Johan Palmgren

Directing

Johan Palmgren

Born

1967-02-19 (59)

Place of birth

Uppsala, Sweden

Known for

Directing

Credits

37 titles

Known for

Brytbussen poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Brytbussen

2026

Displaced Perssons poster
7.0

Per Persson left Sweden 40 years ago. In Pakistan he fell in love and became the father of two daughters. Trouble starts when the girls grow up and the family decides to emigrate to Sweden. When they end up living in a caravan outside Hässleholm, all their expectations are dashed.

Displaced Perssons

2013

No artwork available
NR

The biggest ski race in the world is Vasaloppet in Sweden. 16 000 participants start in Sälen in the morning. It is 90 kilometers to the goal in Mora. What happens to all the people who do not manage? They have to jump on to the humiliating ”Bus of broken hearts”, the helping bus that transports them to the goal. This film is about hillarious, sad and terrible failures during the race and different ways to handle being a looser.

The Bus of Broken Hearts

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The Sex Temple poster
4.0

Robin ownes a beautiful old theatre in Norrköping, Sweden. There he lives with his husband. To solve a critical financial situation for the theatre, Robin puts up an equivoque burlesque show. In the middle of rehearsals he gets a phone call from Christian, the owner of a swingers club, who is in desperate need of new facilities because of a terrible fire that ruined his club. Renting out the cellar is a very interesting option for Robin and soon the two new friends start to cooperate while the town of Norrköping is in rage. The dream of Cristian is to make a big swingers party in the whole theatre and sometimes dreams come true.

The Sex Temple

2015

The Meteor poster
NR

A large iron meteorite is found by two enthusiasts. But who owns it? A subtle film about property rights that develops into a philosophical and slightly absurd story.

The Meteor

2024

The Flogsta Roar poster
8.0

The student campus Flogsta was built in Uppsala in the 1970s. Since then, the Flogsta roar has happened every evening at 22:00. This is the moment when hundreds of students unleash their anxiety at the same time and scream out of the windows. Probably a tradition unique in the world.

The Flogsta Roar

2013

Behind the camera

Brytbussen poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Brytbussen

2026

Displaced Perssons poster
7.0

Per Persson left Sweden 40 years ago. In Pakistan he fell in love and became the father of two daughters. Trouble starts when the girls grow up and the family decides to emigrate to Sweden. When they end up living in a caravan outside Hässleholm, all their expectations are dashed.

Displaced Perssons

2013

No artwork available
NR

The biggest ski race in the world is Vasaloppet in Sweden. 16 000 participants start in Sälen in the morning. It is 90 kilometers to the goal in Mora. What happens to all the people who do not manage? They have to jump on to the humiliating ”Bus of broken hearts”, the helping bus that transports them to the goal. This film is about hillarious, sad and terrible failures during the race and different ways to handle being a looser.

The Bus of Broken Hearts

—

No artwork available
NR

The biggest ski race in the world is Vasaloppet in Sweden. 16 000 participants start in Sälen in the morning. It is 90 kilometers to the goal in Mora. What happens to all the people who do not manage? They have to jump on to the humiliating ”Bus of broken hearts”, the helping bus that transports them to the goal. This film is about hillarious, sad and terrible failures during the race and different ways to handle being a looser.

The Bus of Broken Hearts

—

No artwork available
NR

The biggest ski race in the world is Vasaloppet in Sweden. 16 000 participants start in Sälen in the morning. It is 90 kilometers to the goal in Mora. What happens to all the people who do not manage? They have to jump on to the humiliating ”Bus of broken hearts”, the helping bus that transports them to the goal. This film is about hillarious, sad and terrible failures during the race and different ways to handle being a looser.

