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Anita Björk

Anita Björk

Anita Björk (born 25 April, 1923) is a Swedish actress. Born in Tällberg, Dalarna, sweden, Anita Björk attended Dramatens elevskola (The Royal Dramatic Theatre's acting school) in 1942-45. Anita Björk has been a leading lady of Swedish theatre for many years and has worked at the national stage; the royal dramatic theatre, since 1945, where she has performed in more than 100 parties over the years (which makes her one of the greatest actors of Dramaten). On film, Anita Björk has played leading roles - in particular - in a number of the style forming Swedish thrillers and crime mystery dramas, including The guest (1947), the Cloud over Hellesta (1956), the Lady in black (1958), Mannequin in red (1958), and the Die is cast (1960).

Still, her most famous, the party is probably her title role in Alf Sjöberg's celebrated film adaptation of Strindberg's Miss Julie (1951) that was awarded with the grand prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Married to Olof Bergström (1945-1951), and, from 1953, with Stig Dagerman. After his death, she had a relationship with Graham Greene. Currently performing in A. R. Gurney's play love letters (Love Letters) at Dramaten opposite Jan-Olof Strandberg (Lilla-stage, March-April, 2009).

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Miss Julie: 100 Years in the Limelight (2006)

Documentary about the play Miss Julie and dramatist August Strindberg ...

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Stig Dagerman (2004)

Fifty years after the Swedish author Stig Dagerman took his own life we view his short but intense career in retrospective. ...

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An Image Maker (2001)

Making of-documentary about Ingmar Bergman's The Image Makers, featuring behind the scenes footage and an interview with its writer, Per Olov Enquist. ...

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The Image Makers (2000)

Set in 1920, The Image Makers depicts a private screening at Svensk Filmindustri, where silent-era director Victor Sjöström presents scenes from his adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf's The Phantom Carriage. As the Nobel Prize–winning author watches alongsi ...

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In the Presence of a Clown (1998)

In 1925, eccentric inventor and Franz Schubert devotee Carl Åkerblom is confined to a psychiatric ward in Uppsala after attempting to murder his fiancée. Obsessed with death, music, and the future of cinema, he joins forces with a fellow patient to creat ...

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True Moments (1998)

By chance Erik meets Viivi, an Estonian violinist playing in the Stockholm subway. They start an intense romance. Erik's mother dislikes the relationship, not having forgotten her escape from Estonia during the war. She reveals facts from the past and Erik ...

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Private Confessions (1996)

Five conversations frame a flawed marriage in this film written by Ingmar Bergman about his parents. Guilt-ridden wife Anna (Pernilla August) divulges an extramarital affair to a priest, her uncle Jacob (Max von Sydow). He presses her to confess her sins t ...

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Stjärnbilder (1995)

A tribute to Swedish film, which was made to celebrate the 100th anniversary of film in 1995 and consists of about a hundred clips from Swedish film history with many of its stars. ...

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Minns ni? (1993)

A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 films. ...

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The Best Intentions (1992)

In this film about Ingmar Bergman's parents, Henrik Bergman is studying for the priesthood and trying to make ends meet when he encounters the lovely, affluent Anna. Despite their social differences, Henrik and Anna fall in love, wed and move to the countr ...

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Madame de Sade (1992)

This television production captures Ingmar Bergman's stage adaptation of Yukio Mishima's Madame de Sade, set in France from 1772 to the aftermath of the French Revolution. While the Marquis de Sade remains imprisoned, six women—including his wife Renéeâ ...

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Dagerman (1989)

About the Swedish writer Stig Dagerman (1923-1954). More than a style, there is a Dagerman voice. This simple voice speaks softly, without emphasis, of simple people, of children, of old men, of his native Sweden. She is friendly to the humble, the solitar ...

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Amorosa (1986)

About the Swedish author Agnes Von Krusenstjerna during the period of her marriage to David Sprengel. In the hallucinatory opening sequence she is brought in a straitjacket by her husband and two psychiatric nurses through the Venice Carnival nocturnal ant ...

