
Directing
Bengt Lagerkvist
Known for
Directing
Credits
31 titles
Bengt Lagerkvist was born on 4 August 1926 in Fiskebäckskil, Västra Götalands län, Sweden. He was a director and writer.
Known for
Impressionistic depiction of Stockholm.
The City
1964
8.5A loving couple on an escapade, ending in a hotel room in the underworld. When the floor waiter shows up, the woman feel she has seen him before. And suddenly she discovers who he is.
The lift that went down into hell
1969
A TV drama about an old man who doesn't want to retire.
Det är nu livet börjar
1976
7.0Drama about a family going through a crisis during the Easter weekend.
Easter
1988
8.0The story of a man who has committed a crime but gets the chance to live his life again and avoid all of his past mistakes.
Han som fick leva om sitt liv
1987
The immortal story of Phileas Fogg and his servant Passepartout.
Around the World in 80 Days
1974
Film credits
Behind the camera
Impressionistic depiction of Stockholm.
The City
1964
Impressionistic depiction of Stockholm.
The City
1964
8.5A loving couple on an escapade, ending in a hotel room in the underworld. When the floor waiter shows up, the woman feel she has seen him before. And suddenly she discovers who he is.
The lift that went down into hell
1969
A TV drama about an old man who doesn't want to retire.
Det är nu livet börjar
1976
7.0Drama about a family going through a crisis during the Easter weekend.
Easter
1988
8.0The story of a man who has committed a crime but gets the chance to live his life again and avoid all of his past mistakes.
Han som fick leva om sitt liv
1987
8.0The story of a man who has committed a crime but gets the chance to live his life again and avoid all of his past mistakes.
Han som fick leva om sitt liv
1987
The immortal story of Phileas Fogg and his servant Passepartout.
Around the World in 80 Days
1974
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
8.3A story about a boy named Anders, who lives in an ordinary Swedish family in an apartment at the train station. Through his childhood, he experiences life's glorious scents of beautiful flowers and green forest, close and warm relationships with his grandparents and joyful play with his siblings. He has a strong friendship with his father and a great love for his mother. Still he lives in fear of death. He is afraid of losing all of this that is so valuable to him. In his thoughts and fears, he often turns often God, just as his sister, mother and grandparents, and ask Him for help and protection.
Guest of Reality
1961
8.3A story about a boy named Anders, who lives in an ordinary Swedish family in an apartment at the train station. Through his childhood, he experiences life's glorious scents of beautiful flowers and green forest, close and warm relationships with his grandparents and joyful play with his siblings. He has a strong friendship with his father and a great love for his mother. Still he lives in fear of death. He is afraid of losing all of this that is so valuable to him. In his thoughts and fears, he often turns often God, just as his sister, mother and grandparents, and ask Him for help and protection.
Guest of Reality
1961
"The Tunnel" - an expressionistic scene in the presence of personal tragedy and an accident. Two men reconnect. The fine gentleman all dressed up, hurt and somewhat dizzy. The other man responding, laughing sinister. They converse about a mutual acquaintance. A woman.
Tunneln
1969
9.0A young man,Erik, breaks into a photo store. But he is discovered by the night watchman and has to fly. During the flight he is picked up by cabaret singer Margot, who offers him protection. Erik, now wanted by the police, stays for a longer time with Margot and becomes her lover. Margot, however, is not alone in recruiting Erik: even the young Li is interested in him.
Prins hatt under jorden
1963
NRDocumentary about the two of the greatest Swedish artists of the 19th century, Ernst Josefson and Carl Fredrik Hill, and how their lives were changed by mental illness.
Friskt och sjukt i konsten
1986
NRDocumentary about the two of the greatest Swedish artists of the 19th century, Ernst Josefson and Carl Fredrik Hill, and how their lives were changed by mental illness.
Friskt och sjukt i konsten
1986
7.0A melancholic depiction of life in a small Swedish town, seen through the eyes of a six-year-old boy.
Åke and His World
1959
10.0A Swedish TV play about a workhouse in Småland, Sweden. Midsummer's Dream in the Workhouse is written by Pär Lagerkvist.
Midsommardröm i fattighuset
1959
Aa self-indulgent TV theater dramatization of Sigmund Freud's thesis on Leonardo da Vinci.
Gamen
1973
10.0A bride sneaks away with her lover on the eve of her wedding.
Blodsbröllop
1965
8.5Satire showing what can happen when a charismatic but unknown person gets a chance to share their political views in a TV programme.
Genombrottet
1981
Play by Federico Garcia Lorca. Swedish interpretation of Hjalmar Gullberg and Karin Alin.
Fröken Rosita
1960
10.0The baron wants his niece and her cousin to get married but their own intrigues challenge his plans.
Lek ej med kärleken
1961
9.0Albert falls in love with Sara, but she doesn't want a conventional marriage.
Det går an
1963
9.0Albert falls in love with Sara, but she doesn't want a conventional marriage.
Det går an
1963
7.5Nils Dacke, leader of the revolt against Gustav Vasa, is torn between his anger over social injustice and royal oppression, and his doubt in the power of himself and weapons.
Dacke
1961
NRBlind-Jonas is in a poorhouse dreaming about his past, in contrast the young girl Cecilia shows up dreaming about her future.
Midsommardröm i fattighuset
1980
7.0A story about Frida, Jonas and their wedding in Småland.
Bröllopsfesten
1978
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
