Märta Dorff

Märta Dorff

Born: June 10, 1909
Died: October 6, 1990
in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden

Movies for Märta Dorff...

Idag Röd
Title: Idag Röd
Character: Hilda Tapper
Released: October 12, 1987
Type: Movie
Harry Friberg photographs a mysterious lightning in the water outside the Blockhusudden. The light turns out to flow over a murder.
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Yrkesmän emellan
Title: Yrkesmän emellan
Released: December 19, 1976
Type: Movie
Short based on Stig 'Slas' Claesson's three Stockholm stories.
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City of My Dreams
Title: City of My Dreams
Character: Tvätt-Johanna
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 Corridor
Title: The Corridor
Character: mrs Olsson
Released: December 11, 1968
Type: Movie
A newly graduated doctor finds trauma too heavy in everyday work of the hospital. He is constantly facing new demands which ultimately threatens to overpower him. He is about to give up his career.idoren
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För vänskaps skull
Title: För vänskaps skull
Released: March 1, 1965
Type: Movie
A young woman gets tired of society's patriarchal order and women's sexual bondage.
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Slottstappning
Title: Slottstappning
Character: Boarding-house supervisor
Released: December 26, 1964
Type: Movie
About a man who takes advantage of his friends and one day comes across an extraordinary painting.
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Loving Couples
Title: Loving Couples
Character: Alexandra Vind-Frija
Released: December 20, 1964
Type: Movie
As three pregnant women wait to have their babies in a hospital in Stockholm at the outbreak of the Great War, they relive their childhood and youthful experiences.
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A Dream Play
Title: A Dream Play
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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Lita på mej, älskling!
Title: Lita på mej, älskling!
Character: Hostess
Released: December 18, 1961
Type: Movie
Anna and Karl are a young couple in Stockholm, unable to find an apartment of their own. However, they play matchmakers to make their friends Fredrik and Ulla to get together, getting an apartment of their own that way. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
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Vår ofödde son
Title: Vår ofödde son
Released: November 13, 1959
Type: Movie
If I give birth, I will certainly be punished and lose my reputation. If I don't, then I may be punished, too. And also lose my reputation.
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Miss Chic
Title: Miss Chic
Character: Miss Söderlund
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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Playing on the Rainbow
Title: Playing on the Rainbow
Released: August 25, 1958
Type: Movie
The school counselor Vanja believe neither in love, marriage or a woman's subservient role to the man. One day she meets the student Björn. Their romance is full of problems. Along comes a man from Vanjas past.
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The People of Värmland
Title: The People of Värmland
Released: December 26, 1957
Type: Movie
Erik, the son of a wealthy farmer, and Anna, the daughter of a poor crofter, have known each other since they were children. Now, that they are grown up, they love each other, but their parents won't let them have each other, since their families are enemies. Erik's father wants him to marry a rich girl instead and when Anna hears about this, she falls ill and even starts to show signs of insanity. Will the two have each other or will everything go wrong?
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Den Hårda Leken
Title: Den Hårda Leken
Character: Ester, Conny's mother
Released: September 10, 1956
Type: Movie
Conny Persson is an up-and-coming boxer. He wins the Junior Championships and is able to write a contract with boxing manager Andy Ekström. He falls in love with Margit. She doesn't like that he is boxing, but together they open a flower shop. When Conny still won't give up boxing, Margit tells him that he has to chose between her and the boxing.
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Kulla-Gulla
Title: Kulla-Gulla
Released: August 27, 1956
Type: Movie
Orphan girl Gunilla (nick named Kulla-Gulla) gets sent from her orphanage to work as an housemaid at sharecropper Karlbergs household. Among her duties is to take care of Karlberg, his wife and their five children.
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It Is Never Too Late
Title: It Is Never Too Late
Character: housemaid
Released: March 17, 1956
Type: Movie
Görel and Arne are about to get a divorce. Görel thinks back on how history has repeated itself within her family.
