Birger Åsander

Acting

Birger Åsander

Born — Died

1909-07-13 — 1984-01-17

Place of birth

Gudmundå, Västernorrlands län, Sweden

Known for

Acting

Credits

61 titles

Known for

Wonderful Adventures of Nils poster
6.1

A film adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf's classic book about Nils Holgersson, who is a real rascal. As punishment for his mischief, a house elf shrinks him to his size. The farm animals are out for revenge and so Nils must escape on the back of a goose from Skåne in the south to Lapland in the north. During his flight over Sweden, Nils gets to take part in many adventures.

Wonderful Adventures of Nils

1962

Ärliga blå ögon poster
6.7

A young female scammer relying on her innocent blue eyes and ability to disguise herself tries to avoid the police that are getting ever closer.

Ärliga blå ögon

1977

Mirage poster
8.0

A young man comes to Stockholm, Sweden and experiences several bizarre and surrealistic situations.

Mirage

1959

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

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

Hemsöborna poster
4.5

The widow Anna Eva Flod at Hemsö needs help on the farm and hire the new boy Carlsson, who quickly wins the heart of Anna Eva.

Hemsöborna

1955

Film credits

1970s · 3 titles

1960s · 6 titles

Wonderful Adventures of Nils poster
6.1

A film adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf's classic book about Nils Holgersson, who is a real rascal. As punishment for his mischief, a house elf shrinks him to his size. The farm animals are out for revenge and so Nils must escape on the back of a goose from Skåne in the south to Lapland in the north. During his flight over Sweden, Nils gets to take part in many adventures.

Wonderful Adventures of Nils

1962

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

Do You Believe in Angels? poster
6.8

Jan Froman is a young man with great plans for the future. He gets a job as an assistant janitor at a bank, but with inherited money he starts to buy and sell real estate which eventually increases in value. He falls in love with Margareta, whose father is a naval officer. Margareta is slighted by her fiance and follows Froman on a sailing trip in the archipelago. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

Do You Believe in Angels?

1961

Åsa-Nisse slår till poster
3.0

Åsa-Nisse and Klabbarparn with wives taking part in a jenka-contest from Knohult to Vetlanda where he reports with his homemade walkie-talkie. Then he demonstrates the "Demon-Spritzer", a self-made cement machine which then breaks down and squirts down Klabbarparn with cement. Sjökvist is robbed and bike down with his delivery-bicycle in water at a beach. The robbers then repents and wants to return the money. Features performances from artists Sten & Stanley, The Moonlighters, and Shane.

Åsa-Nisse slår till

1965

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

Calle P poster
8.2

Calle Parking has invented a car that can be folded to the size of a suitcase. To remedy the parking problems in Stockholm. Presenting his idea to the authorities causes a conflict of interest.

Calle P

1965

1950s · 21 titles

Mirage poster
8.0

A young man comes to Stockholm, Sweden and experiences several bizarre and surrealistic situations.

Mirage

1959

Hemsöborna poster
4.5

The widow Anna Eva Flod at Hemsö needs help on the farm and hire the new boy Carlsson, who quickly wins the heart of Anna Eva.

Hemsöborna

1955

Song of the Scarlet Flower poster
7.0

Olof is driven from home when he wants to marry the wrong girl. He takes a job as a log driver and his reputation as a womanizer goes far and wide.

Song of the Scarlet Flower

1956

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

Little Fridolf and Me poster
6.1

Fridolf and his wife Selma gets a telegram from their daughter Maggan. She is engaged and are her way home to show her little baby.

Little Fridolf and Me

1956

The Master Detective and Rasmus poster
7.1

Kalle Blomkvist and his friends intervene when a professor and his little son Rasmus are kidnapped.

The Master Detective and Rasmus

1953

No artwork available
7.0

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

Kalle Karlsson från Jularbo

1952

Enchanted Journey poster
8.0

A traveling theatre company comes to a small town and performs to a packed house. But during the show the theatre director decides to run away with the money.

