Harriet Andersson
Birthday: Born in 1932-02-14 in Stockholm, Sweden
Deathday: Alive
Harriet Andersson (born 14 February 1932, Stockholm) is a Swedish actress, known outside Sweden for being part of one of director Ingmar Bergman's stock company. She often played impulsive working class characters and quickly established a reputation on screen for her youthful, unpretentious, full-lipped sensuality. She disdains the use of makeup. Description above from the Wikipedia article Harriet Andersson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Längtans blåa blomma
Character: Stava
Betty, who dreams of love, refuses to put up with the rules and conventions of the time....
Stjärnorna på Slottet
Character: Self
Five celebrities spend five days together on a castle somewhere in Sweden. Each episode (or day) centres around one of them. This person decides what to to and eat. The others get the chance to ask questions about this persons life and career....
Fanny och Alexander
Character: Justina
Through the eyes of ten-year-old Alexander, we witness the delights and conflicts of the Ekdahl family, a sprawling bourgeois clan in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Sweden....
Julkalendern
Character: Alberts syster
An annual Swedish Christmas calendar television series....
Belinder auktioner
Character: Astrid Belinder
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Semlons gröna dalar
Character: Conradette Glossner
Semlon Pytting struggles to navigate the complex web of lies he has created to hide his cheating from his wife....
Ålder okänd
Character: Marianne Retke
A scientist discovers what he believes to be a way of slowing down the aging process, and has started to administer the substance to select people....
Gösta Berlings saga
Character: Märta Dohna
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Ørnen: En Krimi Odyssè
Character: Esther Stern
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Dogville
Character: Gloria
When a beautiful young Grace arrives in the isolated township of Dogville, the small community agrees to hide her from a gang of ruthless gangsters, and, in return, Grace agrees to do odd jobs for the townspeople....
Cries and Whispers
Character: Agnes
As Agnes slowly dies of cancer, her sisters are so immersed in their own psychic pains that they are unable to offer her the support she needs....
Mr. Sleeman Is Coming
Character: tant Bina
A young girl is torn between marrying the old man herr Sleeman for money or the young hunter out of love....
Fanny and Alexander
Character: Justina
As children in the loving Ekdahl family, Fanny and Alexander enjoy a happy life with their parents, who run a theater company. After their father dies unexpectedly, however, the siblings end up in a joyless home when their mother, Emilie, marries a stern bishop. The bleak situation gradually grows worse as the bishop becomes more controlling, but dedicated relatives make a valiant attempt to aid Emilie, Fanny and Alexander....
Smiles of a Summer Night
Character: Petra
Early in the 20th century, middle-aged lawyer Fredrik Egerman and his young wife, Anne, have still not consummated their marriage, while Fredrik's son finds himself increasingly attracted to his new stepmother. To make matters worse, Fredrik's old flame Desiree makes a public bet that she can seduce him at a romantic weekend retreat where four couples convene, swapping partners and pairing off in unexpected ways....
Through a Glass Darkly
Character: Karin
Karin hopes to recover from her recent stay at a mental hospital by spending the summer at her family's cottage on a tiny island. Her husband, Martin, cares for her but is frustrated by her physical withdrawal. Her younger brother, Minus, is confused by Karin's vulnerability and his own budding sexuality. Their father, David, cannot overcome his haughty remoteness. Beset by visions, Karin descends further into madness....
Pappa är död
Character: Ingrid
Jan-Olof has an unresolved relationship with his father, and during the days leading up to the funeral, he tries to find out who the father really was. The practical arrangements for a funeral are often of a tragicomic nature....
The Deadly Affair
Character: Ann Dobbs
Charles Dobbs is a British secret agent investigating the apparent suicide of Foreign Office official Samuel Fennan. Dobbs suspects that Fennan's wife, Elsa, a survivor of a Nazi Germany extermination camp, might have some clues, but other officials want Dobbs to drop the case. So Dobbs hires a retiring inspector, Mendel, to quietly make inquiries. Dobbs isn't at all sure as there are a number of anomalies that simply can't be explained away. Dobbs is also having trouble at home with his errant ...