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The Right to Love
Title: The Right to Love
Character: Margareta Borg
Released: February 27, 1956
Type: Movie
Priests who call sex education the devil's invention rage against the progressive doctor whose bigoted wife may regret when his teenage daughter comes home and wants an abortion. The subject of Mimi Pollack's only feature film was controversial. The model for Doctor Borg was the well-known Katrineholms lecturer Torsten Wickbom, who advocated modern sexual education in the school and family.
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Janne Vängman och den stora kometen
Title: Janne Vängman och den stora kometen
Released: October 10, 1955
Type: Movie
Janne Vängman is having dreams of meeting aliens from outer space.
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Sista ringen
Title: Sista ringen
Character: Eva Svensson
Released: October 10, 1955
Type: Movie
Eric and Clarence are friends from the same class in school - but from different social classes. Eric comes from the working class, Clarence from the upper class. Eric regards his studies as a way of getting somewhere, while Clarence is only interested in the drawing lessons. There are only a few months left until graduation. Clarence behaves very provocatively against the art teacher 'Sjasen'. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
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The Unicorn
Title: The Unicorn
Character: Anna, nurse
Released: October 3, 1955
Type: Movie
Harriet and Frank Allard have been married for many years. Almost twenty years ago, Harriet had a love affair with a colleague of Frank's, Claes von Klitzow, who made her pregnant. She had a son, Christer, whom Frank thinks that he is the father of. One day, Christer reveals that he is going to marry von Klitzow's daughter Louise. Harriet becomes upset but what will she do? Try to stop the marriage by telling the truth - which would endanger her marriage with Frank - or keep silent, which would mean that two half-siblings married?
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Våld
Title: Våld
Character: Vera's mother
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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Giftas
Title: Giftas
Released: September 19, 1955
Type: Movie
The General's daughter, Helene, grows up in a safe world. She doesn't want to get married or have kids. She meets a man who talks about platonic love which seems to fit her nice. They get married but when he wants to get more intimate with her she rejects him. August Strindberg's short story "Mot betalning" from the collection "Giftas 2".
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Danssalongen
Title: Danssalongen
Character: Ofelia
Released: July 29, 1955
Type: Movie
Love, jealousy, music and drugs in violent wild youth thriller. Takes place at the legendary dance-hall Nalen in Stockholm.
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Flickan i regnet
Title: Flickan i regnet
Character: Skorpan
Released: May 1, 1955
Type: Movie
Young Anna Rydell comes to a boarding-school for girls. She is very shy and the other girls don't really try to get to know her. The French teacher Martin Andreasson, who Anna falls in love with, lives at the boarding-school with his wheel chair-bound wife. Her handicap has made her depressed and Martin finds it hard to love her like he used to do.
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Simon the Sinner
Title: Simon the Sinner
Released: November 15, 1954
Type: Movie
After a fist fight, Simon thinks he has killed a man and seek refuge in a religious sect. Saved he discovers that he can heal the sick and disabled. The knowledge of Simon's gifts spread quickly and the sect's leaders exploit the situation.
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Flicka med melodi
Title: Flicka med melodi
Released: August 16, 1954
Type: Movie
The sisters Britta and Ellinor live with their grandfather, music professor Libergius, teacher and leader of the city's orchestra association. In the city there is also a youthful jazz band - to the professor's horror.
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Storm over Tjurö
Title: Storm over Tjurö
Character: Sofia
Released: July 19, 1954
Type: Movie
Karl Oskar Bohm looks back at his life, his estranged daughter Augusta and his wife Sofia.
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Tattarblod
Title: Tattarblod
Character: Frasse's wife
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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Fartfeber
Title: Fartfeber
Character: Ellen
Released: November 27, 1953
Type: Movie
Gunnar and Ulf are neighbors. They are both lured into a life of crime.
