Directing

Hasse Ekman

Born September 10, 1915 · Stockholm, Sweden

Died February 15, 2004 · aged 88

Hasse Ekman (10 September 1915 – 15 February 2004) was a Swedish director, actor, writer and producer for film, stage and television. Hasse Ekman is probably Sweden's most successful and critically acclaimed film director pre Ingmar Bergman (and aside from him) and post Sjöström and Stiller, with his peak in mid-1940s to the year 1950. Much influenced by filmmaker Orson Welles and also by episodi…

Known For

Örlogsmän

Örlogsmän · 1943

MovieDramaRomance

The trio Erik, Arne and Ingrid have been friends since childhood, the two boys always competing for the affection of Ingrid. At the naval academy Erik gets into a fistfight and is expelled, to instead become a captain of a trading ship. Before he leaves Ingrid and Erik are engaged in secret. Later, when Erik is believed to be lost at sea, Ingrid instead gets engaged with Arne.

Swinging at the Castle

Swinging at the Castle · 1959

Swinging at the Castle

Love triangle between Svante, his fiancee Inga and Sophie, a girl from a rich family.

Magistrarna på sommarlov

Magistrarna på sommarlov · 1941

Magistrarna på sommarlov

Inga Danell's summer vacation is near. But unfortunately both Inga and her brother Acke have bad grades and are forced to study by the help of a tutor.

Intermezzo

Intermezzo · 1936

MovieDramaRomance

An intense love affair develops between a married concert violinist (Gösta Ekman) and his daughter's music teacher (Ingrid Bergman).

Summer Place Wanted

Summer Place Wanted · 1957

Summer Place Wanted

Married couple have romantic interludes in the summer, she at their summer cottage, him in the apartment in town.

Sawdust and Tinsel

Sawdust and Tinsel · 1953

Sawdust and Tinsel

A number of complicated relationships develop between a circus ringmaster, his estranged wife and his lover.

Gabrielle

Gabrielle · 1954

While Bertil Lindström works at the Swedish embassy in Paris, his wife Gabrielle spends the summer alone in Sweden. After a phone call to her, he starts to think of all the things she can possibly be doing separated from him.

The First Squadron

The First Squadron · 1941

The First Squadron

The year is 1941 and Nazi Germany is at its peak. Hitler's army is storming into Russia. Sweden stands lonely and isolated while the air force is training intensely due to a coming attack. The squadron leader pushes his men at its hardest. It's a constant game with death where death unfortunately often wins.

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Örlogsmän

Örlogsmän · 1943

MovieDramaRomance

The trio Erik, Arne and Ingrid have been friends since childhood, the two boys always competing for the affection of Ingrid. At the naval academy Erik gets into a fistfight and is expelled, to instead become a captain of a trading ship. Before he leaves Ingrid and Erik are engaged in secret. Later, when Erik is believed to be lost at sea, Ingrid instead gets engaged with Arne.

Writer

Swinging at the Castle

Swinging at the Castle · 1959

Swinging at the Castle

Love triangle between Svante, his fiancee Inga and Sophie, a girl from a rich family.

Writer

Magistrarna på sommarlov

Magistrarna på sommarlov · 1941

Magistrarna på sommarlov

Inga Danell's summer vacation is near. But unfortunately both Inga and her brother Acke have bad grades and are forced to study by the help of a tutor.

Writer

Intermezzo

Intermezzo · 1936

MovieDramaRomance

An intense love affair develops between a married concert violinist (Gösta Ekman) and his daughter's music teacher (Ingrid Bergman).

Åke Brandt

Summer Place Wanted

Summer Place Wanted · 1957

Summer Place Wanted

Married couple have romantic interludes in the summer, she at their summer cottage, him in the apartment in town.

Director

Sawdust and Tinsel

Sawdust and Tinsel · 1953

Sawdust and Tinsel

A number of complicated relationships develop between a circus ringmaster, his estranged wife and his lover.

Frans

Gabrielle

Gabrielle · 1954

While Bertil Lindström works at the Swedish embassy in Paris, his wife Gabrielle spends the summer alone in Sweden. After a phone call to her, he starts to think of all the things she can possibly be doing separated from him.

Director

The First Squadron

The First Squadron · 1941

The First Squadron

The year is 1941 and Nazi Germany is at its peak. Hitler's army is storming into Russia. Sweden stands lonely and isolated while the air force is training intensely due to a coming attack. The squadron leader pushes his men at its hardest. It's a constant game with death where death unfortunately often wins.

Director

The Yellow Squadron

The Yellow Squadron · 1954

The Yellow Squadron

MovieActionDrama

The year is 1954. The war in Korea has just ended and the superpowers stand by each side of the boarder. The peace in Europe is fragile and the cold war is imminent. At F8 - Air Fore Base, the yellow squadron stand ready with its J29 fighters.

