Mimi Pollak

Mimi Pollak

Born: April 9, 1903
Died: August 11, 1999
in Karlstad, Värmlands län, Sweden
Maria Helena "Mimi" Pollak was a Swedish stage and screen actress and director. She attended the Royal Dramatic Theatre school in Stockholm, Sweden, with fellow actress Greta Garbo from 1922 to 1924. It was Mimi that came up with the name Garbo. They became friends for life. Pollak became in 1948 the first contracted female director at the Dramaten with the production of Jean Genet's Jungfruleken (Les Bonnes/The Maids), with Anita Björk and Maj-Britt Nilsson. Mimi Pollak appeared since her 1922 debut in the film "Amatörfilmen" in about 30 feature films and TV productions. She directed and handfull during the 1950's.

Movies for Mimi Pollak...

Agnes Cecilia - En sällsam historia
Title: Agnes Cecilia - En sällsam historia
Character: Hulda
Released: August 28, 1991
Type: Movie
Nora is 15 years old. Her parents died when she was young and now she lives with Anders and Karin and their son Dag. They move into an old apartment in an old house in Enköping. Behind a wall they find some old items from people who lived there a long time ago. They also discover that their apartment is haunted by a ghost. Together with Dag, Nora tries to find out more about the people who lived there.
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The Secret
Title: The Secret
Character: Ester
Released: February 15, 1990
Type: Movie
Sam and Amanda are friends. One day, they accidentally throw Sam's sister's diaries in the garbage can and have to trace them to the city dump.
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Brenda Brave
Title: Brenda Brave
Character: Market Woman
Released: February 25, 1989
Type: Movie
Brenda Brave gladly helps her grandmother to sell candy canes at the market square. But one day grandmother suffers from a sore leg. Brenda has to take care of the candy cane sales all by herself.
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The Crown Witness
Title: The Crown Witness
Character: The old lady
Released: February 3, 1989
Type: Movie
Thomas, a scientist, lives in a childless marriage. When his wife travels to Copenhagen he begins an affair with a girl of 19. The girl and large amounts of drugs disappears from Thomas laboratory.
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Stiller, Garbo & jag
Title: Stiller, Garbo & jag
Released: March 8, 1988
Type: Movie
One day when Ruben Stiller is playing in a bath, he gets an alien talking to Nadja, who asks him to find out the fate of Charly's dog. Ruben agrees because Charly's host was Mauritz Stiller, and Ruben is the grandson of Mauritz's brother.
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A Matter of Life and Death
Title: A Matter of Life and Death
Character: Rickos Mormorsmor
Released: November 20, 1986
Type: Movie
"Life and Death" - A female reporter intended to go on a reporting trip about childbirth to Japan, declines the offer. Instead, she visits a maternity hospital in Sweden. She meets a doctor, who she has been in love for 15 years.
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Amorosa
Title: Amorosa
Character: Miss Rosenhjelm
Released: March 14, 1986
Type: Movie
About the Swedish author Agnes Von Krusenstjerna during the period of her marriage to David Sprengel. In the hallucinatory opening sequence she is brought in a straitjacket by her husband and two psychiatric nurses through the Venice Carnival nocturnal antics to a mental hospital in the city. With her is a manuscript of her autobiography, which she calls "her child". The book is Agnes showdown with her family, and in flashbacks presented, Agnes progress from the author of innocent girls' books to serious and self-consuming novelist.
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Title: August Strindberg: Ett liv
Character: Änglamakerskan
Released: February 18, 1985
Type: TV
A mini-series about the life of Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter, August Strindberg. He is portrayed as a misogynous, selfish and racial. And he loses everything, for the sake of the art.
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Sömnen
Title: Sömnen
Character: The Grandma
Released: March 9, 1984
Type: Movie
"The Sleep" - Tired of the touring life the rock star Tommy Cosmo cuts the strings of his guitar, empties his bank account, packs his revolver and takes off to find new values of life .
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The Flight of the Eagle
Title: The Flight of the Eagle
Character: Mina Andrée
Released: August 26, 1982
Type: Movie
The Swedish 19th century engineer Salomon August Andrée sets out to become the first man on the north pole. His idea is to launch a polar expedition using a hydrogen balloon, together with two friends. The balloon, "The Eagle", takes off from Svalbard in 1897, but the three men are not heard of again.
