arranges that some very powerful noblemen are killed. Subsequently the king tries to have them convicted of high treason by the parliament. He forgets the...
Send Mere Slik
Character: Rasmus
Two smart city girls, Angelica (12) and Lone (9), are sent on summer vacation to stay with a couple of distant old relatives in an even more distant part of Jutland. The neighbors on the large pig farm are trying to get the two old people into a nursing home so they can take over the land. The girls don't like this, so they take up the fight to help their aging hosts....
Gatan
Character: Åke Rodelius
Britt Malm gets hit by a car on a Stockholm street and is taken to hospital. She is badly injured and must undergo surgery. While the anesthetic takes effect she sees hallucinatory images. This turns into a flashback of what happened Britt before the accident....
Henrietta
Character: Einar
Pettersson is a hard working director in the porn industry with two strippers and a naked gay in his shows. One day, after a little bridge accident, he meets Henrietta and falls in love. The film is based on a novel named "Henrietta skall du också glömma" by Stig Claesson....
1939
Character: Isak
When the war breaks out, Annika lives with her parents in Värmland, close to the border to Norway. Her cousin Harald is a dealer in the black market but has to escape from the police to Norway. Annika moves to Stockholm and gets a job as a waitress. She meets the happy-go-lucky Berit and together they have a wonderful time. She also meets a young man, Bengt, whom she marries. But almost immediately she discovers that her husband is different from the man who was courting her. Plot by Mattias Thu...
Christmas Oratorio
Character: Fälldin
The 1930s. Sidner's mother Solveig dies in a very unfortunate bicycle accident involving some cows. Sidner, his sister and his father Aron move to Sunne to work at a hotel. Aron tries hard to leave the sweet memories of his wife behind him but that isn't made easier by the fact that he always meets her ghost. Aron gets himself a pen friend, a young girl in New Zealand called Tessa. He starts to dream of beginning a new life on the other side of the world. Will his dreams come true and can they h...
Doctor Glas
Character: Dr. Glas
Doctor Glas finds himself attracted to a young woman, married to a corrupt clergyman. She's miserable in her marriage, so he agrees to help in anyway he can. But he is quickly torn between passion and morality....
Miss April
Character: Sverker Ek
The banker Marcus falls in love with the young ballet-dancer Maj who works at the opera. To meet her he takes a job there but Maj is in love with Osvald Berg, the big star of the opera. To wake Osvald's interest for her she asks Marcus if he could play deeply in love with her. Plot summary by nL....
Sverige åt svenskarna
Character:
This farce cocerns Sweden's King Gustav (Per Oscarsson who plays all the lead roles). The royal monarchs of three major European countries are patiently or not-so-patiently hovering on the sidelines while watching the future King Gustav closely. No single king appears to possess the brains he was born with, so history seems to be made by default, as it were. Gustav does blunder around, but not enough to miss being crowned king. As a result, France, England, and Germany invade Sweden hoping to ta...
Ljuvlig är sommarnatten
Character: Lars-Ove Larsson
Someone is murdered. Who is the killer? Members of all star cast are all suspects......
Secrets
Character: Raoul Kramer
A woman's unfulfilling marriage leads her into a passionate affair with a wealthy extramarital lover....
Kristin Commands
Character: Jan Westman
Translator Vilhelm and his young wife have a child, as well as a grumpy housemaid who doesn't hesitate to give her opinion on how they behave as parents. In secret Kristin arranges a scholarship for Vilhelm so he can go back to his medical studies....
Harry & Sonja
Character: Harry's Father
Harry works as a hairdresser in a mental hospital. He likes to play bingo and is married to Anna. One day he meets the cleaning lady Sonja....
A Dandy in Aspic
Character: Pavel
Double-agent Alexander Eberlin is assigned by the British to hunt out a Russian spy, known to them as Krasnevin. Only Eberlin knows that Krasnevin is none other than himself! Accompanying him on his mission is a ruthless partner, who gradually discovers his secret as Eberlin tries to maneuver himself out of a desperate situation....
Dream City
Character: Florian Sand
A married couple of artists move to a utopian town known for its absolute freedom, but behind the surface perversion and violence are spreading....
The Headsman and the Harlot
Character: Bailiff
Sweden, beginning of the 18th Century. Executions are popular entertainment and brothels a given. Still the executioner and the whore are both despised and shunned. The executioner became executioner against his will and the whore, only 17 years old, was forced into the brothel. This is the story of how the two meet and exchange cruelty with tenderness, guilt with innocence....
