Sven Wollter

Acting

Sven Wollter

Born — Died

1934-01-11 — 2020-11-10

Place of birth

Gothenburg, Sweden

Known for

Acting

Credits

87 titles

Sven Justus Fredrik Wollter (11 January 1934 – 10 November 2020) was a Swedish actor, writer, and political activist. Wollter is one of the most renowned Swedish actors, he was awarded Best Swedish actor twice. In his native country, he became widely known through his role as Madame Flod's son Gusten in Swedish Television's adaption of The People of Hemsö by August Strindberg in 1966. Later he had several notable roles, including in 1976 when he played Detective Sergeant Lennart Kollberg in Bo Widerberg's film The Man on the Roof. For international viewers, he is best known for his role Victor in the dramatic film The Sacrifice by Andrei Tarkovsky, and for a wider television audience as the…

Known for

På spåret poster
6.7

På spåret is a popular Swedish TV game show broadcast on SVT since September 5, 1987. The show, which is intended to be humorous yet educational, has remained one of the most popular TV shows in Sweden, attracting an average of 2,150,000 viewers during the 2007 season. The all-time record was set in March 1990, when 3.7 million people tuned in to see the show. This means that nearly every second Swede saw the game show. På spåret is an original format developed by Ingvar Oldsberg for SVT, and he hosted the show for many years. Author and tennis legend Björn Hellberg was promoted from contestant to permanent Oldsberg sidekick in 1995 after winning for four straight seasons. Famous gourmet, restaurant-owner, and former contestant Carl-Jan Grankvist sat in for Hellberg during the 2004 season. In 2009, after 21 years, Oldsberg left and Kristian Luuk took over as the host. Björn Hellberg too decided to leave and was replaced with Fredrik Lindström.

På spåret

1987

Så ska det låta poster
6.3

Så ska det låta is a Swedish game show, based on the Irish The Lyrics Board. The show was introduced in 1997 and led by Peter Harryson until Peter Settman took over in 2006. Så ska det låta can be watched online at svt play for approximately one month after airing.

Så ska det låta

1997

The House poster
7.0

Across different eras, a poor family, an anxious developer and a fed-up landlady become tied to the same mysterious house in this animated dark comedy.

The House

2022

Renées brygga poster
NR

TV presenter invites Swedish celebrities and interesting personalities to her summer island in the Stockholm Archipelago for an evening filled with food, drink, laughs and emotion. She interviews her guests about their career, life and dreams, trying to learn new things about them.

Renées brygga

2015

The 13th Warrior poster
6.7

A Muslim ambassador exiled from his homeland joins a group of Vikings, initially offended by their behavior but growing to respect them. As they travel together, they learn of a legendary evil closing in and must unite to confront this formidable force.

The 13th Warrior

1999

Min sanning poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Min sanning

2012

Film credits

2010s · 11 titles

Sunny Side poster
6.5

We join the three couples in a comedy about divorces, love, child longing, weird parents and unwritten bathing rules in Torekov.

Sunny Side

2017

House of Angels - Third Time Lucky poster
4.4

A lot happens in a small village in 15 years. People fall in love, get married, have kids and divorces. Some move, some die - in Yxared just like in other places. Zac, Fanny and her daughter Alice travels back to to the small village in Ostergotland. Alice makes them return - where does she come from, what are her roots? The question about who Fanny's dad is, arises once more. And Alice, who's her dad?

House of Angels - Third Time Lucky

2010

Key House Mirror poster
6.6

Lily (76) is sure there’s nothing wrong with her. The only reason she lives in a care home is because of her husband Max's illness: a series of strokes has reduced him to a vegetable. The fact that Lily isn’t exactly the way she used to be becomes slowly clear in the Danish drama Key House Mirror - the title refers to a memory test. It’s not easy for Lily to leave her old habits behind her and fit in with the rules of the home. Her life blossoms when she meets an 80-year-old Swedish neighbour, a charming man who gives her the attention she has long missed. Lily’s daughter, however, is not so happy with the budding romance.

