Margaretha Krook

Acting

Margaretha Krook

Born — Died

1925-10-15 — 2001-05-07

Place of birth

Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden

Known for

Acting

Credits

66 titles

Margaretha Knutsdotter Krook (15 October 1925 – 7 May 2001) was a Swedish stage and film actress. She won the Eugene O'Neill Award in 1974. In 1976, she won the Guldbagge Award for Best Actress for the film Release the Prisoners to Spring.[

Known for

Persona poster
8.1

A young nurse, Alma, is put in charge of Elisabeth Vogler: an actress who is seemingly healthy in all respects, but will not talk. As they spend time together, Alma speaks to Elisabeth constantly, never receiving any answer.

Persona

1966

The Best Intentions poster
7.0

In this film about Ingmar Bergman's parents, Henrik Bergman is studying for the priesthood and trying to make ends meet when he encounters the lovely, affluent Anna. Despite their social differences, Henrik and Anna fall in love, wed and move to the country. They lead a quiet life as Henrik works as a priest, but it isn't long before the simple people and plain surroundings make Anna long for a more lavish lifestyle, which causes marital stress.

The Best Intentions

1992

The Jönsson Gang in Mallorca poster
5.7

Vanheden and Dynamit-Harry, together with Harry's fiancée Doris, are in Mallorca while Sickan is still in Stockholm. However, Wall-Enberg talks him into doing a break-in at Las Palmas cathedral in Mallorca. Once persuaded, he can't resist the temptation and travels to Mallorca as well. However, Wall-Enberg obviously can't be trusted. Sickan is framed, caught and put in jail. While being escorted home to Sweden again, Vanheden and Harry sets up a plan to break him free. Sickan, once free, wants payback. The gang discover that an antiques dealer called Germann has something to do with the whole thing and that she's also collaborating with Wall-Enberg. The gang then decide to take a closer look at her and her antiques and they discover that there's a heist being planned against the cathedral in Palma.

The Jönsson Gang in Mallorca

1989

The Adventures of Picasso poster
6.8

A farcical biopic about Pablo Picasso, from his early years, to his middle years, to the years right before his death, and some of the years before and in-between that.

The Adventures of Picasso

1978

Only a Mother poster
6.8

A poor woman in a Swedish farming community struggles to feed her large family and is torn by her passion for two different men.

Only a Mother

1949

No artwork available
NR

Gösta Ekman and Kent Andersson play two men, living together for a long time. One a small, skinny and unknown poet - the other a large, famous and celebrated actor.

Duo jag

1991

Film credits

1990s · 7 titles

The Best Intentions poster
7.0

In this film about Ingmar Bergman's parents, Henrik Bergman is studying for the priesthood and trying to make ends meet when he encounters the lovely, affluent Anna. Despite their social differences, Henrik and Anna fall in love, wed and move to the country. They lead a quiet life as Henrik works as a priest, but it isn't long before the simple people and plain surroundings make Anna long for a more lavish lifestyle, which causes marital stress.

The Best Intentions

1992

Och ge oss skuggorna poster
8.5

It is the 61st birthday of the American author Eugene O'Neill. He is sick, old and his name has started to fade from the public consciousness. His wife Carlotta Monterey is far from supporting, in fact she constantly reminds him of his shortcomings and unfulfilled dreams. Their sons, Eugene Jr. and Shane come to congratulate him (and perhaps expecting to get some money). But they are unable to help their father, since they have their own problems: Eugene Jr. is an alcoholic, Shane is doing drugs.

Och ge oss skuggorna

1993

Onkel Vanja poster
8.0

A retired professor has returned to his estate to live with his beautiful young wife, Yelena. The estate originally belonged to his first wife, now deceased; her mother and brother still live there and manage the farm.

Onkel Vanja

1994

Rika barn leka bäst poster
3.6

Six women get fired from a bank while the director gets a huge raise.

Rika barn leka bäst

1997

No artwork available
NR

Documentary depicting a group of different people and their lives in Stockholm under different conditions and through all seasons.

