Gunnel Lindblom

Gunnel Lindblom

Born: December 18, 1931
Died: January 24, 2021
in Gothenburg, Sweden
Gunnel Lindblom (born Gunnel Märtha Ingegärd Lindblom, 18 December 1931 – 24 January 2021 Gothenburg, Sweden), was a Swedish film actress and director. As an actor she was particularly associated with the work of Ingmar Bergman, though in 1965 she performed the lead role in Miss Julie for BBC Television. She also played the key-role of The Mummy in Bergman's staging of Strindberg's The Ghost Sonata in 1998-2000, a performance that earned her much critical acclaim.

Married to senior lecturer Sture Helander (who was Ingmar Bergman's personal physician), she was sometimes credited as Gunnel Lindblom Helander, or Gunnel Helander.

She appeared on stage as Tintomara's mother in Carl Jonas Love Almqvist's play Drottningens juvelsmycke (English: The Queen's Tiara), staged at Dramaten for the theatre's 100 years Jubilee in 2008. Currently (2009) directing the Jon Fosse play Flicka i gul regnjacka (Girl in Yellow Raincoat) at Dramaten, starring Stina Ekblad and Irene Lindh, which premiered on October 9.

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Bergman: A Year in a Life
Title: Bergman: A Year in a Life
Character: Self
Released: July 12, 2018
Type: Movie
A focuses on 1957, one of the most prolific years for the Swedish director. During the year he shot two films, opened two of his most celebrated films (The Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries), and produced four plays and a TV movie while juggling with a complicated private life.
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Searching for Ingmar Bergman
Title: Searching for Ingmar Bergman
Character: Herself - Filmmaker
Released: July 12, 2018
Type: Movie
A meaningful account of the personal and professional life of the great Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) that explores his film legacy, with interviews with his closest collaborators and a new generation of filmmakers.
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Gunnel Lindblom: ut ur tystnaden
Title: Gunnel Lindblom: ut ur tystnaden
Released: March 4, 2018
Type: Movie
The working class girl from Landala, Gothenburg, through the fine art of theatre and all the way to Hollywood.
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Bergman's Reliquarium
Title: Bergman's Reliquarium
Released: January 27, 2018
Type: Movie
A visual association play into Ingmar Bergman's deepest secrets. A pop video attempting to connect Bergman's various works by borrowing, mirroring, cropping, replicating and caricaturing.
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Bakomfilm Nattvardsgästerna
Title: Bakomfilm Nattvardsgästerna
Released: January 30, 2017
Type: Movie
Ingmar Bergman's silent home film showing behind the scenes of Winter Light
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Afternoon Encounter
Title: Afternoon Encounter
Released: January 29, 2017
Type: Movie
She wants a divorce, a cleaning prior to death - but he refuses. Here’s an old couple that can’t stand each other, other than as memories. The film is based on a radio play script.
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Regissören: en film om Mai Zetterling
Title: Regissören: en film om Mai Zetterling
Character: Self
Released: May 22, 2015
Type: Movie
A celebrated movie star, Mai Zetterling stepped behind the camera in the early 1960's as one of the few female directors in the world. Her works were immediately celebrated worldwide but were later marginalized and forgotten. Always controversial, she stepped on some male toes while telling stories of marital oppression and human liberation. How come we know so little about one of Sweden's most innovative directors? And is what we know true?
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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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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Title: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Character: Isabella Vanger
Released: February 27, 2009
Type: Movie
Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker. In the opening of the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged publisher for the magazine Millennium, loses a libel case brought by corrupt Swedish industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström. Nevertheless, he is hired by Henrik Vanger in order to solve a cold case, the disappearance of Vanger's niece
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Women and Bergman
Title: Women and Bergman
Character: Self
Released: December 31, 2007
Type: Movie
A roundtable conversation was recorded for television in 2007 at the Stockholm International Film Festival.
