Niklas Ek

Niklas Ek

Born: June 16, 1943
in Stockholm, Sweden

Movies for Niklas Ek...

Juliet & Romeo
Title: Juliet & Romeo
Character: Duke
Released: April 29, 2014
Type: Movie
Mats Ek and the Royal Swedish Opera present a new take on a classic story and ballet
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Monkey Sandwich
Title: Monkey Sandwich
Released: August 30, 2011
Type: Movie
Meet Jerry, an obsessive but frustrated director who decides to turn his back on the theatre in favour of a controversial new project. But things soon start to go wrong. As he struggles with the demands of his role as leader, he is plagued by surreal dreams conjured up by his guilty conscience. Monkey Sandwich is a portmanteau film with a captivating tangle of stories involving the search for an unborn child, a disturbing hunting trip, a haunted LP, a screaming piglet and a river gone rogue. The stories in Monkey Sandwich are urban myths or stories created with or by the actors. The film was originally part of a stage performance of the same name.
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Welcome to Verona
Title: Welcome to Verona
Character: Tord
Released: April 7, 2006
Type: Movie
In a sanatorium for people in their 60's Walter meets Virginia and falls in love. His boyish invites only upset her. In another attempt to capture her interest he directs "Romeo and Juliet" starring the residents of the sanatorium.
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La veillée des abysses
Title: La veillée des abysses
Released: September 30, 2005
Type: Movie
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Evidentia
Title: Evidentia
Character: Self
Released: December 27, 1995
Type: Movie
In this experimental film conceived by Sylvie Guillem, the choreographers become dancers or photographers: William Forsythe dances a superb solo and Mats Ek films his brother and Sylvie Guillem in Smoke, an oniric and sensual duet.
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The Dancer
Title: The Dancer
Released: September 9, 1994
Type: Movie
The career of a classical ballet dancer is short and often riddled with injuries, and it takes a special kind of artist to submit to the discipline and strenuous regimen needed to dance with a world-class company. Follows the young and gifted Katja Björner through years of intensive training at the Royal Swedish Ballet School as she develops into an international ballet star.
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Lethal Film
Title: Lethal Film
Character: Professor Sven Emil
Released: March 4, 1988
Type: Movie
The real horror is worse than - than a horror film, worse than - than the worst horror film. A story about some who are producing horror and special effects.
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Aida
Title: Aida
Character: Radames
Released: June 9, 1987
Type: Movie
Film version of Verdi's opera from director Claes Fellbom.
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The Headsman and the Harlot
Title: The Headsman and the Harlot
Character: The Executioner
Released: December 29, 1986
Type: Movie
Sweden, beginning of the 18th Century. Executions are popular entertainment and brothels a given. Still the executioner and the whore are both despised and shunned. The executioner became executioner against his will and the whore, only 17 years old, was forced into the brothel. This is the story of how the two meet and exchange cruelty with tenderness, guilt with innocence.
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The Mozart Brothers
Title: The Mozart Brothers
Character: Georg / Donna Anna's Father
Released: February 21, 1986
Type: Movie
This is a comedy about people who work in the theater, live for the theater, think of nothing but the theater. The director seems crazy, the art director has idiotic ideas, and the acting coach is eccentric: they even look like brothers, related by their common obsession for the theater, linked as one with the actors. The new project is Mozart's Don Giovanni, in which the director insists to give it a brand new interpretation and an avant-garde treatment. Now, he has to deal with the violent objection from the actors, the musicians, the singing coach, the stage manager, and even the cafe bar attendants and the cleaners. The situation is further complicated as the director is such a womanizer like Don Juan... and his lovers and kids keep bugging him throughout the rehearsal...
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Fröken Julie
Title: Fröken Julie
Character: Jean
Released: May 10, 1981
Type: Movie
Birgit Cullberg's 1950 dance adaptation of Miss Julie was the breakthrough for modern dance in Sweden. 30 years later one of her sons plays the role of Jean in this adaptation for TV.
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Rött vin i gröna glas
Title: Rött vin i gröna glas
Character: Carl Michael Bellman
Released: July 26, 1970
Type: Movie
A pas de deux about the Swedish poet/singer/songwriter Carl Michael Bellman (1740-1795) and his muse Ulla Winblad (1744-1798), later included in the full-length ballet "Bellman".