Axel Högel

Axel Högel

Birth : 1884-03-23, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden

Death : 1970-09-20

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Axel Högel

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Storm
Postman
An elderly gentleman lives alone with his maid Louise. He spends his days chatting with the confectioner who lives and works downstairs, playing chess with his brother Karl Fredrick, and content with his memories. His young wife Gerda ran out on him five years ago, taking their young daughter with her. Now, unbeknownst to the gentleman, she’s back… and living in the upstairs apartment with the child and her new husband. When Gerda finally faces the man, sparks will fly and old wounds will be reopened. Bergman's TV adaptation of August Strindberg's play "Storm" was presented on the 111th anniversary of the author's birth. The production was also shown in Denmark and Norway and received glowing reviews. Bergman was celebrated as an outstanding TV director and was praised for his tact and sympathy in depicting old age, his superior lighting and fine camera work as well as his understanding of the medium in his use of close-ups.
Guldgrävarna
Vanja's father
After a series of bad card game experiences Carl Gustafsson and Arne Arnesson are forced to run away. A while later they are on a boat to America.
Vi på Väddö
Östen Larsson
Law graduate Ylva Markner spends the summer on the island of Väddö, where she gets involved in a quarrel concerning a last will.
Gårdarna runt sjön
Karlsson
A young and spoiled aristocrat is guilty of a hit-and-run accident.
Johan på Snippen
Kommunordförande
In the village of Stubbhult lives many motorcycle interested young people. However, their rampage interfere with the local population.
Ett dockhem
båtsman
Darling of Mine
Railway yard worker
The Swedish/American actor Jack Harris visits the old country for the first time in his life. One of the journalist, Ingrid Billberg, is particularly interested in getting an interview with him. She finds out secret information about his next movie, and to stop her from revealing it, Jack Harris gets her alone with him on an isolated island in the archipelago. Romance blossoms... Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Sir Arne's Treasure
Priest in Marstrand
Three Scottish noblemen escape from Gripsholm Castle and breaks in to the home of Lord Arne. They kill everyone except for Lord Arne's adopted daughter Elsalill.
Storm over Tjurö
Judge
Karl Oskar Bohm looks back at his life, his estranged daughter Augusta and his wife Sofia.
Tattarblod
Josef Demant
David, a young woodsman with a family, is leasing a farm. The family are welcomed by the locals until it becomes known that David is the son of a notorious drifter.
Oppåt med Gröna Hissen
Guard
A man and a woman are cheated on by their respective partners and decide to get their revenge.
För min heta ungdoms skull
Train conductor
For the Sake of My Intemperate Youth (Swedish: För min heta ungdoms skull) is a 1952 Swedish drama film directed by Arne Mattsson. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.
Hård klang
Svenske Fredrik
A small Swedish village has transformed to an industrial center with exports to Germany. A German opened a quarry some 50 years ago, after realizing the value of granite. Now WW1 begins.
One Summer of Happiness
Johan Larsson, Kerstin's grandfather
The young high school graduate Göran and the 17-year-old Kerstin get to know each other on the estate of Göran's uncle Persson and fall in love. But their relationship is watched suspiciously by the jammed adult world. While Persson has an understanding of the youth, Kerstin's parents and the pastor of the village rant against the alleged immorality of the young people. Despite all the malice, Göran and Kerstin decide for their love. But this love should last only one summer.
When Bengt and Anders Changed Wives
Vicar
Two neighbours, each with a small plot of land, hate each other. Both are dissatisfied with his wife.
När kärleken kom till byn
Vicar
A new teacher arrives to the small village and he soon stir up some trouble with his modern way of looking at things. He also stir up some amorous feelings among the local women.
My Sister and I
Jönsson
The rich, aristocratic Katarina Hassel have an architect renovate her mansion. Katarina fall in love with the young architect, Gunnar Stenwall. Alas, he doesn't fall in love with her. But perhaps if Gunnar would meet her identical sister, who works in Stockholm as a waitress, he would fall in love with her instead? So Katarina travels to Stockholm to act as her non-existing sister.
Lång-Lasse i Delsbo
Tuvesson i Häggnäset
it's the 1840s and a rural parish plagued by drinking and fighting gets a new vicar who has decided to instill law, order and fear of God into the parishioners.
Jungfrun på Jungfrusund
Tärnlund
Spoiled upper class girl must change places with a housemaid.
Son of the Sea
Hagen, priest
The priest Hagen comes to a small Norwegian village one stormy evening. He brings the tragic news to wife Sigrid Bakken. Her husband and oldest son has drowned during fishing.
Lars Hård
Prisoner
Young drifter tells his story in flashback from prison.
Railroad Workers
Baptist-Anders
The north of Sweden in 1902. A team of railroad men are building a rail road from Luleå at the Bay of Bothnia to Narvik at the Norwegian Sea. One of the newest workers, Valfrid from the south of Sweden, is not accepted by neither Stora Ballong, the informal leader of the workers, nor the others. They refuse to talk to him but instead Valfrid gets help from the sworn enemy of the railroad workers: the greedy drugstore owner Blom.
Livet i finnskogarna
Lundell
In a rural parish in 1906, young Heikki, one of the Finnish immigrants, lives a wild and free life in the deep forest. After poaching, his furs are confiscated and Heikki vows to have his revenge by seducing the young women of the parish, one by one.
Saltstänk och krutgubbar
