Anita Björk
Also Known As: Anita Barbro Kristina Björk, Анита Бьёрк
Biography: Anita Björk (born 25 April 1923) is a Swedish actress. Born in Tällberg, Dalarna, Anita Björk attended Dramatens elevskola (The Royal Dramatic Theatre's acting school) in 1942-45. Anita Björk has been a leading lady of Swedish theatre for many years and has worked at the national stage; Dramaten, since 1945, where she has performed in more than 100 parts over the years (which makes her one of the greatest actors of Dramaten). On film, Anita Björk has played leading roles - in particular - in a number of style forming Swedish thrillers and crime mystery dramas, including Det kom en gäst (1947), Moln över Hellesta (1956), Damen i svart (1958), Mannekäng i rött (1958) and Tärningen är kastad (1960). Still, her most famous part is probably her title role in Alf Sjöberg's celebrated film adaption of Strindberg's Miss Julie (1951) that was awarded with the grand prize at Cannes Film Festival. Married to Olof Bergström (1945–1951) and from 1953 with Stig Dagerman. After his death she had a relationship with Graham Greene. Currently performing in A.R. Gurney's play Kärleksbrev (Love Letters) at Dramaten, opposite Jan-Olof Strandberg (Lilla scenen; March-April, 2009). Description above from the Wikipedia article Anita Björk, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tällberg, Dalarna, Sweden
Adult: No
Birthday: April 25, 1923
Age: 102 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: October 24, 2012
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Midsommardröm i fattighuset
Overview: Blind-Jonas is in a poorhouse dreaming about his past, in contrast the young girl Cecilia shows up dreaming about her future.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1980-12-14
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Count Only the Happy Moments
Overview: The old Victor Branzell has a grandson, Alf, who is in love with a clerk in a glove shop, Lilian Lind. But Lilian with her simple background doesn't get accepted in the circles where Alf belongs, and they have now reached the conclusion that they can't have a future together. Marriage is impossible. Victor summons Lilian and Alf and starts telling them his life story.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-08-08
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Stig Dagerman
Overview: Fifty years after the Swedish author Stig Dagerman took his own life we view his short but intense career in retrospective.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2004-11-05
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The Best Intentions
Overview: In this film about Ingmar Bergman's parents, Henrik Bergman is studying for the priesthood and trying to make ends meet when he encounters the lovely, affluent Anna. Despite their social differences, Henrik and Anna fall in love, wed and move to the country. They lead a quiet life as Henrik works as a priest, but it isn't long before the simple people and plain surroundings make Anna long for a more lavish lifestyle, which causes marital stress.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1992-05-24
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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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Private Confessions
Overview: Five conversations frame a flawed marriage in this film written by Ingmar Bergman about his parents. Guilt-ridden wife Anna (Pernilla August) divulges an extramarital affair to a priest, her uncle Jacob (Max von Sydow). He presses her to confess her sins to her husband, Henrik. As the film moves back and forth in time, the notion of truth is tested. Tomas, the lover, and Henrik will find that Anna's confessions do not absolve anyone, and have the power to inflict more pain.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1996-12-25
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In the Presence of a Clown
Overview: Inventor Carl Åkerblom is a rosy-cheeked 54 year-old admirer of Franz Schubert - and a patient in the psychiatric ward of Akademiska Hospital in Uppsala, after having attempted to beat to death his fiancée, Pauline Thibault. Together with another patient, Professor Osvald Vogler, they set up a film project: the living talkie. Before long, they set off on a frantic tour with their film, "The Joy of the Joyous Girl"... Written by Fredrik Klasson
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1998-10-01
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Miss Julie
Overview: Based on the play by August Strindberg, Miss Julie vividly depicts the battle of the sexes and classes that ensues when Julie, a wealthy businessman's daughter, falls for Jean, her father's bitter servant.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1951-06-28
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Waiting Women
Overview: Rakel, Marta, Karin and Annette are married to four brothers. While waiting in a summer cottage for their husbands to come home, they tell each other stories about their marriages. Rakel tells about the time she had an affair and confronted her husband with it. Marta's story is about how she at first refused to marry and had her child by herself. Karin tells about what happened when one time she and her husband got stuck in an elevator together. While the women tell their stories, Marta's younger sister Maj is planning to elope.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1952-11-03
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Next of Kin
Overview: Gathered at a funeral for a successful business man, the testament is to be read. They will all inherit, with a big IF; if the family company is to be joint run by all the heirs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1979-08-12
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100 dragspel och en flicka
Overview: Two inventors, Ville and Rulle have developed a revolutionary new accordion; however, they have competition. Twelve-year-old Pelle Borell gets to show off the instrument in front of the Swedish accordion elite in Stockholm.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-01-31
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The Lady in Black
Overview: The married detective couple John and Kajsa Hillman goes on a vacation to Holmfors mill where a friend of Kajsa's lives with her husband. When a young woman is found murdered it is clear that this is another case for the Hillmans.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-02-01
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Moon Over Hellesta
Overview: Margareta, newly engaged with count Carl Anckarberg, visits his estate for the first time. During the visit she gets to know that his last fiancee died in a mysterious accident and she sets out to discover what really happened. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-11-24
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Mannequin in Red
Overview: A model is murdered at a famous fashion house and the Hillmans start to investigate. Kajsa Hillman is employed as a model and discovers that several people had motives to kill her.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-12-19
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The Die Is Cast
Overview: A member of a highly successful crime drama series is found murdered in a television studio. The screenwriter of the TV-series is found as prime suspect but claims his innocence and tries to clear his name. But who is the murderer and what is his motive?
