Axel Högel

Acting

Axel Högel

Born — Died

1884-03-23 — 1970-09-20

Place of birth

Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden

Known for

Acting

Credits

60 titles

Known for

One Summer of Happiness poster
6.3

The young high school graduate Göran and the 17-year-old Kerstin get to know each other on the estate of Göran's uncle Persson and fall in love. But their relationship is watched suspiciously by the jammed adult world. While Persson has an understanding of the youth, Kerstin's parents and the pastor of the village rant against the alleged immorality of the young people. Despite all the malice, Göran and Kerstin decide for their love. But this love should last only one summer.

One Summer of Happiness

1951

Mot nya tider poster
8.0

A Swedish drama from 1939 about the social and political developments in Sweden from 1885 until the dissolution of the union in 1905. The year is 1885, Christina Nilsson sings "Fourteen years I believe certain that I was" in the Grand Hotel's Great Hall . She also sings from the balcony of the hotel and the panic arising among listeners outside the hotel. In Norway, talks about the dissolution of the Union and the Swedish socialists with Hjalmar Branting (Victor Sjöström) is in the lead for independence.

Mot nya tider

1939

The Brothers' Woman poster
6.3

City girl Emma marries the farmer Nicklas but gets involved in a love triangle with his brother Ragnar.

The Brothers' Woman

1943

Ride Tonight! poster
5.9

In the south of Sweden, some farmers get into trouble when the German Count is forcing them to perform day labor for him. But a man refuses to bow to the German Count.

Ride Tonight!

1942

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

The Children poster
6.0

Based on the classic children’s story, seven orphan siblings and their goat make a difficult journey over the mountains to find new parents.

The Children

1945

Film credits

1950s · 20 titles

One Summer of Happiness poster
6.3

The young high school graduate Göran and the 17-year-old Kerstin get to know each other on the estate of Göran's uncle Persson and fall in love. But their relationship is watched suspiciously by the jammed adult world. While Persson has an understanding of the youth, Kerstin's parents and the pastor of the village rant against the alleged immorality of the young people. Despite all the malice, Göran and Kerstin decide for their love. But this love should last only one summer.

One Summer of Happiness

1951

When Love Came to the Village poster
8.0

A new teacher arrives to the small village and he soon stir up some trouble with his modern way of looking at things. He also stir up some amorous feelings among the local women.

When Love Came to the Village

1950

Oppåt med Gröna Hissen poster
4.8

A man and a woman are cheated on by their respective partners and decide to get their revenge.

Oppåt med Gröna Hissen

1952

Darling of Mine poster
6.7

The Swedish/American actor Jack Harris visits the old country for the first time in his life. One of the journalist, Ingrid Billberg, is particularly interested in getting an interview with him. She finds out secret information about his next movie, and to stop her from revealing it, Jack Harris gets her alone with him on an isolated island in the archipelago. Romance blossoms... Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

Darling of Mine

1955

When Bengt and Anders Swapped Wives poster
7.5

Two neighbours, each with a small plot of land, hate each other. Both are dissatisfied with his wife.

When Bengt and Anders Swapped Wives

1950

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

For the Sake of My Intemperate Youth poster
7.5

A high school in a small city. Torben and Ninni are deeply infatuated with each other but their parents dislike the pair seeing each other. After graduation Torben joins the army and when Ninni discovers that she is pregnant her parents send her to a farm in Denmark to bear her child.

For the Sake of My Intemperate Youth

1952

Hård klang poster
5.2

A small Swedish village has transformed to an industrial center with exports to Germany. A German opened a quarry some 50 years ago, after realizing the value of granite. Now WW1 begins.

Hård klang

1952

No Man's Woman poster
6.5

Imber has a child with the dubious fiancé Erland. He is destructive and his unhealthy lifestyle subjects his family to starvation and the death of their child. Imber falls in love with Arne and a settlement between Arne and Erland unfolds.

No Man's Woman

1953

The Great Amateur poster
6.0

Modern fairy tale about the small town of Fårtuna where the chief of police is also an amateur theater director. The local shop assistant Linda aspires to become an actress and gets discovered by a talent agent from Stockholm.

The Great Amateur

1958

Storm over Tjurö poster
6.3

Karl Oskar Bohm looks back at his life, his estranged daughter Augusta and his wife Sofia.

Storm over Tjurö

1954

My Sister and I poster
5.7

The rich, aristocratic Katarina Hassel have an architect renovate her mansion. Katarina fall in love with the young architect, Gunnar Stenwall. Alas, he doesn't fall in love with her. But perhaps if Gunnar would meet her identical sister, who works in Stockholm as a waitress, he would fall in love with her instead? So Katarina travels to Stockholm to act as her non-existing sister.

My Sister and I

1950

Sir Arne's Treasure poster
6.3

Three Scottish noblemen escape from Gripsholm Castle and break into the home of Lord Arne. They kill everyone except for Lord Arne's adopted daughter Elsalill.

Sir Arne's Treasure

1954

Love poster
8.0

A new young priest begins his duty on a small island. He assumes that the service should not be to demanding, so that he will be able to finish his doctoral thesis. But the life at sea is hard with severe accidents. He faces emotionally difficult situations related to both love and death.

