Gösta Werner

Directing

Gösta Werner

Born 1908-05-15 · Östra Vemmenhög, Skåne , Sweden

Gösta Werner (15 May 1908 – 20 July 2009) was a Swedish film director. He was married to Kaj Björkdahl. He primarily made his mark on European cinema during the 1940s. During the 1970s, Werner was first associate professor at Stockholm University, and then later Professor of Cinematography. He was born in Östra Wemmenhög, Skåne, Sweden. Werner turned 101 years old on 15 May 2009.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Två trappor över gården poster
8.0

The rootless, misfit artist Bengt Hallberg escapes from a mental hospital. The head doctor believes him to be a hopeless case and dangerous for the environment. Bengt looks up Inga Larsson, the only person that matters to him.

Två trappor över gården

1950

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A potrait of Malmö, lovingly told by Gösta Werner and Nils Poppe.

Stad vid färdeväg

1961

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A potrait of Malmö, lovingly told by Gösta Werner and Nils Poppe.

Stad vid färdeväg

1961

Mauritz Stiller poster
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Portrait of director Mauritz Stiller, with scenes from some of his best known movies.

Mauritz Stiller

1987

Mauritz Stiller poster
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Portrait of director Mauritz Stiller, with scenes from some of his best known movies.

Mauritz Stiller

1987

Meeting of Humans poster
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A flute playing. A couple enters a floor with large round spots of light, similar to the large round skylights available at Filmhuset in Stockholm, Sweden. She has a short golden dress. He has a long black cape. Both are wearing masks. More instruments make up the music and now a blazing flame dances instead and we see the woman's face, in extreme close-up. The man caressing her gently. A match burns and fades out. More close-ups of the young woman. Two matches meet and flares up. Later we see the man and the woman again, it is outdoors, the city's water. They look tired and bored, as if the low born during the dance now have relentlessly extinguished. Premiered as a short prelude to Ingmar Bergman's "Persona".

Meeting of Humans

1967

Meeting of Humans poster
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A flute playing. A couple enters a floor with large round spots of light, similar to the large round skylights available at Filmhuset in Stockholm, Sweden. She has a short golden dress. He has a long black cape. Both are wearing masks. More instruments make up the music and now a blazing flame dances instead and we see the woman's face, in extreme close-up. The man caressing her gently. A match burns and fades out. More close-ups of the young woman. Two matches meet and flares up. Later we see the man and the woman again, it is outdoors, the city's water. They look tired and bored, as if the low born during the dance now have relentlessly extinguished. Premiered as a short prelude to Ingmar Bergman's "Persona".

Meeting of Humans

1967

Waiting Waters poster
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A monologue of a woman who tells about her life, mainly about the men she met, while walking.

Waiting Waters

1965

Waiting Waters poster
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A monologue of a woman who tells about her life, mainly about the men she met, while walking.

Waiting Waters

1965

To Kill a Child poster
6.8

In a Swedish village, situated in a rural idyll, a father, mother and little daughter are preparing breakfast on a Sunday morning. The family is looking forward to the boat trip that is to follow. The little girl's thoughts are already completely on the water. But there is no sugar in the house, so the mother sends her little daughter to the neighbor across the street to quickly get some. Two villages further on, a young man is filling up his car with gas so that he can drive to the Baltic Sea with his girlfriend. In their convertible, the young people feel blithe and free on the country road and race towards the village where the little girl is just crossing the street with the sugar to return home.

To Kill a Child

1953

To Kill a Child poster
6.8

In a Swedish village, situated in a rural idyll, a father, mother and little daughter are preparing breakfast on a Sunday morning. The family is looking forward to the boat trip that is to follow. The little girl's thoughts are already completely on the water. But there is no sugar in the house, so the mother sends her little daughter to the neighbor across the street to quickly get some. Two villages further on, a young man is filling up his car with gas so that he can drive to the Baltic Sea with his girlfriend. In their convertible, the young people feel blithe and free on the country road and race towards the village where the little girl is just crossing the street with the sugar to return home.

To Kill a Child

1953

Lund poster
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Gösta Werner makes an unsentimental trip back to his old student city. gauging it's past and it's future.

Lund

1967

Lund poster
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Gösta Werner makes an unsentimental trip back to his old student city. gauging it's past and it's future.

Lund

1967

Victor Sjöström - A Portrait poster
6.0

Documentary of the Swedish actor/director Victor Sjöström and his work - from Terje Vigen (1917) to Smultronstället (1957) Director Ingmar Bergman is interviewed about his memories of and experiences of Sjöström.

Victor Sjöström - A Portrait

1981

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Norrland in Sweden while the power plant dams are being built.

Destiny Beyond the Horizon

1956

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The film tells the story of the sea fortress Sveaborg.

Sveaborg

1965

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Images of spring

Spring

Gatan poster
6.7

Britt Malm gets hit by a car on a Stockholm street and is taken to hospital. She is badly injured and must undergo surgery. While the anesthetic takes effect she sees hallucinatory images. This turns into a flashback of what happened Britt before the accident.

Gatan

1949

Svensson ordnar allt! poster
10.0

Butcher Charles Svensson (Thor Modéen) bets on the horses and wins the jackpot. He finds high society is not immediately appreciative of the newly rich.

Svensson ordnar allt!

1938

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7.0

Loffe Fridh is out wandering the roads and takes life one day at the time.

Loffe på luffen

1948

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A man sees a woman in a mirror. In a disturbed state, he breaks the mirror.

Blood and Lipstick

1996

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About the importance of personal responsibility and the advantages of sobriety.

Responsibility

1957

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About modern Liberia and the iron ore prospecting on Mount Nimba.

Land of Liberty

1958

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Episodes about life and death.

The Butterfly and the Candle Flame

1956