Elsa Prawitz

Elsa Prawitz

Born: February 22, 1932
Died: May 1, 2001
in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
Elsa Prawitz was a Swedish stage and screen actress, writer, theatre executive and radio presenter. She made her screen debut in "Frånskild/Divorced" (1951) and graduated from The Royal Dramatic Theatre's acting school in 1954. Elsa Prawits often took on roles as sensually challenging women, not least in a series of films directed by Arne Mattsson.

Movies for Elsa Prawitz...

The Lion and the Virgin
Title: The Lion and the Virgin
Character: designer
Released: February 14, 1975
Type: Movie
After young film writer Leo has his latest screenplay rejected he retreats to his summer home on an island, on his way he meets the flight attendant Virgo and a romance soon blossoms.
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Gustav III
Title: Gustav III
Character: Fru Schröderheim
Released: April 8, 1974
Type: Movie
Based on play by famous swedish author/playwright August Strindberg adapted for swedish TV in 70's. It's about the real life assassination on swedish king Gustav III who was killed by a lieutenant Jacob Johan Anckarström who acted on behalf of a group conspirators.
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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 Reluctant Sadist
Title: The Reluctant Sadist
Character: Fru Mikkelsen
Released: March 27, 1967
Type: Movie
A poor dandy embezzled large sums of money and buys the title Marquis De Sade to impress the upper class. The film premiered as "I am a Marquis."
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Mördaren - en helt vanlig person
Title: Mördaren - en helt vanlig person
Character: Karin Swan
Released: January 16, 1967
Type: Movie
People on a train get murdered. Who is the murderer? Everybody on the train is a suspect. One of them is the homosexual dope fiend played by Heinz Hopf. Things might get out of hand in this exciting thriller in true Hitchcockian style.
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Woman of Darkness
Title: Woman of Darkness
Character: Hilda Persdotter
Released: October 1, 1966
Type: Movie
Sweden 1889. The young Per Nilsson has a very dominant mother, Anna Månsdotter. His father died many years ago and he and his mother have for a long time been in a incestuous relationship. But Per marries Hanna for the sake of her money and Anna is mean and evil towards her, and Per refuses to have sex with her. She starts to suspect that something is going on between her husband and stepmother.
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Sadist
Title: Sadist
Character: Maria Wester
Released: June 27, 1966
Type: Movie
The plot revolves around a sadistic doctor, a macabre gravedigger, an innocent girl, sabotage, sex and violent death. The beautiful Vivi Sander is living a rough life and is deeply in debt. She tries to force her family to sell the house to make ends meet. Vivi's car crash after a sabotage. She is injured and brought to a medical center where she meets the perverted Dr. Wester.
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Piano Lesson
Title: Piano Lesson
Released: January 1, 1966
Type: Movie
A young man fantasizes about his female piano teacher during a lesson.
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Morianna
Title: Morianna
Character: Agda Ahlgren
Released: August 15, 1965
Type: Movie
The family of an old, loathed millionaire named Verner Vade are sick of his dictatorship, and are just waiting for him to fall over and die. When he is attacked one night and disappears, a nosey cops start to investigate. A few days later Verner comes home again, wounded, and is back to his old, angry routines. And the family have had enough.
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Tre dar på luffen
Title: Tre dar på luffen
Released: December 26, 1964
Type: Movie
A vagabond comes walking on a small Swedish country road in the middle of summer. Suddenly he finds himself employed at a nearby farm.
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Dance Around the Guldbaggen
Title: Dance Around the Guldbaggen
Character: Self
Released: September 25, 1964
Type: Movie
Filmed during the first ever Guldbaggen (golden scarab) awards, it was edited and developed that night and shown for the first time to the guests at the after party.
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Title: Skäggen
Released: March 9, 1963
Type: TV
"The Beards" - The framework was that the participants would produce a relatively current entertainment program titled Concrete. During the meetings ideas and sketches were presented. Most of it was rejected.
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Kurragömma
Title: Kurragömma
Character: Ninon
Released: February 5, 1963
Type: Movie
An escaped convict assumes the identity of a professor in order to reveal a criminal syndicate who smuggle diamonds together with Parisian haute couture.
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Det är hos mig han har varit
Title: Det är hos mig han har varit
Character: Li
Released: February 4, 1963
Type: Movie
"It's with me he's been" - Li and Hans are colleagues at an advertising agency. Even though Hans is married, they start a relationship. Li hopes that Hans will tell his wife the truth about them and leave her for Li.
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The Doll
Title: The Doll
Character: Ms. Karlberg
Released: July 30, 1962
Type: Movie