Nordström
The stingy fisherman Ericsson lives on a small island north of Stockholm with his wife Johanna och her father Isak.
The Happy Tailor
Auctioneer
Sören, a poor tailor with many children, dreams of becoming a miller and buys the windmill of the village with money he does not have.
Kejsarn av Portugallien
The poor farmer Jan is getting very old when he becomes father to the girl, Klara Gulla. First, he sees the child as a burden, but when he receives the newborn child in his arms he is overjoyed. He does everything in his power for her during her. But when she as an adult leaves home, Jan can not come over the loss of her.
Turn of the Century
Parish constable
Munthe has become a rich farmer through his own work and has gained some influence in the local community. He is strongly opposed to the immigration of east European farm labour from Galicia who, he claims, makes life difficult for the locals. A new school teacher with socialist leanings arrive and Munthe's daughter fall in love with him. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Prince Gustaf
Innkeeper
In the middle of the 1800s Swedish prince Gustaf meets the actress Anna Maria Wastenius and falls in love with her, but it is an impossible love story due to the rules of society.
Kajan går till sjöss
Port administrator
Kajan, a young boy, spends the summer with his friends working on a barge, earning extra money in the ports with their song and dance number. A young countess runs away from home and joins Kajan and his friends.
The Brothers' Woman
The Doctor
City girl Emma marries the farmer Nicklas but gets involved in a love triangle with his brother Ragnar.
Lille Napoleon
Blomkvist
Office worker Napoleon Larsson is an unnoticed existence. One day when he arrives late for work, he gets fired, but through his wife's actions he gets alerted by the boss and advances within the company.
I brist på bevis
Håkan Dahlin has just been discharged from a clinic where he has been treated for his alcoholism. When he immediately goes out with his friend to get drunk and then goes home and abuses his wife he gets forcibly interned again.
Ride Tonight!
Oppressed by landowners, a peasant uprising ensues as an outlaw farmer refuses to pay taxes in this film adapted from Vilhelm Moberg's novel.
Rospiggar
Customs officer
A lonely fisherman drowns and his elderly brother Efraim is left to do an inventory of the estate. He discovers that his brother had a son, Karl-Erik. Keeping it a secret, he travels to Stockholm to employ the young man as a hired hand. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Flames in the Dark
Man
Latin teacher Birger Sjögren at Ringsala boarding school threatens his possesive and chronically ill mother that he will get married. She gets a stroke and dies. Sjögren is affected by feelings of guilt, envy and hatred towards the surroundings. A series of mysterious fires have taken place around the school the last few months. One of the students has seen Sjögren setting fire to a barn. But can he convince the trusted biology teacher Nordmark, expert of the criminal mind?
Our Gang
Postmaster
A gang of friends lose their club house and collect money for a new one by singing in public.
Tänk, om jag gifter mig med prästen
Eva's father
"And If I Marry the Pastor" - Eva Örn is a newly graduated teacher, who becomes a school teacher in rural Vikarlunda. She is a beautiful young woman with firm opinions and she does not live up to the locals' picture of the ideal female teacher. She has an affair with the priest, Ingvar Hagson, but they have to keep their love a secret. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Landstormens lilla argbigga
Karl Söderman
Spoiled upper class girl must join a home defense unit to learn military drill and fall in love with a lieutenant.
Mot nya tider
Andrakammarriksdagsman
A Swedish drama from 1939 about the social and political developments in Sweden from 1885 until the dissolution of the union in 1905. The year is 1885, Christina Nilsson sings "Fourteen years I believe certain that I was" in the Grand Hotel's Great Hall . She also sings from the balcony of the hotel and the panic arising among listeners outside the hotel. In Norway, talks about the dissolution of the Union and the Swedish socialists with Hjalmar Branting (Victor Sjöström) is in the lead for independence.
Her Little Majesty
Repairman
Spoiled upperclass girl Marianne speeds through a small village and crashes her sportscar into the house of the local vicar. Opposites attract but what will the locals think?
I dag börjar livet
Karl Lundström
Choreographer is found murdered and the police investigate. There are several suspects among his lovers, dancers and family members.
Vi två
Architect Sture Ahrengren walks out of his job with an architecture firm with the support of his wife Kristina. He gets a position with an old friend, Balstar Ekberg, who has a big engineering job going. But Sture gets entangled in a romance with Ekberg's wife, Helena.
Dollar
Andersson - Royal Yacht Club Valet
Ludvig and Sussi Battwyhl, Louis and Katja Brenner and Julia and Kurt Balzar are upper class millionaires. They don't seem to do any real work but still need a vacation in the mountains. Everybody seems to be romantically involved with everybody. A rich American woman joins them.
Bombi Bitt and Me
Elof
A Swedish feature film based on a novel by Fritiof Nilsson Piraten.
Kanske en gentleman
Verkstedsinnehaveren, Guras kamerat
The Ingmar Inheritance
Auction speculator
"The Ingmar Inheritance". The story of a group of farmers who choose to leave their homes and follow the preacher Helgum to the Holy Land.
Johan Ulfstjerna
Conspirator
The story of a man who makes a great sacrifice for his country and for his son. Based on the play of the same title by Tor Hedberg.
The Tyranny of Hate
Simon i Boda
It's the beginning of the 1800s. A feud between the people of Ödemo and Rävgården has been going on since the dawn of time and now it's worse than ever.