Axel Esbensen

Películas

Iron Wills
Production Design
Fredrik Mack (Gustav Ranft) owns a glue factory in northern Norway and Ove Rolandsen (Eugen Skjønberg), a great womanizer, works for him. When Mack's beautiful daughter Elise (Lilla Bye) returns from studies, Ove immediately flirts with her.
The Hell Ship
Art Direction
A naval adventure that focuses on the rivalry among the crew, particularly the indignation wrought by the behavior of inplacable Captain Steen. Dick, one of the sailors, is one of the most rebellious and draws up plans to exact vengeance. The opportunity arises, but an incident that may sink the ship changes the focus of attention. The lighting for the film and the composition of the scenes are regarded as the highlights of the movie.
La saga de Gunnar Hedes
Art Direction
Gunnar Hedes, un joven sueco, quiere convertirse en músico profesional, pero cuando su padre muere repentinamente, su familia le presiona para que se haga cargo del negocio familiar, criando y vendiendo renos. No le gusta el negocio y no es adecuado para él, pero se rinde y se hace cargo. Sin embargo, cuando un día se lesiona gravemente en un accidente mientras conduce la manada sobre el Ártico congelado y sufre un traumatismo craneal grave, su familia teme que sufra daños mentales permanentes y que pierdan tanto a Gunnar como al negocio familiar.
Det omringade huset
Art Direction
Love's Crucible
Art Direction
At the end of the middle ages, Ursula is accused of having poisoned her own husband. She claims she is innocent, but to prove it, she must submit to a ritual: trial by fire, walking on fire along a path leading directly to a crucifix. A film that has been much commended for the visual creativity shown by the director in successive blending in of images involving Ursula, her husband, the Virgin Mary, and Jesus Christ. Much applauded, also: the performance of Jenny Hasselqvist, thus described by French director René Clair: “We shall never forget her flaming eyes, the severity of her spirit, her abrupt and alarmed expressions, like an animal under threat.”
Love's Crucible
Costume Design
At the end of the middle ages, Ursula is accused of having poisoned her own husband. She claims she is innocent, but to prove it, she must submit to a ritual: trial by fire, walking on fire along a path leading directly to a crucifix. A film that has been much commended for the visual creativity shown by the director in successive blending in of images involving Ursula, her husband, the Virgin Mary, and Jesus Christ. Much applauded, also: the performance of Jenny Hasselqvist, thus described by French director René Clair: “We shall never forget her flaming eyes, the severity of her spirit, her abrupt and alarmed expressions, like an animal under threat.”
In Self Defence
Art Direction
En vildfågel
Art Direction
A woman searches for the child she gave up at birth.
Johan
Production Design
On a farm in up-country Sweden, an enigmatic stranger comes to a conservative peasant community and seduces a farmer's wife. -IMDB
La carreta fantasma
Art Direction
Es Nochevieja. Tres borrachos evocan una leyenda según la cual si un gran pecador es la última persona que muere al terminar el año, entonces tendrá que conducir durante un año entero la Carreta Fantasma que recoge las almas de los muertos. David Holm, uno de los tres borrachos, muere cuando suena la última campanada de la medianoche...
Erotikon
Art Direction
Erotikon is a 1920 Swedish romantic comedy film directed by Mauritz Stiller, starring Tora Teje, Karin Molander, Anders de Wahl and Lars Hanson. It is based on the 1917 play A kék róka by Ferenc Herczeg. The story revolves around an entomology professor obsessed with the sexual life of bugs, and his easygoing wife who is courted by two suitors.
A Lover in Pawn
Production Design
About loaner Master Samuel, based on a writings by Hjalmar Bergman
Fiskebyn
Art Direction
Karin, Daughter of Ingmar
Art Direction
Karin Daughter of Ingmar is a 1920 Swedish silent drama film directed by Victor Sjöström. It is the second part in Sjöström's large-scale adaption of Selma Lagerlöf's novel Jerusalem, following Sons of Ingmar from the year before, and depicting chapter three and four from the novel. The critical reception was however unenthusiastic and Sjöström decided to not direct any more parts.
The Monastery of Sendomir
Art Direction
When two riders come to the monastery seeking shelter for the night they inquire from one of the monks about the founding of the monastery. The old monk reluctantly recounts the story of Count Starschensky, a nobleman of wealth and property. Starschensky is blessed with domestic happiness, however, he later finds that his young wife, Elga, has been sneaking her lover into the castle in evenings when he is away, and that their only child is not his, but a product of this affair. Tragedy ensues and the count sells his estates and establishes the monastery as part of his penance.
