Rune Carlsten

Acting

Rune Carlsten

Born — Died

1890-07-02 — 1970-10-12

Place of birth

Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden

Known for

Acting

Credits

56 titles

Rune Carlsten (2 July 1890 – 12 October 1970) was a Swedish actor, screenwriter and film director.

Known for

The People of Hemsö poster
4.5

The widow Anna Eva Flod at Hemsö needs help on the farm and hire the new boy Carlsson.

The People of Hemsö

1919

Farornas paradis poster
9.0

A hotel in Surabaya, Java has some features of a brothel. Anita plays in a women's orchestra is exposed to the bandleaders invites. The owner of the hotel wants Anita to attract customers. They two become rivals over Anita.

Farornas paradis

1931

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

Eviga länkar poster
6.5

Hilda Granström runs a ladies' tailoring shop. Her husband Richard is a cellist in the Opera Orchestra. Their three daughters help out in Hilda's shop. Richard's 80-year-old mother, who once was a dancer, also lives with the family.

Eviga länkar

1946

Count Only the Happy Moments poster
5.3

The old Victor Branzell has a grandson, Alf, who is in love with a clerk in a glove shop, Lilian Lind. But Lilian with her simple background doesn't get accepted in the circles where Alf belongs, and they have now reached the conclusion that they can't have a future together. Marriage is impossible. Victor summons Lilian and Alf and starts telling them his life story.

Count Only the Happy Moments

1944

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

Film credits

1950s · 3 titles

1940s · 14 titles

Eviga länkar poster
6.5

Hilda Granström runs a ladies' tailoring shop. Her husband Richard is a cellist in the Opera Orchestra. Their three daughters help out in Hilda's shop. Richard's 80-year-old mother, who once was a dancer, also lives with the family.

Eviga länkar

1946

The Man All Wanted to Kill poster
8.0

A brutal businessman, Vilhelm Gerner, triggers a stock speculation by providing false information. Two of his partners, Smith and Grå, get ruined and therefore Smith commit suicide. Later, Gerner is found shot by his own gun. The police suspects at least seven persons. Most of them admits murdering Gerner. A reconstruction is staged in the presence of all the suspects.

The Man All Wanted to Kill

1940

No artwork available
10.0

Filip Collin, the elegant small town patron, has suffered from money market concerns due to bankruptcy on foreign exchanges.

Herr Collins äventyr

1943

En sjöman i frack poster
7.5

First mate Karlsson is mistaken for famous actor Linde.

En sjöman i frack

1942

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

General von Döbeln poster
6.3

1813. The Swedish army is fighting in the War of the Sixth Coalition. The popular general Von Döbeln is arrested for sending the army against the French in breach of orders by the crown prince. At the court martial he is sentenced to death but is pardoned by the king and sent to prison instead. A group of conspirators are planning to set him free and make him their leader in a coup d'etat.

General von Döbeln

1942

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

Hem från Babylon poster
5.5

An engineer and a businessman is on the run from Manchuria, where revolution and civil war erupted. Both suffer from typhoid and the businessman dies. Before he dies, he changes identity with the engineer.

Hem från Babylon

1941

The Invisible Wall poster
6.4

In an unnamed country under occupation, a senior officer is killed in an attack by a member of the resistance.

The Invisible Wall

1944

Fransson the Terrible poster
9.0

A young baker moves to the small town of Västerby and becomes successful with a new type of whole wheat bread.

Fransson the Terrible

1941

Doktor Glas poster
5.2

Dr. Glas is visited by Mrs. Gregorius who lives in an unhappy marriage and decides to help her, by any means necessary.

Doktor Glas

1942

No artwork available
10.0

A young Norwegian woman lives in a remote fishing village Dreaming of life in the big city, she sends her photo to a beauty contest. She is appointed to represent Norway in a competition for the "Nordic Venus".

Frestelse

1940

En dotter född poster
10.0

Inger lives at home with his parents. She suspects that she is pregnant. A doctor notes her pregnancy and urge her to seek the child's father. The doctor offers her an abortion, but she refuses.

En dotter född

1944

Lasse-Maja poster
10.0

About the Swedish trickster and thief Lars "Lasse-Maja" Molin. He often disguised himself and lived as a woman in 1800s. He takes place as a kitchen boy for a bailiff and manages to prevent him from taking over the cottage where his beloved lives. His true identity will, however, be disclosed and he is forced to become an outlaw.

