Maritta Marke

Acting

Maritta Marke

Born 1905-06-30 · Vanstad, Malmöhus län, Sweden

Maritta Marke, born Asta Margit Svensson, was a Swedish stage and screen actress, and singer. She made her stage debut in the operetta "Lyckoflickan" in 1927. Her first film was in Gustaf Edgren's "Trötte Teodor" (1931).

Acting credits

Giftasvuxna döttrar poster
9.0

Porter's wife Emma has three daughters, all "marriageable". All three have worries about marriage.

Giftasvuxna döttrar

1933

Svärmor kommer poster
8.0

John and Ulla are happily married and live in the villa Fridhem. Via telegram, John gets the news that his dreaded mother-in-law will come to visit.

Svärmor kommer

1932

Woman of Darkness poster
7.1

Sweden 1889. The young Per Nilsson has a very dominant mother, Anna Månsdotter. His father died many years ago and he and his mother have for a long time been in a incestuous relationship. But Per marries Hanna for the sake of her money and Anna is mean and evil towards her, and Per refuses to have sex with her. She starts to suspect that something is going on between her husband and stepmother.

Woman of Darkness

1966

The Yellow Car poster
5.8

On a tourist trip abroad the passengers on the coach witness an assassination attempt on the President Hurkas. One of the tourists has evidence against the perpetrators, and is killed when the coach reaches Sweden. Another passenger observes how one of the perpetrators is picked up by a yellow car. She is kidnapped and locked up in a mental hospital.

The Yellow Car

1963

When Darkness Falls poster
5.6

Young Elisabeth comes to Västlinge to meet her old relative, the vicar and and his young daughter. She is going to spend the Christmas there in peace and quiet but on Christmas Eve, the grocer is brutally murdered with an axe. Police inspector Christer Wijk comes to the small village to find the murderer. He soon discovers the puzzle of evidence that makes almost everybody a suspect.

When Darkness Falls

1960

Där möllorna gå... poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Där möllorna gå...

1956

June Night poster
6.1

A woman flees to avoid rumors of promiscuity, but is trailed by a reporter who wants to expose her dark past.

June Night

1940

Av hjärtans lust poster
10.0

The Baron of Qvinnevad Castle has financial problems and is forced to show the estate to tourists. The baron finds out that an unknown person is trying to acquire the castle.

Av hjärtans lust

1960

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

Mannequin in Red poster
6.5

A model is murdered at a famous fashion house and the Hillmans start to investigate. Kajsa Hillman is employed as a model and discovers that several people had motives to kill her.

Mannequin in Red

1958

The Golden Boys of Happiness poster
10.0

A story about is stock deals and land speculations in Stockholm. The happiness depends on a horseshoe a couple of gentlemen find in the street.

The Golden Boys of Happiness

1932

The Phantom Carriage poster
6.0

The third film adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf's novel of the same name. The drinker David Holm gets killed right on the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve will face the death coachman, which happens to be his old friend Georges. Together, reliving the events of the past, and David becomes aware that he ruined the lives of two women who both loved him.

The Phantom Carriage

1958

Rasmus and the Vagabond poster
7.0

Rasmus escapes from the orphanage to find parents for himself. He teams up with a hobo and together they experience a series of adventures while looking for a home for Rasmus .

Rasmus and the Vagabond

1955

No artwork available
10.0

In a southern Swedish city by Öresund, two young ladies, Maud and Viola, are discussing the novel Maud almost finished writing and to be submitted to the World Publishing's competition of $ 50,000 in the first prize.

En kärleksnatt vid Öresund

1931

No artwork available
7.0

Chronicle about how a song came about. Three young people and an orchestra leader visit restaurants and reviews where music, dance and song numbers are performed by Evert Taube, Ulla Billquist, Gustav Wally, and Britt Nilsson.

Street Serenade

1941

The Wedding poster
3.2

"The Marriage" - Eva and Kent are planning to get married. Their bridal stag parties causes some problems. The wedding reception will serve moonshine since the regular booze is capsized at sea.

The Wedding

1973

Thor Modéen: Strålande tider, härliga tider! poster
NR

Portrait documentary of the Swedish comedic actor Thor Modéen full of clips from his greatest roles.

Thor Modéen: Strålande tider, härliga tider!

1992

A Stolen Waltz poster
7.0

A guest house in Stockholm. A group of music students hang out. Everyone is supposed to contribute with a composition. The comrades try to force Inga to play hers, but she refuses. She leaves for a walk. From a window she hear a melody.

A Stolen Waltz

1932

Milly, Maria och jag poster
5.8

A young medical student falls in love with her professor. To pay for her studies, she works extra nights and performs as a popular singer at a dance restaurant. But she is fired because of an unpleasant guest and takes a job as a maid. The professor appears in the family and a carousel of lies takes off.

Milly, Maria och jag

1938

Tired Theodore poster
8.0

Teodor is afraid to tell his rich wife that he works extra nightly at the sinful hotel Babylon.

Tired Theodore

1931

Guest House Paradise poster
5.4

Paradiset is a boarding house in the archipelago of Stockholm, run by the strict Elvira Pettersson, and with a large variety of guests. Her maid Lotta quits her job but when she leaves she accidentally forgets to turn off the iron. However, her brother Julle sneaks back one night to turn it off. When he is discovered, he tries to make them believe that he is the great Argentine opera singer Don Carlos they have been waiting for

Guest House Paradise

1937

Klasskamrater poster
7.5

Newly graduated teacher Anna-Greta is courted by a senior student.

Klasskamrater

1952

Med folket för fosterlandet poster
8.0

This film depicts every noteworthy event (in the eyes of the film-makers) in Sweden from the death of King Oscar II, in 1907, to the celebration of the 80th birthday of King Gustave V in Stockholm in June of 1938. This film is comprised largely of newsreel clips intermixed with the fictional story of the family lives of a working man and a well-to-do newspaper editor through two generations, with a special significance in the showing of the development of the social-democratic form of government in Sweden.

Med folket för fosterlandet

1938

The Marriage Game poster
8.0

The sculptress Tora Diidiken is married to the sculptor Gunnar Grahn and they both compete in a contest to design a statue for the public square in Hicksville.

The Marriage Game

1935