Acting
Bengt Blomgren
Born August 15, 1923 · Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
Died April 4, 2013 · aged 89
Bengt Bertil Blomgren was a Swedish stage and screen actor, director and writer. He made his film debut in Hasse Ekman's "Lågor i Dunklet/Flames in the Dark" (1942). He directed plays and revues at Sweden’s National Touring Theatre (Riksteatern) for 30 years.
Known For
Hällebäcks gård · 1961Hällebäcks gård
★ 9.01961
MovieDrama
Farm girl Kerstin is the most popular girl in the village and the men are swarming around her. This results in jealousy, and the electrician Tage causes a fire on the farm, resulting in economic trouble for Kerstin's father. Suddenly grandfather's rich brother Arvid appears from America. Will he be able to solve the family's problems?
Östermans testamente · 1954Östermans testamente
★ 7.01954
MovieDrama
The fishermen Österman and Sjöberg are sued by merchant Wikström. In order to raise capital, they decide to start producing a medicine from a recipe by Österman's father.
The Brothers Lionheart · 1977The Brothers Lionheart
★ 6.71977
MovieAdventureFantasy
After brothers Jonathan and Crusty pass away, they reunite in Nangijala, the land of eternal spring. Casting a long shadow over their world is the tyrant Tengil, ruler of the country Karmanjaka, where he’s building his new fortress up in the Ancient Mountains.
Restaurant Intim · 1950Restaurant Intim
★ 9.01950
MovieDrama
A new realism depiction of life and work in an old restaurant. A social portrayal of exhausted staff and dubious guests.
When Bengt and Anders Swapped Wives · 1950When Bengt and Anders Swapped Wives
★ 7.51950
MovieComedy
Two neighbours, each with a small plot of land, hate each other. Both are dissatisfied with his wife.
Rolling Sea · 1950Rolling Sea
★ 8.01950
MovieDrama
"Rolling Sea" - After a longer stay at the hospital, the young Martin comes to Gothenburg and notice that his fiancee Sonja has met another man.
Farligt löfte · 1955Farligt löfte
★ 5.51955
MovieCrimeThriller
A woman is murdered and a little girl is the only one who can reveal the perpetrator.
Sista natten · 1956Sista natten
★ 8.01956
MovieDrama
A man escapes from a psychiatric clinic, the tracks lead to the town Marstrand, where a woman is found murdered.
Movies
Hällebäcks gård · 1961Hällebäcks gård
★ 9.01961
MovieDrama
Farm girl Kerstin is the most popular girl in the village and the men are swarming around her. This results in jealousy, and the electrician Tage causes a fire on the farm, resulting in economic trouble for Kerstin's father. Suddenly grandfather's rich brother Arvid appears from America. Will he be able to solve the family's problems?
Östermans testamente · 1954Östermans testamente
★ 7.01954
MovieDrama
The fishermen Österman and Sjöberg are sued by merchant Wikström. In order to raise capital, they decide to start producing a medicine from a recipe by Österman's father.
The Brothers Lionheart · 1977The Brothers Lionheart
★ 6.71977
MovieAdventureFantasy
After brothers Jonathan and Crusty pass away, they reunite in Nangijala, the land of eternal spring. Casting a long shadow over their world is the tyrant Tengil, ruler of the country Karmanjaka, where he’s building his new fortress up in the Ancient Mountains.
Restaurant Intim · 1950Restaurant Intim
★ 9.01950
MovieDrama
A new realism depiction of life and work in an old restaurant. A social portrayal of exhausted staff and dubious guests.
When Bengt and Anders Swapped Wives · 1950When Bengt and Anders Swapped Wives
★ 7.51950
MovieComedy
Two neighbours, each with a small plot of land, hate each other. Both are dissatisfied with his wife.
Rolling Sea · 1950Rolling Sea
★ 8.01950
MovieDrama
"Rolling Sea" - After a longer stay at the hospital, the young Martin comes to Gothenburg and notice that his fiancee Sonja has met another man.