Lasse-Maja

1941

1930s · 11 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

Konflikt poster
8.0

"Conflict" - Shipbuilder Edvard Banck is busy building new ships, but forgets that his wife Birgit wants his attention and tenderness. A new engineer, Reidar Hagen, begins at the shipyard, and Birgit is immediately attracted to him. They fall in love, and Birgit decides to leave her husband. But is it possible and what will Edvard do?

Konflikt

1937

Hustru för en dag poster
10.0

Mr Wall needs a wife for a day to get a heritage from his aunt.

Hustru för en dag

1933

Tystnadens hus poster
7.0

"House of Silence" - A banker and his old housekeeper are brutally assassinated by a gangster called Smith. The murders are arranged so that they may look like a showdown between two victims. The police force are divided on the murders. Susanna Braun, an old acquaintance of the banker, claims that he could not have murdered his housekeeper. A baron who owns a night club is in need of money. He does business with gangsters. The baron involves Smith in the kidnapping of Susanna Braun.

Tystnadens hus

1933

No artwork available
7.0

Marius is torn between the love for Fanny on land and the desire to go out to sea.

Longing for the Sea

1931

No artwork available
8.0

The Creutzerhjelm's are in search of an authentic haunted castle. Therefore, the owner of the castle SkiöldBorg decides to play ghost himself to sell his castle.

Spöke till salu

1939

Tired Theodore poster
8.0

Teodor is afraid to tell his rich wife that he works extra nightly at the sinful hotel Babylon.

Tired Theodore

1931

The Marriage Game poster
8.0

The sculptress Tora Diidiken is married to the sculptor Gunnar Grahn and they both compete in a contest to design a statue for the public square in Hicksville.

The Marriage Game

1935

Herr Husassistenten poster
9.0

Vicke Lundin is a car mechanic in a garage where the owner is a brutal and selfish. With him, Vicke argues about the bills the customers have to pay.

Herr Husassistenten

1938

The Girls' Alfred poster
7.0

The orphan Alfred lives with two ladies in an idyllic cottage near a private golf course.

The Girls' Alfred

1935

The Dangerous Game poster
10.0

When Ellen Brenton takes a swim too far from the shore she is be saved by the lifeguard Bob. While her husband is away on business Bob gets drunk and try to romance Ellen in her hotel room. There's a scandal in the media.

The Dangerous Game

1930

Behind the camera

Farornas paradis poster
9.0

A hotel in Surabaya, Java has some features of a brothel. Anita plays in a women's orchestra is exposed to the bandleaders invites. The owner of the hotel wants Anita to attract customers. They two become rivals over Anita.

Farornas paradis

1931

Eviga länkar poster
6.5

Hilda Granström runs a ladies' tailoring shop. Her husband Richard is a cellist in the Opera Orchestra. Their three daughters help out in Hilda's shop. Richard's 80-year-old mother, who once was a dancer, also lives with the family.

Eviga länkar

1946

Count Only the Happy Moments poster
5.3

The old Victor Branzell has a grandson, Alf, who is in love with a clerk in a glove shop, Lilian Lind. But Lilian with her simple background doesn't get accepted in the circles where Alf belongs, and they have now reached the conclusion that they can't have a future together. Marriage is impossible. Victor summons Lilian and Alf and starts telling them his life story.

Count Only the Happy Moments

1944

The voice of the heart poster
8.0

Birgit Storm meets variety artist Jim Gray at a bar. They dance with each other, marry and have children. The Jim leaves to go to war.

The voice of the heart

1930

No artwork available
NR

Ture believes he has killed an elderly man after his birthday party.

The Bomb

1920

No artwork available
NR

Ture believes he has killed an elderly man after his birthday party.

The Bomb

1920

No artwork available
10.0

A young woman is predestined to marry her fathers companion. During the summer she falls in love with an artist. The intended husband detects the love affair and confronts the couple.

Svarta rosor

1945

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

A Dangerous Courtship poster
6.4

The farmer Knut Husaby has a daughter, Aslaug, who is the most beautiful girl in the village. Many boys are after her, but Knut and his two sons drive them away, if they come too close to the farm. Aslaug is secretly in love with Tore Naesset. But he is only a smallholder's son, and when he asks for Aslaug's hand, her father just laughs at him. Instead her father wants Aslaug to marry Ola Thormundson, a gawky boy, who is the son of the wealthiest farmer in the village. Aslaug brings her family's cattle to the Husaby summer farm up in the mountain. Only one road leads to the summer farm, and it passes right by the main farm. When Tore returns from a visit to Aslaug in the mountains, Knut and his sons beat him black and blue. As it's impossible for him to use the road anymore, Tore has to figure out another way to go to Aslaug. Next Saturday he crosses the fiord in a rowing-boat. He stops at a fifty meter high wall of rock, and starts climbing it, hoping to reach Aslaug at the top.

