Ernst Günther

Ernst Günther

Born: June 3, 1933
Died: December 8, 1999
in Karlskrona, Blekinge län, Sweden

Movies for Ernst Günther...

Out of Per Åhlin's Head
Title: Out of Per Åhlin's Head
Character: Self (archival footage)
Released: November 15, 2019
Type: Movie
A portrait of Per Åhlin, who has been called the father of Swedish animation.
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The White Lioness
Title: The White Lioness
Character: Fadern
Released: November 1, 1996
Type: Movie
In Cape Town, a police inspector named September color discovers that the dreaded Mabasha, hired murderer, is in talks with a right-wing organization. In Skåne, southwest of Sweden, is given to the real estate agent Louise Åkerblom by missing and the case is assigned to Inspector Wallander. Just start research supposedly empty building explodes. An unusual weapon, a transmitter Russian and index finger of a man of color are found in the wreckage of the building ...
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The Dogs of Riga
Title: The Dogs of Riga
Released: November 9, 1995
Type: Movie
A lifeboat floats ashore at the coast of Skåne. Inside are two dead men who who've been murdered. Policeman Kurt Wallander is assigned to the case. The men are identified with the help of the police in Latvia. One of their officers travel to Sweden to to help but when he returns to his home country he is mysteriously murdered. Kurt flies to Riga to find out why and is drawn into complex conspiracy.
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Title: Mördare utan ansikte
Character: Fadern
Released: September 3, 1995
Type: TV
It is winter on the plains of Skåne coast. Farmer woken gets up and goes over to the neighboring farm. The sight that meets him is terrible. His neighbor John Lövgren lying on the floor with broken face. His wife Mary is sitting on a chair with a noose around his neck and her nightgown nersölat of blood. Before she dies in the hospital, she has time to say a word as soon leak out into the media, "Foreign" Inspector Kurt Wallander in Ystad police leading the investigation will soon receive anonymous threats by telephone. When the city's refugee camp on fire and a Somali refugee murdered, he understands that those who threatened him serious. And realize that it is now a race against time. And, against a ruthless opponent. A killer with no face ...
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Faceless Murderer
Title: Faceless Murderer
Character: Fadern
Released: September 3, 1995
Type: Movie
A farmer discovers that his neighbors have been murdered. Wallander get on the case.
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Det var en mörk och stormig natt
Title: Det var en mörk och stormig natt
Character: Torsten
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
When darkness and bad weather seals around the house, it's nice to just sit and huddle in front of the television.
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House of Angels: The Second Summer
Title: House of Angels: The Second Summer
Character: Gottfrid Pettersson
Released: December 25, 1994
Type: Movie
Fanny and Zack is back, after she inherited Änglagård last year. Everytone looks forward to their new stay. Axel has told Fanny he is her father, but who else? Ivar also thinks he is her father. Be ready for expectations and confusions.
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The Last Dance
Title: The Last Dance
Released: December 25, 1993
Type: Movie
Blackpool, a dancing contest, a dead woman. This is the opening scene of this movie, which then continues by telling us the story preceding this sad accident - or is it a murder? We will get to know the tensed relationship of the dancing contestant couple Tove and Claes, and see how there lives are affected by Liselott and Lennart, their opponents and friends.
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The Slingshot
Title: The Slingshot
Character: Principal
Released: September 24, 1993
Type: Movie
Stockholm in the 1920s. Young Roland lives with his socialist father, Jewish mother and a boxing brother. His mother sells condoms illegally, and from them, Roland makes slingshots which he sells. His rebellious ways has gotten him the special attention of his school teacher, who always makes sure that Roland is punished. Roland also tries to make extra money by repairing bicycles, a successful business that in the end lands him in hot water.
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Macklean
Title: Macklean
Character: Holmström
Released: April 8, 1993
Type: Movie
Sweden in the 1780s. At the court the nobility lords and ladies dance, love, intrigue and compete for the King's favor. To this Stockholm arrives Rutger Macklean, nobleman and an officer. With a notion of an extensive re-organisation of the agricultural lands and the farm properties.
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The Best Intentions
Title: The Best Intentions
Character: Freddy Paulin
Released: May 24, 1992
Type: Movie
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 country. They lead a quiet life as Henrik works as a priest, but it isn't long before the simple people and plain surroundings make Anna long for a more lavish lifestyle, which causes marital stress.
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Maskeraden
Title: Maskeraden
Character: Elis Schröderheim
Released: March 16, 1992
Type: Movie
On March 16, 1792, the king of Sweden Gustav III was shot at the Royal Opera in Stockholm. The play portrays the king's last hours before the attack.
