Birgit Tengroth

Acting

Birgit Tengroth

Born — Died

1915-07-13 — 1983-09-21

Place of birth

Stockholm, Sweden

Known for

Acting

Credits

49 titles

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Birgit Tengroth (13 July 1915 – 21 September 1983) was a Swedish film actress. She appeared in 46 films between 1926 and 1950. Description above from the Wikipedia article Birgit Tengroth,licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

Film credits

1940s · 21 titles

Thirst poster
6.3

A fractured portrait of desire and isolation, following a failing marriage and parallel stories of emotional entrapment as memories surface during a train journey through postwar Europe. Told through flashbacks and multiple narrative threads, the film signals Ingmar Bergman’s emerging mature style.

Thirst

1949

Skogen är vår arvedel poster
9.0

The farmer Per Jonsson doesn't think too well about the factory in the neighborhood, since he thinks that it destroys the fishing and makes the young people leave the countryside. When the workers at the factory go on strike, they ask him to sell milk to them and let them work in his forest. But Jonsson is stubborn and refuses to give them any help at all. At least until he is in an accident and also need help.

Skogen är vår arvedel

1944

Man of the Forest poster
7.0

Urban girl falls for rugged forest ranger.

Man of the Forest

1940

I brist på bevis poster
5.5

A drama about the manager Håkan Dahlin who has just been discharged from a clinic where he was treated for his alcoholism. In an outbreak of jealousy, Dahlin abuses his wife Inga and after that he is forcibly interned again. Inga is a nurse and she is now moving to a mountain village to work at a district clinic. During an emergency visit, she encounters her childhood sweetheart, the doctor Gunnar, and old feelings between them begin to flare up again.

I brist på bevis

1943

Sin poster
4.0

Fredrik seduces the office girl Anna. She becomes helplessly passionately in love. Fredrik cheat Anna of all her savings. He intends to manufacture beauty products. To market the product he forge the signature of a wealthy aunt of Anna.

Sin

1948

Sonja poster
7.2

Kurt and Sonja are happily married and dream of buying a house and have children. One day Kurt's old friend Nick pops up. Secrets from Sonja's past life surface.

Sonja

1943

No artwork available
7.0

Göran Brehmer lives in Stockholm and can't resist flirting with women.

Så tuktas en äkta man

1941

På farliga vägar poster
6.0

Martin and Märta live in a seemingly happy marriage, but Märta feels neglected. One evening she meets Martine's colleague, the Frenchman Barthou, famous for his success with the Stockholm ladies. He starts to flirt with Märta.

På farliga vägar

1944

En man för mycket poster
8.0

Julius Berge has an advertising firm in Stockholm together with his wife Sonja. The man with the ideas is their colleague Kurt Dal, who used to be engaged to Sonja. Their ménage à trois becomes a crazy mix of jealousy and misunderstanding.

En man för mycket

1941

...som en tjuv om natten poster
6.0

Nisse Ekberg is in San Francisco but wants to get back to Sweden. Not being a completely honest guy, he gets mixed up with another person and assumes his identity.

...som en tjuv om natten

1940

Life and Death poster
6.7

Thriller set in northern Sweden during WWII where a regiment of ski-borne soldiers and guests in a tourist hotel experience and investigate acts of treason.

Life and Death

1943

Natt i hamn poster
9.0

Early 1940s, during WW2, pitch black waters except for a moon-shadow over the waves. Surrounded by minefields and the fog slips in the sweeping headlights of the cargo ship S/S Rune. But the ship bows relentlessly forward through the night.

Natt i hamn

1943

Kan doktorn komma? poster
6.5

A rural doctor in the north of Sweden must travel for hours to his patients. When a young woman has a serious case of appendicitis the doctor must bring her on a dangerous trek downriver to reach the clinic. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

Kan doktorn komma?

1942

No artwork available
7.0

A young fisherman starts a business and climbs on the social ladder to avenge the man who plagued his parents.

