Olof Widgren

Olof Widgren

Born: June 9, 1907
Died: March 6, 1999
in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden

Movies for Olof Widgren...

Gösta Ekman - En levande legend
Title: Gösta Ekman - En levande legend
Character: Self
Released: January 7, 1987
Type: Movie
Documentary about the Swedish actor Gösta Ekman (1890-1938) with interviews with friends and colleagues.
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Svartskallen
Title: Svartskallen
Character: Erik Bergman
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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Det är nu livet börjar
Title: Det är nu livet börjar
Character: Gustav
Released: January 26, 1976
Type: Movie
A TV drama about an old man who doesn't want to retire.
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Pygmalion
Title: Pygmalion
Character: Colonel Pickering
Released: June 2, 1968
Type: Movie
Can Professor Higgins teach a working-class flower girl to speak like a duchess?
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Fadren
Title: Fadren
Released: January 30, 1967
Type: Movie
A woman drives her husband into an uncertainty that ends with scorn, confusion and stroke.
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Patrasket
Title: Patrasket
Character: Grandpa
Released: November 13, 1966
Type: Movie
A poor Jewish family, called the Riffraff by the author, puts the great Joe Meng at the heart of high-flying plans and imaginative flair.
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Tartuffe
Title: Tartuffe
Released: September 19, 1966
Type: Movie
The religious hypocrite Tartuffe parasites on a bourgeois family. He is looking for the daughter's hand and the family's property and is also trying to seduce the young wife.
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A Dream Play
Title: A Dream Play
Character: Writer
Released: May 2, 1963
Type: Movie
"A dream play" - This made-for-television film constituted Bergman’s first production of Strindberg’s A Dream Play – a play he would revisit three times more. Gunnar Ollén’s Malmö crew was behind this, for its time, prestigious and costly theatre production, involving more than 40 actors and no less than 75 extras.
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Trasiga änglar
Title: Trasiga änglar
Character: Felix Ducotel
Released: September 23, 1962
Type: Movie
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Han som fick leva om sitt liv
Title: Han som fick leva om sitt liv
Released: May 23, 1961
Type: Movie
"The Man Who Lived his Life Over" - A drama about a person who gets the opportunity many dream of, to relive his life. In his past he committed a crime. It must not happen again. Now everything will surely be different.
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The Judge
Title: The Judge
Released: October 14, 1960
Type: Movie
Krister and his fiancé Brita return to Stockholm after a stay in Italy. Shortly upon their return Krister learns that all his assets left to him by his father has disappeared. Together with Brita he tries to obtain justice in a aristocratic and corrupt legal system.
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Ingen morgondag
Title: Ingen morgondag
Character: Doctor Linnamo
Released: October 16, 1957
Type: Movie
It is in a battlefield in Karelia, Finland during the Continuation war (1941-1944). Intensive shooting between Finnish and Soviet troops takes place. The Soviet occupation is strong, and on the Finnish side it is ordered to withdraw. But Captain Viktor Aaltonen does not listen to the order but wants to shorten a wounded companion's suffering. Aaltonen is taken to the Soviet prison camp, Vorkuta, where he will spend a decade.
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Tarp's Elin
Title: Tarp's Elin
Released: November 12, 1956
Type: Movie
Elin Tarp is an unmarried mother with three children who lives a hard life in the countryside.
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Last Pair Out
Title: Last Pair Out
Character: Hans Dahlin
Released: November 12, 1956
Type: Movie
About the life of the student, Bo Dahlin. Bo's parents are divorced. Both have been unfaithful. Bo is engaged to Kerstin, but only has eyes for Anita. Anita is filled with self-disgust.
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Så tuktas kärleken
Title: Så tuktas kärleken
Character: "Munken" Josefsson
Released: October 26, 1955
Type: Movie
Per is in love with Kerstin. They are high school classmates. In the distance they see teacher Eva Hallström, ph. d. and the headmaster's wife, return home to her home. She is currently a major topic of conversation because she has just published an acclaimed collection of love poems. Everyone is curious about who the young lover of the poems might be.
