Jan Blomberg

Acting

Jan Blomberg

Born — Died

1934-10-06 — 1997-05-08

Place of birth

Bromma, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden

Known for

Acting

Credits

32 titles

Known for

Julkalendern poster
7.1

An annual Swedish Christmas calendar television series.

Julkalendern

1960

The Red Room poster
7.0

A young idealistic civil servant, Arvid Falk, leaves the drudgery of bureaucracy to become a journalist and author. As he explores various social activities—politics, publishing, theatre, philanthropy, and business—he finds more hypocrisy and political corruption than he thought possible. He takes refuge with a group of "bohemians", who meet in a red dining room in Berns Salonger to discuss these matters.

The Red Room

1970

The Journey to Melonia poster
6.6

When a ship sinks during a storm, a slave from the industrial island of Plutonia is washed up on the beaches of paradise island Melonia, where the "all-powerful" wizard Prospero and his strange friends reside.

The Journey to Melonia

1989

Ture Sventon, privatdetektiv poster
9.3

Private eye Ture Sventon solves crimes in Lingonboda, the Arabian desert, London, and Stockholm. His secretary, Ms. Jansson, and good friend, Mr. Omar aids him in the constant battle against his arch-enemy, Vilhelm Vessla. Based on the books by Åke Holmberg.

Ture Sventon, privatdetektiv

1989

Svenska noveller poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Svenska noveller

1978

Någonstans i Sverige poster
6.8

In the end of 1939, the Soviet Union attacks Finland. In Sweden, 100.000 men are quickly drafted to guard the northeastern border. Men, who have almost no military training, are suddenly expected to behave as full-fledged soldiers. In one of the units we find 107 Andersson, 111 Loffe and a bunch of men with nicknames as Morsgrisen and Stora Norrland. After some months, the war in Finland is over, but World War II continues and the unit moves to the western border of Sweden, where the men have to stay for many years to come. Sweden is not at war, but some of the men are frightened that the Nazis will one day attack this country.

Någonstans i Sverige

1973

Film credits

1990s · 5 titles

1980s · 8 titles

1970s · 6 titles

Karlar är karlar om sanningen ska fram poster
NR

Lunardo is an old fashioned patriarch who strictly forbids his wife and daughter to leave his house. When he decides to marry off his daugther Lucietta without allowing her to meet the man first the women around him conspire to allow the young couple to meet against his wishes.

Karlar är karlar om sanningen ska fram

1976

Skärseld poster
8.0

An established writer goes to the Nobel Prize Banquet in Stockholm. He is a family man. In the background another woman. A suicide attempt. His work is rejected by the publisher.

Skärseld

1975

Dog Days poster
5.2

Somewhere in the archipelago outside Sandhamn lives the barber Assar Gustafsson and his 17-year old daughter Anna-Bella. Out of the blue his wife comes back after five years of absence. She starts up a brothel in their bath house with Anna-Bella as the main attraction, a brothel that attracts various men from all over. The browbeaten Assar starts to make arrangements for his wife's permanent absence.

Dog Days

1970

No artwork available
10.0

Ilse Siedel lives her life in a wheelchair. Through her window she follows what is happening outside. In her imagination she deals with how to conquer some love for herself.

Love Through a Window

1978

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

No artwork available
9.0

A Swedish adaptation of the Franz Kafka novella. Gregor Samsa, wakes one morning to find himself transformed into a large, monstrous beetle.

The Metamorphosis

1976

1960s · 5 titles

The Devil's Messenger poster
4.7

In this feature version of the Swedish TV series "13 Demon Street," a 50,000-year-old woman is found frozen in an ice field, and a man's death is foretold in dreams.

The Devil's Messenger

1962

All These Women poster
6.1

Pretentious critic Cornelius is writing a biography on a famous cellist and to do some research he stays in the cellist's house for a few days. He doesn't manage to get an interview with the man, but by talking to all the women who live with him, he comes to learn a lot about the musician's private life none the less. Cornelius then decides to use this information to blackmail the cellist into performing a composition that he, Cornelius, has written.

All These Women

1964

491 poster
5.8

A study in forgiveness as oppression and goodness as provocation. Six youth criminals are chosen to participate in a social experiment where they are assigned to live together in a rundown apartment in the heart of Stockholm, Sweden. The six boys are being supervised by two forgiving and uneasy social workers. Their need to continue to commit petty crimes escalates out of boredom with the situation. One night they run into a young girl in trouble.

491

1964

Bödeln poster
7.5

"The Hangman" - The events take place in two periods of time. In the Middle Ages a group of men sit and discuss the evil at the tavern. With the hangman close by. 1930s: a dance hall where many people gathered. A jazz orchestra of colored musicians entertain. When the musicians take a break to eat, they are denied this by a Nazi.

Bödeln

1965

Gustav Vasa poster
8.0

Gustav Vasa struggles to keep power while dealing with the Dacke War in his own country and his foreign debts.

Gustav Vasa

1965

Series credits

Julkalendern poster
7.1

An annual Swedish Christmas calendar television series.

Julkalendern

1960

The Red Room poster
7.0

A young idealistic civil servant, Arvid Falk, leaves the drudgery of bureaucracy to become a journalist and author. As he explores various social activities—politics, publishing, theatre, philanthropy, and business—he finds more hypocrisy and political corruption than he thought possible. He takes refuge with a group of "bohemians", who meet in a red dining room in Berns Salonger to discuss these matters.

The Red Room

1970

Ture Sventon, privatdetektiv poster
9.3

Private eye Ture Sventon solves crimes in Lingonboda, the Arabian desert, London, and Stockholm. His secretary, Ms. Jansson, and good friend, Mr. Omar aids him in the constant battle against his arch-enemy, Vilhelm Vessla. Based on the books by Åke Holmberg.

Ture Sventon, privatdetektiv

1989

Svenska noveller poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Svenska noveller

1978

Någonstans i Sverige poster
6.8

In the end of 1939, the Soviet Union attacks Finland. In Sweden, 100.000 men are quickly drafted to guard the northeastern border. Men, who have almost no military training, are suddenly expected to behave as full-fledged soldiers. In one of the units we find 107 Andersson, 111 Loffe and a bunch of men with nicknames as Morsgrisen and Stora Norrland. After some months, the war in Finland is over, but World War II continues and the unit moves to the western border of Sweden, where the men have to stay for many years to come. Sweden is not at war, but some of the men are frightened that the Nazis will one day attack this country.

Någonstans i Sverige

1973

Ett sorts Hades poster
NR

About the individuals who live in a mad-house. This kind of people usually seem to be quite normal. However, from one scene to another they may dramatically change, thereby revealing their deep problems with themselves and the society they cannot live in anymore.

Ett sorts Hades

1996

Xerxes poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Xerxes

1988

Drottning Kristina poster
NR

Kristina took over the government of Sweden in 1632, after her father, Gustav II Adolf, death in the Battle of Lützen. In 1654 she abdicated, converted to Catholicism and left Sweden for good.

Drottning Kristina

1981