
Acting
Georg Funkquist
Born — Died
1900-03-13 — 1986-10-23
Place of birth
Uppsala, Uppsala län, Sweden
Known for
Acting
Credits
61 titles
Known for
7.2Don Juan is sent from Hell to Earth with a mission: to seduce a virgin in order to spoil her pure wedding. The mission becomes frantic when Don Juan falls in love for the first time in centuries.
The Devil's Eye
1960
6.1A film adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf's classic book about Nils Holgersson, who is a real rascal. As punishment for his mischief, a house elf shrinks him to his size. The farm animals are out for revenge and so Nils must escape on the back of a goose from Skåne in the south to Lapland in the north. During his flight over Sweden, Nils gets to take part in many adventures.
Wonderful Adventures of Nils
1962
9.0During the spring of 1940 two young men gets drafted and deployed close to the Norwegian border, where they fall in love with the same woman.
En vår i vapen
1943
6.1Pretentious critic Cornelius is writing a biography on a famous cellist and to do some research he stays in the cellist's house for a few days. He doesn't manage to get an interview with the man, but by talking to all the women who live with him, he comes to learn a lot about the musician's private life none the less. Cornelius then decides to use this information to blackmail the cellist into performing a composition that he, Cornelius, has written.
All These Women
1964
9.0Five-part Swedish television series from 1970, based on Birger Sjöberg's collection of poems Frida's Book from 1922.
Frida och hennes vän
1970
7.4During a brief summer vacation, a lonely woman recalls her first love thirteen years earlier.
Summer Interlude
1951
Film credits
1970s · 2 titles
3.7On 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
10.0In a fictional future totalitarian society ruled as a one-party state. A teacher commits the crime to teach their students to think independently and is therefore being stalked. The fictional Monismania also appeared in Astrid Lindgren's saga about the witch Pomperipossa in the Monismanian 1976.
Monismanien 1995
1975
1960s · 6 titles
7.2Don Juan is sent from Hell to Earth with a mission: to seduce a virgin in order to spoil her pure wedding. The mission becomes frantic when Don Juan falls in love for the first time in centuries.
The Devil's Eye
1960
6.1A film adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf's classic book about Nils Holgersson, who is a real rascal. As punishment for his mischief, a house elf shrinks him to his size. The farm animals are out for revenge and so Nils must escape on the back of a goose from Skåne in the south to Lapland in the north. During his flight over Sweden, Nils gets to take part in many adventures.
Wonderful Adventures of Nils
1962
6.1Pretentious critic Cornelius is writing a biography on a famous cellist and to do some research he stays in the cellist's house for a few days. He doesn't manage to get an interview with the man, but by talking to all the women who live with him, he comes to learn a lot about the musician's private life none the less. Cornelius then decides to use this information to blackmail the cellist into performing a composition that he, Cornelius, has written.
All These Women
1964
3.8Åsa-Nisse and Klabbarparn has found an old pirate map that leads them to the island Mallorca in the Mediterranean Sea as they search for the hidden treasure.
Åsa-Nisse på Mallorca
1962
8.0"Hello Happy Summer!!!" - Valle and Bror are two fishermen brothers who lives in the remote archipelago. One day Valles wife receives a big inheritance from a distant relative and their lives takes a new turn.
Hej du glada sommar!!!
1965
10.0The Karlsson family moves from a small village to a suburb outside Stockholm. The change from a country life to the big city is not easy.
Lyckodrömmen
1963
1950s · 13 titles
7.4During a brief summer vacation, a lonely woman recalls her first love thirteen years earlier.
Summer Interlude
1951
7.2H.F.F.M. - "Hands off Mom" - is the name of an association founded by four siblings to keep their mother all to themselves. Now they don't want any more strangers in their private paradise. The small family lives in a cozy attic apartment in Copenhagen. The mother is a writer, and since she is divorced, she has to manage on her own.
Hold fingrene fra mor
1951
7.0Love triangle between Svante, his fiancee Inga and Sophie, a girl from a rich family.
Swinging at the Castle
1959
It's evening and mother Alice read bedtime stories for her three children.
H.C. Andersens sagor
1952
7.3The rich young man Teddy Anker invests his money in the theater at the beginning of the 1920s. Whatever he does becomes a success. He falls in love with a dancer, Karin. He decides to put up a show with Karin as the leading lady, but for the first time one of his shows becomes an economic disaster.
Jazz Boy
1958
6.7Fransiska is visited by a social worker when she's in the custody. She tells him her lives story, about her mother who was an alcoholic, her father a night watchman and how she and her five year old little sister was left. Her boyfriend was unemployed and needed money and to help him she stole money.
Girls Without Rooms
1956
8.0Åke is small and fits everywhere. A film mostly consisting of scenes from older films.