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Karin Månsdotter
Title: Karin Månsdotter
Character: Vicar
Released: November 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Karin does not belong to the nobility but nevertheless marries the mentally ill king Erik XIV and becomes queen of Sweden. The king's skilled counsellor Göran Persson wants a royal policy supporting the people and supported by it. But in relation to the nobility the king oscillates between provocative strength and unpredictable weakness. Göran arranges that some very powerful noblemen are killed. Subsequently the king tries to have them convicted of high treason by the parliament. He forgets the manuscript, mixes up all facts, and the noblemen are acquitted. But Göran speedily gathers another parliament and has them convicted. Meanwhile Erik apologises because of the unjust murders. Hence Erik is dethroned and imprisoned. Göran is executed. Karin is restricted to a castle in Finland. In the prison Erik believes that he is still the king and gives the guards presents such as all fishes in the Baltic Sea.
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Barabbas
Title: Barabbas
Character: Sahak
Released: May 5, 1953
Type: Movie
The story about the thief who didn't get crucified because Jesus was choosen to take his place.
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Only a Mother
Title: Only a Mother
Character: Rya-Rya's Father
Released: October 31, 1949
Type: Movie
A poor woman in a Swedish farming community struggles to feed her large family and is torn by her passion for two different men.
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Midwinter Sacrifice
Title: Midwinter Sacrifice
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: May 25, 1946
Type: Movie
A mythic depiction of a pagan sacrifice in prehistoric Sweden.
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Ödemarksprästen
Title: Ödemarksprästen
Character: Vicar Martin Ryselius
Released: March 30, 1946
Type: Movie
In the early 18th century the priest Martin Ryselius has become widower and stands alone with a one-year-old daughter. He is seeking the meaning of existence by heading north in Sweden for a priesthood service in the mountains.
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The Serious Game
Title: The Serious Game
Character: Arvid Stjärnblom
Released: November 26, 1945
Type: Movie
Arvid share the love with a young woman named Lydia, but as is customary at the turn of the century, is not love enough for a fairy tale to come true. While Arvid struggling to create the basis for their existence, Lydia's thirst for the good life leads her to marrying an older wealthy man.
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The Turnstile
Title: The Turnstile
Released: December 21, 1944
Type: Movie
The small town of Gåtatorp in Småland is entirely dependent on its prominent furniture factory. But the factory is in danger because the weak economy means that the bank wants to shut down the factory.
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Jag är eld och luft
Title: Jag är eld och luft
Character: Sven Dahl, Painter
Released: September 7, 1944
Type: Movie
Vicar Ahrman's young daughter Jenny has left the home to start a new life with her beloved Stefan. But Jenny's dreams for the future is shattered when Stefan doesn't turn up to their meeting. Heartbroken, she returns home.
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Count Only the Happy Moments
Title: Count Only the Happy Moments
Character: Bengt Ljung
Released: August 8, 1944
Type: Movie
The old Victor Branzell has a grandson, Alf, who is in love with a clerk in a glove shop, Lilian Lind. But Lilian with her simple background doesn't get accepted in the circles where Alf belongs, and they have now reached the conclusion that they can't have a future together. Marriage is impossible. Victor summons Lilian and Alf and starts telling them his life story.
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A Day Will Dawn
Title: A Day Will Dawn
Character: Petrus
Released: January 2, 1944
Type: Movie
After finding his wife in the arms of another man, an army officer kills his rival and then goes by train to Finland to fight in the Winter war.
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Herre med portfölj
Title: Herre med portfölj
Character: Alvar Quarnström
Released: November 30, 1943
Type: Movie
Rolf Berger, a hard working and dutiful deputy judge at the court of appeal, has been married for many years with Eva. She has long ago accepted that he spends his evenings with his legal work. Rolf Berger has been invited to the 25th anniversary of his graduation and starts to reconsider the kind of life he lives. When he meets the 19-year old Inger he falls in love with her and decide to leave his wife.
