
Acting
Bert-Åke Varg
Born — Died
1932-04-27 — 2022-12-31
Place of birth
Hörnefors, Västerbottens län, Sverige
Known for
Acting
Credits
57 titles
Known for
7.5This Swedish soap opera follows the lives of the captain and crew of the MS Freja, a cruiseferry that travels on the Baltic Sea between between Stockholm, Sweden and Turku, Finland.
Rederiet
1992
6.3Så ska det låta is a Swedish game show, based on the Irish The Lyrics Board. The show was introduced in 1997 and led by Peter Harryson until Peter Settman took over in 2006. Så ska det låta can be watched online at svt play for approximately one month after airing.
Så ska det låta
1997
5.4Allsång på Skansen is a Swedish tv show held at Skansen, Stockholm, every summer on Tuesdays. The audience is supposed to sing-along with musical guests to well-known Swedish songs. The show started in 1935 on a small scale - about fifty people in the audience. Today about 10 000–25 500 people come to each performance.
Allsång på Skansen
1979
7.1An annual Swedish Christmas calendar television series.
Julkalendern
1960
NRFactual series about Swedish television shows that left an impression.
Svenska tv-historier
2015
8.6Hedvig lives in a trailer in the woods and has a nose for learning new words. Helping her is Helge, an owl who lives on her roof.
Från A till Ö
1974
Film credits
2020s · 1 titles
2010s · 3 titles
NRA Swedish independent comedy about power. The 25-year-old idealist ANTON is First AD (First Assistant Director) on a feature film shooting. 10-year-old lead character KLARA has a strong fairness pathos and she and Anton become friends during filming. Anton's role as leader of the shooting is torpedoed from all sides and he gets more and more broken down by the job - and one day he just snaps! Klara sees what happens and is forced to use the great power she actually has, to really make a change.
The First AD
2014
5.4Nadja, a single girl living the big city life finds herself stressed out over the wish of having a child of her own as she realizes the biological clock is ticking. She is prepared to do almost anything to fulfill her dreams but finds out that the abortion laws are about to change. To qualify as a mum, within the next 30 days she has to find herself a husband. She already discovered that chances finding a husband willing to do this on such short notice are slim to none in the big city. Maybe it is easier on the countryside?
Greetings from the North
2015
NRIn "Mission Åsa-Nisse" filmmaker Anders Nordqvist explores the 60th anniversary film classic series Åsa-Nisse. Through old film clips, meetings with actors and artists and visits to filming locations - which are mostly located in a Stockholm suburb - we get a new perspective on Swedish film's quantitatively largest character.
Uppdrag Åsa-Nisse
2010
1990s · 1 titles
1980s · 7 titles
NRThirteen-year-old Frida is five months pregnant by a youth worker at her school. She doesn't dare tell anyone. When she runs away from home, her deeply religious and childless neighbor offers to hide her in exchange for the baby.
Fridas flykt
1985
3.2This farce cocerns Sweden's King Gustav (Per Oscarsson who plays all the lead roles). The royal monarchs of three major European countries are patiently or not-so-patiently hovering on the sidelines while watching the future King Gustav closely. No single king appears to possess the brains he was born with, so history seems to be made by default, as it were. Gustav does blunder around, but not enough to miss being crowned king. As a result, France, England, and Germany invade Sweden hoping to take by force what they could not gain by incompetence.
Sverige åt svenskarna
1980
6.0A small criminal who is reported missing is found murdered in the safe of a known bank manager. While working with the motive behind the murder it is discovered that a large amount of counterfeit shares and bonds are in circulation. Hassel and his colleagues recognize that there are interests in the business community who are involved in the scandal, people who don't shy away from clearing away cumbersome barriers to safeguard their economic power.
Hassel - Säkra papper
1989
7.5The teen Gullan and her friends like to hang out in an old film studio at night and tell ghost stories. One night something mystical happens and the kids run away in fear but they return later to find out what really happens in the big old building.
Ghost Hunters
1987
NRJonas has to stay at home on the farm and look after his seven younger siblings, because stepfather and stepmother are going to a wedding with eldest daughter Anna. But Jonas is curious about how the party goes and when it might be his turn to get married.
Kams - tokerier från Ådalen
1985
NRA Swedish family movie about Allan, a 12 year old boy with a great imagination.
