Stieg Trenter

Stieg Trenter

Birth : 1914-08-14, Stockholm, Sweden

Death : 1967-07-04

History

Stieg Trenter, born Stig Ivar Johansson, was a Swedish journalist and crime writer. He picked up the name Trenter from E.C. Bentleys "Trent's last case". The main characters in most of Stiege Trenter's books are press photographer Harry Friberg and D.I. Vesper Johnson, and the action often takes place in Stockholm.

Profile

Stieg Trenter

Movies

Som man ropar
Writer
During August 1943 the Nazis advance is stopped. In Sweden there are both German Gestapo agents and Norwegian Resistance men active.
Träff i Helfigur
Writer
On a shooting range outside of Stockholm in the raw September night something is not right. In the darkness of the marker the ground shows signs of blood.
Lysande landning
Writer
Harry Friberg receives a photo assignment at Lindarängen's airport in Stockholm. The assignment turns into a nightmare when the photographer is invited to a crayfish party by the company's director.
Idag Röd
Writer
Harry Friberg photographs a mysterious lightning in the water outside the Blockhusudden. The light turns out to flow over a murder.
Stieg Trenter - Ett porträtt
Self (archive footage)
A portrait of Swedish crime writer Stieg Trenter (1914 - 1967), born Stig Johansson, he started out by using the name Stieg Trenter as pseudonym but soon changed his name to this in real life as well. His first novel was "Ingen kan hejda döden" ("No One Can Stop Death"), published in 1943.
A Guest Is Coming
Writer
It's Christmas. The owner of an old mansion decides to tell his family he's going to sell it. The following morning he's found murdered.
Ungdom i bojor
Screenplay
A waitress finds out that her fourteen year old brother is a member of a youth gang doing burglaries in kiosks. Valdemar Jansson escapes prison and seeks out his fiancee Karin, but she does not want to know about him. She studies at the Social Institute and provides herself as a waitress in a cafe. She lives with her grandmother and her younger brother Benke. One day she discovers that Benke belongs to a boy, who makes minor burglaries in newspaper kiosks.