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Young Blood
Title: Young Blood
Character: Sven Lindahl
Released: October 12, 1943
Type: Movie
Eva is a very talented and able college girl. In the summer she is going to work at a farm. There she meets a different world of unwanted children, desires and temporary relationships.
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The Sixth Shot
Title: The Sixth Shot
Character: Björn Hoffman
Released: September 24, 1943
Type: Movie
Georg Winkler meet Marguerite Hoffman at the casino in Monte Carlo. They become an item and travel the world with their act - Winkler is an accomplished marksman. Eventually Winkler's jealousy leads to their separation and he has to resort to work for secondrate circuses with a dwarf. But eventually he meet Margurite once again. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
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Life and Death
Title: Life and Death
Character: Kapten C. Åström
Released: July 16, 1943
Type: Movie
Thriller set in northern Sweden during WWII where a regiment of ski-borne soldiers and guests in a tourist hotel experience and investigate acts of treason.
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Kan doktorn komma?
Title: Kan doktorn komma?
Character: Doctor
Released: December 21, 1942
Type: Movie
A rural doctor in the north of Sweden must travel for hours to his patients. When a young woman has a serious case of appendicitis the doctor must bring her on a dangerous trek downriver to reach the clinic. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
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En sjöman i frack
Title: En sjöman i frack
Character: Louis
Released: February 22, 1942
Type: Movie
First mate Karlsson is mistaken for famous actor Linde.
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Hem från Babylon
Title: Hem från Babylon
Character: John Bidencap
Released: December 23, 1941
Type: Movie
An engineer and a businessman is on the run from Manchuria, where revolution and civil war erupted. Both suffer from typhoid and the businessman dies. Before he dies, he changes identity with the engineer.
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June Night
Title: June Night
Character: Stefan von Bremen
Released: April 3, 1940
Type: Movie
A woman flees to avoid rumors of promiscuity, but is trailed by a reporter who wants to expose her dark past.
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Steel
Title: Steel
Character: Bengt Anker
Released: February 18, 1940
Type: Movie
The Forshyttan steel-mill has been owned by the Ancker family for generations. But competition is hard. When the son Bengt Ancker comes back from abroad he has an idea for success: a lighter steel with better quality. But a lot of money is necessary to develop his idea and the only way to raise the necessary capital is to sell the company to their competitor - Manchester Steel Company. But the workers are concerned that this could threaten their job-security
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Pengar från skyn
Title: Pengar från skyn
Released: December 26, 1938
Type: Movie
Car manufacturer Leopold Paseman is old and childless. He becomes sentimental about his situation and has no one to take over the business when he dies.
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Career
Title: Career
Character: Helge Berg
Released: October 11, 1938
Type: Movie
One day, a theater company to Iron Creek. In the city's steel mills meet the young actress Monika young Erik. The love between them is from the very clear but complicated by the fact both have careers.
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Our Building of Home and Community
Title: Our Building of Home and Community
Released: November 16, 1936
Type: Movie
Campaign film for the Swedish Folkpartiet (People's Party) in 1936.
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Walpurgis Night
Title: Walpurgis Night
Character: Crime reporter
Released: October 23, 1935
Type: Movie
Lena Bergström works in an office and is unhappily in love with her boss, Johan Borg. She decides to quit. Borg's wife won't have any children, and when she becomes pregnant she has an illegal abortion. For some reason, Lena's father believes that it is Lena who has had an abortion.
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Kanske en diktare
Title: Kanske en diktare
Character: Recording Clerk
Released: February 24, 1933
Type: Movie
Gösta Ekman in the role as coat janitor Filip, a dreamer that has failed in life and sees people as the cloths he has in his wardrobe. One-night three guests enter the restaurant, the extensive Viding with his beautiful wife Jane, and the remorseless manager Kurtz. Viding who owes Kurtz money demands his wife to be accommodating toward him. Filip watches her pulling a gun...