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Tore Svennberg
Olof Teodor "Tore" Svennberg (28 February 1858 – 8 May 1941) was a Swedish people, Swedish actor and theatre director whose career spanned more than five decades. Biography Born in Stockholm, Tore Svennberg made his stage debut at the Folkan Theatre in his hometown in 1877. From 1878 to 1891 he was engaged with various national touring theatre companies with actress Julia Håkansson and was from time to time cast by Swedish stage director Albert Ranft. At the Swedish Theatre (Stockholm), Swedish Theatre, he played in several August Strindberg dramas: ''Gustav Vasa'', starred in ''Erik XIV'' in 1899, ''A Dream Play'' in 1907 and ''The Dance of Death (Strindberg), The Dance of Death'' in 1919. He also appeared in many roles by Henrik Ibsen: as Helmer in ''A Doll's House'' in 1889, as Hjalmar Ekdahl in ''The Wild Duck'' in 1891 and as Borkman in ''John Gabriel Borkman'' in 1897. In 1920 Svennberg was engaged at the Swedish Royal Dramatic Theatre, where he later became directo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stockholm
Stockholm (; ) is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, most populous city of Sweden, as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in the Nordic countries. Approximately 1 million people live in the Stockholm Municipality, municipality, with 1.6 million in the Stockholm urban area, urban area, and 2.5 million in the Metropolitan Stockholm, metropolitan area. The city stretches across fourteen islands where Mälaren, Lake Mälaren flows into the Baltic Sea. Outside the city to the east, and along the coast, is the island chain of the Stockholm archipelago. The area has been settled since the Stone Age, in the 6th millennium BC, and was founded as a city in 1252 by Swedish statesman Birger Jarl. The city serves as the county seat of Stockholm County. Stockholm is the cultural, media, political, and economic centre of Sweden. The Stockholm region alone accounts for over a third of the country's Gros ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sons Of Ingmar
''Sons of Ingmar'' (), also released in the United Kingdom under the title ''Dawn of Love'', (in Swedish) is a 1919 Swedish silent directed by Victor Sjöström. It is the first part of his adaptation of 's novel '' |
1858 Births
Events January–March * January 9 ** Revolt of Rajab Ali: British forces finally defeat Rajab Ali Khan of Chittagong. ** Anson Jones, the last president of the Republic of Texas, commits suicide. * January 14 – Orsini affair: Piedmontese revolutionary Felice Orsini and his accomplices fail to assassinate Napoleon III in Paris, but their bombs kill eight and wound 142 people. Because of the involvement of French émigrés living in Britain, there is a brief anti-British feeling in France, but the emperor refuses to support it. * January 25 – The '' Wedding March'' by Felix Mendelssohn becomes a popular wedding recessional, after it is played on this day at the marriage of Queen Victoria's daughter Victoria, Princess Royal, to Prince Friedrich of Prussia in St James's Palace, London. * January ** Benito Juárez becomes the Liberal President of Mexico and its first indigenous president. At the same time, the conservatives installed Félix María Zuloaga as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ocean Breakers
''Ocean Breakers'' (Swedish: ''Bränningar'') is a 1935 Swedish drama film directed by Ivar Johansson and starring Ingrid Bergman, Sten Lindgren and Tore Svennberg.Chandley p.307 The film's sets were designed by the art director Arne Åkermark. It is also known by the alternative title ''The Surf''. Cast * Ingrid Bergman as Karin Ingman * Sten Lindgren as Daniel Nordeman * Tore Svennberg Olof Teodor "Tore" Svennberg (28 February 1858 – 8 May 1941) was a Swedish people, Swedish actor and theatre director whose career spanned more than five decades. Biography Born in Stockholm, Tore Svennberg made his stage debut at the Fol ... as Anders Nordeman * Bror Olsson as Reverend * Carl Ström as Lars Ingman, Karin's father * Weyler Hildebrand as Per * Knut Frankman as Mr. Strömblom * Carin Swensson as Brita Strömblom * Georg Skarstedt as Olle * Henning Ohlsson as Karl-Johan * Wiktor Andersson as Barker at amusement park * Carl Browallius as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
What Do Men Know?
