Harald Hamrell

Directing

Harald Hamrell

Born 1960-12-13

Ivar Olof Harald Hamrell (born 13 December 1960 in Uppsala, Sweden) is a Swedish actor, film director and screenwriter, known for Vår tid är nu (2017), Äkta människor (2012) and Beck (1997).

Acting credits

Man on the Roof poster
7.1

When an inspector is murdered in hospital, the investigation led by Detective Martin Beck uncovers reports of misconduct and possibly revenge.

Man on the Roof

1976

Being Bo Widerberg poster
8.0

The documentary chronicles Bo Widerberg's journey from 1960s Malmö, where he worked as a writer and film critic, to his successes as a director in Stockholm and international adventures in Cannes and New York. The film also explores the personal costs of his artistic vision and how his pursuit of life and authenticity affected both himself and those around him.

Being Bo Widerberg

2025

Beck 22 - The Weak Link poster
5.6

A teenage girl is found by her parents brutally raped and murdered in the woods. It's now up to Beck and his team to catch the criminal.

Beck 22 - The Weak Link

2007

Beck 25 - The Eye of the Storm poster
5.7

When the charred remains of woman are found, Säpo, the Swedish Security Services, suspect Gunvald Larsson of being mixed up in her murder. The dead woman was wanted internationally and a member of a group of militant eco-activists carrying out attacks around the world. Gunvald sets out on his own to find the woman's murderer, with Säpo on his heels. Martin Beck is ordered to arrest Gunvald and his loyalty to his colleague is now put to the test.

Beck 25 - The Eye of the Storm

2009

1939 poster
4.9

When the war breaks out, Annika lives with her parents in Värmland, close to the border to Norway. Her cousin Harald is a dealer in the black market but has to escape from the police to Norway. Annika moves to Stockholm and gets a job as a waitress. She meets the happy-go-lucky Berit and together they have a wonderful time. She also meets a young man, Bengt, whom she marries. But almost immediately she discovers that her husband is different from the man who was courting her. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

1939

1989

The Ninth Company poster
5.8

A few conscripts realise that the army has vast resources that don't get used as much as they could. Using army material, they start to do services for people in the neighbourhood. More and more money is exchanged, more and more people gets involved, but when will someone reveal the truth to someoney who they can't pay?

The Ninth Company

1987

The Boy with the Golden Pants poster
6.0

When Mats stumbles upon a pair of pants containing an unlimited amount of money, everything changes. Now he can buy everything he ever wanted, not knowing that powerful forces are tracking him down.

The Boy with the Golden Pants

2014

Code Name Coq Rouge poster
6.3

His name is Carl Hamilton from a Swedish noble family - trained by the CIA and a army SEAL. When a group of terrorists based in Sweden threatens to initiate their diabolic plans - the Coq Rouge Carl Hamilton is activated.

Code Name Coq Rouge

1989

Beck 13 - Sender Unknown poster
5.9

Martin Beck, Gunvald Larsson and Alice Levander investigate the mysterious murder of an accountant that was found shot to death at the airport parking. At the same time a reporter receives a package from an anonymous source, with information regarding the embezzling of funds that should have been used for fixing up nuclear reactors. When the reporter contacts Beck, his home gets blown up by a bomb.

Beck 13 - Sender Unknown

2002

Linus eller Tegelhusets hemlighet poster
7.0

16 year old Linus, living in 1930s Stockholm, dreams of becoming a poet, while working in a bookstore. After visiting a brickhouse with his father, Linus becomes involved with several of its inhabitants, including an enigmatic Ambassadress; her housekeeper Abigail, who Linus falls in love with; the janitor, who manages a brothel in the basement; Linus’ father’s best friend, who gets murdered.

Linus eller Tegelhusets hemlighet

1979

Ungkarlshotellet poster
7.0

Göte is an alcoholic dockworker who wants to turn his life around to get his son back.

Ungkarlshotellet

1975

Moa poster
7.8

The life of the swedish writer Moa Martinson: at the age of 18, Moa marries the stone worker Karl and has five children. The marriage becomes stormy and fringed with tragedies. In the adversities, Moa begins to write about her life. She tells unpleasant truths, and doesn't get much understanding. Her life changes when the books are published in ever larger editions. She can tear herself out of her poverty, but never abandons her origins. In 1929 she remarries the writer Harry Martinson.

Moa

1986

Such Is Life poster
4.5

Tin-Tin is a bar pianist, living with the radio talk show host Paul in a relationship gone stale. Still, her parents are expecting grandchildren. Then a self-assured Norwegian business man turns up giving her the eye.