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The Ghost Sonata
Title: The Ghost Sonata
Character: Mumien
Released: December 25, 2007
Type: Movie
The Ghost Sonata relates the adventures of a young student, who idealizes the lives of the inhabitants of a stylish apartment building in Stockholm. He makes the acquaintance of the mysterious Jacob Hummel, who helps him to find his way into the apartment, only to find that it is a nest of betrayal and sickness. The world, the student learns, is hell and human beings must suffer to achieve salvation.
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Title: Der Kommissar und das Meer
Character: Gunnila Winarve
Released: December 21, 2007
Type: TV
Der Kommissar und das Meer is a German television series.
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The Girl from Auschwitz
Title: The Girl from Auschwitz
Character: the voice
Released: August 25, 2005
Type: Movie
A portrait of the legendary Swedish journalist and writer Cordelia Edvardson (1929-2012). She was only fourteen when she alone was brought to the concentration camp of Theresienstadt and later to the camp of Auschwitz.
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Light Keeps Me Company
Title: Light Keeps Me Company
Character: Self
Released: August 26, 2000
Type: Movie
Carl-Gustaf Nykvist's documentary about his father, Sven Nykvist. The film is based on Sven's memoirs with Sven himself as narrator. A journey to the place of birth, Moheda, constitutes the hub of the film and during the journey friends and memories emerge. Written by Fredrik Klasson
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Når mørket er forbi
Title: Når mørket er forbi
Character: Anna
Released: January 28, 2000
Type: Movie
"Passing Darkness" - Oslo lawyer Josef Omgang returns to his native village on the Finnmark coast, where he finds his father's seafood company in trouble. International buyers have started trawling the market, and Josef realizes that the vital natural resources are in the hands of organized crime.
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Expectations
Title: Expectations
Character: Eva
Released: September 12, 1997
Type: Movie
A recently separated ladies' magazine reporter, a young couple who are in love, an unfaithful but jealous crane driver, a longing father and his unknowing daughter, the home coming fisherman's son who seeks reconciliation with his parents, the farmer who thirsts for tenderness. We meet them all in Svenska hjältar, a modern saga about the chipped heroes of everyday life.
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Lines from the Heart
Title: Lines from the Heart
Character: Self
Released: March 8, 1996
Type: Movie
The trio of actresses have ostensibly gathered to pay tribute to Mai Zetterling, but also reminisce about their own careers and the illustrious figures, including Ingmar Bergman, they have worked with.
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Nadja
Title: Nadja
Character: Grandmother
Released: April 8, 1995
Type: Movie
Summer by the sea. Young Nadja is about to learn how to swim. In the swim-school she is by far the best at swimming on dry land.
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Hedda Gabler
Title: Hedda Gabler
Character: Juliane Tesman
Released: December 26, 1993
Type: Movie
Hedda and Tesman have just returned from their honeymoon and the relationship is already in trouble. Trapped but determined, Hedda tries to control those around her, only to see her own world unravel.
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Die Frauen in Ingmar Bergmans Filmen
Title: Die Frauen in Ingmar Bergmans Filmen
Character: Self
Released: July 3, 1993
Type: Movie
Documentary about the Woman in Ingmar Bergman's Movies
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Captain Escalaborns
Title: Captain Escalaborns
Released: April 9, 1991
Type: Movie
After the death of his parents, Juan goes into an adventure to find Captain Escalaborns to whom he must deliver the map of a treasure to be searched together.
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Bakom jalusin
Title: Bakom jalusin
Character: Bente Sanders
Released: September 26, 1984
Type: Movie
A Swedish writer is visiting Morocco. At his hotel, he stays next door to an Italian couple. He becomes obsessed with the woman, spying and following her. One night she knocks on his door.
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Sally and Freedom
Title: Sally and Freedom
Character: Nora
Released: February 27, 1981
Type: Movie
About choices in life and responsibilities. Sally has decided to have an abortion. It seriously affects her relationship with her partner Jonas, and their daughter Mia.
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Tamara - La Donna d'Oro
Title: Tamara - La Donna d'Oro
Character: Tamara (voice)
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
About the artist Tamara de Lempicka. At the outbreak of the World War One she fled Poland and settled in Paris. She was quickly drawn into the interaction with Paris's cultural elite.
