Barbro Kollberg

Acting

Barbro Kollberg

Born 1917-12-27 · Eskilstuna, Södermanlands län, Sweden

Barbro Anna Elisabet Kollberg was a Swedish film and theatre actress, theatre leader and educator. She studied at the Royal Dramatic Theatre School 1937-40. She was engaged at the Blanche Theatre, Stockholm. In 1943 she was approached by director Gösta Cederlund to play the leading role as Marta in the feature film "Kungsgatan". This was her 10th film, but the most significant and a very difficult role. Barbro Kollberg appeared in 46 feature films and a number of television productions during her long career 1939-2006.

Acting credits

Kontrollanten poster
NR

"The Ticket Inspector" - 60-year-old Alfred lives alone with his cat. He is doing his job with zealous diligence until he meets the love of his youth.

Kontrollanten

1992

Charlotte Löwensköld poster
9.0

1830 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

As It Is in Heaven poster
7.1

A musical romantic tragedy about a famous composer who moves back to his small hometown after having had heart troubles. His search for a simple everyday life leads him into teaching the local church choir, which is not easily accepted by the town yet the choir builds a great love for their teacher.

As It Is in Heaven

2004

His Grace's Will poster
5.7

His grace, the Lord Chamberlain and Colonel Baron Roger Bernhusen de Sars of Rogershus, Klockeberga and Björkenäs, will celebrate his 70th birthday. He decides to write his will and publish it on the birthday.

His Grace's Will

1940

I dag börjar livet poster
6.0

Choreographer is found murdered and the police investigate. There are several suspects among his lovers, dancers and family members.

I dag börjar livet

1939

The Best Intentions poster
7.0

In this film about Ingmar Bergman's parents, Henrik Bergman is studying for the priesthood and trying to make ends meet when he encounters the lovely, affluent Anna. Despite their social differences, Henrik and Anna fall in love, wed and move to the country. They lead a quiet life as Henrik works as a priest, but it isn't long before the simple people and plain surroundings make Anna long for a more lavish lifestyle, which causes marital stress.

The Best Intentions

1992

The Yellow Car poster
5.8

On a tourist trip abroad the passengers on the coach witness an assassination attempt on the President Hurkas. One of the tourists has evidence against the perpetrators, and is killed when the coach reaches Sweden. Another passenger observes how one of the perpetrators is picked up by a yellow car. She is kidnapped and locked up in a mental hospital.

The Yellow Car

1963

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

Family Secrets poster
5.3

Autumn 1978 in suburban Sweden. Everything seems to be fine with the middle class Bendrick family with their two teenage children and a younger son, until the mother starts seeing her first love again after 20 years. Just like their badly built house, the family façade starts slowly crumbling into pieces. The daughter, 15, finds her first love, and the boys too are puzzled by their own questions around adolescence and sexuality. The father tries to keep up a happy face, while the youngest son is the first and the most sensitive to realize how the family is heading towards a disaster.

Family Secrets

2001

No artwork available
NR

Carina is 17 years old - without a job or identity - but who wants to become someone. She lives with her mother and grandmother outside Gothenburg - children of the 60s suburbs. She meets Aron and thinks it's love.

Bara ett barn

1980

The Station Master poster
7.0

Carl Malm is a goodhearted man who runs a railway station. He lives together with his maid and her seven kids.

The Station Master

1942

Svensson, Svensson - The Movie poster
4.7

Lena Svensson has been offered a new and exiting job in Stockholm that she can't say no to. But her husband, Gustav, has no plan of what so ever to move from his quiet little town of Vivalla, and especially his job as a very proud postman. After Lena started to commute between Stockholm and Vivalla, he decides to sell the house and give Stockholm a chance. He starts of with a job as a postman in one of Stockholm's worst districts, but after a mistake on a conference, Gustav seems to do quite a success at his new job, while Lena is struggling with annoying colleagues and a demanding boss.

Svensson, Svensson - The Movie

1997

No artwork available
10.0

The photographer Göran finds his friend Stig F Dahlman's dead in the basement. The police consider the case as an accident, but Göran suspects murder.

Tag ditt liv

1995

Unmarried Couples: A Comedy That Will Break You Up poster
5.7

Marie and David are always arguing while their friends Sara and Samuel always seem to be happy together. Or are they? This year they decide to spend Christmas in the mountains together.

Unmarried Couples: A Comedy That Will Break You Up

1997

Tic Tac poster
6.3

During one single day a number of life destinies cross one another. It becomes a night for the involved they will never forget, a night when the coincidences are going to change their lives forever.

Tic Tac

1997

Like Everyone Else poster
6.5

Kurre and Inga are engaged to be married. However, as they are very poor, they can't afford it just yet. They live separate, both in small apartments with a friend. Inga works at an office and Kurre at a small factory. Inga has a liability to be late in the mornings and this gets her into some trouble at the office, because of her very strict boss. This, along with the fact that another girl starts to court Kurre puts their relationship to the test, a crisis which is easier said than done to solve.

Like Everyone Else

1944

Yellow Ward poster
4.9

A chief physician at a women's clinic is against abortion. He strongly influence the patients not to abort. But there are doctors who think differently.

Yellow Ward

1942

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Herzen im Sturm

1951

The Nuthouse poster
5.2

In Stockholm in the year 2248 an excavation leads to the discovery of 45,000 meters of film from the 1940's master director Hasse Ekman . The material is in a disarray but the Society for Ancient Film Research compiles the material after what is believed to have been the master's artistic intentions

The Nuthouse

1951

It Rains on Our Love poster
6.8

A young couple, penniless, break into a summer cottage; the owner offers to rent to them but he has ulterior motives. By living together, the lovers must face their pasts and contend with the meddling neighbors and authorities.

It Rains on Our Love

1946

Lille Fridolf blir morfar poster
6.6

Fridolf's daughter becomes pregnant and Fridolf and Selma become strongly involved in this.

Lille Fridolf blir morfar

1957

Utflykten poster
NR

Karin moves from Finland to a small village in Sweden and finds that her love of books is viewed with suspicion.

Utflykten

1983

Tre skojiga skojare poster
9.0

The author Tom Berger has written a book that is very prejudiced against women. The local chapter of Women's League starts a campaign against him.

Tre skojiga skojare

1942

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