Birgitta Pettersson

Birgitta Pettersson

Born: January 7, 1939
in Uppsala, Sweden
Ingrid Birgitta Pettersson is a Swedish stage and screen actress. She made her film debut in "Salka Valka" (1954), and graduated from Malmö City Theatre Academy in 1959. Birgitta Pettersson received international attention in Ingmar Bergman's "Virgin Spring" (1960). The rose as "Karin" was her second film with Bergman.

Movies for Birgitta Pettersson...

Micke & Veronica
Title: Micke & Veronica
Released: December 25, 2014
Type: Movie
After hiring Micke, a carpenter from Stockholm, to help renovate her kitchen, upper class Veronica develops immediate feelings for him. The two are keen to start a relationship, but their two children are less enthusiastic. Veronica decides a holiday to Bohuslan where her parents live is just what the couple needs.
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In the Presence of a Clown
Title: In the Presence of a Clown
Character: Hanna Apelblad
Released: October 1, 1998
Type: Movie
Inventor Carl Åkerblom is a rosy-cheeked 54 year-old admirer of Franz Schubert - and a patient in the psychiatric ward of Akademiska Hospital in Uppsala, after having attempted to beat to death his fiancée, Pauline Thibault. Together with another patient, Professor Osvald Vogler, they set up a film project: the living talkie. Before long, they set off on a frantic tour with their film, "The Joy of the Joyous Girl"... Written by Fredrik Klasson
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Title: Skärgårdsdoktorn
Character: Mama Gillberg
Released: October 13, 1997
Type: TV
TV series about the doctor Johan Steen who returns to Sweden after working in Somalia. He takes over his father in law's practice in the archipelago and together with his daughter Wilma, they try to make a new life for themselves.
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The Boy in the Tree
Title: The Boy in the Tree
Character: Marie
Released: September 25, 1961
Type: Movie
Göte is a young teen who seems to be at odds with his family and may not know his own mind that well either. Discontented and rebellious, Göte joins up with two mean-spirited game poachers in spite of the fact that he loves animals and nature. This contradiction between his own feelings and his need to rebel reaches a climax when a forest ranger starts to track down the young men in ever-tightening circles.
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When Darkness Falls
Title: When Darkness Falls
Character: Elisabeth Rydén
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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The Virgin Spring
Title: The Virgin Spring
Character: Karin
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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The Magician
Title: The Magician
Character: Sanna
Released: December 26, 1958
Type: Movie
When 'Vogler's Magnetic Health Theater' comes to town, there's bound to be a spectacle. Reading reports of a variety of supernatural disturbances at Vogler's prior performances abroad, the leading townspeople (including the police chief and medical examiner) request that their troupe provide them a sample of their act, before allowing them public audiences. The scientific-minded disbelievers try to expose them as charlatans, but Vogler and his crew prove too clever for them.
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Hemsöborna
Title: Hemsöborna
Character: Lotten
Released: December 17, 1955
Type: Movie
The widow Anna Eva Flod at Hemsö needs help on the farm and hire the new boy Carlsson, who quickly wins the heart of Anna Eva.
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Salka Valka
Title: Salka Valka
Character: Young 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