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Giliap
''Giliap'' is a 1975 Swedish drama film directed by Roy Andersson, starring Thommy Berggren as a man who takes a job as a waiter at a run-down hotel. It was a financial and critical failure, and it led to Andersson's not making another feature film for 25 years. Andersson admitted that the film contains flaws, and he said that the main reason for them was that he was not completely in control of the production, and therefore he had to compromise in several scenes. He also suggested that the audience was not ready for the film, expecting it to be more similar to his previous film '' A Swedish Love Story'': "I think they didn't understand what I was doing. Later, when Kubrick came out with ''Barry Lyndon'', people accepted thatit's the same mood. But these things take time." [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roy Andersson
Roy Arne Lennart Andersson (born 31 March 1943) is a Swedish film director, best known for '' A Swedish Love Story'' (1970), '' About Endlessness'' (2019) and his "Living trilogy," which includes ''Songs from the Second Floor'' (2000), '' You, the Living'' (2007) and '' A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence'' (2014). ''Songs from the Second Floor'', more than any other, cemented and exemplified his personal style – which is characterized by long takes, absurdist comedy, stiff caricaturing of Swedish culture and grotesque. He has spent much of his professional life working on advertisement spots, directing over 400 commercials and two short films; directing six feature-length films in six decades. His 2014 film '' A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence'' won the Golden Lion award at 71st Venice International Film Festival, making Andersson the only Swedish director and the second Nordic director to win the award in the history of the festival, after Danis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thommy Berggren
Thommy Berggren, né Tommy William Berggren (born 12 August 1937) is a Swedish actor. He is known for having starred in several films directed by Bo Widerberg, and was often considered one of the foremost Swedish film and theatre actors from the early 1960s to the mid-2000s when he retired. He starred in the Oscar nominated '' Raven's End'' (1963), directed by Widerberg. He also starred in the 1992 ''Sunday's Children'', which was directed by Daniel Bergman and written by Ingmar Bergman. Early life Berggren was born on 12 August 1937, in Mölndal, Sweden, an impoverished working class district. His father, a sailor by trade and a socialist, was supportive of and heavily involved with the worker's rights movement in Sweden. His mother was employed at the local factory and was similarly politically inclined. When he was born, he suffered with a disease of the lungs, which caused him to have to stay in a hospital facility for one year. Berggren also had to deal with the fact tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Björn Isfält
Björn Isfält (28 June 1942 – 17 January 1997) was a Swedish composer. At the 25th Guldbagge Awards he won the Creative Achievement award. He composed music for more than 35 films and television shows between 1970 and 1995. Selected filmography * '' A Swedish Love Story'' (1970) * ''Giliap'' (1975) * ''The Brothers Lionheart'' (1977) * ''Göta kanal eller Vem drog ur proppen?'' (1981) * ''Rasmus på luffen'' (1981) * ''Killing Heat'' (1981) * ''Ronia, the Robber's Daughter'' (1984) * ''My Life as a Dog'' (1985) * '' Allra käraste syster'' (1988) * '' Ingen rövare finns i skogen'' (1988) * ''The Journey to Melonia'' (1989) * ''World of Glory'' (1991) * ''What's Eating Gilbert Grape ''What's Eating Gilbert Grape'' is a 1993 American coming-of-age drama film directed by Lasse Hallström and starring Johnny Depp, Leonardo DiCaprio, Juliette Lewis and Darlene Cates. It follows 25-year-old Gilbert (Depp), a grocery store clerk ...'' (1993) References External links * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalle Boman