Key House Mirror

2015

Kim - Den skalliga primadonnan poster
NR

About Swedish actress Kim Anderzon. Loved and acclaimed for her roles in theatre and on film. A feminist role model with a big ego. A woman who decided to do it all by herself, and who became one of our greatest actors. A life on stage. Till the cancer arrived.

Kim - Den skalliga primadonnan

2017

Videoman poster
5.4

A VHS collector with a drinking problem finds a valuable movie that could save his terrible economical situation. The film disappears. He suspects it is stolen and starts a hunt after a perpetrator.

Videoman

2018

Flicker poster
5.7

There is something going on in the small town of Backberga. The towns proud telecom company Unicom is just about to launch a new modern profile when they discover that there is something lurking in the outskirts of Backberga. An accident triggers a power failure, which leads to a chain of events,mishaps and love stories. Flicker is a warm comic story about people trying to find their place within the modern society.

Flicker

2012

Georg & Lydia poster
NR

Georg (age 70) and Lydia (age 30) are in two completely different stages in life when they meet.

Georg & Lydia

2010

Sture & Kerstin Forever poster
NR

The energetic Democrat Sture just went through a prostate surgery and feels his usually so powerful life is lost.

Sture & Kerstin Forever

2010

Samlaren poster
8.0

Lennart lives a very lonely life. He collects things and when he tests the limits of how far he can go for his collections, he meets a woman.

Samlaren

2012

Lust och fägring - en film om Bo Widerbergs sista poster
NR

Documentary about the making of Bo Widerberg's last film 'Lust och fägring stor' ('All Things Fair').

Lust och fägring - en film om Bo Widerbergs sista

2015

I huvudet på en filmskapare poster
10.0

For over 20 years, film enthusiast and amateur filmmaker Anders Olofsson has worked on what quickly became his life project, "Stall-Erik och Snapphanarna". What he may lack in technical skill he makes up for with his genuine enthusiasm for the project, and perhaps this is how he has managed to convince an unbelievable roster of eighty well-known Swedish film actors to participate in this production. When he will actually finish his film, only time will tell.

I huvudet på en filmskapare

2019

2000s · 15 titles

Gnomes and Trolls: The Secret Chamber poster
5.4

Junior, a teenage gnome, wants nothing more than to invent gizmos and gadgets in his tree-house laboratory. But Junior's old school father, Jalle, the head gnome of the forest, would prefer his son follow in his footsteps and one day be in charge of his own forest. In spite of their differences, on the eve of the first winter storm Junior helps Jalle distribute food rations. Then disaster strikes.

Gnomes and Trolls: The Secret Chamber

2008

A Song for Martin poster
5.5

Martin, conductor of a symphonic orchestra, meet Barbara, violine player and they start a relationship. Five years later Martin starts to develop loss of memory and becomes more and more confused. Finally he is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and Barbara tries to help as much as possible although Martin is often angry and violent towards her.

A Song for Martin

2001

Sigillet poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sigillet

2006

Heartbeat poster
9.0

A dazzling musical about a young Arab woman facing deportation just as she is about to receive a heart transplant.

Heartbeat

2004

Inga Tidblad - Lysande stjärna av sin tid poster
NR

Inga Tidblad started acting in 1921 and became one of Sweden's greatest and most successful actresses of all time. Daughter Meg Westergren, colleagues Bibi Andersson, Helena Bergström, Thommy Berggren and Sven Wollter are a few who talk and remember her as a person and as an actor.

Inga Tidblad - Lysande stjärna av sin tid

2001

Moreno and the Silence poster
6.0

When a girl is murdered soon after leaving a closed religious community, Moreno faces a difficult investigation as the community closes ranks and refuses to cooperate. When another girl is abducted and her bloody fingernails mailed to the police, tongues begin to loosen.

Moreno and the Silence

2006

Kira's Reason: A Love Story poster
5.7

Kira and Mads try to work out their marriage, after Kira has been two years in a mental institution, but is she really ready for the real world?

