Siw Malmkvist

Acting

Siw Malmkvist

Born 1936-12-31 · Landskrona, Malmöhus län, Sweden [now Skåne län, Sweden]

Swedish singer who has been popular in Scandinavia and West Germany. She had a number one hit in West Germany in 1964 with "Liebeskummer lohnt sich nicht" (English: "Lovesickness Is Not Worthwhile"), and on 18 July 1964 she became the first Swede to have a hit on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, when "Sole Sole Sole", a duet with Italian singer Umberto Marcato, entered the chart, peaking at #58.

Acting credits

So Different poster
4.5

Single mother Lotta and her younger sister Sanna are both successful in their different jobs, and are living very different lives, but are attracted to men who are their opposites.

So Different

2009

Lille Ronny poster
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The story of a family in 6 scenes taking place between 1978 and 2002. Showing the circumstances of how Ronny became like he did.

Lille Ronny

2004

Mellons makt poster
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Every year the Swedish entertainment industry is taken over for weeks by a single television show trying to find Sweden's representative at the Eurovision Song Contest. Melodifestivalen has grown into a center around which a large portion of the Swedish music industry revolves and is financed by. Is it really reasonable that so much power is wielded by a single production?

Mellons makt

2024

Getingdans poster
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Miss Maud, an orphan, has grown up in a boarding house, raised by the conservative matron Mrs Frank. In her suppressed desires and love for Mr Eldmann, Miss Maud creates an imaginary world where love is greater than life. Perhaps even greater than death itself …

Getingdans

2011

Lill-Babs 40 år som artist poster
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Legendary Swedish artist Lill-Babs celebrates 40 years as an artist with a grand evening full of performances and congratulations from some of the people she has crossed paths with over the decades.

Lill-Babs 40 år som artist

1994

E-Type: The way I wanna live poster
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For over 30 years has E-Type been the undisputed king of euro disco in Sweden. For at least as long, he has been the eternal bachelor, living the Stockholm life without a wife and children. Now his life has turned 180 degrees.

E-Type: The way I wanna live

2023

Beware of the Jönsson Gang poster
6.2

A botched burglary leads to the arrest of the Jönsson gang’s leader, Sickan. After serving ten months in prison, he is released and unexpectedly recruited by the enigmatic banker Wall-Enberg Jr. to steal the legendary Bedford Diamonds in Switzerland. Though Sickan successfully carries out the heist, he is betrayed and nearly captured. Returning to Sweden and reuniting with his old accomplices, he sets out to take calculated revenge on the man who double-crossed him.

Beware of the Jönsson Gang

1981

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

Låten från båten

1961

My life as Siw poster
8.5

In this documentary about Siw Malmkvist visiting places and people who have played important roles for the 88-year-old artist - who now has a 70-year career behind her. Malmkvist is known, among other things, for the song "Augustin" with which she won the Melodifestivalen in 1959 and, in addition to her achievements in Sweden, has also reaped success in Germany and Italy in particular.

My life as Siw

2025

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

Deutsche Schlager-Festspiele 1962

1962

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9.0

Documentary about the first five decades of the Eurovision Song Contest

Tour d'Eurovision

2005

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NR

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

Året var 1960 poster
5.0

A brand new decade begins. There is unrest in many places in Africa and Sweden is sending UN troops to the Congo. The Shah of Persia visits Stockholm and Lena Larsson writes an article she calls "Buy, wear and throw away" - and the debate about this will continue for years.

Året var 1960

2010

Forelsket i København poster
6.7

Jan Scharf's band is playing at Grönköbing Folk Park. Pianist Jan flirts with a young female audience member. Her friend notices what is going on, so they have to flee headlong. Back home in Copenhagen, they discover that their old residence has disappeared and a new high-rise building is going up, leaving them homeless. Jan has an uncle in Nyhavn, where he plans to stay temporarily.

Forelsket i København

1960

Peter-No-Tail and the Big Treasure Hunt poster
6.3

Pelle and Maja have moved together. But Maja's mother dislikes her daughter's tailless company, and tries to get Maja to move home again.

Peter-No-Tail and the Big Treasure Hunt

2000

Melodifestivalen 40 år poster
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A celebration of Eurovision's 40th anniversary hosted by Eurovision superfan Björn Kjellman. Clips from the archive are mixed with interviews and performances of some of the beloved songs from the first 40 years of this contest.

Melodifestivalen 40 år

1995

Eva - en lyckost poster
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Documentary on Swedish rockabilly singer/songwriter Eva Eastwood.

Eva - en lyckost

2017

50 år med Siwan poster
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A celebration of the first 50 years of Siw Malmkvist's career full of clips from her entire work both in Sweden and abroad.

50 år med Siwan

2005