Gunnel Broström

Gunnel Broström

Born: October 25, 1922
Died: June 28, 2012
in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
Gunnel Broström (1922–2012) was a Swedish stage, film and television actress. She also directed a number of television films from 1965 onwards.

Movies for Gunnel Broström...

Behind the Scenes of 'Wild Strawberries'
Title: Behind the Scenes of 'Wild Strawberries'
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: June 11, 2013
Type: Movie
A behind the scenes montage from Wild Strawberries on 16mm shot by Bergman himself, narrated by Jon Wengström. First presented in this form on the Criterion Collection's Blu-ray edition of the film.
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Easter
Title: Easter
Character: Fru Heyst
Released: October 16, 1988
Type: Movie
Drama about a family going through a crisis during the Easter weekend.
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Amorosa
Title: Amorosa
Character: Evelina Hamilton
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: Charlotte Löwensköld och Anna Svärd
Character: Beate Ekenstedt
Released: March 18, 1981
Type: TV
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Den ynkryggen Valdemar
Title: Den ynkryggen Valdemar
Character: Birgitta Sandberg
Released: April 6, 1980
Type: Movie
The consultant at a mental hospital receives a visit from one of the hospital's female doctors after a vacation trip. A client, Valdemar, has made improper advances and she's confused.
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Charlotte Löwensköld
Title: Charlotte Löwensköld
Character: Beate Ekenstedt, colonel's wife
Released: October 30, 1979
Type: Movie
1830 Värmland, Sweden. Master Karl Arthur Ekenstedt comes to aid the Minister at Crosss Church. He falls in love with Charlotte Löwensköld, housekeeper in the rectory. They get engaged. Charlotte is full of life, energetic and practical. Karl Arthur struggle with his faith and God.
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Kristoffers hus
Title: Kristoffers hus
Character: Mother
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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Erik XIV
Title: Erik XIV
Released: January 2, 1974
Type: Movie
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The Man from the Other Side
Title: The Man from the Other Side
Character: Ingrid Holm
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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I Am Curious (Blue)
Title: I Am Curious (Blue)
Released: March 11, 1968
Type: Movie
The same movie with the same characters, cast and crew as I am Curious (Yellow), but with some different scenes and a different political slant. The political focus in Blue is personal relationships, religion, prisons and sex. Blue omits much of the class consciousness and non-violence interviews of the first version. Yellow and Blue are the colors of the Swedish flag.
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Rooftree
Title: Rooftree
Character: Inez Wittö
Released: April 9, 1967
Type: Movie
Noomi is a refugee with traumatic memories, a stranger, afraid of contacts. Leo is a bourgeois man who is considering building a villa. Married with two children. Magnus is an artist, dreams of women. He associates with Noomi. Noomi is now meeting Leo.
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Stimulantia
Title: Stimulantia
Released: March 28, 1967
Type: Movie
Stimulantia is a 1967 Swedish anthology film comprising eight episodes by eight different directors including Ingmar Bergman, Jörn Donner, Gustaf Molander and Vilgot Sjöman and starring among others Ingrid Bergman, Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Björnstrand, Lars Ekborg and Inga Landgré.
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Gustav Vasa
Title: Gustav Vasa
Character: Dronningen
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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Den bergtagna
Title: Den bergtagna
Released: January 1, 1965
Type: Movie
Depicts a woman who commits suicide after being betrayed by a man who, by playing on her low self-esteem, has made herself her superior - and thus deprived her of all right to exist.
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Prins hatt under jorden
Title: Prins hatt under jorden
Character: Margot Sanders
Released: September 29, 1963
Type: Movie
A young man,Erik, breaks into a photo store. But he is discovered by the night watchman and has to fly. During the flight he is picked up by cabaret singer Margot, who offers him protection. Erik, now wanted by the police, stays for a longer time with Margot and becomes her lover. Margot, however, is not alone in recruiting Erik: even the young Li is interested in him.
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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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Swedenhielms
Title: Swedenhielms
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Tv play based on Hjalmar Bergmans play Swedenhielms from 1923.
