Directing

Casper Wrede

Born — Died

1929-02-08 — 1998-09-28

Place of birth

Viipuri, Finland

Known for

Directing

Credits

9 titles

Baron Casper Gustaf Kenneth Wrede af Elimä, known as Caspar Wrede (8 February 1929 – 25 September 1998), was a Finnish theatre and film director. He was long active in the English theatre, co-founding the Royal Exchange theatre company in Manchester. Casper Wrede came from a noble Finnish family of Livonian origin, which owned large estates mainly in eastern Finland between the 17th and 19th centuries, and had been created barons in 1652 by Queen Christina. He was born in Viipuri, Finland, and was the nephew of actor Gerda Wrede. He died in Helsinki, Finland, in 1998. In 1951, he left Finland and enrolled at the Old Vic Theatre School in London run by the French director Michel Saint-Denis…

Known for

Behind the camera

Ransom poster
5.5

Following a series of bomb attacks in London, a group of terrorists seize Britain's ambassador to Scandinavia. With the ambassador now a hostage in his residence, another group hijacks an airliner at the capital's airport, announcing that the passengers will not be freed until their demands are met. Colonel Nils Tahlvik, Scandinavia's resourceful and ruthless head of security, seeks to take an uncompromising stance against the terrorists yet his attempts meet resistance from unknown forces at every turn...

Ransom

1974

Private Potter poster
5.5

A military mission is interrupted when a British soldier claims that God had appeared to him in a transcendental vision.

Private Potter

1962

Private Potter poster
5.5

A military mission is interrupted when a British soldier claims that God had appeared to him in a transcendental vision.

Private Potter

1962

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich poster
6.7

Fly-on-the-wall treatment of an ordinary day in the life of a prisoner in Stalin's Gulag. Closely adapted from Solzhenitsyn's classic novel based on his own experiences. Shot entirely on location in northern Norway

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

1970

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich poster
6.7

Fly-on-the-wall treatment of an ordinary day in the life of a prisoner in Stalin's Gulag. Closely adapted from Solzhenitsyn's classic novel based on his own experiences. Shot entirely on location in northern Norway

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

1970

The Summer in Gossensass poster
NR

'To the May sun of a September life', wrote Henrik Ibsen on the photograph of himself that he gave to 19-year-old Emilie Bardach in Gossensass in September 1889. This is a documentary about the sixty-second year in the life of the great Norwegian dramatist.

The Summer in Gossensass

1964

The Summer in Gossensass poster
NR

'To the May sun of a September life', wrote Henrik Ibsen on the photograph of himself that he gave to 19-year-old Emilie Bardach in Gossensass in September 1889. This is a documentary about the sixty-second year in the life of the great Norwegian dramatist.

The Summer in Gossensass

1964

The Summer in Gossensass poster
NR

'To the May sun of a September life', wrote Henrik Ibsen on the photograph of himself that he gave to 19-year-old Emilie Bardach in Gossensass in September 1889. This is a documentary about the sixty-second year in the life of the great Norwegian dramatist.

The Summer in Gossensass

1964

The Barber of Stamford Hill poster
10.0

Mr. Figg, the barber, is fond of telling customers about his family, but he hasn’t really got one – he’s a bachelor quite alone in the world. But that may change.

The Barber of Stamford Hill

1963