Åke Falck

Directing

Åke Falck

Born 1925-04-03 · Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden

Åke Falck (3 April 1925 – 12 October 1974) was a Swedish film director. He directed 13 films between 1958 and 1972. His 1966 film The Princess was entered into the 5th Moscow International Film Festival. He married in 1949 the singer Brita Nordström (1925–2005) with whom he had a son Peter Emanuel Falck in 1952. In 1960 he remarried to the TV producer Karin Sohlman and had a daughter Carolina Falck in 1961. Åke Falck was buried on 12 November 1974 at Djursholm's cemetery in the municipality of Danderyd. Åke Falcks Gata in the Torp district of Gothenburg was named after him in 2011.

Acting credits

Girl with Hyacinths poster
7.2

A young woman dies by suicide and leaves all her belongings to her next-door neighbour, who becomes determined to investigate her reasons for taking her life.

Girl with Hyacinths

1950

The Die Is Cast poster
6.1

A member of a highly successful crime drama series is found murdered in a television studio. The screenwriter of the TV-series is found as prime suspect but claims his innocence and tries to clear his name. But who is the murderer and what is his motive?

The Die Is Cast

1960

Swedish Wedding Night poster
6.3

A wealthy butcher, fond of liquor and women is about to marry a much younger woman. The woman's father has locked himself in the attic and refuses to come to the wedding.

Swedish Wedding Night

1964

No artwork available
NR

A description of Östergötland, Sweden. Its history, landscape, buildings and industries.

Viking Settlement in the Jet Age: A Film About Östergötland

1960

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NR

Herring history, summer girls and salty baths will attract tourists to Lysekil, Sweden, hopes filmmaker Åke Falck.

Where the Herring and Bathers Flock

1953

Året var 1974 poster
5.0

The year begins with an energy crisis and petrol rationing. And there will be parental insurance so that even fathers can stay at home with their children. Cleaners around Sweden are on strike for better conditions. Worry grows for the Swedish tourists in the holiday paradise of Cyprus. That and much more in this column about the year 1974.

Året var 1974

2023

The Firebird poster
5.0

Italian singer Mario Vanni visits the Royal Opera in Stockholm and fall in love with ballet dancer Linda Corina.

The Firebird

1952

Petter's and Lotta's Christmas poster
7.5

Petter and Lotta are excited to celebrate Christmas for the first time with a real Christmas tree and Christmas presents.

Petter's and Lotta's Christmas

1968

Farbror Blås nya båt poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Farbror Blås nya båt

1968

Behind the camera

Cavalleria rusticana / Pagliacci poster
8.5

Opera's most popular double bill, fondly known as Cav and Pag, conducted by Herbert von Karajan. In 'Cavalleria rusticana', Turiddu returns from military service to find that his fiancée Lola had married the carter Alfio while he was away. In revenge, Turiddu seduces Santuzza, a young woman in the village. In 'Pagliacci', the drama unfolds as Canio (Pagliaccio) struggles with rage, despair, and desire on learning of his wife Nedda's intended infidelity with Silvio. Canio's tragic conflict increasingly mirrors the comedy of Pagliaccio.

Cavalleria rusticana / Pagliacci

1970

Adam och Eva poster
7.0

Eva discovers a contest of an altarpiece. Her husband Adam makes a simple sketch. Adam wins the competition. The success makes Adam famous.

Adam och Eva

1963

Swedish Wedding Night poster
6.3

A wealthy butcher, fond of liquor and women is about to marry a much younger woman. The woman's father has locked himself in the attic and refuses to come to the wedding.

Swedish Wedding Night

1964

Prinsessan poster
7.0

The journalist Gunnar meets the cancer-patient Seija and love arises. Seija has only a short time left to live. The doctors advice her not to become pregnant, because radiotherapy could harm the fetus. She interrupts the radiotherapy and give later birth a healthy child. Meanwhile, it turns out that pregnancy has cured her cancer.

Prinsessan

1966

Waltz of Sex poster
7.0

When a vagrant family arrives to the village Vindinge one hot summer in the 1920's, the parish is spiced up with sex and alcohol. Based on a novel by Swedish Academy member Artur Lundkvist.

Waltz of Sex

1968

No artwork available
NR

Herring history, summer girls and salty baths will attract tourists to Lysekil, Sweden, hopes filmmaker Åke Falck.

Where the Herring and Bathers Flock

1953

No artwork available
NR

Herring history, summer girls and salty baths will attract tourists to Lysekil, Sweden, hopes filmmaker Åke Falck.

Where the Herring and Bathers Flock

1953

Nattens konung poster
NR

An old fisherman is feeling lonely and begins to long for death.

Nattens konung

1974

Easter poster
9.0

A family in crisis during the holiday of Easter

Easter

1968

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9.0

Three kind-hearted criminals, Joseph, Albert, and Jules, plan to escape from Devil's Island. Fate intervenes, and they find refuge with the kind-hearted but clumsy Felix Ducotel and his family. Felix runs a shop for his demanding, arrogant cousin André, who makes the mistake of stealing Albert's beloved pet, a poisonous snake! For the Ducotel family, it will be a Christmas to remember—together with three crooks who turn out to be nothing less than three "wise men"!

Trasiga änglar

1962

Rafael Kubelik A Portrait poster
NR

A comprehensive portrait of one of the 20th century's most brilliant and charismatic conductors working with three great orchestras: The Berlin Philharmonic, the Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam and the Vienna Philharmonic, performing works by Beethoven, Mozart and Bruckner. Kubelik didn't arrive on the podium trailing clouds of glory like von Karajan or Leonard Bernstein. He seemed to just appear there, shyly and without fanfare. His 'bed hair' curling outward, making his head look like the letter w. His appearance and demeanor suggested that a timid, tentative performance was likely. Then he'd rip into a taut and crisp Eroica or an effervescent, crystalline Prague Symphony.

Rafael Kubelik A Portrait

1971

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

Alla för en

1965

Tchaikovsky: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in B-Flat, Op. 23 (Karajan, Weissenberg, 1967) poster
NR

Concert performance produced for UNITEL in 1967

Tchaikovsky: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in B-Flat, Op. 23 (Karajan, Weissenberg, 1967)

1967