Barbro Kollberg

Barbro Kollberg

Birth : 1917-12-27, Eskilstuna, Södermanlands län, Sweden

Death : 2014-03-06

History

Barbro Anna Elisabet Kollberg was a Swedish film and theatre actress, theatre leader and educator. She studied at the Royal Dramatic Theatre School 1937-40. She was engaged at the Blanche Theatre, Stockholm. In 1943 she was approached by director Gösta Cederlund to play the leading role as Marta in the feature film "Kungsgatan". This was her 10th film, but the most significant and a very difficult role. Barbro Kollberg appeared in 46 feature films and a number of television productions during her long career 1939-2006.

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Barbro Kollberg
Barbro Kollberg
Barbro Kollberg

Movies

As It Is in Heaven
Olga
A musical romantic tragedy about a famous composer who moves back to his small hometown after having had heart troubles. His search for a simple everyday life leads him into teaching the local church choir which is not easily accepted by the town yet the choir builds a great love for their teacher.
Kattbreven
Rut
13-year-old Sofi moves involuntary from the big city to the countryside with her mother, and her mother's boyfriend while all her friends is back in the city. At the new place Sofi meet up with a wise old lady, that tells her scary stories about unsolved mysteries from the village past.
Family Secrets
Asta
Autumn 1978 in suburban Sweden. Everything seems to be fine with the middle class Bendrick family with their two teenage children and a younger son, until the mother starts seeing her first love again after 20 years. Just like their badly built house, the family façade starts slowly crumbling into pieces. The daughter, 15, finds her first love, and the boys too are puzzled by their own questions around adolescence and sexuality. The father tries to keep up a happy face, while the youngest son is the first and the most sensitive to realize how the family is heading towards a disaster.
Family Secrets
Autumn 1978 in suburban Sweden. Everything seems to be fine with the middle class Bendrick family with their two teenage children and a younger son, until the mother starts seeing her first love again after 20 years. Just like their badly built house, the family façade starts slowly crumbling into pieces. The daughter, 15, finds her first love, and the boys too are puzzled by their own questions around adolescence and sexuality. The father tries to keep up a happy face, while the youngest son is the first and the most sensitive to realize how the family is heading towards a disaster.
Svensson, Svensson - The Movie
Aunt Greta
Lena Svensson has been offered a new and exiting job in Stockholm that she can't say no to. But her husband, Gustav, has no plan of what so ever to move from his quiet little town of Vivalla, and especially his job as a very proud postman. After Lena started to commute between Stockholm and Vivalla, he decides to sell the house and give Stockholm a chance. He starts of with a job as a postman in one of Stockholm's worst districts, but after a mistake on a conference, Gustav seems to do quite a success at his new job, while Lena is struggling with annoying colleagues and a demanding boss.
Tic Tac
Edith
During one single day a number of life destinies cross one another. It becomes a night for the involved they will never forget, a night when the coincidences are going to change their lives forever.
Unmarried Couples: A Comedy That Will Break You Up
Damen i trappan
Marie and David are always arguing while their friends Sara and Samuel always seem to be happy together. Or are they? This year they decide to spend Christmas in the mountains together.
Stannar du så springer jag
A woman in her mid-Forties longs for a settled life and a man to share it with. Having ejected her current lover, she is forced to restrict her choice of partner to those with skills in building or carpentry so she can renovate the tumbledown house she inherited. To find such a dream match, she resorts to a dating agency but her carefully laid plans soon flounder when she finds herself falling in love.
Tag ditt liv
Signe Dahlman
The photographer Göran finds his friend Stig F Dahlman's dead in the basement. The police consider the case as an accident, but Göran suspects murder.
The Best Intentions
Gertrud Tallrot
In this film about Ingmar Bergman's parents, Henrik Bergman is studying for the priesthood and trying to make ends meet when he encounters the lovely, affluent Anna. Despite their social differences, Henrik and Anna fall in love, wed and move to the country. They lead a quiet life as Henrik works as a priest, but it isn't long before the simple people and plain surroundings make Anna long for a more lavish lifestyle, which causes marital stress.