The Bus of Broken Hearts

—

The Sex Temple poster
4.0

Robin ownes a beautiful old theatre in Norrköping, Sweden. There he lives with his husband. To solve a critical financial situation for the theatre, Robin puts up an equivoque burlesque show. In the middle of rehearsals he gets a phone call from Christian, the owner of a swingers club, who is in desperate need of new facilities because of a terrible fire that ruined his club. Renting out the cellar is a very interesting option for Robin and soon the two new friends start to cooperate while the town of Norrköping is in rage. The dream of Cristian is to make a big swingers party in the whole theatre and sometimes dreams come true.

The Sex Temple

2015

The Sex Temple poster
4.0

Robin ownes a beautiful old theatre in Norrköping, Sweden. There he lives with his husband. To solve a critical financial situation for the theatre, Robin puts up an equivoque burlesque show. In the middle of rehearsals he gets a phone call from Christian, the owner of a swingers club, who is in desperate need of new facilities because of a terrible fire that ruined his club. Renting out the cellar is a very interesting option for Robin and soon the two new friends start to cooperate while the town of Norrköping is in rage. The dream of Cristian is to make a big swingers party in the whole theatre and sometimes dreams come true.

The Sex Temple

2015

The Sex Temple poster
4.0

Robin ownes a beautiful old theatre in Norrköping, Sweden. There he lives with his husband. To solve a critical financial situation for the theatre, Robin puts up an equivoque burlesque show. In the middle of rehearsals he gets a phone call from Christian, the owner of a swingers club, who is in desperate need of new facilities because of a terrible fire that ruined his club. Renting out the cellar is a very interesting option for Robin and soon the two new friends start to cooperate while the town of Norrköping is in rage. The dream of Cristian is to make a big swingers party in the whole theatre and sometimes dreams come true.

The Sex Temple

2015

The Meteor poster
NR

A large iron meteorite is found by two enthusiasts. But who owns it? A subtle film about property rights that develops into a philosophical and slightly absurd story.

The Meteor

2024

The Meteor poster
NR

A large iron meteorite is found by two enthusiasts. But who owns it? A subtle film about property rights that develops into a philosophical and slightly absurd story.

The Meteor

2024

The Flogsta Roar poster
8.0

The student campus Flogsta was built in Uppsala in the 1970s. Since then, the Flogsta roar has happened every evening at 22:00. This is the moment when hundreds of students unleash their anxiety at the same time and scream out of the windows. Probably a tradition unique in the world.

The Flogsta Roar

2013

The Traffic Separating Device poster
8.0

In order to rectify the poor bus accessibility at Slussen station in Stockholm, the city council, as per the municipal board’s recommendation, erects so-called ‘bus traps’ on the street.

The Traffic Separating Device

2020

The Traffic Separating Device poster
8.0

In order to rectify the poor bus accessibility at Slussen station in Stockholm, the city council, as per the municipal board’s recommendation, erects so-called ‘bus traps’ on the street.

The Traffic Separating Device

2020

The Slussen Misery poster
8.0

Filmmaker Johan Palmgren returns to Slussen in Stockholm and captures both major crises and small observations this special year.

The Slussen Misery

2020

The Slussen Misery poster
8.0

Filmmaker Johan Palmgren returns to Slussen in Stockholm and captures both major crises and small observations this special year.

The Slussen Misery

2020

No Angel poster
NR

Swedish documentary from 2019. Louie is a member of Hells Angels, something for which his family and perhaps especially his father the Pentecostal pastor has a hard time. And when Louie decides to pursue a career in the film industry, it creates some problems, as does his new colleagues. But leaving his old life does not prove to be as easy as Louie hoped, and sometimes he wonders if he will ever succeed. A film by Johan Palmgren.

No Angel

2019

No Angel poster
NR

Swedish documentary from 2019. Louie is a member of Hells Angels, something for which his family and perhaps especially his father the Pentecostal pastor has a hard time. And when Louie decides to pursue a career in the film industry, it creates some problems, as does his new colleagues. But leaving his old life does not prove to be as easy as Louie hoped, and sometimes he wonders if he will ever succeed. A film by Johan Palmgren.