''What Do Men Know?'' (Swedish: ''Vad veta väl männen'') is a 1933 Swedish drama film directed by Edvin Adolphson and starring Anders de Wahl, Birgit Tengroth and Håkan Westergren.Qvist & Von Bagh p.57 It was shot at the Råsunda Studios in Stockholm. The film's sets were designed by the art director Arne Åkermark. It is a remake of the German film '' What Men Know'' released earlier in the same year. Synopsis A travelling salesman has a brief relationship with the daughter of a second hand bookseller. He leaves before either of them learns that she is pregnant. Cast * Anders de Wahl as Hjalmar Björklund * Birgit Tengroth as Margit Björklund * Håkan Westergren as Gösta Bergman * Tore Svennberg as Uncle Björnbom * Margit Manstad as Annie Kron * Harry Roeck Hansen as Fritz Hellberg * Nils Wahlbom as Blomkvist * Constance Gibson as Mrs. Blomkvist * Marianne Löfgren as Gertrud Blomkvist * Gull Natorp as Mrs. Holm * Hilda Borgström as Hedvig * Emmy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frida's Songs
''Frida's Songs'' (Swedish: ''Fridas visor'') is a 1930 Swedish comedy film directed by Gustaf Molander and starring Elisabeth Frisk, Bengt Djurberg and Tore Svennberg. It was shot at the Råsunda Studios in Stockholm. The film's sets were designed by the art director Vilhelm Bryde. This was the debut film of actress Annalisa Ericson. Cast * Elisabeth Frisk as Frida Blomgren * Bengt Djurberg as Åke Brunander * Tore Svennberg as Brickman * Sigurd Wallén as Gyllberg * Håkan Westergren as Hasse Brickman * Lili Lani as Miss Daisy * Albert Paulig as Kaufmann * Harry Ahlin as Clown * Charlie Almlöf as Visitor at the circus * Helge Andersson as Worker at the circus * Ossian Brofeldt as Visitor at the circus * Ernst Brunman as Singer * Thor Christiernsson as Older man * Annalisa Ericson as Dancer * Harry Essing as Lauging visitor at the circus * Hartwig Fock as Father with twins * Hilding Gavle as Visitor at the circus * Mona Geijer-Falkner as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Say It With Music (1929 Film)
''Say It with Music'' (Swedish: ''Säg det i toner'') is a 1929 Swedish musical film directed by Edvin Adolphson and Julius Jaenzon and starring Håkan Westergren, Elisabeth Frisk and Stina Berg. It was shot at the Råsunda Studios in Stockholm with a soundtrack added in a Berlin studio that had been converted to sound. The film's sets were designed by art director Vilhelm Bryde. It came during the switch from silent to sound film and lacks any dialogue. It was one of three Swedish films released that year that including some element of sound, and came at a time when film production was in crisis with no films released during the first nine months of 1929.Gustafsson p.114 It is also known by the English-language alternative title ''The Dream Waltz''. Cast * Håkan Westergren as Olof Svensson * Stina Berg as Mrs. Svensson * Elisabeth Frisk as Lisa Lindahl * Tore Svennberg as Mr. Lindahl * Jenny Hasselqvist as Mrs. Lindahl * Margit Manstad as Ingrid Mårtenson * Ed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Wild Bird
''A Wild Bird'' or ''Her Adopted Son'' (Swedish: ''En vildfågel'') is a 1921 Swedish silent drama film directed by John W. Brunius and starring Tore Svennberg, Pauline Brunius and Paul Seelig. It was shot at the Filmstaden situated in Råsunda, in Stockholm. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Vilhelm Bryde and Axel Esbensen. Cast * Tore Svennberg as Richard Brenner * Pauline Brunius as Bertha Brenner * Paul Seelig as Paul Hennings * Renée Björling as Alice Brenner * Jenny Tschernichin-Larsson as Old Hanna * Nils Lundell as Old Man * Bror Berger as First Mate * Edvin Adolphson as Guest * Gösta Cederlund Gösta Cederlund, ''Gustaf ("Gösta") Edvard Cederlund'', (6 March 1888 – 4 December 1980) was a Sweden, Swedish actor and film director. He was a popular character actor from the 1930s to the 1950s. He married to actress Anna-Lisa Ryding s ... as Guest * Arthur Natorp as Guest * Gull Natorp as Guest References Bibliography * Sado ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Phantom Carriage