Spela Allan
1980
6.5"The Sleep" - Tired of the touring life the rock star Tommy Cosmo cuts the strings of his guitar, empties his bank account, packs his revolver and takes off to find new values of life .
Sömnen
1984
1970s · 16 titles
6.5Dunderklumpen lives all alone in the mountains of Jämtland. One Midsummer's Eve when he feels very lonely he sets off on a journey to find friends.
Dunderklumpen!
1974
4.9Lena is a young woman in need of excitement and sexual satisfaction. Torn between her meek and innocent boyfriend Jan and the sadistic partygoer Helge, Lena‘s life is turned upside down when Helge take some nude photographs of her. These photos could destroy her life.
Exposed
1971
NRÅke lives under oppressive conditions. The father, a painter, spends his salary on drinking with his buddies.
Nattens lekar
1978
NRJim Jansson is a woodcarver who gets retired.
Det är din boll, Jim
1978
6.5A woman who has been raped by a man at a party plots and executes an elaborate and humiliating revenge.
Men Can't Be Raped
1978
6.0Two villains escape from jail in London. They are planning an attack on Agaton Sax. Inspector Lispington and Sax are chasing the two bad guys, but the hunt is hampered by the villains have lookalikes.
Agaton Sax and the Bykoebing Village Festival
1976
4.7A German sociologist goes to Sweden to investigate whether the Swedish sin is myth or not. He stations himself in a student home for girls. His fiancée in Berlin fantasizes about the study, and to allay her worries she packs her bags and goes to find him, to convince him to come home.
Do You Believe in Swedish Sin?
1970
3.2"The Marriage" - Eva and Kent are planning to get married. Their bridal stag parties causes some problems. The wedding reception will serve moonshine since the regular booze is capsized at sea.
The Wedding
1973
4.0The little ghost Laban follows his father to go ghosting in the castle. But he is too small to rattle the chains and he is a bit afraid of the dark.
Laban and Labolina
1974
5.3Office executive Knut Levin decides to arrange a party at work. Things don't go exactly according to plan with hilarious results.
The Office Party
1972
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Petter och Lotta på äventyr
1970
NRA film about the importance of phone etiquette. When Kalle Svensson comes home one day he finds all his furniture gone, this leads him into a rabbit hole of bureaucracy.
Möblerna som försvann
1979
7.8After 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
7.0A suitcase is accidently switched at a railway station resulting in an adventurous pursuit to retrieve the case. A musical comedy/thriller featuring eight songs, originally broadcast as a movie on British television as a vehicle for Cliff Richard and featuring Olivia Newton-John.
The Case
1972
NRAugust Strindberg's "The Red Room" recreated to a science fiction world in Stockholm, a brutal, guarded and controlled existence under a total supremacy. Like in Metropolis or Airstrip One the citizens are directed to align themselves in the direction of what the higher power thinks is to their advantage. The government offices takes care of your every need.
Röda rummet 1979
1970
NRA solitary railway station in northern Sweden on a bitter cold winter day 1914. Based on a short story from 1944.
Vinterdag 1914
1978
1960s · 5 titles
2.8Åsa-Nisse invents a new super fuel that makes boats look like rockets.
Åsa-Nisse i rekordform
1969
The plot revolves around a sadistic doctor, a macabre gravedigger, an innocent girl, sabotage, sex and violent death. The beautiful Vivi Sander is living a rough life and is deeply in debt. She tries to force her family to sell the house to make ends meet. Vivi's car crash after a sabotage. She is injured and brought to a medical center where she meets the perverted Dr. Wester.
Sadist
1966
3.7A girl of 14 is embarrassing her foster parents. She exposes herself to a homeless and police. It turns out that the girl has had sex with various men in exchange for a little kindness and chocolate. At fornication trial she has to face the city's municipal chief, who also has abused the girl.
Swedish and Underage
1969
3.0Sjökvist needs a woman to tidy up his general store and Åsa-Nisse helps him out to put an ad in the local newspaper.
Åsa-Nisse och den stora kalabaliken
1968
9.0Doctor Knock takes over a medical clinic in a small town and provides a medical revival.
Doktor Knock
1966
1950s · 2 titles
7.0The fishermen Österman and Sjöberg are sued by merchant Wikström. In order to raise capital, they decide to start producing a medicine from a recipe by Österman's father.
