Georg Funkquist

Georg Funkquist

Born: March 13, 1900
Died: October 23, 1986
in Uppsala, Uppsala län, Sweden

Movies for Georg Funkquist...

Monismanien 1995
Title: Monismanien 1995
Character: Judge
Released: May 5, 1975
Type: Movie
In a fictional future totalitarian society ruled as a one-party state. A teacher commits the crime to teach their students to think independently and is therefore being stalked. The fictional Monismania also appeared in Astrid Lindgren's saga about the witch Pomperipossa in the Monismanian 1976.
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Lockfågeln
Title: Lockfågeln
Character: Ahlström
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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Hej du glada sommar!!!
Title: Hej du glada sommar!!!
Character: Svalberg
Released: August 25, 1965
Type: Movie
"Hello Happy Summer!!!" - Valle and Bror are two fishermen brothers who lives in the remote archipelago. One day Valles wife receives a big inheritance from a distant relative and their lives takes a new turn.
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All These Women
Title: All These Women
Character: Tristan
Released: June 15, 1964
Type: Movie
Pretentious critic Cornelius is writing a biography on a famous cellist and to do some research he stays in the critic's house for a few days. He doesn't manage to get an interview with the man, but by talking to all the women who live with him, he comes to learn a lot about the musician's private life none the less. Cornelius then decides to use this information to blackmail the cellist into performing a composition that he, Cornelius, has written.
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Lyckodrömmen
Title: Lyckodrömmen
Character: Frisk
Released: July 8, 1963
Type: Movie
The Karlsson family moves from a small village to a suburb outside Stockholm. The change from a country life to the big city is not easy.
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Wonderful Adventures of Nils
Title: Wonderful Adventures of Nils
Character: Gorgo (voice)
Released: September 12, 1962
Type: Movie
Nils lives with his parents in the south of Sweden. He is a naughty boy and teases like the animals on the farm. They should not have him and be happy if he is bewitched one day with his hamster Crumb for punishment by a gnome.
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Åsa-Nisse på Mallorca
Title: Åsa-Nisse på Mallorca
Character: Fredrik Vaktell
Released: August 31, 1962
Type: Movie
Åsa-Nisse and Klabbarparn has found an old pirate map that leads them to the island Mallorca in the Mediterranean Sea as they search for the hidden treasure.
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The Devil's Eye
Title: The Devil's Eye
Character: Count Armand de Rochefoucauld
Released: October 17, 1960
Type: Movie
The devil has a stye in his eye, caused by the purity of a vicar's daughter. To get rid of it, he sends Don Juan up from hell to seduce the 20 year old Britt-Marie and to rob her of her virginity and her belief in love. She however can resist him and things get even turned around when Don Juan falls in love with her. The fact that he feels love for the first time now, makes him even less attractive to her and Don Juan returns to hell.
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Swinging at the Castle
Title: Swinging at the Castle
Character: Blide
Released: March 8, 1959
Type: Movie
Love triangle between Svante, his fiancee Inga and Sophie, a girl from a rich family.
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Jazz Boy
Title: Jazz Boy
Character: Allan Örtengren
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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Woman in a Fur Coat
Title: Woman in a Fur Coat
Character: Jörgen Bengtsson
Released: September 8, 1958
Type: Movie
Marianne is unhappily married with the rich Arvid Croneman. Arvid has been ill for some time and Marianne has been looking forward to his passing away. However, Arvid recovers. Marianne has had an affair with Lennart Hägg, her husband's doctor. She steals poison from his office and makes sure that her husband gets a poisonous injection that swiftly kills him. After his burial, Arvid's relatives, who lives in the house, treats her with suspicion. Has she really gotten rid of all the evidence?
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The Staffan Stolle Story
Title: The Staffan Stolle Story
Character: Fabiansson
Released: September 10, 1956
Type: Movie
Staffan Stolle becomes the sole heir to a rich and noble family when he is just a little boy. Early on he is engaged to be married to a girl he finds he does not love. Instead he flees the country only to return under a false name, looking for true love.
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Girls Without Rooms
Title: Girls Without Rooms
Released: March 25, 1956
Type: Movie
Fransiska is visited by a social worker when she's in the custody. She tells him her lives story, about her mother who was an alcoholic, her father a night watchman and how she and her five year old little sister was left. Her boyfriend was unemployed and needed money and to help him she stole money.
