Directing

Hampe Faustman

Born July 3, 1919 · Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden

Died August 22, 1961 · aged 42

Born as Erik Stellan Chatham. His parents was the artists Gösta Chatham and Mollie Faustman. Hampe Faustman was a Swedish director, writer and actor. He appeared in 23 feature films and directed 20 films between during the 1940s and 50s. Faustman is best known for his socially engaged films. Producer Lorens Marmstedt contracted Faustman to Terrafilm which gave him artistic freedom. He died of pneu…

Known For

Lars Hård

Lars Hård · 1948

Young drifter tells his story in flashback from prison.

Sonja

Kurt and Sonja are happily married and dream of buying a house and have children. One day Kurt's old friend Nick pops up. Secrets from Sonja's past life surface.

Restaurant Intim

Restaurant Intim · 1950

Restaurant Intim

A new realism depiction of life and work in an old restaurant. A social portrayal of exhausted staff and dubious guests.

Imprisoned Women

Imprisoned Women · 1943

Imprisoned Women

A priest decides to engage himself socially in prison. In the cells he meets a number of women with different fates. One is Mary, a young honest woman gone wrong.

The Invisible Wall

The Invisible Wall · 1944

The Invisible Wall

In an unnamed country under occupation, a senior officer is killed in an attack by a member of the resistance.

All this - and Iceland too

All this - and Iceland too · 1951

All this - and Iceland too

1914. The monarchs of Sweden, Denmark and Norway meet to demonstrate unity. In the crowd is a beautiful noble woman from Finland. She is eagerly courted by the monarch's aides.

När ängarna blommar

När ängarna blommar · 1946

När ängarna blommar

The farm workers at Näs Farm, lead by Hellman, go on strike, demanding that their employer recognize their labor union. But he calls on strike-breakers to perform the farm work. Hellman's son Gunnar is a hothead who easily gets in trouble.

Tattarblod

Tattarblod · 1954

David, a young woodsman with a family, is leasing a farm. The family are welcomed by the locals until it becomes known that David is the son of a notorious drifter.

Filmography

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Lars Hård

Lars Hård · 1948

Young drifter tells his story in flashback from prison.

Director

Sonja

Kurt and Sonja are happily married and dream of buying a house and have children. One day Kurt's old friend Nick pops up. Secrets from Sonja's past life surface.

Director

Restaurant Intim

Restaurant Intim · 1950

Restaurant Intim

A new realism depiction of life and work in an old restaurant. A social portrayal of exhausted staff and dubious guests.

Director

Imprisoned Women

Imprisoned Women · 1943

Imprisoned Women

A priest decides to engage himself socially in prison. In the cells he meets a number of women with different fates. One is Mary, a young honest woman gone wrong.

Roland

The Invisible Wall

The Invisible Wall · 1944

The Invisible Wall

In an unnamed country under occupation, a senior officer is killed in an attack by a member of the resistance.

Patrol Commander

All this - and Iceland too

All this - and Iceland too · 1951

All this - and Iceland too

1914. The monarchs of Sweden, Denmark and Norway meet to demonstrate unity. In the crowd is a beautiful noble woman from Finland. She is eagerly courted by the monarch's aides.

Director

När ängarna blommar

När ängarna blommar · 1946

När ängarna blommar

The farm workers at Näs Farm, lead by Hellman, go on strike, demanding that their employer recognize their labor union. But he calls on strike-breakers to perform the farm work. Hellman's son Gunnar is a hothead who easily gets in trouble.

Writer

Tattarblod

Tattarblod · 1954

David, a young woodsman with a family, is leasing a farm. The family are welcomed by the locals until it becomes known that David is the son of a notorious drifter.

Director

Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment · 1945

Crime and Punishment

Former student Raskolnikov is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police, Raskolnikov struggles between trying to hide his guilt and the pressure to confess.

Director

Resa i natten

Resa i natten · 1955

Gösta is a lorry driver and has been married to Birgitta for eight years. Their marriage is only held together by their daughter. Gösta picks up girls along the roads and during a drive to Malmö he stumbles on the singing actress Irene. Gösta is captivated by her romantic presence and her joy of life. Besides picking up women, Gösta is sometimes affected by sudden seizures. His wife is unaware of this.

