Peter Lindgren

Peter Lindgren

Born: December 13, 1915
Died: May 30, 1981
in Lidingö, Stockholms län, Sweden

Movies for Peter Lindgren...

Svartskallen
Title: Svartskallen
Character: The fisherman
Released: October 20, 1981
Type: Movie
About a Turkish boy who is trying to adapt to life in Sweden. A difficult task as it turns out.
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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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Hasan the Rose
Title: Hasan the Rose
Character: The Old Swede
Released: June 23, 1980
Type: Movie
A film director comes to Stockholm claiming he is an internationally renowned filmmaker. The truth is that he is a total failure. He is counting on that his compatriots have saved big money working in Sweden. Money he intend to spend on making a film.
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Arme, syndige menneske
Title: Arme, syndige menneske
Character: Svensk seiler
Released: February 1, 1980
Type: Movie
The alcoholic Oslo journalist Erik Mogensen goes to Copenhagen to make a story about youth and drugs. Inevitably this goes wrong for Erik.
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I Am Maria
Title: I Am Maria
Character: Jon
Released: December 15, 1979
Type: Movie
A story about a strange friendship between 11-year-old Maria and an older man Jon.
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Lucie
Title: Lucie
Released: September 7, 1979
Type: Movie
Norwegian: The late 19th century Christiania (Oslo) could offer a rich variety of entertainment. There were several variety theatres and brothels, and poor women could earn money based on their looks. The beautiful variety actress Lucie (Inger Lise Rypdal) has met a lawyer by the name Gerner (Gösta Ekman), a refined gentleman. Flowers and encounters outside the theatre develops into an erotic relationship. Lucie knows how to play on Gerner's jealousy and masculine pride, and finally she reaches her goal: becoming Mrs Gerner. For Lucie this means climbing the social ladder, but she'll soon notice the problems. Living in the upperclass society keeps reminding her of her poor background and her lack of etiquette. All this affects Gerner in a negative way, who is plagued by jealousy regarding people from Lucie's past. The relationship between the married couple keeps getting worse.
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Kejsaren
Title: Kejsaren
Character: The Captain
Released: February 24, 1979
Type: Movie
Before World War II, Swedish workers had to deal with low wages, scarce work, and the extensive importation of foreign labor, particularly for the purpose of breaking strikes. This did not make foreigners of any stripe very popular, and those from "guest worker" countries were particularly disliked. In this film, set in 1938, a half-Polish boy goes to Poland in search of his mother, runs into financial and psychological difficulties there, and is sent back to a Swedish mental hospital. In another story, an unfortunate woman suffers a miscarriage and ends up at the asylum where the Polish boy is being kept.
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Title: Ärliga blå ögon
Character: Oscarsson
Released: April 9, 1977
Type: TV
A young female scammer relying on her innocent blue eyes and ability to disguise herself tries to avoid the police that are getting ever closer.
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City of My Dreams
Title: City of My Dreams
Character: Storsäcken
Released: October 29, 1976
Type: Movie
Young Henning and his friends are struggling to stay alive in 19th century Stockholm, where he has ended up in search of employment. In the harsh city, he and his friends dream of the good life while struggling for their survival.
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The Lion and the Virgin
Title: The Lion and the Virgin
Character: Blomberg
Released: February 14, 1975
Type: Movie
After young film writer Leo has his latest screenplay rejected he retreats to his summer home on an island, on his way he meets the flight attendant Virgo and a romance soon blossoms.
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A Stranger Came by Train
Title: A Stranger Came by Train
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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Maria Marusjka
Title: Maria Marusjka
Character: Ewert
Released: April 23, 1973
Type: Movie
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Ebon Lundin
Title: Ebon Lundin
Character: Fyllo
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
Ebon Lundin is the anonymous but odd living man, who becomes a Christ-like, misunderstood figure who suffer much scorn and derision of the cruel reality.
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The New Land
Title: The New Land
Character: Samuel Nöjd
Released: February 26, 1972
Type: Movie
A Swedish immigrant family struggles to adapt to their new life on the American frontier during the second half of the 19th century amidst civil war, native uprising and the lure of gold in California.
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We Are All Demons
Title: We Are All Demons
Character: First Mate
Released: June 27, 1969
Type: Movie
A veteran sea captain abducts his niece for what he believes is his last chance at love. As the sad demon of the ocean Klabautermanden watches the passing of doomed ships, the niece awakens in her uncle's cabin. She makes him marry her but never allows the tyrannical captain to ever touch her. For eight years, the ship never docks as the malnourished crew wishes for death.
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Waltz of Sex
Title: Waltz of Sex
Character: Söder
Released: September 22, 1968
Type: Movie
When a vagrant family arrives to the village Vindinge one hot summer in the 1920's, the parish is spiced up with sex and alcohol. Based on a novel by Swedish Academy member Artur Lundkvist.