Jacob's Ladder

1942

No artwork available
8.0

Young Allan feed on petty crime and theft. He spice his life by scaring people with stolen dynamite.

Dynamite

1947

Rospiggar poster
7.0

A lonely fisherman drowns and his elderly brother Efraim is left to do an inventory of the estate. He discovers that his brother had a son, Karl-Erik. Keeping it a secret, he travels to Stockholm to employ the young man as a hired hand. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

Rospiggar

1942

Katrina poster
8.0

Proud Katrina falls in love with Johan, who's a sailor, and follows him home to the island of Åland. She has been promised a paradise with blooming apple trees but are greeted by poverty and hard work.

Katrina

1943

Man's Woman poster
9.0

An agrarian community sometime in the 1700s. The farmer Påvel is married with his young wife Märit and very proud to have married such a young and sweet girl. Märit however, is disappointed about her marriage. Their neighbor Håkan lives alone on his farm and he falls in love with Märit. He tells her of his feelings and Märit is torn between the security of her marriage and the feelings she has for Håkan.

Man's Woman

1945

Västkustens hjältar poster
7.5

Torsten and Sven are in love with Inger, who prefers Sven. Due to jealousy, Torsten destroys the radio system aboard the fishing boat as Sven will release the following morning. During the fishing season it blows up, but as the radio is not working, the crew does not know anything about the danger.

Västkustens hjältar

1940

Ödemarksprästen poster
7.0

In the early 18th century the priest Martin Ryselius has become widower and stands alone with a one-year-old daughter. He is seeking the meaning of existence by heading north in Sweden for a priesthood service in the mountains.

Ödemarksprästen

1946

Krigsmans erinran poster
7.0

Jocke gets leave from the military to travel home to get married.

Krigsmans erinran

1947

1930s · 23 titles

The Family Secret poster
7.0

Arvid and Lilli Ekman is a senior couple with one single adult son, Arne. They find out that the son is secretly engaged with the young Margit Berg - and that they already have a three-year-old son together.

The Family Secret

1936

Man's Way with Women poster
8.0

Olof Koskela, the only son is driven from home when he wants to marry the wrong girl. He takes a job as a floater. His reputation as a womanizer goes far and wide. When he meets the proud Kyllikki, he enters into a bet to defeat the mighty rapids standing on a log.

Man's Way with Women

1934

Dollar poster
4.5

Ludvig and Sussi Battwyhl, Louis and Katja Brenner and Julia and Kurt Balzar are upper class millionaires. They don't seem to do any real work but still need a vacation in the mountains. Everybody seems to be romantically involved with everybody. A rich American woman joins them.

Dollar

1938

Johan Ulfstjerna poster
10.0

It's the last night of 1899. In Helsingfors they celebrate the new millennium. The students at the university are dancing and among them is Helge Ulfstjerna.

Johan Ulfstjerna

1936

Sockerskrinet poster
NR

A story spanning four generations.

Sockerskrinet

1938

O, What a Night! poster
5.7

Wholesaler Berggren's daughter Elin travels to Örebro to spend her honeymoon with her husband Efraim. They get separate rooms on the hotel and later that night she finds another woman in her husband's bed. She goes back home immediately. Elin's sister Irma is courted by the handsome Klas, but he seems to be unable to forget his last fiancée. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

O, What a Night!

1937

His Life's Match poster
9.0

Gunnar Gawell is mason on a building but also a very good football player. He gets a chance to play for the the national team against Denmark. Gunnar is offered a bribe if he allows the Danish team to win the match.

His Life's Match

1932

Giftasvuxna döttrar poster
9.0

Porter's wife Emma has three daughters, all "marriageable". All three have worries about marriage.

Giftasvuxna döttrar

1933

Kungen kommer poster
5.0

A travelling theater-company performs Offenbach's "The Beautiful Helene" when an officer in the audience notices the similarity in appearance between the leading actor Leonard Pettersson and the king Charles XV. With Pettersson dressed as the king and the other actors as the royal suite, they all go to Herrsunda castle where the officer is trying to make an impression on his fiance.