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House of Angels
Title: House of Angels
Character: Gottfrid Pettersson
Released: February 21, 1992
Type: Movie
In a small village in Västergötland, everything is turned upside-down when the local loner dies and his cottage is inherited by his unknown relative Fanny. She rides into town on a big black motorcycle with her androgynous boyfriend Zack, wearing black leather and spikes. When they decide to stay, Flogfält's plans to buy the cottage are upset.
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Svidande affärer eller Historien om de fuktskadade gitarrerna
Title: Svidande affärer eller Historien om de fuktskadade gitarrerna
Character: Victor's neighbour
Released: February 14, 1991
Type: Movie
A young man has big dreams and hurry to realize them. Obviously, he is willing to take risks in both business and love to reach where he wants.
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Exit
Title: Exit
Character: Pandan
Released: November 16, 1990
Type: Movie
Åke is trapped in a theme park with no chance to escape, unless he's having a great time.
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Good People
Title: Good People
Character: The Father
Released: July 13, 1990
Type: Movie
A father and his son move to small village in the south of Sweden. One day, the boy finds an injured bird. He skips the school and spend more time in the woods with the bird.
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Hjälten
Title: Hjälten
Character: The old man
Released: February 2, 1990
Type: Movie
Seventeen year old Rita grows up in an upper-class Swedish seaside society in 1965, and is very close to her father, Gerhard. Rita rejects the boys from the tennis club, and prefers to go out with Jimmi in his laundry delivery van.
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Title: Den svarta cirkeln
Character: Björkman
Released: January 23, 1990
Type: TV
A tabloid journalist investigates a series of bomb attacks in Stockholm.
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Den svarta cirkeln
Title: Den svarta cirkeln
Character: Björkman
Released: December 31, 1989
Type: Movie
A tabloid journalist investigates a series of bomb attacks in Stockholm.
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Voyage to Melonia
Title: Voyage to Melonia
Character: Caliban (voice)
Released: December 15, 1989
Type: Movie
When a ship sinks during a storm, a slave from the industrial island of Plutonia is washed up on the beaches of paradise island Melonia, where the "all-powerful" wizard Prospero and his strange friends reside.
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During the Journey to Melonia
Title: During the Journey to Melonia
Character: (Caliban)
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
Documentary about the production of Per Åhlin's feature film Resan till Melonia
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The Father
Title: The Father
Character: Doktorn
Released: October 2, 1988
Type: Movie
A charged power struggle between spouses. A tug of war to the death of an only child as ends and means. From an August Strindberg play.
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Ängslans boningar
Title: Ängslans boningar
Character: Henry
Released: March 2, 1987
Type: Movie
A sick man asks his friend to help him dig a pit.
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The Serpent's Way
Title: The Serpent's Way
Character: Ol Karlsa
Released: December 25, 1986
Type: Movie
A salesman and his son sexually abuse the generations of women of a poor family as payment for debt. Janni must see his mother, sister, niece and wife all being exploited, and the family grow bigger with the abuser's kids.
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In the Name of the Law
Title: In the Name of the Law
Character: Walltin
Released: October 31, 1986
Type: Movie
A group of four policemen is known for cruising the streets of Stockholm in their van, looking for drunks or criminals they can beat up with their batons. Lately witnesses saw them pick up a drunk who later was found dead. The four policemen deny any knowledge. Police inspector Jarnebring gets the case and finds out that these four policemen have been reported for 22 cases of police brutality. Shortly after, another criminal dies in their van...
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Love Me!
Title: Love Me!
Released: February 28, 1986
Type: Movie
Sussie is 15, raised with her alcoholic mother and an absent father. She has lived in several foster homes. Now she gets one last chance with a new family, the Lindgren's who live in a large house by the sea.
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En ros av kött
Title: En ros av kött
Character: Café owner
Released: March 26, 1985
Type: Movie
Daniel, a visual artist, mourns the loss of his daughter Johanna. The intense emotions lead him into a crisis and an estrangement from his wife Sonja.
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The Smuggler King
Title: The Smuggler King
Character: Strauss
Released: February 8, 1985
Type: Movie
It's the early 20s, just after World War I. In Sweden, restrictions on alcohol are harder than most people like and so, smuggling is abundant. In this particular little town, smuggling is ruled by one man, who is the king of smugglers. The smugglers who work for him don't get to keep much of the profit themselves, but if they don't work for him, they get in trouble, which his henchmen make sure. However, Albert Jansson arrives in town and starts taking up the competition with the smuggler king. Meanwhile, the police, together the customs office, try to catch the smugglers.
