Per-Axel Arosenius

Per-Axel Arosenius

Born: November 7, 1920
Died: March 21, 1981
in Norberg, Västmanlands län, Sweden
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Per Axel Daniel Rank Arosenius (November 7, 1920 – March 21, 1981) was a Swedish actor of mostly supporting parts. His most prominent film role was that of Soviet defector Boris Kusenov in Alfred Hitchcock's 1969 film Topaz.

After a dispute with the Swedish taxation authorities on March 21 1981, Arosenius protested by setting himself on fire outside their office in Nacka. He died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. He was 60 years old.

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91:an och generalernas fnatt
Title: 91:an och generalernas fnatt
Released: November 25, 1977
Type: Movie
When private 91 "Mandel" Karlsson is appointed General due to a computer error, he tricks a foreign military attaché into believing that the Swedish defense has a new weapon that turns male soldiers into women.
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The Brothers Lionheart
Title: The Brothers Lionheart
Character: Tengilsman 1
Released: September 23, 1977
Type: Movie
After brothers Jonathan and Crusty pass away they meet again in Nangijala, the land of eternal spring. Casting a long shadow over their world is the evil tyrant Tengil, ruler of the country Karmanjaka, where he’s building his new fortress up in the The Ancient Mountains.
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Terror of Frankenstein
Title: Terror of Frankenstein
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
Victor Frankenstein's search for the secret of life leads to the creation of a monster that consumes his life and family.
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Liz
Title: Liz
Character: Karl Fredrik Andersson
Released: January 25, 1976
Type: Movie
Elizabeth and David are getting married. One day a sailboat anchor outside their villa in the archipelago. Elisabeth feels a vague threat from the unknown sailor aboard.
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Release the Prisoners to Spring
Title: Release the Prisoners to Spring
Character: Police officer
Released: December 6, 1975
Type: Movie
Small and short Frida lives with her long, tall friend in a house in the countryside. Frida rejects the idea that people who have committed crimes should be locked up. One day their own house is burgled by Harald. He is sentenced to prison. Acting in accordance with her philosophy, Frida decides to use all means possible to make it possible for Harald to escape.
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Breaking Point
Title: Breaking Point
Character: Gun Dealer
Released: October 12, 1975
Type: Movie
Bob is an unassuming office worker and train enthusiast who leads a double life as a schizophrenic and misogynist killer. He teeters on the edge of reality. Television news reports encourage him in ways no one realizes.
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Eddie & Suzanne
Title: Eddie & Suzanne
Character: Svensk politiass.
Released: September 10, 1975
Type: Movie
The former convicted Eddie from Oslo meet Suzanne, the daughter of a tyrannic Swedish police chief, in a discotheque by coincidence. Together they run off to France. The father starts the hunt for them, thinking they're doing drugs.
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Faneflukt
Title: Faneflukt
Character: Konsulent i UD
Released: March 13, 1975
Type: Movie
The young kitchen maid Liv and the German officer Franz meet in the military camp where Liv works. They develop a friendship and decides to flee to Sweden.
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A Man with a Maid
Title: A Man with a Maid
Character: Rev. Faversham
Released: February 17, 1975
Type: Movie
A Victorian aristocrat buys a former madhouse and converts it into a "love nest" to woo and bed Alice, the lovely blonde Minister's daughter he meets in an art gallery.
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Wide Open
Title: Wide Open
Released: December 18, 1974
Type: Movie
A philandering cab driver decides to help his girlfriend's attractive sister, who is in trouble with drug dealers.
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Anderssonskans Kalle i busform
Title: Anderssonskans Kalle i busform
Character: Teacher
Released: December 7, 1973
Type: Movie
The kid Anderssonskans Kalle is a menace to his surroundings and this time he uses nails, fireworks and sneezing powder.
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Thriller: A Cruel Picture
Title: Thriller: A Cruel Picture
Character: Madeline's Father (as Per Axel Arosenius)
Released: May 1, 1973
Type: Movie
Madeleine, rendered mute after being sexually assaulted as a youth, accepts a lift from a wealthy and sadistic pimp who soon enslaves her into his prostitution racket. Despite her limited means, Madeleine embarks on a bloody road to revenge against her captors.