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Misfire
Title: Misfire
Character: Alma Andersson
Released: February 17, 1978
Type: Movie
A major routine explosion is to be carried out at a power plant, but it does not work properly.
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Scenes from a Marriage
Title: Scenes from a Marriage
Character: Eva
Released: September 15, 1974
Type: Movie
Johan and Marianne are married and seem to have it all. Their happiness, however, is a façade for a troubled relationship, which becomes even rockier when Johan admits that he's having an affair. Before long, the spouses separate and move towards finalizing their divorce, but they make attempts at reconciling. Even as they pursue other relationships, Johan and Marianne realize that they have a significant bond, but also many issues that hinder that connection.
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Title: Scenes from a Marriage
Character: Eva
Released: April 11, 1973
Type: TV
Johan and Marianne are married and seem to have it all. Their happiness, however, is a façade for a troubled relationship, which becomes even rockier when Johan admits that he's having an affair. Before long, the spouses separate and move towards finalizing their divorce, but they make attempts at reconciling. Even as they pursue other relationships, Johan and Marianne realize that they have a significant bond, but also many issues that hinder that connection.
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Brother Carl
Title: Brother Carl
Character: Lena Holmberg
Released: March 20, 1971
Type: Movie
Two women, Karen (theatre director) and Lena, visit an island, a Swedish resort, where Lena's ex-husband, Martin (choreographer), lives in comparative seclusion with a mentally disturbed ballet dancer named Carl. Carl is brother by guilt rather than blood, for Martin is somehow responsible for his breakdown.
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The Lie
Title: The Lie
Character: Anna Fromm
Released: October 28, 1970
Type: Movie
A Swedish couple are trapped in their marriage and way of life. Locked up in their bourgeois inferno.
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The Father
Title: The Father
Character: Laura
Released: October 10, 1969
Type: Movie
The Cavalry Captain and his brother, the Chaplain, discusses whether an adjutant is the father or not of the child one of the maids is expecting.
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The Girls
Title: The Girls
Character: Gunilla / Kalonike
Released: September 16, 1968
Type: Movie
A theater company rehearses Aristophanes play "Lysistrata" in which the Athenian women revolt to force the men to suspend the war and make peace. The three leading female actresses, Liz, Marianne and Gunilla, all live in humiliating circumstances to their men.
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The Vicious Circle
Title: The Vicious Circle
Character: Maria
Released: October 4, 1967
Type: Movie
Maria, a young woman is processing her life trauma. She travels head-first to a small village and finds shelter at an inn, inhabited by a dysfunctional family. Marias arrival stirs a lot of emotion.
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Woman of Darkness
Title: Woman of Darkness
Character: Anna Månsdotter
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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Hunger
Title: Hunger
Character: Ylajali
Released: August 19, 1966
Type: Movie
In 1890, Pontus, the starving writer, wanders the streets of Christiania, in search of love and a chance to get his work published. All he meets is defeat and suffering while his sense of reality is withering. One moment he is delighted and the next he curses everybody. All the time he manages to maintain human dignity and pride.
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The Dance of the Heron
Title: The Dance of the Heron
Character: Elena
Released: July 4, 1966
Type: Movie
The rich and conservative Edward can not forgive his younger wife who had been unfaithful. She's trying to get his attention by flirting with a Dutch tourist.
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Miss Julie
Title: Miss Julie
Character: Miss Julie
Released: October 3, 1965
Type: Movie
Miss Julie has a torrid, strange relationship with her servant, Jean.
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Rapture
Title: Rapture
Character: Karen
Released: August 23, 1965
Type: Movie
Agnes, a lonely teenage girl, and her father befriend an escaped convict, named Joseph, who arrives at their farm in Brittany, France. When Joseph develops an attraction to Agnes, her father threatens to break up the union.
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Are You Crazy?
Title: Are You Crazy?
Character: Ellen Ringmar
Released: July 22, 1965
Type: Movie
Lawyer Hans is having an affair with his secretary Anni and is trying to get his wife to meet another husband. When his wife falls in love with another man, Hans instead becomes jealous and realizes his true love for Ellen.