A Lesson in Love
Character: Nix, David and Marianne's daughter
After 15 years of marriage, David and Marianne have grown apart. David has had an affair with a patient of his and Marianne has got herself involved with her former lover Carl-Adam, who's also David's best friend. When she travels to Copenhagen to meet Carl-Adam, David takes the same train as she does, making it look coincidental. Spending time together remembering their past and talking about their future, they come to understand each other again, which leads to a reconciliation....
Frökens första barn
Character: Göran Hallman's bride
Sonja Broberg needs to make extra money so she offers to help the author Johannes Porshammar with his latest novel about single mothers, a subject he knows very little of. However, Sonja is also single but borrows a young boy from a kindergarten, claiming to be his mother. Plot by Mattias Thuresson....
Sawdust and Tinsel
Character: Anne
The complicated relationships between a circus ringmaster, his estranged wife and his lover....
Summer with Monika
Character: Monika Eriksson
Monika from Stockholm falls in love with Harry, a young man on holiday. When she becomes pregnant they are forced into a marriage, which begins to fall apart soon after they take up residence in a cramped little flat....
Prejudice and Pride: Swedish Film Queer
Character: Self
A journey through Swedish queer film history....
Siska
Character: Siska Olofsson
A young woman struggles with life, love and career. She is courted by a young man but is unwilling to enter into a relationship if it means limiting her freedom....
Light Keeps Me Company
Character: Self
Carl-Gustaf Nykvist's documentary about his father, Sven Nykvist. The film is based on Sven's memoirs with Sven himself as narrator. A journey to the place of birth, Moheda, constitutes the hub of the film and during the journey friends and memories emerge. Written by Fredrik Klasson...
All These Women
Character: Isolde
Pretentious critic Cornelius is writing a biography on a famous cellist and to do some research he stays in the critic's house for a few days. He doesn't manage to get an interview with the man, but by talking to all the women who live with him, he comes to learn a lot about the musician's private life none the less. Cornelius then decides to use this information to blackmail the cellist into performing a composition that he, Cornelius, has written....
Dreams
Character: Doris
Susanne is a woman in her mid-30s and the owner of a modeling agency in Stockholm. She accompanies her prize model, Doris, on a trip to Gothenburg so that Doris can be photographed. While traveling, both women seek out romance, Susanne with a married lover and Doris with an older gentleman who sees his deceased wife in the young model. The two women struggle to understand their romantic motivations and in the process form an unlikely friendship....
Dogville Confessions
Character: Self
A documentary on the creation of Lars von Trier's fascinating drama Dogville starring amongst others Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany, Stellan Skarsgård, Ben Gazzara, Lauren Bacall and James Caan. Showcasing behind-the-scenes footage and providing a much deeper look inside the world of filmmaking including some moments of insight that are hard to believe....
Anderssonskans Kalle
Character: Majken
Anderssonskans Kalle is the typical 'Söderkis'. It's a boy growing up on Söder in Stockholm and he is very fond of practical jokes. His mother sees him as a good natured boy but his victims, mostly the local policeman and two old crones in the same house, see him as the devil himself....
Playing Truant
Character: School girl in Stockholm
High school student Margareta fall head over heels in love with a young doctor and announce her engagement to him to her parents. She quits school and move in with him in a large house. However, the life of a housewife soon becomes tedious. Her husband does not want her to study but secretly she enrolls in a high school again to be able to graduate. Her husband suspects funny business when she is spotted with her private tutor....
Whoops!
Character: Lena Lett
A comedy mystery involving the composer and cartoonist Hubert Yrhage, the journalist Gary Lundberg, anticartoon campaigner Lena Lett, the mysterious Jens Myskovich and music publisher Darling Karlsson. Yrhage receives his manuscripts from an 11 year-old whose inspiration comes from the mysterious events at a boarding house where several of the characters stay....
Loving Couples
Character: Agda Frideborg
As three pregnant women wait to have their babies in a hospital in Stockholm at the outbreak of the Great War, they relive their childhood and youthful experiences....
The Girls
Character: Marianne / Myrrhine
A theater company rehearses Aristophanes play "Lysistrata" in which the Athenian women revolt to force the men to suspend the war and make peace. The three leading female actresses, Liz, Marianne and Gunilla, all live in humiliating circumstances to their men....
Heaven and Hell
Character: Jasmin
Maria grows up in a seedy 1960s working class neighborhood, the daughter of an ambitious emigrant father and soon caught up in her own dangerously one track-minded pursuit of a violinist's career. A rich gallery of highly original characters contribute, for better and for worse, to Maria's coming of age. Based on Kirsten Thorup's critically acclaimed 1982 novel, filmed by Morten Arnfred....