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Ingen mans kvinna
Title: Ingen mans kvinna
Character: Mrs. Henriksson
Released: November 9, 1953
Type: Movie
Imber has a child with the dubious fiancé Erland. He is destructive and his unhealthy lifestyle subjects his family to starvation and the death of their child. Imber falls in love with Arne and a settlement between Arne and Erland unfolds.
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Vingslag i natten
Title: Vingslag i natten
Released: October 5, 1953
Type: Movie
Orphan boy and vicar's daughter fall in love but her father is strongly opposed to their relationship.
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Marianne
Title: Marianne
Character: Birger's mother
Released: September 24, 1953
Type: Movie
Marianne and Jojje are in the last grade of a Stockholm high school. Jojje is very fond of his talented, sensitive classmate. His love is not answered. The students come from different social and economical environments.
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All jordens fröjd
Title: All jordens fröjd
Released: September 21, 1953
Type: Movie
The young girl Lisbet lives on the farm Tolfmansgården together with her mother, her older brother Jerker and their grandparents.
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Dance, My Doll
Title: Dance, My Doll
Character: Hildur
Released: July 20, 1953
Type: Movie
In a small town called Skrabbarp in Southern Sweden lives the school teacher Sebastian Pettersson, an amateur detective and one of the most diligent correspondents of the Stockholm police.
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Flickan från Backafall
Title: Flickan från Backafall
Character: August Larsson's wife
Released: March 2, 1953
Type: Movie
Set on the island of Ven in the 1920s, Ellen is engaged with Per the sailor and waits for him while he is away at sea. She works as a maid in a rich family where Robert, the black sheep of the family, tries to seduce her. This leads to a rumour she has been unfaithful to Per. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
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Unmarried Mothers
Title: Unmarried Mothers
Character: Mrs. Berglund
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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Kärlek
Title: Kärlek
Released: December 22, 1952
Type: Movie
A new young priest begins his duty on a small island. He assumes that the service should not be to demanding, so that he will be able to finish his doctoral thesis. But the life at sea is hard with severe accidents. He faces emotionally difficult situations related to both love and death.
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The Firebird
Title: The Firebird
Character: Seamstress
Released: August 11, 1952
Type: Movie
Italian singer Mario Vanni visits the Royal Opera in Stockholm and fall in love with ballet dancer Linda Corina.
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Miss Julie
Title: Miss Julie
Character: Kristin
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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While the City Sleeps
Title: While the City Sleeps
Character: Iris' mother
Released: September 8, 1950
Type: Movie
Jompa is unemployed - and not keen on getting a job. He still lives with his parents who are tired of his attitude about employment and regular hours. Jompa and his friends spend their time at nightclubs, cafés and doing petty crimes. While playing poker, Jompa becomes indebted to the criminal Kalle Lund. Of course, Jompa is unable to pay, but Kalle gives him a tip: an old fetcher has always a lot of money at home, and if Jompa could get his hands on the money, his troubles would disappear... Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
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The Wind Is My Lover
Title: The Wind Is My Lover
Character: Elfrida Månesköld
Released: December 13, 1949
Type: Movie
Set in medieval times about the cursed Moonshield family. The young knight Erland Moonshield fall in love with a gypsy enchantress, Singoalla, he meet in the forest.
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The Girl from the Third Row
Title: The Girl from the Third Row
Character: Connie C:son Burén
Released: August 29, 1949
Type: Movie
A ring passes between a lot of different people, giving the bearer or someone close a new meaning to life. Actors, embezzlers, old ladies and cheated husbands all seem to gain temporary hope from misery and disillusionment.
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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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I nöd och lust
Title: I nöd och lust
Released: September 2, 1938
Type: Movie
The hunter Olaf Ruud sits by his sick wife Anna and remembers the old times.
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Witches' Night
Title: Witches' Night
Released: November 1, 1937
Type: Movie
The teacher Arne Markell, who is also a well-known poet, leaves his class of students. He will marry Lena and work for a new school. One of the students, Majken, misses him sincerely.
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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.