Staffan Lamm
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Biography: Staffan Lamm is a Swedish filmmaker, writer, photographer, producer and actor. He is known for documentaries about people of unusual background and life history. Staffan Lamm parents are child psychiatrist Gustav Jonsson and psychoanalyst Esther Lamm.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Stockholm, Sweden
Birthday: February 11, 1937
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Gender: Male
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Oberättat
Overview: Six episodes about people who all live on the fringes of society. Documentary filmmaker Staffan Lamm pauses before some events in his life. He talks about his family with his schizophrenic uncle as a common thread. The maternal uncle's illness has haunted and worried Staffan over the years, and he reflects on the impact of the legacy and how it inevitably leaves its mark on social life, work and dreams.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2006-01-28
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Zorn bakom kameran
Overview: About the Swedish artist Anders Zorn's unknown passion for photography. Some of them models for later works and others are innovative photo experiments.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2017-11-24
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Mirage
Overview: A young man comes to Stockholm, Sweden and experiences several bizarre and surrealistic situations.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1959-11-23
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Sista ringen
Overview: Eric and Clarence are friends from the same class in school - but from different social classes. Eric comes from the working class, Clarence from the upper class. Eric regards his studies as a way of getting somewhere, while Clarence is only interested in the drawing lessons. There are only a few months left until graduation. Clarence behaves very provocatively against the art teacher 'Sjasen'. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-10-10
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Sabotörernas kung
Overview: "King of Saboteurs" - Ernst Wollweber, German communist, active in Sweden during the Second World War, eventually Stasi commander in the GDR, finally purged and forgotten. Ernst Friedrich Wollweber (1898 - 1967) was State Secretary of State Security from 1953 to 1955 and Minister of State Security of the German Democratic Republic from 1955 to 1957. He rose quickly through the party ranks and by 1921 had become a member of the KPD's Central Committee and Political Secretary of Hesse-Waldeck. When the KPD was outlawed in Germany after the Reichstag fire of February 1933, Wollweber was forced to flee to Copenhagen and later to Leningrad. From 1936 to 1940, Wollweber organized the "Organisation Against Fascism and in Support of the USSR", better known as the Wollweber League. After World War II, Wollweber returned to Germany and joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in 1946.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1997-04-14
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Året var 1964
Overview: 1964 - the year when Astrid Lindgren's 'Vi på Saltkråkan' is shown on TV, UN Swedes smuggle weapons, Khrushchev is visiting, car testing starts, the KDS is formed and the long-haired fashion starts trending - for guys.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2014-01-29
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Fantasterna
Overview: A personal film essay on some Swedish outsider artists. Staffan Lamm retells how he encountered their work, which happened over a period of more than forty years, and what it meant to him.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-04-04
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