Farligt löfte · 1955Farligt löfte
★ 5.51955
MovieCrimeThriller
A woman is murdered and a little girl is the only one who can reveal the perpetrator.
Sista natten · 1956Sista natten
★ 8.01956
MovieDrama
A man escapes from a psychiatric clinic, the tracks lead to the town Marstrand, where a woman is found murdered.
Brink of Life · 1958Brink of Life
★ 7.51958
MovieDrama
This intimate chamber drama, set in a maternity ward, follows the emotional crises of three women as they grapple with motherhood.
Karin Månsdotter · 1954Karin Månsdotter
★ 6.01954
MovieHistoryDrama
Karin does not belong to the nobility but nevertheless marries the mentally ill king Erik XIV and becomes queen of Sweden. The king's skilled counsellor Göran Persson wants a royal policy supporting the people and supported by it. But in relation to the nobility the king oscillates between provocative strength and unpredictable weakness. Göran arranges that some very powerful noblemen are killed. Subsequently the king tries to have them convicted of high treason by the parliament. He forgets the manuscript, mixes up all facts, and the noblemen are acquitted. But Göran speedily gathers another parliament and has them convicted. Meanwhile Erik apologises because of the unjust murders. Hence Erik is dethroned and imprisoned. Göran is executed. Karin is restricted to a castle in Finland. In the prison Erik believes that he is still the king and gives the guards presents such as all fishes in the Baltic Sea.
Göingehövdingen · 1953Göingehövdingen
★ 9.01953
MovieAdventure
When the Swedish army occupies the eastern part of Denmark in 1678, the local inhabitants decide to fight back. Under the leadership of Svend Poulsen, a guerrilla is formed. And guerrilla officer Lars Paulinus has to fight the Swedish officer Henrik Wrede to prove his love for Anna Ryding.
Port of Call · 1948Port of Call
★ 6.61948
MovieRomanceDrama
A suicidal factory girl, just out of reformatory school and anxious to escape her overbearing mother, falls in love with a sailor who can't forgive her past.
Terror in the Midnight Sun · 1959Terror in the Midnight Sun
★ 4.01959
MovieScience FictionThriller
After a herd of reindeer are mysteriously found dead following a meteor crash in a remote part of Lapland in northern Sweden, soldiers and a geologist are called out to investigate.
Kulla-Gulla · 1956Kulla-Gulla
★ 6.51956
MovieFamilyDrama
Orphan girl Gunilla (nick named Kulla-Gulla) gets sent from her orphanage to work as an housemaid at sharecropper Karlbergs household. Among her duties is to take care of Karlberg, his wife and their five children.
Hassel - Botgörarna · 1992Hassel - Botgörarna
★ 5.71992
MovieTV MovieCrime
Roland Hassel gets involved in a tangle of lies, betrayal and industrial espionage.
Flames in the Dark · 1942Flames in the Dark
★ 6.31942
MovieDramaThriller
Latin teacher Birger Sjögren at Ringsala boarding school threatens his possesive and chronically ill mother that he will get married. She gets a stroke and dies. Sjögren is affected by feelings of guilt, envy and hatred towards the surroundings. A series of mysterious fires have taken place around the school the last few months. One of the students has seen Sjögren setting fire to a barn. But can he convince the trusted biology teacher Nordmark, expert of the criminal mind?
Like It Never Was Before · 1995Like It Never Was Before
★ 5.41995
MovieDramaComedy
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.
It Is Never Too Late · 1956It Is Never Too Late
★ 6.01956
MovieDrama
Görel and Arne are about to get a divorce. Görel thinks back on how history has repeated itself within her family.
Crime in Paradise · 1959Crime in Paradise
★ 7.01959
MovieThrillerDrama
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.