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Främlingen från skyn
Title: Främlingen från skyn
Released: February 27, 1956
Type: Movie
Young Lo (Marianne Bengtsson) lives in a boring small town. Locally she is known as somewhat of a fabulist. One day an airplane crashes just out of town. And the town goes crazy with excitement. Later, while hoping to catch a peak of the crashed plane, Lo sees a mysterious man (Günther Hüttmann) land out in the woods by parachute. She tries to tell the rest of town. But naturally nobody will believe her. Thus she is going to have to learn more about the stranger from the sky by herself in this immeasurably startling mammoth among thrillers!
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H.C. Andersens sagor
Title: H.C. Andersens sagor
Released: December 13, 1952
Type: Movie
It's evening and mother Alice read bedtime stories for her three children.
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Åke klarar biffen
Title: Åke klarar biffen
Released: March 24, 1952
Type: Movie
Åke is small and fits everywhere. A film mostly consisting of scenes from older films.
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Summer Interlude
Title: Summer Interlude
Character: Uncle Erland
Released: October 1, 1951
Type: Movie
A jaded prima ballerina reminisces about her first love affair after she is unexpectedly sent her lover's old diary.
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The Nuthouse
Title: The Nuthouse
Released: September 21, 1951
Type: Movie
In Stockholm in the year 2248 an excavation leads to the discovery of 45,000 meters of film from the 1940's master director Hasse Ekman . The material is in a disarray but the Society for Ancient Film Research compiles the material after what is believed to have been the master's artistic intentions
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All this - and Iceland too
Title: All this - and Iceland too
Released: September 3, 1951
Type: Movie
1914. The monarchs of Sweden, Denmark and Norway meet to demonstrate unity. In the crowd is a beautiful noble woman from Finland. She is eagerly courted by the monarch's aides.
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Hold fingrene fra mor
Title: Hold fingrene fra mor
Released: March 14, 1951
Type: Movie
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The Wind Is My Lover
Title: The Wind Is My Lover
Character: Chaplain
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 Woman Drives Me Crazy
Title: The Woman Drives Me Crazy
Released: December 26, 1948
Type: Movie
Managing Director Erik Cassander is in financial strain and his only hope is a wealthy aunt.
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Solkatten
Title: Solkatten
Character: Johan Petrén
Released: November 27, 1948
Type: Movie
The waitress Monica goes to Västerköping to find out who actually was her father. By aunt Margareta, she has been told that her mother, who died at birth, had four admirers.
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Till the Doors of Hell
Title: Till the Doors of Hell
Character: Dr. Kanzel
Released: November 8, 1948
Type: Movie
Professor Barring is awarded the Nobel Prize in physics. According to Barring the scientist's sole duty is to seek the truth, even if this leads to the "gates of hell".
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Får jag lov, magistern!
Title: Får jag lov, magistern!
Released: December 26, 1947
Type: Movie
The teacher Clemens is instructed to learn to dance so that he can teach the subject.
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Woman Without a Face
Title: Woman Without a Face
Character: Victor
Released: September 16, 1947
Type: Movie
Martin is married to Frida and together they have a son. One day after a quarrel with his wife, he goes to buy flowers to ask for forgiveness. In the flower shop he meets the beautiful Rut and falls instantly in love. They both start a passionate love affair but beneath the beautiful surface hides a completely different woman than he expected ...
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Affairs of a Model
Title: Affairs of a Model
Released: September 23, 1946
Type: Movie
Dora moves in with the artist Erik to become his model. Three men from a Masonic Order pretends to be interested in his art, but Dora is their real focus.
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You Who Are About to Enter
Title: You Who Are About to Enter
Character: Gunnar Palm
Released: November 2, 1945
Type: Movie
Tomas Eckert, a civil servant, is subjected to a violated woman's revenge. It happens to be his boss's wife, Märta Palm. Tomas is accused of having abused Mrs.Palm. She also reveals that Tomas's wife is morphine addict. He collapses and is forced to accept early retirement, diagnosed "epilepsy with mental changes"
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Crime and Punishment
Title: Crime and Punishment
Character: Pjotr Petrovitj Lusjin
Released: October 16, 1945
Type: Movie
A Swedish version of Crime and Punishment. Raskolnikov, a poor student, is planning to assassinate a hated pawnbroker.
