
Acting
Gunnel Broström
Born — Died
1922-10-25 — 2012-06-28
Place of birth
Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
Known for
Acting
Credits
48 titles
Gunnel Broström (1922–2012) was a Swedish stage, film and television actress. She also directed a number of television films from 1965 onwards.
Known for
8.1Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. Along the way, they encounter a series of hitchhikers, each of whom causes the elderly doctor to muse upon the pleasures and failures of his own life. These include the vivacious young Sara, a dead ringer for the doctor's own first love.
Wild Strawberries
1957
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Charlotte Löwensköld och Anna Svärd
1981
4.7In this feature version of the Swedish TV series "13 Demon Street," a 50,000-year-old woman is found frozen in an ice field, and a man's death is foretold in dreams.
The Devil's Messenger
1962
5.5The same movie with the same characters, cast and crew as I am Curious (Yellow), but with some different scenes and a different political slant. The political focus in Blue is personal relationships, religion, prisons and sex. Blue omits much of the class consciousness and non-violence interviews of the first version. Yellow and Blue are the colors of the Swedish flag.
I Am Curious (Blue)
1968
5.9In 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
NRShows what happens on a completely ordinary day in the year 2000 in Kronoberg. We enter the plot in the middle of a local news broadcast about a flood disaster. There is practically an emergency situation in the area.
Data Morgana
1986
Film credits
1980s · 4 titles
NRShows what happens on a completely ordinary day in the year 2000 in Kronoberg. We enter the plot in the middle of a local news broadcast about a flood disaster. There is practically an emergency situation in the area.
Data Morgana
1986
7.0Drama about a family going through a crisis during the Easter weekend.
Easter
1988
5.6About the Swedish author Agnes Von Krusenstjerna during the period of her marriage to David Sprengel. In the hallucinatory opening sequence she is brought in a straitjacket by her husband and two psychiatric nurses through the Venice Carnival nocturnal antics to a mental hospital in the city. With her is a manuscript of her autobiography, which she calls "her child". The book is Agnes showdown with her family, and in flashbacks presented, Agnes progress from the author of innocent girls' books to serious and self-consuming novelist.
Amorosa
1986
NRThe consultant at a mental hospital receives a visit from one of the hospital's female doctors after a vacation trip. A client, Valdemar, has made improper advances and she's confused.
Den ynkryggen Valdemar
1980
1970s · 4 titles
9.01830 Värmland, Sweden. Master Karl Arthur Ekenstedt comes to aid the Minister at Crosss Church. He falls in love with Charlotte Löwensköld, housekeeper in the rectory. They get engaged. Charlotte is full of life, energetic and practical. Karl Arthur struggle with his faith and God.
Charlotte Löwensköld
1979
7.0After the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917. A Russian engineer gets the assignment to purchase locomotives from Sweden. Paid in gold. Claimed by the opponents of the revolution.
The Man from the Other Side
1972
8.0Kristoffer lives on the verge of poverty, just barely supporting himself on his photographic work and an allowance given him by his ex-wife to support their child. He is staying in his absentee mother's large old house, which she is preparing to sell. When he takes a photograph of a man who died by his own hand, the image fascinates him. He grows obsessed with the dead man's story and pushes his research as far as it will go.
Kristoffers hus
1979
8.5Counter to the popular image of Erik XIV as the mad king Strindberg paints him as an intelligent but weak king, brought down by his insecurities.
Erik XIV
1974
1960s · 9 titles
4.7In this feature version of the Swedish TV series "13 Demon Street," a 50,000-year-old woman is found frozen in an ice field, and a man's death is foretold in dreams.
The Devil's Messenger
1962
5.5The same movie with the same characters, cast and crew as I am Curious (Yellow), but with some different scenes and a different political slant. The political focus in Blue is personal relationships, religion, prisons and sex. Blue omits much of the class consciousness and non-violence interviews of the first version. Yellow and Blue are the colors of the Swedish flag.
I Am Curious (Blue)
1968
6.1Eight vignettes on a variety of topics, including a baby growing up, Charlie Chaplin, Birgit Nilsson, the racing track at Le Mans, erotic cleanliness, French literature, and a black woman in a cupboard in the neighborhood of Farsta near Stockholm.
Stimulantia
1967
Noomi is a refugee with traumatic memories, a stranger, afraid of contacts. Leo is a bourgeois man who is considering building a villa. Married with two children. Magnus is an artist, dreams of women. He associates with Noomi. Noomi is now meeting Leo.
Rooftree
1967
6.0An elderly gentleman lives alone in a well-appointed residential building, spending his days in habitual routines with neighbors and family. When his former wife—who left years earlier with their child—moves into the apartment above him, long-suppressed tensions resurface, leading to a series of charged encounters.
The Storm
1960
9.0A young man,Erik, breaks into a photo store. But he is discovered by the night watchman and has to fly. During the flight he is picked up by cabaret singer Margot, who offers him protection. Erik, now wanted by the police, stays for a longer time with Margot and becomes her lover. Margot, however, is not alone in recruiting Erik: even the young Li is interested in him.
Prins hatt under jorden
1963
7.0Depicts a woman who commits suicide after being betrayed by a man who, by playing on her low self-esteem, has made herself her superior - and thus deprived her of all right to exist.
Den bergtagna
1965
7.0Tv play based on Hjalmar Bergmans play Swedenhielms from 1923.
Swedenhielms
1961
8.0Gustav Vasa struggles to keep power while dealing with the Dacke War in his own country and his foreign debts.
Gustav Vasa
1965
1950s · 13 titles
8.1Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. Along the way, they encounter a series of hitchhikers, each of whom causes the elderly doctor to muse upon the pleasures and failures of his own life. These include the vivacious young Sara, a dead ringer for the doctor's own first love.
