Eddie Axberg
Birthday: Born in 1947-07-09 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
Deathday: Alive
TV Credits
Julkalendern
Character: Rimtroll
An annual Swedish Christmas calendar television series....
Svenska tv-historier
Character: Eddie Axberg
Factual series about Swedish television shows that left an impression....
Utvandrarna
Character: Robert
Karl and Kristina Nilsson work on a farm in a cold and desolate area of 19th century rural Sweden. Growing privations, combined with increasing social and religious persecution, motivate the Nilssons and many of their neighbors to strike out for the United States. Following a treacherous ocean crossing and an equally grueling land passage, the emigrants find themselves in seemingly idyllic Minnesota....
Kvällspressen
Character:
The story of the fictional evening newspaper Kvällspressen and the journalists who works at its editorial office in Stockholm....
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Rasmus and the Vagabond
Character: Assistant in the shop
9-year old orphan called Rasmus runs away from the orphanage. He meets a vagabond they call Paradise Oskar who likes to sing and play his accordion. Oskar makes the Rasmus world seem like a better place....
Here Is Your Life
Character: Olof Persson
A working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving through a series of jobs and romances that gradually shape his future....
Modiga mindre män
Character:
Young children have adventures in a fantasy world....
The Emigrants
Character: Robert
Karl and Kristina Nilsson work on a farm in a cold and desolate area of 19th century rural Sweden. Growing privations, combined with increasing social and religious persecution, motivate the Nilssons and many of their neighbors to strike out for the United States. Following a treacherous ocean crossing and an equally grueling land passage, the emigrants find themselves in seemingly idyllic Minnesota....
The New Land
Character: Robert
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....
Peter-No-Tail in Americat
Character: Rat
Peter-No-Tail (Pelle Svanslös) is a cat who was born without a tail. He compensates this by studying hard and, much to the dismay of his arch-rival Magnus (Måns), he receives a fancy university degree very few cats in the university town Uppsala, Sweden have obtained. Peter is visited by his American relative Pelle Swanson who invites him to visit his new home country America - in the movie called Americat. There everything is bigger and everything seems possible....
Loranga, Masarin & Dartanjang
Character: Polismannen
The movie is based on Barbro Lindgrens popular and absurd comical books Loranga, Masarin & Dartanjang (1969) and Loranga, Loranga (1970). The movie is about the worlds greatest dad that loves pop music and refuses to get a job - because who would then play with his son Masarin? Lorangas dad Dartanjang lives in the woodshed to prevent germs from getting to him. But that does not seem to help because he keeps getting sick all the time....
Peter-No-Tail
Character: Den Tjocka Råttan
Peter-No-Tail is a cat who's born without a proper tail on a farm by the Swedish countryside. Due to economical difficulties, the farmer is forced to get rid of Peter. The farmer can't bring himself to drown the cat, so he sneaks Peter inside the car of a family who are renting a house close to the farm for their summer vacation. When the family finally reach their home in Uppsala, Sweden, they find Peter and decide to keep him. Without a tail, he becomes the talk of the town among the other cat...
Wings of Glass
Character:
Nazli is 18, born in Iran, raised in Sweden. She lives with her father Abbas and her older sister Mahin. Nazli, who wants to blend in calls herself Sara. One day Abbas tell her how he sees her future. He is planning a party for their friends and relatives. He also plans to invite two Iranian men, whom he sees as potential husbands for his daughters. Nazli, who has a very good relationship with his father, is appalled. When she meets with her Swedish boyfriend Johan, the situation immediately get...
Klippet
Character: Fimpen
"The Scam" - A truck driver and his job colleagues figures out how to make the smart move, on their many trips to Finland: Tinkering with cargo pallets that can be sold illegal....
SOPOR
Character:
One Monday morning, a thousand children leave the suburb of Farsta and go to Stockholm to occupy the Royal Castle. The children have formed a group called S.O.P.O.R. as a protest against the way adults treat them and have destroyed their future. They demand that the robots in the industry are replaced by humans to create job opportunities. They take the royal family as hostages....
Dog Days
Character: Jan
Somewhere in the archipelago outside Sandhamn lives the barber Assar Gustafsson and his 17-year old daughter Anna-Bella. Out of the blue his wife comes back after five years of absence. She starts up a brothel in their bath house with Anna-Bella as the main attraction, a brothel that attracts various men from all over. The browbeaten Assar starts to make arrangements for his wife's permanent absence....
City of My Dreams
Character: Henning Nilsson
Young Henning and his friends are struggling to stay alive in 19th century Stockholm, where he has ended up in search of employment. In the harsh city, he and his friends dream of the good life while struggling for their survival....
The American Dream
Character: Karl-Erik
The film depicts the events surrounding the last public executions in Sweden....
Christmas Oratorio
Character:
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...
A Guy and a Gal
Character:
Hypochondriac Lasse has finished his education but has trouble finding a job, instead he goes out trying to pick up girls. One morning he meets Lena in the stairwell....
Händerna
Character: Grahn
A newcomer comes to live in the village, it is soon found out that he has a special gift. He can find oil with his hands. But who is he and what does he want from the villagers?...
The Serpent
Character: Delivery boy
During his military service, a man meets a woman who works in the kitchen at the camp and they start a relationship. When the man is out on combat exercises, he becomes a witness to his Sergeant being paralyzed by a snake....