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Idel ädel adel
Title: Idel ädel adel
Character: John
Released: July 16, 1945
Type: Movie
A newly married Baron plans to sell his castle. His wife, who loves to live in a castle, knows nothing about the sale.
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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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Vi behöver varann
Title: Vi behöver varann
Released: September 20, 1944
Type: Movie
A female reporter invents a story about a man who threatens to take his life to protest the injustices of society. But the scam is about to be revealed. She is forced to persuade a tramp to play the fictional man.
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Appassionata
Title: Appassionata
Character: Hellenius
Released: February 2, 1944
Type: Movie
A classic melodrama about the famous pianist Thomas Dahlhoff.
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Kajan går till sjöss
Title: Kajan går till sjöss
Character: Karl-Gustaf Ekenhjelm
Released: December 26, 1943
Type: Movie
Kajan, a young boy, spends the summer with his friends working on a barge, earning extra money in the ports with their song and dance number. A young countess runs away from home and joins Kajan and his friends.
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There Burns a Fire
Title: There Burns a Fire
Character: Bruhn
Released: August 23, 1943
Type: Movie
An allegory of Germany's WWII occupation of Norway. Members of a theater ensemble join the resistance.
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The Sin of Anna Lans
Title: The Sin of Anna Lans
Character: Gösta Nyström
Released: August 20, 1943
Type: Movie
At a meeting at the Salvation Army a female soldier tells the story of her life.
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Lille Napoleon
Title: Lille Napoleon
Character: Lundkvist
Released: May 31, 1943
Type: Movie
Office worker Napoleon Larsson is an unnoticed existence. One day when he arrives late for work, he gets fired, but through his wife's actions he gets alerted by the boss and advances within the company.
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Women in Captivity
Title: Women in Captivity
Character: Otto Winblad
Released: March 12, 1943
Type: Movie
A priest decides to engage himself socially in prison. In the cells he meets a number of women with different fates. One is Mary, a young honest woman gone wrong.
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Stora skrällen
Title: Stora skrällen
Character: Erland Thegel
Released: February 3, 1943
Type: Movie
A ruthless businessman arrives to a small town. He is prepared to do pretty much anything to win beautiful Vera Odelman's heart.
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Changing Trains
Title: Changing Trains
Character: Hugo Linde
Released: January 30, 1943
Type: Movie
Inga, an unemployed actress meets a sweetheart Kim, from days long gone at a train station. Over coffee they reminisce about their romance and how Inga left Kim for a moderately successful acting career and the attractive theater director Leo Waller.
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En vår i vapen
Title: En vår i vapen
Character: Jacobsson, kontorschef
Released: January 4, 1943
Type: Movie
During the spring of 1940 two young men gets drafted and deployed close to the Norwegian border, where they fall in love with the same woman.
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Lyckan kommer
Title: Lyckan kommer
Character: Tranér
Released: August 17, 1942
Type: Movie
The idle rich have their own particular problems. Case in point, Georg and Monika Hedberg were once poor and happy but since Georg became an established painter family bliss has decreased for every fur coat Monika has bought. Their divorce lawyer suggest that they try to save their marriage by moving to a small apartment and live life frugally but happy. When the trial period is over and they want to return home again, their lawyer has stolen their money and disappeared. The Hedbergs are evicted for unpaid rent and terminal poverty seem to be imminent. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
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A Singing Girl
Title: A Singing Girl
Character: Sigmund
Released: March 9, 1942
Type: Movie
A girl (Alice Babs) from the country moves to Stockholm to become a singer.
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Flickan i fönstret mitt emot
Title: Flickan i fönstret mitt emot
Character: Wellinder
Released: March 3, 1942
Type: Movie
The bricklayer Loffe often sees sculptress Ingrid in a window a cross the building. They get to now each other and soon fall in love. Loffe works for the master-builder Swahne who is Ingrid's uncle. Swahne comes up with a plan to see if Loffe's feelings for her are true or if he is just out for her money.