Kontrollanten
"The Ticket Inspector" - 60-year-old Alfred lives alone with his cat. He is doing his job with zealous diligence until he meets the love of his youth.
Utflykten
Bibliotekarie
Karin moves from Finland to a small village in Sweden and finds that her love of books is viewed with suspicion.
The Yellow Car
Maria Engström
On a tourist trip abroad the passengers on the coach witness an assassination attempt on the President Hurkas. One of the tourists has evidence against the perpetrators, and is killed when the coach reaches Sweden. Another passenger observes how one of the perpetrators is picked up by a yellow car. She is kidnapped and locked up in a mental hospital.
Lille Fridolf blir morfar
Agnes
Fridolf's daughter becomes pregnant and Fridolf and Selma become strongly involved in this.
Dårskapens hus
Klara Birgitta
In Stockholm in the year 2248 an excavation leads to the discovery of 45,000 meters of film from the 1940's master director Hasse Ekman . The material is in a disarray but the Society for Ancient Film Research compiles the material after what is believed to have been the master's artistic intentions
Herzen im Sturm
Freya
It Rains on Our Love
Maggi
Maggi meets David after having missed her train, and they spend the night together. Penniless, the young lovers break into a summer cottage. The owner, Håkansson, offers to rent it to them, but he has an ulterior motive. By living together, they have to face their pasts and deal with the meddling neighbors and authorities.
Lidelse
Inga, Mariannes daughter
An artist lives with his wife in a large house on the countryside. She is bored, longing to return to the city and her life as an actress. She leaves him. He falls in love with a young girl, not knowing that the girl is his wife's daughter.
Flickor i hamn
Lisbeth
Shipmate Henrik gets in contact with two women in Gothenburg — the sociable Lisbeth and the shy Astrid.
Like Everyone Else
Inga Larsson
Kurre and Inga are engaged to be married. However, as they are very poor, they can't afford it just yet. They live separate, both in small apartments with a friend. Inga works at an office and Kurre at a small factory. Inga has a liability to be late in the mornings and this gets her into some trouble at the office, because of her very strict boss. This, along with the fact that another girl starts to court Kurre puts their relationship to the test, a crisis which is easier said than done to solve.
En dotter född
Inger Padius
Inger lives at home with his parents. She suspects that she is pregnant. A doctor notes her pregnancy and urge her to seek the child's father. The doctor offers her an abortion, but she refuses.
Kungsgatan
Marta
Young woman Marta dreams of a better future and leaves her parent's cabbage patch and move to Stockholm. Waiting tables doesn't pay nearly enough and she soon finds herself working the streets. Her teenage sweetheart Adrian also moves to Stockholm to search for her. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Tre skojiga skojare
Rut Brådhe
The author Tom Berger has written a book that is very prejudiced against women. The local chapter of Women's League starts a campaign against him.
Yellow Ward
Irma Svensson
A chief physician at a women's clinic is against abortion. He strongly influence the patients not to abort. But there are doctors who think differently.
Hem från Babylon
Gunborg
An engineer and a businessman is on the run from Manchuria, where revolution and civil war erupted. Both suffer from typhoid and the businessman dies. Before he dies, he changes identity with the engineer.
Tonight or Never
Eva Hedman
Swedish Comedy film
His Grace's Will
Blenda
His grace, the Lord Chamberlain and Colonel Baron Roger Bernhusen de Sars of Rogershus, Klockeberga and Björkenäs, will celebrate his 70th birthday. He decides to write his will and publish it on the birthday.
Karl för sin hatt
Barbro
Urban girl falls for rugged forest ranger.
Hjältar i gult och blått
Louise Delmer
The tailor Tosse is ordered to return to his old regiment to practice what he learned many years ago. But he asks his assistant Loffe to go there instead of himself. Everything is fine until Loffe gets the same order - at the same regiment. When Tosse comes to the regiment, it becomes a case of mistaken identity. Due to the confusion, Loffe is now Tosse's platoon commander. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
I dag börjar livet
Nelly
Choreographer is found murdered and the police investigate. There are several suspects among his lovers, dancers and family members.
Chefen fru Ingeborg
The Boss Mrs Ingeborg