Sven Wollter
Birthday: Born in 1934-01-11 in Gothenburg, Sweden
Deathday: 2020-11-10
Sven Justus Fredrik Wollter (11 January 1934 – 10 November 2020) was a Swedish actor, writer, and political activist. Wollter is one of the most renowned Swedish actors, he was awarded Best Swedish actor twice. In his native country, he became widely known through his role as Madame Flod's son Gusten in Swedish Television's adaption of The People of Hemsö by August Strindberg in 1966. Later he had several notable roles, including in 1976 when he played Detective Sergeant Lennart Kollberg in Bo Widerberg's film The Man on the Roof. For international viewers, he is best known for his role Victor in the dramatic film The Sacrifice by Andrei Tarkovsky, and for a wider television audience as the retired Detective Chief Inspector Van Veeteren in the cinematic adaptations of Håkan Nesser's police novels.
TV Credits
Renées brygga
Character: Himself
TV presenter invites Swedish celebrities and interesting personalities to her summer island in the Stockholm Archipelago for an evening filled with food, drink, laughs and emotion. She interviews her guests about their career, life and dreams, trying to learn new things about them....
Svensson, Svensson
Character:
Svensson, Svensson is a Swedish sitcom. It has also been made into a feature film and a play. Two seasons consisting of 12 episodes each were broadcast in the autumn of 1994 and the autumn of 1996. They have since been repeated numerous times. The series was revived for a third season in 2007. Svensson, Svensson is one of the most successful sitcoms in Swedish television history. During the second season, each episode gathered more than 2.5 million viewers, in a country which at the time had a...
Min sanning
Character: Self
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Så ska det låta
Character: Self
Så ska det låta is a Swedish game show, based on the Irish The Lyrics Board. The show was introduced in 1997 and led by Peter Harryson until Peter Settman took over in 2006. Så ska det låta can be watched online at svt play for approximately one month after airing....
Raskens
Character: Gustaf Karlsson (Rask)
The year is 1872. After being to drunk the stooge Gustaf Karlsson hits his master. To avoid sentence he enlists to the army and get the name Rask. He meet his future wife and we then get to follow his life together with his wife and their children in the 19th century Småland (Sweden). Their subsistence features happiness, but also by horrible tragedies....
På spåret
Character: Tävlande
På spåret is a popular Swedish TV game show broadcast on SVT since September 5, 1987. The show, which is intended to be humorous yet educational, has remained one of the most popular TV shows in Sweden, attracting an average of 2,150,000 viewers during the 2007 season. The all-time record was set in March 1990, when 3.7 million people tuned in to see the show. This means that nearly every second Swede saw the game show. På spåret is an original format developed by Ingvar Oldsberg for SVT, and h...
Julkalendern
Character: Perols Erik
An annual Swedish Christmas calendar television series....
Kallocain
Character: Leo Kall
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....
Ivar Kreuger
Character: Häradshövding Wallenberg
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Hjerteflimmer
Character: Olof
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Hemsöborna
Character: Gusten
Carlsson arrives at the widow Flod's farm in the Stockholm archipelago to help in the running of it. He is met with resistance by the widow's jealous son Gusten who is more interested in fishing than farming. When it is decided to hire out some houses for summer guests from the city the equilibrium is disturbed....
Återkomsten
Character: Van Veeteren
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Profitörerna
Character: Jarnebring
Two crime detectives are handled a tricky case to investigate. A prostitute has been brutally murdered in her studio. The landlord runs a brothel....
Mördare utan ansikte
Character: Rydberg
It is winter on the plains of Skåne coast. Farmer woken gets up and goes over to the neighboring farm. The sight that meets him is terrible. His neighbor John Lövgren lying on the floor with broken face. His wife Mary is sitting on a chair with a noose around his neck and her nightgown nersölat of blood. Before she dies in the hospital, she has time to say a word as soon leak out into the media, "Foreign" Inspector Kurt Wallander in Ystad police leading the investigation will soon receive anony...