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Alf Sjöberg - mästaren (1983)

Alf Sjöberg (1903-1980) was Swedens greatest theater director of the 20th century and as a film director the first of international importance since the silent film era. He won the Grand Prix du Festival at the Cannes Film Festival twice. ...

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The Witch Hunt (1981)

The year is 1630. A young woman in Laupstad comes to a small mountain village. She witnesses a woman being hunted and captured. ...

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Midsommardröm i fattighuset (1980)

Blind-Jonas is in a poorhouse dreaming about his past, in contrast the young girl Cecilia shows up dreaming about her future. ...

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Next of Kin (1979)

Gathered at a funeral for a successful business man, the testament is to be read. They will all inherit, with a big IF; if the family company is to be joint run by all the heirs. ...

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Tribadernas natt (1978)

Depicts the explosive relationship between August Strindberg and Siri von Essen in 1889 while Siri is rehearsing a lead role in a play written by Strindberg. ...

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Sing Beautifully About Love (1976)

A tv play about the Swedish poet Gustaf Fröding. Flashbacks from his life in a mental hospital. ...

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Karl XII (1974)

August Strindberg's historical play about the king he called Sweden's traitor. ...

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Kommer hem och är snäll (1973)

Sören Hellgren comes home drunk one night and his wife Tyra is furious because he is boozed up and has spent a lot of money. Sören doesn't understand why she is mad, he thinks she should be happy that he came home at all. ...

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Adalen 31 (1969)

A film about the 1931 Ã…dalen shootings, in which Swedish military forces opened fire against labour demonstrators in the Swedish sawmill district of Ã…dalen. ...

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Komedi i Hägerskog (1968)

Narcissa and Elina work in a small town social service office and have various erotic encounters with the people who visit it. ...

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Henpecked (1967)

An engineer and an actor, two extremely similar men, change their identity with each other. ...

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Utro (1966)

She loves to ride in the bus and read smart book ... He likes to sit by the water and drink soda ... She loves to write down their thoughts on the fly and be glad that they do not end ... He likes to watch as boats come and invent passengers biography ... ...

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Waiting Waters (1965)

A monologue of a woman who tells about her life, mainly about the men she met, while walking. ...

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Loving Couples (1964)

As three pregnant women wait to have their babies in a hospital in Stockholm at the outbreak of the Great War, they relive their childhood and youthful experiences. ...

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Handen på hjärtat (1962)

About a dishonest Labour politician being forensically interviewed on TV. ...

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Lady in White (1962)

A ghost called Vita Frun (White Lady) is accused of several murders. Detective Hillman is contacted to resolve the case. ...

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Square of Violence (1961)

Set in Italy, the story takes place in this very country, during WW2, where German occupation army ruled everything, just before the allied forces came, in 1944. Crawford plays here a doctor whose son has been shot by the Germans. Of course he has no more ...

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Good Friends and Faithful Neighbors (1960)

Hugo Frejer terrorizes his family and surroundings with his unhappy mood. ...

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The Die Is Cast (1960)

A member of a highly successful crime drama series is found murdered in a television studio. The screenwriter of the TV-series is found as prime suspect but claims his innocence and tries to clear his name. But who is the murderer and what is his motive? ...

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Mannequin in Red (1958)

A model is murdered at a famous fashion house and the Hillmans start to investigate. Kajsa Hillman is employed as a model and discovers that several people had motives to kill her. ...

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The Phantom Carriage (1958)

The third film adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf's novel of the same name. The drinker David Holm gets killed right on the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve will face the death coachman, which happens to be his old friend Georges. Together, reliving the eve ...

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The Lady in Black (1958)

The married detective couple John and Kajsa Hillman goes on a vacation to Holmfors mill where a friend of Kajsa's lives with her husband. When a young woman is found murdered it is clear that this is another case for the Hillmans. ...

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Guest at One's Own Home (1957)

Eva Dahl, a doctor's wife, starts an affair with a younger man. ...

