Barbro Kollberg

Barbro Kollberg

Born: December 27, 1917
Died: March 6, 2014
in Eskilstuna, Södermanlands län, Sweden
Barbro Anna Elisabet Kollberg was a Swedish film and theatre actress, theatre leader and educator. She studied at the Royal Dramatic Theatre School 1937-40. She was engaged at the Blanche Theatre, Stockholm. In 1943 she was approached by director Gösta Cederlund to play the leading role as Marta in the feature film "Kungsgatan". This was her 10th film, but the most significant and a very difficult role. Barbro Kollberg appeared in 46 feature films and a number of television productions during her long career 1939-2006.

Movies for Barbro Kollberg...

As It Is in Heaven
Title: As It Is in Heaven
Character: Olga
Released: September 3, 2004
Type: Movie
A musical romantic tragedy about a famous composer who moves back to his small hometown after having had heart troubles. His search for a simple everyday life leads him into teaching the local church choir which is not easily accepted by the town yet the choir builds a great love for their teacher.
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Kattbreven
Title: Kattbreven
Character: Rut
Released: February 16, 2001
Type: Movie
13-year-old Sofi moves involuntary from the big city to the countryside with her mother, and her mother's boyfriend while all her friends is back in the city. At the new place Sofi meet up with a wise old lady, that tells her scary stories about unsolved mysteries from the village past.
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Family Secrets
Title: Family Secrets
Released: January 26, 2001
Type: Movie
Autumn 1978 in suburban Sweden. Everything seems to be fine with the middle class Bendrick family with their two teenage children and a younger son, until the mother starts seeing her first love again after 20 years. Just like their badly built house, the family façade starts slowly crumbling into pieces. The daughter, 15, finds her first love, and the boys too are puzzled by their own questions around adolescence and sexuality. The father tries to keep up a happy face, while the youngest son is the first and the most sensitive to realize how the family is heading towards a disaster.
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Family Secrets
Title: Family Secrets
Character: Asta
Released: January 26, 2001
Type: Movie
Autumn 1978 in suburban Sweden. Everything seems to be fine with the middle class Bendrick family with their two teenage children and a younger son, until the mother starts seeing her first love again after 20 years. Just like their badly built house, the family façade starts slowly crumbling into pieces. The daughter, 15, finds her first love, and the boys too are puzzled by their own questions around adolescence and sexuality. The father tries to keep up a happy face, while the youngest son is the first and the most sensitive to realize how the family is heading towards a disaster.
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Svensson, Svensson - The Movie
Title: Svensson, Svensson - The Movie
Character: Aunt Greta
Released: December 19, 1997
Type: Movie
Lena Svensson has been offered a new and exiting job in Stockholm that she can't say no to. But her husband, Gustav, has no plan of what so ever to move from his quiet little town of Vivalla, and especially his job as a very proud postman. After Lena started to commute between Stockholm and Vivalla, he decides to sell the house and give Stockholm a chance. He starts of with a job as a postman in one of Stockholm's worst districts, but after a mistake on a conference, Gustav seems to do quite a success at his new job, while Lena is struggling with annoying colleagues and a demanding boss.
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Tic Tac
Title: Tic Tac
Character: Edith
Released: October 31, 1997
Type: Movie
During one single day a number of life destinies cross one another. It becomes a night for the involved they will never forget, a night when the coincidences are going to change their lives forever.
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Ogifta par ...en film som skiljer sig
Title: Ogifta par ...en film som skiljer sig
Character: Damen i trappan
Released: October 29, 1997
Type: Movie
Marie and David are always arguing while their friends Sara and Samuel always seem to be happy together. Or are they? This year they decide to spend Christmas in the mountains together.
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Stannar du så springer jag
Title: Stannar du så springer jag
Released: November 17, 1995
Type: Movie
A woman in her mid-Forties longs for a settled life and a man to share it with. Having ejected her current lover, she is forced to restrict her choice of partner to those with skills in building or carpentry so she can renovate the tumbledown house she inherited. To find such a dream match, she resorts to a dating agency but her carefully laid plans soon flounder when she finds herself falling in love.
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Tag ditt liv
Title: Tag ditt liv
Character: Signe Dahlman
Released: February 9, 1995
Type: Movie
The photographer Göran finds his friend Stig F Dahlman's dead in the basement. The police consider the case as an accident, but Göran suspects murder.
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Chefen fru Ingeborg
Title: Chefen fru Ingeborg
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: Movie
The Boss Mrs Ingeborg
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The Best Intentions
Title: The Best Intentions
Character: Gertrud Tallrot
Released: May 24, 1992
Type: Movie
In this film about Ingmar Bergman's parents, Henrik Bergman is studying for the priesthood and trying to make ends meet when he encounters the lovely, affluent Anna. Despite their social differences, Henrik and Anna fall in love, wed and move to the country. They lead a quiet life as Henrik works as a priest, but it isn't long before the simple people and plain surroundings make Anna long for a more lavish lifestyle, which causes marital stress.
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Title: Första kärleken
Character: Mormor Clara
Released: April 7, 1992
Type: TV
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Kontrollanten
Title: Kontrollanten
Released: February 26, 1992
Type: Movie
"The Ticket Inspector" - 60-year-old Alfred lives alone with his cat. He is doing his job with zealous diligence until he meets the love of his youth.
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Utflykten
Title: Utflykten
Character: Bibliotekarie
Released: September 26, 1983
Type: Movie
Karin moves from Finland to a small village in Sweden and finds that her love of books is viewed with suspicion.
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A Sunday in September
