Bengt Eklund

Acting

Bengt Eklund

Born — Died

1925-01-18 — 1998-01-19

Place of birth

Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden

Known for

Acting

Credits

51 titles

Known for

Shame poster
7.5

In the midst of a civil war, a pair of former violinists in a tempestuous marriage oversee a farm on a rural island. In spite of their best efforts to escape their homeland, the war impinges on every aspect of their lives.

Shame

1968

Pippi Goes on Board poster
6.6

Pippi Longstocking lives alone in Villekulla because her mother is an angel in heaven and her father is a pirate king in the Southern Seas. She befriends her next door neighbors, siblings Tommy and Annika, who are swept into Pippi's wild adventures.

Pippi Goes on Board

1969

Tjorven, Batsman, and Moses poster
6.0

Vesterman has found a young seal in his fishing nets in the outskirts of the archipelago. When he comes back to the Saltkråkan island he gives the seal to Tjorven, who names it Moses. Peter Malm, a visitor who works at the Zoological Institute in Uppsala, wants to buy the seal, but Tjorven says it's not for sale. Vesterman is in need of money and tries to get the seal back, to sell it to Peter. The children have to hide the seal, so he won't find it. Pelle's rabbit Jocke and one of Söderman's lambs are found bitten to death. The dog Båtsman is accused of those evil deeds, which means that Tjorven's father has to shoot her dog. In the last minute Söderman finds out that a fox is the perpetrator. Peter Malm says he won't buy the seal. Vesterman is disappointed and the seal stays with the children.

Tjorven, Batsman, and Moses

1964

Tjorven and Mysak poster
6.4

Tjorven and the other children at Seacrow island have received a play day in a gift. Uncle Melker will find himself ending up in the lake several times. The kids also have found an old ship that will be named Albertina. They divide themselves into two pirate gangs and fights about the wishing stone Mysak.

Tjorven and Mysak

1966

Godnatt, jord poster
7.0

Depicts "Statarna", the Swedish agricultural proletarians, set during the early 1900s. An institutionalized brutality of oppression and poverty surrounded by a beautiful and silent countryside.

Godnatt, jord

1979

Summer with Monika poster
7.3

One summer day, two teens begin a reckless affair and abandon their families to be with one another.

Summer with Monika

1953

Film credits

1960s · 13 titles

Shame poster
7.5

In the midst of a civil war, a pair of former violinists in a tempestuous marriage oversee a farm on a rural island. In spite of their best efforts to escape their homeland, the war impinges on every aspect of their lives.

Shame

1968

Pippi Goes on Board poster
6.6

Pippi Longstocking lives alone in Villekulla because her mother is an angel in heaven and her father is a pirate king in the Southern Seas. She befriends her next door neighbors, siblings Tommy and Annika, who are swept into Pippi's wild adventures.

Pippi Goes on Board

1969

Tjorven, Batsman, and Moses poster
6.0

Vesterman has found a young seal in his fishing nets in the outskirts of the archipelago. When he comes back to the Saltkråkan island he gives the seal to Tjorven, who names it Moses. Peter Malm, a visitor who works at the Zoological Institute in Uppsala, wants to buy the seal, but Tjorven says it's not for sale. Vesterman is in need of money and tries to get the seal back, to sell it to Peter. The children have to hide the seal, so he won't find it. Pelle's rabbit Jocke and one of Söderman's lambs are found bitten to death. The dog Båtsman is accused of those evil deeds, which means that Tjorven's father has to shoot her dog. In the last minute Söderman finds out that a fox is the perpetrator. Peter Malm says he won't buy the seal. Vesterman is disappointed and the seal stays with the children.

Tjorven, Batsman, and Moses

1964

Tjorven and Mysak poster
6.4

Tjorven and the other children at Seacrow island have received a play day in a gift. Uncle Melker will find himself ending up in the lake several times. The kids also have found an old ship that will be named Albertina. They divide themselves into two pirate gangs and fights about the wishing stone Mysak.

Tjorven and Mysak

1966

Skrallan, Ruskprick and Gurnard poster
6.1

The children of Seacrow Island take a public ferry to visit a relative only to find that she has went to hospital. When they try to row back home they lose the oars and must take refuge on a desolate island. 4-year-old Skrallan is the first to discover that two colorful smugglers are hiding on the island.

Skrallan, Ruskprick and Gurnard

1967

Tjorven and Skrallan poster
5.9

The residents of Seacrow island get new problems when Malin and Peter get their first child - Skrållan.

