Gunnel Wadner

Acting

Gunnel Wadner

Born — Died

1921-01-08 — 2008-08-16

Place of birth

Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden

Known for

Acting

Credits

55 titles

Known for

Film credits

1970s · 12 titles

Thriller: A Cruel Picture poster
6.3

Madeleine, rendered mute after being sexually assaulted as a youth, accepts a lift from a wealthy and sadistic pimp who soon enslaves her into his prostitution racket. Despite her limited means, Madeleine embarks on a bloody road to revenge against her captors.

Thriller: A Cruel Picture

1973

Man on the Roof poster
7.1

When an inspector is murdered in hospital, the investigation led by Detective Martin Beck uncovers reports of misconduct and possibly revenge.

Man on the Roof

1976

91:an och generalernas fnatt poster
10.0

When private 91 "Mandel" Karlsson is appointed General due to a computer error, he tricks a foreign military attaché into believing that the Swedish defense has a new weapon that turns male soldiers into women.

91:an och generalernas fnatt

1977

Anderssonskans Kalle i busform poster
6.0

The kid Anderssonskans Kalle is a menace to his surroundings and this time he uses nails, fireworks and sneezing powder.

Anderssonskans Kalle i busform

1973

Misfire poster
7.5

A major routine explosion is to be carried out at a power plant, but it does not work properly.

Misfire

1978

Polare poster
5.1

Kent, Lasse, Olle and Sven are in their mid-twenties and have been friends since childhood. At a restaurant they meet two young women and one of them, Lena, becomes pregnant. Now, who is the father? Well, it's definitely not Kent, but the others convince him to accept the fatherhood.

Polare

1976

The Wedding poster
3.2

"The Marriage" - Eva and Kent are planning to get married. Their bridal stag parties causes some problems. The wedding reception will serve moonshine since the regular booze is capsized at sea.

The Wedding

1973

Anderssonskans Kalle poster
4.2

Anderssonskan's Kalle is the typical 'Söderkis'. It's a boy growing up on Söder in Stockholm and he is very fond of practical jokes. His mother sees him as a good natured boy but his victims, mostly the local policeman and two old crones in the same house, see him as the devil himself.

Anderssonskans Kalle

1972

The Office Party poster
5.3

Office executive Knut Levin decides to arrange a party at work. Things don't go exactly according to plan with hilarious results.

The Office Party

1972

The Stone Face poster
7.8

After losing his son in a traffic accident and his wife to mental illness, Harry moves to a gloomy Stockholm suburb. A local youth gang is harassing the neighborhood and Harry comes up with the idea of hiring the gang to kill the bureaucrats who are responsible for the construction of the suburb. The film is a fierce critique of the political project of building suburbs designed only for workers to sleep in and also wants to have a say in the debate over nature vs nurture.

The Stone Face

1973

Guttersnipes poster
6.9

Poor painter helps a paralysed child.

Guttersnipes

1974

Mackan poster
6.2

Mackan's real name is Margaret. She is 14 and moves a lot because her father is employed at the Railroad Company. In a small town she meets Kenneth. He is 18 and the coolest guy in town. Their relationship is a major triumph for Mackan.

Mackan

1977

1960s · 3 titles

1950s · 9 titles

Pimpernel Svensson poster
6.5

As Word War II ends and everyone is celebrating peace, farmer Anders Svensson recieves a message from his nephew Ville who was lost during the war. Anders learns that Ville was kept prisoner in a German camp, and is now stuck in the city of Stettin, occupied by the Soviet army. He decides to get his nephew home.

Pimpernel Svensson

1950

När syrenerna blomma poster
7.0

The 1880s. Abandoned by his middle class parents in Stockholm, Johannes grows up in the countryside with a cobbler who regularly beats him up. Also at school he has to face regular beatings because of his Stockholm background, the only one who cares for him is a girl, Lotta, who promises to marry him one day. When he's 20 he moves to Stockholm and joins the Royal guards at the Royal palace. Quite by accident he meets Lotta again and start an affair with her. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

När syrenerna blomma

1952

Östermans testamente poster
7.0

The fishermen Österman and Sjöberg are sued by merchant Wikström. In order to raise capital, they decide to start producing a medicine from a recipe by Österman's father.