Karl-Axel "Kalle" Boman (born 5 April 1943) is a Swedish film producer based in Gothenburg who has been involved in many works in Swedish cinema for over 50 years. Raised in Södermalm, he was exposed to a theatre school as a boy through a friend, and had a small role in Ingmar Bergman's 1949 film ''Prison''. As a producer, Boman established his studio in Stockholm, but seeking more space, relocated it to Norrsundet. In 2014, he received the Guldbagge Honorary Award. That year, with director Ruben Östlund, Boman entered an art installation into the Vandalorum Museum in Värnamo, with the artists' statement "The Square is a sanctuary of trust and caring. Within it we all share equal rights and obligations." This inspired Östlund's 2017 Palme d'Or-winning film '' The Square''. Filmography His films include: *'' The White Game'' (1968) *'' A Swedish Love Story'' (1970) *'' Giliap'' (1975) *''You, the Living ''You, the Living'' ( sv, Du levande) is a 2007 Swedish black ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pernilla August
Pernilla August (; born Mia Pernilla Hertzman-Ericson; 13 February 1958) is a Swedish actress, director and screenwriter. Being one of Sweden's leading actresses and a longtime collaborator with director Ingmar Bergman, she won the Best Actress Award at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival for her role in his ''The Best Intentions''. She is best known internationally for portraying Shmi Skywalker in ''Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace'' and '' Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones''. Career Actor August started acting during her childhood in theatre and at school. Her professional acting career started in 1975 when director Roy Andersson cast her in a minor role in the film ''Giliap'' the same year, followed from 1979 by films by other directors, Vilgot Sjöman (among them, the film about Alfred Nobel, 1983) and Lasse Hallström. She studied acting at Swedish National Academy of Mime and Acting in Stockholm 1979–82. Before finishing her studies, she attracted the a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinema Of Sweden
Swedish cinema is known for including many acclaimed films; during the 20th century the industry was the most prominent of Scandinavia. This is largely due to the popularity and prominence of directors Victor Sjöström and especially Ingmar Bergman; and more recently Roy Andersson, Lasse Hallström, Lukas Moodysson and Ruben Östlund. Early Swedish cinema Swedish filmmaking rose to international prominence when Svenska Biografteatern moved from Kristianstad to Lidingö in 1911. During the next decade the company's two star-directors, Victor Sjöström and Mauritz Stiller, produced many silent films, some being adaptations of stories by the Nobel-prizewinning novelist Selma Lagerlöf. Sjöström's most respected films often made use of the Swedish landscape. Stiller fostered the early popularity of Greta Garbo, particularly through the ''Gösta Berlings saga'' (1924). Many of the films made at the Biografteatern had a significant impact on German directors of the sile ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Göran Lindgren
Göran Lindgren (5 November 1927 – 2 June 2012) was a Swedish film producer. He produced 32 films between 1964 and 1975. During the 1950s, Lindgren ran a consulting and agent business for well-known Swedish actors, directors, artists, writers and journalists. In 1963 he became assistant director and producer at Sandrews and from 1965 managing director of Sandrew Film & Teater AB. In 1989, he was succeeded by Klas Olofsson but remained responsible for the theater business for a few years. Sandrew's theaters Intiman, Vasateatern and Oscarsteatern were sold in 1998. Göran Lindgren was married in 1949–1985 to the costume designer Gertie Johnson. He is buried in the memorial grove at Galärvarv Cemetery in Stockholm. Selected filmography * '' Loving Couples'' (1964) * '' People Meet and Sweet Music Fills the Heart'' (1967) * '' Hugo and Josephine'' (1967) * ''Badarna ''Badarna'' is a 1968 Swedish drama film directed by Yngve Gamlin. Halvar Björk won the award for Bes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mona Seilitz
