Erik Strandmark
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Erik Alfred Strandmark was a Swedish stage and screen actor and director. Frequently appearing in plays and films of the prominent directors at that time in Sweden. He was kille in a plane crash in Trinidad.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Storvik, Gästrikland, Sweden
Adult: No
Birthday: September 14, 1919
Age: 105 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 05, 1963
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The Seventh Seal
Overview: When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Block sets off on a journey, meeting up with traveling players Jof and his wife, Mia, and becoming determined to evade Death long enough to commit one redemptive act while he still lives.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-02-16
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Fartfeber
Overview: Gunnar and Ulf are neighbors. They are both lured into a life of crime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-11-27
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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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Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates
Overview: Set in 1860s Holland along the famed Zeider Zee — young Hans Brinker finds himself responsible for supporting his family after his father becomes injured in an accident. He and his sister, Gretel, travel to Amsterdam in search of funds to help pay for their father's operation. Their only hope lies in the city's annual ice skating race in which Hans must face off against his arch-rival, Ludwig Schimmel, in hopes of winning the prize money.
Genres: Drama Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-01-07
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Vi på Väddö
Overview: Law graduate Ylva Markner spends the summer on the island of Väddö, where she gets involved in a quarrel concerning a last will.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-10-13
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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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Little Fridolf and Me
Overview: Fridolf and his wife Selma gets a telegram from their daughter Maggan. She is engaged and are her way home to show her little baby.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-10-29
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Sceningång
Overview: A day in the life of a theater ensemble. The acting students are struggling to get one foot ahead of the others and the regular cast is fighting for the good parts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-12-03
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Karin Månsdotter
Overview: Karin does not belong to the nobility but nevertheless marries the mentally ill king Erik XIV and becomes queen of Sweden. The king's skilled counsellor Göran Persson wants a royal policy supporting the people and supported by it. But in relation to the nobility the king oscillates between provocative strength and unpredictable weakness. Göran arranges that some very powerful noblemen are killed. Subsequently the king tries to have them convicted of high treason by the parliament. He forgets the manuscript, mixes up all facts, and the noblemen are acquitted. But Göran speedily gathers another parliament and has them convicted. Meanwhile Erik apologises because of the unjust murders. Hence Erik is dethroned and imprisoned. Göran is executed. Karin is restricted to a castle in Finland. In the prison Erik believes that he is still the king and gives the guards presents such as all fishes in the Baltic Sea.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-11-01
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En stormträta
Overview: Drifter Pickles one day turns up at the upper class home of Skarpneck and gets involved in his life.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-12-05
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No Time To Kill
Overview: A vengeful ex-con, framed and sentenced to eight years on for arson, heads to Sweden to look for the real guilty party.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-01-02
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Children of the Night
Overview: A man meets prisoner Nils Gustaf Boman and asks him why he strayed from the straight and narrow. The prisoner says: "Put yourself in my position." The man does and sees before him himself as Nils Gustaf Boman.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-08-26
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The Road to Klockrike
Overview: Bolle gets tired of working at the cigar factory and because of his desire for freedom he takes to the road. He and the other hobos have only one problem and that is the mounted policemen chasing vagrants.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-07-19
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Spökhotellet
Overview: A Swedish TV movie based on the play L'Hôtel du Libre échange from 1894.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1960-04-17
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Night Light
Overview: Sixteen year old Maria arrives in Stockholm. She is going to stay with her aunt. Already at the Central station events occur that change her route.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-10-14
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Den Hårda Leken
Overview: Conny Persson is an up-and-coming boxer. He wins the Junior Championships and is able to write a contract with boxing manager Andy Ekström. He falls in love with Margit. She doesn't like that he is boxing, but together they open a flower shop. When Conny still won't give up boxing, Margit tells him that he has to chose between her and the boxing.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-09-10
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Kärlek
Overview: A new young priest begins his duty on a small island. He assumes that the service should not be to demanding, so that he will be able to finish his doctoral thesis. But the life at sea is hard with severe accidents. He faces emotionally difficult situations related to both love and death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1952-12-22
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Möten i skymningen
Overview: Olle moves to Stockholm to start a new job as a printer. He rents a room by his colleague-to-be, Victor. He shares the apartment with Roffe who has a serious alcohol problem - and a very flirtatious wife, Irma. He falls in love with Irma's sister, Barbro.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-09-02
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Storm over Tjurö
Overview: Karl Oskar Bohm looks back at his life, his estranged daughter Augusta and his wife Sofia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-07-19
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Girl in Tails
Overview: The beautiful student Katja shocks the conservative and rigid city of Wadköping by appearing in tail-coat on the big prom.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-10-15
