Anita Ekström

Acting

Anita Ekström

Born 1943-01-13 · Solna, Stockholms län, Sweden

Acting credits

Pirates of the Lake poster
6.0

It is the first day of the summer vacation. Jojje, Jerker and Fabian wants to borrow a sailing boat to take a boat trip so they steal it. They plan to examine all of Lake Maelaren, but a storm breaks out and the boat sinks. They go ashore, steal food and a new boat. While everybody else believes them to be dead, they have a wonderful time. They meet a crazy Count and find a dead body.

Pirates of the Lake

1987

Children's Island poster
6.3

Reine is supposed to go to a summer camp called Children's Island but decides to remain in Stockholm over the summer while his mother is working at a hospital. She thinks he is at the camp, and he tells her he is. We then follow him around Stockholm that summer and see what he encounters on the path of life.

Children's Island

1980

Their Frozen Dream poster
6.2

Poetic documentary about the polar expedition of S. A. Andrée which Troell had previously dramatized in "Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd" (1982).

Their Frozen Dream

1997

Der Schimmelreiter poster
8.0

After the death of his father, the ambitious farmhand Hauke Haien works his way up to become the successor to the old dyke count, whose daughter Elke he marries. He develops plans for the construction of a new dyke to provide better protection against storm surges, but encounters resistance and inertia from the villagers, who superstitiously suspect him of being in league with the devil. As a heavy storm approaches, he chases towards the floods with his white horse...

Der Schimmelreiter

1978

The Fire Engine That Disappeared poster
5.6

A routine mission ends up in a flaming inferno when a house suddenly explodes. It looks like a spectacular suicide attempt but the technical investigation reveals unexpected evidence. Beck and his men are soon on the tracks of a narcotic syndicate...

The Fire Engine That Disappeared

1993

Nattens lekar poster
NR

Åke lives under oppressive conditions. The father, a painter, spends his salary on drinking with his buddies.

Nattens lekar

1978

The Rooster poster
5.6

In 1944, Cederqvist comes to a small cloth factory to see how the all-women employees can work more efficiently. At the beginning he is greeted with suspicion and his efforts at courting the young ladies are futile. But as soon as he buys himself a car it becomes much easier, especially since he has the power to relocate people to an easier line of work. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

The Rooster

1981

1939 poster
4.9

When the war breaks out, Annika lives with her parents in Värmland, close to the border to Norway. Her cousin Harald is a dealer in the black market but has to escape from the police to Norway. Annika moves to Stockholm and gets a job as a waitress. She meets the happy-go-lucky Berit and together they have a wonderful time. She also meets a young man, Bengt, whom she marries. But almost immediately she discovers that her husband is different from the man who was courting her. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

1939

1989

Kamrer Gunnarsson i skärgården poster
6.2

Through a series of mishaps, the proper bank official Gunnarsson is forced to spend his first days of vacation in the archipelago of Stockholm, both in and out of the water.

Kamrer Gunnarsson i skärgården

1976

Det är din boll, Jim poster
NR

Jim Jansson is a woodcarver who gets retired.

Det är din boll, Jim

1978

I Am Maria poster
5.0

A story about a strange friendship between 11-year-old Maria and an older man Jon.

I Am Maria

1979

Jänken poster
6.5

Inger gets pregnant by an American man who then abandon her. Maskot moves in with Inger and she wants them to start a relationship, but Maskot has other plans. He and his friends conduct several robberies and uses Inger's apartment as hideaway.

Jänken

1970

Roseanna poster
6.1

A young American girl is found dead in Gota Kanal, Swedens largest channel. Since there are hardly any clues or evidence at all it seems as if the murder cant be solved. Martin Beck and his men are assigned to the case. Soon they find a likely suspect and together with a police woman they begin a cat and mouse game to catch him. Plot by Mattias Pettersson.

Roseanna

1993

No artwork available
NR

A man is assigned to measure out land for subdivision on an estate. People and animals behave strangely, and the man hears a strange story about a woman who disappeared without a trace from the estate twenty years earlier.

From the Dead

1990

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

Rat Winter poster
8.0

Two men pick up fourteen-year-old prostitutes girls. One of the girls begins to fight her client. A neighbor intervenes.

Rat Winter

1988

The Rabbit Man poster
5.0

Hans and Lollo just had their first child. Hans is a gym teacher and is constantly tormented by his pupils. Hans's dad Bengt, is a news reporter on TV9, the channel who shows "such as people want to see". Bengt's latest report series is about a rapist who likes little girls. Bengt begins to suspect Hans...

The Rabbit Man

1990

You're Lying! poster
6.0

About an alcohol-damaged young man, his life in and out of prison, his friend the art teacher and his difficulties reintegrating into society.

You're Lying!

1969

Shall We Go to Your or My Place or Each Go Home Alone? poster
5.9

Arne, Calle, and Gunnar are friends, probably in their twenties. One telephones the others, and they decide to visit a nightclub. They hope to meet women and have sex. After they arrive at the club, each man meets with a certain degree of success or failure. Calle particularly is frustrated, for no woman agrees to dance with him. Meanwhile, Arne and Gunnar are busily conversing with women. Eventually the friends all leave with lady friends in tow, and spend the night in various apartments. In the morning, the couples depart differently. One couple has bonded amicably, another tenuously, and the third not at all. The next day, the men reconnect, and decide to try their luck again. Written by veloc

Shall We Go to Your or My Place or Each Go Home Alone?

1973

A Handful of Love poster
4.7

Set against the backdrop of the 1909 general strike, Hjördis is employed as a housemaid in a wealthy Stockholm family.

A Handful of Love

1974

Lysistrate poster
10.0

The women of Athens plotting to end the war with Sparta by refusing to have sex until there is peace.

Lysistrate

1981

No artwork available
NR

Ticko, 6, is trying to come up with a way to visit the mother at her job as a veterinarian.

Ticko

1974

Behöriga äga ej tillträde poster
7.0

A partly fictional drama about Elsa Eschelsson, Sweden's first female lawyer.

Behöriga äga ej tillträde

1988