Kira's Reason: A Love Story

2001

Fallet G poster
5.9

The daughter of a murdered private detective comes to Van Veeteren for help with a case that might be linked to Van Veeteren's only unsolved case.

Fallet G

2006

Svalan, katten, rosen, döden poster
4.8

Münster stumbles upon the body of a young woman who has been strangled in her home and surprises the killer, who is still at the scene. The killer flees, but an unusual book is found at the scene, dedicated to the killer. When another victim is found, Van Veeteren's literary expertise is put to the test when it becomes clear that they are dealing with a serial killer who chooses his victims based on the names of characters from 19th-century crime novels. What will be the name of the next victim?

Svalan, katten, rosen, döden

2006

Störst av allt poster
5.0

A young female journalist suddenly finds out that who she believed was her father is not that at all. Her real father is the well-known politician and union boss, who 28 years ago betrayed both her and her mother.

Störst av allt

2006

No artwork available
NR

Artist Marianne Lindberg De Geer thinks about her old friends from the 70s, where did they all go?

Jag tänker på mig själv - och vänstern

2005

Kvinna med födelsemärke poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Kvinna med födelsemärke

2001

Trigger poster
5.1

A warm, dramatic story about eleven-year-old Alise's encounter with a wild horse on the run.

Trigger

2006

With a View to Realism: The Making of Man on the Roof poster
NR

A documentary by Ronny Svensson and Markus Stromqvist on the making of Bo Widerberg's 1976 movie Man on the Roof, featuring extensive interviews with cast and crew

With a View to Realism: The Making of Man on the Roof

2004

Suxxess poster
5.7

A Swedish IT-company gets a new boss, who turns out to be a soulless hatchet man in Schildt's dark satire on the evils of the corporate world. He's opposed by Daniel, one of his employees, and eventually comes crashing down, impaled on his own hubris. So Daniel gets given the poisoned chalice of leadership in his place, just to end up as amoral and platitudinous as the man and values he initially stood up against.

Suxxess

2002

1990s · 11 titles

The 13th Warrior poster
6.7

A Muslim ambassador exiled from his homeland joins a group of Vikings, initially offended by their behavior but growing to respect them. As they travel together, they learn of a legendary evil closing in and must unite to confront this formidable force.

The 13th Warrior

1999

House of Angels poster
5.9

In a small village in Västergötland, everything is turned upside-down when the local loner dies and his cottage is inherited by his unknown relative Fanny. She rides into town on a big black motorcycle with her androgynous boyfriend Zack, wearing black leather and spikes. When they decide to stay, Flogfält's plans to buy the cottage are upset.

House of Angels

1992

Jerusalem poster
7.3

Members of a devout Christian congregation try to start a new life in Palestine.

Jerusalem

1996

The Tattooed Widow poster
6.9

Ester is the perfect grandmother everyone expects her to be. But she unexpectedly inherits an old aunt and gets a big apartment and a lot of money. She decides to leave her husband, children and grandchildren to start her life over. Before long, she has four men who court her and she feels young once again.

The Tattooed Widow

1998

House of Angels: The Second Summer poster
4.5

Fanny and Zack is back, after she inherited Änglagård last year. Everytone looks forward to their new stay. Axel has told Fanny he is her father, but who else? Ivar also thinks he is her father. Be ready for expectations and confusions.

House of Angels: The Second Summer

1994

Stjärnbilder poster
10.0

A tribute to Swedish film, which was made to celebrate the 100th anniversary of film in 1995 and consists of about a hundred clips from Swedish film history with many of its stars.

Stjärnbilder

1995

Vildhussen poster
NR

Documentary drama about Sweden's biggest natural disaster, which destroyed one of the biggest whitewater rapids in Sweden in 1796.

Vildhussen

1996

Lines from the Heart poster
10.0

The trio of actresses have ostensibly gathered to pay tribute to Mai Zetterling, but also reminisce about their own careers and the illustrious figures, including Ingmar Bergman, they have worked with.