Director

Harald Handfaste

Harald Handfaste · 1946

Harald Handfaste

MovieActionRomance

Harald Handfaste is a 15th century Swedish Robin Hood, who fights against foreign oppression. He becomes the leader of a band of highwaymen and they start dealing with the evil bailiff. However, the bailiff will stop at nothing to catch Handfaste and show the people who is in charge. He even attempts to marry Handfaste's beloved Karin, and when she refuses to subdue, the bailiff decides to execute both her, her father and a monk who has been helping them.

Director

Hon kom som en vind

Hon kom som en vind · 1952

Hon kom som en vind

"She Came Like a Wind" - Fabian Rosander works at a factory and is close to 50 years old. When a new employee named Lilly, a young beautiful girl, comes to the factory Fabians life takes a new turn.

Director

Natt i hamn

Natt i hamn · 1943

Early 1940s, during WW2, pitch black waters except for a moon-shadow over the waves. Surrounded by minefields and the fog slips in the sweeping headlights of the cargo ship S/S Rune. But the ship bows relentlessly forward through the night.

Director

Strange Harbor

Strange Harbor · 1948

A Swedish cargo ship is in the winter of 1938 at the dock in Gdynia in Poland, waiting to depart with coal to Sweden. In a tavern in the port a Polish dockworkers tries to tell something to the Swedish sailors, but is rudely turned away by the tavern owner. Later in the evening the port worker is found dead. That same evening one of the Swedish sailors, meets a Jewish woman who has fled Nazi Germany.

Director

While the Door Was Locked

While the Door Was Locked · 1946

While the Door Was Locked

The film follows a number of people in an apartment building during a night full of dramatic events and entanglements.

Tomas Ekberg

The Girl and the Devil

The Girl and the Devil · 1944

The Girl and the Devil

MovieDramaFantasy

The soul of an evil witch about to be burned is transferred to the child of a pregnant woman in the audience. 19 years later a timid girl arrives at a farm looking for work. The farmer employs her despite his wife's protests. Soon it stands clear that the girl is in fact the evil witch, returned to wreak havoc on the farmer and his family. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

Director

Web of Desire

Web of Desire · 1957

MovieCrimeThriller

Lars Ekborg and Sven Eric Gamble portray bumbling criminals who get involved in a safe-cracking heist.

His Excellency

His Excellency · 1944

Celebrated elderly Austrian poet opposes nazism, while his daughter admires and falls in love with leading nazi activist, who eventually becomes concentration camp commander with his father-in-law as prisoner.

Prison guard

Ride Tonight!

Ride Tonight! · 1942

MovieHistoryDrama

In the south of Sweden, some farmers get into trouble when the German Count is forcing them to perform day labor for him. But a man refuses to bow to the German Count.

Bo Eriksson

Vi mötte stormen

Vi mötte stormen · 1943

Vi mötte stormen

News reel film sequences from September 1938 until the end of 1942, integrated with the fictive Swedish family Söderberg in their everyday life at home and the changes, because of the escalating war, that are brought upon them.

Narrator (voice)

Vagabond Blacksmiths

Vagabond Blacksmiths · 1949

Vagabond Blacksmiths

Midsummer Eve in Malmfors in the 1880s. The holiday is celebrated with a big party. Three blacksmiths leave the ironworks and become drifters, seeking out jobs elsewhere. During their travels, they come across beautiful girls as well as jobs in different ironworks, where the workers are organizing, monitored by a brutal police force.

Director

Ubåt 39

Ubåt 39 · 1952

About U-Boat 39 the first U-Boat sunk in WW2 by the UK Carrier Ark Royal.

Director

There's a Fire Burning

There's a Fire Burning · 1943

There's a Fire Burning

An allegory of Germany's WWII occupation of Norway. Members of a theater ensemble join the resistance.

Georg Brandt (as Erik Faustman)

En kvinna ombord

En kvinna ombord · 1941

En kvinna ombord

MovieDramaRomance

In the beginning of WW II a Swedish ship in a northern French port is exposed to German air raids. The captain take a chance to leave the port without permission. A stranded woman seize the chance to get home to Sweden.

Martin Frost