Ingvar Hirdwall
Birthday: Born in 1934-12-05 in Stockholm, Sweden
Deathday: 2023-04-06
Ingvar Hirdwall (December 5, 1934 – April 6, 2023) was born in Stockholm, and was educated at Gothenburg City Theatre stage school 1957-1960. Since the early 1960s until his death he has been active as an actor in many films, TV series and on theatrical stages, mainly Stockholms stadsteater. He is well known in Sweden, was often portraying obstinate or strange characters, like the eccentric neighbor in the many Swedish Martin Beck TV-movies made from 1997 on. He was also often in director Lars Molin's productions. In December 1993, Hirdwall played the leading role in the Swedish TV company SVT's annual children's Christmas “Advent calendar” - Tomtemaskinen (The mechanical santa), one of the Pettson and Findus stories by Sven Nordqvist - with one 15-minute part shown each day up until Christmas Eve. Hirdwall played the character of Pettson. Hirdwall received the Swedish Guldbagge Award for Best Actor at the 17th Guldbagge Awards for Barnens ö (Children's Island) and the Thaliapriset prize in 1993. Hirdwall was married to the actress Marika Lindström. They have two children, director Jacob Hirdwall and actress Agnes Hirdwall.
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Skärgårdsdoktorn
Character: Ewe Tannander
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....
August Strindberg: Ett liv
Character: Läraren
A mini-series about the life of Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter, August Strindberg. He is portrayed as a misogynous, selfish and racial. And he loses everything, for the sake of the art....
Beck
Character: Grannen
Beck follows Swedish police officer Martin Beck and his team as they investigate various crimes....
Julkalendern
Character: Pettson
An annual Swedish Christmas calendar television series....
Tre kärlekar
Character: Egon Nilsson
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Ivar Kreuger
Character: Statsminister Ekman
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Kejsarn av Portugallien
Character: Jan
A Swedish farmer gets crazy and imagines that his daughter has become emperor of Portugallien and he himself emperor....
Tomtemaskinen
Character: Pettson
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Wallander
Character: Lundberg
Wallander is a Swedish television series adapted from Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander novels and starring Krister Henriksson in the title role. The 1st series of 13 films was produced in 2005 and 2006, with one taken directly from a novel and the remainder with new storylines suggested by Mankell. The 2nd series of 13 films was shown between 2009 and 2010. The stories are set in Ystad near the southern tip of Sweden. The three films Before the Frost, Mastermind, and The Secret were premiered i...
Drottning Kristina
Character: Axel Oxenstierna
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Kvällspressen
Character: Sockander, chefredaktör
The story of the fictional evening newspaper Kvällspressen and the journalists who works at its editorial office in Stockholm....
Babels hus
Character: Bernt Svensson, Primus son
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Zonen
Character: Erik Lagerlöf
The Military evacuates a zone in the Lapland mountains, under the pretext that there is an ongoing exercise. The district doctor gets suspicious when one of his patients, who lived inside the zone, suddenly dies. The body disappears without a trace....
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Miffo
Character: Karl Henrik
Tobias is the new, idealistic priest in a suburb but he soon learns that his flock is quite uninterested in Christianity. However, he befriends Carolina, a chain smoking woman his age, wheelchair-bound since birth. It is opposites attract although their backgrounds are different....
Beck 08 - Trails in Darkness
Character: Grannen
A serial killer that decapitates people is on the loose in the Stockholm subway. Martin Beck and his colleagues try to catch the killer, while the panic in the city increases....
Daybreak
Character: Knut
Sweden, shortly before Christmas. Surgeon Rickard is told the job he expected goes to a Dane, because of his substance abuse. It's too late to cancel dinner with his in-laws. The guest couple announces their in-vitro is a success. Then Richard's wife learns he cheated her with Sofie. Meanwhile ugly hag Anita trades drugs to afford a taser to use on her ex Olof and his former physiotherapist. Workaholic builder Anders is disgusted by his grieve-deranged client Knut's plan and decides to spend tim...
Man on the Roof
Character: Åke Eriksson
Detective Martin Beck investigates the grisly murder of a police Lieutenant in his hospital room, he soon realises the urgency of the case when it turns out the killer may hold a hatred for all policemen....