Lines from the Heart

1996

No artwork available
7.0

Exciting miniseries about some dramatic events in a small Swedish town in the 1950s. Kråkan, 17, lives alone with his mother Siri. She dreams of his future as a classical pianist. He dreams of Elvis Presley and sex. When a series of brutal murders suddenly strikes the town, the apparent idyll is shattered...

Facklorna

1991

Smykketyven poster
3.5

Jan Strøm has always been popular with women and is used to getting what he wants. But one day he is drawn into dramatic events beyond his control, and suddenly finds himself at a crossroads in his life.

Smykketyven

1990

Alfred poster
4.7

The life of the Swedish engineer Alfred Nobel. How he invented dynamite and later in his life founded the Nobel-Prize.

Alfred

1995

1980s · 11 titles

The Sacrifice poster
7.7

Alexander, a journalist, philosopher and retired actor, celebrates a birthday with friends and family when it is announced that nuclear war has begun.

The Sacrifice

1986

Sweetwater poster
4.2

Allan and Lisa flee the war-torn city of Sweetwater with their young son for the safety of the municipal dump in this sleepy war drama. They join other displaced survivors who were driven from their homes, looking for a better life on the outskirts of Sweetwater.

Sweetwater

1988

Havlandet poster
10.0

This is a tale that has an epic scope in scenery "the northern snow-covered lands of coastal Norway" and is dramatized by moments of tumultuous stormy weather. But the focus is on Heikki (Stein Bjorn) a young man who is inspired by the northern lights to take a horse-drawn sled and make his way to the sea, hoping to come back with abundant fish. He is overtaken by a snowstorm and is forced to find shelter in a small, isolated cabin that is home to a half-crazy widow, her baby, and a blind man. Driven to arson by her internal demons, the woman destroys the cabin. She and the blind man perish, but Heikki manages to save the baby. He is now faced with an even greater challenge as he holds the infant and looks in the direction of the coastline.

Havlandet

1985

Sista leken poster
10.0

In this somber, psychological drama about the conflict between a man's innermost feelings and a society that puts these feelings in a strait jacket, the mood is ruminative and depressing throughout. Alone, Viktor (Sven Wolter) heads off for his usual summer vacation to some islands where he can ostensibly look for antiques for his wife's shop in Stockholm. His marriage is a failure or worse -- he raped his wife before he left home, and he is obsessed by erotic imaginings. Once on the islands, he makes friends with a little girl whose mother is mentally disturbed and is kept by her husband in a locked room. The islanders are as tight-lipped as Viktor, and any communication is stiff and artificial. Viktor's own alienation begins to slip as he takes surprising, violent action to turn around the imprisoned mother's life -- but it does not work, nothing seems to work -- and his last actions indicate that he may not be willing to simply give up.

Sista leken

1984

The Man from Majorca poster
6.6

On 13 December (St Lucy's Day), a bandit daringly robs a crowded post office. Within a fortnight, two witnesses are dead. Vice cops Johansson and Jarnebring, the first to the scene of the crime, pursue all leads and identify a suspect, an arrogant member of the elite secret police, assigned to guard the country's Minister of Justice. Just as they think they've tightened the noose around the suspect, loose ends appear, witnesses lose certainty, alibis arise, and even the cops doubt what they've seen. Who's protecting the suspect and why?

The Man from Majorca

1984

No artwork available
7.0

Jacob Andersson’s alcoholism leads to his wife leaving him together with their daughter.

Jacob smitaren

1983

Husbonden poster
6.0

Young Charlie becomes a farmhand on a remote Swedish island during the early 19th century. His master is a pirate who, together with his two daughters, live on killing shipwrecked sailors and stealing their cargo. Eventually, Charlie begins to question the correctness of his master living.

Husbonden

1989

A Film About Love poster
4.3

At a prom ball, Peter and Helen catch each other's eyes over the children's heads. Peter is desperate to meet Helen and follows her to Mallorca, where she plans to spend her holiday with her husband.

A Film About Love

1987

One Way Ticket poster
5.2

Johannes, an ex-con now working as a antiques dealer, is faced with a huge debt. He is put under pressure to pay and agrees to steal the Russian crown jewels on exhibition onboard a cruise ship.