Honeycomb
Character: Pedro
Teresa and Peter settle down in their new home after the wedding. Things are going well until her childhood furniture arrives, sending Teresa into horrible flashbacks of turmoil from memories of her youth....
Son of the Sea
Character: Rolf Bakken
The priest Hagen comes to a small Norwegian village one stormy evening. He brings the tragic news to wife Sigrid Bakken. Her husband and oldest son has drowned during fishing....
Vilde, the Wild One
Character: The Vicar
In a rural western town in 1890 a woman has a mute old daughter after relations with her step father, which in his need of money, wants to sell them off to a rich skin tradesman. While resisting this, the woman turns lame....
Kurt Olsson - filmen om mitt liv som mej själv
Character: Personell Manager Lindroth
How did Kurt become who he was? Why was he never elected class monitor? When did Arne come into the picture? And what happened when this dynamic duo did their military service? And Gudrun, who does she really like best? You'll find the answers in the film about Kurtan. Kurtan seems to have his fingers in everything... from the shipyard crisis to the switch to right-hand traffic... and somehow everything seems to go wrong......
Young Andersen
Character: H.C. Andersens farfar
A powerful modern film narrative, set in a historical framework, about the crucial encounter between vulnerable eighteen-year-old Hans Christian Andersen, who rates himself so highly, and Mr. Meisling, the cynical school principal. An encounter that fundamentally transforms Hans Christian's life....
Prince Gustaf
Character: Prince August
In the middle of the 1800s Swedish prince Gustaf meets the actress Anna Maria Wastenius and falls in love with her, but it is an impossible love story due to the rules of society....
Ungdom i fara
Character: Stickan
A young man with a messy background stands trial for car theft. He gets away with a suspended sentence. With the help of a social worker, he gets on the right side of life — until a criminal friend shows up....
The Serious Game
Character: Filip Stille (Lydia's Brother) (uncredited)
Arvid share the love with a young woman named Lydia, but as is customary at the turn of the century, is not love enough for a fairy tale to come true. While Arvid struggling to create the basis for their existence, Lydia's thirst for the good life leads her to marrying an older wealthy man....
Flickor i hamn
Character: Young Man (uncredited)
Shipmate Henrik gets in contact with two women in Gothenburg — the sociable Lisbeth and the shy Astrid....
Noon Wine
Character: Olaf Helton
A dark tragedy about a farmer's futile act of homicide that takes place on a small dairy farm in southern Texas during the 1890s. Sam Peckinpah directed this original adaptation of the Katherine Anne Porter novel for ABC, and the project became an hour-long presentation for ABC Stage 67, premiering on Nov. 23, 1966....
Defiance
Character:
A teacher is so hard on his students that he faces a warning by the school principal. In order to at least improve the strained relationship with his own son, he turns to a priest for advice....
En nypa mull - vad är vi mer?
Character:
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Vi flyger på Rio
Character:
When the airline captain Curt Åhs comes home one day he discovers that his wife is unfaithful. Later he and the flight attendant Berit shares an adventure together during a flight to Rio De Janeiro....
Det vackraste på jorden
Character:
Bengt, a ship mechanic , and his wife Karin has been relocated to a modern apartment house in Stockholm. On the ground floor is a tobacconist, whose owner Frithiof is also the deputy landlord of the house....
The Sleep of Death
Character: Colonel Gaillard
Set in 1815, a young Englishman touring Europe encounters more than he bargained for. His pursuit of the beautiful Countess St. Alyre brings him into contact with the Marquis D'Armanville and other odd characters. A series of bizarre murders occur, bringing our hero to the borderland of nightmare....
Barabbas
Character: Boy
The story about the thief who didn't get crucified because Jesus was choosen to take his place....
We Three Debutantes
Character: Lillebror Brummer
Three young poets are about to make their debuts....
The Blockhouse
Character: Lund
A group of Slave workers, drafted by the Nazis to help construct their coastal defences in 1944, are trapped in an underground bunker when the Allies land at Normandy on D-Day. They find huge stores of food, but not enough candles. The slow dying of the light parallels their increasing boredom, illness, and jealousy during their entrapment. Based on the Novel 'Le Blockhaus' by Jean Paul Clebert...
Waltz of Sex
Character: The Baptiser
When a vagrant family arrives to the village Vindinge one hot summer in the 1920's, the parish is spiced up with sex and alcohol. Based on a novel by Swedish Academy member Artur Lundkvist....
Charlotte Löwensköld
Character: Pontus Friman
1830 Värmland, Sweden. Master Karl Arthur Ekenstedt comes to aid the Minister at Crosss Church. He falls in love with Charlotte Löwensköld, housekeeper in the rectory. They get engaged. Charlotte is full of life, energetic and practical. Karl Arthur struggle with his faith and God....
