
Production
Rune Waldekranz
Born — Died
1911-09-14 — 2003-05-15
Place of birth
Turinge, Stockholms län, Sweden
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Production
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38 titles
Known for
5.5The Guldbagge Awards is an official and annual Swedish film awards ceremony honoring achievements in the Swedish film industry. Winners are awarded a statuette depicting a rose chafer, better known by the name Guldbaggen. The awards, first presented in 1964 at the Grand Hôtel in Stockholm, are overseen by the Swedish Film Institute. It is described as the Swedish equivalent of the Academy Awards. The awards ceremony was first televised in 1981.
The Guldbagge Awards
1981
7.0Two 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
7.3A number of complicated relationships develop between a circus ringmaster, his estranged wife and his lover.
Sawdust and Tinsel
1953
6.6Based 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
5.8"I Slew" - Hospital drama of a doctor who thinks that he killed a patient on the operating table.
Jag dräpte
1943
6.6The story about the thief who didn't get crucified because Jesus was choosen to take his place.
Barabbas
1953
Series credits
Behind the camera
7.0Two 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
7.3A number of complicated relationships develop between a circus ringmaster, his estranged wife and his lover.
Sawdust and Tinsel
1953
6.6Based 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
5.8"I Slew" - Hospital drama of a doctor who thinks that he killed a patient on the operating table.
Jag dräpte
1943
6.6The story about the thief who didn't get crucified because Jesus was choosen to take his place.
Barabbas
1953
Biographical account of Kalle Jularbo, a famous Swedish accordion-player.
Kalle Karlsson från Jularbo
1952
6.0Görel 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
10.0The 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
5.9As 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
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
6.0Krister 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
6.5A 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
6.7There 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
6.1A ghost called Vita Frun (White Lady) is accused of several murders. Detective Hillman is contacted to resolve the case.
Lady in White
1962
6.0Karin 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
5.6Young 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
5.8The 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
6.1When 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
6.7A smuggler's daughter falls in love with the son of a customs inspector.
Rosen på Tistelön
1945
6.7A smuggler's daughter falls in love with the son of a customs inspector.
Rosen på Tistelön
1945
7.0After 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
5.7Intrigues 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
4.5Stellan 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
10.0Pelle 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
9.0Lieutenant 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
4.3Bolle 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
A con artist arrives to a small island to swingle money from the fishermen.
Maj på Malö
1947
7.0Portrait 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
7.0Swedish cowboys in the Wild West. Defending their town Small Lands Hills and their mining claims against bandits of all sorts.
Wild West Story
1964
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
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
5.7The 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
8.0Gunnar 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
6.5Young 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
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
6.5A 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
6.5Orphan 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
