
Acting
Gunnar Sjöberg
Born — Died
1909-03-25 — 1977-06-08
Place of birth
Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
Known for
Acting
Credits
60 titles
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
7.2Don Juan is sent from Hell to Earth with a mission: to seduce a virgin in order to spoil her pure wedding. The mission becomes frantic when Don Juan falls in love for the first time in centuries.
The Devil's Eye
1960
7.5This intimate chamber drama, set in a maternity ward, follows the emotional crises of three women as they grapple with motherhood.
Brink of Life
1958
6.3City girl Emma marries the farmer Nicklas but gets involved in a love triangle with his brother Ragnar.
The Brothers' Woman
1943
7.8Set in 1860s Holland along the famed Zeider Zee — young Hans Brinker finds himself responsible for supporting his family after his father becomes injured in an accident. He and his sister, Gretel, travel to Amsterdam in search of funds to help pay for their father's operation. Their only hope lies in the city's annual ice skating race in which Hans must face off against his arch-rival, Ludwig Schimmel, in hopes of winning the prize money.
Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates
1962
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
Film credits
1960s · 8 titles
7.2Don Juan is sent from Hell to Earth with a mission: to seduce a virgin in order to spoil her pure wedding. The mission becomes frantic when Don Juan falls in love for the first time in centuries.
The Devil's Eye
1960
7.8Set in 1860s Holland along the famed Zeider Zee — young Hans Brinker finds himself responsible for supporting his family after his father becomes injured in an accident. He and his sister, Gretel, travel to Amsterdam in search of funds to help pay for their father's operation. Their only hope lies in the city's annual ice skating race in which Hans must face off against his arch-rival, Ludwig Schimmel, in hopes of winning the prize money.
Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates
1962
6.8Jan Froman is a young man with great plans for the future. He gets a job as an assistant janitor at a bank, but with inherited money he starts to buy and sell real estate which eventually increases in value. He falls in love with Margareta, whose father is a naval officer. Margareta is slighted by her fiance and follows Froman on a sailing trip in the archipelago. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Do You Believe in Angels?
1961
8.0Set in th 1930's depression times. A wealthy industrialist suffers a stroke. His wife takes over both family and business. The son worships his mother, but is forced to choose sides when he falls in love with the poor Aina.
Pärlemor
1961
9.0Farm girl Kerstin is the most popular girl in the village and the men are swarming around her. This results in jealousy, and the electrician Tage causes a fire on the farm, resulting in economic trouble for Kerstin's father. Suddenly grandfather's rich brother Arvid appears from America. Will he be able to solve the family's problems?
Hällebäcks gård
1961
9.0Doctor Henck is having bad day, and borrows a fur from a friend. It gives him new confidence, and his day immediately gets better. Hjalmar Söderberg's rejected 1911 movie script, filmed in 1966 for TV as a silent film with a piano soundtrack, to match the time in which it was written for.
Pälsen
1966
6.0An escaped convict assumes the identity of a professor in order to reveal a criminal syndicate who smuggle diamonds together with Parisian haute couture.
Kurragömma
1963
6.1A member of a highly successful crime drama series is found murdered in a television studio. The screenwriter of the TV-series is found as prime suspect but claims his innocence and tries to clear his name. But who is the murderer and what is his motive?
The Die Is Cast
1960
1950s · 21 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
7.5This intimate chamber drama, set in a maternity ward, follows the emotional crises of three women as they grapple with motherhood.
Brink of Life
1958
8.0The rootless, misfit artist Bengt Hallberg escapes from a mental hospital. The head doctor believes him to be a hopeless case and dangerous for the environment. Bengt looks up Inga Larsson, the only person that matters to him.
Två trappor över gården
1950
6.8In a Swedish village, situated in a rural idyll, a father, mother and little daughter are preparing breakfast on a Sunday morning. The family is looking forward to the boat trip that is to follow. The little girl's thoughts are already completely on the water. But there is no sugar in the house, so the mother sends her little daughter to the neighbor across the street to quickly get some. Two villages further on, a young man is filling up his car with gas so that he can drive to the Baltic Sea with his girlfriend. In their convertible, the young people feel blithe and free on the country road and race towards the village where the little girl is just crossing the street with the sugar to return home.
To Kill a Child
1953
7.0Arne Sucksdorff’s celebrated nature film follows two brothers in rural Sweden as they witness a fox raid and secretly raise an orphaned otter. Told through an adult’s memories, it reflects on childhood, nature, and the fragile balance between wilderness and civilization. The film won the International Prize at the 1954 Cannes Film Festival.