The Miracle in Valby
Character: Petra's Father
14 year old Sven is a technical genius, who has rebuilt an old caravan into a radio communication center. Via radio he is in contact with his father, who works at a big ship at the other side of the globe. One day the radio communication is suddenly interrupted by something which sounds like a Latin mass. In school Sven attends a lesson about radio-astronomy. The teacher explains that astronomers can receive radio waves that are thousand years old. Sven understands that the Latin mass he heard w...
Deadline Torp
Character: Birger Johansen
On September 28th, 1994, two Swedish men robbed a bank in the small Norwegian town of Larvik. Soon, with a massive police hunt underway, the robbers ended up taking two civilians and two police officers hostage. Next morning the drama would come to a deadly halt at nearby Torp Airport, where for the first time in history, a Norwegian police chief was forced to give the order to shoot to kill....
The Potato Seller
Character: Johansson
In this Swedish TV drama, a once-kittenish young woman has become a fortyish spinster, still helping her widowed father on the family farm. Marta drives tractors, does the planting and harvesting, and helps to maintain the property. Meanwhile her father Johansson worries and wonders if his aging daughter will ever find a man to marry her. Into this tense situation comes Sture, the potato seller,,,...
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Character: Dirch Frode
Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker. In the opening of the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged publisher for the magazine Millennium, loses a libel case brought by corrupt Swedish industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström. Nevertheless, he is hired by Henrik Vanger in order to solve a cold case, the disappearance of Vanger's niece...
Raven's End
Character: Sixten
In 1936 Sweden, a teenager drifts through life in his small town, hoping that a novel about the neighborhood he grew up and lives in will reverse the fortunes of his family....
Beck 44 - Rage Room
Character: Grannen
A man is found brutally murdered at a running track in the woods. At the same time, Josef resumes the relationship with a former girlfriend from school, Cissi, whose father recently died of a sudden heart attack during a robbery. Josef goes against Alex's directive and begins an unofficial investigation into Cissi's father's death, which puts him in a complicated conflict situation....
Beck 43 - Haunted by the Past
Character: Grannen
A body is found in the water near Liljeholmen. The body belongs to a 39-year-old Danish citizen with a solid criminal record and who was a member of a notorious Danish drug gang. Should the Beck Group get a gang war on their necks? Martin Beck is back to the joy of the entire Beck group. Martin's daughter Inger is not as happy but has to accept her father's decision to start working again....
Beck 45 - 58 Minutes
Character: Grannen
Alex Beijer will be on morning TV where the entrepreneur Tomas Tormalm will also participate. But in the middle of a live broadcast, an armed man appears and threatens Tormalm and suddenly everyone in the TV studio is drawn into a hostage drama. For the Beck group, a fight against the clock is now beginning to free the hostages, where one of their own is included. Beck - 58 minutes is the 45th film in the series with Peter Haber....
Beck 46 - The Crying Cop
Character: Grannen
The police is under heavy media pressure after fatally shooting a 14-year-old boy. A demonstration against the violence gets out of hand and the police have to take further blame....
The Individual Citizen
Character: Gunnar Bergström
Insurance Director Stig Roxby is worth a hundred times more than an ordinary high school teacher. But he doesn't think that's enough, but sees himself forced to work with four other director colleagues to lift the bonus cap to be even more valuable. After some complications, Stig Roxby realize the brutal truth: he has everything but the essentials......
The Tattooed Widow
Character: Egon Andersson
Ester is the perfect grandmother everyone expects her to be. But she unexpectedly inherits an old aunt and gets a big apartment and a lot of money. She decides to leave her husband, children and grandchildren to start her life over. Before long, she has four men who court her and she feels young once again....
Kent - ett porträtt av Kent Andersson
Character: Self
Documentary about actor and writer Kent Andersson for his 70th birthday....
Children's Island
Character: Stig Utler
Reine is supposed to go to a summer camp called Children's Island but decides to remain in Stockholm over the summer while his mother is working at a hospital. She thinks he is at the camp, and he tells her he is. We then follow him around Stockholm that summer and see what he encounters on the path of life....
