Bengt Ekerot
Biography: Nils Bengt Folke Ekerot was a Swedish actor and director. He had several important roles in Swedish films, but he became immortalized in 1957 when he starred in Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal, portraying Death as a white-faced man in a black cloak, an archetype that has influenced the representation of Death in countless instances in film and other media since then. All in all Bengt Ekerot appeared in 35 feature films and directed 7 from 1940 to 1968. "He was wrestled with the conditions of his hunger. He cried over his violent appetite. The demons destroyed his beauty." Erland Josephson on Bengt Ekerot in "The Role"(Book 1989)
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: February 08, 1920
Deathday: November 26, 1971
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The Seventh Seal
1957-02-16
The Seventh Seal
Overview: When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Block sets off on a journey, meeting up with traveling players Jof and his wife, Mia, and becoming determined to evade Death long enough to commit one redemptive act while he still lives.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-02-16
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Here Is Your Life
1966-12-26
Here Is Your Life
Overview: A working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving through a series of jobs and romances that gradually shape his future.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1966-12-26
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The Magician
1958-12-26
The Magician
Overview: When 'Vogler's Magnetic Health Theater' comes to town, there's bound to be a spectacle. Reading reports of a variety of supernatural disturbances at Vogler's prior performances abroad, the leading townspeople (including the police chief and medical examiner) request that their troupe provide them a sample of their act, before allowing them public audiences. The scientific-minded disbelievers try to expose them as charlatans, but Vogler and his crew prove too clever for them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-12-26
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Brita i grosshandlarhuset
1946-02-04
Brita i grosshandlarhuset
Overview: Brita moves from the countryside and her parent's cabbage patch to work as a housemaid in Stockholm. The big city overwhelms her at first and she falls in love with a young man. But one day Arvid, an infatuated young man from the old village also comes to Stockholm to express his love for her.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-02-04
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Flames in the Dark
1942-03-02
Flames in the Dark
Overview: Latin teacher Birger Sjögren at Ringsala boarding school threatens his possesive and chronically ill mother that he will get married. She gets a stroke and dies. Sjögren is affected by feelings of guilt, envy and hatred towards the surroundings. A series of mysterious fires have taken place around the school the last few months. One of the students has seen Sjögren setting fire to a barn. But can he convince the trusted biology teacher Nordmark, expert of the criminal mind?
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-03-02
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Who Saw Him Die?
1968-03-18
Who Saw Him Die?
Overview: Sören Mårtensson is a middle school teacher. His classroom occupied by half-grown children. His work is tormenting him and at night he is haunted by nightmares.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1968-03-18
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Crime and Punishment
1945-10-16
Crime and Punishment
Overview: A Swedish version of Crime and Punishment. Raskolnikov, a poor student, is planning to assassinate a hated pawnbroker.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-10-16
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Sceningång
1956-12-03
Sceningång
Overview: A day in the life of a theater ensemble. The acting students are struggling to get one foot ahead of the others and the regular cast is fighting for the good parts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-12-03
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Put Our Märta First or As Luck Will Have It
1945-09-29
Put Our Märta First or As Luck Will Have It
Overview: An out-of-work musician is desperate for work and when his best friend sees an add requesting a cellist he signs him up. However, the work is for a female, so he creates the character Märta Letterström and joins the trio at a small-town hotel. But being a woman is not as easy as you think.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-09-29
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Interlude
1946-02-11
Interlude
Overview: The Swedish doctor of literature Vilhelm Canitz arrive to Lugano in Italy for a few weeks stay at a medical clinic. Canitz considers himself to be quite healthy and the stay as an extended vacation. He meets a number of patients at the clinic suffering of terminal illnesses, including Vellamo Toivonen (Lindfors). The patients deal with the fact that they will not leave the clinic alive in different ways; with self-destruction, denial or imprudence. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-02-11
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On a Bench in a Park
1960-12-19
On a Bench in a Park
Overview: Sam Persson is released from a mental hospital. He goes to Stockholm to meet a man he hates, theater manager Stig Brender. In Brender's office they get into a fight...
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1960-12-19
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Rosen på tistelön
1945-08-05
Rosen på tistelön
Overview: A smuggler's daughter falls in love with the son of a customs inspector.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-08-05
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The Royal Rabble
1945-01-19
The Royal Rabble
Overview: The ups and downs of three generations in an acting family.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-01-19
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Jazz Boy
1958-10-06
Jazz Boy
Overview: The rich young man Teddy Anker invests his money in the theater at the beginning of the 1920s. Whatever he does becomes a success. He falls in love with a dancer, Karin. He decides to put up a show with Karin as the leading lady, but for the first time one of his shows becomes an economic disaster.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-10-06
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Snapphanar
1941-12-26
Snapphanar
Overview: In 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.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1941-12-26
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The Face of War
1963-10-31
The Face of War
Overview: A realistic depiction of the cruelties of war in modern time.
