Solveig Nordlund

Directing

Solveig Nordlund

Born

1943-06-09 (83)

Place of birth

Stockholm, Sweden

Known for

Directing

Credits

41 titles

Solveig Agneta Nordlund Seixas Dos Santos (née Solveig Agneta Nordlund on 9 June 1943) grew up in Stockholm and has a BA degree in Art History from the University of Stockholm. In 1962, she met Alberto Seixas Dos Santos, whom she married, and her interest in cinema grew. In 1970, this interest transformed into a profession when she became an assistant on several films: Quem Espera por Sapatos de Defunto Morre Descalço by João César Monteiro (1969–1970), O Recado by José Fonseca e Costa (1970–1971), Pedro Só by Alfredo Tropa (1970–1971), and Fragmentos de Um Filme-Esmola by João César Monteiro (1972). With Brandos Costumes, by Alberto Seixas Santos (1973–1974), her name began to enter the cre…

Known for

Low-Flying Aircraft poster
6.1

Based on a the short story "Low Flying Aircraft" by J.G. Ballard and set in a near future where humans are dying breed. Judite and André flee to a semi-abandoned apartment complex to protect their mutant child from certain death.

Low-Flying Aircraft

2002

Keillers Park poster
4.8

Swedish drama based loosely on a true story. Marten Klingberg plays Peter, an engaged man who finds himself attracted to a gay man called Nassim (Pjotr Giro). Peter's life is suddenly transformed from one of married domestic routine to one of passionate lust and longing for his new gay lover. However, things take a tragic turn when Nassim is discovered dead and Peter is accused of his murder.

Keillers Park

2006

Memoirs of Teatro da Cornucópia poster
NR

A renowned symbol of Portuguese interventionist theatre, Cornucópia emerged from the darkness of fascism to fight dictatorship on stage. Among the classics, a project is born and dies, but one face remains emblematic: Luís Miguel Cintra, who shared his art with the constant complicity of set designer Cristina Reis. Together, guided by images, they bear witness, telling this story.

Memoirs of Teatro da Cornucópia

2025

Tomorrow poster
10.0

Nuno, a boy of nine, runs away from home on the night of the 24th of April 1974. He hides in a mysterious building that is being abandoned in great haste. People are running down the stairs, cars are leaving, finally Nuno and a dog are the only ones left. They become friends and fall asleep together. In the morning they wake up with screams from the street. Nuno thinks that it is his mother calling for him and runs to the window. The street its full of people, tanks and soldiers. It’s the 25th of April. And Nuno believes that it was his mother who made the revolution just to find him.

Tomorrow

2003

Chronicler of the Winds poster
6.2

Based on the book by Henning Mankell (Sweden), this story takes place in Mozambique and is about a young boy, Nelio, who loses his entire family during a time of civil war. A wounded Nelio is found by a baker in the capital Mapouto; refusing medical treatment, the boy instead asks for sanctuary so he can tell his terrible tale. This he proceeds to do, starting with how the fighters arrived in his village and slaughtered many, to his captivity, his escape and his teaming with other orphaned street urchins to become their leader in survival.

Chronicler of the Winds

1998

No artwork available
NR

A train trip with a mother and her son, to whom she speaks.

Trip to Happiness

1978

Film credits

Behind the camera

Low-Flying Aircraft poster
6.1

Based on a the short story "Low Flying Aircraft" by J.G. Ballard and set in a near future where humans are dying breed. Judite and André flee to a semi-abandoned apartment complex to protect their mutant child from certain death.

Low-Flying Aircraft

2002

Low-Flying Aircraft poster
6.1

Based on a the short story "Low Flying Aircraft" by J.G. Ballard and set in a near future where humans are dying breed. Judite and André flee to a semi-abandoned apartment complex to protect their mutant child from certain death.

Low-Flying Aircraft

2002

Low-Flying Aircraft poster
6.1

Based on a the short story "Low Flying Aircraft" by J.G. Ballard and set in a near future where humans are dying breed. Judite and André flee to a semi-abandoned apartment complex to protect their mutant child from certain death.