Offside
Character: Boston
In the sleepy town of Stensfors, the soccer team used to be something to be proud of , playing in the national league 30 years ago. Now the team will be dissolved if it can't win the rest of the games in the local league. Team member Kent goes on a business trip to Liverpool and meet Duncan Miller, the premier league football star of the 1980s who promises to come over to Sweden and play a few games just for fun. Unfortunately, when he arrives it is obvious that their saviour is both an alcoholi...
Like It Never Was Before
Character: Strange Man
The Runeberg family is an ordinary middle class family, with a house in a suburb, a car and three children. By vacationing in a rented house by the sea, the hope is that the tension and anxiety between Rune and Gunnel will disappear. However, instead of spending time with his family, Rune finds himself attracted to a young man, Petrus. Whatever happens next, Rune realizes, it can never be like it was before....
The Man from Majorca
Character: Fors
In the aftermath of a daring post office robbery on Saint Lucy's Day, two Stockholm vice cops venture into a world of corruption, cover-ups and murder that takes them from the dirty streets to government officials....
Mouth to Mouth
Character: Mats's father John
The teenage girl Vera left her family after an incident at home, and is now living with a middle-aged drug addict, Morgan, who is using her as a prostitute to get money for drugs and debts. Meanwhile, the rest of her family is falling apart, and her father, Mats, is trying to figure out how to get her back before it's too late....
Pelikanen
Character:
It has just been a funeral when the daughter and son-in-law return from their honeymoon. Now the house is haunted. The empty rocking chair rocks, the doors slam, the paintings fall down and papers fly through the room. In the chiffonier's maple compartment is found a letter from the dead father. This letter is hidden again, rediscovered and finally torn up. The despairing, frozen and coughing son does not give up. He drills his way to the truth. It hits hard right up until the final catastrophe,...
Flotten
Character: Freddy
A play about a group of people drifting on the raft Sweden towards the Island of Bliss...
Beck 22 - The Weak Link
Character: Grannen
A teenage girl is found by her parents brutally raped and murdered in the woods. It's now up to Beck and his team to catch the criminal....
Beck 09 - The Price of Vengeance
Character: Grannen
Two patrolling cops stumble on to three criminals who have just stolen large amounts of explosives, and are killed in cold blood. Martin Beck and his team must now work day and night to find out who the killers are and what they are planning to do with the explosives before it's too late. Meanwhile, Gunvald Larsson who was a close friend of one of the murdered cops is ignoring all rules in his quest for revenge....
Beck 26 - Buried Alive
Character: Grannen
In a playground in the centre of the urban idyll, the police find a buried wooden box containing a famous and well-respected prosecutor. Martin Beck and his police team initially suspect a highly criminal MC-leader of the attack, but one pretty soon has to re-evaluate the case once the MC-leader is found murdered in a similar wooden box. Soon, more wooden boxes are found and the police realize that they are part of a cat and mouse game with a crazy serial killer. The investigation soon shows tha...
Beck 16 - The Last Witness
Character: Grannen
A series of grisly murders where the victims faces have been removed by acid starts to turn up around Stockholm. Detective Martin Beck and Gunvald Larsson are once again drawn into the darkness....
Let's Play House
Character: Roland
Married Jonny meets married Rebecka....
Beck 17 - The Scorpion
Character: Grannen
An abused woman is feverishly sought by police in the murder of her ex-husband but is being hidden by abused woman-advocates. At the same time, Gunvald Larsson discovers a police report that his long-estranged sister has been abused. He confronts her with his knowledge but she denies it....
Beck 25 - The Eye of the Storm
Character: Grannen
When the charred remains of woman are found, Säpo, the Swedish Security Services, suspect Gunvald Larsson of being mixed up in her murder. The dead woman was wanted internationally and a member of a group of militant eco-activists carrying out attacks around the world. Gunvald sets out on his own to find the woman's murderer, with Säpo on his heels. Martin Beck is ordered to arrest Gunvald and his loyalty to his colleague is now put to the test....
1939
Character: Annika's father
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...
