Per-Axel Arosenius

Acting

Per-Axel Arosenius

Born — Died

1920-11-07 — 1981-03-21

Place of birth

Norberg, Västmanlands län, Sweden

Known for

Acting

Credits

55 titles

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Per Axel Daniel Rank Arosenius (November 7, 1920 – March 21, 1981) was a Swedish actor of mostly supporting parts. His most prominent film role was that of Soviet defector Boris Kusenov in Alfred Hitchcock's 1969 film Topaz. After a dispute with the Swedish taxation authorities on March 21 1981, Arosenius protested by setting himself on fire outside their office in Nacka. He died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. He was 60 years old. Description above from the Wikipedia article Per-Axel Arosenius, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

Film credits

1970s · 26 titles

Thriller: A Cruel Picture poster
6.3

Madeleine, rendered mute after being sexually assaulted as a youth, accepts a lift from a wealthy and sadistic pimp who soon enslaves her into his prostitution racket. Despite her limited means, Madeleine embarks on a bloody road to revenge against her captors.

Thriller: A Cruel Picture

1973

Maid in Sweden poster
4.8

Schoolgirl Inga goes to visit her sister in Stockholm and is shocked to find her living with her boyfriend, Casten.

Maid in Sweden

1971

The Brothers Lionheart poster
6.7

After brothers Jonathan and Crusty pass away, they reunite in Nangijala, the land of eternal spring. Casting a long shadow over their world is the tyrant Tengil, ruler of the country Karmanjaka, where he’s building his new fortress up in the Ancient Mountains.

The Brothers Lionheart

1977

Wide Open poster
3.5

A philandering cab driver decides to help his girlfriend's attractive sister, who is in trouble with drug dealers.

Wide Open

1974

Fear Has 1000 Eyes poster
4.5

Sven, a vicar, and his pregnant wife, Anna, live in the vicarage of a small village in Northern Sweden. Anna's friend Hedvig comes to visit, and soon after, mysterious hauntings and deaths begin to occur.

Fear Has 1000 Eyes

1970

A Man with a Maid poster
4.7

A Victorian aristocrat buys a former madhouse and converts it into a "love nest" to woo and bed Alice, the lovely blonde Minister's daughter he meets in an art gallery.

A Man with a Maid

1975

Swedish Porno: The House of Beasts poster
4.7

Three escaped convicts rob a gun store and come upon a remote house in which a family of four live with their maid. But the criminals are not prepared for the sexual appetite of the inhabitants.

Swedish Porno: The House of Beasts

1973

Release the Prisoners to Spring! poster
6.0

Small and short Frida lives with her long, tall friend in a house in the countryside. Frida rejects the idea that people who have committed crimes should be locked up. One day their own house is burgled by Harald. He is sentenced to prison. Acting in accordance with her philosophy, Frida decides to use all means possible to make it possible for Harald to escape.

Release the Prisoners to Spring!

1975

Eddie & Suzanne poster
5.3

The former convicted Eddie from Oslo meet Suzanne, the daughter of a tyrannic Swedish police chief, in a discotheque by coincidence. Together they run off to France. The father starts the hunt for them, thinking they're doing drugs.

Eddie & Suzanne

1975

Liz poster
4.0

Elizabeth and David are getting married. One day a sailboat anchor outside their villa in the archipelago. Elisabeth feels a vague threat from the unknown sailor aboard.

Liz

1976

Anderssonskans Kalle i busform poster
6.0

The kid Anderssonskans Kalle is a menace to his surroundings and this time he uses nails, fireworks and sneezing powder.

Anderssonskans Kalle i busform

1973

91:an och generalernas fnatt poster
10.0

When private 91 "Mandel" Karlsson is appointed General due to a computer error, he tricks a foreign military attaché into believing that the Swedish defense has a new weapon that turns male soldiers into women.

91:an och generalernas fnatt

1977

Skärseld poster
8.0

An established writer goes to the Nobel Prize Banquet in Stockholm. He is a family man. In the background another woman. A suicide attempt. His work is rejected by the publisher.

Skärseld

1975

Badjävlar poster
6.8

Holidays on the swedish east coast. Invading summer guests collide with the locals, all without inhibitions. The formerly so radical Social Democratic municipal councilor has completely lost his visions and fully accepts that the area is transformed into a tourist resort for the rich.

Badjävlar

1971

Lockfågeln poster
3.7

On his death-bed, Per Henrik Pistolekors must promise his father two things: first of all to kill king Gustav III, which his father hates. Second, to take his half-sister Annarella to Stockholm to find her a rich and noble husband.

Lockfågeln

1971

The Man from the Other Side poster
7.0

After the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917. A Russian engineer gets the assignment to purchase locomotives from Sweden. Paid in gold. Claimed by the opponents of the revolution.

The Man from the Other Side

1972

Terror of Frankenstein poster
8.2

Victor Frankenstein's search for the secret of life leads to the creation of a monster that consumes his life and family.

