Bengt Lagerkvist

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

Film credits

Behind the camera

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NR

Impressionistic depiction of Stockholm.

The City

1964

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Impressionistic depiction of Stockholm.

The City

1964

The lift that went down into hell poster
8.5

A 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

No artwork available
NR

A TV drama about an old man who doesn't want to retire.

Det är nu livet börjar

1976

Easter poster
7.0

Drama about a family going through a crisis during the Easter weekend.

Easter

1988

Han som fick leva om sitt liv poster
8.0

The 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

Han som fick leva om sitt liv poster
8.0

The 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

No artwork available
6.5

The immortal story of Phileas Fogg and his servant Passepartout.

Around the World in 80 Days

1974

Amala, Kamala poster
9.0

About 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

Guest of Reality poster
8.3

A 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

Guest of Reality poster
8.3

A 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

No artwork available
8.0

"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

Prins hatt under jorden poster
9.0

A 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

Friskt och sjukt i konsten poster
NR

Documentary 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

Friskt och sjukt i konsten poster
NR

Documentary 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

Åke and His World poster
7.0

A melancholic depiction of life in a small Swedish town, seen through the eyes of a six-year-old boy.

Åke and His World

1959

Midsommardröm i fattighuset poster
10.0

A Swedish TV play about a workhouse in Småland, Sweden. Midsummer's Dream in the Workhouse is written by Pär Lagerkvist.

Midsommardröm i fattighuset

1959

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NR

Aa self-indulgent TV theater dramatization of Sigmund Freud's thesis on Leonardo da Vinci.

Gamen

1973

Blodsbröllop poster
10.0

A bride sneaks away with her lover on the eve of her wedding.

Blodsbröllop

1965

Genombrottet poster
8.5

Satire showing what can happen when a charismatic but unknown person gets a chance to share their political views in a TV programme.

Genombrottet

1981

No artwork available
9.0

Play by Federico Garcia Lorca. Swedish interpretation of Hjalmar Gullberg and Karin Alin.

Fröken Rosita

1960

Lek ej med kärleken poster
10.0

The baron wants his niece and her cousin to get married but their own intrigues challenge his plans.

Lek ej med kärleken

1961

Det går an poster
9.0

Albert falls in love with Sara, but she doesn't want a conventional marriage.

Det går an

1963

Det går an poster
9.0

Albert falls in love with Sara, but she doesn't want a conventional marriage.

Det går an

1963

Dacke poster
7.5

Nils 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

Midsommardröm i fattighuset poster
NR

Blind-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

Bröllopsfesten poster
7.0

A story about Frida, Jonas and their wedding in Småland.

Bröllopsfesten

1978

Bödeln poster
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