Erik Appelgren

Erik Appelgren

Birth : 1945-03-31, Stockholm, Sweden

Death : 2007-07-18

History

Ulf Erik "Kirre" Appelgren was a Swedish actor, writer, director and musician. He was the artistic leader of Pistolteatern, Stockholm, from the 1972 and brought the plays of Dario Fo and Franca Rame to Stockholm.

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Erik Appelgren
Erik Appelgren

Movies

Kim - Den skalliga primadonnan
About Swedish actress Kim Anderzon. Loved and acclaimed for her roles in theatre and on film. A feminist role model with a big ego. A woman who decided to do it all by herself, and who became one of our greatest actors. A life on stage. Till the cancer arrived.
Macklean
Reader
Sweden in the 1780s. At the court the nobility lords and ladies dance, love, intrigue and compete for the King's favor. To this Stockholm arrives Rutger Macklean, nobleman and an officer. With a notion of an extensive re-organisation of the agricultural lands and the farm properties.
Cymbeline
Writer
Cymbeline, the King of Britain, is angry that his daughter Imogen has chosen a poor man for her husband. So he banishes Posthumus, who goes to fight for Rome. Imogen goes in search of her husband, who meanwhile has boasted to his pal Iachimo that Imogen would never betray him. And Iachimo's determined to prove him wrong. Recorded at a Pistoltearern performance.
Cymbeline
Director
Cymbeline, the King of Britain, is angry that his daughter Imogen has chosen a poor man for her husband. So he banishes Posthumus, who goes to fight for Rome. Imogen goes in search of her husband, who meanwhile has boasted to his pal Iachimo that Imogen would never betray him. And Iachimo's determined to prove him wrong. Recorded at a Pistoltearern performance.
Den tragiska historien om Hamlet - Prins av Danmark
The King's brother
Prince Hamlet is the son of the late king. He hears from a ghost that the current king, Claudius, has murdered his father. Hamlet is unsure if this is true. He test the king by pretending to be insane and put on a show where the murder is reconstructed.
A Dream Play
"A Dream Play" - Agnes, a daughter of the Vedic god Indra, descends to Earth to bear witness to problems of human beings. She meets about 40 symbolical characters.
System 84
A power struggle floats in the judiciary. A dead body in a dust-bin. More death. Superintendent Sven Thorén is fed up with dead bodies. His partner Olle Lyck is tired of most of it. Not to mention System 84.