Östermans testamente

1954

Resa i natten poster
9.0

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.

Resa i natten

1955

My Sister and I poster
5.7

The rich, aristocratic Katarina Hassel have an architect renovate her mansion. Katarina fall in love with the young architect, Gunnar Stenwall. Alas, he doesn't fall in love with her. But perhaps if Gunnar would meet her identical sister, who works in Stockholm as a waitress, he would fall in love with her instead? So Katarina travels to Stockholm to act as her non-existing sister.

My Sister and I

1950

Där möllorna gå... poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Där möllorna gå...

1956

Seventh Heaven poster
4.6

"Seventh Heaven" - Famous radio personality Willy Lorens has a big success with the radio series "Seventh Heaven." The amount of fan mail and attention eventually becomes too much for Willy, who suffers a minor collapse. Taken to a hospital where he meets Dr. Lovisa Sundelius, virtually the only woman in Sweden who do not admire the radio idol.

Seventh Heaven

1956

Loffe blir polis poster
7.0

The singing vagabond Loffe suddenly becomes a man of the law.

Loffe blir polis

1950

Helen of Troy poster
5.7

Intrigues and entanglements before Prince Paris wins the heart of beautiful Helena. It all happens in the small kingdom of Arcadia at the time of the Trojan War. Swedish version of Jacques Offenbach's operetta of the classic Greek myth.

Helen of Troy

1951

1940s · 28 titles

Flames in the Dark poster
6.3

Latin teacher Birger Sjögren at Ringsala boarding school threatens his possesive and chronically ill mother that he will get married. She gets a stroke and dies. Sjögren is affected by feelings of guilt, envy and hatred towards the surroundings. A series of mysterious fires have taken place around the school the last few months. One of the students has seen Sjögren setting fire to a barn. But can he convince the trusted biology teacher Nordmark, expert of the criminal mind?

Flames in the Dark

1942

Hur tokigt som helst poster
10.0

"How crazy!" A man and a woman watch episodes from Nils Poppe movies outside a cinema Maxim in Stockholm. Poppe represents, among other things, a poor composer who vainly tries to get a tune adopted by a publisher. The failure makes him depressed, but he is living it up by meeting a good friend Calle, who invites him home. Poppe stays for a few days as a male housewife. Calle has a music store and there the two friends can go crazy among all the instruments.

Hur tokigt som helst

1949

Hon trodde det var han poster
6.0

The famous author Mark Storm's publisher is unhappy with his books and asks him to write books in a more popular genre, crime for example. When Mark Storm comes to his apartment, he finds a burglar, Kurre. He notices that they have a physical similarity and they change identity, which makes it possible for Storm to make empirical studies in the world of crime.

Hon trodde det var han

1943

Jag dräpte poster
5.8

"I Slew" - Hospital drama of a doctor who thinks that he killed a patient on the operating table.

Jag dräpte

1943

Love, Sunshine and Songs poster
10.0

Two photographers from Stockholm go to the west coast on behalf of their employer, who is a swimwear manufacturer. They will look for the season's most beautiful bathing girl, but it will be harder than they think to find the ideal model.

Love, Sunshine and Songs

1948

Private Bom poster
5.4

The station-master Fabian Bom is a very meticulous person, and he makes sure that the trains leaves exactly - on the second. To him, nothing could be more important than duty, efficiency and punctuality, in fact, his sense of duty is clearly perverted. His beloved Plum-Plum, the major's daughter, is infatuated with army officers. To regain her attention, he joins the infantry. Bom becomes a soldier who loves the military training, long marches as well as hard labour as punishment. He meets Agnes, who falls madly in love with him.

Private Bom

1948

Prince Gustaf poster
8.0

In the middle of the 1800s Swedish prince Gustaf meets the actress Anna Maria Wastenius and falls in love with her, but it is an impossible love story due to the rules of society.

Prince Gustaf

1944

Like Everyone Else poster
6.5

Kurre and Inga are engaged to be married. However, as they are very poor, they can't afford it just yet. They live separate, both in small apartments with a friend. Inga works at an office and Kurre at a small factory. Inga has a liability to be late in the mornings and this gets her into some trouble at the office, because of her very strict boss. This, along with the fact that another girl starts to court Kurre puts their relationship to the test, a crisis which is easier said than done to solve.

