Mats Helge, also known as Mats-Helge Olsson (born 10 May 1953) is a

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independent filmmaker, best known for movies such as ''

The Ninja Mission ''The Ninja Mission'' is a 1984 Swedish action film directed by Mats Helge, starring the Polish actors Krzysztof Kolberger and Hanna Bieniuszewicz. All other roles are played by largely unknown Swedish and British actors. Plot summary The story ...

'' (1984), and he is one of the most productive independent Swedish directors ever, with almost 100 titles to his résumé. He began his career with movies in the 1970s with movies the press called "lingonwesterns". He also directed "I Död mans spår", with

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and a couple of six-shooters, shot in High Chaparral in

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, Sweden. Then he made candid camera with

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, and

. Then he went on to make a few movies with the American actor David Carradine, and action-movies like Blood Tracks, Eagle Island, Spökligan, SilverHawk, The Hired Gun, Animal Protector, The Forgotten Wells, The Mad Bunch, Fatal Secret, The Russian Terminator,

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and the short-lived

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-series Nordexpressen.

References

* *''Regissören som försvann - Historien om The Ninja Mission'', SVT, 13 September 2013.

External links

* * Swedish film directors 1953 births Living people {{Sweden-film-bio-stub