Håkan Alexandersson

Directing

Håkan Alexandersson

Born 1940-04-21 · Mariestad, Västra Götalands län, Sweden

Håkan Alexandersson was a multi artist and a man of many talents. He was considered one of the more remarkable and the most wayward visionaries in the Swedish film. Among other things, he worked as a film director, screen writer, author, producer, actor, photographer, artist and musician. He studied at Konstfack, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, in the late 1950's. Håkan Alexandersson and Carl Johan De Geer met at Konstfack and the two produced a large number of films together. "Tårtan / The Cake" (1973) eventually became a cult hit among children and adults. At first it was viewed as mildly odd and incomprehensible. Lasse Sarri, CEO at the Swedish Television company, called the production crazy and absurd, but changed his mind after being informed by a hired plumber, that "Tårtan" was the best he had ever seen on TV. Håkan Alexandersson directed 40 feature films, shorts and television productions from 1959 to 2004. He suffered from cancer during his last ten years and died March 1, 2004 in Stockholm.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Tårtan poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Tårtan

1973

Tårtan poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Tårtan

1973

Never Travel on a One Way Ticket poster
4.8

A hardboiled story that takes place in a far future when most things are over. What’s left is greed, cruelty, sexuality, fire and a tad of poetry.

Never Travel on a One Way Ticket

1987

Spårvagn till havet poster
9.0

The bohemian filmmaker and composer Manfred is plagued by an event in the past. At the age of sixteen, his father died. When Manfred was coming from Karlsruhe with his father's grave urn, to spread ashes over the ocean, the tram collided.

Spårvagn till havet

1987

Spårvagn till havet poster
9.0

The bohemian filmmaker and composer Manfred is plagued by an event in the past. At the age of sixteen, his father died. When Manfred was coming from Karlsruhe with his father's grave urn, to spread ashes over the ocean, the tram collided.

Spårvagn till havet

1987

No artwork available
10.0

About Bror Hammar, a 35-year-old man who, due to insomnia, reads a huge amount of crime fiction. His life becomes one with what he reads.

Hammar

1992

The Laundry poster
9.0

Lisa is a little girl looked after by Dr. Flower, since he believes that the Mona Lisa's mother, who runs a laundry, is not a good and orderly mother.

The Laundry

1985

The Laundry poster
9.0

Lisa is a little girl looked after by Dr. Flower, since he believes that the Mona Lisa's mother, who runs a laundry, is not a good and orderly mother.

The Laundry

1985

The Laundry poster
9.0

Lisa is a little girl looked after by Dr. Flower, since he believes that the Mona Lisa's mother, who runs a laundry, is not a good and orderly mother.

The Laundry

1985

No artwork available
4.0

In 2056, a scientist will receive the risky task of resuming the excavations of the Meyeratelies in 2056.

The Perforated Epoch

1985

No artwork available
4.0

In 2056, a scientist will receive the risky task of resuming the excavations of the Meyeratelies in 2056.

The Perforated Epoch

1985

No artwork available
4.0

In 2056, a scientist will receive the risky task of resuming the excavations of the Meyeratelies in 2056.

The Perforated Epoch

1985

School Master - an Inch from Black poster
10.0

Schoolmaster Hoffmann on his way far down in the basement to the Janitors office to get coal for his chilly classroom, hears no warning signals. Gorm, the janitor, manipulates the gullible Hoffmann into signing a contract with a dark context.

School Master - an Inch from Black

2005

No artwork available
7.0

An artist tries to get some money for food of the social wellfare but is denied, with the recommendation to start eating porridge instead. He claims that is exactly what he is doing at the moment.

Grötmyndigheten

2003

No artwork available
7.0

An artist tries to get some money for food of the social wellfare but is denied, with the recommendation to start eating porridge instead. He claims that is exactly what he is doing at the moment.

Grötmyndigheten

2003

No artwork available
4.0

Calle, a real-life character living in Stockholm's Old Town, finds himself - to his astonishment - in the midlle of the play "Hamlet, Prince of Denmark".

Calle Schewens vals

1990

No artwork available
4.0

Calle, a real-life character living in Stockholm's Old Town, finds himself - to his astonishment - in the midlle of the play "Hamlet, Prince of Denmark".

Calle Schewens vals

1990

Evert poster
10.0

A crime is defined as an act which follows by a punishment, according to applicable law. Therefore it can not be a crime unless you are punished. But then it will not be the perfect crime either. Just perfect.

Evert

2001

Evert poster
10.0

A crime is defined as an act which follows by a punishment, according to applicable law. Therefore it can not be a crime unless you are punished. But then it will not be the perfect crime either. Just perfect.

Evert

2001

No artwork available
NR

A satirical showdown with the optimism surrounding the atomic war that were expressed in the Swedish national brochure "Om kriget kommer/ If the war comes."

Tills elden släcks

1960

A Summer of Love poster
5.7

David, a middle-aged researcher, lives happily with his wife Ingrid and their kids. By a coincident he meets and falls in love with a young woman named Eva. Their relationship will only last a few months.

A Summer of Love

1979

No artwork available
NR

The film, which is about the Stockholm gasworks staying mostly at work on the so-called. chamber furnaces, where the gas is extracted from coal. It depicts both the process and some of the workers, who talk about how it is to work in the heat and dirt on the chamber ceiling. The extraction process as depicted in the film is abandoned since 1972

A Gas Film

1971

No artwork available
NR

A letter to the editor performed as a film. It lacks statistical basis. No adults, experts or others have been consulted. However, a group of children are asked about one thing: What would it be like if they were to decide?

Den ljuva tiden

1980

Werther poster
7.0

The neurotic director Max Karlsson tries to do a film of Goethe's "Die Leiden des jungen Werthers". He finds all actors for his melodrama - except Lotte, the wonderful girl who is an object of two mens love. He auditions a number of girls. But when he finds the right one nothing goes the way he had figured.

Werther

1990