Peter Lindgren
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lidingö, Stockholms län, Sweden
Adult: No
Birthday: December 13, 1915
Age: 109 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: May 30, 1981
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A Guest Is Coming
Overview: It's Christmas. The owner of an old mansion decides to tell his family he's going to sell it. The following morning he's found murdered.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-11-03
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Ebon Lundin
Overview: Ebon Lundin is the anonymous but odd living man, who becomes a Christ-like, misunderstood figure who suffer much scorn and derision of the cruel reality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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I Am Curious (Yellow)
Overview: Lena, aged twenty, wants to know all she can about life and reality. She collects information on everyone and everything, storing her findings in an enormous archive. She experiments with relationships, political activism, and meditation. Meanwhile, the actors, director and crew are shown in a humorous parallel plot about the making of the film and their reactions to the story and each other. Nudity, explicit sex, and controversial politics kept this film from being shown in the US while its seizure by Customs was appealed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1967-03-10
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En drömmares vandring
Overview: Portrait of the Swedish poet Dan Andersson (1888-1920). Brought up during poor conditions he finds work as a temperance preacher and educator. Bored by this he travels to Stockholm to try to get his poems published. On the train he meets a rich, sophisticated art patron who encourages him and grinds his literary and philosophical formation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-03-25
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Swing it, fröken
Overview: There is a new English teacher in school, Miss Lind. She moves in with the Nilssons, whose son Sigge prefers playing with his trumpet than to study German. Miss Lind convinces him how important his studies are. But Sanna, a girl in Sigge's class becomes jealous and angry when Sigge prefers his homework instead of her. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-10-20
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Gustav Vasa
Overview: Gustav Vasa struggles to keep power while dealing with the Dacke War in his own country and his foreign debts.
Genres: Drama TV Movie History
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1965-09-06
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Do You Believe in Angels?
Overview: Jan Froman is a young man with great plans for the future. He gets a job as an assistant janitor at a bank, but with inherited money he starts to buy and sell real estate which eventually increases in value. He falls in love with Margareta, whose father is a naval officer. Margareta is slighted by her fiance and follows Froman on a sailing trip in the archipelago. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1961-01-30
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Gatan
Overview: Britt Malm gets hit by a car on a Stockholm street and is taken to hospital. She is badly injured and must undergo surgery. While the anesthetic takes effect she sees hallucinatory images. This turns into a flashback of what happened Britt before the accident.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-02-27
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Kurragömma
Overview: An escaped convict assumes the identity of a professor in order to reveal a criminal syndicate who smuggle diamonds together with Parisian haute couture.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1963-02-05
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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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Resa i natten
Overview: Gösta is a lorry driver and has been married to Birgitta for eight years. Their marriage is only held together by their daughter. Gösta picks up girls along the roads and during a drive to Malmö he stumbles on the singing actress Irene. Gösta is captivated by her romantic presence and her joy of life. Besides picking up women, Gösta is sometimes affected by sudden seizures. His wife is unaware of this.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-01-30
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The Lion and the Virgin
Overview: After young film writer Leo has his latest screenplay rejected he retreats to his summer home on an island, on his way he meets the flight attendant Virgo and a romance soon blossoms.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1975-02-14
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We Are All Demons
Overview: A veteran sea captain abducts his niece for what he believes is his last chance at love. As the sad demon of the ocean Klabautermanden watches the passing of doomed ships, the niece awakens in her uncle's cabin. She makes him marry her but never allows the tyrannical captain to ever touch her. For eight years, the ship never docks as the malnourished crew wishes for death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1969-06-27
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A Stranger Came by Train
Overview: An American gangster of Swedish origins returns to his homeland to set up shop as a morality crusader, much in the manner of the later phenomenon of televangelists. While indulging in behind-the-scene shenanigans including rape and murder, the gangster (played by American Clu Gulagher) preaches to large audiences, using mass hypnotism and show-biz razzmatazz to get his message across. The film also features a brief performance by Per Oscarsson, following his highly publicized "retirement" from screen acting.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1974-10-28
