Hilda Borgström

Acting

Hilda Borgström

Born — Died

1871-10-14 — 1953-01-02

Place of birth

Stockholm, Sweden

Known for

Acting

Credits

60 titles

Hilda Teresia Borgström (13 October 1871 – 2 January 1953) was a Swedish stage and film actress.

Known for

The Phantom Carriage poster
7.7

An alcoholic, abusive ne'er-do-well is shown the error of his ways through a legend that dooms the last person to die on New Year's Eve before the clock strikes twelve to take the reins of Death's chariot and work tirelessly collecting fresh souls for the next year.

The Phantom Carriage

1921

Flames in the Dark poster
6.3

Latin teacher Birger Sjögren at Ringsala boarding school threatens his possesive and chronically ill mother that he will get married. She gets a stroke and dies. Sjögren is affected by feelings of guilt, envy and hatred towards the surroundings. A series of mysterious fires have taken place around the school the last few months. One of the students has seen Sjögren setting fire to a barn. But can he convince the trusted biology teacher Nordmark, expert of the criminal mind?

Flames in the Dark

1942

Ride Tonight! poster
5.9

In the south of Sweden, some farmers get into trouble when the German Count is forcing them to perform day labor for him. But a man refuses to bow to the German Count.

Ride Tonight!

1942

Music in Darkness poster
6.2

In postwar Sweden, a gifted young pianist’s life is transformed after a tragic accident leaves him blind. Struggling with bitterness, isolation, and the loss of his former world, he finds unexpected support and companionship from a compassionate young woman who helps him rebuild his sense of purpose. As their relationship deepens over the years, both must confront questions of pride, class, and emotional vulnerability in order to move forward.

Music in Darkness

1948

Tomten: A Winter Tale poster
6.3

A story about a house elf (tomte) preparing the stable for Christmas. Inspired by the famous poem by the Swedish writer Viktor Rydberg.

Tomten: A Winter Tale

1941

Getting Married poster
7.0

Paul Rosenkrans is a Captain of the Swedish Navy and has been married to his Signe for six years. They are still as in love as if they were newly engaged. But when Paul's leave is over for this time, Signe meets an old good friend, the plucky suffragette Annie Behrman, chairman of "Women's Political Freedom Party". Annie has written a book about the woman's slavery in marriage and begins to process Signe with her ideas that soon makes Signe see her marriage in a whole new light.

Getting Married

1926

Film credits

1940s · 43 titles

Flames in the Dark poster
6.3

Latin teacher Birger Sjögren at Ringsala boarding school threatens his possesive and chronically ill mother that he will get married. She gets a stroke and dies. Sjögren is affected by feelings of guilt, envy and hatred towards the surroundings. A series of mysterious fires have taken place around the school the last few months. One of the students has seen Sjögren setting fire to a barn. But can he convince the trusted biology teacher Nordmark, expert of the criminal mind?

Flames in the Dark

1942

Ride Tonight! poster
5.9

In the south of Sweden, some farmers get into trouble when the German Count is forcing them to perform day labor for him. But a man refuses to bow to the German Count.

Ride Tonight!

1942

Music in Darkness poster
6.2

In postwar Sweden, a gifted young pianist’s life is transformed after a tragic accident leaves him blind. Struggling with bitterness, isolation, and the loss of his former world, he finds unexpected support and companionship from a compassionate young woman who helps him rebuild his sense of purpose. As their relationship deepens over the years, both must confront questions of pride, class, and emotional vulnerability in order to move forward.

Music in Darkness

1948

Tomten: A Winter Tale poster
6.3

A story about a house elf (tomte) preparing the stable for Christmas. Inspired by the famous poem by the Swedish writer Viktor Rydberg.

Tomten: A Winter Tale

1941

Appassionata poster
5.8

A classic melodrama about the famous pianist Thomas Dahlhoff.

Appassionata

1944

Eva poster
6.3

Marine Bo Fredriksson is travelling home on a leave. He reminisce about an accident he caused as a 12-year old which killed a young girl, an event that has made him feel revulsion for death. Back home he meets Eva, a girl he fancies and they move together to Stockholm to start a life together.

