Barbro Kollberg

Acting

Barbro Kollberg

Born — Died

1917-12-27 — 2014-03-06

Place of birth

Eskilstuna, Södermanlands län, Sweden

Known for

Acting

Credits

36 titles

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.

Known for

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

No artwork available
8.0

Series about the very first love. Daniel is looking forward to another exciting summer together with his friend Anders. But this year it is different, Anna, who is deaf, has moved in with her parents in the cottage next door. For Daniel, getting to know Anna will be a new and strange experience.

First Love

1992

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

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

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

Family Secrets poster
5.2

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

Film credits

2000s · 3 titles

1990s · 7 titles

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

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

Stannar du så springer jag poster
7.0

A woman in her mid-Forties longs for a settled life and a man to share it with. Having ejected her current lover, she is forced to restrict her choice of partner to those with skills in building or carpentry so she can renovate the tumbledown house she inherited. To find such a dream match, she resorts to a dating agency but her carefully laid plans soon flounder when she finds herself falling in love.

Stannar du så springer jag

1995

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

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

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

1940s · 15 titles

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

Tonight or Never poster
5.5

A famous crime novelist checks in at a hotel in the mountains under false identity.

Tonight or Never

1941

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

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

Man of the Forest poster
7.0

Urban girl falls for rugged forest ranger.

Man of the Forest

1940

Hjältar i gult och blått poster
6.3

The tailor Tosse is ordered to return to his old regiment to practice what he learned many years ago. But he asks his assistant Loffe to go there instead of himself. Everything is fine until Loffe gets the same order - at the same regiment. When Tosse comes to the regiment, it becomes a case of mistaken identity. Due to the confusion, Loffe is now Tosse's platoon commander. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

Hjältar i gult och blått

1940

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

Kungsgatan poster
6.0

Young woman Marta dreams of a better future and leaves her parent's cabbage patch and move to Stockholm. Waiting tables doesn't pay nearly enough and she soon finds herself working the streets. Her teenage sweetheart Adrian also moves to Stockholm to search for her. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

Kungsgatan

1943

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

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

Flickor i hamn poster
9.0

Shipmate Henrik gets in contact with two women in Gothenburg — the sociable Lisbeth and the shy Astrid.

Flickor i hamn

1945

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

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

No artwork available
8.0

A smalltime businessman gets himself into finance problems. His bank requires tangible proof of ability to pay. The businessman makes a drastic decision.

Jagad

1945

Lidelse poster
9.0

An artist lives with his wife in a large house on the countryside. She is bored, longing to return to the city and her life as an actress. She leaves him. He falls in love with a young girl, not knowing that the girl is his wife's daughter.

Lidelse

1945

Series credits