Hasse Ekman
Also Known As: Hans Ekman, Hans Gösta Ekman, Heman
Biography: Hasse Ekman (10 September 1915 – 15 February 2004) was a Swedish director, actor, writer and producer for film, stage and television. Hasse Ekman is probably Sweden's most successful and critically acclaimed film director pre Ingmar Bergman (and aside from him) and post Sjöström and Stiller, with his peak in mid-1940s to the year 1950. Much influenced by filmmaker Orson Welles and also by episodic-films. His most successful film as a director is often said to be the 1950 film Flicka och hyacinter (Girl with Hyacinths), a crime/mystery drama about a young woman committing suicide by hanging herself in her apartment. Hasse Ekman is part of the prominent "Ekman acting family" in Sweden: He was the son of Swedish star actor Gösta Ekman (senior) and father of actor Gösta Ekman (junior), actor Stefan Ekman and stage/film director Mikael Ekman. Also grandfather of actress Sanna Ekman. As an actor Ekman also came to act in most of his own films, as the leading man and in a number of strong supporting roles, and he also acted in a three of early Ingmar Bergman-films (Prison, Thirst and Sawdust and Tinsel). He also played opposite his famous father in Intermezzo; the original Swedish 1936 film starring Ingrid Bergman in the female lead. Overall he made 50 roles in Swedish films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Hasse Ekman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Stockholm, Sweden
Birthday: September 10, 1915
Deathday: February 15, 2004
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Yellow Squadron
Overview: The year is 1954. The war in Korea has just ended and the superpowers stand by each side of the boarder. The peace in Europe is fragile and the cold war is imminent. At F8 - Air Fore Base, the yellow squadron stand ready with its J29 fighters.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-11-29
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Minns ni?
Overview: A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 films.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1993-10-24
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June Night
Overview: A woman flees to avoid rumors of promiscuity, but is trailed by a reporter who wants to expose her dark past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1940-04-03
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Den gamla goda tiden
Overview: A documentary short featuring a 50th anniversary party in celebration of film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-12-25
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Sawdust and Tinsel
Overview: The complicated relationships between a circus ringmaster, his estranged wife and his lover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-09-14
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Thirst
Overview: A needy couple in a bad marriage travel back to Stockholm after a trip to Italy. Meanwhile, a widow resists seductions from two different persons - her psychiatrist and a lesbian friend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-10-17
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Gabrielle
Overview: While Bertil Lindström works at the Swedish embassy in Paris, his wife Gabrielle spends the summer alone in Sweden. After a phone call to her, he starts to think of all the things she can possibly be doing separated from him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-12-26
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Gösta Ekman - En levande legend
Overview: Documentary about the Swedish actor Gösta Ekman (1890-1938) with interviews with friends and colleagues.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1987-01-07
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Meeting with Hasse
Overview: Hasse Ekman speaks about his career, films, colleagues, inspirations and role models.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1993-02-06
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The Girl from the Third Row
Overview: A ring passes between a lot of different people, giving the bearer or someone close a new meaning to life. Actors, embezzlers, old ladies and cheated husbands all seem to gain temporary hope from misery and disillusionment.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-08-29
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The Banquet
Overview: As his 60th birthday approaches, Jacob grows concerned that none of his sons is capable of running his company.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1948-12-18
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The Royal Rabble
Overview: The ups and downs of three generations in an acting family.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-01-19
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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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Life Goes On
Overview: The Swedish officer Mikael Bourg has served with the French army in Africa. When he returns to Sweden after many years abroad to recover from malaria, he meets his son, a student who prefers partying with his frat friends instead of his bank job; a disappointment in his father's eyes. He also meets a young librarian, Ebba Garland, which makes him feel young again and distracts him from the sickness.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1941-02-28
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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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Changing Trains
Overview: Inga, an unemployed actress meets a sweetheart Kim, from days long gone at a train station. Over coffee they reminisce about their romance and how Inga left Kim for a moderately successful acting career and the attractive theater director Leo Waller.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-01-30
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Intermezzo
Overview: The world famous violinist Holger Brandt comes back to his family after a tour. He and his wife have been married for many years, but their love has faded. Their young daughter gets a new piano teacher, Anita Hoffman. Mr. Brandt falls in love with her and together they go on a world tour, but he soon discovers that the feelings for his wife that he thought were dead are not.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-11-16
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The First Squadron
Overview: The year is 1941 and Nazi Germany is at its peak. Hitler's army is storming into Russia. Sweden stands lonely and isolated while the air force is training intensely due to a coming attack. The squadron leader pushes his men at its hardest. It's a constant game with death where death unfortunately often wins.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1941-09-23
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Happiness Is on Its Way
Overview: The idle rich have their own particular problems. Case in point, Georg and Monika Hedberg were once poor and happy but since Georg became an established painter family bliss has decreased for every fur coat Monika has bought. Their divorce lawyer suggest that they try to save their marriage by moving to a small apartment and live life frugally but happy. When the trial period is over and they want to return home again, their lawyer has stolen their money and disappeared. The Hedbergs are evicted for unpaid rent and terminal poverty seem to be imminent.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-08-17
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Prison
Overview: A movie director is approached by his old math teacher with a great movie idea: the Devil declares that the Earth is hell. The director rejects the idea, but subsequent events in the life of a writer, a friend of the director's, and a young prostitute he loves seem to prove the math teacher's idea.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-03-19
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Interlude
Overview: The Swedish doctor of literature Vilhelm Canitz arrive to Lugano in Italy for a few weeks stay at a medical clinic. Canitz considers himself to be quite healthy and the stay as an extended vacation. He meets a number of patients at the clinic suffering of terminal illnesses, including Vellamo Toivonen (Lindfors). The patients deal with the fact that they will not leave the clinic alive in different ways; with self-destruction, denial or imprudence. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-02-11
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On a Bench in a Park
Overview: Sam Persson is released from a mental hospital. He goes to Stockholm to meet a man he hates, theater manager Stig Brender. In Brender's office they get into a fight...