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Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates: Part 2
Overview: The continuation and conclusion of the story of the famed Zeider Zee youth Hans Brinker, who desperately needing money for his father's operation, strives to win an ice-skating race.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-01-14
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Skandalskolan
Overview: TV play.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-10-09
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Sköna Susanna och gubbarna
Overview: In the legend of Susanna in Babylon she was highly desired by the old men. In this movie, Susanna the beautiful lives in a Swedish town in the 19th century.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1959-10-19
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Hidden in the Fog
Overview: A wealthy woman is suspected of murder and runs from the police
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-11-02
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Woman in a Fur Coat
Overview: Marianne is unhappily married with the rich Arvid Croneman. Arvid has been ill for some time and Marianne has been looking forward to his passing away. However, Arvid recovers. Marianne has had an affair with Lennart Hägg, her husband's doctor. She steals poison from his office and makes sure that her husband gets a poisonous injection that swiftly kills him. After his burial, Arvid's relatives, who lives in the house, treats her with suspicion. Has she really gotten rid of all the evidence?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-09-08
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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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Måsen
Overview: This quintessential Chekhov drama--his first success--is both comic and tragic. A group of friends and relations gather at a country estate to see the first performance of an experimental play written and staged by the young man of the house, Konstantin, an aspiring writer who dreams of bringing new forms to the theatre.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1959-11-20
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Unmarried Mothers
Overview: At a summer-evening dance a young girl meets a man who tells her he is a doctor. They go off together, and after that she never sees him again. She learns that she is pregnant and inquires about him at various hospitals, with no success. She reads of his engagement and becomes acquainted with another girl with a situation like her own.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-01-16
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Vildfåglar
Overview: "Wild birds" - A Swedish film noir with the character of a French noir ('Quai des brumes', 'Le jour se lève'). Two worlds meet for a brief experience of happiness ended by a violent tragedy. In one world the unhappy prostitute (Ulla) finds a drunken young man (Nisse) who had previously failed in many occupations. She takes him home. Her feelings are like those for a younger brother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-08-21
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Vägen genom Skå
Overview: Inga starts working as a trainee at Skå Barnby at Färingsö outside Stockholm. There she gets acquainted with people living nearby. Soon disturbances and conflicts arise between them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-04-02
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Rolling Sea
Overview: "Rolling Sea" - After a longer stay at the hospital, the young Martin comes to Gothenburg and notice that his fiancee Sonja has met another man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1951-09-17
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Kärlek på turné
Overview: "Love on Tour" - A traveling theatre company has arrived at an outdoor stage. They are ready for the rehearsal. But one of the actors is missing.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-11-28
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Hemsöborna
Overview: The widow Anna Eva Flod at Hemsö needs help on the farm and hire the new boy Carlsson, who quickly wins the heart of Anna Eva.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-12-17
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Barabbas
Overview: The story about the thief who didn't get crucified because Jesus was choosen to take his place.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-05-05
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Lev farligt
Overview: Iben Holt, a rich bohemian, lives in an occupied country. On his way home from a party he hears an explosion and sees flames rising from a factory. At home awaits another surprise.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-04-03
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Tarp's Elin
Overview: Elin Tarp is an unmarried mother with three children who lives a hard life in the countryside.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-11-12
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Kulla-Gulla
Overview: Orphan girl Gunilla (nick named Kulla-Gulla) gets sent from her orphanage to work as an housemaid at sharecropper Karlbergs household. Among her duties is to take care of Karlberg, his wife and their five children.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-08-27
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Seger i mörker
Overview: The story about Gustaf Dalén, the farm boy who became one of Sweden's greatest inventors.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-09-16
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Midsommardröm i fattighuset
Overview: A Swedish TV play about a workhouse in Småland, Sweden. Midsummer's Dream in the Workhouse is written by Pär Lagerkvist.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1959-01-06
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Salka Valka
Overview: A coming of age story about young Salka Valka who lives in the small fishing village of Íseyri. She is doing well for herself as a partner in a small fishing boat, but people believe she is financed by her deceased mother's former fiance, Steinthór, who disappeared on their wedding day many years ago. Salka becomes infatuated with the idealistic Arnaldur who wants to start a workers union, much to the opposition of local entrepreneur Bogesen. The past comes to haunt her in the return of Steinthór but Salka fends off his advances only to lose the restless Arnaldur away. http://www.icelandicfilmcentre.is
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-11-16
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The Minister of Uddarbo
Overview: A devoted but controversial priest comes to a Swedish village. He encounters conflicts with the locals. The priest has some problems within his family as well. One is related to an orphan girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-12-26
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