Terror of Frankenstein

1977

The Office Party poster
5.3

Office executive Knut Levin decides to arrange a party at work. Things don't go exactly according to plan with hilarious results.

The Office Party

1972

Dirty Fingers poster
5.7

A young woman dies from a drug overdose, and her brother and his friend try to find out who supplied her with the narcotics. Soon, they're chased all over Stockholm by the cruel but suave ring leader Harry and his thugs. Among the wildness is a fight in a brothel filled with naked girls, and when Servus, one of the thugs, fails to kill our heroes, Harry has his men kill Servus with a razor blade equipped glove. Oh, and the heroine is raped by a guy sucking on a comforter

Dirty Fingers

1973

Anderssonskans Kalle poster
4.2

Anderssonskan's Kalle is the typical 'Söderkis'. It's a boy growing up on Söder in Stockholm and he is very fond of practical jokes. His mother sees him as a good natured boy but his victims, mostly the local policeman and two old crones in the same house, see him as the devil himself.

Anderssonskans Kalle

1972

Pig Hunt poster
6.5

"Pig Hunt" - Lennart Siljeberg works at the Cattle Inspection Agency. He is the perfect bureaucrat, always careful and pedantic. The agency's latest mission is to extinguish all pigs on the island of Gotland. However, for some unexplainable reason, the local farmers use violence to destroy the agency's work.

Pig Hunt

1970

Faneflukt poster
6.3

The young kitchen maid Liv and the German officer Franz meet in the military camp where Liv works. They develop a friendship and decides to flee to Sweden.

Faneflukt

1975

No artwork available
NR

About a truck driver hitting a seven year old child.

Hon kallade mig jävla mördare

1971

No artwork available
NR

The family's daughter throws herself out of a window in an attempt to take her own life. She survives and the family tries to figure out what they did wrong. A relative comes to visit and the daughter's tries to seduce him.

Den stora salongen

1970

Midsommardansen poster
6.0

A group of young people gathered on the countryside to celebrate midsummer dancing, drinking and romancing. And some fighting too. Followed by more violence, jealousy and guilt. On the journey home one of the cars the travel in collides with a bus.

Midsommardansen

1971

Breaking Point poster
5.2

Bob is an unassuming office worker and train enthusiast who leads a double life as a schizophrenic and misogynist killer. He teeters on the edge of reality. Television news reports encourage him in ways no one realizes.

Breaking Point

1975

1960s · 7 titles

Topaz poster
6.0

Copenhagen, Denmark, 1962. When a high-ranking Soviet official decides to change sides, a French intelligence agent is caught up in a cold, silent and bloody spy war in which his own family will play a decisive role.

Topaz

1969

Deserter USA poster
9.0

Three American defectors, John Lane, Ben Rosen and Alan Miller, arrive at Stockholm Arlanda airport and are received by Mr. Lundberg, a representative of the official Swedish opinion of the Vietnam War.

Deserter USA

1969

No artwork available
10.0

Alan Kennebeck is unable to accept a brief, realistic romance for what it is. Eventually it leads to his complete moral downfall. Triggered by the factory official Eric Walderman, being a sadistically suave conniver and villain, who babbles a Nietzschean creed of ruthlessness and brings the picture to its grim, melodramatic conclusion.

A Matter of Morals

1961

You're Lying! poster
6.0

About an alcohol-damaged young man, his life in and out of prison, his friend the art teacher and his difficulties reintegrating into society.

You're Lying!

1969

No artwork available
8.0

Freddy and Stickan is working at a weapons factory, one day Freddy comes across a key to some secret weapons blueprints. But Freddy and Stickan gets drafted as the crooks trying to get a hold on the keys tries to follow them.

Tre dar i buren

1963

Gustav Vasa poster
8.0

Gustav Vasa struggles to keep power while dealing with the Dacke War in his own country and his foreign debts.

Gustav Vasa

1965

Komedi i Hägerskog poster
7.0

Narcissa and Elina work in a small town social service office and have various erotic encounters with the people who visit it.

Komedi i Hägerskog

1968

1950s · 14 titles

Miss Julie poster
6.6

Based on the play by August Strindberg, Miss Julie vividly depicts the battle of the sexes and classes that ensues when Julie, a wealthy businessman's daughter, falls for Jean, her father's bitter servant.

Miss Julie

1951

The Lady in Black poster
5.8

The married detective couple John and Kajsa Hillman goes on a vacation to Holmfors mill where a friend of Kajsa's lives with her husband. When a young woman is found murdered it is clear that this is another case for the Hillmans.

The Lady in Black

1958

No artwork available
7.0

Biographical account of Kalle Jularbo, a famous Swedish accordion-player.

Kalle Karlsson från Jularbo

1952

Musik ombord poster
7.0

Ulla Winther has retired from her singing career to a marriage with two children. But her agent wants her to return and she finally agrees to take part in a charity concert

Musik ombord

1958

My Passionate Longing poster
10.0

The nurse Nina becomes sterile after an illegal abortion and keep it a secret from her husband.