A Dangerous Courtship

1919

A Dangerous Courtship poster
6.4

The farmer Knut Husaby has a daughter, Aslaug, who is the most beautiful girl in the village. Many boys are after her, but Knut and his two sons drive them away, if they come too close to the farm. Aslaug is secretly in love with Tore Naesset. But he is only a smallholder's son, and when he asks for Aslaug's hand, her father just laughs at him. Instead her father wants Aslaug to marry Ola Thormundson, a gawky boy, who is the son of the wealthiest farmer in the village. Aslaug brings her family's cattle to the Husaby summer farm up in the mountain. Only one road leads to the summer farm, and it passes right by the main farm. When Tore returns from a visit to Aslaug in the mountains, Knut and his sons beat him black and blue. As it's impossible for him to use the road anymore, Tore has to figure out another way to go to Aslaug. Next Saturday he crosses the fiord in a rowing-boat. He stops at a fifty meter high wall of rock, and starts climbing it, hoping to reach Aslaug at the top.

A Dangerous Courtship

1919

No artwork available
10.0

The Silfverdahl sisters goes sailing. One of them married, the other one, Brita, not. After a short journey Brita's sweetheart Einar secretly climbs aboard. Agathon, her prospective husband, get seasick and choose to leave the party.

A Modern Robinson

1920

No artwork available
10.0

The Silfverdahl sisters goes sailing. One of them married, the other one, Brita, not. After a short journey Brita's sweetheart Einar secretly climbs aboard. Agathon, her prospective husband, get seasick and choose to leave the party.

A Modern Robinson

1920

Family Traditions poster
10.0

The young Baron Robert falls in love with his distant relative Helga.

Family Traditions

1920

Family Traditions poster
10.0

The young Baron Robert falls in love with his distant relative Helga.

Family Traditions

1920

The Turnstile poster
9.0

The small town of Gåtatorp in Småland is entirely dependent on its prominent furniture factory. But the factory is in danger because the weak economy means that the bank wants to shut down the factory.

The Turnstile

1944

Doktor Glas poster
5.2

Dr. Glas is visited by Mrs. Gregorius who lives in an unhappy marriage and decides to help her, by any means necessary.

Doktor Glas

1942

Doktor Glas poster
5.2

Dr. Glas is visited by Mrs. Gregorius who lives in an unhappy marriage and decides to help her, by any means necessary.

Doktor Glas

1942

The Young Nobleman poster
10.0

A young Countess meets a young Count and they share a common interest in fast cars.

The Young Nobleman

1924

The Young Nobleman poster
10.0

A young Countess meets a young Count and they share a common interest in fast cars.

The Young Nobleman

1924

Tystnadens hus poster
7.0

"House of Silence" - A banker and his old housekeeper are brutally assassinated by a gangster called Smith. The murders are arranged so that they may look like a showdown between two victims. The police force are divided on the murders. Susanna Braun, an old acquaintance of the banker, claims that he could not have murdered his housekeeper. A baron who owns a night club is in need of money. He does business with gangsters. The baron involves Smith in the kidnapping of Susanna Braun.

Tystnadens hus

1933

The Serious Game poster
3.7

Arvid share the love with a young woman named Lydia, but as is customary at the turn of the century, is not love enough for a fairy tale to come true. While Arvid struggling to create the basis for their existence, Lydia's thirst for the good life leads her to marrying an older wealthy man.

The Serious Game

1945

The Serious Game poster
3.7

Arvid share the love with a young woman named Lydia, but as is customary at the turn of the century, is not love enough for a fairy tale to come true. While Arvid struggling to create the basis for their existence, Lydia's thirst for the good life leads her to marrying an older wealthy man.

The Serious Game

1945

Halfway to heaven poster
10.0

Love triangle in an acrobatic trapeze act results in a missed catch and a death, but was it on purpose?

Halfway to heaven

1931

Let No Man Put Asunder poster
8.0

During the 1200s, the catholic priest Peder has to divorce his wife when the church votes for celibacy.

Let No Man Put Asunder

1921

Let No Man Put Asunder poster
8.0

During the 1200s, the catholic priest Peder has to divorce his wife when the church votes for celibacy.

Let No Man Put Asunder

1921

No artwork available
10.0

Car manufacturer Leopold Paseman is old and childless. He becomes sentimental about his situation and has no one to take over the business when he dies.

Pengar från skyn

1938