Margreth Weivers

Acting

Margreth Weivers

Born — Died

1926-07-24 — 2021-02-03

Place of birth

Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden

Known for

Acting

Credits

72 titles

Known for

Beck 22 - The Weak Link poster
5.6

A teenage girl is found by her parents brutally raped and murdered in the woods. It's now up to Beck and his team to catch the criminal.

Beck 22 - The Weak Link

2007

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

The Slingshot poster
6.0

Stockholm in the 1920s. Young Roland lives with his socialist father, Jewish mother and a boxing brother. His mother sells condoms illegally, and from them, Roland makes slingshots which he sells. His rebellious ways has gotten him the special attention of his school teacher, who always makes sure that Roland is punished. Roland also tries to make extra money by repairing bicycles, a successful business that in the end lands him in hot water.

The Slingshot

1993

Talismanen poster
4.2

Wallton, a sacked former policeman, is assigned to locate a priceless Arabian jewelry, a talisman. According to legend, the talisman brings misfortune and death to anyone who unlawfully takes the jewelery. The hunt for the mysterious talisman leads Wallton through all layers of society, and he encounters one mysterious death after another.

Talismanen

2003

Lycka till poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Lycka till

1980

A Swedish Love Story poster
7.0

The puppy love of two teenagers is set against a backdrop of adults struggling with their own lives. As a couple in love, they don't care about anything but themselves and seem totally unaware about everything that surrounds them.

A Swedish Love Story

1970

Film credits

2000s · 13 titles

Beck 22 - The Weak Link poster
5.6

A teenage girl is found by her parents brutally raped and murdered in the woods. It's now up to Beck and his team to catch the criminal.

Beck 22 - The Weak Link

2007

Illusive Tracks poster
6.1

Christmas 1945. In a train from Stockholm to Berlin are a motley collection. It is the failure of the author Gunnar who wants to leave his old life and make a contribution in Berlin; physician Henry who plan to marry Marie and likewise Henry's current wife Karin, who he plans to kill during the journey, the middle-aged gay couple Pompe and Sixten, a soldier going to Uppsala but is on the wrong train: the cheerful and cynical old Margaret, and a dressed elf and a surly conductor. With the train are also a number of Baltic refugees accompanied by two nuns to be sent to Germany.

Illusive Tracks

2003

A Witch in the Family poster
4.9

Maria is 8 years old and thinks her younger brother is really annoying. She meets Makka in the neighborhood who has a magic ball. In some way Maria wishes her brother away. When the babysitter Gerda turns up Maria and Makka think she's the answer to Maria's wish - a witch that has come to abduct her brother. Maria who deeply regrets her wish must now do everything in her power to stop Gerda.

A Witch in the Family

2000

Search poster
4.5

Woman, 38, no children no husband! Lisa wants a change of life. She starts internetdating, but it turns out that the more men she meets, the further from family happiness she finds herself. An absurdly realistic journey through the bright nights of the big city filled with friendship, love, sex and selfbetrayal!

Search

2006

The Dog Hotel poster
7.0

On their way to find Paris, Sture the dog (Hasse Alfredsson) and his friend Picasso end up on a hotel in the middle of nowhere. Along with Miss Mops, Sture tries to sniff out who is causing all the strange events of the hotel.

The Dog Hotel

2000

The Jönsson Gang at High Stakes poster
5.0

Vanheden and Dynamite-Harry are approached by Sickan's grandmother and Sickan's younger brother Sven-Ingvar. Their evil nemesis Wall-Enberg are planning to steal billions of euros of the European Union's grants to culture. The grant of 350 million kronor, paid by an Italian bank acting as intermediary, equals 60 billion lire but through assistance of a Sicilian "businessman", this sum becomes 60 billion kronor when transferred. The money is to be transferred to a large number of bank accounts, and the account numbers are saved on a floppy disc that the Jönsson gang is trying to steal.

The Jönsson Gang at High Stakes

2000

Den enskilde medborgaren poster
5.3

Insurance Director Stig Roxby is worth a hundred times more than an ordinary high school teacher. But he doesn't think that's enough, but sees himself forced to work with four other director colleagues to lift the bonus cap to be even more valuable. After some complications, Stig Roxby realize the brutal truth: he has everything but the essentials...

Den enskilde medborgaren

2006

No artwork available
NR

A common day in Stockholm some people face major changes. The owner of a fur shop meets an animal rights activist. A priest has restrictions on Saint Lucy's Day. An old woman evicts and a young man disappoints his father.

