Olof Winnerstrand

Acting

Olof Winnerstrand

Born 1875-08-26 · Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden

Carl Olof Magnus Winnerstrand (26 August 1875 – 16 July 1956) was a Swedish actor.

Acting credits

Dance on Roses poster
6.5

Marianne is a dancer at the Lilla Teatern. The theatre has financial troubles and its existence is under threat. Marianne falls in love with Stig Broman, the owner of the theatre. After a few problems, the actors manage to set up a show, with Marianne as leading lady, which will decide the fate of the theatre.

Dance on Roses

1954

The Family Secret poster
7.0

Arvid and Lilli Ekman is a senior couple with one single adult son, Arne. They find out that the son is secretly engaged with the young Margit Berg - and that they already have a three-year-old son together.

The Family Secret

1936

The Pot Journey poster
10.0

Based on the novel by Edith Unnerstad about a man, Pip Larsson, who invents a new kind of pot which makes a sound when the stuff you are cooking is ready. As he can't pay the bills he and his family get evicted but luckely they have a couple of carriages they can live in and travel round the country, selling the new kind of pots Pip Larsson has invented.

The Pot Journey

1950

Getting Married poster
7.0

Paul Rosenkrans is a Captain of the Swedish Navy and has been married to his Signe for six years. They are still as in love as if they were newly engaged. But when Paul's leave is over for this time, Signe meets an old good friend, the plucky suffragette Annie Behrman, chairman of "Women's Political Freedom Party". Annie has written a book about the woman's slavery in marriage and begins to process Signe with her ideas that soon makes Signe see her marriage in a whole new light.

Getting Married

1926

No artwork available
NR

The divorce lawyer Vinner manages the house, and his wife manages the law firm.

Reversed Roles

1920

Torment poster
7.1

Jan-Erik Widgren meets the lonely Bertha Olsson, a woman struggling with alcoholism. Though Bertha is already linked to Caligula, Jan-Erik's heartless teacher, she begins a relationship with the boy anyway. When Caligula learns that Jan-Erik is having an affair with Bertha, he begins to torture his student psychologically. He reserves his cruelest behavior for Bertha, however, which results in a tragic turn of events.

Torment

1944

Music in Darkness poster
6.2

In postwar Sweden, a gifted young pianist’s life is transformed after a tragic accident leaves him blind. Struggling with bitterness, isolation, and the loss of his former world, he finds unexpected support and companionship from a compassionate young woman who helps him rebuild his sense of purpose. As their relationship deepens over the years, both must confront questions of pride, class, and emotional vulnerability in order to move forward.

Music in Darkness

1948

My Friend Oscar poster
6.5

Hans Lövgren happens to win a seal on a lottery during a trip to France. Terrified, he brings the seal home to his Paris apartment and tries to function together with the charming but barking guest.

My Friend Oscar

1951

No artwork available
7.0

Mr. Vinner's daughter, Lillan, accidentally breaks her mother's brooch and tries to catch a dragonfly as a replacement for the destroyed jewelry.

The Dragonfly

1920

Äventyret poster
10.0

At the home of the famous scientist Count Knut Lagercrona the wedding preparations has begun. The Counts daughter Heléne Von Bohren is about to marry the young lawyer Sebastian Lavenius.

Äventyret

1936

No artwork available
7.0

Mr. Vinner gets shot in the back. To ease the pain, he tries to apply a cat skin to the painful area, but the skin is difficult to apply and forces Mr. Vinner into a series of embarrassing situations.

Back Shot

1921

A Lesson in Love poster
6.7

After fifteen years of marriage and mutual infidelity, a couple on the brink of divorce unexpectedly confront their unresolved love during a journey to Copenhagen. Blending farce with emotional reflection, the film is Ingmar Bergman’s first sustained venture into marital comedy.

A Lesson in Love

1954

One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer poster
6.5

When Inga Brantemo goes on a business trip to Italy, her husband Bertil gets romantically involved with Christina Lovén, whose father is a book publisher. When Inga returns, Bertil has a difficult time trying to explain who the woman the neighbors saw in the Brantemo home was. Bertil is an author and it doesn't get easier when he and his wife gets invited to Christina's father to talk business.

One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer

1947

The Emperor of Portugallia poster
7.2

The poor farmer Jan is getting very old when he becomes father to the girl, Klara Gulla. First, he sees the child as a burden, but when he receives the newborn child in his arms he is overjoyed. He does everything in his power for her during her. But when she as an adult leaves home, Jan can not come over the loss of her.

The Emperor of Portugallia

1944

No artwork available
9.0

After a visit to the opera, Mr. Vinner invites his wife to supper at home. She gets the urge to eat crayfish. Despite it being late at night, Mr. Vinner sets out to try to satisfy her whim.

The Delicious Seafood

1920

Rosen på Tistelön poster
6.7

A smuggler's daughter falls in love with the son of a customs inspector.

Rosen på Tistelön

1945

Det glada kalaset poster
8.0

Bojan runs a guest house, with economical problems. She decides, therefore, to arrange a big party. If she will go bankrupt, it might as well happen to cheerful music.

Det glada kalaset

1946

The Invisible Wall poster
6.4

In an unnamed country under occupation, a senior officer is killed in an attack by a member of the resistance.

The Invisible Wall

1944

The Great John Ericsson poster
7.0

In 1803 the Swedish inventor John Ericsson is born. After a military career he went to England and became one of the first builders of locomotives. Despite large debts, he invents the propeller. In 1839 he crosses the Atlantic and builds ships for the US Navy. When the US civil war breaks out, the Federation needs a ship to match the Confederate 'Merrimac' and preventing the Confederation from exporting cotton to Europe. Ericsson builds the 'Monitor', a ship the Federation needs to win the war.

The Great John Ericsson

1937

Thunder and Lightning poster
7.0

The aristocratic count Hägerskiöld is very proud of his swine Helen of Troy who wins a prize every year as the best swine in the area. This year his son Claes-Ferdinand needs money to get married with Pyret, a chorus-girl. His father won't give him any so he steals the swine, expecting that his father will give a reward to anyone who can find her.

Thunder and Lightning

1938

Fianceé for Hire poster
6.4

A secretary transforms their defunct legal agency into a service where you can get anything, from childcare to gardening to even a fiancée.

Fianceé for Hire

1950

I Love You Karlsson poster
6.0

A comedy about the young Marie who works in a daycare. However, the house where her work is located has been sold and the new owner does not want the daycare to remain, because he is only interested in dogs. Eventually, Marie manages to get the host to think better and, with some tricks, even get him to like children.

I Love You Karlsson

1947

En Djurgårdspromenad poster
NR

An overview of Djurgården in Stockholm and what it looked like in the 1930s.

En Djurgårdspromenad

1939

Mr. Vinner's Stone Age Dream poster
NR

Mr. Vinner comes home tired, finds a coffee brewing and a house full of rowdy kids - "other people's and his own" - in the nursery. In the corner of a room, he dozes off and has a highly instructive Stone Age dream, from which he wakes up as an "ideal husband."

Mr. Vinner's Stone Age Dream

1924