Carl Johan De Geer
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Carl Johan De Geer is a Swedish artist, designer, writer, actor and filmmaker. He is unique. Art, film, photography, textile printing, books. An multi-artist who never ceases to develop, renew, surprise and calm. A film about Carl Johan holds many stories, from the advent of the fabulous Meyer-ateljéerna and the creation of the movies and TV series, which we will never see again in childhood depictions with the grandmother a Nazi and the mentally ill mother.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Birthday: July 13, 1938
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Miss Remarkable & her Career
Overview: Miss Remarkable's struggle with her own demons, crushing parental expectations and a career meltdown.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-03
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Avalon
Overview: Janne, a 60 year old party promoter is arranging a nightclub at the annual tennis week in the small coastal town of Båstad, where he also teams up with his older sister Jackie. But an accident turns his life upside down and forced by the people around him, he desperately seeks a way out.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2011-09-11
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The Return of Jesús, Part II
Overview: A lone avenger arrives in a crime-ridden western town
Genres: Western
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1996-11-30
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Jag tänker på mig själv - och vänstern
Overview: Artist Marianne Lindberg De Geer thinks about her old friends from the 70s, where did they all go?
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2005-02-25
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Good Luck. And Take Care of Each Other
Overview: Alvar is a pensioner who hides his guilt by "constructing" fictitious memoirs. By chance he meets Miriam, a socially tone deaf and obstinate teenager, and they become friends. Their friendship deepens when they begin to inspire downhearted people with public art, and comes to a head when they themselves have to blossom.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2012-10-19
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Mother, Father, Child
Overview: During an afternoon and evening, we follow a family's everyday life. From the child's perspective, we see how the bizarre the world can seem sometimes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1978-03-19
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Som natt och dag
Overview: Television hostess Susanne has an affair with Rikard, who is a doctor at a hospital. But after meeting the man who Rikard works for, Professor Erland Roos, she leaves Rikard and eventually marries the professor. Susanne's sister comes to Stockholm, desperately in need of money. Perhaps Susanne, now married to a rich professor, can help her?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1969-02-13
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Buljong
Overview: A writer is working on a novel about the 1900s. He poses the question if broth (in the sense of concentrate) is an adequate choice of words to describe the century.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1995-03-10
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Tårtan
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Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1973-06-16
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Året var 1973
Overview: At the end of August 1973, a robber takes hostages at the Kreditbanken at Norrmalmstorg. A week or so later, on September 15, King Gustaf VI Adolf dies in Helsingborg's hospital and Sweden gets a new king: Carl XVI Gustaf. In Chile, the military takes power and the popularly elected president Salvador Allende is overthrown. That and much more in this column about the year 1973.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2023-01-30
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CJDG - En film om Carl Johan De Geer
Overview: During his five decades as an artist, Carl Johan De Geer has playfully leaped between genres and art forms such as painting, children's television and literature. All of it with a powerful political commitment and a large measure of absurdism. In CJDG, we follow his work on exhibitions in New York as well as Stockholm.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2014-12-12
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Hiding Behind the Camera, Part 2
Overview: A documentary by and about Swedish artist Carl Johan De Geer. A followup to his 1980 book with the same name.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2004-02-13
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Overview: How and why people refused military service in Sweden at the end of the 1960s. This is the reasoning of the Minister of Defense and the friends of non-violence and pacifists.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1969-05-08
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Citizen Schein
Overview: Harry Schein was an anomaly in Swedish cultural society. Equal parts playboy, intellectual, and political visionary, his life story could very well be the foundation of a Hollywood film. Citizen Schein is a film about a refugee who refused to look back, a film about powerful men, and the myths that fuel them.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2017-03-10
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Du gamla, du fria
Overview: A street theatre group performs anti-capitalist and anti-militarist plays. The inner conflicts, about how to reach and how tight they shall embrace the working class, escalates and the group split up.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1972-03-04
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Bath House
Overview: Six characters meet in a bath house. The pedant bath house manager, a couple with a strange way of communicating and a gang with shady intentions. Something goes wrong.
Genres: Comedy Animation
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2014-10-10
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Blushing Charlie
Overview: "Blushing Charlie" - Truckdriver and bachelor Charlie meets homeless and seven months pregnant Pia. They both dream of finding someone to share their lives with. Charlie then faces a dilemma whether to take part in a demonstration in favor of Cuba, and in addition with his employer's truck.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1970-09-08
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Stockholmssyndromet
Overview: Carl-Johan De Geer talks about his hometown Stockholm, how he will miss it when he's gone.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-08-09
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Read the Map
Overview: A man finds a lot of mysterious pieces that lie here and there in the city. Is that information, is it propaganda? The man finds a map and begins to follow the paths of the patches. What will he find at the end? Who is behind everything?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-25
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Mormor, Hitler och jag
Overview: A contradictory picture of Nazism in the Swedish aristocracy. To distance themselves from Nazism is obvious for most people. But not for everyone.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-11
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Småkakor
Overview: A film about nature's nature and meaning "cookies" versus "patchwork". This against a serious core: "The anxiety and pressure that the adults live under, with lack of money and unfulfilled dreams lead to behaviors that the children may suffer, but as the children in this movie get an overview and help relieve."
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1991-11-10
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Västra Hamngatan 2020
Overview: A report from Gothenburg in the future where fashion is retro and the cars are old. A Gothenburg similair to the present.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-02-04
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VERDICT DB 237 District Court of Piteå - the Murder of a Child
Overview: Carl Johan De Geer reads the 80-page-long sentence. We see pictures from Lake Tjeggelva beach in Arjeplogs municipality. At the scene, four-year-old Michael was murdered on June 28, 1990.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2012-01-29
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Dart 68'
Overview: A gangster pastiche. The movie was named after the Dodge Dart model -68, used in the hot car chases.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Kårhusockupationen
Overview: "The Invasion of the Student Union" - Stockholm, Sweden, May 24th. It all started as a regular student meeting, evolved into a mass-meeting and an invasion of the house, with all ended three days later. The students were primarily upset regarding a draft about a changed curriculum in higher education. They also pursued various political dogmas. The angry students called out for the responsible minister of the government. This happened to be Olof Palme. He arrived at the mass-meeting where he suffered much criticism.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1968-06-12
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I Remember Lena Svedberg
Overview: Carl Johan De Geer remembers his old friend Lena Svedberg. He talks about how they used to make their magazine together, how beautiful but strange she drew and how bad she seemed to feel.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2000-01-30
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