Wild Birds · 1955Wild Birds
★ 9.01955
MovieDrama
A Swedish film noir with the character of a French noir ('Quai des brumes', 'Le jour se lève'). Two worlds meet for a brief experience of happiness ended by a violent tragedy. In one world the unhappy prostitute (Ulla) finds a drunken young man (Nisse) who had previously failed in many occupations. She takes him home. Her feelings are like those for a younger brother.
Females At Play · 1945Females At Play
★ 6.31945
MovieComedyMusic
A musical comedy about Kalle Svensson, a sergeant in the navy, and his loved one Nanette Raquette who works as a gymnastics teacher.
We Have Our Own Song - The Music Movie · 1976We Have Our Own Song - The Music Movie
★ 9.01976
MovieDocumentary
The film documents the alternative festival, made to protest against the Eurovision Song Contest held in Stockholm 1975. There are many Swedish and international artists on stage, as well as some clips from speeches, riots, civil wars, and the people at the song contest itself.
Regementets ros · 1950Regementets ros
★ 6.51950
MovieComedy
To save intoxicated friend Boman from getting caught, two conscripts lock him up in the local jail and release a prisoner, Ivan Jansson, so that he can pretend to be Boman for a few hours. But when the real Boman is transported to the county jail, switching them back could be difficult.
Young Summer · 1954Young Summer
★ 8.01954
MovieDrama
Helge Lysvik is a farmers son. He dreams of a future as a musician.
TV Shows
Tre kronor · 1994Tre kronor
★ 5.61994
SeriesDrama
Tre kronor was a Swedish soap opera that aired on TV4 during the period 1994-1999. The series took place in the fictive middle class suburb Mälarviken, located in the vicinity of Stockholm. The exteriors were filmed in Sätra, a suburb of Stockholm, and the interiors were filmed in a studio in Kvarnholmen as well as in Kungens Kurva. Tre kronor aired at the same time period as Rederiet was on SVT and the shows where rivals of the viewers and they both had around 1-2 million viewers. TV4 started Tre kronor in 1994 to compete for the viewers of Rederiet.
The signature tune was written by Lasse Holm.
The spin-off movie Reine och Mimmi i fjällen! was based on two of the characters; Reine and Mimmi.
The series had a dramatic ending where all the characters besides six were fatally wounded in a suicide bombing that took place at the local restaurant Tre Kronor. It was a priest himself who was the perpetrator. Two big cliffhangers in the series was when Hans Wästberg, played by Ulf Brunnberg, robbed the post office and shot his son Hans-Åke by mistake. Hans Wästberg was taken to prison and disappeared from the series after the second season. Season Three ended with Sirpa "Bimbo" Koskinen, the girlfriend of Hans-Åke Wästberg, died in a bus crash. Salongo played by Richard Sseruwagi was a refugee and a rich business man from Uganda who fell in love with a married police woman Lena Sjökvist played by Catharine Hansson and he later bought the restaurant Tre Kronor. Later in the series, Salongo buys another restaurant and he to disappeares from the series.
C/o Segemyhr · 1998C/o Segemyhr
★ 6.91998
SeriesComedy
c/o Segemyhr was a Swedish sitcom that premiered on TV4 Sweden on 4 September 1998. The series took place in and around an apartment in an exclusive neighbourhood in Stockholm, Artillerigatan 35 and later Styrmansgatan 52 in the same area.
The series began with three seasons from fall 1998 to fall 1999, thereafter additionally two seasons were added in 2003–2004. All seasons have been released on DVD. Script writers were Fredrik Lindström och Erik Haag.
Drottning Kristina · 1981Drottning Kristina
1981
SeriesDrama
Kristina took over the government of Sweden in 1632, after her father, Gustav II Adolf, death in the Battle of Lützen. In 1654 she abdicated, converted to Catholicism and left Sweden for good.
Halsduken · 1962Halsduken
★ 6.71962
SeriesDramaCrime
This is a Swedish remake based on The Scarf, the British original from 1959 (script : Francis Durbridge). The English script was translated to Swedish by Ulla Berthel and Börje Lindell. The Swedish version retains the English setting.