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The Devil's Messenger
Title: The Devil's Messenger
Character: Madame Germaine
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
In this feature version of the Swedish TV series "13 Demon Street," a 50,000-year-old woman is found frozen in an ice field, and a man's death is foretold in dreams.
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Storm
Title: Storm
Character: Gerda
Released: January 22, 1960
Type: Movie
An elderly gentleman lives alone with his maid Louise. He spends his days chatting with the confectioner who lives and works downstairs, playing chess with his brother Karl Fredrick, and content with his memories. His young wife Gerda ran out on him five years ago, taking their young daughter with her. Now, unbeknownst to the gentleman, she’s back… and living in the upstairs apartment with the child and her new husband. When Gerda finally faces the man, sparks will fly and old wounds will be reopened. Bergman's TV adaptation of August Strindberg's play "Storm" was presented on the 111th anniversary of the author's birth. The production was also shown in Denmark and Norway and received glowing reviews. Bergman was celebrated as an outstanding TV director and was praised for his tact and sympathy in depicting old age, his superior lighting and fine camera work as well as his understanding of the medium in his use of close-ups.
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Måsen
Title: Måsen
Released: November 20, 1959
Type: Movie
This quintessential Chekhov drama--his first success--is both comic and tragic. A group of friends and relations gather at a country estate to see the first performance of an experimental play written and staged by the young man of the house, Konstantin, an aspiring writer who dreams of bringing new forms to the theatre.
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Rider in Blue
Title: Rider in Blue
Character: Elly Weinestam
Released: October 16, 1959
Type: Movie
When private eye John Hillman is on assignment in London his wife Kajsa visits the Army's riding school at Strömsholm, Sweden. She gets involved in the strange murder of the Blue Rider. Unknown to everyone at Strömsholm.
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Rum för ensam dam
Title: Rum för ensam dam
Released: March 13, 1959
Type: Movie
Magda Nilsson is a very talented young woman, but she has had a difficult upbringing and lost her self-confidence. She is also a singe-parent mother with her fragile son Arne. Magda is also difficult, antisocial and hard to get to know, but beneath the surface she seeps from suppressed love needs.
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Midsommardröm i fattighuset
Title: Midsommardröm i fattighuset
Released: January 6, 1959
Type: Movie
A Swedish TV play about a workhouse in Småland, Sweden. Midsummer's Dream in the Workhouse is written by Pär Lagerkvist.
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A Goat in the Garden
Title: A Goat in the Garden
Character: Helfrid
Released: February 17, 1958
Type: Movie
The wild Jon Esping bets that he will become a churchwarden. He, the upstart and the illiterate who can only write his name, a fox in business, a stud among women and a brute in general, wins the bet.
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Wild Strawberries
Title: Wild Strawberries
Character: Berit Alman
Released: December 26, 1957
Type: Movie
Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. Along the way, they encounter a series of hitchhikers, each of whom causes the elderly doctor to muse upon the pleasures and failures of his own life. These include the vivacious young Sara, a dead ringer for the doctor's own first love.
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Ett dockhem
Title: Ett dockhem
Character: Ottilia Sandegren
Released: January 1, 1956
Type: Movie
August Strindberg's feedback to Henrik Ibsen's "Doll's House"--a short story from the collection "Giftas" (Getting married), about female emancipation and obsolete marriages.
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Paradiset
Title: Paradiset
Character: Rita Ekström
Released: October 16, 1955
Type: Movie
The two alcoholics Rudolf and Bertil gets fired from their jobs. For Bertil the story ends happily. He quits drinking and takes a job on a ship. For Rudolph it is worse. He can't kick the booze.
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Salka Valka
Title: Salka Valka
Character: Salka Valka
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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Storm over Tjurö
Title: Storm over Tjurö
Character: Tekla Bladh
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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Vi tre debutera
Title: Vi tre debutera
Character: Secretary
Released: September 7, 1953
Type: Movie
Three young poets are about to make their debuts.