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1960-02-15
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Night People
Overview: A US intelligence officer, stationed in Germany, is caught in a political dilemma when the Russians kidnap a young Army private, the son of prominent American businessman. In exchange for the soldier's return, the Russians attempt to barter a trade for an elderly German couple who they want for treason.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-11
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An Image Maker
Overview: Making of-documentary about Ingmar Bergman's The Image Makers, featuring behind the scenes footage and an interview with its writer, Per Olov Enquist.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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Tribadernas natt
Overview: Depicts the explosive relationship between August Strindberg and Siri von Essen in 1889 while Siri is rehearsing a lead role in a play written by Strindberg.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1978-03-24
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Song of the Scarlet Flower
Overview: Olof is driven from home when he wants to marry the wrong girl. He takes a job as a log driver and his reputation as a womanizer goes far and wide.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-12-26
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Guest at One's Own Home
Overview: Eva Dahl, a doctor's wife, starts an affair with a younger man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-09-30
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Loving Couples
Overview: As three pregnant women wait to have their babies in a hospital in Stockholm at the outbreak of the Great War, they relive their childhood and youthful experiences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1964-12-20
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Komedi i Hägerskog
Overview: Narcissa and Elina work in a small town social service office and have various erotic encounters with the people who visit it.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1968-11-25
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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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The Image Makers
Overview: Per Olov Enquist's play about Selma Lagerlöf and Victor Sjöström after the shooting of The Phantom Carriage. Director Victor Sjöström has been shooting Selma Lagerlöf's novel The Phantom Carriage. He has invited the author to Stockholm to show her a number of scenes from the film in the presence of the talented cinematographer Julius Jaenzon and the young actress Tora Teje. The meeting between Lagerlöf, an older woman and world-famous author, and a young and talented actress becomes the focal point of the drama.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2000-11-15
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Woman Without a Face
Overview: Martin is married to Frida and together they have a son. One day after a quarrel with his wife, he goes to buy flowers to ask for forgiveness. In the flower shop he meets the beautiful Rut and falls instantly in love. They both start a passionate love affair but beneath the beautiful surface hides a completely different woman than he expected ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-09-16
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On These Shoulders
Overview: Kjell Loväng returns to his parent's farm after a few years of work in Stockholm. He discovers that his father Arvid neglects the farm and spends too much time drinking and meeting other women. Kjell has to prove to his father his ability to manage the farm.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1948-10-04
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Amorosa
Overview: About the Swedish author Agnes Von Krusenstjerna during the period of her marriage to David Sprengel. In the hallucinatory opening sequence she is brought in a straitjacket by her husband and two psychiatric nurses through the Venice Carnival nocturnal antics to a mental hospital in the city. With her is a manuscript of her autobiography, which she calls "her child". The book is Agnes showdown with her family, and in flashbacks presented, Agnes progress from the author of innocent girls' books to serious and self-consuming novelist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1986-03-14
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Adalen 31
Overview: A film about the 1931 Ådalen shootings, in which Swedish military forces opened fire against labour demonstrators in the Swedish sawmill district of Ådalen.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1969-05-01
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Stjärnbilder
Overview: A tribute to Swedish film, which was made to celebrate the 100th anniversary of film in 1995 and consists of about a hundred clips from Swedish film history with many of its stars.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1995-09-10
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The Witch
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1954-10-14
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Henpecked
Overview: An engineer and an actor, two extremely similar men, change their identity with each other.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1967-09-25
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Med Ingrid Bergman på Berns
Overview: Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini at a gala held in Sweden in 1953.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-11-12
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Ingen väg tillbaka
Overview: The newly appointed director Hugo Henriksen gets into a fight and accidentally hits a prostitute. When Hugo is trying to leave the scene the girl dies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-08-18
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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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Alf Sjöberg - mästaren
Overview: Alf Sjöberg (1903-1980) was Swedens greatest theater director of the 20th century and as a film director the first of international importance since the silent film era. He won the Grand Prix du Festival at the Cannes Film Festival twice.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1983-12-22
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The Witch Hunt
Overview: Having gone through many personal struggles, Eli (Lil Terselius) returns to her native village and begins to work on the farm of Ingeborg Eriksdotter (Anita Bjork), eventually tending a plot that once belonged to her family. But Eli has been gone a long time, and the opaque villagers see her as an outsider—she is suspicious from the start. The year is 1625, and stories of witches conjuring up evil are a part of the daily culture. Eli unwittingly makes matters worse for herself when she is able to cure the sick with herbs, and when she begins an affair with Aslak (Bjoern Skagestad) a farmhand—clearly she must have cast a spell on him. This all adds up to a witch hunt with a ready-made "witch." Eli, in the end, is officially accused of witchcraft by a devious bailiff, while Ingeborg makes every attempt to save her, and Aslak himself does not survive the stress—hardly a good omen for the outcome of the trial.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1981-08-24
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Miss Julie: 100 Years in the Limelight
Overview: Documentary about the play Miss Julie and dramatist August Strindberg
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Lady in White
Overview: A ghost called Vita Frun (White Lady) is accused of several murders. Detective Hillman is contacted to resolve the case.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1962-07-02
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Utro
Overview: She loves to ride in the bus and read smart book ... He likes to sit by the water and drink soda ... She loves to write down their thoughts on the fly and be glad that they do not end ... He likes to watch as boats come and invent passengers biography ... She loves ice cream and menthol cigarettes ... And he - horses and storefronts ... She had to roam the streets at night, even if you do not want to ... he loves the city nightlife, which helps him to dream ... and one day ... quite by accident ... They meet ... hE and SHE ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1966-09-26
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Square of Violence
Overview: Set in Italy, the story takes place in this very country, during WW2, where German occupation army ruled everything, just before the allied forces came, in 1944. Crawford plays here a doctor whose son has been shot by the Germans. Of course he has no more taste in life. He continues his work as a German officers' physician. One day, he throws a bomb just in the middle of German troops. Many soldiers and officers are killed. Some time later, the lead officer of the Nazis troops suspects the doctor to be the responsible of the explosion. He lets him know that he himself knows...
