Bengt Blomgren
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Biography: Bengt Bertil Blomgren was a Swedish stage and screen actor, director and writer. He made his film debut in Hasse Ekman's "Lågor i Dunklet/Flames in the Dark" (1942). He directed plays and revues at Sweden’s National Touring Theatre (Riksteatern) for 30 years.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
Adult: No
Birthday: August 15, 1923
Age: 101 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: April 04, 2013
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Hassel - Botgörarna
Overview: Roland Hassel gets involved in a tangle of lies, betrayal and industrial espionage.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1992-04-02
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Terror in the Midnight Sun
Overview: After a herd of reindeer are mysteriously found dead following a meteor crash in a remote part of Lapland in northern Sweden, soldiers and a geologist are called out to investigate.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-08-19
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Port of Call
Overview: Berit is a young woman with problems. She is suicidal and depressed. Since it has been impossible for her to live with her mother, she has spent many years in institutions. She has now gotten a job in an industry on the condition that she can live together with her mother again. Their relationship is very tense however. One night at a dance she meets stevedore Gösta. Will he be able to give her the support she needs?
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1948-10-11
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Like It Never Was Before
Overview: The Runeberg family is an ordinary middle class family, with a house in a suburb, a car and three children. By vacationing in a rented house by the sea, the hope is that the tension and anxiety between Rune and Gunnel will disappear. However, instead of spending time with his family, Rune finds himself attracted to a young man, Petrus. Whatever happens next, Rune realizes, it can never be like it was before.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1995-03-03
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Tic Tac
Overview: During one single day a number of life destinies cross one another. It becomes a night for the involved they will never forget, a night when the coincidences are going to change their lives forever.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1997-10-31
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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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Karin Månsdotter
Overview: Karin does not belong to the nobility but nevertheless marries the mentally ill king Erik XIV and becomes queen of Sweden. The king's skilled counsellor Göran Persson wants a royal policy supporting the people and supported by it. But in relation to the nobility the king oscillates between provocative strength and unpredictable weakness. Göran arranges that some very powerful noblemen are killed. Subsequently the king tries to have them convicted of high treason by the parliament. He forgets the manuscript, mixes up all facts, and the noblemen are acquitted. But Göran speedily gathers another parliament and has them convicted. Meanwhile Erik apologises because of the unjust murders. Hence Erik is dethroned and imprisoned. Göran is executed. Karin is restricted to a castle in Finland. In the prison Erik believes that he is still the king and gives the guards presents such as all fishes in the Baltic Sea.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-11-01
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The Sixth Shot
Overview: Georg Winkler meet Marguerite Hoffman at the casino in Monte Carlo. They become an item and travel the world with their act - Winkler is an accomplished marksman. Eventually Winkler's jealousy leads to their separation and he has to resort to work for secondrate circuses with a dwarf. But eventually he meet Margurite once again. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-09-24
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Farligt löfte
Overview: A woman is murdered and a little girl is the only one who can reveal the perpetrator.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-10-24
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The Firebird
Overview: Italian singer Mario Vanni visits the Royal Opera in Stockholm and fall in love with ballet dancer Linda Corina.
Genres: Drama Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-08-11
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En skärgårdsnatt
Overview: Different groups of people gather on an island in Stockholm's archipelago for a night of fun.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-12-12
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Janne Vängman på nya äventyr
Overview: Janne is an old man who is locked up in the church on New Year's Eve 1900 and has to play the organ to make someone to open the door.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-09-16
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Regementets ros
Overview: To save intoxicated friend Boman from getting caught, two conscripts lock him up in the local jail and release a prisoner, Ivan Jansson, so that he can pretend to be Boman for a few hours. But when the real Boman is transported to the county jail, switching them back could be difficult.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1950-12-26
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The Brothers Lionheart
Overview: After brothers Jonathan and Crusty pass away, they reunite in Nangijala, the land of eternal spring. Casting a long shadow over their world is the tyrant Tengil, ruler of the country Karmanjaka, where he’s building his new fortress up in the Ancient Mountains.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Family
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1977-09-23
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Line Six
Overview: In Gothenburg. Louise is out walking at night - and witness an assault. She knows the attackers well. It is her sister Berit with boyfriend Ernie. Louise is told to be quiet of what she has seen. She moves to Stockholm.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-10-06
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Brink of Life
Overview: Three women in a maternity ward reveal their lives and intimate thoughts to each other.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-03-31
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When Bengt and Anders Changed Wives
Overview: Two neighbours, each with a small plot of land, hate each other. Both are dissatisfied with his wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1950-12-23
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Susanne
Overview: Susanne is a young woman who lives with her parents, parents that don’t really give a toss about her and spend more time entertaining guests and complaining about their fair daughter and her appearance. Agitated by her parents hassle and moaning during their chic dinner parties, Susanne takes off to a café where a lad she’s attracted to, Olle, is hanging out with his greaser mates. He invites her on a date the following evening during which they make out and drive way to fast – despite Susanne’s objections.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1960-03-18
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Young Summer
Overview: Helge Lysvik is a farmers son. He dreams of a future as a musician.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-09-27
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It Is Never Too Late
Overview: Görel and Arne are about to get a divorce. Görel thinks back on how history has repeated itself within her family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-03-17
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Östermans testamente
Overview: The fishermen Österman and Sjöberg are sued by merchant Wikström. In order to raise capital, they decide to start producing a medicine from a recipe by Österman's father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-10-04
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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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Rum för ensam dam