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Ubåt 39
Title: Ubåt 39
Character: Anna
Released: August 25, 1952
Type: Movie
About U-Boat 39 the first U-Boat sunk in WW2 by the UK Carrier Ark Royal.
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Svenske ryttaren
Title: Svenske ryttaren
Character: Svarta Lisa
Released: September 26, 1949
Type: Movie
Agneta Gyllencrona is in love with Henrik Lettnoff, a refugee from the Baltic. They have to leave together when her mother, the Countess, wants to tear them apart.
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Till the Doors of Hell
Title: Till the Doors of Hell
Character: Eva Barring
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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Railroad Workers
Title: Railroad Workers
Character: Viktoria
Released: December 26, 1947
Type: Movie
The north of Sweden in 1902. A team of railroad men are building a rail road from Luleå at the Bay of Bothnia to Narvik at the Norwegian Sea. One of the newest workers, Valfrid from the south of Sweden, is not accepted by neither Stora Ballong, the informal leader of the workers, nor the others. They refuse to talk to him but instead Valfrid gets help from the sworn enemy of the railroad workers: the greedy drugstore owner Blom.
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Crime in the Sun
Title: Crime in the Sun
Character: Marguerite
Released: December 1, 1947
Type: Movie
Harry, returning home after six years in an asylum, has vivid recollections of a party many years ago with six of his friends. The party ended with one of them, Raoul, disappearing. A gardener is digging in Harry's garden when a skeleton and a watch with the name "Raoul" is found. Harry invites his friends to a dinner to solve the mystery of Raoul's disappearance.
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The Bells in Old Town
Title: The Bells in Old Town
Character: Harriet von Borch
Released: December 30, 1946
Type: Movie
Kalle Magnus Berg is a kind bailiff in Gamla Stan (Old Town) in Stockholm. He helps out "clients" by supporting them with money from his own pocket. His neighbor is a jazz musician who plays at a restaurant for a living.
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Barbacka
Title: Barbacka
Released: November 18, 1946
Type: Movie
Connie is growing up on an estate and cling especially to Gunnar. When Connie mention that she has met a man, Gunnar gets angry and repels her. Connie decides to retaliate by taking over Gunnar's sister's husband, Boris, who is the owner of the estate.
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Peggy på vift
Title: Peggy på vift
Character: Bibbi Berling
Released: June 8, 1946
Type: Movie
Frank Bing is a big artist in the USA and arrives home in his native Sweden with his secretary Ada. The portier at the hotel has great difficulties keeping the adoring fans away from Frank. Among them is Peggy Dalin who has been tasked by her father with getting Frank to sign with his record company using her great charm.
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Skipper Jansson
Title: Skipper Jansson
Released: October 24, 1945
Type: Movie
Jansson returns home after many years sailing the world. His two groups of relatives both want him to stay with them in hopes that he will leave them a large share of his inheritance.
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Galgmannen
Title: Galgmannen
Character: Natasja
Released: October 8, 1945
Type: Movie
The man of the gallows is a little sinister wooden figure that the proprietor must sell before his death. If not he will be doomed and unsaved.
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Släkten är bäst
Title: Släkten är bäst
Character: Evy
Released: February 26, 1944
Type: Movie
The hypocritical wholesaler Johan Ekberg is taught a lesson.
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Hans majestäts rival
Title: Hans majestäts rival
Character: Countess
Released: November 2, 1943
Type: Movie
"His Majesty's Rival" - A young man, Lars Hjelm, returns home after being in Italy on a scholarship from the Swedish king, Gustaf III. On his way home he meets with opera singer Antoinette and fall in love with her. His fiancee Eva expects him home any day.
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Ride Tonight!
Title: Ride Tonight!
Character: A maid
Released: November 24, 1942
Type: Movie
Oppressed by landowners, a peasant uprising ensues as an outlaw farmer refuses to pay taxes in this film adapted from Vilhelm Moberg's novel.
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En äventyrare
Title: En äventyrare
Released: September 11, 1942
Type: Movie
A free fantasy about the Swedish poet and adventurer Lars Wivallius.