Jan-Erik Lindqvist

Acting

Jan-Erik Lindqvist

Born — Died

1920-07-26 — 1988-10-23

Place of birth

Stockholm, Sweden

Known for

Acting

Credits

45 titles

Known for

Face to Face poster
7.2

A psychiatrist temporarily separated from her family begins to experience severe psychological distress while working at a mental hospital and returning to her childhood home. As her professional responsibilities and personal relationships intersect, she undergoes a breakdown that forces her to confront long-suppressed memories and fears. (Note: This entry refers to the 1976 theatrical feature film (approximately 135 minutes), created by condensing and re-editing the four-part Swedish television miniseries originally produced the same year.)

Face to Face

1976

Here Is Your Life poster
7.1

A working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving through a series of jobs and romances that gradually shape his future.

Here Is Your Life

1966

Face to Face poster
8.3

A psychiatrist temporarily separated from her family begins to experience severe psychological distress while working at a mental hospital and returning to her childhood home. As her professional responsibilities and personal relationships intersect, she undergoes a breakdown that forces her to confront long-suppressed memories and fears. (Note: This entry refers to the 1976 four-part Swedish television miniseries. A condensed theatrical feature edited from the same material was released separately in 1976.)

Face to Face

1976

Operation Argus poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Operation Argus

1966

Nya himlar och en ny jord poster
NR

Drama about the life of the writer Carl Jonas Love Almqvist.

Nya himlar och en ny jord

1984

Medea poster
7.0

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

Medea

1963

Film credits

1980s · 4 titles

1970s · 6 titles

Face to Face poster
7.2

A psychiatrist temporarily separated from her family begins to experience severe psychological distress while working at a mental hospital and returning to her childhood home. As her professional responsibilities and personal relationships intersect, she undergoes a breakdown that forces her to confront long-suppressed memories and fears. (Note: This entry refers to the 1976 theatrical feature film (approximately 135 minutes), created by condensing and re-editing the four-part Swedish television miniseries originally produced the same year.)

Face to Face

1976

Near and Far Away poster
7.0

Mania is a new employee at a mental hospital, where she meets a young man with mutism. He gets her to realize that it is a fluid boundary between being healthy and being regarded as sick.

Near and Far Away

1976

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

Trummor i natten poster
NR

After the first world war Andreas returns to Berlin to find it in chaos after the fall of the empire. The main battle is between the Spartacists and the Freikorps and Andreas needs to find a place for himself in the conflict for the future of Germany.

Trummor i natten

1972

A Handful of Love poster
4.7

Set against the backdrop of the 1909 general strike, Hjördis is employed as a housemaid in a wealthy Stockholm family.

A Handful of Love

1974

No artwork available
NR

Takes place around Alfhild's café in a thinly populated area in Sweden.

Till Alfhild

1979

1960s · 21 titles

Here Is Your Life poster
7.1

A working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving through a series of jobs and romances that gradually shape his future.

Here Is Your Life

1966

Medea poster
7.0

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

Medea

1963

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

Krane's Confectionery poster
7.0

Seamstress Katinka Stordal is a lonely and tired woman in search of love and freedom. When everyday life gets too much, she goes to Krane's pastry shop.

Krane's Confectionery

1963

Loving Couples poster
5.9

As three pregnant women wait to have their babies in a hospital in Stockholm at the outbreak of the Great War, they relive their childhood and youthful experiences.

Loving Couples

1964

No artwork available
5.8

A widowed woman undergoes a true sexual awakening in this provocative drama. The change comes after her husband of 10 years suddenly dies. During their marriage she never felt a thing during sex. Then she meets a lively Pole and begins an affair. Suddenly she finds herself feeling a great deal, and happiness ensues.

To Love

1964

Swedish and Underage poster
3.7

A girl of 14 is embarrassing her foster parents. She exposes herself to a homeless and police. It turns out that the girl has had sex with various men in exchange for a little kindness and chocolate. At fornication trial she has to face the city's municipal chief, who also has abused the girl.

Swedish and Underage

1969

A Sunday in September poster
7.0

About a young couple. They fall in love, marry and separate.

A Sunday in September

1963

Dreamboy poster
9.0

Ante Nordlund is on his way to Stockholm and gets a ride with a diplomat in his car. He leaves Ante at the entrance of Grand Hôtel where he gets treated like a millionaire.

Dreamboy

1964

Siska poster
6.3

A young woman struggles with life, love and career. She is courted by a young man but is unwilling to enter into a relationship if it means limiting her freedom.

Siska

1962

You're Lying! poster
6.0

About an alcohol-damaged young man, his life in and out of prison, his friend the art teacher and his difficulties reintegrating into society.

You're Lying!

1969

Night Café poster
7.0

Shows the people who visit a café that is open late at night

Night Café

1965

Gustav Vasa poster
8.0

Gustav Vasa struggles to keep power while dealing with the Dacke War in his own country and his foreign debts.

Gustav Vasa

1965

The Living Forest poster
7.0

Documentary about Swedish wildlife.

The Living Forest

1966

Bränt barn poster
4.0

A 19-year-old boy, after his mother's death, starts a relationship with his father's mistress, although he is engaged. The relationship continues after the woman has become his stepmother.

Bränt barn

1967

Den bergtagna poster
7.0

Depicts a woman who commits suicide after being betrayed by a man who, by playing on her low self-esteem, has made herself her superior - and thus deprived her of all right to exist.

Den bergtagna

1965

No artwork available
10.0

About a dishonest Labour politician being forensically interviewed on TV.

Handen på hjärtat

1962

No artwork available
9.0

Three kind-hearted criminals, Joseph, Albert, and Jules, plan to escape from Devil's Island. Fate intervenes, and they find refuge with the kind-hearted but clumsy Felix Ducotel and his family. Felix runs a shop for his demanding, arrogant cousin André, who makes the mistake of stealing Albert's beloved pet, a poisonous snake! For the Ducotel family, it will be a Christmas to remember—together with three crooks who turn out to be nothing less than three "wise men"!

Trasiga änglar

1962

Blodsbröllop poster
10.0

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

Blodsbröllop

1965

Misantropen poster
10.0

Alceste has a very low opinion about humanity and is always brutally honest. This gets him into a lot of trouble.

Misantropen

1963

Bödeln poster
7.5

"The Hangman" - The events take place in two periods of time. In the Middle Ages a group of men sit and discuss the evil at the tavern. With the hangman close by. 1930s: a dance hall where many people gathered. A jazz orchestra of colored musicians entertain. When the musicians take a break to eat, they are denied this by a Nazi.

Bödeln

1965

1950s · 5 titles

I rök och dans poster
6.0

Episodic, musical comedy. Povel Ramel company Knäppupp's first film where Martin Ljung plays 16 different roles.

I rök och dans

1954

The Staffan Stolle Story poster
6.3

Staffan Stolle becomes the sole heir to a rich and noble family when he is just a little boy. Early on he is engaged to be married to a girl he finds he does not love. Instead he flees the country only to return under a false name, looking for true love.

The Staffan Stolle Story

1956

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

De röda hästarna poster
5.5

When Hjalmar Hagerts son, Bertil, returns after graduated at Alnarps agricultural school Hjalmar gets a phone call from his friend and lawyer Friberg. He want's to talk about commonly known Törner that is very sick and needs help.

De röda hästarna

1954

Lejon på stan poster
10.0

Charlie is an old circus artist who quit after an accident. When a circus comes to town, their lion is let loose.

Lejon på stan

1959

1940s · 6 titles

Series credits