The Secret
Character: Self
Carl-Ivar Nilsson was an actor in the series "Hem till byn", but he carried a big secret that was revealed to a shocked family 1985....
Christmas Oratorio
Character: Edman
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...
Midvinterduell
Character: Egon
The film depicts a stubborn farmer who refuses to adapt to new rules that require him to leave his milk on the village common milk stool instead of his own....
Wallander: The Troubled Man
Character: Lundberg
Wallander has become a grandfather and is trying to seize the role as good as it goes because he wants to be closer to his daughter Linda and her family. When Linda's father-in-law mysteriously disappears, Wallander is drawn into the case that takes him back in time to the Cold War and the submarine violations in the Stockholm archipelago. At the same time, he's starting to suspect that something is not right with him......
Hemmet
Character:
A satire of the welfare society showing the mechanical nature of the elderly care....
Sandlådan
Character:
What will happen to the kids in the sandbox? The ones digging in the same sand, how will they live with each other?...
Beck 33 - End of the Road
Character: Grannen
Three brutal murders are committed in a house in a quiet suburb. The victims are a former police officer, his wife and their 10 year old son. The Beck group takes on the case and find that there is a hidden security room in the victims’ house, containing stolen weapons. They find fingerprints from a criminal who was involved in a robbery 4 years ago. After the robbery, he shot his accomplices and disappeared without a trace, along with their haul of 6.3 million. The question is how the former p...
Beck 11 - The Cartel
Character: Grannen
It's a dark night in Stockholm. A chef is murdered in his own kitchen and Martin Beck gets on the case....
Beck 12 - The Loner
Character: Grannen
An Asian woman is found dead in the water of Stockholm's archipelago. She has been murdered and everything indicates that she was a prostitute. Meanwhile a series of break-ins has occurred on an island outside of Stockholm. Suddenly a retired old man is also found dead in his own yard. Now Beck has two cases to solve and they both point in the same direction....
Beck 18 - The Girl in the Root Cellar
Character: Grannen
A small girl is found dead in a deserted underground cellar. She has been dead for some time but there is fresh food for her. Who is she?...
Beck 15 - The Boy in the Glass Ball
Character: Grannen
Mother of an autistic boy is found murdered in her home. The boy holds the murder weapon, covered in blood.....
Beck 24 - In the Name of God
Character: Grannen
A paparazzi photographer gets brutally murdered in Stockholm. His apartment is searched and the computer together with photo equipment is missing....
Beck 21 - The Japanese Painting
Character: Grannen
After a woman buys a Japanese shunga painting from an auction and later is found murdered in a hotel in Stockholm, the police gets dragged into a murder investigation where they meet the dark side of the art world....
Beck 13 - Sender Unknown
Character: The Neighbor
Martin Beck, Gunvald Larsson and Alice Levander investigate the mysterious murder of an accountant that was found shot to death at the airport parking. At the same time a reporter receives a package from an anonymous source, with information regarding the embezzling of funds that should have been used for fixing up nuclear reactors. When the reporter contacts Beck, his home gets blown up by a bomb....
Beck 47 - The Death Trap
Character: Grannen
Police trainee Vilhelm Beck is out on an internship with his supervisor when, during a routine burglary case, he finds a dead 17-year-old boy at the scene of the crime....
Beck 49 - Inferno
Character: Grannen
Nothing is the way it should be in the Beck group. Josef is suspended, pending an internal investigation. Klas Fredén offers to help Josef. But nothing in life is free....
Beck 48 - Quid Pro Quo
Character: Grannen
A man is found dead at a flea market in southern Stockholm. It looks like an ordinary robbery gone wrong, but the investigation takes an unexpected turn....
Beck 50 - Deadlock
Character: Grannen
The Beck group is called out to investigate the brutal murder of a man in his own house and Vilhelm, Beck's grandson, ends up being kidnapped....
Beck 05 - The Boarding House Pearl
Character: The Neighbor
Inspector Beck and his team get involved in a large-scale smuggling of cesium 133. A gang from the east uses refugees who with a promise to stay in Sweden and with danger to their own life take in the dangerous explosive chemical substance....
