Rune Waldekranz

Production

Rune Waldekranz

Born — Died

1911-09-14 — 2003-05-15

Place of birth

Turinge, Stockholms län, Sweden

Known for

Production

Credits

38 titles

Known for

Series credits

Behind the camera

Dreams poster
7.0

Two women—a fashion executive and her young model—experience parallel romantic disappointments during a trip to Gothenburg, exposing generational differences in desire, illusion, and emotional endurance. A transitional work in Ingmar Bergman’s mid-1950s cinema.

Dreams

1955

Sawdust and Tinsel poster
7.3

A number of complicated relationships develop between a circus ringmaster, his estranged wife and his lover.

Sawdust and Tinsel

1953

Miss Julie poster
6.6

Based on the play by August Strindberg, Miss Julie vividly depicts the battle of the sexes and classes that ensues when Julie, a wealthy businessman's daughter, falls for Jean, her father's bitter servant.

Miss Julie

1951

Jag dräpte poster
5.8

"I Slew" - Hospital drama of a doctor who thinks that he killed a patient on the operating table.

Jag dräpte

1943

Barabbas poster
6.6

The story about the thief who didn't get crucified because Jesus was choosen to take his place.

Barabbas

1953

No artwork available
7.0

Biographical account of Kalle Jularbo, a famous Swedish accordion-player.

Kalle Karlsson från Jularbo

1952

It Is Never Too Late poster
6.0

Görel and Arne are about to get a divorce. Görel thinks back on how history has repeated itself within her family.

It Is Never Too Late

1956

Sjösalavår poster
10.0

The Troubadour sits at a rock beside his summerhouse Sjösala in the Stockholm archipelago. He is composing a new ballad, when his son Sven Bertil interrupts him, telling him that an angry man is knocking at their door. It is the creditor Andersson, coming with a new unpaid bill to be put on the top of all the other. The Troubadour is tired of all economical problems. It disturbs the peace he needs to be able to write new songs, and without new songs he cannot earn the money he needs to pay the bills. To get peace and inspiration for his writing, he makes a quick decision to go to Buenos Aires. By phone he persuades his publisher to prepay 7000 kronor for some future book. On the little ferry from the islands in the sea to Stockholm city the Troubadour is carried away by his imagination into the fictitious world of his main character Fritiof Andersson. Colorful scenes from various songs are enacted before his dreaming eyes. In Stockholm he spends the night at the inn Gyldene Freden. ...

Sjösalavår

1949

Loving Couples poster
5.9

As three pregnant women wait to have their babies in a hospital in Stockholm at the outbreak of the Great War, they relive their childhood and youthful experiences.

Loving Couples

1964

No artwork available
6.0

Law graduate Ylva Markner spends the summer on the island of Väddö, where she gets involved in a quarrel concerning a last will.

Vi på Väddö

1958

The Judge poster
6.0

Krister and his fiancé Brita return to Stockholm after a stay in Italy. Shortly upon their return Krister learns that all his assets left to him by his father has disappeared. Together with Brita he tries to obtain justice in a aristocratic and corrupt legal system.

The Judge

1960

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

Swing it, fröken poster
6.7

There is a new English teacher in school, Miss Lind. She moves in with the Nilssons, whose son Sigge prefers playing with his trumpet than to study German. Miss Lind convinces him how important his studies are. But Sanna, a girl in Sigge's class becomes jealous and angry when Sigge prefers his homework instead of her. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

Swing it, fröken

1956

Lady in White poster
6.1

A ghost called Vita Frun (White Lady) is accused of several murders. Detective Hillman is contacted to resolve the case.

Lady in White

1962

Karin Månsdotter poster
6.0

Karin does not belong to the nobility but nevertheless marries the mentally ill king Erik XIV and becomes queen of Sweden. The king's skilled counsellor Göran Persson wants a royal policy supporting the people and supported by it. But in relation to the nobility the king oscillates between provocative strength and unpredictable weakness. Göran arranges that some very powerful noblemen are killed. Subsequently the king tries to have them convicted of high treason by the parliament. He forgets the manuscript, mixes up all facts, and the noblemen are acquitted. But Göran speedily gathers another parliament and has them convicted. Meanwhile Erik apologises because of the unjust murders. Hence Erik is dethroned and imprisoned. Göran is executed. Karin is restricted to a castle in Finland. In the prison Erik believes that he is still the king and gives the guards presents such as all fishes in the Baltic Sea.

