Margaretha Byström

Acting

Margaretha Byström

Born 1937-08-02 · Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sverige

Margaretha Byström is a Swedish stage and screen actress, writer and stage director.

Acting credits

När molnen skingras poster
NR

The story of the popular Swedish singer Ulla Billquist. The WW2's most famous voice in Sweden. The fate of a female that has never been told before.

När molnen skingras

2016

Fläskfarmen poster
7.7

A bunch of homeless people becomes interested in a rehab facility for alcoholics, run by a religious foundation. They think it will be an easy and comfortable stay/cure to sober up and get fat. But they don't know what they are getting themselves into. The staff at the foundation are very eager to treat the newcomers.

Fläskfarmen

1986

True Women poster
10.0

The drama about the Bark family and their daughter Berta, who will fight against the house patriarchal order. Berta remains in the house and becomes a daily threat against those who seek to oppress her. Written by Anne Charlotte Leffler (1883), one of the preeminent authors of modernism’s breakthrough

True Women

1991

Madame de Sade poster
7.4

This television production captures Ingmar Bergman’s stage adaptation of Yukio Mishima’s Madame de Sade, set in France from 1772 to the aftermath of the French Revolution. While the Marquis de Sade remains imprisoned, six women—including his wife Renée—debate his actions, reputation, and meaning, revealing conflicting views on devotion, morality, and power.

Madame de Sade

1992

Det vita lyser i mörkret poster
NR

Britta Hallberg lives an ordinary life - middle aged, married, respected working woman. When she loses her sight she suddenly has to accept a totally different situation in life - in the work force, in her private life, and in marriage. She has to choose, isolation and constant dependency or a new meaningful existence.

Det vita lyser i mörkret

1980

Luftburen poster
10.0

Jan and Gertrud have a sexual relationship, even though they are half siblings. Jan is an air traffic controller, while Gertrude is writing a dissertation on ferns. Jan falls in love with another woman, Jenny.

Luftburen

1973

The Touch poster
5.9

A Swedish housewife begins an adulterous affair with an American archaeologist, unaware of his emotional scars as a Holocaust survivor; consequently, their relationship will be painfully difficult.

The Touch

1971

Pettson & Findus: The Santa Machine poster
6.4

The old man PETTSON and his cat FINDUS live on a small farm way out in the countryside in Sweden. Christmas is approaching, and Pettson has given Findus the rash promise that THE TOMTE will come around with gifts for him at Christmas Eve. Pettson does not believe in the Tomte, but in order not to disappoint his cat, he decides to build an artificial Tomte - a mechanical TOMTE MACHINE. Pettson has a hard time keeping the project secret from Findus and getting the machine to actually work in due time. But somehow a mysterious magical force interferes...

Pettson & Findus: The Santa Machine

2005

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NR

A story about Gerda, maid and unmarried. And a New Year's Eve in her life.

Stulet nyår

1978

Pettson & Findus IV: Forget-Abilities poster
6.5

A swimming machine turns up that has been doctored and modified into a tile thrower, but the machine malfunctions and causes an accident that imparts Pettson with amnesia. Suddenly, it seems as though the only hope for Pettson lies in old stories that will jog his memory, such as the tale about Findus getting lost as a kitten and the one about Pettson and Findus embarking on a thrilling treasure hunt.

Pettson & Findus IV: Forget-Abilities

2009

Karlar är karlar om sanningen ska fram poster
NR

Lunardo is an old fashioned patriarch who strictly forbids his wife and daughter to leave his house. When he decides to marry off his daugther Lucietta without allowing her to meet the man first the women around him conspire to allow the young couple to meet against his wishes.

Karlar är karlar om sanningen ska fram

1976

Summer Nights on Planet Earth poster
8.0

Gunnel Lindblom twists every plot and family conflict to the breaking point in her intense infidelity drama about a family on the verge of a nervous breakdown

Summer Nights on Planet Earth

1987

A Walk in the Sun poster
4.5

Tore Andersson is a depressed 43 year old sport journalist living in Stockholm. His girlfriend has left him so he decides to take a vacation in Cyprus.

A Walk in the Sun

1978

The Lie poster
10.0

A Swedish couple are trapped in their marriage and way of life. Locked up in their bourgeois inferno.

The Lie

1970

Gunnel Lindblom: Ut ur tystnaden poster
8.0

The working class girl from Landala, Gothenburg, through the fine art of theatre and all the way to Hollywood.

Gunnel Lindblom: Ut ur tystnaden

2018

Summer Paradise poster
5.1

Conventions of civility among family members are severely strained by the very real breakup of the bonds between them. During a few days at a vacation home, Katha, a woman in late middle age, tries to cope with an influx of discontented, disconnected relatives. Her divorced daughter brings all sorts of people to the house, including a woman-friend accompanied by her psychotic son; the grandfather of the house is convinced he is dying and is satisfied by nothing; and some friends drop off their angry teenage son to stay with her, while they go on a long trip abroad. Her friend Emma doesn't help much with keeping a lid on things, as she is a social worker who is fascinated by the awfulness of these situations.

Summer Paradise

1977

Till Sex Do Us Part poster
3.0

This Swedish sex-comedy/drama explores the complications in the relationship of a couple who believe that if they make love to each other, they will die. They neck and are physically affectionate in public as well as in private, but have a big taboo against sexual consummation. Their situation drives them to distraction, and they unsuccessfully seek various extramarital outlets for their frustrations.

Till Sex Do Us Part

1971