Between 11 and 12

2008

The Ghost Sonata poster
5.7

The Ghost Sonata relates the adventures of a young student, who idealizes the lives of the inhabitants of a stylish apartment building in Stockholm. He makes the acquaintance of the mysterious Jacob Hummel, who helps him to find his way into the apartment, only to find that it is a nest of betrayal and sickness. The world, the student learns, is hell and human beings must suffer to achieve salvation.

The Ghost Sonata

2007

Rosenhill poster
NR

Rosemarie moves into Rosenhill, a residential home for the elderly. She is very uncomfortable in her new surroundings and finds the other residents unpleasantly confused or unsociable. However, it is not until she one night accidentally discovers what the staff are up to that the nightmare truly begins.

Rosenhill

2009

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Tillbaka till Bråkmakargatan

2004

En förälskelse poster
10.0

A couple, Anna and Simon, moves to Eskilstuna with their youngest son Gunnar. Simon begins an affair with Ingrid.

En förälskelse

2001

Persona non grata poster
NR

A young woman is trying to clean up her past. A senior citizen who live a simple and quiet life, is suddenly pulled into a conflict.

Persona non grata

2008

1990s · 14 titles

The Slingshot poster
6.0

Stockholm in the 1920s. Young Roland lives with his socialist father, Jewish mother and a boxing brother. His mother sells condoms illegally, and from them, Roland makes slingshots which he sells. His rebellious ways has gotten him the special attention of his school teacher, who always makes sure that Roland is punished. Roland also tries to make extra money by repairing bicycles, a successful business that in the end lands him in hot water.

The Slingshot

1993

Vendetta poster
6.6

Two Swedish business men are kidnapped in Rome by the Mob, and moved to Sicily. Carl Hamilton is sent to Sicily on direct order from the Swedish Government. He is sent to negotiate for their release. Hamiltons partner and best friend, Lundwall, is murdered by the Mob. Hamilton is dragged into a bitter and brutal vendetta between himself and the Mob-leader Don Tommaso.

Vendetta

1995

Lotta Leaves Home poster
6.0

A feisty five-year-old girl Lotta decides to move away from home. And no, she doesn't want to put on the stupid sweater.

Lotta Leaves Home

1993

Lotta on Rascal Street poster
6.0

Lotta is a five old girl living in Sweden with her mother, father, brother and sister. She is living the very normal life of all children of her age...

Lotta on Rascal Street

1992

The Accidental Golfer poster
5.3

I bet anyone can get better at golf than you are in one week, a golfer says to her golfing businessman for a boyfriend in a quarrel. Unfortunately Stig-Helmer is standing nearby when the boyfriend accepts the bet, and he is chosen to be the competitor. Stig-Helmer has never played the game before, but his Norwegian friend Ole promises to help him.

The Accidental Golfer

1991

Who Framed Harry Lund? poster
5.8

Harry Lund is having a bad day. First he gets fired. And then loses his entire fortune at an illegal gambling club. On his way out, he is assaulted and drugged by unknown men, and wakes up in a car with another man. A very dead man. A very murdered man. And Harry's penknife sticks out of his body. Harry flees in panic to Stockholm. And now not only the bad guys are close on his heels - but also the police...

Who Framed Harry Lund?

1991

The Glass-Blower's Children poster
5.8

Based on the novel by Maria Gripe, this is the story of two children, Klas and Klara, growing up in the poor Swedish countryside of the mid-19th century. Their father Albert is a glass-blower, famous for his beautiful vases, but still unable to earn enough money for his wife Sofia and the children. At a spring fair a distinguished gentleman arrives and buys all of Albert's glassware. After this nothing will be the same again. Klas and Klara are kidnapped and taken to a strange castle...

The Glass-Blower's Children

1998

Stannar du så springer jag poster
7.0

A woman in her mid-Forties longs for a settled life and a man to share it with. Having ejected her current lover, she is forced to restrict her choice of partner to those with skills in building or carpentry so she can renovate the tumbledown house she inherited. To find such a dream match, she resorts to a dating agency but her carefully laid plans soon flounder when she finds herself falling in love.

Stannar du så springer jag

1995

Händerna poster
4.7

A newcomer comes to live in the village, it is soon found out that he has a special gift. He can find oil with his hands. But who is he and what does he want from the villagers?

Händerna

1994

Hedda Gabler poster
8.0

Hedda and Tesman have just returned from their honeymoon and the relationship is already in trouble. Trapped but determined, Hedda tries to control those around her, only to see her own world unravel.

Hedda Gabler

1993

Kalle and the Angels poster
8.3

Kalle and his dad is having a long planned summer holiday at his grandparents in the countryside, where has made a hang-glider as planned. But when the father falls down with it, and dies, only an angel keeps Kalle on his feet.