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I Am Curious (Blue)
Title: I Am Curious (Blue)
Character: Lena's Father
Released: March 11, 1968
Type: Movie
The same movie with the same characters, cast and crew as I am Curious (Yellow), but with some different scenes and a different political slant. The political focus in Blue is personal relationships, religion, prisons and sex. Blue omits much of the class consciousness and non-violence interviews of the first version. Yellow and Blue are the colors of the Swedish flag.
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I Am Curious (Yellow)
Title: I Am Curious (Yellow)
Character: Lena's Father
Released: March 10, 1967
Type: Movie
Lena, aged twenty, wants to know all she can about life and reality. She collects information on everyone and everything, storing her findings in an enormous archive. She experiments with relationships, political activism, and meditation. Meanwhile, the actors, director and crew are shown in a humorous parallel plot about the making of the film and their reactions to the story and each other. Nudity, explicit sex, and controversial politics kept this film from being shown in the US while its seizure by Customs was appealed.
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Bödeln
Title: Bödeln
Released: September 19, 1965
Type: Movie
"The Hangman" - The events take place in two periods of time. In the Middle Ages a group of men sit and discuss the evil at the tavern. With the hangman close by. 1930s: a dance hall where many people gathered. A jazz orchestra of colored musicians entertain. When the musicians take a break to eat, they are denied this by a Nazi.
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Gustav Vasa
Title: Gustav Vasa
Character: Nils i Söderby
Released: September 6, 1965
Type: Movie
Gustav Vasa struggles to keep power while dealing with the Dacke War in his own country and his foreign debts.
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Kurragömma
Title: Kurragömma
Character: Johansson (uncredited)
Released: February 5, 1963
Type: Movie
An escaped convict assumes the identity of a professor in order to reveal a criminal syndicate who smuggle diamonds together with Parisian haute couture.
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Do You Believe in Angels?
Title: Do You Believe in Angels?
Character: Poker player
Released: January 30, 1961
Type: Movie
Jan Froman is a young man with great plans for the future. He gets a job as an assistant janitor at a bank, but with inherited money he starts to buy and sell real estate which eventually increases in value. He falls in love with Margareta, whose father is a naval officer. Margareta is slighted by her fiance and follows Froman on a sailing trip in the archipelago. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
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It Happens Tonight
Title: It Happens Tonight
Released: December 20, 1957
Type: Movie
Lars Ekborg and Sven Eric Gamble portray bumbling criminals who get involved in a safe-cracking heist.
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Blonde in Bondage
Title: Blonde in Bondage
Character: Night Club Customer
Released: November 8, 1957
Type: Movie
A reporter (Mark Miller) tries to help a drug-addicted cabaret dancer (Anita Thallaug) who has criminal ties to the Swedish underworld.
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En drömmares vandring
Title: En drömmares vandring
Character: Anders Kolare
Released: March 25, 1957
Type: Movie
Portrait of the Swedish poet Dan Andersson (1888-1920). Brought up during poor conditions he finds work as a temperance preacher and educator. Bored by this he travels to Stockholm to try to get his poems published. On the train he meets a rich, sophisticated art patron who encourages him and grinds his literary and philosophical formation.
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Swing it, fröken
Title: Swing it, fröken
Character: Bi
Released: October 20, 1956
Type: Movie
There is a new English teacher in school, Miss Lind. She moves in with the Nilssons, whose son Sigge prefers playing with his trumpet than to study German. Miss Lind convinces him how important his studies are. But Sanna, a girl in Sigge's class becomes jealous and angry when Sigge prefers his homework instead of her. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
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Mord, lilla vän
Title: Mord, lilla vän
Character: Valter Smitt
Released: February 26, 1955
Type: Movie
A member of "Sjöbjörnarna" (a group of executives), asks the newspaper editor Dick Mattson to find Brita Ljungdahl, the former wife of another of the members. The first clue he tries is to ask a certain Maria Vaern, who knows Brita.
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Resa i natten
Title: Resa i natten
Character: Berra
Released: January 30, 1955
Type: Movie
Gösta is a lorry driver and has been married to Birgitta for eight years. Their marriage is only held together by their daughter. Gösta picks up girls along the roads and during a drive to Malmö he stumbles on the singing actress Irene. Gösta is captivated by her romantic presence and her joy of life. Besides picking up women, Gösta is sometimes affected by sudden seizures. His wife is unaware of this.
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Savnet siden mandag
Title: Savnet siden mandag
Released: January 27, 1955
Type: Movie
17 year old Gunnar Holm has been missing since Monday.
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The Vicious Breed
Title: The Vicious Breed
Released: December 26, 1954
Type: Movie
About a man hunt when a man escapes from the prison.
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Tattarblod
Title: Tattarblod
Character: Mickel
Released: February 8, 1954
Type: Movie
David, a young woodsman with a family, is leasing a farm. The family are welcomed by the locals until it becomes known that David is the son of a notorious drifter.