Germans
Character: Prof. Sonnenbruch
A story about a German family during World War II with every family member having a different approach to Jews, raging from hatred to compassion....
Nattseilere
Character: With
Outer Senja in 1877. A young girl is found apparently lifeless among flotsam and seaweed. The storm has washed her ashore. Miraculously, they revive her, but she has lost her memory, and no one knows who she is or where she comes from. They call her "Båremor" or "The Girl from the Sea." A fisherman and his wife take care of her, and it gradually becomes clear that she has extraordinary abilities. Among other things, she plays the organ beautifully. The girl feels like a stranger among the weathe...
Venus 90
Character: The wreck
A film crew travels out in a future Europe to make a documentary about the birds and threats to the ecological contexts. The motto of the film has been downloaded from the Indian chief, Chief Seattle's famous words from 1855; "You can not sell the sky, and everything that affects the Earth affect the humans"....
A Stranger Came by Train
Character: Johan Gustavsson
An American gangster of Swedish origins returns to his homeland to set up shop as a morality crusader, much in the manner of the later phenomenon of televangelists. While indulging in behind-the-scene shenanigans including rape and murder, the gangster (played by American Clu Gulagher) preaches to large audiences, using mass hypnotism and show-biz razzmatazz to get his message across. The film also features a brief performance by Per Oscarsson, following his highly publicized "retirement" from s...
Miss and Mrs Sweden
Character: Jonne
To increase sales of the magazine Veckohatten, the management decides to invest heavily in the beauty contest Miss Sweden. A communist cell is planning to sabotage the competition, because it is sexist....
Between Us
Character: Per Olofsson
A man lives with his family in a small community. He is seen as a deviant, abnormal person by society....
Bödeln
Character:
"The Hangman" - The events take place in two periods of time. In the Middle Ages a group of men sit and discuss the evil at the tavern. With the hangman close by. 1930s: a dance hall where many people gathered. A jazz orchestra of colored musicians entertain. When the musicians take a break to eat, they are denied this by a Nazi....
Det är hos mig han har varit
Character: Hans
"It's with me he's been" - Li and Hans are colleagues at an advertising agency. Even though Hans is married, they start a relationship. Li hopes that Hans will tell his wife the truth about them and leave her for Li....
Det är hos mig han har varit
Character: Hans Treve
"It's with me he's been" - Li and Hans are colleagues at an advertising agency. Even though Hans is married, they start a relationship. Li hopes that Hans will tell his wife the truth about them and leave her for Li....
Tvingad att leva
Character: Doctor
A writer and his girlfriend are attacked by a homicidal madman....
Möte med livet
Character: Robert
Gun and Robert are in love, but both are unfaithful during Robert's military service. For Gun, this results in her becoming pregnant and for Robert an infection of syphilis....
Stormen
Character: Gonzalo
Set on a remote island, where the sorcerer Prospero, rightful Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place using illusion and skillful manipulation. He conjures up a storm, the eponymous tempest, to cause his usurping brother Antonio and the complicit King Alonso of Naples to believe they are shipwrecked and marooned on the island. There, his machinations bring about the revelation of Antonio's lowly nature, the redemption of the King, and the marriage of Miranda to...
Inferno
Character: August Strindberg
August Strindberg in Paris divorced from his wife, children and friends. In the company of Parisian artists and writers, including Paul Gauguin and Edvard Munch, but often he feel they ridicule and persecute him. Isolated Strindberg venture successfully in alchemical experiments....
Herr Von Hancken
Character: Herr von Hancken
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Vildfåglar
Character: Nisse
"Wild birds" - A Swedish film noir with the character of a French noir ('Quai des brumes', 'Le jour se lève'). Two worlds meet for a brief experience of happiness ended by a violent tragedy. In one world the unhappy prostitute (Ulla) finds a drunken young man (Nisse) who had previously failed in many occupations. She takes him home. Her feelings are like those for a younger brother....
Vargen
Character: Arnold Wolf
The Wolf family reflects the crisis the country is in after suffering war and occupation. A resistance movement takes power after a foreign occupation of Sweden. They aim to regain the capital, Stockholm....
Adam och Eva
Character: Reverend Helge
Eva discovers a contest of an altarpiece. Her husband Adam makes a simple sketch. Adam wins the competition. The success makes Adam famous....
