Lennart Jähkel
Also Known As: Carl Gustav Lennart Jähkel, Lennart Jähkl
Biography: Carl Gustav Lennart Jähkel, born September 27, 1956 in Piteå in Norrbotten county, is a Swedish actor. Lennart Jähkel was born in Piteå but grew up in Timrå and is the son of Carl Jähkel and Carin. He has German roots on his father's side. Lennart Jähkel studied at the Statens scenskola in Malmö 1979–1982 and has since been involved in various theatres. He is also a film actor and was nominated for a Guldbagge award for his work in Suxxess (2002) and Så som i himmelen (2004). Since 1996, he has been active at the Stockholm City Theater where he has appeared in several plays. Jähkel has also appeared in some computer games and, among other things, does the voice of Mulle in the PC games about Mulle Meck. He has recorded the song Timrå tisdag (also called Brynäsjävlar) under the pseudonym Hank Lennart & and the Sentimental Cowboys, which is about Timrå IK's heyday with, for example, "Lill-Strimma" (Lennart Svedberg). Jähkel has alternately played serious and humorous roles and thus showed breadth as an actor. His more serious roles include the roles in the films The Hunters and As It Is in Heaven. For many, Jähkel is associated with the role of Jan-Olof in the popular TV series C/o Segemyhr, where he played opposite his friend and colleague Johan Ulveson, with whom he also made the cooking show Sjön suger in Kanal 9. His more humorous roles also include the role of Sven -Erik, the oldest of the three Marklund brothers in the TV series Pistvakt.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Piteå, Norrbottens län, Sweden
Adult: No
Birthday: September 27, 1956
Age: 68 years old
Gender: Male
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Popular Music
Overview: Matti and Niila, growing up in the mid-sixties in the harsh and conservative environment of a Finnish-speaking part of Tornedalen in Swedish Laponia, close to the Finnish border. Their big dream is to become rock stars. In the present the now grown-up Matti feels guilt for the death of his drug-addicted rock star friend Niila.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2004-10-01
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As It Is in Heaven
Overview: A musical romantic tragedy about a famous composer who moves back to his small hometown after having had heart troubles. His search for a simple everyday life leads him into teaching the local church choir, which is not easily accepted by the town yet the choir builds a great love for their teacher.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy Music
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2004-09-03
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Kitchen Stories
Overview: Swedish efficiency researchers come to Norway for a study of Norwegian men, to optimize their use of their kitchen. Folke Nilsson (Tomas Norström) is assigned to study the habits of Isak Bjørvik (Joachim Calmeyer). By the rules of the research institute, Folke has to sit on an umpire's chair in Isak's kitchen and observe him from there, but never talk to him. Isak stops using his kitchen and observes Folke through a hole in the ceiling instead. However, the two lonely men slowly overcome the initial post-war Norwegian-Swede distrust and become friends.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2003-09-19
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Revisorn
Overview: When the people of a small corrupt town find out a secret inspector will be arriving shortly they panic, something which a lazy civil servant takes full advantage of and lets them believe that he is that inspector.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1990-12-26
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Arne Meets Death
Overview: The year is 1995. It knocks on the door of 'Greedy Arne' Nyman's dilapidated house. It is Death who has come to take him. Greedy Arne is not worried of Death, he is more afraid of door-to-door sellers, but first he has something vital to deal with. It will be the beginning of a walk with Death by his side, which continues in an old rusty Volvo 240.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2022-12-21
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The Hunters
Overview: A policeman from Stockholm come to Norrbotten in Sweden, to join his brother, now when their father is dead. While there he starts to work on a long-running case where reindeers have been poached and soon discovers that his brother is involved...