Charlotte Löwensköld och Anna Svärd
Character: Schagerström, brukspatron
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Kvinna med födelsemärke
Character: Van Veeteren
Swedish miniseries...
Sally
Character: Roffe Santesson
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Dieselråttor och Sjömansmöss
Character: Mäster Estragon
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Van Veeteren
Character: Van Veeteren
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Strandvaskeren
Character: Sallberg
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Mästaren
Character: Self
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Movie Credits
Trigger
Character: Lasse
A warm, dramatic story about eleven-year-old Alise's encounter with a wild horse on the run....
Man on the Roof
Character: Lennart Kollberg
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....
House of Angels
Character: Axel Flogfält
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....
I Am Curious (Yellow)
Character: Captain (uncredited)
Lena, aged twenty, wants to know all she can about life and reality. She collects information on everyone and everything, storing her findings in an enormous archive. She experiments with relationships, political activism, and meditation. Meanwhile, the actors, director and crew are shown in a humorous parallel plot about the making of the film and their reactions to the story and each other. Nudity, explicit sex, and controversial politics kept this film from being shown in the US while its sei...
House of Angels: The Second Summer
Character: Axel Flogfält
Fanny and Zack is back, after she inherited Änglagård last year. Everytone looks forward to their new stay. Axel has told Fanny he is her father, but who else? Ivar also thinks he is her father. Be ready for expectations and confusions....
Kira's Reason: A Love Story
Character: Kira's father
Kira and Mads try to work out their marriage, after Kira has been two years in a mental institution, but is she really ready for the real world?...
A Song for Martin
Character: Martin
Martin, conductor of a symphonic orchestra, meet Barbara, violine player and they start a relationship. Five years later Martin starts to develop loss of memory and becomes more and more confused. Finally he is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and Barbara tries to help as much as possible although Martin is often angry and violent towards her....
Alfred
Character:
The life of the Swedish engineer Alfred Nobel. How he invented dynamite and later in his life founded the Nobel-Prize....
The Tattooed Widow
Character: Erik Sandström
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....
Rider in Blue
Character: Photographer
When private eye John Hillman is on assignment in London his wife Kajsa visits the Army's riding school at Strömsholm, Sweden. She gets involved in the strange murder of the Blue Rider. Unknown to everyone at Strömsholm....
Vildhussen
Character: Pehr Hellzén
Documentary drama about Sweden's biggest natural disaster, which destroyed one of the biggest whitewater rapids in Sweden in 1796....
The House
Character: Odd Couple (voice)
Across different eras, a poor family, an anxious developer and a fed-up landlady become tied to the same mysterious house in this animated dark comedy....
Svalan, katten, rosen, döden
Character: Van Veeteren
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The Man from Majorca
Character: Bo Jarnebring
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....
Ögat
Character: Criminal detective
Fredrik is a director for a company that has developed a camera that can be operated from a distance to inspect pipes. He is so obsessed about his girlfriend Ingrid that he arranges his own fake suicide so that he can check that she mourns his death properly. With a set of cameras in their house he can follow every step she takes....
In the Name of the Law
Character: Inspector Jarnebring
A group of four policemen is known for cruising the streets of Stockholm in their van, looking for drunks or criminals they can beat up with their batons. Lately witnesses saw them pick up a drunk who later was found dead. The four policemen deny any knowledge. Police inspector Jarnebring gets the case and finds out that these four policemen have been reported for 22 cases of police brutality. Shortly after, another criminal dies in their van......
House of Angels - Third Time Lucky
Character: Axel Flogfält
A lot happens in a small village in 15 years. People fall in love, get married, have kids and divorces. Some move, some die - in Yxared just like in other places. Zac, Fanny and her daughter Alice travels back to to the small village in Ostergotland. Alice makes them return - where does she come from, what are her roots? The question about who Fanny's dad is, arises once more. And Alice, who's her dad?...