Images from the Playground
Character: Self
In the early fifties Ingmar Bergman got himself a cine-camera, a 9.5 mm Bell & Howell, which he often used both privately and in his work. "Bilder från lekstugan" ("Images from the Playground") embark on these films, giving a diverse representation of one of the greatest artists in cinema....
Barbara - Wild wie das Meer
Character: Barbara
A drama set on Faroe Islands by Frank Wisbar based on the novel by Jørgen-Frantz Jacobsen....
The Fight for Rome
Character: Mathaswintha
A Roman noble, Cethegus, tries to start a war, setting the Ostrogoths and their Queen, Amalasuntha, against the Byzantine Emperor Justinian; Cethegus wants to swoop in after they have destroyed each other and create a new Roman Empire from their combined kingdoms; however, he does not factor into his plans the vagaries of love and the personal integrity of the people in both kingdoms....
Gossip
Character: Camilla Steen
A Hollywood producer auditions ten Swedish actresses for the title role in a big-budget remake of Greta Garbo's classic Queen Christina....
Selma & Johanna - en roadmovie
Character: Karin
They've had enough and know what has to be done....
Flottans överman
Character: Linnea Berg
Fabian Bom has been sent by the Export Association to promote Swedish export to Spain. He travels with the navy's cruiser to Barcelona, but his jealous fiancée Gullan has followed him in secret to keep an eye on him. In Barcelona the usually strict and virtuous Bom is surrounded by the local women and has a ball. He meets the young and zestful Linnea from Sweden. Plot by Mattias Thuresson....
Puck heter jag
Character: Dockie
Romance blossoms between single seamstress Puck and the art critic, Roger. He is engaged to Elsa, whose wedding dress Puck is involved with designing....
Stimulantia
Character: Woman in Hotel Room
Stimulantia is a 1967 Swedish anthology film comprising eight episodes by eight different directors including Ingmar Bergman, Jörn Donner, Gustaf Molander and Vilgot Sjöman and starring among others Ingrid Bergman, Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Björnstrand, Lars Ekborg and Inga Landgré....
Adventure Starts Here
Character: Anne Englund
Fashion Designer Anne must decide between Toivo, an architect ten years her senior, and French businessman, Jacques, with whom she's been living for three years....
La Sabina
Character: Monica
English scholar visits a small Spanish town in the Andalusian mountains to investigate the disappearance of another English scholar long ago. He learns of the legend of Sabina, a mysterious dragon woman who becomes his obsession....
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....
Last Pair Out
Character: Anita
About the life of the student, Bo Dahlin. Bo's parents are divorced. Both have been unfaithful. Bo is engaged to Kerstin, but only has eyes for Anita. Anita is filled with self-disgust....
Pygmalion
Character: Eliza Doolittle
Can Professor Higgins teach a working-class flower girl to speak like a duchess?...
People Meet and Sweet Music Fills the Heart
Character: Sofia Persson
A dancer and a Danish student meet on a train; she is going on tour to Rio, and he decides to follow her. Based on the novel by Jens August Schade....
The Blessed Ones
Character: Viveka Burman
Sune, a dropped out theology student who also is the son of a priest, meets Viveka in a church. The two connect via a theological discussion and eventually get married. As the years pass, Viveka grows more and more emotionally unstable due to jealousy and religious anxiety. Sune accepts Viveka's mental problems and, instead of seeking help for his wife, obeys her increasingly bizarre commands....
Maybe I Really Am a Sorceress
Character: Self
An intimate portrait of director Mai Zetterling that includes interviews with Zetterling, David Hughes (Zetterling’s ex-husband and the cowriter of LOVING COUPLES, NIGHT GAMES, and THE GIRLS), and actors Harriet Andersson, Ingrid Thulin, and Bibi Andersson....
The White Wall
Character: Monika 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....
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....
Anna
Character: Anna
A doctor, her daughter, and her young housekeeper spend their summer on a remote island....
För vänskaps skull
Character:
A young woman gets tired of society's patriarchal order and women's sexual bondage....
The Day the Clown Cried
Character: Ada Doork
An unfinished and unreleased Swedish-French comedy-drama about a Circus clown imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp....