Stockholmania

1998

The Secret Friend poster
6.5

A woman humiliates and shouts at her husband, before she ties him up and disappears. He frees himself and calls a friend who comes over. He tries to tell the friend how his wife treats him but the friend does not seem to understand or accept what he is saying. The man then puts on his wife’s negligee and suggest a role-play in order for the friend to understand better. The man plays his wife while the friend plays the man. After a while they switch roles. Later the wife returns with a male friend, a psychologist, to find her husband and his friend in female attire.

The Secret Friend

1990

Tingel Tangel på Tyrol poster
10.0

A show/happening recorded at restaurant Tyrol in Stockholm.

Tingel Tangel på Tyrol

1990

1980s · 13 titles

The Jönsson Gang in Mallorca poster
5.7

Vanheden and Dynamit-Harry, together with Harry's fiancée Doris, are in Mallorca while Sickan is still in Stockholm. However, Wall-Enberg talks him into doing a break-in at Las Palmas cathedral in Mallorca. Once persuaded, he can't resist the temptation and travels to Mallorca as well. However, Wall-Enberg obviously can't be trusted. Sickan is framed, caught and put in jail. While being escorted home to Sweden again, Vanheden and Harry sets up a plan to break him free. Sickan, once free, wants payback. The gang discover that an antiques dealer called Germann has something to do with the whole thing and that she's also collaborating with Wall-Enberg. The gang then decide to take a closer look at her and her antiques and they discover that there's a heist being planned against the cathedral in Palma.

The Jönsson Gang in Mallorca

1989

Stängda dörrar poster
9.0

Inès, Estelle, and Garcin are condemned to be together in a single room and soon start arguing and accusing each other.

Stängda dörrar

1981

Skuggan av Mart poster
7.5

About the foolish and lost Gabriel who lives entirely in the shadow of his brother, the brave soldier Mart who died in the war and is continuously immortalized by the dominant mother.

Skuggan av Mart

1983

Kattresan poster
7.0

Based on the classic swedish children's book from 1909. Kattresan is the story of a little girl that sets out on a great adventure with a strange cat.

Kattresan

1982

Flying Devils poster
6.0

A family of aerialists decides to go after the $250,000 prize being offered to any group that can execute a complicated trapeze maneuver. However, personal dramas and financial difficulties soon threaten to overtake the flyers' pursuit of the elusive quadruple somersault. The film received a Robert Award as the best Danish film of 1985.

Flying Devils

1985

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

Broken Sky poster
7.0

Erika is 13 years and lives with her parents and her grandmother in the far north of Sweden in the 1940's. The family is depressed and disappointed in life. Erika dreams of a separate being in another world.

Broken Sky

1982

No artwork available
NR

A gala performance at Cirkus in Stockholm ahead of the International Women's Day on March 8, 1981.

Kvinnofest 1981

1981

Peas & Whiskers poster
6.3

Life isn't easy for the indecisive 40-year-old Claes-Henrik. Should he choose his mom or his girlfriend?

Peas & Whiskers

1986

SOPOR poster
5.5

One Monday morning, a thousand children leave the suburb of Farsta and go to Stockholm to occupy the Royal Castle. The children have formed a group called S.O.P.O.R. as a protest against the way adults treat them and have destroyed their future. They demand that the robots in the industry are replaced by humans to create job opportunities. They take the royal family as hostages.

SOPOR

1981

No artwork available
NR

Alf Sjöberg (1903-1980) was Swedens greatest theater director of the 20th century and as a film director the first of international importance since the silent film era. He won the Grand Prix du Festival at the Cannes Film Festival twice.

Alf Sjöberg - mästaren

1983

Talk's cheap poster
9.0

SG and Acke are two aged photographers dreaming about their big scoop. They no longer get the major assignments and feel that time has passed them by. At a party Acke takes a photo of a company leader getting intimate with one of the guests. Now they get their big chance, or so they think.

Talk's cheap

1981

Sköna juveler poster
3.2

In a dystopian future two private detectives try to find a stolen bracelet.

Sköna juveler

1984

1970s · 13 titles

The Adventures of Picasso poster
6.8

A farcical biopic about Pablo Picasso, from his early years, to his middle years, to the years right before his death, and some of the years before and in-between that.