Sista leken
Character: Viktor
In this somber, psychological drama about the conflict between a man's innermost feelings and a society that puts these feelings in a strait jacket, the mood is ruminative and depressing throughout. Alone, Viktor (Sven Wolter) heads off for his usual summer vacation to some islands where he can ostensibly look for antiques for his wife's shop in Stockholm. His marriage is a failure or worse -- he raped his wife before he left home, and he is obsessed by erotic imaginings. Once on the islands, he...
Day by Day
Character: Malte
Five people embark on a motorhome road trip through Europe to fulfill an elderly man's last wish. "Day by Day" is a life-affirming comedy with a lot of humor and some seriousness. Friendships develop, love arises and life-changing decisions are made, a story that it is never too late to rethink in life....
Moreno and the Silence
Character: Van Veeteren
When a girl is murdered soon after leaving a closed religious community, Moreno faces a difficult investigation as the community closes ranks and refuses to cooperate. When another girl is abducted and her bloody fingernails mailed to the police, tongues begin to loosen....
Molly in the World
Character: The narrator
Molly in the World (Molly i världen) is a small film about the great frustrations and questions in life. The film explores the great sadness of not belonging and not being understod. It depicts the life and soul of Molly. We visit wonderful places and meet fascinating characters, talk to animals (computer animated) and ask outselves the question, what is real and what is imagination?...
Fallet G
Character: Van Veeteren
The daughter of a murdered private detective comes to Van Veeteren for help with a case that might be linked to Van Veeteren's only unsolved case....
Carambole
Character: Van Veeteren
Carambole is the story of a doctor, in love and happy, who one rainy night accidentally hits a young boy with his car and drives away when he sees the boy is dead. Some days later he receives a letter telling him that someone knows what he did, and want money for his silence. And after that it just gets messier for the good doctor......
Münsters fall
Character: Van Veeteren
When the body of a wealthy wine merchant washes up on a beach with multiple stab wounds, police fear a media frenzy. But the quick arrest of the man's former partner in the face of damning evidence promises a quick resolution to the case....
Störst av allt
Character: Aron
A young female journalist suddenly finds out that who she believed was her father is not that at all. Her real father is the well-known politician and union boss, who 28 years ago betrayed both her and her mother....
Det grovmaskiga nätet
Character: Van Veeteren
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Kvinna med födelsemärke
Character: van Veeteren
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Borkmann's Point
Character: Van Veeteren
Van Veeteren finds retiring from the police force is easier said than done when two decapitated bodies are found in quick succession. The matching MO in the two grisly murders brings the investigation teams of Maardam and Kaalbringen together - a collaboration that is not without its problems....
Flicker
Character: Barnard
There is something going on in the small town of Backberga. The towns proud telecom company Unicom is just about to launch a new modern profile when they discover that there is something lurking in the outskirts of Backberga. An accident triggers a power failure, which leads to a chain of events,mishaps and love stories. Flicker is a warm comic story about people trying to find their place within the modern society....
Jerusalem
Character: Stor-Ingmar
Members of a devout Christian congregation try to start a new life in Palestine....
Tack ska du ha, Karl Gerhard heter jag
Character: Self
Talking head documentary about the early 20th century Swedish comedian and singer Karl Gerhard made for his hundredth birthday....
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?...
Friends
Character: Zeb
John is a legal assistant who is looking forward to marriage to his fiancee Sally, but his daydream is interrupted when a model plane crashes through his window. Following the plane is a family of six who invade his life and apartment....
The Last Bid
Character: Police inspector
The working class couple, Roger and Lisette, knows that it is impossible to live an honest life in a society of thieves. When they succeed in scoring the top result on the football pools without earning the top money, they have had enough....
Suxxess
Character: Sigvard
A Swedish IT-company gets a new boss, who turns out to be a soulless hatchet man in Schildt's dark satire on the evils of the corporate world. He's opposed by Daniel, one of his employees, and eventually comes crashing down, impaled on his own hubris. So Daniel gets given the poisoned chalice of leadership in his place, just to end up as amoral and platitudinous as the man and values he initially stood up against....