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The Farewell
Title: The Farewell
Released: April 8, 1982
Type: Movie
Set between 1930s and 50s, The Farewell the story of Valerie, who lives in a household totally repressed by her stern father. When Valerie has a brief affair with another woman, her father is extremely angry and tries to end the affair with physical force. However Valerie’s determination, independence and lesbian feelings cannot be crushed.
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Kristoffers hus
Title: Kristoffers hus
Character: Grandma
Released: September 19, 1979
Type: Movie
Kristoffer lives on the verge of poverty, just barely supporting himself on his photographic work and an allowance given him by his ex-wife to support their child. He is staying in his absentee mother's large old house, which she is preparing to sell. When he takes a photograph of a man who died by his own hand, the image fascinates him. He grows obsessed with the dead man's story and pushes his research as far as it will go.
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Autumn Sonata
Title: Autumn Sonata
Character: Piano Instructor
Released: October 8, 1978
Type: Movie
After a seven-year absence, Charlotte Andergast travels to Sweden to reunite with her daughter Eva. The pair have a troubled relationship: Charlotte sacrificed the responsibilities of motherhood for a career as a classical pianist. Over an emotional night, the pair reopen the wounds of the past. Charlotte gets another shock when she finds out that her mentally impaired daughter, Helena, is out of the asylum and living with Eva.
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Near and Far Away
Title: Near and Far Away
Character: Fortune teller
Released: November 8, 1976
Type: Movie
Mania is a new employee at a mental hospital, where she meets a young man with mutism. He gets her to realize that it is a fluid boundary between being healthy and being regarded as sick.
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Title: Emil of Lönneberga
Character: Lillklossan
Released: November 22, 1975
Type: TV
Emil i Lönneberga is a Swedish television adaptation of Astrid Lindgren's Emil i Lönneberga books
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Emil of Lonneberga
Title: Emil of Lonneberga
Character: Lillklossan
Released: December 4, 1971
Type: Movie
Emil Svensson lives with his mother and father, little sister Ida, farmhand Alfred, and maid Lina on a picturesque farm in Småland. He is an unusually lively little boy, who just can't resist trying out every whim that enters into his white-haired head. Always with the best intentions in mind, because he is a good-hearted child, but often with catastrophic results, especially for his short-tempered father. As a result, Emil spends a lot of quality time in the wood shed carving wood figurines and waiting for Anton's temper to cool down. And the father's patience is certainly tried, as Emil gets his head stuck in the family's only soup bowl, hoists little Ida up the flag pole, and arranges a lavish Christmas party for the poor.
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Nightmare
Title: Nightmare
Character: Anna Söderblom
Released: December 20, 1965
Type: Movie
Fashion-designer May Berg is driving alone one evening, when she almost run over a man lying in the street. She gets out of the car to see. Suddenly the man attacks her, trying to strangle her. The assassination attempt fails, but it is followed soon by new, mysterious attempts to kill her. She is driven more and more into a constant fear of her life. Her husband trivialize the whole thing and even the police is skeptical of her claims that she is stalked by someone trying to kill her.
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The Dress
Title: The Dress
Character: Mrs. Rubin
Released: October 5, 1964
Type: Movie
Edit is pleased that her mother agrees to let her buy a dress she loves, but which in fact is made for an adult woman.
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Mord, lilla vän
Title: Mord, lilla vän
Character: Olga Vaern
Released: February 26, 1955
Type: Movie
A member of "Sjöbjörnarna" (a group of executives), asks the newspaper editor Dick Mattson to find Brita Ljungdahl, the former wife of another of the members. The first clue he tries is to ask a certain Maria Vaern, who knows Brita.
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Summer Interlude
Title: Summer Interlude
Character: Mrs Calwagen
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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Only a Mother
Title: Only a Mother
Character: Erika Rost
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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Playing Truant
Title: Playing Truant
Character: Märta Hoffman
Released: August 15, 1949
Type: Movie
High school student Margareta fall head over heels in love with a young doctor and announce her engagement to him to her parents. She quits school and move in with him in a large house. However, the life of a housewife soon becomes tedious. Her husband does not want her to study but secretly she enrolls in a high school again to be able to graduate. Her husband suspects funny business when she is spotted with her private tutor.