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Song of the Scarlet Flower (1956)

Olof is driven from home when he wants to marry the wrong girl. He takes a job as a log driver and his reputation as a womanizer goes far and wide. ...

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Moon Over Hellesta (1956)

Margareta, newly engaged with count Carl Anckarberg, visits his estate for the first time. During the visit she gets to know that his last fiancee died in a mysterious accident and she sets out to discover what really happened. Plot by Mattias Thuresson. ...

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Der Cornet (1955)

The romantic love and heroic death of a young cornet who rode into battle against the Turks in the mid-17th century. Based on Rainer Maria Rilke's "The Ballad of the Love and Death of Cornet Christoph Rilke". ...

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Hamlet (1955)

Prince Hamlet returns home from the university of Wittenberg to attend his father's funeral. His uncle Claudius, the new King, has announced his brother's widow queen. Claudius asks Hamlet to stop mourn his father. ...

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Giftas (1955)

The General's daughter, Helene, grows up in a safe world. She doesn't want to get married or have kids. She meets a man who talks about platonic love which seems to fit her nice. They get married but when he wants to get more intimate with her she rejects ...

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Night People (1954)

A US intelligence officer, stationed in Germany, is caught in a political dilemma when the Russians kidnap a young Army private, the son of prominent American businessman. In exchange for the soldier's return, the Russians attempt to barter a trade for an ...

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Med Ingrid Bergman på Berns (1953)

Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini at a gala held in Sweden in 1953. ...

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Waiting Women (1952)

The four wives of four brothers share stories of their marriages as they wait for their husbands in a small, secluded cottage. ...

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Han glömde henne aldrig (1952)

American businessman Chris Johnson spent WW2 in Sweden and fell in love with a nurse, Karin Engström. He lost contact with her after war and now, seven years later, he returns to Sweden on a business trip, trying to find her again. ...

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Miss Julie (1951)

Based on the play by August Strindberg, Miss Julie vividly depicts the battle of the sexes and classes that ensues when Julie, a wealthy businessman's daughter, falls for Jean, her father's bitter servant. ...

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The Quartet That Split Up (1950)

A small Swedish town just after WW1. An accountant and his two journalist friends have entered the stock market. The result is not as good as expected. ...

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Realm of Man (1949)

A man is forced to leave his family estate and start again. ...

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On These Shoulders (1948)

Kjell Loväng returns to his parent's farm after a few years of work in Stockholm. He discovers that his father Arvid neglects the farm and spends too much time drinking and meeting other women. Kjell has to prove to his father his ability to manage the fa ...

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A Guest Is Coming (1947)

It's Christmas. The owner of an old mansion decides to tell his family he's going to sell it. The following morning he's found murdered. ...

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Woman Without a Face (1947)

Martin is married to Frida and together they have a son. One day after a quarrel with his wife, he goes to buy flowers to ask for forgiveness. In the flower shop he meets the beautiful Rut and falls instantly in love. They both start a passionate love affa ...

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Ingen väg tillbaka (1947)

The newly appointed director Hugo Henriksen gets into a fight and accidentally hits a prostitute. When Hugo is trying to leave the scene the girl dies. ...

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100 dragspel och en flicka (1946)

Two inventors, Ville and Rulle have developed a revolutionary new accordion; however, they have competition. Twelve-year-old Pelle Borell gets to show off the instrument in front of the Swedish accordion elite in Stockholm. ...

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Count Only the Happy Moments (1944)

The old Victor Branzell has a grandson, Alf, who is in love with a clerk in a glove shop, Lilian Lind. But Lilian with her simple background doesn't get accepted in the circles where Alf belongs, and they have now reached the conclusion that they can't hav ...

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The Heavenly Play (1942)

"The Heavenly Play" - Mats Ersson is engaged to Marit and they plan to get married in the spring. But when the plague comes, the people accuse Marit of witchcraft. She is sentenced to death. Mats can not understand the divine justice and decides to go to p ...

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