Georg Funkquist

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

The Devil's Eye poster
7.2

Don 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

Wonderful Adventures of Nils poster
6.1

A 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

En vår i vapen poster
9.0

During 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

All These Women poster
6.1

Pretentious 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

Frida och hennes vän poster
9.0

Five-part Swedish television series from 1970, based on Birger Sjöberg's collection of poems Frida's Book from 1922.

Frida och hennes vän

1970

Summer Interlude poster
7.4

During a brief summer vacation, a lonely woman recalls her first love thirteen years earlier.

Summer Interlude

1951

Film credits

1960s · 6 titles

The Devil's Eye poster
7.2

Don 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

Wonderful Adventures of Nils poster
6.1

A 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

All These Women poster
6.1

Pretentious 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

Åsa-Nisse på Mallorca poster
3.8

Åsa-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

Hej du glada sommar!!! poster
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

Lyckodrömmen poster
10.0

The 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

Summer Interlude poster
7.4

During a brief summer vacation, a lonely woman recalls her first love thirteen years earlier.

Summer Interlude

1951

Hold fingrene fra mor poster
7.2

H.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

Swinging at the Castle poster
7.0

Love triangle between Svante, his fiancee Inga and Sophie, a girl from a rich family.

Swinging at the Castle

1959

No artwork available
NR

It's evening and mother Alice read bedtime stories for her three children.

H.C. Andersens sagor

1952

Jazz Boy poster
7.3

The 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

Girls Without Rooms poster
6.7

Fransiska 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

Åke klarar biffen poster
8.0

Åke is small and fits everywhere. A film mostly consisting of scenes from older films.

Åke klarar biffen

1952

The Nuthouse poster
5.2

In 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

I rök och dans poster
6.0

Episodic, musical comedy. Povel Ramel company Knäppupp's first film where Martin Ljung plays 16 different roles.

I rök och dans

1954

The Staffan Stolle Story poster
6.3

Staffan 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

No artwork available
7.3

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

All this - and Iceland too poster
8.0

1914. 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

Woman in a Fur Coat poster
3.7

Marianne 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

En vår i vapen poster
9.0

During 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

Lille Napoleon poster
10.0

Office 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

Appassionata poster
5.8

A classic melodrama about the famous pianist Thomas Dahlhoff.

Appassionata

1944

You Who Are About to Enter poster
4.6

Tomas 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

Affairs of a Model poster
9.0

Dora 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

Imprisoned Women poster
5.2

A 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

There's a Fire Burning poster
9.0

An allegory of Germany's WWII occupation of Norway. Members of a theater ensemble join the resistance.

There's a Fire Burning

1943

'Swing It' Teacher poster
5.9

Old fashioned teachers are taught swing dancing by a student.

'Swing It' Teacher

1940

The Woman Drives Me Crazy poster
7.0

Managing Director Erik Cassander is in financial strain and his only hope is a wealthy aunt.

The Woman Drives Me Crazy

1948

Flickan i fönstret mitt emot poster
8.0

The 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

Crime and Punishment poster
7.7

Former 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

The Sin of Anna Lans poster
7.3

At a meeting at the Salvation Army a female soldier tells the story of her life.

The Sin of Anna Lans

1943

No artwork available
9.0

The office worker Eva is told that she has inherited a massive amount of money in the United States.

Ung dam med tur

1941

Kajan går till sjöss poster
6.0

Kajan, 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

Woman Without a Face poster
5.5

Martin 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

A Singing Girl poster
6.5

A girl (Alice Babs) from the country moves to Stockholm to become a singer.

A Singing Girl

1942

The First Squadron poster
7.0

The 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

No artwork available
8.0

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

Happiness Is on Its Way poster
6.3

The 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

Till the Doors of Hell poster
6.5

Professor 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

En sjöman i frack poster
7.5

First mate Karlsson is mistaken for famous actor Linde.

En sjöman i frack

1942

Stackars Ferdinand poster
10.0

Wholesaler 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

Singoalla poster
6.3

Set 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

No artwork available
9.0

The teacher Clemens is instructed to learn to dance so that he can teach the subject.

Får jag lov, magistern!

1947

Hem från Babylon poster
5.5

An 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

No artwork available
7.0

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

Changing Trains poster
5.7

Inga, 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

No artwork available
7.5

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

Stora skrällen poster
9.0

A 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

Idel ädel adel poster
4.3

A 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

We must have love poster
9.0

Olivia and Charles Dangerfield are forced to rent their home to the newly rich widow, Mrs Falkner.

We must have love

1931

Charlie the Innkeeper poster
5.3

Kalle 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

No artwork available
9.0

An unemployed engineer wins a competition, first prize is a vacation to a luxury resort in the mountains.

Poor Millionaires

1936

No artwork available
9.0

Ulla takes the train to Stockholm to try her luck in the big city.

En flicka kommer till sta'n

1937

Lyckliga Vestköping poster
8.0

When 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

No artwork available
8.0

The politicians wants to build a factory on the allotment garden Solgläntan, but they encounter resistance.

Vi på Solgläntan

1939

No artwork available
7.0

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

The Red Day poster
7.0

Jideon 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

Adolf klarar skivan poster
7.0

Adolf 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

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