Malcolm Dixelius

Writing

Malcolm Dixelius

Born 1948-04-23

Johan Malcolm Dixelius is a Swedish journalist, filmmaker and a Russia connoisseur.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

The Horseman poster
5.2

A engaging and exotic man–nature documentary that is sure to capture audiences in many countries. Beautifully filmed by Peter Gerdehag and sensitively edited by Tell Johansson. He lives for horses, he lives with horses, he works with horses and he just about dies when he is forced to leave his horses because of a storm that turns his life upside down.

The Horseman

2006

Hästmannen – sista striden poster
NR

About a man's fierce battle with the authorities to keep his horses.

Hästmannen – sista striden

2014

Lasermannen poster
6.7

Armed with a laser sight rifle he spread fear among Stockholm's immigrant communities in the early 1990's. In the media he was named Lasermannen.

Lasermannen

2005

Crossroads poster
NR

Valery Liashkevich is a homeless artist who lives at a railway station and for over twenty years has painted pictures in the streets of the town of Gomel in Belarus. For the natives he is no more than a local attraction. For art critics he is a phenomenon worth close attention.

Crossroads

2014

CCCP Hockey poster
8.0

The Soviet hockey players Fetisov, Kasatonov, Krutov, Larionov and Makarov were "The Super Five". It is a tale of sacrifice and ruthless demands, and of the revolt against the system that was set in motion by Larionov and Fetisov, and aimed primarily at Viktor Tichonov.

CCCP Hockey

2004

Women with Cows poster
6.2

Britt is 77 years old and lives for her beloved cows. Despite being bent over double after a back injury, she perseveres with milking by hand and delivers to Arla. She is assisted by her sister Inger, who thinks "milking is the worst thing I've ever done" but still comes to the farm every day to help out.

Women with Cows

2011

A Bitter Taste of Freedom poster
5.0

In her quest to uncover the wrongdoings of the Russian authorities, Anna Politkovskaya inspired awe in some and fear in countless others. At age 48 she was assassinated for simply doing her job. This documentary is based on Anna's conversations with filmmaker Marina Goldovskaya, Anna's former university professor and personal friend. Shot over a period of 20 years, this exclusive footage creates an incredible story of a woman who consciously gave her life for her convictions.

A Bitter Taste of Freedom

2011

Vrak i Östersjön: förlorade för världen poster
8.5

No synopsis available yet.

Vrak i Östersjön: förlorade för världen

2015

Vrak i Östersjön: förlorade för världen poster
8.5

No synopsis available yet.

Vrak i Östersjön: förlorade för världen

2015

A secret poster
NR

One day, Sofi receives an unexpected call. An unknown brother makes himself known and Sofi realizes that the person she thought was her father is not at all. Sofi's newfound father Torbjörn turns out to have eight children and a retreat in India. While Sofi travels there, her mother Ann struggles with jealousy and guilt, and as a psychologist she tries to diagnose herself. Then follows a family drama where Ann, Sofi and Torbjörn clash and are forced to drill themselves into lies, denial and eventually perhaps even understanding. But what exactly is a lie? And can you miss a secret? In this dense documentary film by Viktor Nordenskiöld and Sofi Helleday, the viewer gets to witness up close the consequences of a 48-year-old secret for two families.

A secret

2023

The Gas Weapon poster
NR

Analysis of the impact of natural gas - more specifically, the Ukrainian and European dependence on Russian gas - on European politics in the wake of Euromaidan. Featuring interviews with high-level government officials, journalists and industry analysts from several countries, the film argues that a generation after its break from the USSR, Ukraine is independent in name only. To bring the country to its knees, all Russia has to do to is turn off the gas, as it did briefly in the winters of 2005 and 2009.

The Gas Weapon

2014

The Gas Weapon poster
NR

Analysis of the impact of natural gas - more specifically, the Ukrainian and European dependence on Russian gas - on European politics in the wake of Euromaidan. Featuring interviews with high-level government officials, journalists and industry analysts from several countries, the film argues that a generation after its break from the USSR, Ukraine is independent in name only. To bring the country to its knees, all Russia has to do to is turn off the gas, as it did briefly in the winters of 2005 and 2009.

The Gas Weapon

2014

The Eukrainian poster
8.5

Even as her nation battles for survival, Olha Stefanishyna, - a young minister - faces the monumental task of securing her country’s future in the EU, giving meaning to that very survival when peace returns.

The Eukrainian

2025

Yrke: Höjdhoppare - Filmen om Stefan Holm poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Yrke: Höjdhoppare - Filmen om Stefan Holm

2009

No artwork available
NR

"The Cuban colonel, the Russian general ... and the (near) downfall of the earth" : The Cuba crisis in 1962. Never before has the world been so close to a devastating nuclear war. For the first time, the story in place in Cuba is told by two people in the middle of the event. A road movie about the worst year of the Cold War.

Den kubanske översten, den ryske generalen och jordens (nära) undergång

2011

No artwork available
NR

"The Cuban colonel, the Russian general ... and the (near) downfall of the earth" : The Cuba crisis in 1962. Never before has the world been so close to a devastating nuclear war. For the first time, the story in place in Cuba is told by two people in the middle of the event. A road movie about the worst year of the Cold War.

Den kubanske översten, den ryske generalen och jordens (nära) undergång

2011

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Koenigsegg: Drömbilen och drömaffären

2009

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Koenigsegg: Drömbilen och drömaffären

2009

Return of the Ghost Ship poster
NR

Using the latest marine survey techniques, HD photography, and underwater communications, National Geographic reveals one of the oldest intact shipwrecks in the world, which will transform understanding of 17th century trading. In the tradition of Jacques Cousteau, journey on an amazing expedition, conquering the unfamiliar, inaccessible waters of the Baltic Sea, to reveal one of the most technologically advanced trading ships of that time and cast a new light on history.

Return of the Ghost Ship

2011

Return of the Ghost Ship poster
NR

Using the latest marine survey techniques, HD photography, and underwater communications, National Geographic reveals one of the oldest intact shipwrecks in the world, which will transform understanding of 17th century trading. In the tradition of Jacques Cousteau, journey on an amazing expedition, conquering the unfamiliar, inaccessible waters of the Baltic Sea, to reveal one of the most technologically advanced trading ships of that time and cast a new light on history.

Return of the Ghost Ship

2011