Birger Lensander

Acting

Birger Lensander

Born 1908-10-31 · Södertälje, Stockholms län, Sweden

Acting credits

Lars Hård poster
5.5

Young drifter tells his story in flashback from prison.

Lars Hård

1948

No artwork available
9.0

In this somber drama, residents of a small island accuse a nobleman of killing a priest when the man of the cloth disappears. The two were seen arguing, and the nobleman is the main suspect. The priest is only away on a sabbatical trying to regain his faith, but the islanders continue to put pressure on the innocent noble.

The Island

1966

Åsa-Nisse på Mallorca poster
3.8

Åsa-Nisse and Klabbarparn has found an old pirate map that leads them to the island Mallorca in the Mediterranean Sea as they search for the hidden treasure.

Åsa-Nisse på Mallorca

1962

Sjutton år poster
10.0

It's summertime. The students Allan and Erik returns to their home town. 19-year old Allan is in love with 17-year old Anna-Lena. She rejects his clumsy attempts of telling her, but that's because she is uncertain of her own feelings. The Norwegian singer Lydia Hennert has an accident with her car and she is slightly injured. Allan's father is a doctor and Lydia spends a few days with them. Allan falls in love with her instead, she is a "real" woman and not a girl. But this makes Anna-Lena jealous.

Sjutton år

1957

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

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

Farligt löfte poster
5.5

A woman is murdered and a little girl is the only one who can reveal the perpetrator.

Farligt löfte

1955

Only a Mother poster
6.8

A poor woman in a Swedish farming community struggles to feed her large family and is torn by her passion for two different men.

Only a Mother

1949

Östermans testamente poster
7.0

The fishermen Österman and Sjöberg are sued by merchant Wikström. In order to raise capital, they decide to start producing a medicine from a recipe by Österman's father.

Östermans testamente

1954

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

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

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

Åsa-Nisse på semester poster
4.0

Åsa-Nisse is visited by cousin Doris from the United States. Nisse, Klabbarparn and Doris will travel to Stockholm, but Nisse and Klabbarparn lose track of Doris, who get into a hands of a Casanova. Nisse and Klabbarparn instead ends up at the Nordic Museum, where Åsa-Nisse turns out to have unexpected qualities in the art of imitating a mannequin. After that they had found each other is Doris robbed and it leads to a wild brawl that it sparkles and sputters on.

Åsa-Nisse på semester

1953

No artwork available
5.8

A widowed woman undergoes a true sexual awakening in this provocative drama. The change comes after her husband of 10 years suddenly dies. During their marriage she never felt a thing during sex. Then she meets a lively Pole and begins an affair. Suddenly she finds herself feeling a great deal, and happiness ensues.

To Love

1964

Here Is Your Life poster
7.1

A working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving through a series of jobs and romances that gradually shape his future.

Here Is Your Life

1966

No artwork available
NR

A boy lies and dreams in his bed in the kitchen, wakes up and takes a kitchen knife with him to bed and falls asleep. He dreams that he kills everyone at a game table, except for his father, whom he takes out on a tram ride. The boy wakes up again and waits for the father to come home and when he does, the mother and the father quarrel about something. The morning comes and the boy goes out, finally ends up at the beer café where the father and his beer friends are sitting.

Nattens lekar

1955

Lazy Lena poster
8.0

Mattsson is a fisherman and widower in the Stockholm archipelago. He has two adult daughters that help run the household, Magda and Lena. Lena prefers to shirk her duties and read romance novels. She is being courted by the neighbour boy Per who covers for her whenever he can.

Lazy Lena

1947

Bror min och jag poster
6.5

Gus and Holger, two students in Uppsala, have problems with the rent. They are waiting for money from their uncle, but instead of money they are reached by the news that he has gone bankrupt.

Bror min och jag

1953

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

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

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

The Master Detective Lives Dangerously poster
6.6

When Eva-Lotta climbs the roof of moneylender Gren's house. Through a window she overhears a turbulent conversation about an IOU. A few days later she finds Gren dead.

The Master Detective Lives Dangerously

1957

Life on Seacrow Island poster
5.7

A writer spends the summer holidays with his children on an island. The family grows together through friendships with humans and animals and through adventures.

Life on Seacrow Island

1968

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