Enchanted Journey

1954

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

Whoops! poster
5.8

A comedy mystery involving the composer and cartoonist Hubert Yrhage, the journalist Gary Lundberg, anticartoon campaigner Lena Lett, the mysterious Jens Myskovich and music publisher Darling Karlsson. Yrhage receives his manuscripts from an 11 year-old whose inspiration comes from the mysterious events at a boarding house where several of the characters stay.

Whoops!

1955

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

Johan på Snippen tar hem spelet poster
7.0

There is a barn dance in the village Stubbhult. Johan Snippen and his friend the stationmaster Mandus plays happily, when a fight is about to break out.

Johan på Snippen tar hem spelet

1957

Matty poster
7.0

Long way home for a Finnish war orphan.

Matty

1957

Salka Valka poster
6.0

A coming of age story about young Salka Valka who lives in the small fishing village of Íseyri. She is doing well for herself as a partner in a small fishing boat, but people believe she is financed by her deceased mother's former fiance, Steinthór, who disappeared on their wedding day many years ago. Salka becomes infatuated with the idealistic Arnaldur who wants to start a workers union, much to the opposition of local entrepreneur Bogesen. The past comes to haunt her in the return of Steinthór but Salka fends off his advances only to lose the restless Arnaldur away. http://www.icelandicfilmcentre.is

Salka Valka

1954

No artwork available
NR

Film adaptation of a Gustav Fröding poem.

Det var dans bort i vägen

1953

Spöke på semester poster
6.0

"Ghost on Holiday" - Stockholm 1950 is experiencing a gold rush, after the discovery of gold during the building of the new underground. Assistant Borgkrona (Järrell) owns a plot in the gold area. The lawyer Målbrott informs Borgkrona that he has inherited a haunted castle and must stay there for a fortnight. However, once at the castle he meets his old relative who is a ghost (Järrell) and the two trade places

Spöke på semester

1951

Kyssen på kryssen poster
5.5

Lasse Brenner is a serious filmmaker (spoof on Ingmar Bergman) who is forced to direct a lighthearted comedy. The filming takes place in different cities across Europe and North Africa so Brenner and the crew have to sail on a cruse ship. Brenner's wife suspects he has an affair with the lead actress, so she also boards the ship undercover to keep an eye on him.

Kyssen på kryssen

1950

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

The Happy Shoemaker poster
7.0

Sture and Birgit are secretly engaged. One day when they are kissing, they are discovered by Sture's father Dana. However, he promises not to reveal anything, as Sture would probably lose his job on Birgit's father Hjalle's shipyard. When Hjalle is forced by a usurer to pay back 23,000 on a loan, he gets problem. Dana promises to solve the problem, the question is just how. There is only one person that could help him, his childhood friend Gösta Hägg that nowadays is the director of a big company. But time passes quickly, and where is Mr. Hägg ...?

The Happy Shoemaker

1955

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

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

1940s · 29 titles

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

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

Farlig vår poster
4.7

A young prostitute, Gullan Svan, is murdered one night. The police suspects that the murderer is a student, since she had a lot of students as customers. The murderer stole a picture of Gullan after he killed her, a picture which later is found in a rented tuxedo when the tuxedo is returned. Four students decide to solve the case, but it seems that the truth is even closer than they first suspected...

Farlig vår

1949

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

Sextetten Karlsson poster
5.0

The story about Karlsson's six boys, who makes mischief in the fictional town of Östköping.

Sextetten Karlsson

1945

Private Bom poster
5.4

The station-master Fabian Bom is a very meticulous person, and he makes sure that the trains leaves exactly - on the second. To him, nothing could be more important than duty, efficiency and punctuality, in fact, his sense of duty is clearly perverted. His beloved Plum-Plum, the major's daughter, is infatuated with army officers. To regain her attention, he joins the infantry. Bom becomes a soldier who loves the military training, long marches as well as hard labour as punishment. He meets Agnes, who falls madly in love with him.

Private Bom

1948

Money: A Tragicomic Saga poster
7.2

Orvar is a vagabond, walking the country roads and living on sunshine and generosity. One day he decides to find work somewhere to get some money. He becomes a helping hand for seven lumberjack brothers. The big and strong brothers really enjoy themselves, joking with the small and meek Orvar. Orvar does not know that he has inherited a large fortune but the seven brothers do and they begin to treat him with the greatest courtesy. They convince him to write his last will, making them his heirs, and then begin to make plans on how to kill him.