Kungen kommer

1936

No artwork available
7.0

Knut is a farmer's son who wants to get an education and see the world.

Rejoice While You're Young, Fellow Cadets

1939

No artwork available
10.0

Campaign film for the Swedish Folkpartiet (People's Party) in 1936.

Our Building of Home and Community

1936

Vad veta väl männen? poster
8.0

Hjalmar Björklund and his daughter Margit runs a second-hand bookshop in a small Swedish town.

Vad veta väl männen?

1933

Cat Across the Road poster
NR

An actress is happy when she is finally contacted by a famous director, but the director is more interested in her cat.

Cat Across the Road

1937

Bomans pojke poster
9.0

Gösta is unemployed and joins a gang of smugglers.

Bomans pojke

1933

Oss baroner emellan poster
6.7

Baron Leijoncloo comes back to Sweden after many years in Argentina. On his way to his good friend Victor Sällberg's home, he loses his luggage. A con artist, Jönsson, finds it, and uses the baron's title to get invited to the manor of Mr. and Mrs. Blomqvist. By a coincidence, the baron also comes to the manor using a fake name. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

Oss baroner emellan

1939

It Pays to Advertise! poster
8.0

Mr. Miller is the CEO of a big soap company whose son Henry like to spend his father's money but isn't interesting in working. Henry's laziness makes Mr. Miller upset and stressed out, so he assigns his young secretary (who the son also is in love with) to figure out a way to make Henry work and she will get 10,000 crowns ($1000). But things doesn't really to turn out the way Mr. Miller imagined.

It Pays to Advertise!

1936

Ebberöds bank poster
10.0

The poor tailor of Ebberöd is visited by his American cousin, John Andrews. He brings a bag, and the local gossip has it that he has brought 20 million with him. The tailor, the miller and a rich widow decides to open a bank. The business is excellent - they lend out money at 4 percent interest rate but gives 8 percent on the savings accounts.

Ebberöds bank

1935

Pappas pojke poster
10.0

Manager Hellman has an extramarital child he pays for maintenance. Soon he discovers that there are more people than he who pays for the unknown son.

Pappas pojke

1937

The Bachelor Father poster
7.0

The old count Kristian Örnklo has four children spread around the world since his career as a diplomat, children he has never met. His doctor convinces him that he should gather his children at his countryside estate. The doctor's son, John, is sent out to bring them back. They all meet at the estate, Kerstin from Sweden, Dagmar from Denmark, Olav from Norway and Enrico from Spain. They all have a wonderful summer, and John and Kerstin fall in love with each other.

The Bachelor Father

1935

Atlantäventyret poster
4.8

Theatre director Freddy Alsterberg has failed with his latest operetta. He decides to work his way over the Atlantic. His niece Tusse also stows away on the ship disguised as a boy.

Atlantäventyret

1934

The Girls' Alfred poster
7.0

The orphan Alfred lives with two ladies in an idyllic cottage near a private golf course.

The Girls' Alfred

1935

The Boys at Storholmen poster
10.0

The Sjölund family on Lillholmen in the archipelago of Stockholm is quite religious and is considered suitable for dealing with odd specimens of wild youth placed there by one of Stockholm's youth associations for young girls.

The Boys at Storholmen

1932

Gubben kommer poster
9.0

The old man, Carl-Henrik de Grévy, left his family many years ago, when the stock market collapsed. His sister Louise believes that he is dead and wants to get control of her brother's property, being the sole inheritor. The Sneijder's live on one of the old man's manors. They have also lost their money but as a sign of friendship he promised them before he left that they will stay there for as long as they live. Louise and her 'creative' lawyer is trying to find a way to get rid of the Sneijder's. It seems as if the only hope they have is that the old man returns.

Gubben kommer

1939