Östermans testamente
1954
9.0While Stockholm celebrates its 700th anniversary, private 91 is knocked on his head and goes on a fantastical journey through Swedish history.
Alla tiders 91:an Karlsson
1953
Undated · 2 titles
Imagine if you could change the speed of a person with a capsule? Satiric TV theater game about experimenting with people's pace.
Olsson per sekund eller Det finns ingen anledning till oro
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Stall-Erik och snapphanarna is a Swedish film project that began filming in 1996 with a preliminary premiere in 2025. Director, producer and lead actor is Anders Olofsson. Olofsson is entirely responsible for the financing of the project and the casting.
Stall-Erik and the Snapphans
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Series credits
7.5This Swedish soap opera follows the lives of the captain and crew of the MS Freja, a cruiseferry that travels on the Baltic Sea between between Stockholm, Sweden and Turku, Finland.
Rederiet
1992
6.3Så ska det låta is a Swedish game show, based on the Irish The Lyrics Board. The show was introduced in 1997 and led by Peter Harryson until Peter Settman took over in 2006. Så ska det låta can be watched online at svt play for approximately one month after airing.
Så ska det låta
1997
5.4Allsång på Skansen is a Swedish tv show held at Skansen, Stockholm, every summer on Tuesdays. The audience is supposed to sing-along with musical guests to well-known Swedish songs. The show started in 1935 on a small scale - about fifty people in the audience. Today about 10 000–25 500 people come to each performance.
Allsång på Skansen
1979
7.1An annual Swedish Christmas calendar television series.
Julkalendern
1960
7.1An annual Swedish Christmas calendar television series.
Julkalendern
1960
NRFactual series about Swedish television shows that left an impression.
Svenska tv-historier
2015
8.6Hedvig lives in a trailer in the woods and has a nose for learning new words. Helping her is Helge, an owl who lives on her roof.
Från A till Ö
1974
8.0The Lady Who Became as Small as a Teaspoon, also known as The Teaspoon Lady, was the 1967 Advent calendar produced by Sveriges Radio and Sveriges Television. The series is based on the books by Norwegian author Alf Prøysen about the Teaspoon Lady, who lives a quiet life with her husband but occasionally and suddenly becomes as small as a teaspoon. In her miniature size, she can talk to animals and finds herself in various imaginative adventures where her wisdom and resourcefulness help her solve problems.
Gumman som blev liten som en tesked
1967
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Svenska noveller
1978
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Svenska noveller
1978
7.5Moomintroll was a Swedish television series about the Moomins 1969 directed by Vivica Bandler and Ulla Berglund. The series, which is in 13 parts, is written by Tove and Lars Jansson, and produced by Swedish Radio. The premier was December 5, 1969 on TV2. The series became known for Moomins took off their heads a bit into the series. In 2008 the series was up as the play "The King of Moomin Valley" at the Swedish Theatre in Helsinki.
Mumintrollet
1969
6.0Two crime detectives are handled a tricky case to investigate. A prostitute has been brutally murdered in her studio. The landlord runs a brothel.
Profitörerna
1983
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Operation Argus
1966
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Barnen i höjden
1972
6.0A comedy series about the Hedlund’s starting a new life in the far north of Sweden. The father Petter, runs in to culture clashes while Madde has an identity crisis; is she still the small-town girl from northern Sweden or did the big city change her more than she’d like to admit?
Second Run
2018
7.0In the sparsely populated region of Västerbotten lies "Oskars Koopra", a privately owned cooperative store run by Oskar himself. When he leaves for his first holiday abroad, Staffan Ling and Bengt Andersson take over as temporary replacements at the small shop.
Julstrul med Staffan och Bengt
1984
8.0In little Bergforsen, everything would be peaceful if it weren't for two hitchhiking ladies from Stockholm and an ill-fated gold transport.
Guld!
1988
No synopsis available yet.
Party hos Parnevik
1978
7.0This Christmas Calendar is based on stories written by children and teenagers between the ages of 8 and 17. Each episode features several of these stories presented in dramatized form. Here, fairy tales blend with reality, with adventures taking place in places such as the space age, the world of dreams, and the realm of fairy tales. We meet elves and trolls, princesses and knights, and much more! The program was broadcast live, with host Staffan Ling welcoming various guests in the studio. The filmed stories were interspersed with competitions, Christmas tips, and music.
Liv i luckan
1988



