Torkel Petersson
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Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Torkel Petersson is a Swedish actor born in Lund, Sweden, on August 19, 1969. Description above from the Wikipedia article Torkel Petersson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lund, Sweden
Birthday: August 19, 1969
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Old Men in New Cars: In China They Eat Dogs II
Overview: The last wish of the dying "Monk" is for his foster child, Harald, to find his real son, Ludvig. But the latter is currently in a Swedish prison cell...
Genres: Action Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2002-07-12
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The Best Man's Wedding
Overview: Roro, a foreign worker in Swedish parks, loves his girlfriend but is about to marry another girl to prevent her from being sent back to Lebanon. Meanwhile, Roro's best friend, Måns, has serious problems getting an erection.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2000-12-22
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Zero Tolerance
Overview: Johan is a two-fisted Gothenburg cop who finds himself in a shoot-out with jewel robbers. After the smoke has cleared, one robber, shot by his accomplice, and an innocent bystander, are dead. Three witnesses, including Helen, identify thug extraordinaire Leo Gaut as being the dead crook's trigger-happy colleague. Gaut soon threatens the three witnesses, and only Johan, the badge-wearing hero, can save them.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1999-10-29
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Nasty Old People
Overview: Member of a neo-Nazi gang, her day job is to take care of four crazy old people that all are just waiting to die. Her life becomes a journey into a burlesque fairytale, where the rules of the game are created by Mette herself. Mette is indifferent about her way of life, until she one night assaults a man, kicking him senseless. Waking up the day after, she realizes that something is wrong.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-10
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Balls
Overview: A heartwarming tale about a beloved father who is trying to cope with cultural clashes, loss and the search for love in average Swedish society.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2010-02-12
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Kopps
Overview: A small Swedish village, Högboträsk, is so peaceful that crime is nonexistent. The police spend their shifts drinking coffee, eating hot dogs and chasing down runaway cows. This is all well and good for the village's own police, but the police management board wants to discontinue the local police force for lack of crime.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2003-02-06
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The Stockholm Syndrome
Overview: This is the true story of the failed bank robbery-cum-hostage taking in a bank at the square Norrmalmstorg in Stockholm, in September 1973. The Stockholm Syndrome is named after this incident.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2003-08-29
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Patrik, Age 1.5
Overview: Göran and Sven have been cleared for adoption and they have a possibility to adopt a swedish orphan, Patrik 1,5. But when Patrik arrives he turns out to be someone else, not the little boy they were expecting. A comma had been misplaced, and in comes a 15-year-old homophobic with a criminal past.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2008-09-12
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High Sky Low Land
Overview: Under the summer high sky, on the low land of a barren island, a young girl tries to force her father not give up on what's left of their family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2021-07-31
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Off Track
Overview: A mid-age hipster in Stockholm is a training freak and trains for the 90 km ski race Vasaloppet. His sister is the opposite, no job, drinks but has a daughter. Suddenly secrets reveals and promises are made.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2022-01-28
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Offside
Overview: In the sleepy town of Stensfors, the soccer team used to be something to be proud of , playing in the national league 30 years ago. Now the team will be dissolved if it can't win the rest of the games in the local league. Team member Kent goes on a business trip to Liverpool and meet Duncan Miller, the premier league football star of the 1980s who promises to come over to Sweden and play a few games just for fun. Unfortunately, when he arrives it is obvious that their saviour is both an alcoholic and very unfit to play. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2006-08-18
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A Swedish Defence
Overview: In this satirical drama, an international arms deal is interrupted by teenage protesters. A Swedish engineer tries to prevent his activist daughter from embarrassing him at work and ruining Sweden's relations with Turkey.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-11-17
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A One-Way Trip to Antibes
Overview: When George (Sven-Bertil Taube), a half-blind widower, learns that his children (Malin Morgan, Dan Ekborg) have conceived an elaborate plan to get their hands on his assets before he dies, he must confront his life choices. After catching his young home help Maria (Rebecca Ferguson's screen debut) red-handed in the act of stealing, George blackmails her into assisting him in a counterattack, triggering off a chain reaction in the family. George's children discover that he has a secret mistress in France.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2011-09-30
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Svensson, Svensson - In Sickness and in Health
Overview: Gustav and Lena Svensson are facing their 30-year wedding anniversary , but Lena can't stand Gustav anymore and therefore wants to divorce him. The only thing Gustav does is to watch sport - any sport at any time - and doesn't give Lena any attention at all. Gustav however, thinks that everything is great and doesn't think they can give up just a week before their anniversary . Lena gives Gustav one absolute last chance and they go off on a love weekend where Gustav will have to prove that Lena is more important than football and TV. But at the hotel football legend Tommy Franzén shows up and messes everything up for Gustav!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2011-10-14
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Let's Play House
Overview: Married Jonny meets married Rebecka.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2003-10-31
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Eskil & Trinidad
Overview: Eskil moves from town to town with his father in Northern Sweden. He misses his mother and sucks at playing hockey, the main activity among the boys his age. Things changes when he meets Trinidad, a mysterious woman who lives outside society spending her time building a great ship that perhaps could take Eskil to his mother...