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The People from Simlangs Valley
Overview: Class struggle and love trouble in the woods between Halland and Småland.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-12-26
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Two Suspicious People
Overview: Two police officers lie dead. The swede Ekstrøm and the youngster Gustav flees the scene of the crime. Based on a real double murder in 1926, this movie remained almost unseen for 57 years. When the film was set to premiere in 1950 one of the murderers, having served a full sentence, went to court to have the film stopped.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1950-12-31
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I Am Maria
Overview: A story about a strange friendship between 11-year-old Maria and an older man Jon.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1979-12-15
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Djurgårdskvällar
Overview: An artist with drinking problems is depressed because his career didn't turn out so good. He puts his faith in his daughter to carry the artistic heritage further.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-11-18
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Ursula - Flickan i Finnskogarna
Overview: Ursula is the only daughter of a rich landowner high in Sweden. At 20 her father dies and she becomes reluctant heiress to huge property. Ursula is emotionally torn between a young handsome forester and farmer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-03-02
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Web of Desire
Overview: Lars Ekborg and Sven Eric Gamble portray bumbling criminals who get involved in a safe-cracking heist.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-12-20
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Rågens rike
Overview: Love triangle between the big farmer, a farmhand and his sweetheart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1950-09-26
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Hammarforsens brus
Overview: The young Anders is in love with Marit, whose father, the farmer Bjur-Erik opposes their relation. He watches jealously his daughter and becomes furious when he hears that she sneaks off to see Anders.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1948-10-25
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The Vicious Breed
Overview: About a man hunt when a man escapes from the prison.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-12-26
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Du gamla du fria !
Overview: A humorous story concerning the return of a prosperous Swedish native, Charlie Johnson, to his native country after many years in America. The acceptance and acclamation of himself and his American-born daughter provide many situations involving them, their relatives and the townspeople.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1938-12-26
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Hon kallade mig jävla mördare
Overview: About a truck driver hitting a seven year old child.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1971-05-12
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Maria Marusjka
Overview: The keeper of the light house, Ewert, lives at the coast with his wife and daughter, constantly thinking about the lost love of his past, Maria Marusjka. Worried about his daughter, about to be a woman, he makes the wrong decisions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1973-04-23
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Waltz of Sex
Overview: When a vagrant family arrives to the village Vindinge one hot summer in the 1920's, the parish is spiced up with sex and alcohol. Based on a novel by Swedish Academy member Artur Lundkvist.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1968-09-22
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Lång-Lasse i Delsbo
Overview: it's the 1840s and a rural parish plagued by drinking and fighting gets a new vicar who has decided to instill law, order and fear of God into the parishioners.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-10-29
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City of My Dreams
Overview: Young Henning and his friends are struggling to stay alive in 19th century Stockholm, where he has ended up in search of employment. In the harsh city, he and his friends dream of the good life while struggling for their survival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1976-10-29
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Mord, lilla vän
Overview: A member of "Sjöbjörnarna" (a group of executives), asks the newspaper editor Dick Mattson to find Brita Ljungdahl, the former wife of another of the members. The first clue he tries is to ask a certain Maria Vaern, who knows Brita.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-02-26
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Svartskallen
Overview: About a Turkish boy who is trying to adapt to life in Sweden. A difficult task as it turns out.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1981-10-20
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Bödeln
Overview: "The Hangman" - The events take place in two periods of time. In the Middle Ages a group of men sit and discuss the evil at the tavern. With the hangman close by. 1930s: a dance hall where many people gathered. A jazz orchestra of colored musicians entertain. When the musicians take a break to eat, they are denied this by a Nazi.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1965-09-19
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The New Land
Overview: A Swedish immigrant family struggles to adapt to their new life on the American frontier during the second half of the 19th century amidst civil war, native uprising and the lure of gold in California.