The Great Adventure
1953
3.0American businessman Chris Johnson spent WW2 in Sweden and fell in love with a nurse, Karin Engström. He lost contact with her after war and now, seven years later, he returns to Sweden on a business trip, trying to find her again.
Han glömde henne aldrig
1952
5.2In 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
6.6The story about the thief who didn't get crucified because Jesus was choosen to take his place.
Barabbas
1953
A boy lies and dreams in his bed in the kitchen, wakes up and takes a kitchen knife with him to bed and falls asleep. He dreams that he kills everyone at a game table, except for his father, whom he takes out on a tram ride. The boy wakes up again and waits for the father to come home and when he does, the mother and the father quarrel about something. The morning comes and the boy goes out, finally ends up at the beer café where the father and his beer friends are sitting.
Nattens lekar
1955
About the importance of personal responsibility and the advantages of sobriety.
Responsibility
1957
9.0The school counselor Vanja believe neither in love, marriage or a woman's subservient role to the man. One day she meets the student Björn. Their romance is full of problems. Along comes a man from Vanjas past.
Playing on the Rainbow
1958
6.3Staffan Stolle becomes the sole heir to a rich and noble family when he is just a little boy. Early on he is engaged to be married to a girl he finds he does not love. Instead he flees the country only to return under a false name, looking for true love.
The Staffan Stolle Story
1956
6.0A short documentary capturing behind-the-scenes footage from the production of Wild Strawberries, offering a glimpse of Ingmar Bergman at work with his cast and crew during the making of one of his most celebrated films.
Behind the Scenes of Wild Strawberries
1957
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
4.5Documentary by Torgny Anderberg
Anaconda
1954
Episodes about life and death.
The Butterfly and the Candle Flame
1956
6.3Three Scottish noblemen escape from Gripsholm Castle and break into the home of Lord Arne. They kill everyone except for Lord Arne's adopted daughter Elsalill.
Sir Arne's Treasure
1954
7.0"The Shadow" - Erik Vender is a librarian and married to Vivianne. Vivianne was previously married to a well-known lawyer who died when their daughter was very small. One evening, Vivianne asks Erik to read a novel draft "Skuggan/The Shadow". The content strongly touches Erik. Vivianne reveals that it is her ex-husband that wrote the script.
Skuggan
1953
4.3Sixteen year old Maria arrives in Stockholm. She is going to stay with her aunt. Already at the Central station events occur that change her route.
Night Light
1957
4.6"Seventh Heaven" - Famous radio personality Willy Lorens has a big success with the radio series "Seventh Heaven." The amount of fan mail and attention eventually becomes too much for Willy, who suffers a minor collapse. Taken to a hospital where he meets Dr. Lovisa Sundelius, virtually the only woman in Sweden who do not admire the radio idol.
Seventh Heaven
1956
1940s · 28 titles
6.3City girl Emma marries the farmer Nicklas but gets involved in a love triangle with his brother Ragnar.
The Brothers' Woman
1943
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
7.0The Forshyttan steel-mill has been owned by the Ancker family for generations. But competition is hard. When the son Bengt Ancker comes back from abroad he has an idea for success: a lighter steel with better quality. But a lot of money is necessary to develop his idea and the only way to raise the necessary capital is to sell the company to their competitor - Manchester Steel Company. But the workers are concerned that this could threaten their job-security
Steel
1940
6.0Based on the classic children’s story, seven orphan siblings and their goat make a difficult journey over the mountains to find new parents.
The Children
1945
6.2A woman flees to avoid rumors of promiscuity, but is trailed by a reporter who wants to expose her dark past.
June Night
1940
5.4The boxing promoter Charlie returns from America to Sweden and needs to find a professional Swedish boxer for an upcoming fight. By chance Charlie watches Björn Harring fight off some hoodlums. Charlie sees great potential in Björn and wants to promote him for an upcoming fight, the problem is though that Björn is studying theology and is soon to become a priest. This might not look too good in a prejudiced society of the 40s with a boxing priest, but Charlie is determent to find a way.
The Priest Who Knocked Out
1943
5.2A priest decides to engage himself socially in prison. In the cells he meets a number of women with different fates. One is Mary, a young honest woman gone wrong.
Imprisoned Women
1943
5.8"I Slew" - Hospital drama of a doctor who thinks that he killed a patient on the operating table.
Jag dräpte
1943
8.0In the middle of the 1800s Swedish prince Gustaf meets the actress Anna Maria Wastenius and falls in love with her, but it is an impossible love story due to the rules of society.
Prince Gustaf
1944
3.7Arvid share the love with a young woman named Lydia, but as is customary at the turn of the century, is not love enough for a fairy tale to come true. While Arvid struggling to create the basis for their existence, Lydia's thirst for the good life leads her to marrying an older wealthy man.