Low-Flying Aircraft

2002

Keillers Park poster
4.8

Swedish drama based loosely on a true story. Marten Klingberg plays Peter, an engaged man who finds himself attracted to a gay man called Nassim (Pjotr Giro). Peter's life is suddenly transformed from one of married domestic routine to one of passionate lust and longing for his new gay lover. However, things take a tragic turn when Nassim is discovered dead and Peter is accused of his murder.

Keillers Park

2006

Memoirs of Teatro da Cornucópia poster
NR

A renowned symbol of Portuguese interventionist theatre, Cornucópia emerged from the darkness of fascism to fight dictatorship on stage. Among the classics, a project is born and dies, but one face remains emblematic: Luís Miguel Cintra, who shared his art with the constant complicity of set designer Cristina Reis. Together, guided by images, they bear witness, telling this story.

Memoirs of Teatro da Cornucópia

2025

Memoirs of Teatro da Cornucópia poster
NR

A renowned symbol of Portuguese interventionist theatre, Cornucópia emerged from the darkness of fascism to fight dictatorship on stage. Among the classics, a project is born and dies, but one face remains emblematic: Luís Miguel Cintra, who shared his art with the constant complicity of set designer Cristina Reis. Together, guided by images, they bear witness, telling this story.

Memoirs of Teatro da Cornucópia

2025

Tomorrow poster
10.0

Nuno, a boy of nine, runs away from home on the night of the 24th of April 1974. He hides in a mysterious building that is being abandoned in great haste. People are running down the stairs, cars are leaving, finally Nuno and a dog are the only ones left. They become friends and fall asleep together. In the morning they wake up with screams from the street. Nuno thinks that it is his mother calling for him and runs to the window. The street its full of people, tanks and soldiers. It’s the 25th of April. And Nuno believes that it was his mother who made the revolution just to find him.

Tomorrow

2003

Tomorrow poster
10.0

Nuno, a boy of nine, runs away from home on the night of the 24th of April 1974. He hides in a mysterious building that is being abandoned in great haste. People are running down the stairs, cars are leaving, finally Nuno and a dog are the only ones left. They become friends and fall asleep together. In the morning they wake up with screams from the street. Nuno thinks that it is his mother calling for him and runs to the window. The street its full of people, tanks and soldiers. It’s the 25th of April. And Nuno believes that it was his mother who made the revolution just to find him.

Tomorrow

2003

Chronicler of the Winds poster
6.2

Based on the book by Henning Mankell (Sweden), this story takes place in Mozambique and is about a young boy, Nelio, who loses his entire family during a time of civil war. A wounded Nelio is found by a baker in the capital Mapouto; refusing medical treatment, the boy instead asks for sanctuary so he can tell his terrible tale. This he proceeds to do, starting with how the fighters arrived in his village and slaughtered many, to his captivity, his escape and his teaming with other orphaned street urchins to become their leader in survival.

Chronicler of the Winds

1998

Chronicler of the Winds poster
6.2

Based on the book by Henning Mankell (Sweden), this story takes place in Mozambique and is about a young boy, Nelio, who loses his entire family during a time of civil war. A wounded Nelio is found by a baker in the capital Mapouto; refusing medical treatment, the boy instead asks for sanctuary so he can tell his terrible tale. This he proceeds to do, starting with how the fighters arrived in his village and slaughtered many, to his captivity, his escape and his teaming with other orphaned street urchins to become their leader in survival.

Chronicler of the Winds

1998

Chronicler of the Winds poster
6.2

Based on the book by Henning Mankell (Sweden), this story takes place in Mozambique and is about a young boy, Nelio, who loses his entire family during a time of civil war. A wounded Nelio is found by a baker in the capital Mapouto; refusing medical treatment, the boy instead asks for sanctuary so he can tell his terrible tale. This he proceeds to do, starting with how the fighters arrived in his village and slaughtered many, to his captivity, his escape and his teaming with other orphaned street urchins to become their leader in survival.

Chronicler of the Winds

1998

No artwork available
NR

A train trip with a mother and her son, to whom she speaks.

Trip to Happiness

1978

No artwork available
NR

A train trip with a mother and her son, to whom she speaks.