Eva

1948

No artwork available
7.0

Identical twin brothers Patrik and Peter Brodd haven't seen each other for twelve years until Peter returns from America and goes to Patrik's office and demands that he gives him more money. Patrik becomes so upset that he faints. Peter quickly sends the unconscious Patrik to the hospital and takes over his brother's identity. He soon discovers that Peter is having an affair with his secretary. Peter's wife discovers that her husband has become very charming, not at all the usual boor. Meanwhile, Patrik tries to leave the hospital and stop his brother.

Bröder emellan

1946

Imprisoned Women poster
5.2

A priest decides to engage himself socially in prison. In the cells he meets a number of women with different fates. One is Mary, a young honest woman gone wrong.

Imprisoned Women

1943

Jag dräpte poster
5.8

"I Slew" - Hospital drama of a doctor who thinks that he killed a patient on the operating table.

Jag dräpte

1943

Försök inte med mej... poster
6.0

Björn Norell, a bookish assistant to an art dealer, is fired because of his inability to find the third of a trio of Buddha statues. In order to get his job back, Norell, goes on a hunt to find it in order to get his job back. Meanwhile, the art dealer has sent his daughter Ulla after him to retrieve the statue. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

Försök inte med mej...

1946

A Day Will Dawn poster
7.0

After finding his wife in the arms of another man, an army officer kills his rival and then goes by train to Finland to fight in the Winter war.

A Day Will Dawn

1944

Gomorron Bill! poster
6.0

Land owner Bill Bärnfelt sees a beautiful woman when he is out riding and immediately falls in love. But then his former fiancee turns up and makes a fuss.

Gomorron Bill!

1945

Sunshine Follows Rain poster
6.0

The Farmer Germund is planning a wedding between his daughter Marit and Mats, the son of a neighboring farm. Everything seems to be going according to plan until Marit meets the fiddler Jon, an illegitimate son who enchants the youth with his violin.

Sunshine Follows Rain

1946

The Girl from the Third Row poster
5.7

A ring passes between a lot of different people, giving the bearer or someone close a new meaning to life. Actors, embezzlers, old ladies and cheated husbands all seem to gain temporary hope from misery and disillusionment.

The Girl from the Third Row

1949

Jag är eld och luft poster
7.0

Vicar Ahrman's young daughter Jenny has left the home to start a new life with her beloved Stefan. But Jenny's dreams for the future is shattered when Stefan doesn't turn up to their meeting. Heartbroken, she returns home.

Jag är eld och luft

1944

Prince Gustaf poster
8.0

In the middle of the 1800s Swedish prince Gustaf meets the actress Anna Maria Wastenius and falls in love with her, but it is an impossible love story due to the rules of society.

Prince Gustaf

1944

The Emperor of Portugallia poster
7.2

The poor farmer Jan is getting very old when he becomes father to the girl, Klara Gulla. First, he sees the child as a burden, but when he receives the newborn child in his arms he is overjoyed. He does everything in his power for her during her. But when she as an adult leaves home, Jan can not come over the loss of her.

The Emperor of Portugallia

1944

The Invisible Wall poster
6.4

In an unnamed country under occupation, a senior officer is killed in an attack by a member of the resistance.

The Invisible Wall

1944

Old Clock of Roenneberga poster
7.0

Rönneberga is an old family manor. When Lennart Heijken is born, his proud father buys his newborn a grandfather's clock that will follow him through his life and see him become a student, an officer, a married man, and eventually an old man.

Old Clock of Roenneberga

1944

...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

The Banquet poster
5.7

As his 60th birthday approaches, Jacob grows concerned that none of his sons is capable of running his company.

The Banquet

1948

Eviga länkar poster
6.5

Hilda Granström runs a ladies' tailoring shop. Her husband Richard is a cellist in the Opera Orchestra. Their three daughters help out in Hilda's shop. Richard's 80-year-old mother, who once was a dancer, also lives with the family.

