Carl Johan De Geer

Carl Johan De Geer

Born: July 13, 1938
in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Carl Johan De Geer is a Swedish artist, designer, writer, actor and filmmaker. He is unique. Art, film, photography, textile printing, books. An multi-artist who never ceases to develop, renew, surprise and calm. A film about Carl Johan holds many stories, from the advent of the fabulous Meyer-ateljéerna and the creation of the movies and TV series, which we will never see again in childhood depictions with the grandmother a Nazi and the mentally ill mother.

Movies for Carl Johan De Geer...

Citizen Schein
Title: Citizen Schein
Character: Himself
Released: March 10, 2017
Type: Movie
Harry Schein was an anomaly in Swedish cultural society. Equal parts playboy, intellectual, and political visionary, his life story could very well be the foundation of a Hollywood film. Citizen Schein is a film about a refugee who refused to look back, a film about powerful men, and the myths that fuel them.
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CJDG - En film om Carl Johan De Geer
Title: CJDG - En film om Carl Johan De Geer
Character: Himself
Released: December 12, 2014
Type: Movie
During his five decades as an artist, Carl Johan De Geer has playfully leaped between genres and art forms such as painting, children's television and literature. All of it with a powerful political commitment and a large measure of absurdism. In CJDG, we follow his work on exhibitions in New York as well as Stockholm.
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Bath House
Title: Bath House
Released: October 10, 2014
Type: Movie
Six characters meet in a bath house. The pedant bath house manager, a couple with a strange way of communicating and a gang with shady intentions. Something goes wrong.
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Title: Nugammalt
Released: April 8, 2013
Type: TV
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Good Luck. And Take Care of Each Other
Title: Good Luck. And Take Care of Each Other
Character: granne
Released: October 19, 2012
Type: Movie
Alvar is a pensioner who hides his guilt by "constructing" fictitious memoirs. By chance he meets Miriam, a socially tone deaf and obstinate teenager, and they become friends. Their friendship deepens when they begin to inspire downhearted people with public art, and comes to a head when they themselves have to blossom.
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VERDICT DB 237 District Court of Piteå - the Murder of a Child
Title: VERDICT DB 237 District Court of Piteå - the Murder of a Child
Character: Reader (voice)
Released: January 29, 2012
Type: Movie
Carl Johan De Geer reads the 80-page-long sentence. We see pictures from Lake Tjeggelva beach in Arjeplogs municipality. At the scene, four-year-old Michael was murdered on June 28, 1990.
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Avalon
Title: Avalon
Character: Leif
Released: September 11, 2011
Type: Movie
Janne, a 60 year old party promoter is arranging a nightclub at the annual tennis week in the small coastal town of Båstad, where he also teams up with his older sister Jackie. But an accident turns his life upside down and forced by the people around him, he desperately seeks a way out.
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Miss Remarkable & her Career
Title: Miss Remarkable & her Career
Character: Mother's friend (voice)
Released: October 3, 2010
Type: Movie
Miss Remarkable's struggle with her own demons, crushing parental expectations and a career meltdown.
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Title: Solsidan
Character: Raymond Björk
Released: January 29, 2010
Type: TV
The series is named after a small part of Saltsjöbaden called Solsidan. It revolves around Alex and Anna who are expecting their first child and have just moved to Alex's childhood home in Saltsjöbaden, Stockholm County. Alex tries to get Anna to enjoy herself, and at the same time spend time with his childhood friend Fredde.
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Västra Hamngatan 2020
Title: Västra Hamngatan 2020
Character: Narrator
Released: February 4, 2007
Type: Movie
A report from Gothenburg in the future where fashion is retro and the cars are old. A Gothenburg similair to the present.
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Jag tänker på mig själv - och vänstern
Title: Jag tänker på mig själv - och vänstern
Character: Self
Released: February 25, 2005
Type: Movie
Artist Marianne Lindberg De Geer thinks about her old friends from the 70s, where did they all go?
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Hiding Behind the Camera, Part 2
Title: Hiding Behind the Camera, Part 2
Character: Himself
Released: February 13, 2004
Type: Movie
A documentary by and about Swedish artist Carl Johan De Geer. A followup to his 1980 book with the same name.
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Title: Talismanen
Character: Keege
Released: April 6, 2003
Type: TV
Wallton, a sacked former policeman, is assigned to locate a priceless Arabian jewelry, a talisman. According to legend, the talisman brings misfortune and death to anyone who unlawfully takes the jewelery. The hunt for the mysterious talisman leads Wallton through all layers of society, and he encounters one mysterious death after another.
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Read the Map
Title: Read the Map
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: January 25, 2003
Type: Movie
A man finds a lot of mysterious pieces that lie here and there in the city. Is that information, is it propaganda? The man finds a map and begins to follow the paths of the patches. What will he find at the end? Who is behind everything?
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Stockholmssyndromet
Title: Stockholmssyndromet
Character: Narrator
Released: August 9, 2002
Type: Movie
Carl-Johan De Geer talks about his hometown Stockholm, how he will miss it when he's gone.
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Mormor, Hitler och jag
Title: Mormor, Hitler och jag
