Mats Helge
Birth : 1953-05-10, Lidköping, Sweden
History
Mats Helge Olsson is a Swedish producer, screenwriter and director. He started out as a filmmaker creating lingonberry westerns, a paraphrase on the concept of spaghetti westerns. Several well known and respected Swedish actors participated in the film projects. Together with the Swedish actor Per Oscarsson, he made "Sverige åt svenskarna/Sweden to the Swedes" (1980) that resulted in a debt of SEK 16 million and the film project went bankrupt after a few months.
Further on in the 1980s, Mats Helge started a film factory where he produced several English-language low budget action films. 15 feature films in all came out of Mats Helge's initiative.
Himself (archive footage)
Documentary about Swedish director, Mats Helge Olsson, an illiterate Swedish director most noted in his home country for debuting with the first "Lingonberry Western", DEAD MAN'S TRAIL, landing himself in debtors prison after producing Per Oscarsson's financial fiasco SWEDEN FOR THE SWEDES, creating the cheesy, low-budget, unlikely U.S. hit, NINJA MISSION, and then - before fading away into near total obscurity - following up on NINJA MISSION by simultaneously making three films (SILENT CHASE; FATAL SECRET; MAD BUNCH) with then-fading U.S. actor, David Carradine... who may not have known he was making more than one.
Producer
A TV team ends up at an old farm to make a film about the place. At the same time a couple of armed desperados come to the farm and the trouble begins. The hero must rip off his shirt, take an UZI from the van and enter the series of sewers under the farm to rescue his friends. Down in the sewers lives a man who has lived down there since he was a kid. Now he is a psychotic half beast half man murder machine.
Writer
A TV team ends up at an old farm to make a film about the place. At the same time a couple of armed desperados come to the farm and the trouble begins. The hero must rip off his shirt, take an UZI from the van and enter the series of sewers under the farm to rescue his friends. Down in the sewers lives a man who has lived down there since he was a kid. Now he is a psychotic half beast half man murder machine.
Director
A TV team ends up at an old farm to make a film about the place. At the same time a couple of armed desperados come to the farm and the trouble begins. The hero must rip off his shirt, take an UZI from the van and enter the series of sewers under the farm to rescue his friends. Down in the sewers lives a man who has lived down there since he was a kid. Now he is a psychotic half beast half man murder machine.
Writer
An action comedy by Mats Helge.
Producer
An action comedy by Mats Helge.
Director
An action comedy by Mats Helge.
Producer
An ex-mercenary is enlisted back into the life to rescue the boyfriend of the daughter of a powerful mogul.
Writer
An ex-mercenary is enlisted back into the life to rescue the boyfriend of the daughter of a powerful mogul.
Director
An ex-mercenary is enlisted back into the life to rescue the boyfriend of the daughter of a powerful mogul.
Producer
A peace researcher is kidnapped and a high ransom requested. The daughter of the peace researcher hires a bunch of happy amateurs playing mercenaries to rescue his father. Everything does not go as smoothly as planned and they quickly begin to realize that the task they have undertaken is much more dangerous than they had anticipated.
Writer
A hardcore former mercenary in Africa is commissioned by a neo-Nazi organization to bring secret documents from WW2, hidden at an American military base.
Director
A hardcore former mercenary in Africa is commissioned by a neo-Nazi organization to bring secret documents from WW2, hidden at an American military base.
Producer
A hardcore former mercenary in Africa is commissioned by a neo-Nazi organization to bring secret documents from WW2, hidden at an American military base.
Director
A peace researcher is kidnapped and a high ransom requested. The daughter of the peace researcher hires a bunch of happy amateurs playing mercenaries to rescue his father. Everything does not go as smoothly as planned and they quickly begin to realize that the task they have undertaken is much more dangerous than they had anticipated.
Writer
Everybody is after a floppy disc. CIA. KGB. And even David Carradine (as Michael LeWinter). Non-stop action, or so the soundtrack would have one believe.
Producer
Everybody is after a floppy disc. CIA. KGB. And even David Carradine (as Michael LeWinter). Non-stop action, or so the soundtrack would have one believe.
Van Effen
Swedish animal rights action film. Also known as "Born to Kill".
Director
Everybody is after a floppy disc. CIA. KGB. And even David Carradine (as Michael LeWinter). Non-stop action, or so the soundtrack would have one believe.
Writer
Swedish animal rights action film. Also known as "Born to Kill".
Director
Swedish animal rights action film. Also known as "Born to Kill".
Böna
The teen Gullan and her friends discover that a young man, Perra, is hiding in a movie studio. He is innocently accused of smuggling. They decide to help him in the pursuit of the real smugglers.
Director
The teen Gullan and her friends discover that a young man, Perra, is hiding in a movie studio. He is innocently accused of smuggling. They decide to help him in the pursuit of the real smugglers.
Intruder
An island with a secret military base is attacked by terrorists. It's up to two female photographers and a gang of Ninjas to stop it.
Director
An island with a secret military base is attacked by terrorists. It's up to two female photographers and a gang of Ninjas to stop it.
Frank the Caretaker
A film crew producing a rock music video decides to shoot at an abandoned factory above the snow line. When an avalanche strands them, a murderous family living in the factory attacks and kills many of them.
Screenplay
A film crew producing a rock music video decides to shoot at an abandoned factory above the snow line. When an avalanche strands them, a murderous family living in the factory attacks and kills many of them.
Director
A film crew producing a rock music video decides to shoot at an abandoned factory above the snow line. When an avalanche strands them, a murderous family living in the factory attacks and kills many of them.
Ivan
CIA, KGB and the amazing ninja masters are all in the center of Russia where the Swedish nuclear professor Karl Markov have invented a new kind of nuclear technology. Markov's invention can change the balance of power in the world. All want this information and will use any force necessary to obtain it first.
Director
CIA, KGB and the amazing ninja masters are all in the center of Russia where the Swedish nuclear professor Karl Markov have invented a new kind of nuclear technology. Markov's invention can change the balance of power in the world. All want this information and will use any force necessary to obtain it first.
Producer
This farce cocerns Sweden's King Gustav (Per Oscarsson who plays all the lead roles). The royal monarchs of three major European countries are patiently or not-so-patiently hovering on the sidelines while watching the future King Gustav closely. No single king appears to possess the brains he was born with, so history seems to be made by default, as it were. Gustav does blunder around, but not enough to miss being crowned king. As a result, France, England, and Germany invade Sweden hoping to take by force what they could not gain by incompetence.
Producer
A writer and his girlfriend are attacked by a homicidal madman.
Director
A writer and his girlfriend are attacked by a homicidal madman.
Director
Heja Sverige! presents a lot of short sequences in the 'candid camera' style.
Producer
Heja Sverige! presents a lot of short sequences in the 'candid camera' style.
Producer
Bart, a gunslinger, dominates the territory. Then Willy wanders into town and falls in love with a prostitute named Rose. Bart chases Willy out of town but he returns with a group of men and shoot it out with Bart and his gang.
Director
Bart, a gunslinger, dominates the territory. Then Willy wanders into town and falls in love with a prostitute named Rose. Bart chases Willy out of town but he returns with a group of men and shoot it out with Bart and his gang.
Director
A drunken gunfighter, Ben Walker, is one day visited by an old friend's daughter who needs his help. The gold digger Tom is being chased by a gang of bandits and heads to Carson City. He gives his daughter Isabella his treasure map and tells her that she need find his old friend Ben and let him help her to locate the hidden gold.
