Karin Ekelund

Acting

Karin Ekelund

Born 1913-05-26 · Ystad, Kristianstad län, Sweden

Anna Karin Elisabet Ekelund was a Swedish stage and screen actress. She graduated from the Royal Dramatic Theatre's acting school in 1933. She made film debut in Sigurd Wallén's "Giftasvuxna döttrar" (1933). Karin Ekelund had great artistic success in the year 1940 in films like Anders Henrikson's "Ett Brott" and Hasse Ekman's "Med dig i mina armar".

Acting credits

Synnöve Solbakken poster
10.0

Swedish version of Norwegian National Author Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson's novel.

Synnöve Solbakken

1934

Giftasvuxna döttrar poster
9.0

Porter's wife Emma has three daughters, all "marriageable". All three have worries about marriage.

Giftasvuxna döttrar

1933

Teacher on a Spree poster
7.0

Karin Berggren is living a double life. In the daytime she is a strict teacher at a boarding school for girls. In the evenings she becomes the star singer at a popular nightclub.

Teacher on a Spree

1941

Stora skrällen poster
9.0

A ruthless businessman arrives to a small town. He is prepared to do pretty much anything to win beautiful Vera Odelman's heart.

Stora skrällen

1943

With You in My Arms poster
6.2

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.

With You in My Arms

1940

No artwork available
9.0

The story about Axel Bergström who's the manager at a light bulb factory, where many women work.

Flickor på fabrik

1935

Supper for Two poster
6.0

Louise Mareuil owns a perfume factory on the French Riviera. She is in a traffic accident with a sketch artist, Claude Dubois. She gives him a blank check which he soon use to withdraw 2 000 000 franc as a joke. Visiting her office, he returns the money and in return she hires him as a sketch artist for the company's advertisement. With his charm and wit he turns the factory upside down, to the chagrin of Louise. She is strict and orderly but soon after letting him go she begins to change her mind. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

Supper for Two

1947

No artwork available
8.0

A humorous story concerning the return of a prosperous Swedish native, Charlie Johnson, to his native country after many years in America. The acceptance and acclamation of himself and his American-born daughter provide many situations involving them, their relatives and the townspeople.

Du gamla du fria !

1938

The Sixth Shot poster
6.7

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.

The Sixth Shot

1943

Ä' vi gifta? poster
7.0

The well-known musician and composer Åke Kjellberg wakes up in a nice Stockholm apartment. He lives in Count Sparvhök's empty home until it gets rented out.

Ä' vi gifta?

1936

Farliga vägar poster
7.0

A stateless lawyer comes with his son Karel and his two daughters Vanja and Sonja as refugees to Stockholm. No one gets work permit in Sweden and the family's problems grows to not just financially. The idleness and hopelessness towards the future is almost worse and that can lead into dangerous paths.

Farliga vägar

1942

Narkos poster
6.0

A professor suffers an accident that disables him. He struggles to keep his courage, trying to understand and solve a conflict with his wife.

Narkos

1944

No artwork available
8.0

A mining engineer comes to the quiet village of Nimansberg in Bergslagen and tries to persuade the farmers to invest in mining.

Bergslagsfolk

1937

Hälsingar poster
8.0

Jonas goes with a tremendous speed with his horse over a country road in Hälsingland. Because of this speed Birgit Ljusnar, who is along the road picking blueberries, falls. Jonas stops and helps her up. He gives Birgit two Swedish crowns for the pain and the suffering. Furthermore, he promises her a job on the farm.

Hälsingar

1933

En kvinna ombord poster
5.7

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.

En kvinna ombord

1941

Så tuktas kärleken poster
7.0

Per is in love with Kerstin. They are high school classmates. In the distance they see teacher Eva Hallström, ph. d. and the headmaster's wife, return home to her home. She is currently a major topic of conversation because she has just published an acclaimed collection of love poems. Everyone is curious about who the young lover of the poems might be.

Så tuktas kärleken

1955

No artwork available
8.0

The comic misadventures of two young boys and an anti-militaristic grocer who are recruited under protest for naval training.

Kustens glada kavaljerer

1938

A Crime poster
5.4

A murder is committed in an apartment building in Stockholm. And afterward all clues point toward the Justice of the Supreme Court and his sons. But who did it? And why? And will they be able to live with the guilt?

A Crime

1940

The Girls from the Old Town poster
7.0

About two girls sharing an apartment in the Old Town of Stockholm.

The Girls from the Old Town

1934

Oss tjuvar emellan eller en burk ananas poster
8.0

Max Kvarne is an international adventurer who stole 25,000 pounds in 100-pound banknotes at a London coup.

Oss tjuvar emellan eller en burk ananas

1945

No artwork available
8.0

The farmer Österman travel to Stockholm to find a new worker.

Skärgårdsflirt

1935

Som du vill ha mej poster
8.0

The architect Gösta complains to Dr. Holm about his wife Gunilla's introverted character. Holm proposes a drug that will make her more outgoing.

Som du vill ha mej

1943

Vingar kring fyren poster
6.3

Just before the young Anna is getting married to the lighthouse keeper Holmstrand, she meets the Norwegian sailor John. He falls in love with her, but leaves her when he is told she is engaged.

Vingar kring fyren

1938

No artwork available
9.0

Lave decides to leave his hometown in order to escape murder suspicions. On his way to Killingdal, he gets right in the middle of a snow storm.

Snöstormen

1944