Genres: War Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1963-10-31
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Man glömmer ingenting
1942-12-16
Man glömmer ingenting
Overview: When Nora's father unexpectedly dies, she moves to her uncle Berthold and his wife Alice. Berthold is immediately attracted to the 19-year old girl, but his wife, jealous and alcoholic, notices it and becomes hostile to Nora. Nora begins her art studies to become a painter and gets to know the young Johan Manel, who falls in love with her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-12-16
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We Home Toilers
1942-04-04
We Home Toilers
Overview: The stern, but kind-hearted, Kristiana from the country takes place as a maid with the Larsson family in Stockholm, previously (in)famous for its rapid turnover of housemaids.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-04-04
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Hamlet
1955-12-04
Hamlet
Overview: Prince Hamlet returns home from the university of Wittenberg to attend his father's funeral. His uncle Claudius, the new King, has announced his brother's widow queen. Claudius asks Hamlet to stop mourn his father.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-12-04
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Det går an
1963-10-10
Det går an
Overview: Albert falls in love with Sara, but she doesn't want a conventional marriage.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1963-10-10
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Sonja
1943-11-05
Sonja
Overview: Sonja (Birgit Tengroth) is a housewife happily married with the factory worker Kurt (Åke Grönberg). But what he doesn't know is that Sonja has a dark secret of the past; she is a former prostitute. When suddenly Sonja's former, sleazy pimp Nick (Sture Lagerwall) shows up, he blackmails her into giving him money and letting him stay at their home. Otherwise he will tell Kurt about Sonja past. Sonja comply, but when Nick starts a relationship with Kurt's young and innocent sister Maj, Sonja has to act so Maj doesn't make the same mistake she did.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-11-05
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Portrait of Stockholm - A Walk Through 5 Centuries
1964-01-01
Portrait of Stockholm - A Walk Through 5 Centuries
Overview: The material is taken from the exhibition 'Konstnärernas' (Artists) Stockholm in Liljewalch's art gallery in autumn 1963, with paintings from 1583 to the present day.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Ola and Julia
1967-08-20
Ola and Julia
Overview: Ola is a pop idol, touring with his band in Sweden in the mid-60's. Julia is a young actress in a traveling theatre company. They meet and fall in love.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1967-08-20
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Natt i hamn
1943-09-27
Natt i hamn
Overview: Early 1940s, during WW2, pitch black waters except for a moon-shadow over the waves. Surrounded by minefields and the fog slips in the sweeping headlights of the cargo ship S/S Rune. But the ship bows relentlessly forward through the night.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-09-27
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The Talk of the Town
1941-09-29
The Talk of the Town
Overview: In a small town anonymous letters are delivered to five different families. The letters are signed "Veritas" (Truth). They tell of a series of events and conditions that the recipients thought was forgotten and buried long ago.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1941-09-29
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They Staked Their Lives
1940-01-01
They Staked Their Lives
Overview: "With life at stake"- Max is illegal arms dealers and lives with Wanda, a spy for the dictatorship in which they live. She is ordered by her superiors to reveal the actions and members resistance group. The freedom fighter John falls in love with Wanda.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1940-01-01
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13 Chairs
1945-12-26
13 Chairs
Overview: Filip Palm works as a clerk. His hobby is creating inventions of different sorts. He has just received a big inheritance and has fallen in love with Gun Svärdsjö.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-12-26
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Life's Just Great
1967-01-23
Life's Just Great
Overview: Two impressionable teenage girls fall in with a beatnik crowd that is content to avoid work and have fun. The group lives for today while committing petty crimes and revels in being outside social convention until their adventures take a murderous turn. A young divorcee with a baby feels that life has passed her by as her friends enjoy a carefree time. Another couple with a young child is headed for divorce when their idyllic bubble is burst and they are overwhelmed by reality.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1967-01-23
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The Corridor
1968-12-11
The Corridor
Overview: A newly graduated doctor finds trauma too heavy in everyday work of the hospital. He is constantly facing new demands which ultimately threatens to overpower him. He is about to give up his career.idoren
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1968-12-11
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När ungdomen vaknar
1943-11-01
När ungdomen vaknar
Overview: Liv and Kåre both come from broken families bursting with frustration and aggression's. Having found each other they now feel supported and loved.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-11-01
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The Nuthouse
1951-09-21
The Nuthouse
Overview: 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
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1951-09-21
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The D.T.'s
1966-06-27
The D.T.'s
Overview: An eccentric, offbeat man performing pranks and peculiarities becomes a major concern for the Stockholm authorities. He mingles with bizarre slum characters and dreams of his ideal girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1966-06-27
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Three Sons
1945-03-03
Three Sons
Overview: Drama evolving around three brothers who join the air force to become flight cadets. When Åke's plane goes missing, the other two must find him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-03-03
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Hanna in High Society
1940-11-04
Hanna in High Society
Overview: When the old colonel Hummerborg dies, he leaves his fortune and estate to his trusted housemaid Hanna. But the colonel's relatives try everything to have the last will canceled.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1940-11-04
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Herre med portfölj
1943-11-30
Herre med portfölj
Overview: Rolf Berger, a hard working and dutiful deputy judge at the court of appeal, has been married for many years with Eva. She has long ago accepted that he spends his evenings with his legal work. Rolf Berger has been invited to the 25th anniversary of his graduation and starts to reconsider the kind of life he lives. When he meets the 19-year old Inger he falls in love with her and decide to leave his wife.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-11-30
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Marianne
1953-09-24
Marianne
Overview: Marianne and Jojje are in the last grade of a Stockholm high school. Jojje is very fond of his talented, sensitive classmate. His love is not answered. The students come from different social and economical environments.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-09-24
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Dynamite
1947-02-07
Dynamite
Overview: Young Allan feed on petty crime and theft. He spice his life by scaring people with stolen dynamite.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-02-07
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