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1960-12-19
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Miss Chic
Overview: Buster Carell, a talent agent is threatened by bankruptcy when his only real talent, a singing lumberjack, runs off with the company funds. Watching a TV quiz show, Carell discovers a prodigal singer, Isabella Linder, and offers her a contract. But she is unwilling and would like to remain a school teacher.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1959-01-26
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A Day Will Dawn
Overview: After finding his wife in the arms of another man, an army officer kills his rival and then goes by train to Finland to fight in the Winter war.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-01-02
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Seventh Heaven
Overview: "Seventh Heaven" - Famous radio personality Willy Lorens has a big success with the radio series "Seventh Heaven." The amount of fan mail and attention eventually becomes too much for Willy, who suffers a minor collapse. Taken to a hospital where he meets Dr. Lovisa Sundelius, virtually the only woman in Sweden who do not admire the radio idol.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-06-11
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While the Door Was Locked
Overview: The film follows a number of people in an apartment building during a night full of dramatic events and entanglements.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-12-26
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Jazz Boy
Overview: The rich young man Teddy Anker invests his money in the theater at the beginning of the 1920s. Whatever he does becomes a success. He falls in love with a dancer, Karin. He decides to put up a show with Karin as the leading lady, but for the first time one of his shows becomes an economic disaster.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-10-06
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We Three Debutantes
Overview: Three young poets are about to make their debuts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-09-07
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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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The Staffan Stolle Story
Overview: Staffan Stolle becomes the sole heir to a rich and noble family when he is just a little boy. Early on he is engaged to be married to a girl he finds he does not love. Instead he flees the country only to return under a false name, looking for true love.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music Mystery
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-09-10
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Little Martin Returns
Overview: Sture Letterström and Kurre Svensson take on the task of rescuing a secret document during World War II from a group of Swedish Nazis. Since both of them are known by the local Nazis, Sture takes on the role of Miss Märta Letterström, and Kurre also has to make use of his feminine side as well as a dress.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1948-08-14
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Put Our Märta First or As Luck Will Have It
Overview: An out-of-work musician is desperate for work and when his best friend sees an add requesting a cellist he signs him up. However, the work is for a female, so he creates the character Märta Letterström and joins the trio at a small-town hotel. But being a woman is not as easy as you think.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-09-29
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The Nuthouse
Overview: In Stockholm in the year 2248 an excavation leads to the discovery of 45,000 meters of film from the 1940's master director Hasse Ekman . The material is in a disarray but the Society for Ancient Film Research compiles the material after what is believed to have been the master's artistic intentions
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1951-09-21
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En natt på Smygeholm
Overview: It is rumored that there are ghosts at Smygeholm Castle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1933-08-14
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Thunder and Lightning
Overview: The aristocratic count Hägerskiöld is very proud of his swine Helen of Troy who wins a prize every year as the best swine in the area. This year his son Claes-Ferdinand needs money to get married with Pyret, a chorus-girl. His father won't give him any so he steals the swine, expecting that his father will give a reward to anyone who can find her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1938-03-21
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The Great John Ericsson
Overview: In 1803 the Swedish inventor John Ericsson is born. After a military career he went to England and became one of the first builders of locomotives. Despite large debts, he invents the propeller. In 1839 he crosses the Atlantic and builds ships for the US Navy. When the US civil war breaks out, the Federation needs a ship to match the Confederate 'Merrimac' and preventing the Confederation from exporting cotton to Europe. Ericsson builds the 'Monitor', a ship the Federation needs to win the war.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1937-12-13
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Med folket för fosterlandet
Overview: This film depicts every noteworthy event (in the eyes of the film-makers) in Sweden from the death of King Oscar II, in 1907, to the celebration of the 80th birthday of King Gustave V in Stockholm in June of 1938. This film is comprised largely of newsreel clips intermixed with the fictional story of the family lives of a working man and a well-to-do newspaper editor through two generations, with a special significance in the showing of the development of the social-democratic form of government in Sweden.