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1996-02-02
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A Day After Work
Overview: A man comes home after work. His wife and bird hate him.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2022-01-17
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Pistvakt
Overview: Three middle aged brothers is living home in a Godforsaken skiing resort in the northernmost part of Sweden and sees their life change when their father dies, and the mother going off on a holiday to Spain.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2005-10-07
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Shit Happens
Overview: A young couple, Sophia and Freddie has just got their first baby, but this little thing makes their lives way to complicated and difficult for them to handle. They both have jobs, Sophia is an actress and Freddie a balloon-flier, which makes it tough to be home with the baby and such. They also have to deal with Sophia´s family, which includes a depressed dad, a close to senile mother, and two eccentric sisters. The family life is nothing what Sophia and Freddie expected.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2000-02-18
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Beneath the Surface
Overview: 23-year old Sandra has been doing drugs for many years and has realized that she is in need of some kind of treatment. At the clinic she is told that her pimp / boyfriend Roffe has turned his attention to Sandra's younger and well-behaving sister Jannika.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1997-11-21
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Fuck Up
Overview: Jack is pleased with himself for the first time in years. He has decided to stop fucking anything with a pulse and also to cut back on his eager and enthusiastic drug use. Then his best friend crashes into a moose in the middle of the night on the Swedish border. He is found with a hoof buried in his forehead and 2.5 kilos of cocaine in the trunk. Over the next 24 hours, Jack loses his house, his girlfriend leaves him and takes their daughter with her. And as he is about to find out: when you think you have hit rock bottom, it can always get worse.
Genres: Crime Comedy Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2012-03-16
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Have a Wonderful Life
Overview: Per is doing his military service when he finds out that his girlfriend back home in Stockholm is having an affair. He goes AWOL and tries to find a way back home. On the way he meets Hanna, the daughter of a travelling salesman who joins him on his journey.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1992-02-07
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Nordexpressen
Overview: John Andersson is the action hero who saves the world from evil villains.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1992-05-03
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Sex hopp och kärlek
Overview: A drama about the power of Love, the lust for Sex, and the need for Hope. Birgit is stuck in an uneventful, everyday life with her husband Lennart and their teenage daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2005-08-05
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Utanför din dörr
Overview: After losing his parents in an accident, André quits his job and moves to a small town.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2002-04-05
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The Fjällbacka Murders: Friends for Life
Overview: The successful detective writer, Erica Falck, is thinking that her next book should be based on a true mysterious event from her childhood. When she was only 13 years old one of her dear friends and classmate Peter boarded a bus and then disappeared. Erica has been unable to let go of the tragic event and her first meeting with a real mystery. As she starts digging deeper into what really happened to Peter it seems as if she has awakened a sleeping beast. When Erica's only connection to Peter, his brother Ivan, who is on his way to see her, gets stabbed and murdered her mission becomes not only to solve the mystery about Peter but also to find out who killed Ivan. During a high school reunion party the heat builds up when Tina, Peter and Ivan's enigmatic sister, unexpectedly shows up and later at the party another murder is committed that leads Erica closer to the truth about what actually happened to the missing Peter.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2013-01-02
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The Fjällbacka Murders: In the Eye of the Beholder
Overview: Erica's sister Anna is visiting at the same time as the TV program "Antiques cubed" is in town to record at the castle in Fjällbacka. When Anna runs into the TV host for the show, Claes Wager, sparks quickly evolve into a flirt between the two of them. During preparation at the castle Anna is the one to find Linda Hamrin unconscious from an overdose of medicine. Both Erica and Patrik are dragged into the case when only a day later a man, Hasse Wennerman, is killed and the rumors of an affair that led to Linda's overdose spiral up into a big conflict. The old painting, Hasse Wennerman brought to the antique show, is also missing and when it is found among Annas belongings, Erica gets a hard time trying to prove her sisters innocence
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2012-12-26
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Besvärliga människor
Overview: "Dificult People" - About the production process when Suzanne Osten directs the theater play ”Difficult people”, written by Nils Gredeby. It is a play about people who fail in their professional careers by ”being difficult”. It all starts with the author attending a course about how to spot the difficult people and how to fire people who sabotage or create problems at the working place. In the process the ensemble has to face questions about how we view our fellow human beings and who is considered expendable.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2001-10-05