Høyere enn himmelen
Character: Miss Kjaer
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Lianbron
Character:
A Swedish scientist couple comes to a small African village to fight malaria....
While the City Sleeps
Character:
Jompa is unemployed - and not keen on getting a job. He still lives with his parents who are tired of his attitude about employment and regular hours. Jompa and his friends spend their time at nightclubs, cafés and doing petty crimes. While playing poker, Jompa becomes indebted to the criminal Kalle Lund. Of course, Jompa is unable to pay, but Kalle gives him a tip: an old fetcher has always a lot of money at home, and if Jompa could get his hands on the money, his troubles would disappear... Pl...
Sabotage
Character:
With the support of dramatic staging, a narrative teaches about sabotage and espionage directed at Sweden....
Kyssen på kryssen
Character:
Lasse Brenner is a serious filmmaker (spoof on Ingmar Bergman) who is forced to direct a lighthearted comedy. The filming takes place in different cities across Europe and North Africa so Brenner and the crew have to sail on a cruse ship. Brenner's wife suspects he has an affair with the lead actress, so she also boards the ship undercover to keep an eye on him....
The Vocation
Character: Narrator (voice)
Sven Nykvist, best known as Ingmar Bergman cinematographer, made this film as a tribute to his father who was a missionary in Kongo in the early 20th century. The story of his father Gustav Natanael Nykvist is told through his own photos, letters, and films. Director & cinematographer: Sven Nykvist. Narrators in the English dubbed version: Liv Ullmann & Sean Connery. Produced by Ingmar Bergman (Cinematograph AB). Digitally restored in 2022....
Crime in Paradise
Character: Eva Malmborg
While four men blow up a safe, a night watchman is accidentally killed. They get away with the loot. Ten years later, the stepson of the dead night watchman receives vital information....
The Serpent
Character: Wera
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....
Divorced
Character:
Gertrud is being abandoned by her husband after 20 years of marriage. Offended and unhappy she leaves her home and rents a room. The landlady's son is drawn to her and tries to help her out of the loneliness....
Citizen Schein
Character: Self
Harry Schein was an anomaly in Swedish cultural society. Equal parts playboy, intellectual, and political visionary, his life story could very well be the foundation of a Hollywood film. Citizen Schein is a film about a refugee who refused to look back, a film about powerful men, and the myths that fuel them....
The lift that went down into hell
Character: The wife
A loving couple on an escapade, ending in a hotel room in the underworld. When the floor waiter shows up, the woman feel she has seen him before. And suddenly she discovers who he is....
The Fight for Rome II - The Betrayal
Character: Mathawsintha
The devious general Cethegus plays the Byzantine and Gothic forces against each other for his own gain....
Monismanien 1995
Character: Teachers wife
In a fictional future totalitarian society ruled as a one-party state. A teacher commits the crime to teach their students to think independently and is therefore being stalked. The fictional Monismania also appeared in Astrid Lindgren's saga about the witch Pomperipossa in the Monismanian 1976....
Woman in a Fur Coat
Character: Marianne Croneman
Marianne is unhappily married with the rich Arvid Croneman. Arvid has been ill for some time and Marianne has been looking forward to his passing away. However, Arvid recovers. Marianne has had an affair with Lennart Hägg, her husband's doctor. She steals poison from his office and makes sure that her husband gets a poisonous injection that swiftly kills him. After his burial, Arvid's relatives, who lives in the house, treats her with suspicion. Has she really gotten rid of all the evidence?...
Lines from the Heart
Character: Self
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....
Open Doors
Character: Gina
Gina and Verner are two old persons living on the same floor of the apartment house. One day, a man comes and picks down all the apartment doors to replace them with new ones. For a full day, Gina and Verner can look into each other's lives. A short comedy about small secrets and what happens when you can no longer keep them secret....
Trespassing Bergman
Character: Self
In the sixties, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) built a house on the remote island of Fårö, located in the Baltic Sea, and left Stockholm to live there. When he died, the house was preserved. A group of very special film buffs, came from all over the world, travel to Fårö in search of the genius and his legacy. (An abridged version of Bergman's Video, 2012.)...