Wild Strawberries
1957
8.0Three young poets are about to make their debuts.
We Three Debutantes
1953
6.1When 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
Magda Nilsson is a very talented young woman, but she has had a difficult upbringing and lost her self-confidence. She is also a singe-parent mother with her fragile son Arne. Magda is also difficult, antisocial and hard to get to know, but beneath the surface she seeps from suppressed love needs.
Rum för ensam dam
1959
8.0The wild Jon Esping bets that he will become a churchwarden. He, the upstart and the illiterate who can only write his name, a fox in business, a stud among women and a brute in general, wins the bet.
A Goat in the Garden
1958
6.0A 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
Bo Gyllenstake has been named heir to his wealthy uncle. The condition for receiving the inheritance is that his nephew proves himself to be well-behaved, but Gyllenstake's reputation is somewhat tarnished. He therefore starts a school for moral education on the family estate, where wealthy families send their troublesome daughters. The school naturally becomes a training ground for debauchery, where young upper-class women can live out their suppressed desires. Greedy relatives hire a lawyer to expose the truth and disinherit the heir. The prudish lawyer soon finds himself caught up in the sex carousel and is unable to report any misconduct.
Skandalskolan
1958
6.3Karl Oskar Bohm looks back at his life, his estranged daughter Augusta and his wife Sofia.
Storm over Tjurö
1954
This quintessential Chekhov drama--his first success--is both comic and tragic. A group of friends and relations gather at a country estate to see the first performance of an experimental play written and staged by the young man of the house, Konstantin, an aspiring writer who dreams of bringing new forms to the theatre.
Måsen
1959
8.0About U-Boat 39 the first U-Boat sunk in WW2 by the UK Carrier Ark Royal.
Ubåt 39
1952
10.0A Swedish TV play about a workhouse in Småland, Sweden. Midsummer's Dream in the Workhouse is written by Pär Lagerkvist.
Midsommardröm i fattighuset
1959
The two alcoholics Rudolf and Bertil gets fired from their jobs. For Bertil the story ends happily. He quits drinking and takes a job on a ship. For Rudolph it is worse. He can't kick the booze.
Paradiset
1955
9.0August Strindberg's feedback to Henrik Ibsen's "Doll's House"--a short story from the collection "Giftas" (Getting married), about female emancipation and obsolete marriages.
Ett dockhem
1956
1940s · 13 titles
5.9In 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
6.7Kalle Magnus Berg is a kind bailiff in Gamla Stan (Old Town) in Stockholm. He helps out "clients" by supporting them with money from his own pocket. His neighbor is a jazz musician who plays at a restaurant for a living.
The Bells in Old Town
1946
10.0Agneta Gyllencrona is in love with Henrik Lettnoff, a refugee from the Baltic. They have to leave together when her mother, the Countess, wants to tear them apart.
Svenske ryttaren
1949
5.0Harry, returning home after six years in an asylum, has vivid recollections of a party many years ago with six of his friends. The party ended with one of them, Raoul, disappearing. A gardener is digging in Harry's garden when a skeleton and a watch with the name "Raoul" is found. Harry invites his friends to a dinner to solve the mystery of Raoul's disappearance.
Crime in the Sun
1947
6.5Professor Barring is awarded the Nobel Prize in physics. According to Barring the scientist's sole duty is to seek the truth, even if this leads to the "gates of hell".
Till the Doors of Hell
1948
9.0Frank Bing is a big artist in the USA and arrives home in his native Sweden with his secretary Ada. The portier at the hotel has great difficulties keeping the adoring fans away from Frank. Among them is Peggy Dalin who has been tasked by her father with getting Frank to sign with his record company using her great charm.
Peggy på vift
1946
8.0The man of the gallows is a little sinister wooden figure that the proprietor must sell before his death. If not he will be doomed and unsaved.
The Gallows Man
1945
9.0The 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
9.0The hypocritical wholesaler Johan Ekberg is taught a lesson.
Släkten är bäst
1944
Jansson returns home after many years sailing the world. His two groups of relatives both want him to stay with them in hopes that he will leave them a large share of his inheritance.
Skipper Jansson
1945
9.0"His Majesty's Rival" - A young man, Lars Hjelm, returns home after being in Italy on a scholarship from the Swedish king, Gustaf III. On his way home he meets with opera singer Antoinette and fall in love with her. His fiancee Eva expects him home any day.
Queen for a Night
1943
A free fantasy about the Swedish poet and adventurer Lars Wivallius.
En äventyrare
1942
Connie is growing up on an estate and cling especially to Gunnar. When Connie mention that she has met a man, Gunnar gets angry and repels her. Connie decides to retaliate by taking over Gunnar's sister's husband, Boris, who is the owner of the estate.
Barbacka
1946
Series credits
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Charlotte Löwensköld och Anna Svärd
1981
"The Beards" - The framework was that the participants would produce a relatively current entertainment program titled Concrete. During the meetings ideas and sketches were presented. Most of it was rejected.
Skäggen
1963
Behind the camera
A story about Gerda, maid and unmarried. And a New Year's Eve in her life.
Stulet nyår
1978
Alf Sjöberg (1903-1980) was Swedens greatest theater director of the 20th century and as a film director the first of international importance since the silent film era. He won the Grand Prix du Festival at the Cannes Film Festival twice.
Alf Sjöberg - mästaren
1983
Alf Sjöberg (1903-1980) was Swedens greatest theater director of the 20th century and as a film director the first of international importance since the silent film era. He won the Grand Prix du Festival at the Cannes Film Festival twice.
Alf Sjöberg - mästaren
1983
