Tom Alandh

Dark as ebony and agile as a panther was Tom Alandh's father. Many said that the darkness and wildness of him made him look like Tarzan, even though he only came from Åmål.

Pianist Stefan Nilsson died in his home on May 25. He is best known as a composer of music for popular films and television series. In February 2023, after a period of illness, he received shocking news - he had the incurable disease ALS. Stefan Nilsson and his wife Charlotte Hasselquist Nilsson then contacted Tom Alandh and it resulted in a conversation about life, love and Stefan Nilsson's rich musical work.

Håkan Juholt came from the reserve bench and became captain of the whole team. A high-stakes bet that hardly anyone had dared to bet on. But after only 303 days, Håkan Juholt's time as party leader for the Social Democrats was over.

Stefan Nilsson chose to end his life on May 25, 2023, just months after being diagnosed with ALS. This follow-up documentary by Tom Alandh brings to the surface the issues revolving euthanasia when there seems to be nothing left to do.

Monica & Carl-Axel Dominique have been married for over 60 years and have played music for as long as they can remember. They have worked with some of Sweden's biggest names. Tom Alandh finally gets the chance to make his documentary about them, something he has wanted to do for two decades.

With the refugee influx in 2015, Ronneby gained 3,000 new inhabitants and the schools 1,000 new students. Tom Alandh traveled to Ronneby to find out how this has affected society and its inhabitants and their real and perceived security.

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Pia Sjögren was the subject of three documentaries by director Tom Alandh, beginning in 2001. He first saw her on the street selling newspapers, homeless, addicted to drugs, trying to make enough money for the day. Since then, she has become clean, and now gives lectures about her experiences, sharing her knowledge. This is the fourth film about her, filmed between 2011-2020. At the start of this installment, Pia has recently begun having heart and breathing issues, her own daughter is in prison for narcotics, and her mother, who we were introduced to in previous installments, continues to struggle with rapidly decreasing eyesight.

Despite having made some of television's most popular documentaries, Kåge Jonsson is almost unknown. For 35 years he and Tom Alandh have been workmates and for just as long they have grumbled about what a documentary film really is. Leif Furhammar's definition reads "a piece of reality, seen through a temperament".

A film about Jan Troell who turns 90 this summer. We get to see Jan Troell's own pictures, but also a conversation about childhood happiness and the joy of creation.

Bo wanted to become an explorer when he was young, but realized that everything had already been discovered. Instead, he came out into the world as a filmmaker. He tells about his travels and about the pioneer days of Swedish television.

Ten years after documentary filmmaker Tom Alandh started filming homeless drug addict Pia Sjögren, he makes his third and final film about her. Pia was 14 years old when she started smoking cannabis and using drugs. Then it all happened really fast. The heavier drugs, the men who beat, and years of cold nights in basements and attics. Treatment and punishment. Rehabs and prisons. Relapse. Constantly back, at the complete bottom, among shame and guilt. For ten years, Tom Alandh and photographer Björn Henriksson documented Pia's life. Two films were made, this is the third and last film, which shows how she managed to get clean against all odds.

For almost half of his life, Kenneth Viken has been in prison, and he does not know how many times he has been released, only to soon return . In January 2016 he is released again.

Balder's premises are located in Norrtull's old hospital in Stockholm, a couple of rooms, a kitchen, some simple furniture, a piano that Lars could play on, if he only dared.

There will be no 2018 World Cup in Russia for the new small nation of Kosovo. Only three goals scored, one point earned and last place in their qualifying group. In Kosovo, there is talk of crisis and disaster. But in Sweden, life goes on as usual for the NT stars Arber Zeneli and Albert Bunjaku.

'Martina och jag', from 2008, was intended to be the last film about Martina Schaub, a woman with Down's Syndrome. But now, another ten years later, director Tom Alandh returns to Martina's world once more. She has been a part of Tom Alandh's filmography since she was five, and now at fifty, new challenges present themselves.

A film about dreams and opportunities, not about problems.

Anna Lindh, the successful and popular, became history and a monument, in Sweden and around the world. But who was she really, the living Anna Lindh?

Annika talks In an open-hearted interview about the trip to Sweden, the long fight to be free and her feelings about the crime that has come to mark her life.

Tom Alandh tells both about his soul and the story of the Elite Race. As every year goes off the rails on Mother's Day

He was 19 years old and promising gymnast. But one volt went wrong, one in a hundred thousand, and he broke his neck. Never go again, the doctors thought. And never again breathe on your own, without a respirator.

In this documentary we meet five children in Sweden and see what happened in their lives. Robin was nine years old, but he already knew what a prison looked like and the bad a punishment can do. Frida was not yet born when we filmed her mother Angela in 1983. Her sister Malin lived for several years in a foster family. Bosse was 14 years old and in 9th grade when we met him in 1978. He was the only guy in the class who had glasses. Marie received many postcards and letters from her father, but very rarely met him while she was growing up.

Sonny was in Hällby Prison in 1990. Kenneth, Sture, Anders, Pertti and Johnny were also in the same ward. Six ordinary prisoners, far from headlines and media interest.

In the 1980s there was a punk band in Stockholm who put out one single, got torn apart by local music critics and went away. 35 years later they are contacted by a music label from New York interested in their music.

