Known for Costume & Make-Up
Born
July 8, 1911
Died
September 30, 1972 (age 61)
Birthplace
Stockholm, Sweden
Filmography
52 films


Cries and Whispers
1972 · 1h 35m · SE
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.


The Ghost Sonata
1972 · 1h 31m · SE
The Ghost Sonata relates the adventures of a young student, who idealizes the lives of the inhabitants of a stylish apartment building in Stockholm. He makes the acquaintance of the mysterious Jacob Hummel, who helps him to find his way into the apartment, only to find that it is a nest of betrayal and sickness. The world, the student learns, is hell and human beings must suffer to achieve salvation. The play centers on a family of strangers who meet for the sake of meeting. They exchange no dialogue, nor gestures, they simply sit and bask in their own misfortune.


Amala, Kamala
1971 · 1h 13m · SE
About two girl-wolf, Amala and Kamala in 1930s India. They are captured by the British troops and placed in Military hospital, subjected to a harsh upbringing, in an attempt to make ordinary people out of them.


The Passion of Anna
1969 · 1h 41m · SE
A recently divorced man and an emotionally devastated widow begin a love affair.


The Rite
1969 · 1h 12m · SE
Called to court on obscenity charges, a theatre troupe are forced to expose their neuroses and inner psychological torments.


Shame
1968 · 1h 44m · SE
In the midst of a civil war, a pair of former violinists in a tempestuous marriage oversee a farm on a rural island. In spite of their best efforts to escape their homeland, the war impinges on every aspect of their lives.


Hour of the Wolf
1968 · 1h 28m · SE
While vacationing on a remote German island with his younger pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.


Persona
1966 · 1h 25m · SE
A young nurse, Alma, is put in charge of Elisabeth Vogler: an actress who is seemingly healthy in all respects, but will not talk. As they spend time together, Alma speaks to Elisabeth constantly, never receiving any answer.


Den bergtagna
1965 · 1h 28m · SE
Depicts a woman who commits suicide after being betrayed by a man who, by playing on her low self-esteem, has made herself her superior - and thus deprived her of all right to exist.


Gustav Vasa
1965 · 2h 32m · SE
Gustav Vasa struggles to keep power while dealing with the Dacke War in his own country and his foreign debts.


Blodsbröllop
1965 · 1h 48m · SE
A bride sneaks away with her lover on the eve of her wedding.


The Marriage Wrestler
1964 · 1h 30m · SE
Stockholm 1912. Site for the Olympic Games. Love entanglements and eroticism at hotel Eros.


Swedish Wedding Night
1964 · 1h 35m · SE
A wealthy butcher, fond of liquor and women is about to marry a much younger woman. The woman's father has locked himself in the attic and refuses to come to the wedding.


All These Women
1964 · 1h 17m · SE
Pretentious critic Cornelius is writing a biography on a famous cellist and to do some research he stays in the cellist'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.


The Silence
1963 · 1h 35m · SE
Traveling through an unnamed European country on the brink of war, sickly, intellectual Ester, her sister Anna and Anna's young son, Johan, check into a near-empty hotel. A basic inability to communicate among the three seems only to worsen during their stay. Anna provokes her sister by enjoying a dalliance with a local man, while the boy, left to himself, has a series of enigmatic encounters that heighten the growing air of isolation.


A Dream Play
1963 · 1h 53m · SE
A television adaptation of August Strindberg’s A Dream Play, the film follows Agnes, the daughter of the god Indra, as she descends to Earth to witness the conditions of human existence. Through a succession of loosely connected scenes, she encounters individuals from different walks of life, with events unfolding according to dream logic rather than linear narrative.


Topaze
1963 · 1h 15m · SE
A shy but righteous teacher - Topaze - with no social skills what so ever, gradually becomes aware of the realities of human societies and finally learns to master the rules at level far superior to his former mentor, Laurent Castel-Benac.


Winter Light
1963 · 1h 20m · SE
A Swedish pastor fails a loving woman, a suicidal fisherman and God.


Misantropen
1963 · 2h 1m · SE
Alceste has a very low opinion about humanity and is always brutally honest. This gets him into a lot of trouble.
Trasiga änglar
Trasiga änglar
1962 · 1h 43m · SE
Three kind-hearted criminals, Joseph, Albert, and Jules, plan to escape from Devil's Island. Fate intervenes, and they find refuge with the kind-hearted but clumsy Felix Ducotel and his family. Felix runs a shop for his demanding, arrogant cousin André, who makes the mistake of stealing Albert's beloved pet, a poisonous snake! For the Ducotel family, it will be a Christmas to remember—together with three crooks who turn out to be nothing less than three "wise men"!


Lek ej med kärleken
1961 · 1h 24m · SE
The baron wants his niece and her cousin to get married but their own intrigues challenge his plans.


Guest of Reality
1961 · 1h 4m · SE
A story about a boy named Anders, who lives in an ordinary Swedish family in an apartment at the train station. Through his childhood, he experiences life's glorious scents of beautiful flowers and green forest, close and warm relationships with his grandparents and joyful play with his siblings. He has a strong friendship with his father and a great love for his mother. Still he lives in fear of death. He is afraid of losing all of this that is so valuable to him. In his thoughts and fears, he often turns often God, just as his sister, mother and grandparents, and ask Him for help and protection.


Through a Glass Darkly
1961 · 1h 31m · SE
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.


Dacke
1961 · 1h 11m · SE
Nils Dacke, leader of the revolt against Gustav Vasa, is torn between his anger over social injustice and royal oppression, and his doubt in the power of himself and weapons.


