
Writing
Lars Norén
Born 1944-05-09 · Stockholm, Sweden
Lars Norén was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet and director. His plays are realistic and often revolve around family relations and the impoverished and rooted at the bottom of society.
Acting credits
NRThe Hotel is the last part of a trilogy about travelling. The first two were The Atlantic (Atlanten, 1995) and The Lighthouse (Fyren, 2000). The hotel is a different kind of home. It can be a refuge, cul-de-sac, castle, nightmare, creative space...The first hotel was created as protection against the elements. Weary travellers could find shelter and rest. But it was also a place for legends and anecdotes.
The Hotel
2016
6.0The theatre 7:3 project was conducted at the Tidaholm prison 1998-1999. What started as an artistic experiment, ended up in police killings at Malexander. The process in the prison were filmed during 6 months.
Repetitioner
2005
NRFilmmaker Bobo Ericzén portrays writer, author and director Lars Norén, following him the last 14 years of his life.
Lars
2025
NRAbout the Swedish author/playwright/poet/director Lars Norén's creative process. He is one of Sweden's internationally most frequently played, and respected playwrights. On January 3, 2003, he begun to direct his 66th piece, "Kyla/Cold". Two years later, he looks back on one of the most dramatic periods in his writing life. The documentary "Kall" stays close to Lars Norén to his creativity and artistic purpose in life.
Kall
2007
8.0Depicts the controversial double police murder, involving neo-nazism and a theatre project by one of Scandinavia's most celebrated playwrights. The film traces a complex and fascinating chain of events leading up to the fatal climax in the picturesque small town of Malexander, Sweden.
Murder in Malexander
2001
Lars Norén (1944-2021) made his debut as a poet in the 1960s and has since written around 30 books of poetry and prose and around 60 plays for theatre, television and radio. "A few minutes in Lars Norén's life" is a short film about the writer and playwright, made by Rainer Hartleb in 1971. Hear Lars Norén himself talk about his works and his artistry.
Några minuter i Lars Noréns liv
1971
NRDocumentary about the Swedish playwright Lars Norén
Lars Norén - dramatiker
1991
Behind the camera
NRAbout the murder of John Hron in Kode, Sweden, 1996. "Kyla" is a state of mind, it gives the image of the fatherless patriarchate's lost sons. The graduation of three boys gather at a lake celebrating that school has ended, but they has no future to look forward to. The atmosphere is tense and they beat down quickly on each other's faults and shortcomings, inciting each other.
Cold
2004
NRAbout the murder of John Hron in Kode, Sweden, 1996. "Kyla" is a state of mind, it gives the image of the fatherless patriarchate's lost sons. The graduation of three boys gather at a lake celebrating that school has ended, but they has no future to look forward to. The atmosphere is tense and they beat down quickly on each other's faults and shortcomings, inciting each other.
Cold
2004
NRCrosses freely and unaltered through Lars Norén's "Fursteslickaren" and "Mantegna Portfolio" and, in addition, serving Gregorian songs decked with various perversions and erotic dislocations, make "Sakrament" a unique creation. Recorde at Studion, Göteborgs Stadsteater, May 26th, 1987 by Andras Banovits.
Sakrament
1987
4.1A married couple lives in a state of mutual loathing, contemplating divorce until they invite their younger neighbours over for a drink. In that moment, the happy young couple is dragged into the bitter resentment and psychological warfare of the older pair.
Démons
2015
6.0The theatre 7:3 project was conducted at the Tidaholm prison 1998-1999. What started as an artistic experiment, ended up in police killings at Malexander. The process in the prison were filmed during 6 months.
Repetitioner
2005
5.3About the individuals who live in a mad-house. This kind of people usually seem to be quite normal. However, from one scene to another they may dramatically change, thereby revealing their deep problems with themselves and the society they cannot live in anymore.
A Kind of Hades
1996
5.3About the individuals who live in a mad-house. This kind of people usually seem to be quite normal. However, from one scene to another they may dramatically change, thereby revealing their deep problems with themselves and the society they cannot live in anymore.
A Kind of Hades
1996
Catherine and Frank are arguing and their neighbors Thomas and Jenna are drawn into the fight.
Demoner
1986
Harry and Elisabeth invites home a young couple. At first they are having a good time, but the tensions grows with the drinking. Soon they all are nasty, rude and outspoken to each other.
Sanning och konsekvens
1991
9.0About two girl-wolf, Amala and Kamala in 1930s India. They are captured by the British troops and placed in Military hospital, subjected to a harsh upbringing, in an attempt to make ordinary people out of them.
Amala, Kamala
1971
Malin has previously been an au-pair girl in London, England and is now returning to the family she worked for. During her visit, she is undergoing a crisis that makes her forget the child she brought with her.
Belgrove Hotel, Goodbye
1970
4.7Emma, a young author, goes to see Erik, the publishing editor whom she's sent her debut novel. Their meeting leads to a love affair. The middle-aged Erik leaves his wife. What Erik doesn't know is that Emma recently began a relationship with the dramatist Stefan, whose play is also being published by Erik's company. One day Stefan overdoses and is brought to the emergency ward where Erik's wife Ann works as a doctor. These incident is the start of the story about how four people's lives are crossed during ten years, until the four of them finally end up in the same loneliness they started.
Details
2003
Lars Norén (1944-2021) made his debut as a poet in the 1960s and has since written around 30 books of poetry and prose and around 60 plays for theatre, television and radio. "A few minutes in Lars Norén's life" is a short film about the writer and playwright, made by Rainer Hartleb in 1971. Hear Lars Norén himself talk about his works and his artistry.
Några minuter i Lars Noréns liv
1971
8.5It 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
8.0A 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
NRHöst och vinter is a terrible comedy about a family on the verge of a collective collapse, who are desperately trying to rediscover the connection with each other. For hatred and accusations are never greater than longing and love for one another. You meet the family one autumn evening in the parents' Östermalm apartment. Margareta and Henrik have invited their daughters to dinner, as they do every month. Ann lives with her son in a one bedroom apartment and struggles to make a living. Ewa and her husband live in a villa in Stocksund and must have three cars to be able to work that much.
Höst och vinter
2009
7.0Four generations of the same family meet in a summer cottage over a weekend.
Som löven i Vallombrosa
1995
8.0During a midsummer weekend in the eighties a family gather in their summerhouse in the archipelago. The memory of the dead family father surfaces when Britt-Marie, now calling herself Hebriana, gets out from the mental hospital to celebrate midsummer with the family.
Hebriana
1990
7.0Lars Norén's TV-play depicts seven men who have committed terrible crimes and are imprisoned indefinitely. A portrait of a hidden world and a stark reminder that these people exists.
Shadow Boys
2001
7.0"The Courage to Kill". A father and son showdown. The father arrives uninvited at the son's tiny apartment.
Modet att döda
1980
6.3Ricky is 16 years old and lives with his older brother Frank and Mom and dad in a hotel that the family run. The time is the mid-fifties. The family is not happy, the brothers can not stand each other and dad Martin is weighed down by economic concerns.
Natten är dagens mor
1984
6.9During one evening, night and morning we follow the decay of an upperclass family's last convulsive attempt to reconcile and reach mutual respect.
Bobby Fischer bor i Pasadena
1990
NRAbout confusion and fear of the incomprehensible, deviations, and about mental illness as a phenomenon.
Marit
1975
The captain Edgar and his wife, the actress Alice, live in a dead marriage, where the only thing that has grown deeper is the bitterness. Despite that they're going to celebrate their silver wedding. When their relative Kurt comes to visit from America, 25 years of bitterness suddenly flouts up to the surface.
The Dance of Death
1996