Rikard Wolff
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Biography: Jan Rikard Wolff (8 April 1958 – 17 November 2017) was a Swedish actor and singer. His career included both film roles in House of Angels and its two sequels and theatre roles such as in Waiting for Godot at Royal Dramatic Theatre, and A Chorus Line at The Göteborg Opera. He was made a Knight of the Legion of Honour for his work with French music. He had also been awarded a Grammis, and received the Swedish Academy's 2017 prize for theatre, as well as a royal medal for his service as an actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Stockholm, Sweden
Adult: No
Deathday: November 17, 2017
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The Jönsson Gang & the Black Diamond
Overview: Sickan, the leader of the criminal Jönsson gang is incarcerated in a mental institution, attended by Dr M.A. Busé, who admire a handbook in crime that Sickan has been writing. Blackmailed by the nefarious banker Wall-Enberg, Dr Busé and Sickan's partners Vanheden and Dynamite-Harry execute Sickan's plan of stealing the valuable Black Diamond of the Romanovs from the National Museum.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1992-10-30
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House of Angels
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1992-02-21
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So Different
Overview: Single mother Lotta and her younger sister Sanna are both successful in their different jobs, and are living very different lives, but are attracted to men who are their opposites.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2009-11-06
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Evergrey: A Night To Remember
Overview: A Night To Remember was recorded and filmed in Evergrey’s hometown of Gothenburg and became the absolute highlight of the tour. The historic concert hall of the Storan Theatre (dating from the early 19th century) serves as the backdrop, with its fantastic scenery and acoustics, a breath-taking light show, the band in top form, and the audience (many of which arrived from all around the world) on fire with excitement.A Night To Remember was filmed with 7 roving cameras and in 5.1 DTS Sound and contains all six of the Everegrey video clips, in depth interviews with all of the band members and plenty of backstage footage, including studio reports and tech talk.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-05-24
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Angel
Overview: Angelica "Angel" Holst was a celebrated rockstar in the '80s, but since then her fame and popularity has faded. Now it's time to step back into the spotlight – but to reach the top again she needs media attention, and the question is what price Angel is willing to pay to get back?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2008-03-19
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House of Angels: The Second Summer
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1994-12-25
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A Holy Mess
Overview: A comedy about the new alternative family and how different family situations and relationships come to a head during the premier family weekend.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2015-11-13
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The Moon God
Overview: A serial killer who slaughters campers is on the loose in Sweden. The lead detectives make a breakthrough when the killer, a cloaked figure wielding a sword and a strange mask, sends the police a video recording.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Thriller Horror
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1988-09-23
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Prejudice and Pride: Swedish Film Queer
Overview: A journey through Swedish queer film history.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2022-02-25
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Under the Sun
Overview: Olof lives alone on his family's farm after the death of his mother. Unable to read and write, he is dependent on his younger friend, Erik, who helps him in the afternoons. Once a sailor, Erik brags of having known hundreds of women. Out of the blue, Olof advertises in the local paper for a young lady housekeeper, and Ellen, a middle-class city woman, arrives to take over the house and, as the summer goes on, Olof's heart and Erik's desire as well.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1998-12-25
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Light Keeps Me Company
Overview: Carl-Gustaf Nykvist's documentary about his father, Sven Nykvist. The film is based on Sven's memoirs with Sven himself as narrator. A journey to the place of birth, Moheda, constitutes the hub of the film and during the journey friends and memories emerge. Written by Fredrik Klasson
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2000-08-26
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The Last Dance
Overview: Blackpool, a dancing contest, a dead woman. This is the opening scene of this movie, which then continues by telling us the story preceding this sad accident - or is it a murder? We will get to know the tensed relationship of the dancing contestant couple Tove and Claes, and see how there lives are affected by Liselott and Lennart, their opponents and friends.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1993-12-25
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Jolly Roger
Overview: The future is stolen by Captain Bill the Black. It is up to the infamous pirate Jolly Roger and his great-great-great grandchild Lula to save it, helped by the two arch-angels Theobalt and Emil.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-12
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Zorn
Overview: Swedish painter Anders Zorn gained notoriety for his nudes. His works are currently worth millions. The film is set in the time when Zorn, already respected for his art, was commissioned to paint a portrait of the Swedish king. Though an excellent painter, Zorn's personal life is dreadful. A boozer and a womanizer who frequently cheats on his wife, Zorn constantly seeks approval for his art. When he travels to the U.S. for a tour he meets Emilie Bartlett the wife of sculptor Paul W. Bartlett with whom he begins a sporadic affair. After Paul commits suicide, Zorn and Emilie move to Sweden. Zorn disregards his wife's feelings and openly displays his affections for Emilie.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1994-08-19
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As White as in Snow
Overview: Inspired by real-life Elsa Andersson, this mostly fictional movie tells the story of her upbringing as a farmer's daughter, in the early 1900s, who dreams of getting away from the farm and becoming an aviatrix.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2001-02-15
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The Secret
Overview: Carl-Ivar Nilsson was an actor in the series "Hem till byn", but he carried a big secret that was revealed to a shocked family 1985.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2009-11-22
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Desmond & the Swamp Barbarian Trap
Overview: The pig Desmond and his friends are haunted by the terrible monster Träskpatraske. Granted, they are not sure he even exists, but who else could have snatched evil Wille's electric guitar, Sebastian Hare's boxing gloves and Bittan Cow's stock of makeup?