No Angel

2019

Taxiklubben poster
NR

Allonias decides that enough is enough. He works 12-13 hours driving his taxi every day and still has no money left to pay for rent and clothes for their three children. He begins a battle against Sweden’s largest taxi company owned by billionaire Rolf Karlsson. It leads to Rolf Karlsson selling the entire empire for around 2-3 billion SEK. But for Allonias it has a high price…

Taxiklubben

2017

Taxiklubben poster
NR

Allonias decides that enough is enough. He works 12-13 hours driving his taxi every day and still has no money left to pay for rent and clothes for their three children. He begins a battle against Sweden’s largest taxi company owned by billionaire Rolf Karlsson. It leads to Rolf Karlsson selling the entire empire for around 2-3 billion SEK. But for Allonias it has a high price…

Taxiklubben

2017

Taxiklubben poster
NR

Allonias decides that enough is enough. He works 12-13 hours driving his taxi every day and still has no money left to pay for rent and clothes for their three children. He begins a battle against Sweden’s largest taxi company owned by billionaire Rolf Karlsson. It leads to Rolf Karlsson selling the entire empire for around 2-3 billion SEK. But for Allonias it has a high price…

Taxiklubben

2017

Vikarien poster
7.8

For the young, ambitious substitute teacher Max Wejstorp the chaos in his school in a Stockholm suburb ultimately becomes unbearable. He summons his old teacher and mentor, the now 73-year-old legend Folke Silvén from Lund in southern Sweden. How the teachers has got an increasingly untenable work situation is shown in a very direct way in "Vikarien".

Vikarien

2006

Vikarien poster
7.8

For the young, ambitious substitute teacher Max Wejstorp the chaos in his school in a Stockholm suburb ultimately becomes unbearable. He summons his old teacher and mentor, the now 73-year-old legend Folke Silvén from Lund in southern Sweden. How the teachers has got an increasingly untenable work situation is shown in a very direct way in "Vikarien".

Vikarien

2006

The Monster poster
NR

As a child, Elena had a fascination with the blood and gore of splatter movies. As she matured, this bloodlust became her dark and dirty little secret. We join her on a journey of discovery and awakening as she tries to come to terms with her very particular tastes.

The Monster

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Benny och kulturhuset poster
8.0

A portrait of Benny Fredriksson who for 16 years was CEO of Kulturhuset / Stadsteatern. He also had a background as an actor and director. In connection with a media hunt he resigned and later took his own life.

Benny och kulturhuset

2021

Benny och kulturhuset poster
8.0

A portrait of Benny Fredriksson who for 16 years was CEO of Kulturhuset / Stadsteatern. He also had a background as an actor and director. In connection with a media hunt he resigned and later took his own life.

Benny och kulturhuset

2021

Julen börjar i Gävle - en bockumentär poster
8.0

The straw goat in Gävle will turn 50 years old on Christmas 2016. The municipality is planning a big party and the goat builders are working hard to make the goat extra nice. The big question is whether it will burn down like so many times before. At the same time, the whole world is laughing at the phenomenon.

Julen börjar i Gävle - en bockumentär

2017

Julen börjar i Gävle - en bockumentär poster
8.0

The straw goat in Gävle will turn 50 years old on Christmas 2016. The municipality is planning a big party and the goat builders are working hard to make the goat extra nice. The big question is whether it will burn down like so many times before. At the same time, the whole world is laughing at the phenomenon.

Julen börjar i Gävle - en bockumentär

2017

Julen börjar i Gävle - en bockumentär poster
8.0

The straw goat in Gävle will turn 50 years old on Christmas 2016. The municipality is planning a big party and the goat builders are working hard to make the goat extra nice. The big question is whether it will burn down like so many times before. At the same time, the whole world is laughing at the phenomenon.

Julen börjar i Gävle - en bockumentär

2017

Anders & Harri poster
NR

Anders and Harri are best friends. They share an interest in music. Anders is also very fond of trains. They decide to go to Getå, where the biggest train-accident in Sweden took place in 1918. Suddenly there is music in the air. A film about friendship, fears and trains.