Gnomes and Trolls: The Secret Chamber
Character:
Junior, a teenage gnome, wants nothing more than to invent gizmos and gadgets in his tree-house laboratory. But Junior's old school father, Jalle, the head gnome of the forest, would prefer his son follow in his footsteps and one day be in charge of his own forest. In spite of their differences, on the eve of the first winter storm Junior helps Jalle distribute food rations. Then disaster strikes....
Stjärnbilder
Character: (archive footage)
A tribute to Swedish film, which was made to celebrate the 100th anniversary of film in 1995 and consists of about a hundred clips from Swedish film history with many of its stars....
One Way Ticket
Character: Johannes
Johannes, an ex-con now working as a antiques dealer, is faced with a huge debt. He is put under pressure to pay and agrees to steal the Russian crown jewels on exhibition onboard a cruise ship....
Violet Bay
Character: Kerem
Kerem goes to a village to start a new life for his family. It will not be easy for Kerem's wife Neriman to get used to her new life....
Key House Mirror
Character: Erik
Lily (76) is sure there’s nothing wrong with her. The only reason she lives in a care home is because of her husband Max's illness: a series of strokes has reduced him to a vegetable. The fact that Lily isn’t exactly the way she used to be becomes slowly clear in the Danish drama Key House Mirror - the title refers to a memory test. It’s not easy for Lily to leave her old habits behind her and fit in with the rules of the home. Her life blossoms when she meets an 80-year-old Swedish neighbour, ...
Sigillet
Character: Vete von Vanders
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Inga Tidblad - Lysande stjärna av sin tid
Character: Self
Inga Tidblad started acting in 1921 and became one of Sweden's greatest and most successful actresses of all time. Daughter Meg Westergren, colleagues Bibi Andersson, Helena Bergström, Thommy Berggren and Sven Wollter are a few who talk and remember her as a person and as an actor....
The White Wall
Character: Kjell Larsson
A day in the life of Monika, an ordinary, modern (ca.1975) Swedish woman. Her surroundings are a lot sleeker than her daily existence, though; she's unemployed, her husband is gone, and she's alone in the midst of what ought to be the good life....
No
Character:
How and why people refused military service in Sweden at the end of the 1960s. This is the reasoning of the Minister of Defense and the friends of non-violence and pacifists....
Samlaren
Character: Lennart
Lennart lives a very lonely life. He collects things and when he tests the limits of how far he can go for his collections, he meets a woman....
Dockpojken
Character: The father
A psychological drama where the son escapes his father's brutality in the isolated far north of Sweden. The father is left with the pain and agony of having chased away his only child....
The Sacrifice
Character: Victor
Alexander, a journalist, philosopher and retired actor, celebrates a birthday with friends and family when it is announced that nuclear war has begun....
Havlandet
Character: Matti
This is a tale that has an epic scope in scenery "the northern snow-covered lands of coastal Norway" and is dramatized by moments of tumultuous stormy weather. But the focus is on Heikki (Stein Bjorn) a young man who is inspired by the northern lights to take a horse-drawn sled and make his way to the sea, hoping to come back with abundant fish. He is overtaken by a snowstorm and is forced to find shelter in a small, isolated cabin that is home to a half-crazy widow, her baby, and a blind man. D...
Smykketyven
Character: Jan Ström
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Heartbeat
Character: Kirurgen
A dazzling musical about a young Arab woman facing deportation just as she is about to receive a heart transplant....
Kim - Den skalliga primadonnan
Character:
About Swedish actress Kim Anderzon. Loved and acclaimed for her roles in theatre and on film. A feminist role model with a big ego. A woman who decided to do it all by herself, and who became one of our greatest actors. A life on stage. Till the cancer arrived....