Kalle and the Angels

1993

Det var en mörk och stormig natt poster
7.0

When darkness and bad weather seals around the house, it's nice to just sit and huddle in front of the television.

Det var en mörk och stormig natt

1995

Utmaningen poster
7.0

A gunman has taken residency on an uninhabited island and a local man has to deescalate the situation without getting the police involved.

Utmaningen

1994

No One Like You poster
10.0

The widower Erik mourns his wife. He meets Doris, a cleaning lady from Poland with a passion for Doris Day. They start socializing and helping each other to break loneliness and isolation.

No One Like You

1994

1980s · 24 titles

Det sköna är svårt poster
NR

A film about the painter Carl Fredrik Hill and his mental health issues.

Det sköna är svårt

1985

The Blessed Ones poster
6.5

Middle-aged schoolteacher Viveka and her husband Sune enter a marriage marked by devotion and increasing strain. As Viveka’s jealousy and religious anxiety intensify into paranoid delusions, Sune becomes progressively entangled in her condition, transforming their relationship into a shared psychological collapse.

The Blessed Ones

1986

Kunglig toilette poster
6.6

The King is about to visit a small town, and everyone is excited to prepare for the event. Everyone but Egon Karlsson, vice municipal commissioner and and member of the Republican Association.

Kunglig toilette

1986

Mask of Murder poster
3.4

In a Canadian village are women being killed by a psychopath. Chief Rich and Inspector McLane have no clue until McLane shoots a suspicious man. Now the killing seems to have ended, but the killer picks yet another victim...

Mask of Murder

1985

Fridas flykt poster
NR

Thirteen-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

The Ninth Company poster
5.8

A few conscripts realise that the army has vast resources that don't get used as much as they could. Using army material, they start to do services for people in the neighbourhood. More and more money is exchanged, more and more people gets involved, but when will someone reveal the truth to someoney who they can't pay?

The Ninth Company

1987

Moa poster
7.8

The life of the swedish writer Moa Martinson: at the age of 18, Moa marries the stone worker Karl and has five children. The marriage becomes stormy and fringed with tragedies. In the adversities, Moa begins to write about her life. She tells unpleasant truths, and doesn't get much understanding. Her life changes when the books are published in ever larger editions. She can tear herself out of her poverty, but never abandons her origins. In 1929 she remarries the writer Harry Martinson.

Moa

1986

The Man from Majorca poster
6.6

On 13 December (St Lucy's Day), a bandit daringly robs a crowded post office. Within a fortnight, two witnesses are dead. Vice cops Johansson and Jarnebring, the first to the scene of the crime, pursue all leads and identify a suspect, an arrogant member of the elite secret police, assigned to guard the country's Minister of Justice. Just as they think they've tightened the noose around the suspect, loose ends appear, witnesses lose certainty, alibis arise, and even the cops doubt what they've seen. Who's protecting the suspect and why?

The Man from Majorca

1984

No artwork available
7.0

It has just been a funeral when the daughter and son-in-law return from their honeymoon. Now the house is haunted. The empty rocking chair rocks, the doors slam, the paintings fall down and papers fly through the room. In the chiffonier's maple compartment is found a letter from the dead father. This letter is hidden again, rediscovered and finally torn up. The despairing, frozen and coughing son does not give up. He drills his way to the truth. It hits hard right up until the final catastrophe, awakening and liberation.

Pelikanen

1982

Alfred Nobel - Mr. Dynamite poster
8.0

A film about Alfred Nobel.

Alfred Nobel - Mr. Dynamite

1983

Sally and Freedom poster
6.0

About choices in life and responsibilities. Sally has decided to have an abortion. It seriously affects her relationship with her partner Jonas, and their daughter Mia.

Sally and Freedom

1981

Sverige åt svenskarna poster
3.2

This 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

Amorosa poster
5.6

About the Swedish author Agnes Von Krusenstjerna during the period of her marriage to David Sprengel. In the hallucinatory opening sequence she is brought in a straitjacket by her husband and two psychiatric nurses through the Venice Carnival nocturnal antics to a mental hospital in the city. With her is a manuscript of her autobiography, which she calls "her child". The book is Agnes showdown with her family, and in flashbacks presented, Agnes progress from the author of innocent girls' books to serious and self-consuming novelist.

Amorosa

1986

Plötsligt skulle vi skiljas poster
9.0

A couple that seems happy on the surface considers a divorce.

Plötsligt skulle vi skiljas

1986

En ros av kött poster
10.0

Daniel, a visual artist, mourns the loss of his daughter Johanna. The intense emotions lead him into a crisis and an estrangement from his wife Sonja.