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Loving Couples
Title: Loving Couples
Character: Adele Holmström
Released: December 20, 1964
Type: Movie
As three pregnant women wait to have their babies in a hospital in Stockholm at the outbreak of the Great War, they relive their childhood and youthful experiences.
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My Love Is Like a Rose
Title: My Love Is Like a Rose
Character: Ninni Ahlgren
Released: December 26, 1963
Type: Movie
A middle aged doctor begins a relationship with a teenage girl. His best friend is dating the girls mother. A group of boys plan to blackmail the doctor or expose him as a pedophile.
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The Silence
Title: The Silence
Character: Anna
Released: September 23, 1963
Type: Movie
Traveling through an unnamed European country on the brink of war, sickly, intellectual Ester, her sister Anna and Anna's young son, Johan, check into a near-empty hotel. A basic inability to communicate among the three seems only to worsen during their stay. Anna provokes her sister by enjoying a dalliance with a local man, while the boy, left to himself, has a series of enigmatic encounters that heighten the growing air of isolation.
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Winter Light
Title: Winter Light
Character: Karin Persson
Released: February 11, 1963
Type: Movie
A Swedish pastor fails a loving woman, a suicidal fisherman and God.
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Good Friends and Faithful Neighbors
Title: Good Friends and Faithful Neighbors
Character: Margit, Roberts fru
Released: December 16, 1960
Type: Movie
Hugo Frejer terrorizes his family and surroundings with his unhappy mood.
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Title: Julkalendern
Character: Isabell
Released: November 27, 1960
Type: TV
An annual Swedish Christmas calendar television series.
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The Virgin Spring
Title: The Virgin Spring
Character: Ingeri
Released: February 8, 1960
Type: Movie
Devout Christians Töre and Märeta send their only daughter, the virginal Karin, and their foster daughter, the unrepentant Ingeri, to deliver candles to a distant church. On their way through the woods, the girls encounter a group of savage goat herders who brutally rape and murder Karin as Ingeri remains hidden. When the killers unwittingly seek refuge in the farmhouse of Töre and Märeta, Töre plots a fitting revenge.
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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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Rabies
Title: Rabies
Character: Jenny
Released: November 7, 1958
Type: Movie
A relay race of "scenes from human life". Depicts the human characters inferior traits are spreading like a disease: the person who gets rejected / humiliated / oppressed takes it out on someone else.
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The Venetian
Title: The Venetian
Character: Valeria
Released: February 21, 1958
Type: Movie
A young beautiful man from Milan arrives at the carnival in Venice. He meets two flirtatious women.
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Wild Strawberries
Title: Wild Strawberries
Character: Charlotta Borg
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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The Seventh Seal
Title: The Seventh Seal
Character: Mute Girl
Released: February 16, 1957
Type: Movie
When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Block sets off on a journey, meeting up with traveling players Jof and his wife, Mia, and becoming determined to evade Death long enough to commit one redemptive act while he still lives.
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Song of the Scarlet Flower
Title: Song of the Scarlet Flower
Character: Kerstin
Released: December 26, 1956
Type: Movie
Olof is driven from home when he wants to marry the wrong girl. He takes a job as a log driver and his reputation as a womanizer goes far and wide.
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Krut och kärlek
Title: Krut och kärlek
Character: Inga
Released: November 2, 1956
Type: Movie
Set in Sweden the 1700s. Local rebels are raging in the south. Two riders are commissioned to capture the Dane rebel who is their leader.
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Flickan i regnet
Title: Flickan i regnet
Character: Ingrid
Released: May 1, 1955
Type: Movie
Young Anna Rydell comes to a boarding-school for girls. She is very shy and the other girls don't really try to get to know her. The French teacher Martin Andreasson, who Anna falls in love with, lives at the boarding-school with his wheel chair-bound wife. Her handicap has made her depressed and Martin finds it hard to love her like he used to do.
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Kärlek
Title: Kärlek
Released: December 22, 1952
Type: Movie
A new young priest begins his duty on a small island. He assumes that the service should not be to demanding, so that he will be able to finish his doctoral thesis. But the life at sea is hard with severe accidents. He faces emotionally difficult situations related to both love and death.