Mona Elisabet Seilitz née ''Alexandersson'' (16 January 1943 – 2 April 2008) was a Swedish film and television actress and entertainer. Born in Malmö, she was considered to be a veteran of both Swedish dramatic and comedic television. Seilitz also did vocal work for a number of Swedish language cartoons. She was cast as a lead actress in three Happy Life Animation family oriented animated films – '' Pettson och Findus - katten och gubbens år'' in 1999, '' Pettson och Findus - Kattonauten'' in 2000 and '' Pettson och Findus 3: Tomtemaskinen'' in 2005. Seilitz died of breast cancer 2 April 2008, at the age of 65. Film and television * 2007 – ''Bror och syster'' * 2006 – '' Tjocktjuven'' * 2003 – '' Belinder auktioner'' * 2001 – ''Vita lögner'' * 2000 – ''Hotel Seger'' * 1996 – '' 101 dalmatiner'' (voice) * 1994 – ''Stockholm Marathon'' * 1990 – '' Hjälten'' * 1989 – '' Miraklet i Valby'' * 1989 – '' Vildanden'' (TV-theater) * 1988 – ''Clark Kent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swedish Academy
The Swedish Academy ( sv, Svenska Akademien), founded in 1786 by King Gustav III, is one of the Royal Academies of Sweden. Its 18 members, who are elected for life, comprise the highest Swedish language authority. Outside Scandinavia, it is best known as the body that chooses the laureates for the annual Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded in memory of the donor Alfred Nobel. History The Swedish Academy was founded in 1786 by King Gustav III. Modelled after the Académie française, it has 18 members. It is said that Gustaf III originally intended there to be twenty members, half the number of those in the French Academy, but eventually decided on eighteen because the Swedish expression ''De Aderton'' – 'The Eighteen' – had such a fine solemn ring. The academy's motto is "Talent and Taste" (''"Snille och Smak"'' in Swedish). The academy's primary purpose is to further the "purity, strength, and sublimity of the Swedish language" (''"Svenska Språkets renhet, styrka och h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lars Forssell
Lars Hans Carl Abraham Forssell (14 January 192826 July 2007) was a Swedish writer and member of the Swedish Academy. Forssell was a versatile writer who worked within many genres, including poetry, drama and songwriting. He was married from 1951 until his death to Kerstin Hane, and was the father of Jonas and Malte Forssell. Lars Forssell was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1928. He attended a local elementary school called Kungsholms Folkskola, which, at the beginning of the twentieth century, was the world's largest elementary school - the school had a capacity of 3,800 pupils, but since not all of them attended school every day, they were taught in shifts and according to the City Museum of Stockholm, the total number of enrolled pupils was over 6,000. He studied in the United States during the 1940s, returned to Sweden to study for a degree at the University of Uppsala in 1952 and became a cultural reporter for various Swedish newspapers and journals ('' Utsikt, Bonniers Litte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Expressen
''Expressen'' (''The Express'') is one of two nationwide evening newspapers in Sweden, the other being '' Aftonbladet''. ''Expressen'' was founded in 1944; its symbol is a wasp and its slogans are "it stings" or "''Expressen'' to your rescue". Overview The first edition of ''Expressen'' was published on 16 November 1944. A main feature that day was an interview with the crew members of a British bomber who were successful in sinking the German ship ''Tirpitz''. A project of Albert Bonnier Jr., Carl-Adam Nycop, and Ivar Harrie – who was to become the first editor-in-chief – Expressen was created in part to push back against " national socialism and related violent ideologies." The paper is owned by the Bonnier Group. As of 2005, the paper had a liberal stance, but it declared its independent leaning in 1995. Through mergers, the Gothenburg edition of ''Expressen'' is titled '' GT'' (originally ''Göteborgs-Tidningen'') and the Malmö edition is titled '' Kvällspos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rainer Mieth
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Rainer may refer to: People * Rainer (surname) * Rainer (given name) Other * Rainer Island, an island in Franz Josef Land, Russia * 16802 Rainer, an asteroid * Rainer Foundation, British charitable organisation See also * Rainier (other) * Rayner (other) * Raynor * Reiner (other) * Reyner Reyner is a surname, and has also been used as a given name. Notable people with the name include: * Reyner Banham Peter Reyner Banham Hon. FRIBA (2 March 1922 – 19 March 1988) was an English architectural critic and writer best known for h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