Trip to Happiness

1978

Dina and Django poster
6.0

Dina (Maria Santiago) is a teenager brought up by her grandmother, employed as a housekeeper for a fairly well-off family. Since Dina only has her grandmother, she spends her time fantasizing about her life and reading comic-book love stories -- activities that do nothing to improve her dim perspective of reality. Due to these handicaps and her own inexperience, she gets involved with Django (Luis Lucas), a shady character who decides to use her as bait to attract men and then rob them. One day when both are in a taxi with robbery in mind, the driver gets suspicious so Django shoots him, and so does Dina. She escapes and runs away -- though it seems like she has learned too little too late. This story unfolds against a time of upheaval in Portugal (mid-1970s) when the military government is formulating a constitution and social changes are happening everywhere.

Dina and Django

1983

Dina and Django poster
6.0

Dina (Maria Santiago) is a teenager brought up by her grandmother, employed as a housekeeper for a fairly well-off family. Since Dina only has her grandmother, she spends her time fantasizing about her life and reading comic-book love stories -- activities that do nothing to improve her dim perspective of reality. Due to these handicaps and her own inexperience, she gets involved with Django (Luis Lucas), a shady character who decides to use her as bait to attract men and then rob them. One day when both are in a taxi with robbery in mind, the driver gets suspicious so Django shoots him, and so does Dina. She escapes and runs away -- though it seems like she has learned too little too late. This story unfolds against a time of upheaval in Portugal (mid-1970s) when the military government is formulating a constitution and social changes are happening everywhere.

Dina and Django

1983

The Death of Carlos Gardel poster
6.5

Nuno is the son of divorced parents. He lives a nomadic existence with his father: he lost all his friends and never stays long enough anywhere to make new friends. Now Nuno has become a drug addict, he’s in hospital, in a coma struggling between life and death. His father and his father’s sister remain by his bedside. The three separately evoke requests from the past and other characters they meet also complement their current life experiences and memories. Based on the novel by António Lobo Antunes.

The Death of Carlos Gardel

2011

The Death of Carlos Gardel poster
6.5

Nuno is the son of divorced parents. He lives a nomadic existence with his father: he lost all his friends and never stays long enough anywhere to make new friends. Now Nuno has become a drug addict, he’s in hospital, in a coma struggling between life and death. His father and his father’s sister remain by his bedside. The three separately evoke requests from the past and other characters they meet also complement their current life experiences and memories. Based on the novel by António Lobo Antunes.

The Death of Carlos Gardel

2011

E Não se Pode Exterminá-lo? poster
NR

The film of a performance of a selection of cabaret comedy sketches by Karl Valentin, with Jorge Silva Melo as stage director. The show was a complete success and has become almost legendary. Solveig Nordlund shot it, adding some more sketches that weren’t included on the show.

E Não se Pode Exterminá-lo?

1979

No artwork available
9.0

The life of a drug abuser through messages on his answering machine.

Spellbound

1995

I Am the Author of My Name Mia Couto poster
NR

A documentary overview on the life and work of the writer Mia Couto.

I Am the Author of My Name Mia Couto

2019

No artwork available
NR

Woman packs up her things to go to an elderly care facility, and talks.

New Perspectives

1979

O Meu Outro País poster
NR

Biographical documentary Solveig Nordlund says that 50 years of life in Portugal. The evolution of Portugal from fascism to the current crisis. A retrospective of his life in Portugal through their films or films in which collaborated. A personal look at the transformation of a country that is not his but who adopted her.

O Meu Outro País

2014

O Meu Outro País poster
NR

Biographical documentary Solveig Nordlund says that 50 years of life in Portugal. The evolution of Portugal from fascism to the current crisis. A retrospective of his life in Portugal through their films or films in which collaborated. A personal look at the transformation of a country that is not his but who adopted her.

O Meu Outro País

2014

The People's Struggle poster
NR

The film serves as a social document, focusing on a literacy campaign carried out within a Portuguese agricultural cooperative

The People's Struggle

1976

No artwork available
6.5

In 1984, ten Swedish directors joined together in the trading company Filmgrupp 10 HB to jointly produce a period document in the form of film.

1985 - Vad hände katten i råttans år?