The Serious Game
1945
7.0The year is 1941 and Nazi Germany is at its peak. Hitler's army is storming into Russia. Sweden stands lonely and isolated while the air force is training intensely due to a coming attack. The squadron leader pushes his men at its hardest. It's a constant game with death where death unfortunately often wins.
The First Squadron
1941
6.0The trio Erik, Arne and Ingrid have been friends since childhood, the two boys always competing for the affection of Ingrid. At the naval academy Erik gets into a fistfight and is expelled, to instead become a captain of a trading ship. Before he leaves Ingrid and Erik are engaged in secret. Later, when Erik is believed to be lost at sea, Ingrid instead gets engaged with Arne.
Örlogsmän
1943
Journal film about refugees in Sweden, Denmark and Norway in 1944.
Refugees Find a Port
1945
6.0In an occupied country, the people rise to throw off the occupants. This includes Jens the farmer and his three sons who successfully perform sneak attacks on the invading army.
Snapphanar
1941
A young woman is predestined to marry her fathers companion. During the summer she falls in love with an artist. The intended husband detects the love affair and confronts the couple.
Svarta rosor
1945
6.7Spoiled upper class girl must join a home defense unit to learn military drill and fall in love with a lieutenant.
Landstormens lilla argbigga
1941
The film shows episodes from the labor movement's breakthrough and reform work.
They Fought Their Way to Freedom
1948
5.5A drama about the manager Håkan Dahlin who has just been discharged from a clinic where he was treated for his alcoholism. In an outbreak of jealousy, Dahlin abuses his wife Inga and after that he is forcibly interned again. Inga is a nurse and she is now moving to a mountain village to work at a district clinic. During an emergency visit, she encounters her childhood sweetheart, the doctor Gunnar, and old feelings between them begin to flare up again.
I brist på bevis
1943
Ingegerd Lindberg is coming to Stockholm from the countryside. The first person she meets at the Central Station is Curt Brehmer.
Nattvaktens hustru
1947
6.7Thriller set in northern Sweden during WWII where a regiment of ski-borne soldiers and guests in a tourist hotel experience and investigate acts of treason.
Life and Death
1943
6.7A smuggler's daughter falls in love with the son of a customs inspector.
Rosen på Tistelön
1945
5.7In the beginning of WW II a Swedish ship in a northern French port is exposed to German air raids. The captain take a chance to leave the port without permission. A stranded woman seize the chance to get home to Sweden.
En kvinna ombord
1941
7.0"The Heavenly Play" - Mats Ersson is engaged to Marit and they plan to get married in the spring. But when the plague comes, the people accuse Marit of witchcraft. She is sentenced to death. Mats can not understand the divine justice and decides to go to paradise and ask God himself. It becomes a journey where he meets the prophets, king Solomon and finally God himself.
The Heavenly Play
1942
6.31813. The Swedish army is fighting in the War of the Sixth Coalition. The popular general Von Döbeln is arrested for sending the army against the French in breach of orders by the crown prince. At the court martial he is sentenced to death but is pardoned by the king and sent to prison instead. A group of conspirators are planning to set him free and make him their leader in a coup d'etat.
General von Döbeln
1942
10.0A young man with a messy background stands trial for car theft. He gets away with a suspended sentence. With the help of a social worker, he gets on the right side of life — until a criminal friend shows up.
Ungdom i fara
1946
6.0Celebrated elderly Austrian poet opposes nazism, while his daughter admires and falls in love with leading nazi activist, who eventually becomes concentration camp commander with his father-in-law as prisoner.
His Excellency
1944
9.0The tragic love story between a line dancer and an army officer.
Elvira Madigan
1943
4.7Helen Wahlman is the hostess of a luxury hotel in the mountains. Her husband fled to Chile 15 years ago, after being guilty of fraud, and was killed there. Helen's image of marriage is just dark memories. A few days before Christmas, Helen gets a shock as her husband appears from the dead at the hotel.
Den heliga lögnen
1944
1930s · 3 titles
6.0A cynical woman with a disfigured face—a hardened criminal—gets an opportunity to change her ways when she meets a sympathetic plastic surgeon. She leaves her old life behind, but soon her old friends catch up with her.
A Woman's Face
1938
Knut is a farmer's son who wants to get an education and see the world.
Rejoice While You're Young, Fellow Cadets
1939
8.0Emelie Högqvist is an actress at the Royal Theatre who gets involved in an intimate relationship with the Crown Prince Oscar.
Emelie Högqvist
1939