The Devil's Eye
1960 · 1h 28m · SE
Don Juan is sent from Hell to Earth with a mission: to seduce a virgin in order to spoil her pure wedding. The mission becomes frantic when Don Juan falls in love for the first time in centuries.


The Virgin Spring
1960 · 1h 30m · SE
Devout Christians Töre and Märeta send their only daughter, the virginal Karin, and their foster daughter, the unrepentant Ingeri, to deliver candles to a distant church. On their way through the woods, the girls encounter a group of savage goat herders who brutally rape and murder Karin as Ingeri remains hidden. When the killers unwittingly seek refuge in the farmhouse of Töre and Märeta, Töre plots a fitting revenge.


The Storm
1960 · 1h 31m · SE
An elderly gentleman lives alone in a well-appointed residential building, spending his days in habitual routines with neighbors and family. When his former wife—who left years earlier with their child—moves into the apartment above him, long-suppressed tensions resurface, leading to a series of charged encounters.


Face of Fire
1959 · 1h 19m · US
A local handyman saves a child in a fire, but the burns he receives disfigure his face so much that the townspeople avoid him.


The Magician
1958 · 1h 42m · SE
A traveling magician and his troupe arrive in a Swedish town in the 1840s, where their act is scrutinized by local authorities and a skeptical medical official. Their stay leads to a series of confrontations that test the boundaries between performance, belief, and deception.


The Halo Is Slipping
1957 · 1h 29m · SE
A secretary at a publishing company, Birgitta, writes a novel, based on her secret love of her boss. She sends it anonymously to her own company, who decides to publish it. The book becomes a success. Birgitta's husband's mistress get hold of the script and confesses that *she* wrote the novel. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.


Mr. Sleeman Is Coming
1957 · 43m · SE
A young woman faces an arranged marriage imposed by her aunts as the hour of her suitor’s arrival approaches. Adapted for television from Hjalmar Bergman’s one-act play, the film uses intimate staging and close observation to explore coercion and quiet despair.


Seventh Heaven
1956 · 1h 32m · SE
"Seventh Heaven" - Famous radio personality Willy Lorens has a big success with the radio series "Seventh Heaven." The amount of fan mail and attention eventually becomes too much for Willy, who suffers a minor collapse. Taken to a hospital where he meets Dr. Lovisa Sundelius, virtually the only woman in Sweden who do not admire the radio idol.


Flyg-Bom
1952 · 1h 38m · SE
The meticulous Fabin Bom is called up for military service in the airforce.


The Firebird
1952 · 1h 39m · IT
Italian singer Mario Vanni visits the Royal Opera in Stockholm and fall in love with ballet dancer Linda Corina.


Tull-Bom
1951 · 1h 21m · SE
Bureacratic customs officer searching for a missing girl.


Father Bom
1949 · 1h 30m · SE
Fabian Bom, auctionist in a small town, one day finds a baby boy in a small crib that is for sale at an auction. He places the boy at an orphanage but returns the next day since he realizes that he misses the boy. Since a single man is not permitted to adopt a baby he arranges a marriage with a young woman, who really is the baby's mother.


Svenske ryttaren
1949 · 1h 29m · SE
Agneta Gyllencrona is in love with Henrik Lettnoff, a refugee from the Baltic. They have to leave together when her mother, the Countess, wants to tear them apart.


Katrina
1943 · 1h 42m · SE
Proud Katrina falls in love with Johan, who's a sailor, and follows him home to the island of Åland. She has been promised a paradise with blooming apple trees but are greeted by poverty and hard work.


Mot nya tider
1939 · 1h 37m · SE
A Swedish drama from 1939 about the social and political developments in Sweden from 1885 until the dissolution of the union in 1905. The year is 1885, Christina Nilsson sings "Fourteen years I believe certain that I was" in the Grand Hotel's Great Hall . She also sings from the balcony of the hotel and the panic arising among listeners outside the hotel. In Norway, talks about the dissolution of the Union and the Swedish socialists with Hjalmar Branting (Victor Sjöström) is in the lead for independence.


Sjöcharmörer
1939 · 1h 26m · SE
A bus company wants to acquire traffic rights on an island in the Stockholm archipelago. The steam boats will be replaced by buses, but Captain Johansson and his daughter Eva are at the forefront of the protests.


Kungen kommer
1936 · 1h 21m · SE
A travelling theater-company performs Offenbach's "The Beautiful Helene" when an officer in the audience notices the similarity in appearance between the leading actor Leonard Pettersson and the king Charles XV. With Pettersson dressed as the king and the other actors as the royal suite, they all go to Herrsunda castle where the officer is trying to make an impression on his fiance.


Swedenhielms
1935 · 1h 28m · SE
The Swedenhielms is an old aristocratic family. The head of the family is professor Rolf Swedenhielm. His three children Bo, Julia and Rolf Jr also live in the house. They also have an excellent house maid, Boman. Because of the family's extravagance, they are heading for bankruptcy. But perhaps their problems would be solved if Rolf was awarded the Nobel Prize?


The Count of the Old Town
1935 · 1h 23m · SE
A police inspector tracks a notorious jewel thief, 'Diamond-Lasse,' to a hotel filled with eccentrics.


Atlantäventyret
1934 · 1h 28m · SE
Theatre director Freddy Alsterberg has failed with his latest operetta. He decides to work his way over the Atlantic. His niece Tusse also stows away on the ship disguised as a boy.


Pettersson & Bendel
1933 · 1h 48m · SE
The two conmen Bendel and Pettersson starts doing business together. Bendel got the brains and Pettersson the charm.
The Outcasts
The Outcasts
1931 · 1h 29m · SE
Industrial development and social decay in a small Swedish town leads to unemployment and unrest. Families are forced to move to where work is available. Young workers are protesting.