Money: A Tragicomic Saga

1946

The Sin of Anna Lans poster
7.3

At a meeting at the Salvation Army a female soldier tells the story of her life.

The Sin of Anna Lans

1943

Meeting in the Night poster
6.8

A journalist is writing a critical article about the prison service in Sweden. The magazine's editor in chief does not agree with him and removes the article. The journalist then plans to fake a crime to gain knowledge about life in prison.

Meeting in the Night

1946

A Guest Is Coming poster
6.5

It's Christmas. The owner of an old mansion decides to tell his family he's going to sell it. The following morning he's found murdered.

A Guest Is Coming

1947

No artwork available
NR

Per Jonas wife Hedvig is ill and Barbro has been employed to care for her. Per Jonas falls in love with Barbro and in order to live with her, he kills Hedvig.

Onda ögon

1947

Wandering with the Moon poster
6.7

Dan, aged 19, leaves his home after a quarrel with his father. At the side of the country road he meets a traveling theater company who has run out of money. He falls in love with the young actress Pia and together they leave, meeting a string of peculiar characters: a vagabond, a friendly vicar and a cynical adventurer.

Wandering with the Moon

1945

Eva poster
6.3

Marine Bo Fredriksson is travelling home on a leave. He reminisce about an accident he caused as a 12-year old which killed a young girl, an event that has made him feel revulsion for death. Back home he meets Eva, a girl he fancies and they move together to Stockholm to start a life together.

Eva

1948

The Balloon poster
7.5

Sten Stensson Stéen dies when he gets a wooden box in his head, and he enters heaven in a balloon.

The Balloon

1946

Skogen är vår arvedel poster
9.0

The farmer Per Jonsson doesn't think too well about the factory in the neighborhood, since he thinks that it destroys the fishing and makes the young people leave the countryside. When the workers at the factory go on strike, they ask him to sell milk to them and let them work in his forest. But Jonsson is stubborn and refuses to give them any help at all. At least until he is in an accident and also need help.

Skogen är vår arvedel

1944

Like Everyone Else poster
6.5

Kurre and Inga are engaged to be married. However, as they are very poor, they can't afford it just yet. They live separate, both in small apartments with a friend. Inga works at an office and Kurre at a small factory. Inga has a liability to be late in the mornings and this gets her into some trouble at the office, because of her very strict boss. This, along with the fact that another girl starts to court Kurre puts their relationship to the test, a crisis which is easier said than done to solve.

Like Everyone Else

1944

Rattens musketörer poster
5.0

Three taxi drivers work and bet on the lottery together. One day they win a lot of money - but they find it hard to handle their new wealth.

Rattens musketörer

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

Crime and Punishment poster
7.7

Former student Raskolnikov is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police, Raskolnikov struggles between trying to hide his guilt and the pressure to confess.

Crime and Punishment

1945

The Bride Came Through the Ceiling poster
4.5

The police is looking for a female burglar all dressed in white.

The Bride Came Through the Ceiling

1947

Sten Stensson kommer till stan poster
5.5

Sten Stensson from Eslöv has just got his law-degree from the University of Stockholm.

Sten Stensson kommer till stan

1945

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 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 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

Females At Play poster
6.3

A musical comedy about Kalle Svensson, a sergeant in the navy, and his loved one Nanette Raquette who works as a gymnastics teacher.

Females At Play

1945

No artwork available
7.0

Janne is an old man who is locked up in the church on New Year's Eve 1900 and has to play the organ to make someone to open the door.

Janne Vängman på nya äventyr

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

Daddy Wanted poster
5.5

Holger Hallman, CEO of a weapons factory try to prevent his son Tom from dating a manucurist, Lydia. By mistake he try to pay off the wrong manicurist, Mary, who by coincidence has a fiancé named Tom.

Daddy Wanted

1947

Rosen på Tistelön poster
6.7

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

Rosen på Tistelön

1945

Series credits