One Way Ticket

1988

The Last Bid poster
8.0

The working class couple, Roger and Lisette, knows that it is impossible to live an honest life in a society of thieves. When they succeed in scoring the top result on the football pools without earning the top money, they have had enough.

The Last Bid

1981

Friends poster
5.6

John is a legal assistant who is looking forward to marriage to his fiancee Sally, but his daydream is interrupted when a model plane crashes through his window. Following the plane is a family of six who invade his life and apartment.

Friends

1987

1970s · 4 titles

1960s · 4 titles

Series credits

På spåret poster
6.7

På spåret is a popular Swedish TV game show broadcast on SVT since September 5, 1987. The show, which is intended to be humorous yet educational, has remained one of the most popular TV shows in Sweden, attracting an average of 2,150,000 viewers during the 2007 season. The all-time record was set in March 1990, when 3.7 million people tuned in to see the show. This means that nearly every second Swede saw the game show. På spåret is an original format developed by Ingvar Oldsberg for SVT, and he hosted the show for many years. Author and tennis legend Björn Hellberg was promoted from contestant to permanent Oldsberg sidekick in 1995 after winning for four straight seasons. Famous gourmet, restaurant-owner, and former contestant Carl-Jan Grankvist sat in for Hellberg during the 2004 season. In 2009, after 21 years, Oldsberg left and Kristian Luuk took over as the host. Björn Hellberg too decided to leave and was replaced with Fredrik Lindström.

På spåret

1987

Så ska det låta poster
6.3

Så ska det låta is a Swedish game show, based on the Irish The Lyrics Board. The show was introduced in 1997 and led by Peter Harryson until Peter Settman took over in 2006. Så ska det låta can be watched online at svt play for approximately one month after airing.

Så ska det låta

1997

Renées brygga poster
NR

TV presenter invites Swedish celebrities and interesting personalities to her summer island in the Stockholm Archipelago for an evening filled with food, drink, laughs and emotion. She interviews her guests about their career, life and dreams, trying to learn new things about them.

Renées brygga

2015

Min sanning poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Min sanning

2012

The Guldbagge Awards poster
5.5

The Guldbagge Awards is an official and annual Swedish film awards ceremony honoring achievements in the Swedish film industry. Winners are awarded a statuette depicting a rose chafer, better known by the name Guldbaggen. The awards, first presented in 1964 at the Grand Hôtel in Stockholm, are overseen by the Swedish Film Institute. It is described as the Swedish equivalent of the Academy Awards. The awards ceremony was first televised in 1981.

The Guldbagge Awards

1981

The Guldbagge Awards poster
5.5

The Guldbagge Awards is an official and annual Swedish film awards ceremony honoring achievements in the Swedish film industry. Winners are awarded a statuette depicting a rose chafer, better known by the name Guldbaggen. The awards, first presented in 1964 at the Grand Hôtel in Stockholm, are overseen by the Swedish Film Institute. It is described as the Swedish equivalent of the Academy Awards. The awards ceremony was first televised in 1981.

The Guldbagge Awards

1981

Julkalendern poster
7.1

An annual Swedish Christmas calendar television series.

Julkalendern

1960

Svensson, Svensson poster
6.3

Svensson, Svensson is a Swedish sitcom. It has also been made into a feature film and a play. Two seasons consisting of 12 episodes each were broadcast in the autumn of 1994 and the autumn of 1996. They have since been repeated numerous times. The series was revived for a third season in 2007. Svensson, Svensson is one of the most successful sitcoms in Swedish television history. During the second season, each episode gathered more than 2.5 million viewers, in a country which at the time had a population of around 8.8 million people. The most watched episode was broadcast on 17 November 1996 and gathered 3,395,000 viewers. The series centres around the Svensson family who lives in the Vivalla area of Örebro. The family consists of the father Gustav who works as mailman, the mother Lena who works at a bank, their teenage daughter Lina and their son Max. For the revival, Gustav has had to retire from his work at the post office, while Lena works for the local government. Max now works at the bank and Lina has married the conductor John who brought his daughter Greta into the family.