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En sjöman i frack
Title: En sjöman i frack
Character: Anton
Released: February 22, 1942
Type: Movie
First mate Karlsson is mistaken for famous actor Linde.
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Stackars Ferdinand
Title: Stackars Ferdinand
Released: December 27, 1941
Type: Movie
Wholesaler Ferdinand wants his son to marry his firm partner's daughter, but the problem is they don't want to get married. The son turns to a friend for advice. It turns out that Ferdinand had a daughter from a previous marriage he didn't know nothing about, which leads to further confusion
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Hem från Babylon
Title: Hem från Babylon
Character: Hugo
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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Ung dam med tur
Title: Ung dam med tur
Released: September 29, 1941
Type: Movie
The office worker Eva is told that she has inherited a massive amount of money in the United States.
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The First Squadron
Title: The First Squadron
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: September 23, 1941
Type: Movie
The year is 1941 and Nazi Germany is at its peak. Hitler's army is storming into Russia. Sweden stands lonely and isolated while the air force is training intensely due to a coming attack. The squadron leader pushes his men at its hardest. It's a constant game with death where death unfortunately often wins.
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'Swing It' Teacher
Title: 'Swing It' Teacher
Character: Furubeck
Released: December 21, 1940
Type: Movie
Old fashioned teachers are taught swing dancing by a student.
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Romans
Title: Romans
Released: December 17, 1940
Type: Movie
An engineer with a factory is on the brink of ruin. A greedy director offers to buy his mill. Instead, the engineer opens a hotel. With little success. A rumor has that Greta Garbo is expected at the hotel.
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Hennes melodi
Title: Hennes melodi
Released: June 2, 1940
Type: Movie
Sonja meet Curt in a taxi cab. By mistake, each believes that the other is a rich member of the upper class. They meet on a date, but since neither wants to reveal the truth about themselves, they both get more and more caught in the web of lies they have produced.
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Vi på Solgläntan
Title: Vi på Solgläntan
Released: December 26, 1939
Type: Movie
The politicians wants to build a factory on the allotment garden Solgläntan, but they encounter resistance.
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Kalle på Spången
Title: Kalle på Spången
Character: American
Released: November 4, 1939
Type: Movie
Kalle Jeppson is the joyful owner of a rural inn, "Spången" (The Footbridge). His only problems are all the bylaws that makes it difficult to have a quiet drink and the shrew of his wife who is always nagging on him. Kalle is afraid to tell her that Karin the maid is really his daughter from the days before their marriage.
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Adolf klarar skivan
Title: Adolf klarar skivan
Character: Butler
Released: February 14, 1938
Type: Movie
Adolf Jansson makes a living doing odd jobs until one day he gets a job working as a butler in the Pettersson residence. Adolf is instantly liked by everyone in the family except the daughter Susette, whom Adolf has fallen in love with.
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Mamma gifter sig
Title: Mamma gifter sig
Released: October 23, 1937
Type: Movie
A widow wants to sell a hotel that her daughter owns. When the sales plans reach her daughter, she decides to take a look at why the hotel will be sold. She enters the hotel under false name.
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Lyckliga Vestköping
Title: Lyckliga Vestköping
Character: Hotel Manager
Released: August 20, 1937
Type: Movie
When the mine is closing down in the small community of Vestköping the town bank is also in danger. Sudden news of the return of one of the town's inhabitants who had emigrated to the USA and is said to be very wealthy improves spirits of everyone.
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En flicka kommer till sta'n
Title: En flicka kommer till sta'n
Released: February 18, 1937
Type: Movie
Ulla takes the train to Stockholm to try her luck in the big city.
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Stackars miljonärer
Title: Stackars miljonärer
Character: Direktør Hovén
Released: August 20, 1936
Type: Movie
Jan Eriksson wins a vacation trip to a hotel in the mountains.
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The Red Day
Title: The Red Day
Released: April 13, 1931
Type: Movie
Jideon Andersson is the leader of the "Red Day" organization that are planning a communist takeover of the capital of Stockholm on August 1.
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We must have love
Title: We must have love
Released: January 16, 1931
Type: Movie
Olivia and Charles Dangerfield are forced to rent their home to the newly rich widow, Mrs Falkner.