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2013-02-01
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The Master Plan
Overview: Charles Ingvar Jönsson gathers three criminals to take vengeance upon the people who killed his uncle.
Genres: Crime Action Comedy Adventure
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2015-01-16
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Eternal Summer
Overview: "Eternal Summer" is a road movie full of dreams, love, missteps and lawlessness. When Isak and Em meet one night in Stockholm they're finally in the right place, suddenly there is nothing else. Together, they leave everything and embarks on a roadtrip through the northern forests of Sweden. But what begins as a crazy adventure soon turns into a dangerous game. Eventually they reach a point when there is no turning back.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2015-08-21
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En uppstoppad hund
Overview: The North of Sweden. The action takes place in the 1960s and revolves around the families Cervieng and Ljungh, the night clerk upstairs and the inherent lecturer Mr Lampa.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2006-10-30
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Becker - Kungen av Tingsryd
Overview: Becker runs a business in Tingsryd, Sweden, specialized in garden furniture. In fact he sells everything you can make a profit from, including black labour from the Baltic countries. Becker, who is driven by his obsession with money and consumption, has built a local empire with his lucrative business. Now his business is being threatened, both from the in- and the outside.
Genres: Comedy Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2017-09-01
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Round-Trip
Overview: 11-year old Julia and Martin are tired of having to flip back and forth between their divorced parents and when they realize how much they look like, they realize to swap places. After meeting at an airport, the each embark on a journey that will change their lives forever.
Genres: Family
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2003-12-25
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Strawberry Days
Overview: A love story between a Polish guestworker and a farmer's daughter in the strawberry fields of Sweden.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2017-06-30
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The Adventures of Halvdan Viking
Overview: Halvdan is not a proper Viking. He's having a limp and is regarded by the other kids as a strange loner with no friends, except for the village blacksmith Björn who's taken care of him since Halvdan's father left on a plundering trip. Across the mighty river there's an enemy village that has been in a feud with Halvdan's tribe for as long as anyone can remember. One day during Halvdan's lonely excursions to the river he encounters Meia, the daughter of the enemy village ruler. A heart-warming and funny family adventure about bridging differences and forbidden friendship unfolds
Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2018-10-26
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Just Like You
Overview: The day has arrived - the big operation! What will life be like with only one arm? Can you continue your life as usual and still be accepted for who you are? Tanja runs away from the hospital in a panic, tying her arm to her body with a belt and hiding it under the shirt. She needs to be convinced that nothing will change.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2015-01-25
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The Hunt
Overview: A misunderstanding between some hunters leads to an extraordinary, mysterious hunt in the mountainous landscape of Lapland.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2014-06-22
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Doxa
Overview: Sanna has broken up with her boyfriend Jon. Because her father is in the hospital, she moved into her father's apartment. In his dresser drawer, she finds clipped obituaries of his colleagues, who all seem to have died prematurely. Sanna crosses one border after another, approaching a total collapse of her obsession with truth. In the end, she takes the law into her own hands.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2005-09-16
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Albert Speer
Overview: The story of German architect Albert Speer, who became one of Hitler's closest allies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-12
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Headache
Overview: In a world where people's lives consist of consuming and producing painkillers, Frank is suddenly transferred to a new department and a new life.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2023-10-28
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Kevlar Soul
Overview: Brothers Alex and Robin live in miserable conditions with their violent and severely alcoholic father (Torkel Petersson). In an effort to make life bearable, Alex tries to keep his father in a good mood while taking on a parental role for his younger brother, who is aggressive and unruly. When Alex falls for Ines and travels with her to Berlin, the brothers begin to drift apart, and disaster soon becomes inevitable. A finely drawn portrait of brotherhood where an older sibling is forced to step into the shoes of absent parents far too soon, in a genre that echoes the cinematic worlds of Andrea Arnold and the Dardenne brothers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
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Fanny och Alexander på Galeasen
Overview: Ingmar Bergman's classic film adapted for the stage.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2025-01-24
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