Title: A Sunday in September
Character: Birgitta's Mother
Released: August 31, 1963
Type: Movie
About a young couple. They fall in love, marry and separate.
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The Yellow Car
Title: The Yellow Car
Character: Maria Engström
Released: June 29, 1963
Type: Movie
On a tourist trip abroad the passengers on the coach witness an assassination attempt on the President Hurkas. One of the tourists has evidence against the perpetrators, and is killed when the coach reaches Sweden. Another passenger observes how one of the perpetrators is picked up by a yellow car. She is kidnapped and locked up in a mental hospital.
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Lille Fridolf blir morfar
Title: Lille Fridolf blir morfar
Character: Agnes
Released: September 2, 1957
Type: Movie
Fridolf's daughter becomes pregnant and Fridolf and Selma become strongly involved in this.
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The Nuthouse
Title: The Nuthouse
Character: Klara Birgitta
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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Herzen im Sturm
Title: Herzen im Sturm
Character: Freya
Released: April 5, 1951
Type: Movie
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It Rains on Our Love
Title: It Rains on Our Love
Character: Maggi
Released: November 9, 1946
Type: Movie
Maggi meets David after having missed her train, and they spend the night together. Penniless, the young lovers break into a summer cottage. The owner, Håkansson, offers to rent it to them, but he has an ulterior motive. By living together, they have to face their pasts and deal with the meddling neighbors and authorities.
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Jagad
Title: Jagad
Released: August 27, 1945
Type: Movie
A smalltime businessman gets himself into finance problems. His bank requires tangible proof of ability to pay. The businessman makes a drastic decision.
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Lidelse
Title: Lidelse
Character: Inga, Mariannes daughter
Released: August 13, 1945
Type: Movie
An artist lives with his wife in a large house on the countryside. She is bored, longing to return to the city and her life as an actress. She leaves him. He falls in love with a young girl, not knowing that the girl is his wife's daughter.
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Flickor i hamn
Title: Flickor i hamn
Character: Lisbeth
Released: April 20, 1945
Type: Movie
Shipmate Henrik gets in contact with two women in Gothenburg — the sociable Lisbeth and the shy Astrid.
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Like Everyone Else
Title: Like Everyone Else
Character: Inga Larsson
Released: September 9, 1944
Type: Movie
Kurre and Inga are engaged to be married. However, as they are very poor, they can't afford it just yet. They live separate, both in small apartments with a friend. Inga works at an office and Kurre at a small factory. Inga has a liability to be late in the mornings and this gets her into some trouble at the office, because of her very strict boss. This, along with the fact that another girl starts to court Kurre puts their relationship to the test, a crisis which is easier said than done to solve.
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En dotter född
Title: En dotter född
Character: Inger Padius
Released: March 6, 1944
Type: Movie
Inger lives at home with his parents. She suspects that she is pregnant. A doctor notes her pregnancy and urge her to seek the child's father. The doctor offers her an abortion, but she refuses.
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Kungsgatan
Title: Kungsgatan
Character: Marta
Released: September 17, 1943
Type: Movie
Young woman Marta dreams of a better future and leaves her parent's cabbage patch and move to Stockholm. Waiting tables doesn't pay nearly enough and she soon finds herself working the streets. Her teenage sweetheart Adrian also moves to Stockholm to search for her. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
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Stinsen på Lyckås
Title: Stinsen på Lyckås
Character: Inger
Released: December 26, 1942
Type: Movie
Carl Malm is a goodhearted man who runs a railway station. He lives together with his maid and her seven kids.
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Tre skojiga skojare
Title: Tre skojiga skojare
Character: Rut Brådhe
Released: August 31, 1942
Type: Movie
The author Tom Berger has written a book that is very prejudiced against women. The local chapter of Women's League starts a campaign against him.
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Yellow Ward
Title: Yellow Ward
Character: Irma Svensson
Released: January 10, 1942
Type: Movie
A chief physician at a women's clinic is against abortion. He strongly influence the patients not to abort. But there are doctors who think differently.
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Hem från Babylon
Title: Hem från Babylon
Character: Gunborg
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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Tonight or Never
Title: Tonight or Never
Character: Eva Hedman
Released: June 4, 1941
Type: Movie
A famous crime novelist checks in at a hotel in the mountains under false identity.
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His Grace's Will
Title: His Grace's Will
Character: Blenda
Released: December 26, 1940
Type: Movie
His grace, the Lord Chamberlain and Colonel Baron Roger Bernhusen de Sars of Rogershus, Klockeberga and Björkenäs, will celebrate his 70th birthday. He decides to write his will and publish it on the birthday.
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Karl för sin hatt
Title: Karl för sin hatt
Character: Barbro
Released: August 23, 1940
Type: Movie
Urban girl falls for rugged forest ranger.
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Hjältar i gult och blått
Title: Hjältar i gult och blått
Character: Louise Delmer
Released: February 16, 1940
Type: Movie
The tailor Tosse is ordered to return to his old regiment to practice what he learned many years ago. But he asks his assistant Loffe to go there instead of himself. Everything is fine until Loffe gets the same order - at the same regiment. When Tosse comes to the regiment, it becomes a case of mistaken identity. Due to the confusion, Loffe is now Tosse's platoon commander. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
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I dag börjar livet
Title: I dag börjar livet
Character: Nelly
Released: August 15, 1939
Type: Movie
Choreographer is found murdered and the police investigate. There are several suspects among his lovers, dancers and family members.