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The Fjällbacka Murders: The Queen of Lights
Overview: On a crystal clear, starry and bitingly cold winter night a young woman dressed in the traditional Lucia white gown is seen running across the ice while sobbing. She stumbles in her long gown and drops her crown of candles in the snow and when she reaches a channel in the ice she throws herself into the dark waters and disappears. We find Erica and her husband Patrik right in the middle of preparing everything to celebrate Christmas in their house for the first time. On the 13th of December the family goes to church to watch the Lucia celebration only to find out that the Lucia has gone missing. Erica who notices a dispute in the audience can't help herself but to try and find out what the fight was really about and what could have happened to the missing Lucia. The past catches up with the present as Erica's discoveries leads to the missing Lucia, a secret love affair and a son seeking revenge for his mother.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2013-11-20
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The Fjällbacka Murders: The Coast Rider
Overview: The young coast guard and diver Jessica finds two dead scuba divers after a storm. She disagrees with her superiors that it was an accident and seeks the help of her childhood friend Patrik. Patrik and Erica, who are on their way to a romantic holiday, make a detour to the beautiful village of Kungshamn. They soon become involved in the case. Erica hides her real identity as the policemans wife and is invited to join the museum association. Already during the first meeting she attends the associations chairman is found murdered... The three deaths are now officially opened for investigation, and the common denominator between the victims seems to have been an interest in the wreckage of a 1820s ship. Did somebody finally find it? And what cargo did it carry? What caused the ship to sink?
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2013-11-06
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Play Off
Overview: Johan is a 35 year old soccer fan, unemployed but living by his wits and charm. During the Soccer World Championships in 1990 all Swedes want to follow the games, including Johan who doesn't own a TV set. He gets himself invited to friends or goes to bars to see matches. He is pursued by two hit men, as he owes money for a grand piano he was supposed to sell. Johan seeks the help of down-and-out Kenneth to avoid bodily harm. Kenneth arranges for Johan to smuggle 15 Iraqi from Frankfurt to Sweden. On the same night Sweden plays the fateful game against Costa Rica...
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1997-03-20
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Sommarmord
Overview: Sture is a rich alcoholic who has taken a trip to Mallorca to drink himself to death. But he meets Sylvia and they start a relationship. Sture moves in with her in a middle-class community. Sylvia has an eighteen year old daughter, Eva. She gets murdered on the night between Midsummer eve and Midsummer day, and to the police the primary suspect is Sture, who was so intoxicated that he can not say what he was doing during the night.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-02-10
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Full fart med Mulle Meck
Overview: How does a boat work? When did you start building boats? When did the first trains come? Mulle Meck talks about all this and much more in the second film about Mulle Meck, for children who want to know a little more.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2004-07-07
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Suxxess
Overview: A Swedish IT-company gets a new boss, who turns out to be a soulless hatchet man in Schildt's dark satire on the evils of the corporate world. He's opposed by Daniel, one of his employees, and eventually comes crashing down, impaled on his own hubris. So Daniel gets given the poisoned chalice of leadership in his place, just to end up as amoral and platitudinous as the man and values he initially stood up against.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-10
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The Fjällbacka Murders: The Sea Gives, the Sea Takes
Overview: When Erica finds Fjällbacka's photographer Stigge murdered in his studio, she can't help but take interest in the investigation regarding his death. Patrik and his colleagues at the Fjällbacka police soon starts to question whether or not Stigge was the sweet old man he seemed to be. Erica is already ahead of them - since her mother-in-law Kristina has confided in her that she is one among many in the neighborhood that Stigge blackmailed... In "The sea gives, the sea takes" we go back to the 1960s to tell the story of how true love corrupted young Stigge and made him cover up a murder with the purpose to win the love of his life.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2013-10-23
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Wallander: The Secret
Overview: 11-year-old Johannes is found raped and murdered. Investigations lead to a pedophile ring and detective Stefan Lindman's dark secret.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2006-11-10
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Mulle Meck bygger
Overview: Once Mulle Meck decided to build a car to see what it looked like where the road ended. He came to an ocean and in order to see what was on the other side of the ocean he built a boat and so Mulle Meck's discoveries continue.