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: April 11, 2001
Type: Movie
A contradictory picture of Nazism in the Swedish aristocracy. To distance themselves from Nazism is obvious for most people. But not for everyone.
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I Remember Lena Svedberg
Title: I Remember Lena Svedberg
Character: Narrator (Swe)
Released: January 30, 2000
Type: Movie
Carl Johan De Geer remembers his old friend Lena Svedberg. He talks about how they used to make their magazine together, how beautiful but strange she drew and how bad she seemed to feel.
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The Return of Jesús, Part II
Title: The Return of Jesús, Part II
Character: dödgrävare
Released: November 30, 1996
Type: Movie
A lone avenger arrives in a crime-ridden western town
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Buljong
Title: Buljong
Released: March 10, 1995
Type: Movie
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Småkakor
Title: Småkakor
Character: The artist
Released: November 10, 1991
Type: Movie
A film about nature's nature and meaning "cookies" versus "patchwork". This against a serious core: "The anxiety and pressure that the adults live under, with lack of money and unfulfilled dreams lead to behaviors that the children may suffer, but as the children in this movie get an overview and help relieve."
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Title: På spåret
Character: Tävlande
Released: September 5, 1987
Type: TV
På spåret is a popular Swedish TV game show broadcast on SVT since September 5, 1987. The show, which is intended to be humorous yet educational, has remained one of the most popular TV shows in Sweden, attracting an average of 2,150,000 viewers during the 2007 season. The all-time record was set in March 1990, when 3.7 million people tuned in to see the show. This means that nearly every second Swede saw the game show. På spåret is an original format developed by Ingvar Oldsberg for SVT, and he hosted the show for many years. Author and tennis legend Björn Hellberg was promoted from contestant to permanent Oldsberg sidekick in 1995 after winning for four straight seasons. Famous gourmet, restaurant-owner, and former contestant Carl-Jan Grankvist sat in for Hellberg during the 2004 season. In 2009, after 21 years, Oldsberg left and Kristian Luuk took over as the host. Björn Hellberg too decided to leave and was replaced with Fredrik Lindström.
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Mamma, pappa, barn
Title: Mamma, pappa, barn
Character: The sausage
Released: March 19, 1978
Type: Movie
A short film by Marie-Louise De Geer Bergenstråhle.
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Title: Tårtan
Character: Apan Saba
Released: June 17, 1973
Type: TV
Three sailors, Janos, Frasse and Hilding, going ashore after many years at sea. They take over a bakery. But it is not always that easy to become bakers. Many difficulties and challenges await them in their new profession.
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Tårtan
Title: Tårtan
Character: Apan Saba
Released: June 16, 1973
Type: Movie
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Du gamla, du fria
Title: Du gamla, du fria
Released: March 4, 1972
Type: Movie
A street theatre group performs anti-capitalist and anti-militarist plays. The inner conflicts, about how to reach and how tight they shall embrace the working class, escalates and the group split up.
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Blushing Charlie
Title: Blushing Charlie
Released: September 8, 1970
Type: Movie
"Blushing Charlie" - Truckdriver and bachelor Charlie meets homeless and seven months pregnant Pia. They both dream of finding someone to share their lives with. Charlie then faces a dilemma whether to take part in a demonstration in favor of Cuba, and in addition with his employer's truck.
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No
Title: No
Released: May 8, 1969
Type: Movie
How and why people refused military service in Sweden at the end of the 1960s. This is the reasoning of the Minister of Defense and the friends of non-violence and pacifists.
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Som natt och dag
Title: Som natt och dag
Character: Klas
Released: February 13, 1969
Type: Movie
Television hostess Susanne has an affair with Rikard, who is a doctor at a hospital. But after meeting the man who Rikard works for, Professor Erland Roos, she leaves Rikard and eventually marries the professor. Susanne's sister comes to Stockholm, desperately in need of money. Perhaps Susanne, now married to a rich professor, can help her?
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Kårhusockupationen
Title: Kårhusockupationen
Character: Student
Released: June 12, 1968
Type: Movie
"The Invasion of the Student Union" - Stockholm, Sweden, May 24th. It all started as a regular student meeting, evolved into a mass-meeting and an invasion of the house, with all ended three days later. The students were primarily upset regarding a draft about a changed curriculum in higher education. They also pursued various political dogmas. The angry students called out for the responsible minister of the government. This happened to be Olof Palme. He arrived at the mass-meeting where he suffered much criticism.
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Dart 68'
Title: Dart 68'
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
A gangster pastiche. The movie was named after the Dodge Dart model -68, used in the hot car chases.
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Året var 1973
Title: Året var 1973
Character: Self
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
At the end of August 1973, a robber takes hostages at the Kreditbanken at Norrmalmstorg. A week or so later, on September 15, King Gustaf VI Adolf dies in Helsingborg's hospital and Sweden gets a new king: Carl XVI Gustaf. In Chile, the military takes power and the popularly elected president Salvador Allende is overthrown. That and much more in this column about the year 1973.