Beck 03 - White Nights
Character: The Neighbor
When the police reveal a narcotic smuggling the driver is shot dead. It appears that the driver is Superintendent Martin Beck's son. Beck breaks down and moves out of the way. But on his colleagues request he returns....
Beck 04 - Eye for an Eye
Character: The Neighbor
In this film Beck and his team are trying to find a serial killer, whose victims are spread all over Sweden. An obvious connection is that all the victims are women, and they were all in the same class, and Beck thinks that a scandal back in the past has something to do with the murders. But no one wants to talk about the past and it becomes a struggle to find the perpetrator before the final murder - only one woman is still alive....
Miraklet i Viskan
Character: Halvar
Bjarne runs a moving company with his wife Malin, but it is shaky and they need to borrow money. Across the river lives Bjarnes father Halvar. The two have never pulled evenly, which stems from a 20-year conflict filled with idle words, grumpy pride and stubborn prestige. In order to rescue the firm Malin sees no alternative but to go across the river to ask Halvar to cater for the loan. A decision that will have unexpected consequences....
Beck 29 - Invasion
Character: Grannen
The bodies of two buried men are found and despite persistent attempts, they cannot be identified. When another man is murdered they discover new evidence that soon leads them to an Islamist terrorist cell....
Beck 30 - The Hospital Murders
Character: Grannen
An elderly woman dies in a hospital in Stockholm and it turns out that she suffered from an incurable disease. Her son refuses to believe that it was the disease that was the primary cause of her death....
Beck 27 - Room 302
Character: Valdemar
The body of a young woman is found in a Stockholm hotel room. It appears that she has been strangled after a night partying with two young men, but the room was paid for using the credit card of a mugging victim whose alibi doesn't add up. Martin and Gunvald investigate under the supervision of their new boss Klas Freden....
Beck 28 - The Family
Character: Grannen
When a well-known crime boss is murdered by a sniper in front of his family, Beck and his team are challenged to discover which one of his many enemies could be responsible for the crime....
För vänskaps skull
Character:
A young woman gets tired of society's patriarchal order and women's sexual bondage....
Ivar Kreuger
Character:
Ivar Kreuger was a businessman who influenced a whole world and whose fate is still shrouded in mystery....
Beck 32 - Steinar
Character: Grannen
An unidentified body is found in the remains left after a fire in a trailer at a run-down caravan park. The owner of the trailer, a young drug-addicted woman, is missing, but is she really the victim? And what role has the so-called neighbourhood watch from the nearby community played? The case is difficult to solve, with everyone involved guarding their secrets, regardless of social class. Furthermore, police supervisor Klas Fredén decides to go over Martin Beck’s head and recruit charismatic,...
Beck: The Last Day
Character: Grannen
Two traffic officers on a quiet morning shift try to stop a car for speeding. When the car finally pulls over, the driver gets out and shoots at them, killing one of the officers in cold blood. A national alert is issued and an extensive search for the ruthless killer begins, with the Beck group at the lead. Neither the officer’s shocked and wounded colleague nor any of the witnesses have seen anything helpful to the police. Finally, they find the car registration number using a surveillance ca...
Beck 01 - The Decoy Boy
Character: Grannen
A man working at a garbage incinerator discovers the body of a dead man burned to ashes in the oven. Police detective Martin Beck handles the case. All he knows is that a brutal murder has happened. But he does not know when or where. He has no body, motive or a crime scene, not a single trace. All he has is some teeth and a mysterious Internet address......
Beck - The Man with the Icons
Character: Grannen
Beck and his men investigates a murder of a Russian woman. At the same time as SÄPO (The Swedish Security Agency) sees a chance of getting a Russian in the embassy deported....
Kunglig toilette
Character: Restaurateur
The King is about to visit a small town, and everyone is excited to prepare for the event. Everyone but Egon Karlsson, vice municipal commissioner and and member of the Republican Association....
Tartuffe - hycklaren
Character: The king
Tartuffe is a cheeky cheater and traitor who succeeds in fooling and terrorizing Orgon and his family....