My Passionate Longing

1956

Just a Waiter poster
7.0

Fabian Bom is a waiter at a hotel in a small town. But he dreams of doing something else - to dance and sing on a stage. He is madly in love with Matilda Roos, singer and diva. Fabian is too insensitive to notice that Annie, who works in the kitchen, is in love with him. Encouraged by Matilda, Fabian leaves the hotel and goes to Stockholm to become famous. But, as he soon learns, it is more difficult than he first thought.

Just a Waiter

1959

Whoops! poster
5.8

A comedy mystery involving the composer and cartoonist Hubert Yrhage, the journalist Gary Lundberg, anticartoon campaigner Lena Lett, the mysterious Jens Myskovich and music publisher Darling Karlsson. Yrhage receives his manuscripts from an 11 year-old whose inspiration comes from the mysterious events at a boarding house where several of the characters stay.

Whoops!

1955

No artwork available
NR

A boy lies and dreams in his bed in the kitchen, wakes up and takes a kitchen knife with him to bed and falls asleep. He dreams that he kills everyone at a game table, except for his father, whom he takes out on a tram ride. The boy wakes up again and waits for the father to come home and when he does, the mother and the father quarrel about something. The morning comes and the boy goes out, finally ends up at the beer café where the father and his beer friends are sitting.

Nattens lekar

1955

Drömsemester poster
7.0

The Danish school teacher Mogens Jensen is on his holiday through Sweden in a rickety T-Ford.

Drömsemester

1952

Unmarried Mothers poster
7.0

At a summer-evening dance a young girl meets a man who tells her he is a doctor. They go off together, and after that she never sees him again. She learns that she is pregnant and inquires about him at various hospitals, with no success. She reads of his engagement and becomes acquainted with another girl with a situation like her own.

Unmarried Mothers

1953

No artwork available
NR

A man meets prisoner Nils Gustaf Boman and asks him why he strayed from the straight and narrow. The prisoner says: "Put yourself in my position." The man does and sees before him himself as Nils Gustaf Boman.

Children of the Night

1956

Skuggan poster
7.0

"The Shadow" - Erik Vender is a librarian and married to Vivianne. Vivianne was previously married to a well-known lawyer who died when their daughter was very small. One evening, Vivianne asks Erik to read a novel draft "Skuggan/The Shadow". The content strongly touches Erik. Vivianne reveals that it is her ex-husband that wrote the script.

Skuggan

1953

Kulla-Gulla poster
6.5

Orphan girl Gunilla (nick named Kulla-Gulla) gets sent from her orphanage to work as an housemaid at sharecropper Karlbergs household. Among her duties is to take care of Karlberg, his wife and their five children.

Kulla-Gulla

1956

No artwork available
9.0

In the village of Stubbhult lives many motorcycle interested young people. However, their rampage interfere with the local population.

Johan på Snippen

1956

1940s · 7 titles

The Blockhead of the Block poster
7.0

The kids on the south side of Stockholm get together to help their friend Kalle out when he's broken a window, by starting a fund-raiser. But some older kids are after the money.

The Blockhead of the Block

1947

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

Lång-Lasse i Delsbo poster
7.5

it's the 1840s and a rural parish plagued by drinking and fighting gets a new vicar who has decided to instill law, order and fear of God into the parishioners.

Lång-Lasse i Delsbo

1949

Strange Harbor poster
7.0

A Swedish cargo ship is in the winter of 1938 at the dock in Gdynia in Poland, waiting to depart with coal to Sweden. In a tavern in the port a Polish dockworkers tries to tell something to the Swedish sailors, but is rudely turned away by the tavern owner. Later in the evening the port worker is found dead. That same evening one of the Swedish sailors, meets a Jewish woman who has fled Nazi Germany.

Strange Harbor

1948

No artwork available
7.0

The farmers Zackris Månsson and the Kerstorps-farmer lives on each side of the river. The two villages has always been enemies. The Kerstorps-farmer dies after a beating caused by Zachris. The son Olle takes over the farm and becomes a good farmer. He has a reputation of a fancying women, but the only women he has eyes for is Zachris daughter.

Ådalens poesi

1947

Flottans kavaljerer poster
5.1

Baron Conrad Crusenhielm is hit in the head during a drunken brawl. Suffering from amnesia, he is mistaken for the lost sailor Karlsson and taken to the navy vessel Fylgia.

Flottans kavaljerer

1948

Man's Woman poster
9.0

An agrarian community sometime in the 1700s. The farmer Påvel is married with his young wife Märit and very proud to have married such a young and sweet girl. Märit however, is disappointed about her marriage. Their neighbor Håkan lives alone on his farm and he falls in love with Märit. He tells her of his feelings and Märit is torn between the security of her marriage and the feelings she has for Håkan.

Man's Woman

1945