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Dirty Fingers
Title: Dirty Fingers
Released: January 2, 1973
Type: Movie
A young woman dies from a drug overdose, and her brother and his friend try to find out who supplied her with the narcotics. Soon, they're chased all over Stockholm by the cruel but suave ring leader Harry and his thugs. Among the wildness is a fight in a brothel filled with naked girls, and when Servus, one of the thugs, fails to kill our heroes, Harry has his men kill Servus with a razor blade equipped glove. Oh, and the heroine is raped by a guy sucking on a comforter
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The Office Party
Title: The Office Party
Character: Hugo Ludvigsson
Released: October 4, 1972
Type: Movie
Office executive Knut Levin decides to arrange a party at work. Things don't go exactly according to plan with hilarious results.
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The Man from the Other Side
Title: The Man from the Other Side
Character: Dr. Gunnar Hemlin
Released: March 26, 1972
Type: Movie
After the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917. A Russian engineer gets the assignment to purchase locomotives from Sweden. Paid in gold. Claimed by the opponents of the revolution.
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Lockfågeln
Title: Lockfågeln
Character: Westman
Released: November 24, 1971
Type: Movie
On his death-bed, Per Henrik Pistolekors must promise his father two things: first of all to kill king Gustav III, which his father hates. Second, to take his half-sister Annarella to Stockholm to find her a rich and noble husband.
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Maid in Sweden
Title: Maid in Sweden
Character: Inga and Greta's father
Released: November 3, 1971
Type: Movie
Schoolgirl Inga goes to visit her sister in Stockholm and is shocked to find her living with her boyfriend, Casten.
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Badjävlar
Title: Badjävlar
Character: Construction manager
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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Midsommardansen
Title: Midsommardansen
Character: histrionen, skådespelare
Released: January 25, 1971
Type: Movie
A group of young people gathered on the countryside to celebrate midsummer dancing, drinking and romancing. And some fighting too. Followed by more violence, jealousy and guilt. On the journey home one of the cars the travel in collides with a bus.
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Fear Has 1000 Eyes
Title: Fear Has 1000 Eyes
Released: September 28, 1970
Type: Movie
A priest, Sven, and his wife Anna live in a lonely vicarage in northern Sweden. Anna has been suffering from nervous trouble. With them lives her "self-sacrificing" friend Hedvig. Hedvig is a complicated character. At first sight she exposes dark sides. She has sworn her self to the devil, by carving a bloody cross onto her body. Hedvig is successfully performing a lot of sorceries, several of them with a strong erotic meaning Thus she sneaks naked to the priest's bed during night. Leaning over him she kisses his body. Sven is moving uneasily in his sleep but does not wake up. Carefully she sits astride him. There is a night of lust. Anna fins herself soon entangled in a net of wickedness.
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Pig Hunt
Title: Pig Hunt
Character: Clerk
Released: March 11, 1970
Type: Movie
"Pig Hunt" - Lennart Siljeberg works at the Cattle Inspection Agency. He is the perfect bureaucrat, always careful and pedantic. The agency's latest mission is to extinguish all pigs on the island of Gotland. However, for some unexplainable reason, the local farmers use violence to destroy the agency's work.
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Topaz
Title: Topaz
Character: Boris Kuzenov
Released: December 17, 1969
Type: Movie
Copenhagen, Denmark, 1962. When a high-ranking Soviet official decides to change sides, a French intelligence agent is caught up in a cold, silent and bloody spy war in which his own family will play a decisive role.
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You're Lying!
Title: You're Lying!
Released: October 26, 1969
Type: Movie
About an alcohol-damaged young man, his life in and out of prison, his friend the art teacher and his difficulties reintegrating into society.
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Komedi i Hägerskog
Title: Komedi i Hägerskog
Character: Ernfridsson
Released: November 25, 1968
Type: Movie
Narcissa and Elina work in a small town social service office and have various erotic encounters with the people who visit it.
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Gustav Vasa
Title: Gustav Vasa
Character: Tiggare
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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Tre dar i buren
Title: Tre dar i buren
Released: December 26, 1963
Type: Movie
Freddy and Stickan is working at a weapons factory, one day Freddy comes across a key to some secret weapons blueprints. But Freddy and Stickan gets drafted as the crooks trying to get a hold on the keys tries to follow them.