Tjorven and Skrallan

1965

The Doll poster
6.3

A lonely nightwatchman at a department store develops a fixation on one of the store's mannequins. He soon steals her and takes her to his home, where he can be with her all the time. One day, she comes to life...

The Doll

1962

Lita på mej, älskling! poster
6.0

Anna and Karl are a young couple in Stockholm, unable to find an apartment of their own. However, they play matchmakers to make their friends Fredrik and Ulla to get together, getting an apartment of their own that way. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

Lita på mej, älskling!

1961

Life on Seacrow Island poster
5.7

A writer spends the summer holidays with his children on an island. The family grows together through friendships with humans and animals and through adventures.

Life on Seacrow Island

1968

No artwork available
NR

The material is taken from the exhibition 'Konstnärernas' (Artists) Stockholm in Liljewalch's art gallery in autumn 1963, with paintings from 1583 to the present day.

Portrait of Stockholm - A Walk Through 5 Centuries

1964

The Heist poster
6.1

Four young criminals are planning a heist against a racecourse and in order to obtain a seed capital they rob a gambling den. They celebrate the successful heist by throwing a party but it turns out to be a lot of disagreement within the group.

The Heist

1961

The Man Who Lived his Life Over poster
9.0

A drama about a person who gets the opportunity many dream of, to relive his life. In his past he committed a crime. It must not happen again. Now everything will surely be different.

The Man Who Lived his Life Over

1961

The D.T.'s poster
7.0

An eccentric, offbeat man performing pranks and peculiarities becomes a major concern for the Stockholm authorities. He mingles with bizarre slum characters and dreams of his ideal girl.

The D.T.'s

1966

1950s · 19 titles

Summer with Monika poster
7.3

One summer day, two teens begin a reckless affair and abandon their families to be with one another.

Summer with Monika

1953

Miss April poster
7.3

The banker Marcus falls in love with the young ballet-dancer Maj who works at the opera. To meet her he takes a job there but Maj is in love with Osvald Berg, the big star of the opera. To wake Osvald's interest for her she asks Marcus if he could play deeply in love with her. Plot summary by nL.

Miss April

1958

No artwork available
10.0

A triangle drama - directly from hell. The door to hell closes. A hell that the purgatory or physical torture. An inferno where the guests themselves must serve as each other's executioner.

Closed Doors

1959

No artwork available
NR

A boy lies and dreams in his bed in the kitchen, wakes up and takes a kitchen knife with him to bed and falls asleep. He dreams that he kills everyone at a game table, except for his father, whom he takes out on a tram ride. The boy wakes up again and waits for the father to come home and when he does, the mother and the father quarrel about something. The morning comes and the boy goes out, finally ends up at the beer café where the father and his beer friends are sitting.

Nattens lekar

1955

Två trappor över gården poster
8.0

The rootless, misfit artist Bengt Hallberg escapes from a mental hospital. The head doctor believes him to be a hopeless case and dangerous for the environment. Bengt looks up Inga Larsson, the only person that matters to him.

Två trappor över gården

1950

Laila poster
7.0

Winter in Lapland, a settler and his wife just had their newborn daughter baptized. On the way home through the wilderness, they are chased by a pack of wolves. The little baby falls out of the sledge and parents plunges off a cliff.

Laila

1958

Crime in Paradise poster
7.0

While four men blow up a safe, a night watchman is accidentally killed. They get away with the loot. Ten years later, the stepson of the dead night watchman receives vital information.

Crime in Paradise

1959

Hon kom som en vind poster
6.7

"She Came Like a Wind" - Fabian Rosander works at a factory and is close to 50 years old. When a new employee named Lilly, a young beautiful girl, comes to the factory Fabians life takes a new turn.

Hon kom som en vind

1952

Kyssen på kryssen poster
5.5

Lasse Brenner is a serious filmmaker (spoof on Ingmar Bergman) who is forced to direct a lighthearted comedy. The filming takes place in different cities across Europe and North Africa so Brenner and the crew have to sail on a cruse ship. Brenner's wife suspects he has an affair with the lead actress, so she also boards the ship undercover to keep an eye on him.

Kyssen på kryssen

1950

Tarp's Elin poster
9.0

Elin Tarp is an unmarried mother with three children who lives a hard life in the countryside.

Tarp's Elin

1956

It Is Never Too Late poster
6.0

Görel and Arne are about to get a divorce. Görel thinks back on how history has repeated itself within her family.