Åke klarar biffen
1952
5.2In Stockholm in the year 2248 an excavation leads to the discovery of 45,000 meters of film from the 1940's master director Hasse Ekman . The material is in a disarray but the Society for Ancient Film Research compiles the material after what is believed to have been the master's artistic intentions
The Nuthouse
1951
6.0Episodic, musical comedy. Povel Ramel company Knäppupp's first film where Martin Ljung plays 16 different roles.
I rök och dans
1954
6.3Staffan Stolle becomes the sole heir to a rich and noble family when he is just a little boy. Early on he is engaged to be married to a girl he finds he does not love. Instead he flees the country only to return under a false name, looking for true love.
The Staffan Stolle Story
1956
Young Lo (Marianne Bengtsson) lives in a boring small town. Locally she is known as somewhat of a fabulist. One day an airplane crashes just out of town. And the town goes crazy with excitement. Later, while hoping to catch a peak of the crashed plane, Lo sees a mysterious man (Günther Hüttmann) land out in the woods by parachute. She tries to tell the rest of town. But naturally nobody will believe her. Thus she is going to have to learn more about the stranger from the sky by herself in this immeasurably startling mammoth among thrillers!
Främlingen från skyn
1956
8.01914. The monarchs of Sweden, Denmark and Norway meet to demonstrate unity. In the crowd is a beautiful noble woman from Finland. She is eagerly courted by the monarch's aides.
All this - and Iceland too
1951
3.7Marianne is unhappily married with the rich Arvid Croneman. Arvid has been ill for some time and Marianne has been looking forward to his passing away. However, Arvid recovers. Marianne has had an affair with Lennart Hägg, her husband's doctor. She steals poison from his office and makes sure that her husband gets a poisonous injection that swiftly kills him. After his burial, Arvid's relatives, who lives in the house, treats her with suspicion. Has she really gotten rid of all the evidence?
Woman in a Fur Coat
1958
1940s · 30 titles
9.0During the spring of 1940 two young men gets drafted and deployed close to the Norwegian border, where they fall in love with the same woman.
En vår i vapen
1943
10.0Office worker Napoleon Larsson is an unnoticed existence. One day when he arrives late for work, he gets fired, but through his wife's actions he gets alerted by the boss and advances within the company.
Lille Napoleon
1943
5.8A classic melodrama about the famous pianist Thomas Dahlhoff.
Appassionata
1944
4.6Tomas Eckert, a civil servant, is subjected to a violated woman's revenge. It happens to be his boss's wife, Märta Palm. Tomas is accused of having abused Mrs.Palm. She also reveals that Tomas's wife is morphine addict. He collapses and is forced to accept early retirement, diagnosed "epilepsy with mental changes"
You Who Are About to Enter
1945
9.0Dora moves in with the artist Erik to become his model. Three men from a Masonic Order pretends to be interested in his art, but Dora is their real focus.
Affairs of a Model
1946
5.2A priest decides to engage himself socially in prison. In the cells he meets a number of women with different fates. One is Mary, a young honest woman gone wrong.
Imprisoned Women
1943
9.0An allegory of Germany's WWII occupation of Norway. Members of a theater ensemble join the resistance.
There's a Fire Burning
1943
5.9Old fashioned teachers are taught swing dancing by a student.
'Swing It' Teacher
1940
7.0Managing Director Erik Cassander is in financial strain and his only hope is a wealthy aunt.
The Woman Drives Me Crazy
1948
8.0The bricklayer Loffe often sees sculptress Ingrid in a window a cross the building. They get to now each other and soon fall in love. Loffe works for the master-builder Swahne who is Ingrid's uncle. Swahne comes up with a plan to see if Loffe's feelings for her are true or if he is just out for her money.
Flickan i fönstret mitt emot
1942
7.7Former student Raskolnikov is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police, Raskolnikov struggles between trying to hide his guilt and the pressure to confess.
Crime and Punishment
1945
7.3At a meeting at the Salvation Army a female soldier tells the story of her life.
The Sin of Anna Lans
1943
The office worker Eva is told that she has inherited a massive amount of money in the United States.
Ung dam med tur
1941
6.0Kajan, a young boy, spends the summer with his friends working on a barge, earning extra money in the ports with their song and dance number. A young countess runs away from home and joins Kajan and his friends.
Kajan går till sjöss
1943
5.5Martin is married to Frida and together they have a son. One day after a quarrel with his wife, he goes to buy flowers to ask for forgiveness. In the flower shop he meets the beautiful Rut and falls instantly in love. They both start a passionate love affair but beneath the beautiful surface hides a completely different woman than he expected ...
Woman Without a Face
1947
6.5A girl (Alice Babs) from the country moves to Stockholm to become a singer.