The Caretaker
Character: Davies
Mick and his brother Aston live alone together in a West London house until one night Aston brings home Davies, who just left his job as a kitchen helper at a restaurant. The old man proves to be a violent, selfish bigot, uncharitable himself but quick to exploit the kindness of others....
My Love Is Like a Rose
Character: Pajen
A middle aged doctor begins a relationship with a teenage girl. His best friend is dating the girls mother. A group of boys plan to blackmail the doctor or expose him as a pedophile....
Trängningen
Character: Fredriksson
Youth criminals Fredriksson and Bergström are taken to the police station on suspicion of robbery and manslaughter. Fredriksson breaks down immediately and he acknowledges his guilt for what he has done. But the police also would like him to admit to something he did not do. Bergström is not possible to crack. He succeeds without difficulty to manipulate his environment and his psychopathic traits becomes even clearer as the hearing progress....
A Kind of Hades
Character: The old man
About the individuals who live in a mad-house. This kind of people usually seem to be quite normal. However, from one scene to another they may dramatically change, thereby revealing their deep problems with themselves and the society they cannot live in anymore....
Beck 35 - Your Own Blood
Character: Grannen
A man is beaten to death in the Middle East. In Stockholm, a young woman disappears on her way home from work. These two events will prove to be related. Since Martin Beck has quit, Steinar Hovland leads the search for the missing girl. But Martin is drawn into the case when he decides to help the national Security Police investigate a suspected terrorist. They soon realize that they are in a race against time to stop a catastrophe....
Beck 36 - The Thin Ice
Character: Grannen
Simon Lindström, the popular coach of a suburban junior hockey team is found stabbed to death. Does the murder have something to do with his side project: teaching unaccompanied refugee children to ice skate? This undertaking has certainly not been appreciated by everyone in their small, sheltered community. Martin Beck, who has returned in a more senior position, struggles to find a replacement for the temporary head of the group, Steinar Hovland. But the Norwegian is becoming more and more int...
Beck 37 - Without Intent
Character: Grannen
The Beck group, with Alex Beijer as new group manager, is given a case where a 12-year-old girl found her mother dead below the stairs at home. Is it an accident or would someone have the single mother something bad? It turns out that the family lives with a protected identity and during the investigation, the case takes several surprising twists....
Gustav III
Character: Horn
Based on play by famous swedish author/playwright August Strindberg adapted for swedish TV in 70's. It's about the real life assassination on swedish king Gustav III who was killed by a lieutenant Jacob Johan Anckarström who acted on behalf of a group conspirators....
Beck 38 - The Devil's Advocate
Character: Grannen
The murder of a restaurant owner who is gunned down in front of a diner full of customers has unexpected repercussions for Alex, whose brother, Paul, represented two men expected of involvement in the killing. Meanwhile, Steinar, amidst tension with Alex and the breakdown of his marriage, accepts the offer of a transfer from Klas....
Onkel Vanja
Character: Teljegin
A retired professor has returned to his estate to live with his beautiful young wife, Yelena. The estate originally belonged to his first wife, now deceased; her mother and brother still live there and manage the farm....
En kvinnas huvud
Character: Düber
"Th Head of a Woman" - "In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. (Mr. Dumby, Act III)" - Oscar Wilde....
Ondskans år
Character: Dr. Herbert Ahlström
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....
Beck 31 - Gunvald
Character: Grannen
An investigative journalist is found beaten to death in his home, where the fingerprints of a notorious criminal debt collector are also found. The murdered journalist has been threatened by right wing extremists, but it is the victim’s work with a book about “society’s dark side” that captures the Beck group’s interest. When the case takes an unexpected and terrible turn, there is suddenly much more at stake than finding the journalist’s killer. Martin Beck and his colleagues have never had to...
A Dream Play
Character: Affischören
"A Dream Play" - Agnes, a daughter of the Vedic god Indra, descends to Earth to bear witness to problems of human beings. She meets about 40 symbolical characters....
Fläskfarmen
Character: Monty
A bunch of homeless people becomes interested in a rehab facility for alcoholics, run by a religious foundation. They think it will be an easy and comfortable stay/cure to sober up and get fat. But they don't know what they are getting themselves into. The staff at the foundation are very eager to treat the newcomers....