Eviga länkar

1946

The Royal Rabble poster
6.8

The ups and downs of three generations in an acting family.

The Royal Rabble

1945

A Crime poster
5.4

A murder is committed in an apartment building in Stockholm. And afterward all clues point toward the Justice of the Supreme Court and his sons. But who did it? And why? And will they be able to live with the guilt?

A Crime

1940

Farliga vägar poster
7.0

A stateless lawyer comes with his son Karel and his two daughters Vanja and Sonja as refugees to Stockholm. No one gets work permit in Sweden and the family's problems grows to not just financially. The idleness and hopelessness towards the future is almost worse and that can lead into dangerous paths.

Farliga vägar

1942

Dunungen poster
7.0

The shy Anne-Marie wants to marry the mayor's son despite his parents' opposition.

Dunungen

1941

No artwork available
7.0

Brothers Fredrik and Pontus own a family company. Fredrik is the manager of the old school and Pontus is a professor of psychology, which theorizes that men is more intelligent than women. Astrid, a young woman, opposes these theories and Pontus decides to hires her, which Fredrik doesn't like. Astrid gets installed as in charge of advertising, and soon she begins her modernizations.

Flickan är ett fynd

1943

Åsa-Hanna poster
9.0

Hanna lives in a small village in Småland together with her parents. She is the most beautiful girl around and has a lot of admirers.

Åsa-Hanna

1946

Brita i grosshandlarhuset poster
7.0

Brita moves from the countryside and her parent's cabbage patch to work as a housemaid in Stockholm. The big city overwhelms her at first and she falls in love with a young man. But one day Arvid, an infatuated young man from the old village also comes to Stockholm to express his love for her.

Brita i grosshandlarhuset

1946

The Mongrel poster
NR

Siberian hunter Burtaj learns from his dying father that he originates from German farmers on his mother side. He is thus a "bastard", since the hunters and peasants have been enemies since ancient times.

The Mongrel

1940

No artwork available
6.5

Baron Henric Löwencrona af Löwstaborg allows his daughter to marry a worker's son.

Vart hjärta har sin saga

1948

Göranssons pojke poster
10.0

Unemployed season worker Göransson sits on the Stockholm Central Station and waits for something to happen.

Göranssons pojke

1941

No artwork available
7.0

The story about Klas Ekengren, the mayor of a small Swedish town, and his mother Alma.

En flicka för mej

1943

Fransson the Terrible poster
9.0

A young baker moves to the small town of Västerby and becomes successful with a new type of whole wheat bread.

Fransson the Terrible

1941

The Gallows Man poster
8.0

The man of the gallows is a little sinister wooden figure that the proprietor must sell before his death. If not he will be doomed and unsaved.

The Gallows Man

1945

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

No artwork available
8.0

John Berner is a consul and his job has come before his wife for some time. She comforts herself with the thought that it's just John's job, and not another woman, that's taking up his time.

Nyckeln och ringen

1947

No artwork available
9.0

Teodor is happy and newly married to Marianne; unfortunately, his domineering mother-in-law shares the young couple's home.

Trötte Teodor

1945

Släkten är bäst poster
9.0

The hypocritical wholesaler Johan Ekberg is taught a lesson.

Släkten är bäst

1944

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

No artwork available
10.0

The seaman Gustaf has just returned to Stockholm, the city where he grew up but has not been in 14 years. He longs to see his apartment in which he grew up and he travels there.

Livet måste levas

1943

Doktor Glas poster
5.2

Dr. Glas is visited by Mrs. Gregorius who lives in an unhappy marriage and decides to help her, by any means necessary.

Doktor Glas

1942

Song of Stockholm poster
5.0

Knatten and Janne, just released from the prison of Långholmen, meet a romantic Stockholm in the 40s. Knatten tries to earn money while Janne is looking for the music.

Song of Stockholm

1947

1930s · 7 titles

1920s · 4 titles

1910s · 5 titles