Jösta Hagelbäck

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Jösta Hagelbäck

Born October 13, 1945 · Kolsva, Västmanlands län, Sweden

Died October 23, 2009 · aged 64

Jösta Hagelbäck, born Nils Gösta Hagelbäck, was a Swedish film-director, writer, actor, poet, artist and musician. Studied the film directing program at the Dramatic Institute, Stockholm, in the 70's. Jösta Hagelbäck was considered an offbeat and gifted artist. An invitation to Hollywood took hom nowhere. But the feature film "Kejsaren/The Emperor" (1979) did. He directed a number of feature films…

Known For

GråtvalsenGråtvalsen · 1983
Gråtvalsen
8.01983
MovieDramaTV Movie
"Crocodile tears" - Fellowship is replaced by suspicion and hatred in a Stockholm suburb. Wheelchair-bound retiree Hugo lives with his wife and his mentally unstable son.
Near and Far AwayNear and Far Away · 1976
Near and Far Away
7.01976
MovieRomanceDrama
Mania is a new employee at a mental hospital, where she meets a young man with mutism. He gets her to realize that it is a fluid boundary between being healthy and being regarded as sick.
Henry's ShadowHenry's Shadow · 1986
Henry's Shadow
9.01986
MovieThriller
The Swedish IB (Information Bureau) agents Henry Malm and Richard Ramberg travel to the Finnish-Russian border in order to receive a KGB agent who wants to defect.
Prisoners of BeckettPrisoners of Beckett · 2005
Prisoners of Beckett
2005
MovieDocumentary
The meeting of two worlds that never met. One of poetry and freedom, and the other of silence and darkness. A story that begins in a maximum security prison in Sweden where a young actor, Jan Jönson, decides to stage " Waiting for Godot "with five prisoners as actors.
Venus 90Venus 90 · 1988
Venus 90
8.01988
MovieDrama
A film crew travels out in a future Europe to make a documentary about the birds and threats to the ecological contexts. The motto of the film has been downloaded from the Indian chief, Chief Seattle's famous words from 1855; "You can not sell the sky, and everything that affects the Earth affect the humans".
KejsarenKejsaren · 1979
Kejsaren
9.01979
MovieDrama
Before World War II, Swedish workers had to deal with low wages, scarce work, and the extensive importation of foreign labor, particularly for the purpose of breaking strikes. This did not make foreigners of any stripe very popular, and those from "guest worker" countries were particularly disliked. In this film, set in 1938, a half-Polish boy goes to Poland in search of his mother, runs into financial and psychological difficulties there, and is sent back to a Swedish mental hospital. In another story, an unfortunate woman suffers a miscarriage and ends up at the asylum where the Polish boy is being kept.
Illustrated conversation with Professor Lars KristianssonIllustrated conversation with Professor Lars Kristiansson · 1985
Illustrated conversation with Professor Lars Kristiansson
1985
MovieDocumentary
Based on the conversations Jösta Hagelbäck and Erik Ostlund had with Lars Kristiansson, a professor of information theory with data communication at Chalmers University in Gothenburg, Sweden. The talks took place at the difficult cancer sufferer Kristiansson's sick-bed and dealt with his insights in computer technology, his hopes and fears for the new technology, the role of religion, the history of mathematics, reasoning about algebra, analytic geometry and the fourth dimension, along with cultural outlooks over the Western society's lack of mysticism and spiritual values.
Henry's ShadowHenry's Shadow · 1986
Henry's Shadow
1986
SeriesDramaCrime
The Swedish IB (Information Bureau) agents Henry Malm and Richard Ramberg travel to the Finnish-Russian border in order to receive a KGB agent who wants to defect.

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