''The Phantom Carriage'' (, literally "The Wagoner") is a 1921 Swedish silent film directed by and starring Victor Sjöström, based on the 1912 novel '' Thy Soul Shall Bear Witness!'' (''Körkarlen'') by Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf. In the film, Sjöström plays a drunkard named David Holm who, on the night of New Year's Eve, is compelled by the ghostly driver of Death's carriage to reflect on his past mistakes. Alongside Sjöström, the film's cast includes Hilda Borgström, Tore Svennberg, and Astrid Holm. ''The Phantom Carriage'' was released in Scandinavia on New Year's Day 1921. The following year, Metro Pictures Corporation re-edited and released the film in the United States under the title ''The Stroke of Midnight''; it was known as ''Thy Soul Shall Bear Witness!'' in the United Kingdom. ''The Phantom Carriage'' is notable for its special effects, its innovative narrative structure with flashbacks within flashbacks, and for having been a major influence on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Monastery Of Sendomir
''The Monastery of Sendomir'' () is a 1920 Swedish drama film directed by Victor Sjöström, based on an 1828 short story by Franz Grillparzer. It has also been released in the UK as ''The Secret of the Monastery''. A German adaptation of the story '' The Monastery of Sendomir'', directed by Rudolf Meinert, had been released the previous year. Plot The main part of the film is told in a flashback by a monk to two visiting noblemen on their way to Warsaw in the 17th century. He tells them how a mighty count named Starschensky once ruled Sendomir (Sandomierz), but after an intrigue in which his wife was unfaithful with her own cousin he had to use all his resources to build the monastery where they are now staying. At the end it is revealed that the monk is in fact Starschensky himself. Cast * Tore Svennberg as Count Starschensky * Tora Teje as Elga * Richard Lund as Oginsky * Renée Björling as Dortka * Albrecht Schmidt as Manager * Gun Robertson as Starschensky's Daughter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid Bergman (29 August 191529 August 1982) was a Swedish actress.Obituary ''Variety Obituaries, Variety'', 1 September 1982. With a career spanning five decades, Bergman is often regarded as one of the most influential screen figures in cinematic history. She won List of awards and nominations received by Ingrid Bergman, numerous accolades, including three Academy Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, a Tony Award, four Golden Globe Awards, BAFTA Award, and a Volpi Cup. She is one of only four actresses to have received at least List of actors with two or more Academy Awards in acting categories, three acting Academy Awards (only Katharine Hepburn has four). In 1999, the American Film Institute recognised Bergman as the fourth-greatest female AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars, screen legend of Classical Hollywood cinema, Classic Hollywood Cinema. Born in Stockholm to a Swedish father and German mother, Bergman began her acting career in Swedish and German films. Her introduction to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Woman's Face (1938 Film)
''A Woman's Face'' () is a 1938 Swedish drama film directed by Gustaf Molander, based on the play ''Il était une fois...'' by Francis de Croisset. The cast includes Ingrid Bergman in the lead as a woman criminal with a disfigured face. The film was awarded a Special Recommendation at the 6th Venice International Film Festival, 1938 Venice Film Festival for its "overall artistic contribution." (in Swedish). Swedish Film Institute. Retrieved on 2009-04-29. It was remade in 1941 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer with A Woman's Face (1941 film), the same title, starring Joan Crawford. Plot Anna Holm is an embittered woman with a facial disfigurement that distorts her eye and mouth on one side and scars her cheek. She ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