Svensson, Svensson

1994

Strandvaskeren poster
7.7

No synopsis available yet.

Strandvaskeren

1978

Kaspar i Nudådalen poster
8.0

Advent calendar series about 8-year-old Kaspar who lives in a small house with his grandfather. Kaspar is a philosophizing little boy who ponders both big and small.

Kaspar i Nudådalen

2001

Wallander: Faceless Killers poster
7.1

It is winter on the plains of Skåne coast. Farmer woken gets up and goes over to the neighboring farm. The sight that meets him is terrible. His neighbor John Lövgren lying on the floor with broken face. His wife Mary is sitting on a chair with a noose around his neck and her nightgown nersölat of blood. Before she dies in the hospital, she has time to say a word as soon leak out into the media, "Foreign" Inspector Kurt Wallander in Ystad police leading the investigation will soon receive anonymous threats by telephone. When the city's refugee camp on fire and a Somali refugee murdered, he understands that those who threatened him serious. And realize that it is now a race against time. And, against a ruthless opponent. A killer with no face ...

Wallander: Faceless Killers

1995

Mästaren poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Mästaren

2019

Dieselråttor och sjömansmöss poster
9.0

Siblings Ofelia and Philémon are on their way home to Sweden to celebrate Christmas with their grandmother. When their father’s money is ruined by rats, he offers the children a coin for every tail they bring. But the cunning diesel rats Lucky Closette and Don Calzone have other plans — and Lucky, who is both brave and mischievous, knows exactly how to put an end to the children's rat hunt.

Dieselråttor och sjömansmöss

2002

Van Veeteren poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Van Veeteren

2000

Raskens poster
7.7

The year is 1872. After being to drunk the stooge Gustaf Karlsson hits his master. To avoid sentence he enlists to the army and get the name Rask. He meet his future wife and we then get to follow his life together with his wife and their children in the 19th century Småland (Sweden). Their subsistence features happiness, but also by horrible tragedies.

Raskens

1976

Återkomsten poster
5.8

On a quiet spring morning, a man leaves prison after spending most of his adult life there. The man has been convicted of murder, not once but twice. Now he has served his sentence for the most recent murder and takes the bus home to his small community. But is everything forgotten and forgiven? A year later, a mutilated corpse is found... Inspector Van Veeteren is confronted with a bizarre and terrifying human fate and a brutal murder where all clues lead back and where questions of justice and punishment are brought to a head.

Återkomsten

2001

Charlotte Löwensköld och Anna Svärd poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Charlotte Löwensköld och Anna Svärd

1981

Hjerteflimmer poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Hjerteflimmer

1998

Kvinna med födelsemärke poster
NR

The Van Veeteren films are based on Håkan Nesser's best-selling novels. Set in the fictional northern European city of Maardam, they follow retired police commissioner Van Veeteren Wollter and his two protégés, detectives Münster Hanzon and Moreno Rexed.

Kvinna med födelsemärke

2001

Ivar Kreuger poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ivar Kreuger

1998

Profitörerna poster
6.0

Two crime detectives are handled a tricky case to investigate. A prostitute has been brutally murdered in her studio. The landlord runs a brothel.

Profitörerna

1983

Facklorna poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Facklorna

1991

Ett köpmanshus i skärgården poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ett köpmanshus i skärgården

1973

Sally poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sally

1999

Hemsöborna poster
8.2

Carlsson arrives at the widow Flod's farm in the Stockholm archipelago to help in the running of it. He is met with resistance by the widow's jealous son Gusten who is more interested in fishing than farming. When it is decided to hire out some houses for summer guests from the city the equilibrium is disturbed.

Hemsöborna

1966

Kallocain poster
10.0

A dramatization of the Karin Boye's last novel. A nightmarish existence in a future regimented society. In this welfare state introduced the drug Kallocain that may reveal the crimes of dissent.

Kallocain

1981

Behind the camera