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A Matter of Morals
Title: A Matter of Morals
Character: Taxi Driver
Released: May 31, 1961
Type: Movie
1960 USA/Sweden film directed by John Cromwell
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Just a Waiter
Title: Just a Waiter
Released: September 28, 1959
Type: Movie
Fabian Bom is a waiter at a hotel in a small town. But he dreams of doing something else - to dance and sing on a stage. He is madly in love with Matilda Roos, singer and diva. Fabian is too insensitive to notice that Annie, who works in the kitchen, is in love with him. Encouraged by Matilda, Fabian leaves the hotel and goes to Stockholm to become famous. But, as he soon learns, it is more difficult than he first thought.
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The Lady in Black
Title: The Lady in Black
Released: February 1, 1958
Type: Movie
The married detective couple John and Kajsa Hillman goes on a vacation to Holmfors mill where a friend of Kajsa's lives with her husband. When a young woman is found murdered it is clear that this is another case for the Hillmans.
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My Passionate Longing
Title: My Passionate Longing
Released: November 19, 1956
Type: Movie
The nurse Nina becomes sterile after an illegal abortion and keep it a secret from her husband.
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Johan på Snippen
Title: Johan på Snippen
Character: Vicar
Released: November 12, 1956
Type: Movie
In the village of Stubbhult lives many motorcycle interested young people. However, their rampage interfere with the local population.
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Children of the Night
Title: Children of the Night
Released: August 26, 1956
Type: Movie
A man (Gunnar Hellström) meets prisoner Nils Gustaf Boman and asks him why he strayed from the straight and narrow. The prisoner says: "Put yourself in my position." The man does and sees before him himself as Nils Gustaf Boman.
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Whoops!
Title: Whoops!
Character: Policeman that fines Gary
Released: September 3, 1955
Type: Movie
A comedy mystery involving the composer and cartoonist Hubert Yrhage, the journalist Gary Lundberg, anticartoon campaigner Lena Lett, the mysterious Jens Myskovich and music publisher Darling Karlsson. Yrhage receives his manuscripts from an 11 year-old whose inspiration comes from the mysterious events at a boarding house where several of the characters stay.
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Unmarried Mothers
Title: Unmarried Mothers
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.
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Drömsemester
Title: Drömsemester
Released: October 3, 1952
Type: Movie
The Danish school teacher Mogens Jensen is on his holiday through Sweden in a rickety T-Ford.
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Miss Julie
Title: Miss Julie
Character: The count's friend (uncredited)
Released: June 28, 1951
Type: Movie
Based on the play by August Strindberg, Miss Julie vividly depicts the battle of the sexes and classes that ensues when Julie, a wealthy businessman's daughter, falls for Jean, her father's bitter servant.
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Lång-Lasse i Delsbo
Title: Lång-Lasse i Delsbo
Character: Ekstedt
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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Flottans kavaljerer
Title: Flottans kavaljerer
Character: Kurre Karlsson's friend
Released: December 25, 1948
Type: Movie
Baron Conrad Crusenhielm is hit in the head during a drunken brawl. Suffering from amnesia, he is mistaken for the lost sailor Karlsson and taken to the navy vessel Fylgia.
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Ådalens poesi
Title: Ådalens poesi
Released: December 26, 1947
Type: Movie
The farmers Zackris Månsson and the Kerstorps-farmer lives on each side of the river. The two villages has always been enemies. The Kerstorps-farmer dies after a beating caused by Zachris. The son Olle takes over the farm and becomes a good farmer. He has a reputation of a fancying women, but the only women he has eyes for is Zachris daughter.
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The Blockhead of the Block
Title: The Blockhead of the Block
Released: December 26, 1947
Type: Movie
The young kid Kalle is always unlucky.
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Man's Woman
Title: Man's Woman
Released: February 5, 1945
Type: Movie
An agrarian community sometime in the 1700s. The farmer Påvel is married with his young wife Märit and very proud to have married such a young and sweet girl. Märit however, is disappointed about her marriage. Their neighbor Håkan lives alone on his farm and he falls in love with Märit. He tells her of his feelings and Märit is torn between the security of her marriage and the feelings she has for Håkan.
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Flames in the Dark
Title: Flames in the Dark
Character: Student
Released: March 2, 1942
Type: Movie
Latin teacher Birger Sjögren at Ringsala boarding school threatens his possesive and chronically ill mother that he will get married. She gets a stroke and dies. Sjögren is affected by feelings of guilt, envy and hatred towards the surroundings. A series of mysterious fires have taken place around the school the last few months. One of the students has seen Sjögren setting fire to a barn. But can he convince the trusted biology teacher Nordmark, expert of the criminal mind?