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Title: Fanny and Alexander
Character: Rector Magnificus
Released: December 26, 1984
Type: TV
Through the eyes of ten-year-old Alexander, we witness the delights and conflicts of the Ekdahl family, a sprawling bourgeois clan in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Sweden.
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Åke and His World
Title: Åke and His World
Character: Reverend
Released: October 26, 1984
Type: Movie
Åke and his world is a long, lyrical study of a Swedish country doctor of the 1930s. Åke is the doctor's six-year-old son, from whose point of view the film is told. His best friend is Kalle Nubb. Åke is very frightened of the janitor Bergström as well as the lunatic Anne-Marie.
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The Man from Majorca
Title: The Man from Majorca
Character: M. Dahlgren
Released: October 12, 1984
Type: Movie
In the aftermath of a daring post office robbery on Saint Lucy's Day, two Stockholm vice cops venture into a world of corruption, cover-ups and murder that takes them from the dirty streets to government officials.
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Sköna juveler
Title: Sköna juveler
Character: Gustav
Released: September 21, 1984
Type: Movie
In a dystopian future two private detectives try to find a stolen bracelet.
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Fanny and Alexander
Title: Fanny and Alexander
Character: Rector Magnificus
Released: December 17, 1982
Type: Movie
As children in the loving Ekdahl family, Fanny and Alexander enjoy a happy life with their parents, who run a theater company. After their father dies unexpectedly, however, the siblings end up in a joyless home when their mother, Emilie, marries a stern bishop. The bleak situation gradually grows worse as the bishop becomes more controlling, but dedicated relatives make a valiant attempt to aid Emilie, Fanny and Alexander.
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Broken Sky
Title: Broken Sky
Character: Molin
Released: September 3, 1982
Type: Movie
Erika is 13 years and lives with her parents and her grandmother in the far north of Sweden in the 1940's. The family is depressed and disappointed in life. Erika dreams of a separate being in another world.
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Pelikanen
Title: Pelikanen
Released: March 17, 1982
Type: Movie
It has just been a funeral when the daughter and son-in-law return from their honeymoon. Now the house is haunted. The empty rocking chair rocks, the doors slam, the paintings fall down and papers fly through the room. In the chiffonier's maple compartment is found a letter from the dead father. This letter is hidden again, rediscovered and finally torn up. The despairing, frozen and coughing son does not give up. He drills his way to the truth. It hits hard right up until the final catastrophe, awakening and liberation.
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Audiens
Title: Audiens
Character: Brewmaster
Released: November 8, 1981
Type: Movie
After imprisonment, Vanék can only take the worst work on a small village brewery.
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Title: The Guldbagge Awards
Character: Self - Creative Achievement winner
Released: October 30, 1981
Type: TV
The Guldbagge Awards is an official and annual Swedish film awards ceremony honoring achievements in the Swedish film industry. Winners are awarded a statuette depicting a rose chafer, better known by the name Guldbaggen. The awards, first presented in 1964 at the Grand Hôtel in Stockholm, are overseen by the Swedish Film Institute. It is described as the Swedish equivalent of the Academy Awards. The awards ceremony was first televised in 1981.
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Hans Christian and the Geographic Society
Title: Hans Christian and the Geographic Society
Character: Benjamin Backe
Released: September 13, 1981
Type: Movie
Hans-Christian is a middle-aged priest who in the shadow of World War II decides to form a geographic association aiming at increased understanding between countries and people.
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Sverige åt svenskarna
Title: Sverige åt svenskarna
Released: July 31, 1980
Type: Movie
This farce cocerns Sweden's King Gustav (Per Oscarsson who plays all the lead roles). The royal monarchs of three major European countries are patiently or not-so-patiently hovering on the sidelines while watching the future King Gustav closely. No single king appears to possess the brains he was born with, so history seems to be made by default, as it were. Gustav does blunder around, but not enough to miss being crowned king. As a result, France, England, and Germany invade Sweden hoping to take by force what they could not gain by incompetence.
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Walk On Water If You Can
Title: Walk On Water If You Can
Character: Mr. Löv
Released: September 17, 1979
Type: Movie
Literature graduate Orlando begins a love affair with the Foreign Ministry official Anders. She follows him to Argentina. There she learns that he is already married.
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Chez Nous
Title: Chez Nous
Character: Melin
Released: August 28, 1978
Type: Movie
A stripper from Club Chez Nous is murdered. The killer contacts a newspaper to whitewash himself. Two journalists start to investigate the case and stumble on other crimes along the way.