The Children of Noisy Village
Character: Fotografen (uncredited)
The story of the children who live in Bullerbyn, Sweden, through the spring and summer months....
Life on Seacrow Island
Character: Kalle
A writer spends the summer holidays with his children on an island. The family grows together through friendships with humans and animals and through adventures....
The Brig Three Lilies
Character: Mickel Mickelsson
On the coast of Sweden in 1888, a 12-year-old orphan finds adventure and new hope that his missing father survived a shipwreck years before....
To Paint With Pictures
Character: Self
Documentary about the making of Swedish film director Jan Troell's "The New Land" (1971) and "The Emigrants" (1972)....
Profeten i Pajala
Character: Aslak
Lars Levi Laestadius (1800-1861), founded a Lutheran revival movement in the early 19th century in the north parts of Sweden. It had tremendous impact on local people and the followers increased rapidly. Puritanism and suffering went hand in hand on the narrow road to the kingdom of heaven....
Mot härliga tider
Character: Svempa
The summer holiday has begun. Jackie suddenly decides to go visit her old love Calle in the archipelago. She persuades her friend Vanja to come along. When Calle arrives to island he is not alone. His partner Yvonne, also his boss at the fashion company owned by Yvonne's father, accompanies Calle. Who, by the way, has changed his name to Carl-Adam. Problems arise....
To Be a Millionaire
Character: Jens Fors
The terrorist Fors arrested after an attack on a OPEC meeting. Shortly afterwards town minister's daughter gets kidnapped by two men who require Fors be released and that he will flight phase to Albania. SÄPO agent Olsson will handle the case....
Come on Roland!
Character: Sten Hansson
In this absurdist comedy Roland Jung is a young man who wants to write, but when he is in desperate need of money, he has to take a job at an advertising agency in Stockholm. He lands on the department for cosmetics and especially deodorant preparations. He is asked by the agency to do market research among the youth to determine their reaction to a new drug against pimples....
The Last Sentence
Character: Handyman
Renowned journalist Torgny Segerstedt declares war against Hitler as he criticizes Swedish politicians who tried to look away from the tyranny of the Nazis with the good excuse of “neutralism”. His only weapon is his pen and his life is full of gossip such as an affair with his boss’ wife, a love scandal with a secretary younger than his daughter, and the suicide of his wife. However, he continues to fight a one man battle against Hitler and the Nazi regime until his death, throwing the question...
Everlasting Moments
Character: Worker #3
In a time of social change and unrest, war and poverty, a young working class woman, Maria, wins a camera in a lottery. The decision to keep it alters her whole life....
All it Takes is a Miracle
Character: Georg
He refuses to accept charity and he does his morning exercise, he makes a living collecting cans and exists without a home, personal number or social control. In itself quite an achievement in today’s Sweden. The film is about this man getting one last chance as he unexpectedly receives a large amount of money. About his path to reconciliation with the people he thinks he let down thirty years ago. It’s a journey filled with temptation and ambivalence. But also one about an important friendship ...
BlackJack
Character: Man Who Makes a Bet (uncredited)
Kaj, Lennart and Robert are 30-somethings who go out to dance every weekend. At one dance they meet Inger, whom Kaj falls in love with. Kaj has some friends who are playing in a band. The drummer Tommy is known for being the local Casanova, seducing women when ever he gets the chance. It doesn't take him long to have an affair with Inger, behind Kaj's back....
Filmstaden
Character:
'Filmstaden', a film studio in Stockholm where directors Victor Sjöström, Mauritz Stiller, Ingmar Bergman among others worked - as well as many prominent actors - was built 1919-1920. This documentary tells its rich history featuring many of the people involved....
Play Off
Character: Bailiff
Johan is a 35 year old soccer fan, unemployed but living by his wits and charm. During the Soccer World Championships in 1990 all Swedes want to follow the games, including Johan who doesn't own a TV set. He gets himself invited to friends or goes to bars to see matches. He is pursued by two hit men, as he owes money for a grand piano he was supposed to sell. Johan seeks the help of down-and-out Kenneth to avoid bodily harm. Kenneth arranges for Johan to smuggle 15 Iraqi from Frankfurt to Sweden...
The Twelve Months of the Summer
Character: Kalle Maraton
Roger and Lars are family men who live a life as a traveling construction workers on large sites worldwide. They are offered a very generous contract they can't turn down. One-years work for a ten year salary. All they have to do is sign and honor the contract. But they don't know where they are going or what they are supposed to build. Blindfolded they are brought to a place with summer the year round. At this strange place they meet fellow workers. Together, they realize that there is somethin...
Porträtt av en stad
Character: Unemplyed youngster
The author Per Anders Fogelström walks around in Vita Bergen, the south part of Stockholm and tells us about Anna Charlotta's life at the turn of the century. She is taken care of at the Shelter in the old ore farm outside of Vita Bergen....
Jakten på en mördare
Character: Harry
A murder of a man seems to be affiliated with the police themselves. A curse of lies, betrayal and prostitution begins to emerge and affects the relationship between everyone in the team....
Winter Light
Character: Johan Strand (uncredited)
A Swedish pastor fails a loving woman, a suicidal fisherman and God....
P & B
Character: Petrol station owner
Pettersson and Bendel are both worn, run-down and broke. Despite this they decide to start a business and become rich. Unexperienced they are open to any deal. They tamper, scam and exploit loopholes that exist....
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....