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Gatan
Title: Gatan
Character: Mrs Rodelius
Released: February 27, 1949
Type: Movie
Britt Malm gets hit by a car on a Stockholm street and is taken to hospital. She is badly injured and must undergo surgery. While the anesthetic takes effect she sees hallucinatory images. This turns into a flashback of what happened Britt before the accident.
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The Sixth Commandment
Title: The Sixth Commandment
Released: September 27, 1947
Type: Movie
Jane and Karl have been married for many years. Jane feels trapped in their marriage and takes a lover. She is caught by her daughter Kerstin and forced to leave family and home.
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Supper for Two
Title: Supper for Two
Character: Sophie
Released: February 15, 1947
Type: Movie
Louise Mareuil owns a perfume factory on the French Riviera. She is in a traffic accident with a sketch artist, Claude Dubois. She gives him a blank check which he soon use to withdraw 2 000 000 franc as a joke. Visiting her office, he returns the money and in return she hires him as a sketch artist for the company's advertisement. With his charm and wit he turns the factory upside down, to the chagrin of Louise. She is strict and orderly but soon after letting him go she begins to change her mind. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
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Den långa vägen
Title: Den långa vägen
Character: Fredrika Bremer
Released: January 1, 1947
Type: Movie
Grandmother sits with her grandchildren. She talks about the position of the Swedish woman through the centuries, about her struggle for freedom and justice. Grandma's words take shape in moving images.
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Bröder emellan
Title: Bröder emellan
Released: November 18, 1946
Type: Movie
Identical twin brothers Patrik and Peter Brodd haven't seen each other for twelve years until Peter returns from America and goes to Patrik's office and demands that he gives him more money. Patrik becomes so upset that he faints. Peter quickly sends the unconscious Patrik to the hospital and takes over his brother's identity. He soon discovers that Peter is having an affair with his secretary. Peter's wife discovers that her husband has become very charming, not at all the usual boor. Meanwhile, Patrik tries to leave the hospital and stop his brother.
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Kajan går till sjöss
Title: Kajan går till sjöss
Character: Miss Lidegren
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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Flames in the Dark
Title: Flames in the Dark
Character: Miss Danielsson
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?
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The Ghost Reporter
Title: The Ghost Reporter
Released: August 9, 1941
Type: Movie
Augustus Blomkvist sells his sausage factory and buys the newspaper Stockholms-Posten where he starts working as a reporter under false name.
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Gentleman att hyra
Title: Gentleman att hyra
Character: Secretary
Released: November 18, 1940
Type: Movie
Two friends, a rich landowner and a flight lieutenant, compete for the love of the same woman, singer Claire Wanner.
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With You in My Arms
Title: With You in My Arms
Character: Miss Carlander
Released: November 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Millionaire Krister Dahl loses his memory when he is hit in the head by a golf ball. He meets his ex-wife and immediately fall in love with her again. She does not know what to believe, is it true or is it only a joke? He also discovers how he has mismanaged his company in his earlier life.
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En, men ett lejon
Title: En, men ett lejon
Released: November 1, 1940
Type: Movie
The fashion house boss Harry Martin has invited all his staff to a crayfish party at his home.
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Mannen som alla ville mörda
Title: Mannen som alla ville mörda
Character: Erna Larsson
Released: March 1, 1940
Type: Movie
"The man all wanted to kill" - A brutal businessman, Vilhelm Gerner, triggers a stock speculation by providing false information. Two of his partners, Smith and Grå, get ruined and therefore Smith commit suicide. Later, Gerner is found shot by his own gun. The police suspects at least seven persons. Most of them admits murdering Gerner. A reconstruction is staged in the presence of all the suspects.
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Den stora kärleken
Title: Den stora kärleken
Released: March 7, 1938
Type: Movie
The maid Agnes lives a rather lonely and boring life.
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Amatörfilmen
Title: Amatörfilmen
Character: Eva, Garters dotter
Released: October 30, 1922
Type: Movie
The jeweler Edmond gets a competitor, Mr. Snyder, who specializes in imitations. Snyder challenges him and claims he can make a perfect imitation of a pearl Edmond chooses.