Ondskans år
Character: The Estate Owner
Spring 1944 - shortage of fuel, refugees, antisemitism and Swedish home made nazism. Eleven year old Ragnar grows up in a home where the parents look forward to a Nazi power takeover in Sweden. At his grandmother, Ragnar meets other thoughts and opinions than at home. Karl Gerhard entertains on the radio. As well as Zarah Leander. It's a chaotic and contradictory time for a boy. Ragnar's Nazi parents still hope for a Nazi-German victory in the war....
Kristoffers hus
Character: Kräftan
Kristoffer lives on the verge of poverty, just barely supporting himself on his photographic work and an allowance given him by his ex-wife to support their child. He is staying in his absentee mother's large old house, which she is preparing to sell. When he takes a photograph of a man who died by his own hand, the image fascinates him. He grows obsessed with the dead man's story and pushes his research as far as it will go....
Dagny
Character: August Strindberg
Dagny Juell was the doctors daughter who left Kongsvinger for Berlin to study music, and became famous painter Edvard Munchs mistress and model. Than she ran into August Strindberg. They had a brief affair but after a couple of weeks Dagny left him for Stanisław Przybyszewski....
Bulan
Character: The poet
"The Bump" - A factory worker get a sharp bump on his head after having collided with a lamppost. This incident causes him to leave his square daily life for spontaneous escapades and whims....
Kärlek på turné
Character: Oskar Ölander
"Love on Tour" - A traveling theatre company has arrived at an outdoor stage. They are ready for the rehearsal. But one of the actors is missing....
Leva på 'Hoppet'
Character: Per
A young theater cast transforms with enthusiasm an old freighter into a theater boat....
Story of Small and Large Rabbit
Character: Narrator (voice)
The story of Small and Large Rabbit. Made after a 1925 lithograph by Nils von Dardel....
Chez Nous
Character: Schrenk
A stripper from Club Chez Nous is murdered. The killer contacts a newspaper to whitewash himself. Two journalists start to investigate the case and stumble on other crimes along the way....
The D.T.'s
Character: Guest
An eccentric, offbeat man performing pranks and peculiarities becomes a major concern for the Stockholm authorities. He mingles with bizarre slum characters and dreams of his ideal girl....
En lek på blodigt allvar
Character: Self
Göran Gentele (1917 - 1972) was a Swedish actor, director, and opera manager. He studied at The Royal Dramatic Theatre's acting school 1944-46, followed by acting and directing theatre and film, became artistic director of the Swedish Royal Opera in 1963 and of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City in 1972....
Young Eagles
Character: Young Man (uncredited)
The spoiled Marianne has switched cocktail parties to flight lessons....
Little Big Sister
Character: Dance Judge
The second film of the trilogy, "It is forbidden for children". The family is pushed into depression and the heavy drinking mother Skrubsak does not help....
Doktor Knock
Character: Mousquet
Doctor Knock takes over a medical clinic in a small town and provides a medical revival....
Är du inte riktigt klok?
Character: The Man Without Qualities
Lawyer Hans is having an affair with his secretary Anni and is trying to get his wife to meet another husband. When his wife falls in love with another man, Hans instead becomes jealous and realizes his true love for Ellen....
The Assignment
Character: Sixto
A Swedish diplomat travels to a civil war in a Latin American country. His mission is to mediate between the two extremist groups....
Cross My Heart and Hope to Die
Character: Piano player
A story about a young boy, Otto, whose childhood is brought to an abrupt end when Frank, an older boy, suddenly enters his life....
Da Capo
Character: Eino
Interwoven with scenes that are meant to grab attention by their stunning composition, this biographical look at Finland's violinist Arto Arsi is not so much a narration of his childhood and early years, as an attempt to artistically show what was happening inside his psyche during that time. Literally sold to a master teacher, Sergei Rippas (Tarmo Manni) by his mother when he was still a child, the violin prodigy was forcefully and strictly raised to practice, practice, and perfect his techniqu...
Love Is War
Character: mannen med ønskekvisten
In this film, Norwegian writer, director, cameraman and musician Ragnar Lasse has fashioned an intricate, exquisitely photographed and multilayered examination of the lives, problems and relationships of a father and this two children, a boy and a girl. The story ranges over a wide time period and is covered in multiple flashbacks and from a number of different points of view....
Året var 1966
Character: Self (archive footage)
1966 - when Bob Dylan visits Sweden and Prime Minister Erlander has a difficult time with questions about housing. A special evening at the opera is arranged with Harry Belafonte and Martin Luther King. Esrange is inaugurated and in China the cultural revolution is underway....
Mick Øgendahl: UNDSKYLD!
Character: Gubben
Mick Øgendahl's "cinema comedy show" from his 2006 tour, a hybrid of live stand-up and fiction featuring Kim Bodnia....