Karin Månsdotter

1954

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

The Lady in Black poster
5.8

The married detective couple John and Kajsa Hillman goes on a vacation to Holmfors mill where a friend of Kajsa's lives with her husband. When a young woman is found murdered it is clear that this is another case for the Hillmans.

The Lady in Black

1958

Rider in Blue poster
6.1

When private eye John Hillman is on assignment in London his wife Kajsa visits the Army's riding school at Strömsholm, Sweden. She gets involved in the strange murder of the Blue Rider. Unknown to everyone at Strömsholm.

Rider in Blue

1959

Rosen på Tistelön poster
6.7

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

Rosen på Tistelön

1945

Rosen på Tistelön poster
6.7

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

Rosen på Tistelön

1945

A Day Will Dawn poster
7.0

After finding his wife in the arms of another man, an army officer kills his rival and then goes by train to Finland to fight in the Winter war.

A Day Will Dawn

1944

Helen of Troy poster
5.7

Intrigues and entanglements before Prince Paris wins the heart of beautiful Helena. It all happens in the small kingdom of Arcadia at the time of the Trojan War. Swedish version of Jacques Offenbach's operetta of the classic Greek myth.

Helen of Troy

1951

En vacker dag poster
4.5

Stellan Engman is Swedens most unpopular person. He is the meteorologist presenting the disappointing weather outlook in TV. One day he picks up a hitchhiker who claims she can predict the weather.

En vacker dag

1963

Kostervalsen poster
10.0

Pelle and Maja are going on a holiday to Italy. The trip is canceled. Maja travels home to her mother. Pelle is persuaded by his friend Kurt to forget Italy and accompany him to Swedish west coast instead.

Kostervalsen

1958

Kort är sommaren poster
9.0

Lieutenant Glahn arrives in a small village in northern Norway. He wants to live in peace in the company of his dog. The young Edvarda stirs emotions in the lieutenant.

Kort är sommaren

1962

The Road to Klockrike poster
4.3

Bolle gets tired of working at the cigar factory and because of his desire for freedom he takes to the road. He and the other hobos have only one problem and that is the mounted policemen chasing vagrants.

The Road to Klockrike

1953

No artwork available
6.0

A con artist arrives to a small island to swingle money from the fishermen.

Maj på Malö

1947

A Dreamer's Journey poster
7.0

Portrait of the Swedish poet Dan Andersson (1888-1920). Brought up during poor conditions he finds work as a temperance preacher and educator. Bored by this he travels to Stockholm to try to get his poems published. On the train he meets a rich, sophisticated art patron who encourages him and grinds his literary and philosophical formation.

A Dreamer's Journey

1957

Wild West Story poster
7.0

Swedish cowboys in the Wild West. Defending their town Small Lands Hills and their mining claims against bandits of all sorts.

Wild West Story

1964

No artwork available
NR

A man meets prisoner Nils Gustaf Boman and asks him why he strayed from the straight and narrow. The prisoner says: "Put yourself in my position." The man does and sees before him himself as Nils Gustaf Boman.

Children of the Night

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

Svenska Floyd poster
5.7

The world-famous Swedish boxer Flosse travels to Italy to fight for the world boxing title. In Rome he meets the nightclub singer Lollo.

Svenska Floyd

1961

The Girls in Smaland poster
8.0

Gunnar Carlman has returned to Sweden after a few years as a cowboy in Canada. He starts to work at a farm owned by vivacious and strongwilled Christina Larsson.

The Girls in Smaland

1945

Flickan i regnet poster
6.5

Young Anna Rydell comes to a boarding-school for girls. She is very shy and the other girls don't really try to get to know her. The French teacher Martin Andreasson, who Anna falls in love with, lives at the boarding-school with his wheel chair-bound wife. Her handicap has made her depressed and Martin finds it hard to love her like he used to do.

Flickan i regnet

1955

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

Kan doktorn komma? poster
6.5

A rural doctor in the north of Sweden must travel for hours to his patients. When a young woman has a serious case of appendicitis the doctor must bring her on a dangerous trek downriver to reach the clinic. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

Kan doktorn komma?

1942

Kulla-Gulla poster
6.5

Orphan girl Gunilla (nick named Kulla-Gulla) gets sent from her orphanage to work as an housemaid at sharecropper Karlbergs household. Among her duties is to take care of Karlberg, his wife and their five children.

Kulla-Gulla

1956