Like Everyone Else

1944

The Sin of Anna Lans poster
7.3

At a meeting at the Salvation Army a female soldier tells the story of her life.

The Sin of Anna Lans

1943

Young Eagles poster
8.0

The spoiled Marianne has switched cocktail parties to flight lessons.

Young Eagles

1944

A Singing Girl poster
6.5

A girl (Alice Babs) from the country moves to Stockholm to become a singer.

A Singing Girl

1942

Happiness Is on Its Way poster
6.3

The idle rich have their own particular problems. Case in point, Georg and Monika Hedberg were once poor and happy but since Georg became an established painter family bliss has decreased for every fur coat Monika has bought. Their divorce lawyer suggest that they try to save their marriage by moving to a small apartment and live life frugally but happy. When the trial period is over and they want to return home again, their lawyer has stolen their money and disappeared. The Hedbergs are evicted for unpaid rent and terminal poverty seem to be imminent.

Happiness Is on Its Way

1942

91:an Karlssons permis poster
5.0

Private number 91 gets into more hijinks in this hilarious sequel.

91:an Karlssons permis

1947

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

Aktören poster
6.0

The actor Philip has an accident on the way to his own wedding and the shock makes him lose his voice.

Aktören

1943

The Station Master poster
7.0

Carl Malm is a goodhearted man who runs a railway station. He lives together with his maid and her seven kids.

The Station Master

1942

I brist på bevis poster
5.5

A drama about the manager Håkan Dahlin who has just been discharged from a clinic where he was treated for his alcoholism. In an outbreak of jealousy, Dahlin abuses his wife Inga and after that he is forcibly interned again. Inga is a nurse and she is now moving to a mountain village to work at a district clinic. During an emergency visit, she encounters her childhood sweetheart, the doctor Gunnar, and old feelings between them begin to flare up again.

I brist på bevis

1943

Gatan poster
6.7

Britt Malm gets hit by a car on a Stockholm street and is taken to hospital. She is badly injured and must undergo surgery. While the anesthetic takes effect she sees hallucinatory images. This turns into a flashback of what happened Britt before the accident.

Gatan

1949

Swing it, Boccaccio poster
5.5

The theater director Sten Rampe, Svend Blom and Ulrik Blad are on their way to Sten's summer house and suddenly get a flat tire. The fate brings them together with seven young women whose car has fallen out for the same accident.

Swing it, Boccaccio

1949

The Ghost Reporter poster
6.0

Augustus Blomkvist sells his sausage factory and buys the newspaper Stockholms-Posten where he starts working as a reporter under false name.

The Ghost Reporter

1941

Blyge Anton poster
7.0

Anton, a very shy bookkeeper, must show his mettle when him and his colleagues at work ask for a raise but instead are laid off.

Blyge Anton

1940

Tre glada tokar poster
8.0

The wealthy Rudolf Trane helps the unsuccessful vacuum-cleaner salesman Rhuter to find a girl called Marianne. Trane, Rhuter and Trane's manservant John pretend to be waiters when Marianne's family is having a large dinner.

Tre glada tokar

1942

Sin poster
4.0

Fredrik seduces the office girl Anna. She becomes helplessly passionately in love. Fredrik cheat Anna of all her savings. He intends to manufacture beauty products. To market the product he forge the signature of a wealthy aunt of Anna.

Sin

1948

Magistrarna på sommarlov poster
6.0

Inga Danell's summer vacation is near. But unfortunately both Inga and her brother Acke have bad grades and are forced to study by the help of a tutor.

Magistrarna på sommarlov

1941

Loffe som miljonär poster
9.0

The vagabond Loffe is drifting along the Swedish summer landscape.

Loffe som miljonär

1948

No artwork available
7.0

Loffe Fridh is out wandering the roads and takes life one day at the time.

Loffe på luffen

1948

Halta Lottas krog poster
7.0

A group of private soldiers arrives at the Service of the Air Defense. Some sweet army girls are located nearby.

Halta Lottas krog

1942

The Girl and the Devil poster
6.5

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.

The Girl and the Devil

1944

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