Gio Petré

Acting

Gio Petré

Born November 1, 1937 · Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden (age 88)

Ann-Mari Birgitta Bengtsdotter Petré is a Swedish actress. She made her acting debut at 18, in "Flottans muntergökar" (1955). She was born into a family of artists. Gio Petré studied for a year at Gösta Terserus theatre school in Stockholm. In 1956 she was accepted at the Royal Dramatic Theatre School and graduated in 1959. The character she portrayed on the silver screen was often the sensual, pr…

Known For

Wild StrawberriesWild Strawberries · 1957
Wild Strawberries
8.11957
MovieDrama
Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. Along the way, they encounter a series of hitchhikers, each of whom causes the elderly doctor to muse upon the pleasures and failures of his own life. These include the vivacious young Sara, a dead ringer for the doctor's own first love.
PärlemorPärlemor · 1961
Pärlemor
8.01961
MovieDrama
Set in th 1930's depression times. A wealthy industrialist suffers a stroke. His wife takes over both family and business. The son worships his mother, but is forced to choose sides when he falls in love with the poor Aina.
Daddy, DarlingDaddy, Darling · 1970
Daddy, Darling
5.11970
MovieDrama
A young Danish girl seduces everything in sight after daddy refuses her naughty come-ons. She'll have a lesbian affair with her teacher, pretend that her teenage boyfriend is dear old dad and finally get to her stepmother.
The DollThe Doll · 1962
The Doll
6.31962
MovieDramaFantasy
A lonely nightwatchman at a department store develops a fixation on one of the store's mannequins. He soon steals her and takes her to his home, where he can be with her all the time. One day, she comes to life...
One Swedish SummerOne Swedish Summer · 1968
One Swedish Summer
3.71968
MovieRomanceComedy
A young, shy and inexperienced man travels back to Sweden, to spend the summer at his mother's house. He meets a number of women with whom he has sexual relations.
Loving CouplesLoving Couples · 1964
Loving Couples
5.91964
MovieDrama
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.
Ann and EveAnn and Eve · 1970
Ann and Eve
3.41970
MovieDramaCrime
The story concerns the Yugoslavian holiday of two toothsome Swedish girls. One of the girls, played by Maria Liljedahl, is (metaphorically speaking) a world-champion in the promiscuity sweepstakes, bedding men (and women) in great profusion. Somehow, the movie also manages to be about film reviewers and film directors. Variety commented '...the film's inherently good visual and physical qualities are themselves dissipated in [the director's] cynicism, ennui, and involuted intellectual mirror tricks.'
GorillaGorilla · 1956
Gorilla
7.01956
MovieAdventureRomance
In this adventure, set deep within the Belgian Congo, a local witch doctor decides the only way to stop a rampaging gorilla from terrorizing his people is to sacrifice a new-born baby. Meanwhile a local game warden and a journalist researching a story on the natives team up to stop the crazed simian.

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