A lonely nightwatchman at a department store develops a fixation on one of the store's mannequins. He soon steals her and takes her to his home, where he can be with her all the time. One day, she comes to life...
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Ljuvlig är sommarnatten
Title: Ljuvlig är sommarnatten
Character: Camilla Martin
Released: August 17, 1961
Type: Movie
Someone is murdered. Who is the killer? Members of all star cast are all suspects...
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When Darkness Falls
Title: When Darkness Falls
Character: Barbara Sandell
Released: December 26, 1960
Type: Movie
Young Elisabeth comes to Västlinge to meet her old relative, the vicar and and his young daughter. She is going to spend the Christmas there in peace and quiet but on Christmas Eve, the grocer is brutally murdered with an axe. Police inspector Christer Wijk comes to the small village to find the murderer. He soon discovers the puzzle of evidence that makes almost everybody a suspect.
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Sommar och syndare
Title: Sommar och syndare
Character: Helga
Released: September 25, 1960
Type: Movie
Emil and Ove are two happily married men. Both are currently bachelorssince their wives are on holiday in Denmark. One day Emil almost run over a beautiful woman at Nybroplan in Stockholm. She is a outstanding redhead.
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Får jag låna din fru?
Title: Får jag låna din fru?
Character: Ulla Ejners
Released: June 22, 1959
Type: Movie
Bertil Lund works at the wholesaling company Everything for the Baby. The supervisor Fredriksson is considering promoting him to vice-president but there is one obstacle: Bertil is yet unmarried and is thus considered unsuitable. But Bertil's friend Torbjörn has an idea: Bertil can borrow Torbjörn's wife Ulla and tell everybody that she is his wife. When his colleagues at work hears that he is married, Bertil has a lot of problems to deal with. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
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Mannequin in Red
Title: Mannequin in Red
Character: Katja Sundin
Released: December 19, 1958
Type: Movie
A model is murdered at a famous fashion house and the Hillmans start to investigate. Kajsa Hillman is employed as a model and discovers that several people had motives to kill her.
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Den tappre soldaten Jönsson
Title: Den tappre soldaten Jönsson
Character: The General's wife
Released: October 21, 1956
Type: Movie
About a love triangle between the soldiers 32 Svensson and 58 Jönsson and the girl Blenda. Both men ends up in jail, for different reasons. Further adventures and incidents occur.
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Girl in Tails
Title: Girl in Tails
Released: October 15, 1956
Type: Movie
The beautiful student Katja shocks the conservative and rigid city of Wadköping by appearing in tail-coat on the big prom.
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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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Sju vackra flickor
Title: Sju vackra flickor
Character: Eva Lindberg
Released: July 22, 1956
Type: Movie
Unsuccessful composer Stig disguises himself as a woman to play in ex-fiancee Sonja's seven piece women's orchestra, which is temporarily short one member, at a hotel. When Stig's jealous, and unsuccessful actress, wife Eva finds out about it she too disguises herself as the opposite sex by posing as a hotel porter. Additional complications arise and hilarity ensues!
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Whoops!
Title: Whoops!
Character: Sylvia Blidfjell
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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Männen i mörker
Title: Männen i mörker
Released: February 6, 1955
Type: Movie
When the men in the small mining community go to work, it is like any other day. They do not yet know that an accident will change everything.
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Salka Valka
Title: Salka Valka
Character: American Tourist
Released: November 16, 1954
Type: Movie
A coming of age story about young Salka Valka who lives in the small fishing village of Íseyri. She is doing well for herself as a partner in a small fishing boat, but people believe she is financed by her deceased mother's former fiance, Steinthór, who disappeared on their wedding day many years ago. Salka becomes infatuated with the idealistic Arnaldur who wants to start a workers union, much to the opposition of local entrepreneur Bogesen. The past comes to haunt her in the return of Steinthór but Salka fends off his advances only to lose the restless Arnaldur away. http://www.icelandicfilmcentre.is
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Enchanted Journey
Title: Enchanted Journey
Character: Birgitta Hassel, Porslins-Birgitta / Louise von Bogenhusen
Released: April 19, 1954
Type: Movie
A traveling theatre company comes to a small town and performs to a packed house. But during the show the theatre director decides to run away with the money.
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Divorced
Title: Divorced
Character: Elsie, Hans fru, Gertruds dotter
Released: December 26, 1951
Type: Movie
Gertrud is being abandoned by her husband after 20 years of marriage. Offended and unhappy she leaves her home and rents a room. The landlady's son is drawn to her and tries to help her out of the loneliness.