Genres: Family Adventure Animation
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2003-03-04
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Pelé Penguin Comes to Town
Overview: When the fish runs out at the South Pole, Pelé Penguin and his parents are forced to move to his uncle Fernandez in Stockholm. Pelé has trouble adjusting to big city life and his clothes and way of talking and eating attract mockery. But when Pelé falls in love with a penguin girl named Madeleine, his life takes a different turn.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2015-01-17
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Heaven on Earth
Overview: A life-affirming story about how the power of love, music and dance can change people. This is a standalone sequel to "As it is in Heaven".
Genres: Comedy Drama Music Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2015-09-04
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Beyond Beyond
Overview: Beyond Beyond is a story about wanting the impossible. A story about a little rabbit boy not old enough to understand the rules of life, who takes up the fight against the most powerful force. While doing so, he learns more and more about life.
Genres: Animation Adventure
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2014-03-21
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Granny's Dancing on the Table
Overview: Eini grows up isolated from society with her father who does everything he can to make Eini believe that the world outside and the people out there are evil, and that all that has to do with sexuality and adulthood is dangerous.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2015-09-11
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Lusten till ett liv
Overview: The rise and fall of the "progg"-band "Verket".
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1999-04-01
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Reply with Photo
Overview: The shy scientist Lars decides to publish a small ad in order to find a girlfriend. From the 218 replies, he selects Brigita, an attractive Latvian woman and invites her to Stockholm. But what actually happens after Brigita's arrival is far more complicated than Lars could ever have imagined.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1999-08-20
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The Sea
Overview: Pelle and Agneta are both around 60 years of age; they′ve been a couple for many years. Although Pelle is not in the best of health they are both delighted to accept an invitation to a birthday party.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2009-02-07
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Brothers in Midnight Sun
Overview: Two brothers, Leif and Arne, are on a fishing trip. Leif is a whiner and criticizes Arne and almost everything, but the conversation leads to more important topics. A loving parody on men from the North of Sweden.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2016-01-31
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Rå
Overview: Rå is the story of an initiation. Sixteen-year-old Linn longs to be admitted to her father’s community of hunters. She has long been familiar with the rules of the hunt but has yet to prove herself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2018-02-22
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Real Men Smell Like Diesel
Overview: Partial to provocation, Aaron's mysterious visitors take a step too far when they move his cherished red model car. Why won't they just leave him alone?
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-08-10
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Swoon
Overview: John and Ninni – both heirs to their own individual amusement parks – fall in love amidst the whirling world they both inhabit. A forbidden love and a war between their two families puts their love and loyalty to the test.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2019-02-14
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Infödingen
Overview: "The Native" - About a trapper Elov Jonsson who meets the famous pop artist Bie. The meeting has consequences.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1991-11-18
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Sara & Draken
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Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2007-09-09
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The Fjällbacka Murders - The Hidden Child
Overview: Erica's parents are killed in a traffic accident. She moves to Fjällbacka and discovers she has a brother.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2013-06-28
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Awaiting Death
Overview: A man arrives at the hospital to see his father on his deathbed. He would like to have a last good time with him, but the father worries above all about knowing what to do with two jars of mustard that have been started.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2019-11-01
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Finito
Overview: The Swedish engineer Eugene Laestander has pushed the climate crisis to the history books, but mankind has not yet come to terms with its own worst enemy. Finito is a witty and humorous future dystopia with a twinkle in the eye.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2021-01-30
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Home Improvement
Overview: Bengt has been left in a heartbroken state. His ex wife will come back and pick up the last moving box. Bengt decides to make one last attempt to convince her with whale music and improvised homemade Iranian food.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2013-01-27
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Aktionen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2025-01-24
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What Happened?
Overview: An absurd and star-studded exciting mix of feature film and animation that explores human behavior!
Genres: Comedy Animation
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2025-01-30
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Arne Goes to Space
Overview: An alien crashes his spaceship in northern Sweden and has to help two quarrelling brothers with hunting disputes and wood chopping.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: sv
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