The Adventures of Picasso

1978

The Man Who Quit Smoking poster
6.3

The Plot focuses on Dante Alighieri, a young man who loves smoking. When his father dies Dante inherits $17 million on one special condition: He must give up smoking in 14 days and then stay smoke-free for an entire year. If he fails, his uncle inherits the $17 million instead. Dante has a living hell while trying to quit, and hires a private detective agency called Little Secret Service who he gives free hands to stop him from smoking, While his uncle, who has taken up smoking himself, also does everything he can to make Dante smoke again.

The Man Who Quit Smoking

1972

Release the Prisoners to Spring! poster
6.0

Small and short Frida lives with her long, tall friend in a house in the countryside. Frida rejects the idea that people who have committed crimes should be locked up. One day their own house is burgled by Harald. He is sentenced to prison. Acting in accordance with her philosophy, Frida decides to use all means possible to make it possible for Harald to escape.

Release the Prisoners to Spring!

1975

The Cherry Orchard poster
7.0

Television adaptation of Chekhov's story about the spoiled widow Madame Ranevskaya.

The Cherry Orchard

1970

A Walk in the Sun poster
4.5

Tore Andersson is a depressed 43 year old sport journalist living in Stockholm. His girlfriend has left him so he decides to take a vacation in Cyprus.

A Walk in the Sun

1978

The White Carnation poster
6.3

An absent-minded University teacher lives a double life as an impostor. His butler helps him find victims.

The White Carnation

1974

Good-Bye Nana poster
8.0

A film that questions the right of parents to force their children into the adult world's rational behavior. A 6-year-old revolt by going to a lawyer and ask for a divorce from their parents.

Good-Bye Nana

1970

Mother, Father, Child poster
7.0

During an afternoon and evening, we follow a family's everyday life. From the child's perspective, we see how the bizarre the world can seem sometimes.

Mother, Father, Child

1977

The Magic Circle poster
6.5

Loosely based on the Sala gang, a group of five people that committed murders and thefts in Sweden in the 1930s.

The Magic Circle

1970

The Wedding poster
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

No artwork available
8.0

It's New Year's Eve and she sits alone on her floor accompanied by the glamour and bustle of her neighbors and her own bitterness .

Hon kräver upprättelse

1978

Monismanien 1995 poster
10.0

In a fictional future totalitarian society ruled as a one-party state. A teacher commits the crime to teach their students to think independently and is therefore being stalked. The fictional Monismania also appeared in Astrid Lindgren's saga about the witch Pomperipossa in the Monismanian 1976.

Monismanien 1995

1975

Den beslöjade damen poster
9.0

Fredrik is a male feminist who has a big fight with his wife one morning. When a widow shows up in their home and starts telling his wife how great it is to be a widow he flees the apartment but finds himself constantly followed by a gang of women.

Den beslöjade damen

1977

1960s · 16 titles

Persona poster
8.1

A young nurse, Alma, is put in charge of Elisabeth Vogler: an actress who is seemingly healthy in all respects, but will not talk. As they spend time together, Alma speaks to Elisabeth constantly, never receiving any answer.

Persona

1966

A Dream Play poster
7.0

A television adaptation of August Strindberg’s A Dream Play, the film follows Agnes, the daughter of the god Indra, as she descends to Earth to witness the conditions of human existence. Through a succession of loosely connected scenes, she encounters individuals from different walks of life, with events unfolding according to dream logic rather than linear narrative.

A Dream Play

1963

The Bookseller Who Gave Up Bathing poster
7.3

A sleepy village around 1910. Jacob, the owner of a book store in a small town is a member of a club who baths together every Sunday. He is uninterested in women until Amelie Arbel moves into the town. She is both rich and seductive and he marries her. After the marriage he discovers that she can be very troublesome.

The Bookseller Who Gave Up Bathing

1969

Medea poster
7.0

Medea is a powerful witch who gets revenge on her cheating husband Jason by killing their children.

Medea

1963

Änkan poster
9.0

Farce about an out of work actor that one day gets the chance to play the role he never got to play before.

Änkan

1969

Lita på mej, älskling! poster
6.0

Anna and Karl are a young couple in Stockholm, unable to find an apartment of their own. However, they play matchmakers to make their friends Fredrik and Ulla to get together, getting an apartment of their own that way. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

Lita på mej, älskling!