Happy End
Character: Marja Levander
Happy End is a story about Lukas, a self-absorbed young man adrift who meets Marja, an experienced, older woman. Lukas dreams of becoming a rock star. He escapes the city to his father's holiday flat in Visby, a town on the Baltic island of Gotland. But the flat has been rented out to Marja, an eccentric 69-year-old writer determined to complete her memoirs. Nothing can hold her back, least of all a confused dreamer. Much against their will, a friendship slowly develops. But Marja harbors a secr...
Det sjunde skottet
Character: Mom
In this psychological drama Rosalita is on leave from prison for a few days in late summer. She wants to explain to her son Jens what really happened and wants to create a new life for them both. They meet Ebba, a teenager who joins them, as well as people from Rosalita's past....
Två trappor över gården
Character: Girl in shelter
The rootless, misfit artist Bengt Hallberg escapes from a mental hospital. The head doctor believes him to be a hopeless case and dangerous for the environment. Bengt looks up Inga Larsson, the only person that matters to him....
Ubåt 39
Character: Harriet, Gunnar's girlfriend
About U-Boat 39 the first U-Boat sunk in WW2 by the UK Carrier Ark Royal....
The Nuthouse
Character: The chairman's assistant
In Stockholm in the year 2248 an excavation leads to the discovery of 45,000 meters of film from the 1940's master director Hasse Ekman . The material is in a disarray but the Society for Ancient Film Research compiles the material after what is believed to have been the master's artistic intentions...
Hempas Bar
Character: Sonja
A drama unfolds during a few spring days in a small Swedish town in the 1950s. Guy study hard at school, but wins no appreciation from his father. His brother Helge returns from his job at sea. They hang out at Hempas bar....
Summer Nights on Planet Earth
Character: Magda
A long flashback of an author and his relationship to an actress. Existential questions with no answers....
Stjärnsmäll i frukostklubben
Character:
The ex pro boxer Knuttis Svensson suspects that his wife has a secret admirer....
The Undefeated Femininity
Character:
"The Undefeated Femininity" - a film about Gun Grut Bergman. In September 1949 Ingmar Bergman left his wife and five children, and escaped to Paris with a new woman, Gun Grut. It was the beginning of a passionate love affair, an enduring jealousy drama and a new theme in Bergman's films. Now their son, Ingmar Bergman Jr, walks in his parents' footsteps, from Paris to the home on Grev Turegatan 69 in Stockholm....
Blankt vapen
Character: Mother
Rickard, a young man, helps to illegally transport a medieval icon from Germany to Sweden. The icon possesses remarkable forces. Strange things happen. Rickard returns to his brothers empty apartment. He finds a film projector, a telescope and some drawings. A tape recorder is playing. A voice is heard. Rickard starts the film projector. Parts of his childhood is shown. He contacts his girlfriend. She informs Rickard that his mother is in hospital....
Raskenstam
Character: Cecilia Andersson
The story of the charlatan Gustaf Raskenstam life and times during World War II, who for financial gain seduced a large number of women....
Brenda Brave
Character: Mrs Larsson
Brenda Brave gladly helps her grandmother to sell candy canes at the market square. But one day grandmother suffers from a sore leg. Brenda has to take care of the candy cane sales all by herself....
Die Frauen in Ingmar Bergmans Filmen
Character: Self
Documentary about the Woman in Ingmar Bergman's Movies...
Swedenhielms
Character: Marta Boman
A tv movie based on the play Swedenhielms by Hjalmar Bergmans play from 1923....
Motorkavaljerer
Character: Waitress
An inventive store assistant becomes a major motorcycle racing star....
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....
Lyckodrömmen
Character: Maja Karlsson
The Karlsson family moves from a small village to a suburb outside Stockholm. The change from a country life to the big city is not easy....
Wedding Night
Character: Hanka
Tragedy befalls Hanka, as her husband and father die fighting Austrian forces invading the Duchy of Warsaw in 1809....
A Sunday in September
Character: Birgitta
About a young couple. They fall in love, marry and separate....
Donner - Private
Character: Self
Jörn Donner’s entire production can be considered as a self-portrait, a life-spanning performance. Whilst others have painted one image or another of Donner, John Webster’s interpretation differs in that it pulls most of its material from Donner’s last-intended interview in December 2019, and an immense never-before-seen collection of photographs from albums simply labelled “Donner – Privat”. As a result, the film morphs into an epilogue of sorts, of Donner’s life story....