Genres: Drama Western History
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1972-02-26
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Flottare med färg
Overview: "Colorful Raftsmen" - The three brothers Nils, Lars and Ivar are members of a raftsmen team. Ivar feels that he does not really belong there, he prefers a little poaching andante a lot of flirting with women.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1952-12-26
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Tattarblod
Overview: David, a young woodsman with a family, is leasing a farm. The family are welcomed by the locals until it becomes known that David is the son of a notorious drifter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-02-08
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Meeting in the Night
Overview: A journalist is writing a critical article about the prison service in Sweden. The magazine's editor in chief does not agree with him and removes the article. The journalist then plans to fake a crime to gain knowledge about life in prison.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-09-30
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Arme, syndige menneske
Overview: The alcoholic Oslo journalist Erik Mogensen goes to Copenhagen to make a story about youth and drugs. Inevitably this goes wrong for Erik.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1980-02-01
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Hasan the Rose
Overview: A film director comes to Stockholm claiming he is an internationally renowned filmmaker. The truth is that he is a total failure. He is counting on that his compatriots have saved big money working in Sweden. Money he intend to spend on making a film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1980-06-23
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Starkare än lagen
Overview: About the farming mountain settlers in 1870s Sweden. The young Helge has been accused of manslaughter and has to fight for his life to survive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1951-10-15
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Kejsaren
Overview: Before World War II, Swedish workers had to deal with low wages, scarce work, and the extensive importation of foreign labor, particularly for the purpose of breaking strikes. This did not make foreigners of any stripe very popular, and those from "guest worker" countries were particularly disliked. In this film, set in 1938, a half-Polish boy goes to Poland in search of his mother, runs into financial and psychological difficulties there, and is sent back to a Swedish mental hospital. In another story, an unfortunate woman suffers a miscarriage and ends up at the asylum where the Polish boy is being kept.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1979-02-24
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Iris and the Lieutenant
Overview: Robert, an upper-class officer, meets and falls in love with Iris, a house maid. His family will do anything to stop her from marrying him.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-12-16
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Savnet siden mandag
Overview: 17 year old Gunnar Holm has been missing since Monday.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1955-01-27
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Lucie
Overview: Norwegian: The late 19th century Christiania (Oslo) could offer a rich variety of entertainment. There were several variety theatres and brothels, and poor women could earn money based on their looks. The beautiful variety actress Lucie (Inger Lise Rypdal) has met a lawyer by the name Gerner (Gösta Ekman), a refined gentleman. Flowers and encounters outside the theatre develops into an erotic relationship. Lucie knows how to play on Gerner's jealousy and masculine pride, and finally she reaches her goal: becoming Mrs Gerner. For Lucie this means climbing the social ladder, but she'll soon notice the problems. Living in the upperclass society keeps reminding her of her poor background and her lack of etiquette. All this affects Gerner in a negative way, who is plagued by jealousy regarding people from Lucie's past. The relationship between the married couple keeps getting worse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1979-09-07
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A Ship to India
Overview: Sailor Johannes Blom returns to his home port, after seven years at sea, to find that Sally, the girl he has been thinking of while away, is completely despondent. Seven years earlier, obstreperous Alexander Blom, brings his mistress Sally to live with him, his wife Alice, son Johannes, and crew, aboard the salvage boat he captains. Amidst all the tensions on the small boat, Johannes and Sally fall in love with each other.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-09-22
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Blonde in Bondage
Overview: A reporter (Mark Miller) tries to help a drug-addicted cabaret dancer (Anita Thallaug) who has criminal ties to the Swedish underworld.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-11-08
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To Help the Lady of the House
Overview: Ingrid Eriksson, a social worker, decides to find out something about the problems facing housemaids and gets herself a job as one at the home of John Willman's family. John's son, Åke, falls in love with her and numerous complications arise before the course of true love runs smoothly.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1939-09-24
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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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I Am Curious (Blue)
Overview: The same movie with the same characters, cast and crew as I am Curious (Yellow), but with some different scenes and a different political slant. The political focus in Blue is personal relationships, religion, prisons and sex. Blue omits much of the class consciousness and non-violence interviews of the first version. Yellow and Blue are the colors of the Swedish flag.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1968-03-11
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