Overview: Magda Nilsson is a very talented young woman, but she has had a difficult upbringing and lost her self-confidence. She is also a singe-parent mother with her fragile son Arne. Magda is also difficult, antisocial and hard to get to know, but beneath the surface she seeps from suppressed love needs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1959-03-13
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Crime in Paradise
Overview: While four men blow up a safe, a night watchman is accidentally killed. They get away with the loot. Ten years later, the stepson of the dead night watchman receives vital information.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1959-09-07
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Danssalongen
Overview: Love, jealousy, music and drugs in violent wild youth thriller. Takes place at the legendary dance-hall Nalen in Stockholm.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-07-29
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Flicka utan namn
Overview: A girl has been found murdered in her apartment. But who killed her and why? Through a series of flashbacks, the police investigation unfolds the murder mystery.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-09-05
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Sista natten
Overview: A man escapes from a psychiatric clinic, the tracks lead to the town Marstrand, where a woman is found murdered.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-10-21
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System 84
Overview: A power struggle floats in the judiciary. A dead body in a dust-bin. More death. Superintendent Sven Thorén is fed up with dead bodies. His partner Olle Lyck is tired of most of it. Not to mention System 84.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1978-12-06
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Bobby Fischer bor i Pasadena
Overview: During one evening, night and morning we follow the decay of an upperclass family's last convulsive attempt to reconcile and reach mutual respect.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1990-10-21
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Taxi 13
Overview: A collection of human stories from the streets of Stockholm. Taxi 13 becomes the link between them. One night a taxi driver disappears.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-08-01
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The Master Detective Lives Dangerously
Overview: When Eva-Lotta climbs the roof of moneylender Gren's house. Through a window she overhears a turbulent conversation about an IOU. A few days later she finds Gren dead.
Genres: Family Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-12-07
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Vildfåglar
Overview: "Wild birds" - A Swedish film noir with the character of a French noir ('Quai des brumes', 'Le jour se lève'). Two worlds meet for a brief experience of happiness ended by a violent tragedy. In one world the unhappy prostitute (Ulla) finds a drunken young man (Nisse) who had previously failed in many occupations. She takes him home. Her feelings are like those for a younger brother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-08-21
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Ubåt 39
Overview: About U-Boat 39 the first U-Boat sunk in WW2 by the UK Carrier Ark Royal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1952-08-25
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Restaurant Intim
Overview: A new realism depiction of life and work in an old restaurant. A social portrayal of exhausted staff and dubious guests.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1950-03-03
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Laila
Overview: Winter in Lapland, a settler and his wife just had their newborn daughter baptized. On the way home through the wilderness, they are chased by a pack of wolves. The little baby falls out of the sledge and parents plunges off a cliff.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-11-13
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Rolling Sea
Overview: "Rolling Sea" - After a longer stay at the hospital, the young Martin comes to Gothenburg and notice that his fiancee Sonja has met another man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1951-09-17
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Blåjackor
Overview: "Sailors" - A musical comedy about Kalle Svensson, a sergeant in the navy, and his loved one Nanette Raquette who works as a gymnastics teacher.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-10-23
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We Have Our Own Song - The Music Movie
Overview: The film documents the alternative festival, made to protest against the Eurovision Song Contest held in Stockholm 1975. There are many Swedish and international artists on stage, as well as some clips from speeches, riots, civil wars, and the people at the song contest itself.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1976-06-28
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The Halo Is Slipping
Overview: A secretary at a publishing company, Birgitta, writes a novel, based on her secret love of her boss. She sends it anonymously to her own company, who decides to publish it. The book becomes a success. Birgitta's husband's mistress get hold of the script and confesses that *she* wrote the novel. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-07-01
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Krut och kärlek
Overview: Set in Sweden the 1700s. Local rebels are raging in the south. Two riders are commissioned to capture the Dane rebel who is their leader.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-11-02
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Hällebäcks gård
Overview: Farm girl Kerstin is the most popular girl in the village and the men are swarming around her. This results in jealousy, and the electrician Tage causes a fire on the farm, resulting in economic trouble for Kerstin's father. Suddenly grandfather's rich brother Arvid appears from America. Will he be able to solve the family's problems?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1961-09-17
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Kulla-Gulla
Overview: Orphan girl Gunilla (nick named Kulla-Gulla) gets sent from her orphanage to work as an housemaid at sharecropper Karlbergs household. Among her duties is to take care of Karlberg, his wife and their five children.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-08-27
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All this - and Iceland too
Overview: 1914. The monarchs of Sweden, Denmark and Norway meet to demonstrate unity. In the crowd is a beautiful noble woman from Finland. She is eagerly courted by the monarch's aides.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1951-09-03
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Pettersson i Annorlunda
Overview: Swedish propaganda film for the Social Democrats.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-08-01
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Flickan från fjällbyn
Overview: Bad harvests and starvation makes northern Swedish farmers consider emigrating to the USA.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1948-11-29
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Göingehövdingen
Overview: When the Swedish army occupies the eastern part of Denmark in 1678, the local inhabitants decide to fight back. Under the leadership of Svend Poulsen, a guerrilla is formed. And guerrilla officer Lars Paulinus has to fight the Swedish officer Henrik Wrede to prove his love for Anna Ryding.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-12-26
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Storstrejken 1909
Overview: This film is a reworked version of Olle Hellbom's 1959 film with the same title.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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I rök och dans
Overview: Episodic, musical comedy. Povel Ramel company Knäppupp's first film where Martin Ljung plays 16 different roles.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-07-30
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