En ros av kött

1985

The Fonziegang poster
NR

16-year-old Mikael is the gang leader of the infamous Fonzie gang that wreaked havoc in Stockholm in 1980. He shares a home with his mother, who is a taxi driver by profession. She is completely unaware of what her son does in the evenings. One day, he is picked up by the police right in front of her eyes and their lives change forever.

The Fonziegang

1982

Lyckans ost poster
9.0

Göte is in his forties and socially inhibited by an over-protective mother. When she dies he is forced to discover the real world. His employer trust him with a large sum of money intended for the company's workers up north. On the way he meets two prostitutes.

Lyckans ost

1983

In the Name of the Law poster
6.4

A group of four policemen is known for cruising the streets of Stockholm in their van, looking for drunks or criminals they can beat up with their batons. Lately witnesses saw them pick up a drunk who later was found dead. The four policemen deny any knowledge. Police inspector Jarnebring gets the case and finds out that these four policemen have been reported for 22 cases of police brutality. Shortly after, another criminal dies in their van...

In the Name of the Law

1986

No artwork available
10.0

Major Palfrey is off to war. He warns his two daughters, Dinah and Dorinda, that while he is away they must behave themselves: "When there is wind on the moon, you must be very careful how you behave. Because if it is an ill wind and you behave badly, it will blow straight into your heart, and then you will behave badly for a long time to come." And so it proves: before long the girls are drinking a potion provided by the local witch and turning into kangaroos, getting stuck in the zoo, and staging an escape along with their new friends, a golden puma and a silver falcon.

The Wind on the Moon

1985

Saxofonhallicken poster
6.3

Saxophone-pimp is a meditation on urban hotel as youth. Here, at the city hotel in the small town, we find the entire gallery of: the young lion dance, the drunk lady and the happy party. New for the evening is Vera, a divorced mother in her prime. Dance band saxophonist follows the awkward attempts at contact between Vera and a drummer, and decides to help her along. He plays the classic "Petite Fleur". Again and again and again .....

Saxofonhallicken

1987

Rosen poster
9.0

The architect Alexander presents a project for the Social Democratic City Council Ove: a huge shopping center where the old People's House building is located. Ove is doubtful.

Rosen

1984

Brustna hjärtan poster
NR

A melodrama with humor about an actress who makes a comeback.

Brustna hjärtan

1987

Jackpot poster
NR

Kurre works under the table for a moving company. When he gets injured on the job his boss turns his back on him but Kurre starts planning his revenge.

Jackpot

1980

Skulden poster
9.0

A man wakes up in a hospital after a car crash where he lost his memory. When his mother brings him photos from a roll of film recovered from his camera his memories start coming back.

Skulden

1987

1940s · 3 titles

Series credits

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

Talismanen poster
4.2

Wallton, a sacked former policeman, is assigned to locate a priceless Arabian jewelry, a talisman. According to legend, the talisman brings misfortune and death to anyone who unlawfully takes the jewelery. The hunt for the mysterious talisman leads Wallton through all layers of society, and he encounters one mysterious death after another.

Talismanen

2003

Lycka till poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Lycka till

1980

No artwork available
NR

An everyday thriller in four parts. The action takes place in an idyllic residential neighborhood where the good neighbors do not always turn out to be so good. The peaceful life is interrupted by a brutal and inexplicable murder.

Rädsla

1979

Sammansvärjningen poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Sammansvärjningen

1986

Zoombie poster
NR

A different family comedy in three parts with the man in the center. A beautiful and instructive story about a small, fat, middle-aged agency manager with a high salary. We get to follow the bullied and exploited Holger in his difficult struggle from pupa to fly-ready butterfly.

Zoombie

1982

Herkules Jonssons storverk poster
7.0

Herkules Jonsson's father has never time for his son. Hercules mother is the secretary of the Banan Monopoly and owns a special pen with magic powers.

Herkules Jonssons storverk

1969

Nutcases & Normals poster
5.0

A young girl cuts off her hair as a protest against her mother and is mistaken for a boy at her new school.

Nutcases & Normals

1988

Lotta på Bråkmakargatan poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Lotta på Bråkmakargatan

1995

En ettas dagbok poster
NR

Mimmi will start school soon.

En ettas dagbok

1985

The Wind on the Moon poster
NR

Major Palfrey is off to war. He warns his two daughters, Dinah and Dorinda, that while he is away they must behave themselves: "When there is wind on the moon, you must be very careful how you behave. Because if it is an ill wind and you behave badly, it will blow straight into your heart, and then you will behave badly for a long time to come." And so it proves: before long the girls are drinking a potion provided by the local witch and turning into kangaroos, getting stuck in the zoo, and staging an escape along with their new friends, a golden puma and a silver falcon.

The Wind on the Moon

1985

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Majken

1995