Such Is Life

1996

Inspector Späck poster
4.5

A dead body is found, and police detective Mårten Späck draws the conclusion that a serial suicide killer is at large. Späck with his colleagues Grünvald Karlsson and Irene Snusk suspect a gang who distributes pirated DVDs of 'bottom-of-the-barrel' Swedish movies.

Inspector Späck

2010

Sköna juveler poster
3.2

In a dystopian future two private detectives try to find a stolen bracelet.

Sköna juveler

1984

Läcka vid reaktor 4 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Läcka vid reaktor 4

1980

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

A Handful of Love poster
4.7

Set against the backdrop of the 1909 general strike, Hjördis is employed as a housemaid in a wealthy Stockholm family.

A Handful of Love

1974

Operation Leo poster
9.0

The Baader-Meinhof connected terrorist Norbert Kröcher builds a terrorist cell in Stockholm. They plan to kidnap Swedish migrant minister Anna-Greta Leijon.

Operation Leo

1981

Victoria - en film om kärlek poster
NR

Documentary about the making of Bo Widerberg's film 'Victoria'.

Victoria - en film om kärlek

2015

Behind the camera

A Witch in the Family poster
4.9

Maria is 8 years old and thinks her younger brother is really annoying. She meets Makka in the neighborhood who has a magic ball. In some way Maria wishes her brother away. When the babysitter Gerda turns up Maria and Makka think she's the answer to Maria's wish - a witch that has come to abduct her brother. Maria who deeply regrets her wish must now do everything in her power to stop Gerda.

A Witch in the Family

2000

Beck 18 - The Girl in the Root Cellar poster
6.1

A small girl is found dead in a deserted underground cellar. She has been dead for some time but there is fresh food for her. Who is she?

Beck 18 - The Girl in the Root Cellar

2006

Beck 23 - The Silent Scream poster
6.6

Two young girls are killed on railway by a passing train. It does not seem to fit the profile of a normal suicide. So if this is a double homicide who would do this and why? Martin Beck and his team start following the step backwards in order to figure out what has happened. With good and intensive police work they find man side trails from the main path.

Beck 23 - The Silent Scream

2007

Beck 17 - The Scorpion poster
6.0

An abused woman is feverishly sought by police in the murder of her ex-husband but is being hidden by abused woman-advocates. At the same time, Gunvald Larsson discovers a police report that his long-estranged sister has been abused. He confronts her with his knowledge but she denies it.

Beck 17 - The Scorpion

2006

Beck 16 - The Last Witness poster
6.6

A series of grisly murders where the victims faces have been removed by acid starts to turn up around Stockholm. Detective Martin Beck and Gunvald Larsson are once again drawn into the darkness.

Beck 16 - The Last Witness

2002

Beck 22 - The Weak Link poster
5.6

A teenage girl is found by her parents brutally raped and murdered in the woods. It's now up to Beck and his team to catch the criminal.

Beck 22 - The Weak Link

2007

Beck 25 - The Eye of the Storm poster
5.7

When the charred remains of woman are found, Säpo, the Swedish Security Services, suspect Gunvald Larsson of being mixed up in her murder. The dead woman was wanted internationally and a member of a group of militant eco-activists carrying out attacks around the world. Gunvald sets out on his own to find the woman's murderer, with Säpo on his heels. Martin Beck is ordered to arrest Gunvald and his loyalty to his colleague is now put to the test.

Beck 25 - The Eye of the Storm

2009

Beck 10 - The Man Without a Face poster
5.8

A man is found dead, stabbed to death with a knife. The chocking thing is that his face has been removed. After questioning his wife who described the marriage as happy also told that a mysterious foreign man knocked on their door the day before the murder. Beck and his men are given the case.

Beck 10 - The Man Without a Face

2001

Winter Bay poster
3.9

John-John is young and black, growing up with his mother and stepfather in a boring suburb south of Stockholm. On one of the last days of the summer vacation, they rescue 10-year old Patricia from drowning at a public bath in Vinterviken in Lake Mälaren. Her father shows his gratitude by taking them home to the wealthy neighborhood, Bromma, where he and his family lives. John-John meets his daughter Elisabeth, and instantly fall in love with her. But it's a long way to go before he wins her love and her father's consent.

