Per Sjöstrand

Per Sjöstrand

Born: July 29, 1930
Died: October 25, 2008
in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden

Movies for Per Sjöstrand...

Behind the Scenes of 'Wild Strawberries'
Title: Behind the Scenes of 'Wild Strawberries'
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: June 11, 2013
Type: Movie
A behind the scenes montage from Wild Strawberries on 16mm shot by Bergman himself, narrated by Jon Wengström. First presented in this form on the Criterion Collection's Blu-ray edition of the film.
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Where The Rainbow Ends
Title: Where The Rainbow Ends
Released: October 14, 1999
Type: Movie
"Where The Rainbow Ends" - Mikael Persson is about to realize his dream, a great musical with some of Sweden's foremost artists and with himself in the lead role. But just weeks before the premiere the Swedish Enforcement Authority knocks on the door and throws Michael and his family out on the street. He and his fiancee Catti resort to all means to save his life's work and they get unexpected help from the past.
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Förhöret
Title: Förhöret
Character: Committee member, Centre Party
Released: September 25, 1989
Type: Movie
Carl Hamilton (Coq Rouge, Swedens James Bond) is called before KU (Swedens answer to the American congressional hearing) to answer questions about a spy war between Sweden and the Soviet Union.
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Fyra dagar som skakade Sverige - Midsommarkrisen 1941
Title: Fyra dagar som skakade Sverige - Midsommarkrisen 1941
Character: Gösta Bagge
Released: January 3, 1988
Type: Movie
At dawn on June 22, 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union. On the same morning, Germany demanded permission from the Swedish government to transport 18,000 German soldiers from Norway to Finland across Sweden by railway. This was a difficult problem for the Swedish government. On one hand remaining friendly with Germany at the height of its power, on the other maintaining a strict neutrality. The Swedish cabinet meet in Stockholm to decide upon the best reply to the German demands.
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Agaton Sax and the Bykoebing Village Festival
Title: Agaton Sax and the Bykoebing Village Festival
Character: Mosca / McSnuff (voice)
Released: November 20, 1976
Type: Movie
Two villains escape from jail in London. They are planning an attack on Agaton Sax. Inspector Lispington and Sax are chasing the two bad guys, but the hunt is hampered by the villains have lookalikes.
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Gustav III
Title: Gustav III
Character: Nordström
Released: April 8, 1974
Type: Movie
Based on play by famous swedish author/playwright August Strindberg adapted for swedish TV in 70's. It's about the real life assassination on swedish king Gustav III who was killed by a lieutenant Jacob Johan Anckarström who acted on behalf of a group conspirators.
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Horoskopet
Title: Horoskopet
Released: August 29, 1971
Type: Movie
A little rogue piece about the paths of fate.
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The Touch
Title: The Touch
Released: July 14, 1971
Type: Movie
A Swedish housewife begins an adulterous affair with a foreign archaeologist. But he is an emotionally scarred man, a Jewish survivor from a concentration camp, consequently, their relationship will be painfully difficult.
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The Lie
Title: The Lie
Character: Count Albrekt
Released: October 28, 1970
Type: Movie
A Swedish couple are trapped in their marriage and way of life. Locked up in their bourgeois inferno.
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Röda rummet 1979
Title: Röda rummet 1979
Released: January 2, 1970
Type: Movie
August Strindberg's "The Red Room" recreated to a science fiction world in Stockholm, a brutal, guarded and controlled existence under a total supremacy. Like in Metropolis or Airstrip One the citizens are directed to align themselves in the direction of what the higher power thinks is to their advantage. The government offices takes care of your every need.
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Who Saw Him Die?
Title: Who Saw Him Die?
Character: Headmaster
Released: March 18, 1968
Type: Movie
Sören Mårtensson is a middle school teacher. His classroom occupied by half-grown children. His work is tormenting him and at night he is haunted by nightmares.
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Miss Chic
Title: Miss Chic
Character: Unit manager
Released: January 26, 1959
Type: Movie
Buster Carell, a talent agent is threatened by bankruptcy when his only real talent, a singing lumberjack, runs off with the company funds. Watching a TV quiz show, Carell discovers a prodigal singer, Isabella Linder, and offers her a contract. But she is unwilling and would like to remain a school teacher.
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Jazz Boy
Title: Jazz Boy
Released: October 6, 1958
Type: Movie
The rich young man Teddy Anker invests his money in the theater at the beginning of the 1920s. Whatever he does becomes a success. He falls in love with a dancer, Karin. He decides to put up a show with Karin as the leading lady, but for the first time one of his shows becomes an economic disaster.
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Wild Strawberries
Title: Wild Strawberries
Character: Sigfrid Borg
Released: December 26, 1957
Type: Movie
Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. Along the way, they encounter a series of hitchhikers, each of whom causes the elderly doctor to muse upon the pleasures and failures of his own life. These include the vivacious young Sara, a dead ringer for the doctor's own first love.
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Sceningång
Title: Sceningång
Character: Sven
Released: December 3, 1956
Type: Movie
A day in the life of a theater ensemble. The acting students are struggling to get one foot ahead of the others and the regular cast is fighting for the good parts.
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Hamlet
Title: Hamlet
Released: December 4, 1955
Type: Movie
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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Kärlek på turné
Title: Kärlek på turné
Character: Teddy
Released: November 28, 1955
Type: Movie
"Love on Tour" - A traveling theatre company has arrived at an outdoor stage. They are ready for the rehearsal. But one of the actors is missing.
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Våld
Title: Våld
Character: Sjunnesson
Released: September 26, 1955
Type: Movie
It is 1940. A young man is facing court martial on charges of conscientious objection. He admits the crime. The prosecutor demands a most severe punishment. While waiting for the verdict, the young man think back of his past. How could this happen?
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The Lunch-break Cafe
Title: The Lunch-break Cafe
Character: Art student
Released: February 15, 1954
Type: Movie
"Lunch- Break Café" - A café in the old Klara district in Stockholm attracts an offbeat clientel. Among those who gather at the café is a prisoner on the run, a prostitute, a journalist and a student who is having an affair with the cafe's waitress. Naturalism.
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Unmarried Mothers
Title: Unmarried Mothers
Character: Erik Eliasson
Released: January 16, 1953
Type: Movie
At a summer-evening dance a young girl meets a man who tells her he is a doctor. They go off together, and after that she never sees him again. She learns that she is pregnant and inquires about him at various hospitals, with no success. She reads of his engagement and becomes acquainted with another girl with a situation like her own.