Genres: Crime Drama History War
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1938-06-13
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The Young Nobleman
Overview: A young Countess meets a young Count and they share a common interest in fast cars.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1924-11-11
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Stopp! Tänk på något annat
Overview: Karsten falls in love with Sonja, she rejects him, but not because of lack of interest. She travels to France and he goes after her. They get to know each other and become close.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-10-26
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Hemslavinnor
Overview: The Rosenqvist family needs domestic help.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1933-04-10
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The Glass Mountain
Overview: The successful glass artist Stellan Sylvester ends up in the hospital after a car accident. He looks back at his life and finds it empty and meaningless. He falls in love with the nurse Marta but when he finds out that she engaged life turns out to be even more meaningless.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-12-26
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Private Entrance
Overview: A seemingly ordinary day in October. A woman has since she separated from her husband lived in a single room with a separate entrance. But for her this is not an ordinary day. She only has six hours left to live.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-02-20
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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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Heaven and Pancakes
Overview: Sequel to Sjunde himlen (1956). Dr. Lovisa Sundelius (Sickan Carlsson) and radio host Willy Lorens (Hasse Ekman) have been happily married for a couple of years, but when Willy becomes a TV host with cutie Suss (Lena Granhagen) by his side, things start to fall apart
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1959-11-02
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Each to His Own Way
Overview: A drama about a doctor and his wife. She used to be an actress, but became a housewife when she married. When she resumes her acting career the marriage crashes.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1948-02-16
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Jack of Hearts
Overview: Lieutenant Anders Canitz is a womanizer and gambler from the upper class. He has spent all of heritage and tries to get to his sister's money by engaging her to invest in a shady business project he is involved in.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1950-09-18
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One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer
Overview: When Inga Brantemo goes on a business trip to Italy, her husband Bertil gets romantically involved with Christina Lovén, whose father is a book publisher. When Inga returns, Bertil has a difficult time trying to explain who the woman the neighbors saw in the Brantemo home was. Bertil is an author and it doesn't get easier when he and his wife gets invited to Christina's father to talk business.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-09-17
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Decimals of Love
Overview: Charlie Gedelius has spent the last years abroad as a golf trainer. In Copenhagen, Denmark, he meets young Lena, who happens to be his brother-in-law's mistress. He goes back to Sweden to meet his sister Astrid. Her son Staffan has borrowed money from a money-lender to pay for an abortion for a girl he has met.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1960-09-12
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Wandering with the Moon
Overview: Dan, aged 19, leaves his home after a quarrel with his father. At the side of the country road he meets a traveling theater company who has run out of money. He falls in love with the young actress Pia and together they leave, meeting a string of peculiar characters: a vagabond, a friendly vicar and a cynical adventurer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-08-07
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Cadets Together
Overview: A story about the Swedish navy and their cadet school.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1939-12-08
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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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The Great Amateur
Overview: Modern fairy tale about the small town of Fårtuna where the chief of police is also an amateur theater director. The local shop assistant Linda aspires to become an actress and gets discovered by a talent agent from Stockholm.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-06-22
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Life and Death
Overview: Thriller set in northern Sweden during WWII where a regiment of ski-borne soldiers and guests in a tourist hotel experience and investigate acts of treason.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-07-16
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Jag är eld och luft
Overview: Vicar Ahrman's young daughter Jenny has left the home to start a new life with her beloved Stefan. But Jenny's dreams for the future is shattered when Stefan doesn't turn up to their meeting. Heartbroken, she returns home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-09-07
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Skådetennis
Overview: Tennis competitions between Swedish actors at Saltsjöbaden.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-01-22
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Terras fönster 2
Overview: In the second edition of Terras fönster we meet racing cyclists and bicycles in Varberg. Stage from "Home slave women" with Hasse Ekman and Dagmar Ebbesen. Children's boots. In love with a couple, meetings are true at Djurgårdsfärjan. Zarah Leander sings her you love from "The Marriage Game" (1935). The recording of Singoalla. Golf games. A song with Git Gay. Sun and summer in California. Skating on Värtan. Wild Ville Wallén imitates Kalle Duck.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-01-15
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