Winter Bay

1996

Winter Bay poster
3.9

John-John is young and black, growing up with his mother and stepfather in a boring suburb south of Stockholm. On one of the last days of the summer vacation, they rescue 10-year old Patricia from drowning at a public bath in Vinterviken in Lake Mälaren. Her father shows his gratitude by taking them home to the wealthy neighborhood, Bromma, where he and his family lives. John-John meets his daughter Elisabeth, and instantly fall in love with her. But it's a long way to go before he wins her love and her father's consent.

Winter Bay

1996

No artwork available
8.5

Emma's parents are going to divorce, but before that the family goes on holiday to the countryside. Emma is left alone when the parents just arguing and moving to another room. Soon she discovers that there is something mysterious about the room when a typewriter starts writing a message by itself...

Ensamrummet

2001

In Bed with Santa poster
6.4

Sara invites her ex-husbands and their new families to celebrate Christmas with her and her husband Janne. Sara has always wanted to have a baby with Janne, and at the dinner table she reveals the news: she's pregnant. The only problem is that Janne had a vasectomy two years ago, without Sara knowing it. The secret starts to spread among the guests, and in no time everyone knows but Sara. The party heads for a complete disaster. Who's the real father?

In Bed with Santa

1999

Beck 13 - Sender Unknown poster
5.9

Martin Beck, Gunvald Larsson and Alice Levander investigate the mysterious murder of an accountant that was found shot to death at the airport parking. At the same time a reporter receives a package from an anonymous source, with information regarding the embezzling of funds that should have been used for fixing up nuclear reactors. When the reporter contacts Beck, his home gets blown up by a bomb.

Beck 13 - Sender Unknown

2002

Beck 06 - The Monster poster
5.6

A bomb threat is called in to a police station in Stockholm. The police bomb squad blows the briefcase to pieces and it looks like false alarm, until a baby is found inside. Soon, e-mails are sent out to every newspaper about the nasty situation that the police had tried to keep secret. Will the police ever overcome the "Monster"?

Beck 06 - The Monster

1998

Beck 07 - The Money Man poster
6.2

A gay police officer's double life is paid by Becks archenemy, Gavling. A man who runs Stockholm's underworld. In return have the homosexual police, been serving Gavling with secret information from the archive of the police authorities.

Beck 07 - The Money Man

1998

Arne Dahl: The Blinded Man poster
6.2

Arne Dahl - Misterioso A failed robbery attempt at Sydbanken outside Avesta leaves one robber lying dead with a dart through his eye, but there are no witnesses to the incident and no perpetrator is ever identified. In Stockholm, three high-profile businessmen are assassinated in a short period of time, and Jenny Hultin of National CID is assigned the task of putting together a special team to solve the case before the assassin strikes again.

Arne Dahl: The Blinded Man

2011

Beck 26 - Buried Alive poster
6.2

In a playground in the centre of the urban idyll, the police find a buried wooden box containing a famous and well-respected prosecutor. Martin Beck and his police team initially suspect a highly criminal MC-leader of the attack, but one pretty soon has to re-evaluate the case once the MC-leader is found murdered in a similar wooden box. Soon, more wooden boxes are found and the police realize that they are part of a cat and mouse game with a crazy serial killer. The investigation soon shows that there is a vague connection between the victims in the shape of a 9 year old event, but what Martin Beck does not suspect is that his own life too is at stake, as the murderer has chosen him as the next victim.

Beck 26 - Buried Alive

2010

Läcka vid reaktor 4 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Läcka vid reaktor 4

1980

No artwork available
7.0

Philip's mother is ready to leave and Filip has to spend a night in a rural castle together with the daughter of one of his mother's workmates and a delayed babysitter. Also the castle is rumored to be haunted.

Det polska korset

2001

Scenes from the Life of a Wash-Basin poster
9.5

A short film about the events of life taking place in a sink.

Scenes from the Life of a Wash-Basin

1987

Scenes from the Life of a Wash-Basin poster
9.5

A short film about the events of life taking place in a sink.

Scenes from the Life of a Wash-Basin

1987

Scenes from the Life of a Wash-Basin poster
9.5

A short film about the events of life taking place in a sink.

Scenes from the Life of a Wash-Basin

1987

Skulden poster
9.0

A man wakes up in a hospital after a car crash where he lost his memory. When his mother brings him photos from a roll of film recovered from his camera his memories start coming back.

Skulden

1987

Skulden poster
9.0

A man wakes up in a hospital after a car crash where he lost his memory. When his mother brings him photos from a roll of film recovered from his camera his memories start coming back.

Skulden

1987