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Ursula - Flickan i Finnskogarna
Title: Ursula - Flickan i Finnskogarna
Released: March 2, 1953
Type: Movie
Ursula is the only daughter of a rich landowner high in Sweden. At 20 her father dies and she becomes reluctant heiress to huge property. Ursula is emotionally torn between a young handsome forester and farmer.
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Flottare med färg
Title: Flottare med färg
Character: Ivar
Released: December 26, 1952
Type: Movie
"Colorful Raftsmen" - The three brothers Nils, Lars and Ivar are members of a raftsmen team. Ivar feels that he does not really belong there, he prefers a little poaching andante a lot of flirting with women.
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Starkare än lagen
Title: Starkare än lagen
Character: Manuel
Released: October 15, 1951
Type: Movie
About the farming mountain settlers in 1870s Sweden. The young Helge has been accused of manslaughter and has to fight for his life to survive.
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Two Suspicious People
Title: Two Suspicious People
Character: Ekstrøm
Released: December 31, 1950
Type: Movie
Two police officers lie dead. The swede Ekstrøm and the youngster Gustav flees the scene of the crime. Based on a real double murder in 1926, this movie remained almost unseen for 57 years. When the film was set to premiere in 1950 one of the murderers, having served a full sentence, went to court to have the film stopped.
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Rågens rike
Title: Rågens rike
Released: September 26, 1950
Type: Movie
Love triangle between the big farmer, a farmhand and his sweetheart.
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Lång-Lasse i Delsbo
Title: Lång-Lasse i Delsbo
Character: Klas Hägglund i Backa
Released: October 29, 1949
Type: Movie
it's the 1840s and a rural parish plagued by drinking and fighting gets a new vicar who has decided to instill law, order and fear of God into the parishioners.
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Gatan
Title: Gatan
Character: Berra Wiring
Released: February 27, 1949
Type: Movie
Britt Malm gets hit by a car on a Stockholm street and is taken to hospital. She is badly injured and must undergo surgery. While the anesthetic takes effect she sees hallucinatory images. This turns into a flashback of what happened Britt before the accident.
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Hammarforsens brus
Title: Hammarforsens brus
Released: October 25, 1948
Type: Movie
The young Anders is in love with Marit, whose father, the farmer Bjur-Erik opposes their relation. He watches jealously his daughter and becomes furious when he hears that she sneaks off to see Anders.
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The People from Simlangs Valley
Title: The People from Simlangs Valley
Released: December 26, 1947
Type: Movie
Class struggle and love trouble in the woods between Halland and Småland.
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A Guest Is Coming
Title: A Guest Is Coming
Character: Pastorn
Released: November 3, 1947
Type: Movie
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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A Ship to India
Title: A Ship to India
Released: September 22, 1947
Type: Movie
Sailor Johannes Blom returns to his home port, after seven years at sea, to find that Sally, the girl he has been thinking of while away, is completely despondent. Seven years earlier, obstreperous Alexander Blom, brings his mistress Sally to live with him, his wife Alice, son Johannes, and crew, aboard the salvage boat he captains. Amidst all the tensions on the small boat, Johannes and Sally fall in love with each other.
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Iris and the Lieutenant
Title: Iris and the Lieutenant
Released: December 16, 1946
Type: Movie
Robert, an upper-class officer, meets and falls in love with Iris, a house maid. His family will do anything to stop her from marrying him.
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Djurgårdskvällar
Title: Djurgårdskvällar
Released: November 18, 1946
Type: Movie
An artist with drinking problems is depressed because his career didn't turn out so good. He puts his faith in his daughter to carry the artistic heritage further.
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Meeting in the Night
Title: Meeting in the Night
Character: Filarn
Released: September 30, 1946
Type: Movie
A journalist is writing a critical article about the prison service in Sweden. The magazine's editor in chief does not agree with him and removes the article. The journalist then plans to fake a crime to gain knowledge about life in prison.
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Snapphanar
Title: Snapphanar
Character: Guerilla
Released: December 26, 1941
Type: Movie
In an occupied country, the people rise to throw off the occupants. This includes Jens the farmer and his three sons who successfully perform sneak attacks on the invading army.
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To Help the Lady of the House
Title: To Help the Lady of the House
Released: September 24, 1939
Type: Movie
Ingrid Eriksson, a social worker, decides to find out something about the problems facing housemaids and gets herself a job as one at the home of John Willman's family. John's son, Åke, falls in love with her and numerous complications arise before the course of true love runs smoothly.
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Du gamla du fria !
Title: Du gamla du fria !
Released: December 26, 1938
Type: Movie
A humorous story concerning the return of a prosperous Swedish native, Charlie Johnson, to his native country after many years in America. The acceptance and acclamation of himself and his American-born daughter provide many situations involving them, their relatives and the townspeople.