Genres: Animation
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2006-12-15
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Gossip
Overview: A Hollywood producer auditions ten Swedish actresses for the title role in a big-budget remake of Greta Garbo's classic Queen Christina.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2000-12-24
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Den svarta cirkeln
Overview: A tabloid journalist investigates a series of bomb attacks in Stockholm.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1989-12-31
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Dansa med vargen
Overview: A portrait of the actor and singer Rikard Wolff featuring some of his collaborators.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1995-12-14
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I'm a Gigolo
Overview: Rikard Wolff performs his show "I'm a Gigolo" from Cirkus in Stockholm.
Genres: Music
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1994-11-07
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The World of Dolores and Gunellen
Overview: Dolores and Gunellen live together in a house with a small garden. They need each other to balance their lives. Gunellen's straightforwardness and curiosity makes Dolores let go a bit of her need for order, and Dolores' urge to "tell-all-about-how-every-thing-works" and follow routines helps Gunellen organizer her life. But one day, Gunellen says that she wants to see the world. Dolores does not want her to go!
Genres: Family Animation
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2016-02-12
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Stormen
Overview: Set on a remote island, where the sorcerer Prospero, rightful Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place using illusion and skillful manipulation. He conjures up a storm, the eponymous tempest, to cause his usurping brother Antonio and the complicit King Alonso of Naples to believe they are shipwrecked and marooned on the island. There, his machinations bring about the revelation of Antonio's lowly nature, the redemption of the King, and the marriage of Miranda to Alonso's son, Ferdinand.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1998-10-07
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Lethal Film
Overview: The real horror is worse than - than a horror film, worse than - than the worst horror film. A story about some who are producing horror and special effects.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1988-03-04
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Blankt vapen
Overview: Rickard, a young man, helps to illegally transport a medieval icon from Germany to Sweden. The icon possesses remarkable forces. Strange things happen. Rickard returns to his brothers empty apartment. He finds a film projector, a telescope and some drawings. A tape recorder is playing. A voice is heard. Rickard starts the film projector. Parts of his childhood is shown. He contacts his girlfriend. She informs Rickard that his mother is in hospital.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1990-09-21
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House of Angels - Third Time Lucky
Overview: 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?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2010-12-25
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Sleep Incidents
Overview: Hans suffers from insomnia. But there is help available! A self-appointed specialist guides us through this absurd study of sleep.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2016-01-30
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Three Suns
Overview: An epic drama set in the 14th century. Hanna leaves her family to meet her husband after 4 years spent in the East during a long war. Hanna will find herself fighting for her love, her children and her life.
Genres: Drama History Adventure
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2004-02-26
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Med ögon känsliga för grönt – Barbro Hörberg
Overview: "With eyes sensitive to green" - about the Swedish singer/songwriter/actress Barbro Hörberg - a ballad princess is channeling the heart and pain of reality.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2014-04-11
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The Ox
Overview: In desperation brought on by near-starvation, Helge Roos kills his master's ox to feed his wife and baby daughter, setting off a devastating and unexpected chain of events.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1991-11-22
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Betrayal
Overview: Journalist Björn Cederberg travels to Berlin, Jena, Weimar and Rome to meet his old friend, the cultural worker Sascha Anderson. He got to know Anderson in 1983 in the GDR, where he was a central figure among opposition writers and artists in East Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg. Cederberg has a hard time believing that it is true that the media reports, namely that for 20 years Anderson has been an informant to Stasi, the East German authority that spied on its own citizens.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1994-10-14
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Riktiga män bär alltid slips
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1991-07-05
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Sverige åt svenskarna
Overview: This farce cocerns Sweden's King Gustav (Per Oscarsson who plays all the lead roles). The royal monarchs of three major European countries are patiently or not-so-patiently hovering on the sidelines while watching the future King Gustav closely. No single king appears to possess the brains he was born with, so history seems to be made by default, as it were. Gustav does blunder around, but not enough to miss being crowned king. As a result, France, England, and Germany invade Sweden hoping to take by force what they could not gain by incompetence.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1980-07-31
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