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Rikedom
Title: Rikedom
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: March 27, 1978
Type: Movie
Johan enjoys the autumn work in the small park in his hometown, but he is worried ...
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Title: Svenska noveller
Character: Berättare
Released: February 6, 1978
Type: TV
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Mondays with Fanny
Title: Mondays with Fanny
Released: August 31, 1977
Type: Movie
Robert works at a warehouse and as a cinema usher and lives in a strained marriage. Every monday, he visits his ill father at the hospital. There he meets the orderly Fanny.
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Games of Love and Loneliness
Title: Games of Love and Loneliness
Character: Jacob Randel
Released: August 29, 1977
Type: Movie
This co-production between Norway and Sweden is the first film that Anja Breien has made since Wives. She has adapted a novel by Hjalmar Soderberg. who also wrote 'Gertrud' from which Carl Dreyer's last film was made, and Doctor Glas' (made into a film by Mai Zetterhng) Games of Love and Loneliness, concerns the manners and mores of Scandinavian society between the years 1897 and 1912. A young journalist, Arvid, falls in love with a girl but won't commit himself to marrying her. She marries an older and richer man and he's pushed into marrying the girl he's been sleeping with. He meets his first love again, and she leaves her husband to have an affair with him, but he still cannot bring himself to leave his wife. Although Anja Breien has changed the character of the girl to make her less of a femme fatale and more of an emancipated woman, the film's central concern is the young man who cannot make up his mind what to do with his life.
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We Have Many Names
Title: We Have Many Names
Character: Police Inspector
Released: March 19, 1976
Type: Movie
A sacrificial passive woman spends her life breeding happiness into her family. What happens when her world of security cracks, shatters completely and her identity dissolves?
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The Metamorphosis
Title: The Metamorphosis
Character: The father
Released: January 12, 1976
Type: Movie
A Swedish adaptation of the Franz Kafka novella. Gregor Samsa, wakes one morning to find himself transformed into a large, monstrous beetle.
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A Stranger Came by Train
Title: A Stranger Came by Train
Character: Anders Andersson
Released: October 28, 1974
Type: Movie
An American gangster of Swedish origins returns to his homeland to set up shop as a morality crusader, much in the manner of the later phenomenon of televangelists. While indulging in behind-the-scene shenanigans including rape and murder, the gangster (played by American Clu Gulagher) preaches to large audiences, using mass hypnotism and show-biz razzmatazz to get his message across. The film also features a brief performance by Per Oscarsson, following his highly publicized "retirement" from screen acting.
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A Handful of Love
Title: A Handful of Love
Character: Theodor Litz, "Finland"
Released: February 22, 1974
Type: Movie
Set against the backdrop of the 1909 general strike, Hjördis is employed as a housemaid in a wealthy Stockholm family.
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Living pictures
Title: Living pictures
Character: The policeman
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
A film based on Fritiof Nilsson Piraten's short story "Lefvande bilder" - a story about when the movies came to the author's childhood village.
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Badjävlar
Title: Badjävlar
Character: Per Sjöstrand
Released: April 28, 1971
Type: Movie
Holidays on the swedish east coast. Invading summer guests collide with the locals, all without inhibitions. The formerly so radical Social Democratic municipal councilor has completely lost his visions and fully accepts that the area is transformed into a tourist resort for the rich.
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Dog Days
Title: Dog Days
Character: Jansson
Released: November 30, 1970
Type: Movie
Somewhere in the archipelago outside Sandhamn lives the barber Assar Gustafsson and his 17-year old daughter Anna-Bella...
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Title: Röda rummet
Character: Dr. Borg
Released: March 22, 1970
Type: TV
Stockholm in the 1870's. The protagonist Arvid Falk, employed as office notary.He dream of becoming a writer and finds work as a journalist. Arvid hang out with his artistic friends at the Red Room.
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Som natt och dag
Title: Som natt och dag
Character: Sture
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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Out of an Old Man's Head
Title: Out of an Old Man's Head
Character: Man throwing car tires
Released: December 6, 1968
Type: Movie
After being admitted to a residential home starts the retired bricklayer Johan to dream back to his childhood - the safe upbringing with his parents, the first love, and how he with a broken heart ran away from home, and was forced to fend for himself. How he got married, had a son, barely managed to scrape together enough money for food and shelter, the son ran away from home and his wife died.
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Title: Bombi Bitt och jag
Character: smeden
Released: January 27, 1968
Type: TV
Bombi Bitt is a wild rascal in the 1930's in Southern Sweden. Eli, the proper son of the station master, becomes his admiring partner.