Tord Grip is only 1.72 tall, but still one of the greats in Swedish football. Yes, he is the baker from Ytterhogdal who through football got the world as a workplace. But constantly in the shadow of Sven-Göran "Svennis" Eriksson.

"A small film about a great artist" - The Swedish pianist Jan Johansson (1931-1968), one of the most celebrated jazz/folk music pianist's of Northern Europe. The film tracks the pianist's coming greatness through the great masters Schubert, Mozart, and Hayden, to jazz music and Jan Johansson's transformation of Swedish folk songs, records on the album "Jazz på svenska".

Tom Alandh found a box that has been standing in his basement for almost 40 years, untouched. When he started to go through the contents, he found what was left of his foster parents' lives together: Photographs, old bills, receipts and letters he had never seen.

Lars Nordlander often bases his lyrics on his own life. He has written lyrics to Monica Zetterlund, Lill Lindfors, Lill-Babs, Tommy Körberg and Björn Skifs for more than 40 years.

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For 35 years, Jan Allan played the same trumpet, a Bach bought in New York in 1965. And he had intended to play it until the very last note. But then Jan Allan's beloved trumpet was stolen, and what happened to his airy lyrical tone?

Meeting with Bengt Lagerkvist

Documentary about wheel-chair bound stand-up comedian Jesper Odelberg. He was born with cerebral palsy and largely uses this as his material, but mixes his comedy with an overall serious message about inclusion and understanding.

Anita Haglöf was Ingmar Bergman's housekeeper for eight years, in his home at Karlaplan in Stockholm and at Fårö. She constantly accused him of harassment in her diary, but didn't quit the job.

This documentary follows Pia, who is homeless. She is struggling with her drug addiction. During the day she (and many other homeless people) sells the newspaper Situation Sthlm.

Michaela had three brothers. Christer died aged 28, Benny at 38:th, and Dag was 43 when the drugs finally took his life. Yes. There was hard times in Rågsved in the 70s. But Göte lives and so do many more. So what happened then?

It has been three years since Tom Alandh made the film "Det svåra livet" about homeless drug addict Pia. This film shows what has happened to her since.

In 1974 documentary film maker Tom Alandh did a TV story about institutions for the mentally retarded. Then he met Martina, who was five and who had Down syndrome. For 35 years, which is unique in the Swedish television history, Tom Alandh and photographer Björn Henriksson has followed Martina's struggles against all odds.

The stone-mover boy from Göteborg who became world champion in heavyweight boxing, a midsummer night in 1959 that the Swedish people will never forget. The short straight right - made in Sweden - made "Ingo" the world's best-known Swede.

Documentary about the Swedish television reality show Expedition Robinson (Survivor) and how it got made.

"The good life" is a documentary about Alf, a broker who sells expensive apartments in Stockholm. Alf lives the good life. But even the good life has several sides.

About the former director Ulf Berner with millions in tax debts during the 1970s.

For 20 years, Rikard Viking Flinga was in Texas' harshest prisons, convicted of murder. Rikard Viking Flinga is a Swedish citizen but has never been to Sweden. But in early March 2000, he was transferred there to start a new life.

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"Scenes from everyday life" is about a few weeks in the life of actor Erland Josephson. Once constantly out around the world, now 86 years old, the world comes to visit his home. A film about art and aging, life, love and death.

Bosse Högberg - once a tough European champion in light-middleweight since suffering from aphasia after stroke in 1988. The toughest fighter of Sweden ever. Against a Frenchman, he boxed fifteen rounds with the rejected jawbone.

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Christer and Bertram Schmiterlöw were both artists. But Christer could never make a living from his art and only paint early mornings before going to his job as a janitor at SVT.

Stefan Fernholm would throw the discus farther than anyone else and win glory and money and Olympic gold, and he was prepared to sacrifice everything to reach his goal. At the age of 37, he died at the kitchen table in Västerås.

In the unemployed Vimmerby there is one who does not need to be afraid of losing the job. On the contrary, he has never had so much to do before. Tom Alandh follows the crown bailiff Bror Carlsson as he treads away on his bicycle with the document portfolio on the package holder.

Chronicles the hosting of Euro '92 in Sweden and the journey of the Swedish team in that tournament.

Another film about Martina Schaub, now thirty years old.

A portrait of Swedish troubadour Cornelis Vreeswijk.

A journey along the Inlandsbanan, from Mora to Gällivare, in the last summer of 1991 when the passenger traffic is to be shut down. A decision and its consequences. A film about the view of Norrland in these EC times.

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Ulf Berner is home again - who was faster than the Swedish justice system and so snobbishly disappeared from prosecutors and bailiffs in the mid-80s. - Serious tax crimes, said the prosecutor, and the bailiff wanted thirteen million.

The legendary sports journalist Bengt Ahlbom. Who was already at the Olympics in Stockholm in 1912 and who was a gigolo in Cannes and who beat old King Gustaf V in tennis. Now, 87 years old, he talks about his life.

A portrait of Swedish jazz singer Monica Zetterlund.

Documentary about the Swedish soccer legend Nacka Skoglund.

The fourth film in a long series about Martina Schaub, a woman with Down's Syndrome. Tom Alandh documented part of her life from age 5 to 50. In this film, she is in her early twenties.

Nine years ago Tom Alandh included five year old Martina Schaub as part of a program about how society dealt with people with various handicaps. Martina, who has Down's Syndrome, is now fifteen years old.