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Han glömde henne aldrig
Overview: American businessman Chris Johnson spent WW2 in Sweden and fell in love with a nurse, Karin Engström. He lost contact with her after war and now, seven years later, he returns to Sweden on a business trip, trying to find her again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1952-01-01
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Sing Beautifully About Love
Overview: A tv play about the Swedish poet Gustaf Fröding. Flashbacks from his life in a mental hospital.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1976-04-18
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The Heavenly Play
Overview: "The Heavenly Play" - Mats Ersson is engaged to Marit and they plan to get married in the spring. But when the plague comes, the people accuse Marit of witchcraft. She is sentenced to death. Mats can not understand the divine justice and decides to go to paradise and ask God himself. It becomes a journey where he meets the prophets, king Solomon and finally God himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-12-21
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Madame de Sade
Overview: A theatre production of Yukio Mishima's play, filmed for Swedish television. It begins in France in 1772. Six Women, one of them Madame de Sade, discuss their views and feelings of the notorious sadist and sodomist Marquis de Sade.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Dagerman
Overview: About the Swedish writer Stig Dagerman (1923-1954). More than a style, there is a Dagerman voice. This simple voice speaks softly, without emphasis, of simple people, of children, of old men, of his native Sweden. She is friendly to the humble, the solitary, the victims.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-09-15
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Der Cornet
Overview: Adventure film based on a Rilke poem.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1955-12-16
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True Moments
Overview: By chance Erik meets Viivi, an Estonian violinist playing in the Stockholm subway. They start an intense romance. Erik's mother dislikes the relationship, not having forgotten her escape from Estonia during the war. She reveals facts from the past and Erik finds out that his Swedish father adopted him. His real father was an Estonian nazi. Viivi has grown up in communist Estonia where her father was a party member and worked for the KGB.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1998-08-28
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Kvartetten som sprängdes
Overview: A small Swedish town just after WW1. An accountant and his two journalist friends have entered the stock market. The result is not as good as expected.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1950-12-26
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The Phantom Carriage
Overview: The third film adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf's novel of the same name. The drinker David Holm gets killed right on the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve will face the death coachman, which happens to be his old friend Georges. Together, reliving the events of the past, and David becomes aware that he ruined the lives of two women who both loved him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-09-18
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Kommer hem och är snäll
Overview: Sören Hellgren comes home drunk one night and his wife Tyra is furious because he is boozed up and has spent a lot of money. Sören doesn't understand why she is mad, he thinks she should be happy that he came home at all.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1973-01-24
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Waiting Waters
Overview: A monologue of a woman who tells about her life, mainly about the men she met, while walking.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1965-09-16
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Karl XII
Overview: August Strindberg's historical play about the king he called Sweden's traitor.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1974-04-01
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Good Friends and Faithful Neighbors
Overview: Hugo Frejer terrorizes his family and surroundings with his unhappy mood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1960-12-16
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Giftas
Overview: The General's daughter, Helene, grows up in a safe world. She doesn't want to get married or have kids. She meets a man who talks about platonic love which seems to fit her nice. They get married but when he wants to get more intimate with her she rejects him. August Strindberg's short story "Mot betalning" from the collection "Giftas 2".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-09-19
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Realm of Man
Overview: A man is forced to leave his family estate and start again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-11-19
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I lodjurets timma
Overview: A boy imprisoned for a double murder is used in a prison experiment involving placing an animal in the cells of prisoners.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1989-11-20
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Misantropen
Overview: Alceste has a very low opinion about humanity and is always brutally honest. This gets him into a lot of trouble.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1963-01-14
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