Captain Birger Wreting

Girl with Hyacinths

Girl with Hyacinths · 1950

Girl with Hyacinths

MovieDramaMystery

A young woman dies by suicide and leaves all her belongings to her next-door neighbour, who becomes determined to investigate her reasons for taking her life.

Director

Prison

A filmmaker sets out to create the greatest film in history, but finds out that human abilities have limits.

Martin Grande

My Love Is Like a Rose

My Love Is Like a Rose · 1963

My Love Is Like a Rose

A middle aged doctor begins a relationship with a teenage girl. His best friend is dating the girls mother. A group of boys plan to blackmail the doctor or expose him as a pedophile.

Director

With You in My Arms

With You in My Arms · 1940

With You in My Arms

MovieComedyRomance

Millionaire Krister Dahl loses his memory when he is hit in the head by a golf ball. He meets his ex-wife and immediately fall in love with her again. She does not know what to believe, is it true or is it only a joke? He also discovers how he has mismanaged his company in his earlier life.

Director

One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer

One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer · 1947

One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer

When Inga Brantemo goes on a business trip to Italy, her husband Bertil gets romantically involved with Christina Lovén, whose father is a book publisher. When Inga returns, Bertil has a difficult time trying to explain who the woman the neighbors saw in the Brantemo home was. Bertil is an author and it doesn't get easier when he and his wife gets invited to Christina's father to talk business.

Producer

The Girl from the Third Row

The Girl from the Third Row · 1949

The Girl from the Third Row

MovieComedyDrama

A ring passes between a lot of different people, giving the bearer or someone close a new meaning to life. Actors, embezzlers, old ladies and cheated husbands all seem to gain temporary hope from misery and disillusionment.

Director

Heaven and Pancakes

Heaven and Pancakes · 1959

Heaven and Pancakes

Sequel to Sjunde himlen (1956). Dr. Lovisa Sundelius (Sickan Carlsson) and radio host Willy Lorens (Hasse Ekman) have been happily married for a couple of years, but when Willy becomes a TV host with cutie Suss (Lena Granhagen) by his side, things start to fall apart

Director

The Sixth Shot

The Sixth Shot · 1943

MovieDramaRomance

Georg Winkler meet Marguerite Hoffman at the casino in Monte Carlo. They become an item and travel the world with their act - Winkler is an accomplished marksman. Eventually Winkler's jealousy leads to their separation and he has to resort to work for secondrate circuses with a dwarf. But eventually he meet Margurite once again. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

Director

Wandering with the Moon

Wandering with the Moon · 1945

Wandering with the Moon

Dan, aged 19, leaves his home after a quarrel with his father. At the side of the country road he meets a traveling theater company who has run out of money. He falls in love with the young actress Pia and together they leave, meeting a string of peculiar characters: a vagabond, a friendly vicar and a cynical adventurer.

Director

Thirst

A fractured portrait of desire and isolation, following a failing marriage and parallel stories of emotional entrapment as memories surface during a train journey through postwar Europe. Told through flashbacks and multiple narrative threads, the film signals Ingmar Bergman’s emerging mature style.

Dr. Rosengren

The Great John Ericsson

The Great John Ericsson · 1937

The Great John Ericsson

MovieDramaHistory

In 1803 the Swedish inventor John Ericsson is born. After a military career he went to England and became one of the first builders of locomotives. Despite large debts, he invents the propeller. In 1839 he crosses the Atlantic and builds ships for the US Navy. When the US civil war breaks out, the Federation needs a ship to match the Confederate 'Merrimac' and preventing the Confederation from exporting cotton to Europe. Ericsson builds the 'Monitor', a ship the Federation needs to win the war.

Thunder and Lightning

Thunder and Lightning · 1938

Thunder and Lightning

The aristocratic count Hägerskiöld is very proud of his swine Helen of Troy who wins a prize every year as the best swine in the area. This year his son Claes-Ferdinand needs money to get married with Pyret, a chorus-girl. His father won't give him any so he steals the swine, expecting that his father will give a reward to anyone who can find her.

Writer

Meeting in the Night

Meeting in the Night · 1946

Meeting in the Night

MovieThrillerCrime

A journalist is writing a critical article about the prison service in Sweden. The magazine's editor in chief does not agree with him and removes the article. The journalist then plans to fake a crime to gain knowledge about life in prison.

Director

Interlude

Interlude · 1946

The Swedish doctor of literature Vilhelm Canitz arrives in Lugano in Switzerland, close to Italy, for a few weeks stay at a medical clinic. Canitz considers himself to be quite healthy and the stay as an extended vacation. He meets a number of patients at the clinic suffering from terminal illnesses, including Vellamo Toivonen (Lindfors). The patients deal with the fact that they will not leave the clinic alive in different ways; with self-destruction, denial or imprudence.

Director

Flames in the Dark

Flames in the Dark · 1942

Flames in the Dark

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?

Director