Anders & Harri

2008

Tjuren Ferdinand - Den sanna historien poster
6.5

Ferdinand the bull was real. And everything was just like in the fairy tale. But the ending was something completely different. Meet the family who cuddled with the friendly bull in the paddock, the grandson of the keeper who accompanied him on the fateful journey to the arena, and the man who actually saw the bullfight in 1936 and has never been able to forget it. They all have their own story. And of course, we meet the beloved bull in a unique newly discovered film.

Tjuren Ferdinand - Den sanna historien

2014

Bedragaren poster
NR

The film follows the tracks of a master fraudster, impersonator and Ponzi schemer who, among other exploits, coached the Hungarian ladies' swimming team to success at international championships without being able to swim himself and, a few years later, claimed to be an archbishop and buyer of antique paintings for the Vatican Museum. In both cases, he made many acquaintances, came across as engaging and helpful but finally vanished with millions in cash. Interviews with people who encountered the man and were duped by him, though despite this and despite losing money, many of them retain a humorous feeling about what happened.

Bedragaren

2008

No artwork available
NR

A world all on its own of humour, warmth and love: Between a boy and his bedridden grandfather there is deep friendship. The aging man has a secret he wants to share with his grandson; together they make for the woods on a final adventure.

Grandpa & Me and a Helicopter to Heaven

2013

Solitary Road poster
6.4

Constructed in 1955 to initially connect Kiruna in Sweden to Altavatn in Norway, the work with the Solitary road was stopped for military reasons. Five small villages had been connected by the road and they were left with a deserted 20 km stretch in the wilderness. Along the road Sami people and finish farmers continue their lives. They still have the road and they have brought really old cars over the ice of Torneträsk so they could drive during summer time. One of the old men that built the road, Sven-Erik Stöckel, writes a letter to the politicians in Kiruna, asking them to finish the road so people do not have to risk their lives getting to the road crossing the dangerous lake of Torneträsk. Will it ever be finished? And what happened to the children that were born as a result of the road workers coming into the wilderness meeting the local girls?

Solitary Road

2024

Solitary Road poster
6.4

Constructed in 1955 to initially connect Kiruna in Sweden to Altavatn in Norway, the work with the Solitary road was stopped for military reasons. Five small villages had been connected by the road and they were left with a deserted 20 km stretch in the wilderness. Along the road Sami people and finish farmers continue their lives. They still have the road and they have brought really old cars over the ice of Torneträsk so they could drive during summer time. One of the old men that built the road, Sven-Erik Stöckel, writes a letter to the politicians in Kiruna, asking them to finish the road so people do not have to risk their lives getting to the road crossing the dangerous lake of Torneträsk. Will it ever be finished? And what happened to the children that were born as a result of the road workers coming into the wilderness meeting the local girls?

Solitary Road

2024

Endless Love poster
1.0

At his death bed their amazing love story unfolds. Ebba and Torgny reunited 90 years old, after 60 years apart.

Endless Love

2010

Ebba & Torgny and Love's Wondrous Ways poster
NR

Torgny proposed to Ebba when they were 20. Her father put a stop to it. 60 years later they meet again.

Ebba & Torgny and Love's Wondrous Ways

2003

No artwork available
NR

Slussen is a lock interfoiled with a complicated net of roads in the town center of Stockholm. When it was built in 1935 it was a land mark for the New Sweden that was about to evolve. Now it is dirty, run down, hated but also loved and by many thought to be worth restoring. This is the place for the story about the people who live their lives around Slussen: The Brittish architects of Fosters that sit in the middle of the lock planning to build a completely new Slussen while the demonstrations are going on outside their door. The lock keeper Nina who has a heart for everyone. The bartender Jacob who thinks about what happened to the Swedish society that used to be a role model in the world, looking down at Slussen from the luxury restaurant Gondolen. And under a bridge by the lock the Swedish homeless friends Pekka and Mats share their everyday life with Polish Tomaz and Anja who drink too much vodka.

Tales of Slussen

2012