Lines from the Heart
Character: Self - Actor in 'Iphigenia'
The trio of actresses have ostensibly gathered to pay tribute to Mai Zetterling, but also reminisce about their own careers and the illustrious figures, including Ingmar Bergman, they have worked with....
The 13th Warrior
Character: King Hrothgar
A Muslim ambassador exiled from his homeland joins a group of Vikings, initially offended by their behavior but growing to respect them. As they travel together, they learn of a legendary evil closing in and must unite to confront this formidable force....
A Film About Love
Character: Peter
At a prom ball, Peter and Helen catch each other's eyes over the children's heads. Peter is desperate to meet Helen and follows her to Mallorca, where she plans to spend her holiday with her husband....
Regeln och undantaget
Character:
A television drama about a trial against a merchant who killed one of his employees....
Videoman
Character: The Neighbour
A VHS collector with a drinking problem finds a valuable movie that could save his terrible economical situation. The film disappears. He suspects it is stolen and starts a hunt after a perpetrator....
Repetitionen
Character: Villebosse
"The Rehearsal or The Patchwork of Love" - At the Ferbroques castle, the Count, Countess and their guests are rehearsing a play....
Lust och fägring - en film om Bo Widerbergs sista
Character:
Documentary about the making of Bo Widerberg's last film 'Lust och fägring stor' ('All Things Fair')....
I huvudet på en filmskapare
Character:
For over 20 years, film enthusiast and amateur filmmaker Anders Olofsson has worked on what quickly became his life project, "Stall-Erik och Snapphanarna". What he may lack in technical skill he makes up for with his genuine enthusiasm for the project, and perhaps this is how he has managed to convince an unbelievable roster of eighty well-known Swedish film actors to participate in this production. When he will actually finish his film, only time will tell....
Georg & Lydia
Character: Georg
Georg (age 70) and Lydia (age 30) are in two completely different stages in life when they meet....
Husbonden
Character: Peter
Young Charlie becomes a farmhand on a remote Swedish island during the early 19th century. His master is a pirate who, together with his two daughters, live on killing shipwrecked sailors and stealing their cargo. Eventually, Charlie begins to question the correctness of his master living....
Faceless Murderer
Character: Rydberg
A farmer discovers that his neighbors have been murdered. Wallander get on the case....
Bo Widerberg
Character:
Documentary which follows Bo Widerberg during the making of 'Man on the Roof', 'The Butt' and a failed theater production....
The Truth About the New Anna Susanna
Character:
About the "aware, free and unrestrained modern woman" Anna Susanna....
Ivar Kreuger
Character: Häradshövding Wallenberg
Ivar Kreuger was a businessman who influenced a whole world and whose fate is still shrouded in mystery....
Exercis
Character: fänrik Alm
Drama about the everyday lives of Swedish soldiers....
Hotet från yttre rymden
Character: Säpochef
Jack Hamrin is a young journalist doing his best to keep his job at the local paper. In his desperate hunt for a scoop he begins writing about rumored flying saucers, UFOs. The Swedish Security Service, SÄPO, try to stop his articles, and Jack understands he's on to something big. He puts everything on the line, trying to stop the imminent invasion of Norrköping...
Solsidan
Character: Mauritz Schiller
We join the three couples in a comedy about divorces, love, child longing, weird parents and unwritten bathing rules in Torekov....
Profitörerna
Character: Jarnebring
Two crime detectives are handled a tricky case to investigate. A prostitute has been brutally murdered in her studio. The landlord runs a brothel....
Like Rings on the Water
Character:
Chase and stress in the big city of Stockholm. Lines of cars, buses and trams, exhaust fumes, parking problems, and the long journey home to the high-rise in the suburbs....
Sweetwater
Character: Doc
Allan and Lisa flee the war-torn city of Sweetwater with their young son for the safety of the municipal dump in this sleepy war drama. They join other displaced survivors who were driven from their homes, looking for a better life on the outskirts of Sweetwater....