Love

1952

Gårdarna runt sjön poster
5.7

A young and spoiled aristocrat is guilty of a hit-and-run accident.

Gårdarna runt sjön

1957

Karusellen i fjällen poster
6.0

The porter of the hotel is trying to keep his sanity when two guests who share both looks and name check in. He's also unaware that his new bell boy is actually the owner's daughter in disguise.

Karusellen i fjällen

1955

No artwork available
7.0

Janne Vängman is having dreams of meeting aliens from outer space.

Janne Vängman och den stora kometen

1955

Tattarblod poster
9.0

David, a young woodsman with a family, is leasing a farm. The family are welcomed by the locals until it becomes known that David is the son of a notorious drifter.

Tattarblod

1954

Ett dockhem poster
9.0

August Strindberg's feedback to Henrik Ibsen's "Doll's House"--a short story from the collection "Giftas" (Getting married), about female emancipation and obsolete marriages.

Ett dockhem

1956

No artwork available
9.0

In the village of Stubbhult lives many motorcycle interested young people. However, their rampage interfere with the local population.

Johan på Snippen

1956

1940s · 27 titles

The Brothers' Woman poster
6.3

City girl Emma marries the farmer Nicklas but gets involved in a love triangle with his brother Ragnar.

The Brothers' Woman

1943

Ride Tonight! poster
5.9

In the south of Sweden, some farmers get into trouble when the German Count is forcing them to perform day labor for him. But a man refuses to bow to the German Count.

Ride Tonight!

1942

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

The Children poster
6.0

Based on the classic children’s story, seven orphan siblings and their goat make a difficult journey over the mountains to find new parents.

The Children

1945

The Bells in Old Town poster
6.7

Kalle Magnus Berg is a kind bailiff in Gamla Stan (Old Town) in Stockholm. He helps out "clients" by supporting them with money from his own pocket. His neighbor is a jazz musician who plays at a restaurant for a living.

The Bells in Old Town

1946

Turn of the Century poster
6.0

Munthe has become a rich farmer through his own work and has gained some influence in the local community. He is strongly opposed to the immigration of east European farm labour from Galicia who, he claims, makes life difficult for the locals. A new school teacher with socialist leanings arrive and Munthe's daughter fall in love with him. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

Turn of the Century

1944

Prince Gustaf poster
8.0

In the middle of the 1800s Swedish prince Gustaf meets the actress Anna Maria Wastenius and falls in love with her, but it is an impossible love story due to the rules of society.

Prince Gustaf

1944

Lars Hård poster
5.5

Young drifter tells his story in flashback from prison.

Lars Hård

1948

Lång-Lasse i Delsbo poster
7.5

it's the 1840s and a rural parish plagued by drinking and fighting gets a new vicar who has decided to instill law, order and fear of God into the parishioners.

Lång-Lasse i Delsbo

1949

The Emperor of Portugallia poster
7.2

The poor farmer Jan is getting very old when he becomes father to the girl, Klara Gulla. First, he sees the child as a burden, but when he receives the newborn child in his arms he is overjoyed. He does everything in his power for her during her. But when she as an adult leaves home, Jan can not come over the loss of her.

The Emperor of Portugallia

1944

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

Marie in the Windmill poster
5.0

Maria is a waitress at a local restaurant when an older man propose to her. She is a bit skeptical but agrees to marry him and become the mistress of his estate Kvarngården. Maria had a son which she was forced to give away for adoption when he was born because she could not take care of him. She has keep contact with the child and posed as a kind aunt. She has not told her new husband about her son and when the years go by and no children of their own comes along the resentment and bitterness grows. When the adoptive mother of Maria's son dies she and the adoptive father agrees that the best thing for the boy is to come and stay with Maria at Kvarngården. She also hope that it will make her husband come out of his bitterness to have a young boy around. The result is unfortunately quite the opposite.

Marie in the Windmill

1945

Landstormens lilla argbigga poster
6.7

Spoiled upper class girl must join a home defense unit to learn military drill and fall in love with a lieutenant.

Landstormens lilla argbigga

1941

In the Arms of Roslagen poster
8.0

Based on Evert Taube songs about the sailor and womanizer Fritiof Andersson. Midsummer in the archipelago of Roslagen. Andersson has returned home to settle down with his fiancee Linnea. On the dance floor he meets Rosa.

In the Arms of Roslagen

1945

I brist på bevis poster
5.5

A drama about the manager Håkan Dahlin who has just been discharged from a clinic where he was treated for his alcoholism. In an outbreak of jealousy, Dahlin abuses his wife Inga and after that he is forcibly interned again. Inga is a nurse and she is now moving to a mountain village to work at a district clinic. During an emergency visit, she encounters her childhood sweetheart, the doctor Gunnar, and old feelings between them begin to flare up again.

I brist på bevis

1943

Vagabond Blacksmiths poster
9.0

Midsummer Eve in Malmfors in the 1880s. The holiday is celebrated with a big party. Three blacksmiths leave the ironworks and become drifters, seeking out jobs elsewhere. During their travels, they come across beautiful girls as well as jobs in different ironworks, where the workers are organizing, monitored by a brutal police force.

