Åke Falck

Directing

Åke Falck

Born — Died

1925-04-03 — 1974-10-12

Place of birth

Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden

Known for

Directing

Credits

24 titles

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.

Known for

Film credits

1960s · 5 titles

Behind the camera

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Feature film with several different stories about the breakthrough of the telephone and the telegraph.

Museet

1953

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

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

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

Alla för en

1965

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

Nattens konung poster
NR

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

Nattens konung

1974

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

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

Rafael Kubelik A Portrait poster
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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

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

Where the Herring and Bathers Flock

1953

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

Where the Herring and Bathers Flock

1953

Easter poster
9.0

A family in crisis during the holiday of Easter

Easter

1968

No artwork available
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