1961

No artwork available
6.5

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

Patrasket poster
9.0

A poor Jewish family, called the Riffraff by the author, puts the great Joe Meng at the heart of high-flying plans and imaginative flair.

Patrasket

1966

Topaze poster
9.0

A shy but righteous teacher - Topaze - with no social skills what so ever, gradually becomes aware of the realities of human societies and finally learns to master the rules at level far superior to his former mentor, Laurent Castel-Benac.

Topaze

1963

Adam och Eva poster
7.0

Eva discovers a contest of an altarpiece. Her husband Adam makes a simple sketch. Adam wins the competition. The success makes Adam famous.

Adam och Eva

1963

No artwork available
10.0

About a dishonest Labour politician being forensically interviewed on TV.

Handen på hjärtat

1962

Mr. Ernest poster
8.0

Mr. Worthing and Mr. Moncrieff both use the pseudonym Ernest, leading to a lot of misunderstandings.

Mr. Ernest

1961

Blodsbröllop poster
10.0

A bride sneaks away with her lover on the eve of her wedding.

Blodsbröllop

1965

Swedish Wedding Night poster
6.3

A wealthy butcher, fond of liquor and women is about to marry a much younger woman. The woman's father has locked himself in the attic and refuses to come to the wedding.

Swedish Wedding Night

1964

Swedish Portraits poster
7.4

The unemployed Timjan discover Mejram singing and instantly fall in love with her.

Swedish Portraits

1964

Adam in Sweden poster
3.8

Rikard Adamsson, a young man dreaming of becoming a writer, lives a wild and dissolute bohemian life. A ferocious fighter with a heart of gold and a great taste for women. In the military service he gets in trouble, runs away, returns and is sentenced to prison. Inside he finishes his first novel. However, no publisher is interested.

Adam in Sweden

1966

1950s · 7 titles

Brink of Life poster
7.5

This intimate chamber drama, set in a maternity ward, follows the emotional crises of three women as they grapple with motherhood.

Brink of Life

1958

Miss Julie poster
6.6

Based on the play by August Strindberg, Miss Julie vividly depicts the battle of the sexes and classes that ensues when Julie, a wealthy businessman's daughter, falls for Jean, her father's bitter servant.

Miss Julie

1951

Karin Månsdotter poster
6.0

Karin does not belong to the nobility but nevertheless marries the mentally ill king Erik XIV and becomes queen of Sweden. The king's skilled counsellor Göran Persson wants a royal policy supporting the people and supported by it. But in relation to the nobility the king oscillates between provocative strength and unpredictable weakness. Göran arranges that some very powerful noblemen are killed. Subsequently the king tries to have them convicted of high treason by the parliament. He forgets the manuscript, mixes up all facts, and the noblemen are acquitted. But Göran speedily gathers another parliament and has them convicted. Meanwhile Erik apologises because of the unjust murders. Hence Erik is dethroned and imprisoned. Göran is executed. Karin is restricted to a castle in Finland. In the prison Erik believes that he is still the king and gives the guards presents such as all fishes in the Baltic Sea.

Karin Månsdotter

1954

Barabbas poster
6.6

The story about the thief who didn't get crucified because Jesus was choosen to take his place.

Barabbas

1953

Barabbas poster
6.6

The story about the thief who didn't get crucified because Jesus was choosen to take his place.

Barabbas

1953

Salka Valka poster
6.0

A coming of age story about young Salka Valka who lives in the small fishing village of Íseyri. She is doing well for herself as a partner in a small fishing boat, but people believe she is financed by her deceased mother's former fiance, Steinthór, who disappeared on their wedding day many years ago. Salka becomes infatuated with the idealistic Arnaldur who wants to start a workers union, much to the opposition of local entrepreneur Bogesen. The past comes to haunt her in the return of Steinthór but Salka fends off his advances only to lose the restless Arnaldur away. http://www.icelandicfilmcentre.is

Salka Valka

1954

Storm over Tjurö poster
6.3

Karl Oskar Bohm looks back at his life, his estranged daughter Augusta and his wife Sofia.

Storm over Tjurö

1954

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