It Is Never Too Late

1956

Mord, lilla vän poster
6.0

A member of "Sjöbjörnarna" (a group of executives), asks the newspaper editor Dick Mattson to find Brita Ljungdahl, the former wife of another of the members. The first clue he tries is to ask a certain Maria Vaern, who knows Brita.

Mord, lilla vän

1955

Rolling Sea poster
8.0

"Rolling Sea" - After a longer stay at the hospital, the young Martin comes to Gothenburg and notice that his fiancee Sonja has met another man.

Rolling Sea

1950

No artwork available
7.0

First Swedish puppet film. A witch offers a soldier a wealthy life if he retrieves a tinderbox from a hollow tree.

The Tinderbox

1951

Sir Arne's Treasure poster
6.3

Three Scottish noblemen escape from Gripsholm Castle and break into the home of Lord Arne. They kill everyone except for Lord Arne's adopted daughter Elsalill.

Sir Arne's Treasure

1954

Männen i mörker poster
9.0

When the men in the small mining community go to work, it is like any other day. They do not yet know that an accident will change everything.

Männen i mörker

1955

Moon Over Hellesta poster
5.0

Margareta, newly engaged with count Carl Anckarberg, visits his estate for the first time. During the visit she gets to know that his last fiancee died in a mysterious accident and she sets out to discover what really happened. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

Moon Over Hellesta

1956

No artwork available
NR

A man meets prisoner Nils Gustaf Boman and asks him why he strayed from the straight and narrow. The prisoner says: "Put yourself in my position." The man does and sees before him himself as Nils Gustaf Boman.

Children of the Night

1956

Skeppare i blåsväder poster
7.0

The story of the aging fisherman Alex who refuses to realize that his boat needs to be replaced.

Skeppare i blåsväder

1951

1940s · 11 titles

Port of Call poster
6.6

A suicidal factory girl, just out of reformatory school and anxious to escape her overbearing mother, falls in love with a sailor who can't forgive her past.

Port of Call

1948

Thirst poster
6.3

A fractured portrait of desire and isolation, following a failing marriage and parallel stories of emotional entrapment as memories surface during a train journey through postwar Europe. Told through flashbacks and multiple narrative threads, the film signals Ingmar Bergman’s emerging mature style.

Thirst

1949

Music in Darkness poster
6.2

In postwar Sweden, a gifted young pianist’s life is transformed after a tragic accident leaves him blind. Struggling with bitterness, isolation, and the loss of his former world, he finds unexpected support and companionship from a compassionate young woman who helps him rebuild his sense of purpose. As their relationship deepens over the years, both must confront questions of pride, class, and emotional vulnerability in order to move forward.

Music in Darkness

1948

The Balloon poster
7.5

Sten Stensson Stéen dies when he gets a wooden box in his head, and he enters heaven in a balloon.

The Balloon

1946

När ängarna blommar poster
7.0

The farm workers at Näs Farm, lead by Hellman, go on strike, demanding that their employer recognize their labor union. But he calls on strike-breakers to perform the farm work. Hellman's son Gunnar is a hothead who easily gets in trouble.

När ängarna blommar

1946

Railroad Workers poster
9.0

The north of Sweden in 1902. A team of railroad men are building a rail road from Luleå at the Bay of Bothnia to Narvik at the Norwegian Sea. One of the newest workers, Valfrid from the south of Sweden, is not accepted by neither Stora Ballong, the informal leader of the workers, nor the others. They refuse to talk to him but instead Valfrid gets help from the sworn enemy of the railroad workers: the greedy drugstore owner Blom.

Railroad Workers

1947

Du har blivit krigsman poster
NR

film about Swedish conscripts

Du har blivit krigsman

1949

No artwork available
3.3

A married priest woos a seamstress.

Life Starts Now

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

Krigsmans erinran poster
7.0

Jocke gets leave from the military to travel home to get married.

Krigsmans erinran

1947

Harald Handfaste poster
6.0

Harald Handfaste is a 15th century Swedish Robin Hood, who fights against foreign oppression. He becomes the leader of a band of highwaymen and they start dealing with the evil bailiff. However, the bailiff will stop at nothing to catch Handfaste and show the people who is in charge. He even attempts to marry Handfaste's beloved Karin, and when she refuses to subdue, the bailiff decides to execute both her, her father and a monk who has been helping them.

Harald Handfaste

1946

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