A Singing Girl
1942
7.0The year is 1941 and Nazi Germany is at its peak. Hitler's army is storming into Russia. Sweden stands lonely and isolated while the air force is training intensely due to a coming attack. The squadron leader pushes his men at its hardest. It's a constant game with death where death unfortunately often wins.
The First Squadron
1941
A female reporter invents a story about a man who threatens to take his life to protest the injustices of society. But the scam is about to be revealed. She is forced to persuade a tramp to play the fictional man.
Vi behöver varann
1944
6.3The idle rich have their own particular problems. Case in point, Georg and Monika Hedberg were once poor and happy but since Georg became an established painter family bliss has decreased for every fur coat Monika has bought. Their divorce lawyer suggest that they try to save their marriage by moving to a small apartment and live life frugally but happy. When the trial period is over and they want to return home again, their lawyer has stolen their money and disappeared. The Hedbergs are evicted for unpaid rent and terminal poverty seem to be imminent.
Happiness Is on Its Way
1942
6.5Professor Barring is awarded the Nobel Prize in physics. According to Barring the scientist's sole duty is to seek the truth, even if this leads to the "gates of hell".
Till the Doors of Hell
1948
7.5First mate Karlsson is mistaken for famous actor Linde.
En sjöman i frack
1942
10.0Wholesaler Ferdinand wants his son to marry his firm partner's daughter, but the problem is they don't want to get married. The son turns to a friend for advice. It turns out that Ferdinand had a daughter from a previous marriage he didn't know nothing about, which leads to further confusion
Stackars Ferdinand
1941
6.3Set in medieval times about the cursed Moonshield family. The young knight Erland Moonshield fall in love with a gypsy enchantress, Singoalla, he meet in the forest.
Singoalla
1949
The teacher Clemens is instructed to learn to dance so that he can teach the subject.
Får jag lov, magistern!
1947
5.5An engineer and a businessman is on the run from Manchuria, where revolution and civil war erupted. Both suffer from typhoid and the businessman dies. Before he dies, he changes identity with the engineer.
Hem från Babylon
1941
An engineer with a factory is on the brink of ruin. A greedy director offers to buy his mill. Instead, the engineer opens a hotel. With little success. A rumor has that Greta Garbo is expected at the hotel.
Romans
1940
5.7Inga, an unemployed actress meets a sweetheart Kim, from days long gone at a train station. Over coffee they reminisce about their romance and how Inga left Kim for a moderately successful acting career and the attractive theater director Leo Waller.
Changing Trains
1943
Sonja meet Curt in a taxi cab. By mistake, each believes that the other is a rich member of the upper class. They meet on a date, but since neither wants to reveal the truth about themselves, they both get more and more caught in the web of lies they have produced.
Hennes melodi
1940
9.0A ruthless businessman arrives to a small town. He is prepared to do pretty much anything to win beautiful Vera Odelman's heart.
Stora skrällen
1943
4.3A newly married Baron plans to sell his castle. His wife, who loves to live in a castle, knows nothing about the sale.
Idel ädel adel
1945
1930s · 9 titles
9.0Olivia and Charles Dangerfield are forced to rent their home to the newly rich widow, Mrs Falkner.
We must have love
1931
5.3Kalle Jeppson is the joyful owner of a rural inn, "Spången" (The Footbridge). His only problems are all the bylaws that makes it difficult to have a quiet drink and the shrew of his wife who is always nagging on him. Kalle is afraid to tell her that Karin the maid is really his daughter from the days before their marriage.
Charlie the Innkeeper
1939
An unemployed engineer wins a competition, first prize is a vacation to a luxury resort in the mountains.
Poor Millionaires
1936
Ulla takes the train to Stockholm to try her luck in the big city.
En flicka kommer till sta'n
1937
8.0When the mine is closing down in the small community of Vestköping the town bank is also in danger. Sudden news of the return of one of the town's inhabitants who had emigrated to the USA and is said to be very wealthy improves spirits of everyone.
Lyckliga Vestköping
1937
The politicians wants to build a factory on the allotment garden Solgläntan, but they encounter resistance.
Vi på Solgläntan
1939
A widow wants to sell a hotel that her daughter owns. When the sales plans reach her daughter, she decides to take a look at why the hotel will be sold. She enters the hotel under false name.
Mamma gifter sig
1937
7.0Jideon Andersson is the leader of the "Red Day" organization that are planning a communist takeover of the capital of Stockholm on August 1.
The Red Day
1931
7.0Adolf Jansson makes a living doing odd jobs until one day he gets a job working as a butler in the Pettersson residence. Adolf is instantly liked by everyone in the family except the daughter Susette, whom Adolf has fallen in love with.
Adolf klarar skivan
1938