1985

The Daughter poster
7.0

Ricardo Monteiro is a successful television producer specialising in reality shows. He is 45 years old and he has just received an award for the most popular television show of the year, when he receives an ultimatum from his 18-year-old daughter Leonor. If he does not come home that same evening to celebrate her birthday he will never see her again. Ricardo is distracted by business or other commitments and he is too late for the last flight home. When he returns next day the apartment is empty and Leonor is gone. At first Ricardo thinks that it is only a game, but there are no phone calls or messages and after a while he gets worried and starts looking for her. He discovers that she has quit school without telling him and that she has lost all contact with her old friends. She has become a complete stranger.

The Daughter

2003

The Daughter poster
7.0

Ricardo Monteiro is a successful television producer specialising in reality shows. He is 45 years old and he has just received an award for the most popular television show of the year, when he receives an ultimatum from his 18-year-old daughter Leonor. If he does not come home that same evening to celebrate her birthday he will never see her again. Ricardo is distracted by business or other commitments and he is too late for the last flight home. When he returns next day the apartment is empty and Leonor is gone. At first Ricardo thinks that it is only a game, but there are no phone calls or messages and after a while he gets worried and starts looking for her. He discovers that she has quit school without telling him and that she has lost all contact with her old friends. She has become a complete stranger.

The Daughter

2003

No artwork available
7.0

A ticket inspector working in Stockholm's underground collects words and thoughts that he passes on to the passengers.

The Ticket Inspector

1999

No artwork available
7.0

A ticket inspector working in Stockholm's underground collects words and thoughts that he passes on to the passengers.

The Ticket Inspector

1999

See You Tomorrow, Mário poster
9.0

Mário, eight years old, a kid who begs in the tourist paradise of Madeira island. One day in his life, from morning to evening.

See You Tomorrow, Mário

1994

See You Tomorrow, Mário poster
9.0

Mário, eight years old, a kid who begs in the tourist paradise of Madeira island. One day in his life, from morning to evening.

See You Tomorrow, Mário

1994

Marguerite Duras poster
NR

Marguerite Duras.is interviewed twice, first in 1984 and then in 1993, on her life and work as a writer and filmmaker.

Marguerite Duras

1994

O Beijo poster
6.0

A young couple kisses while waiting for the bus, completely oblivious to everything around them. The bus leaves, the day goes by, the kiss goes on.

O Beijo

2006

Meeting with Mai poster
NR

Mai Zetterling is interviewed in the summer of 1984 in her house in southern France. Seventeen years have passed since the Girls were made in Sweden and were adversely affected by the criticism. Zetterling discusses why she left Sweden and resides at crucial times in her life; The drama period, to be celebrated actress and then to move to pave his way in the male-dominated director's profession. A guiding star in Zetterling's life has been to constantly expand its boundaries.

Meeting with Mai

1996

No artwork available
8.0

A woman translates the front page of H.P. Lovecraft's book “The Silver Key”. Her husband, a journalist, listens. The book describes the conflicts between the real and the imaginary, and tells how Randolph Carter, the film's character, leaves everyday life in search of his childhood dreams.

Neither Bird Nor Fish

1978

J.G. Ballard: The Future Is Now poster
NR

The Future Is Now was produced for Swedish television and has Ballard as the only protagonist and his house as the main decoration.

J.G. Ballard: The Future Is Now

1998

No artwork available
NR

A documentary on two young men applying for the job of models

Fineboys

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António Lobo Antunes - Escrever, Escrever, Viver poster
7.0

"I write to have a mountain of books when I die." Psychiatrist António Lobo Antunes is one of the most internationally recognized Portuguese writers. His novels, usually settled in Lisbon, are published in prestigious publishers in several countries (Christian Bourgois, Random House, Luchterhand). In Nordlund's film, the characters and scenes from his books constantly interrupt the writer's speech. Lisbon invades his home. The voices of the characters impose themselves to the writer's house. António Lobo Antunes compares his writing to a watercourse that leaves to freely find its way.

António Lobo Antunes - Escrever, Escrever, Viver

2009

A Voice in the Night poster
7.0

An old woman is woken in the dead of night by a phone call. On the line, a stranger fights his insomnia by dialling random numbers.

A Voice in the Night

1998

No artwork available
NR

Ljusglimtarna (Flashes of Light) is the name of a group of Swedish pensioners who play music together and perform for other pensioners.

Flashes of Light

1988