Honungsvargar
Character: Axel
"Honey Wolves" - The young girl Mignon spend her life within art circles and among the quasi-intellectuals....
Dom unga örnarna
Character: Gunnar Grävmo
Five men with roots in a political youth organization reunite after 30 years for a collective manifestation/celebration march through the forest....
KvällsPressen
Character: Sockander
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Rikedom
Character: John
Johan enjoys the autumn work in the small park in his hometown, but he is worried ......
Beck 23 - The Silent Scream
Character: Grannen
Two young girls are killed on railway by a passing train. It does not seem to fit the profile of a normal suicide. So if this is a double homicide who would do this and why? Martin Beck and his team start following the step backwards in order to figure out what has happened. With good and intensive police work they find man side trails from the main path....
Beck 19 - The Vulture
Character: Grannen
Swedish politician John Veden vanishes without a trace. There's no hint he's dead yet but Beck's team gets the case due to Police Chief Oberg's friendship with the man whom she dined with him the evening before he vanished. When they find out Veden was a gambler with heavy debts battling his addiction the case leads Martin Beck, Gunvald Larsson and freshly returned Lena Klingström into Sweden's illegal gambling scene. And Veden was planning to expose his own addiction and his party's huge financ...
Beck 06 - The Monster
Character: Grannen
A bomb threat is called in to a police station in Stockholm. The police bomb squad blows the briefcase to pieces and it looks like false alarm, until a baby is found inside. Soon, e-mails are sent out to every newspaper about the nasty situation that the police had tried to keep secret. Will the police ever overcome the "Monster"?...
Beck 07 - The Money Man
Character: Grannen
A homosexual police officer's double life is paid by Becks archenemy, Gavling. A man who runs Stockholm's underworld. In return have the homosexual police, been serving Gavling with secret information from the archive of the police authorities. Written...
Beck 20 - The Lawyer
Character: Grannen
The murder of a prominent attorney is connected to one of his recent cases, in which a company was being sued for serious environmental damage. Martin Beck and Lena Klingström find evidence which brings new light to the investigation - but who's pulling the strings?...
Beck 10 - The Man Without a Face
Character: Grannen
A man is found dead, stabbed to death with a knife. The chocking thing is that his face has been removed. After questioning his wife who described the marriage as happy also told that a mysterious foreign man knocked on their door the day before the murder. Beck and his men are given the case....
Jackpot
Character: Sven
A TV movie about Kurre, a moving company and dirty money....
Beck 39 - Undercover
Character: Grannen
A young gang member is found dead, and the Beck group's investigation indicates that a drug network is behind it. Klas Fredén has been monitoring the network for a long time, and the Beck group - led by Alex Beijer - is most graciously allowed to work with the murder investigation in parallel. She will soon end up on a collision course with Fredén. Thus, Martin Beck, who is now head of department, is also involved in the case....
Beck 41 - Death in Samarra
Character: Grannen
A candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize is brutally stabbed to death in central Stockholm just after a meeting with two lawyers from the war tribunal in The Hague. One of the witnesses worked with Alex when she was in the Middle East....
Beck - Den förlorade sonen
Character: Grannen
A jawbone is found in the middle of the forest. When the rest of the body is found, it turns out that it has just recently been moved and belongs to Viktor Eklund, who has been missing for five years....
Beck 40 - Beyond Reasonable Doubt
Character: Grannen
During a police intervention, a macabre discovery is made in the trunk of a car. Josef and Oskar find themselves in the line of fire of a seemingly cold-blooded killer. But things are not what they seem....
Beck 14 - The Advertising Man
Character: Grannen
A man is raping women after having met them through ads on public noticeboards. At first this seems like an easy crime to solve for Martin Beck and his colleagues but they soon discover that somebody's motivations are far more complex....
Beck - bakom kulisserna
Character: Grannen (archive footage)
In the documentary Beck: Behind the Scenes we get an exclusive insight into the production of the latest Beck films (51 and 52). Here we are taken on a journey through the recordings and the technical details behind each film. We also meet the main actors who talk about their time in the Beck group....