Vagabond Blacksmiths

1949

If I Could Marry the Minister poster
7.7

Eva Örn is a newly graduated teacher, who becomes a school teacher in rural Vikarlunda. She is a beautiful young woman with firm opinions and she does not live up to the locals' picture of the ideal female teacher. She has an affair with the pastor, Ingvar Hagson, but they have to keep their love a secret.

If I Could Marry the Minister

1941

Our Gang poster
7.0

A gang of friends lose their club house and collect money for a new one by singing in public.

Our Gang

1942

No artwork available
6.5

Baron Henric Löwencrona af Löwstaborg allows his daughter to marry a worker's son.

Vart hjärta har sin saga

1948

The Happy Tailor poster
6.5

Sören, a poor tailor with many children, dreams of becoming a miller and buys the windmill of the village with money he does not have.

The Happy Tailor

1945

Jungfrun på Jungfrusund poster
6.3

Spoiled upper class girl must change places with a housemaid.

Jungfrun på Jungfrusund

1949

Railroad Workers poster
9.0

The north of Sweden in 1902. A team of railroad men are building a rail road from Luleå at the Bay of Bothnia to Narvik at the Norwegian Sea. One of the newest workers, Valfrid from the south of Sweden, is not accepted by neither Stora Ballong, the informal leader of the workers, nor the others. They refuse to talk to him but instead Valfrid gets help from the sworn enemy of the railroad workers: the greedy drugstore owner Blom.

Railroad Workers

1947

Livet i finnskogarna poster
4.0

In a rural parish in 1906, young Heikki, one of the Finnish immigrants, lives a wild and free life in the deep forest. After poaching, his furs are confiscated and Heikki vows to have his revenge by seducing the young women of the parish, one by one.

Livet i finnskogarna

1947

Saltstänk och krutgubbar poster
5.0

The stingy fisherman Ericsson lives on a small island north of Stockholm with his wife Johanna och her father Isak.

Saltstänk och krutgubbar

1946

The Ghost Reporter poster
6.0

Augustus Blomkvist sells his sausage factory and buys the newspaper Stockholms-Posten where he starts working as a reporter under false name.

The Ghost Reporter

1941

Hotell Kåkbrinken poster
8.0

Laban Lundström is the porter at Hotell Kåkbrinken. The hotel is threatened by wholesaler Sjökvist, who wants to pull down the house and build a new and modern house instead.

Hotell Kåkbrinken

1946

No artwork available
8.0

Sven Jönsson is a big man in Havborre fishing village in Skåne. He is usually called Sven Tusan.

Sven Tusan

1949

1930s · 9 titles

Mot nya tider poster
8.0

A Swedish drama from 1939 about the social and political developments in Sweden from 1885 until the dissolution of the union in 1905. The year is 1885, Christina Nilsson sings "Fourteen years I believe certain that I was" in the Grand Hotel's Great Hall . She also sings from the balcony of the hotel and the panic arising among listeners outside the hotel. In Norway, talks about the dissolution of the Union and the Swedish socialists with Hjalmar Branting (Victor Sjöström) is in the lead for independence.

Mot nya tider

1939

I dag börjar livet poster
6.0

Choreographer is found murdered and the police investigate. There are several suspects among his lovers, dancers and family members.

I dag börjar livet

1939

Dollar poster
4.5

Ludvig and Sussi Battwyhl, Louis and Katja Brenner and Julia and Kurt Balzar are upper class millionaires. They don't seem to do any real work but still need a vacation in the mountains. Everybody seems to be romantically involved with everybody. A rich American woman joins them.

Dollar

1938

Bombi Bitt and Me poster
5.5

Bombi Bitt is the mischievous boy in 1930s Skåne whom no one can control – and the stationmaster's strict son Eli becomes his admiring companion. Together they experience a series of thrilling and cheerful adventures among characters such as Jöns Pumpare, the painter Vricklund, the sugar whore Franskan and the horse thief Nils Gallilé. The highlight is the grand visit to Kivik Market. Based on Fritiof Nilsson Piraten's autobiographical debut book.

Bombi Bitt and Me

1936

Sockerskrinet poster
NR

A story spanning four generations.

Sockerskrinet

1938

Her Little Majesty poster
6.8

Spoiled upper class girl Marianne speeds through a small village and crashes her sports car into the house of the local vicar. She will have to stay for a few days while her car is repaired. Opposites attract but what will the locals think of this odd couple who slowly realize that they are fond of each other?

Her Little Majesty

1939

No artwork available
10.0

Campaign film for the Swedish Folkpartiet (People's Party) in 1936.

Our Building of Home and Community

1936

We Two poster
4.3

Architect Sture Ahrengren walks out of his job with an architecture firm with the support of his wife Kristina. He gets a position with an old friend, Balstar Ekberg, who has a big engineering job going. But Sture gets entangled in a romance with Ekberg's wife, Helena.

We Two

1939

No artwork available
8.0

The Björn family is a little odd family.

The Family That Was a Carousel

1936

1920s · 3 titles