His Lord's Will
Production Design
A series of family entanglements develop around the changing will of Roger Bernhuses de Sars (Karl Mantzius), who wants his heritage to go to his illegitimate daughter Blenda (Greta Almroth). But love and fate also plays their cards. One of the most surprising films of Sjöström, close to Stroheim and some of the silent comedies of Lubitsch. Belonging to the golden age of Swedish film, this comedy offers one of the earliest explorations of the relationship between masters and servants on the screen, later developed by French masters like Renoir and Guitry. After acting in the diptych of Thomas Graal, Sjöström shows that he also dominates the “light genre” as director.
El tesoro de Arne
Costume Design
Tres oficiales escoceses irrumpen en la casa de Sir Arne, lo asesinan junto a todos sus familiares y huyen luego con el baúl que guarda su famoso tesoro. Sólo dejan viva a la joven Elsalill, que en la orfandad tendrá que irse a vivir con unos parientes pobres a orillas del mar congelado. Allí conocerá a un encantador joven que espera el deshielo para partir, y del que pronto se enamorará...
Song of the Scarlet Flower
Production Design
The son of a wealthy farmer loves a simple maid, for which he's booted out of the house by his father.
Song of the Scarlet Flower
Art Direction
The son of a wealthy farmer loves a simple maid, for which he's booted out of the house by his father.
The Downy Girl
Production Design
The mayor's son Mauritz Fristedt, has become deeply in love with the baker's daughter Dunungen. The mayor applauds the engagement because Mauritz will to try to foist a pack of worthless shares from his uncle to his father-in-law.
Sons of Ingmar
Production Design
Part one of an ambitious screen adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf's book Jerusalem.
Sons of Ingmar
Art Direction
Part one of an ambitious screen adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf's book Jerusalem.
Thomas Graal's Best Child
Production Design
Frau Bessie, once a madcap, aristocratic and modern Swedish fraulein, has become now a whimsical and conservative Swedish burgess after her marriage to Herr Thomas Graal. The destabilization of the marriage begins right at the wedding (which contains some hilarious incidents) when Frau Bessie announces the first Graal child must be a girl, creating a terrible conflict with her husband who is hoping for a boy. It takes a scandal to finally end the war between man and wife.
Los proscritos
Production Design
Un extraño llega a trabajar a la granja de la viuda Halla. Pronto ambos caerán en las redes del amor, pero todo se vendrá abajo cuando el turbio pasado del hombre salga a la luz. Decididos, sin embargo, a seguir juntos, deciden dejarlo todo y refugiarse en las montañas de Islandia, aunque eso signifique vivir en la miseria.
Alexander the Great
Art Direction
In a small provincial town there is a hotel run by one of those eccentric cooks of long ago who made generous meals that have nothing in common with the extravagant restaurateurs of nowadays and their meagre menus. The manager is named after Alexander the Great and in his restaurant the town bourgeoisie meet and discuss various issues, especially matters of the heart. Morals are part of the conversations and prove to be complicated issues even for strict and serious Nordics. 28 minutes of runtime are missing and presumed lost.
Paradisfågeln
Art Direction
The Girl from the Marsh Croft
Production Design
A 1917 Swedish drama film directed by Victor Sjöström, based on a 1913 novel by Selma Lagerlöf. It was the first in a series of successful Lagerlöf adaptions by Sjöström, made possible by a deal between Lagerlöf and A-B Svenska Biografteatern (later AB Svensk Filmindustri) to adapt at least one Lagerlöf novel each year. Lagerlöf had for many years denied any proposal to let her novels be adapted for film, but after seeing Sjöström's Terje Vigen she finally decided to give her allowance.
The Girl from the Marsh Croft
Art Direction
A 1917 Swedish drama film directed by Victor Sjöström, based on a 1913 novel by Selma Lagerlöf. It was the first in a series of successful Lagerlöf adaptions by Sjöström, made possible by a deal between Lagerlöf and A-B Svenska Biografteatern (later AB Svensk Filmindustri) to adapt at least one Lagerlöf novel each year. Lagerlöf had for many years denied any proposal to let her novels be adapted for film, but after seeing Sjöström's Terje Vigen she finally decided to give her allowance.
Thomas Graal's Best Film
Art Direction
Thomas Graal's a screenwriter, is very fond of his secretary Bessie. Overtaken by a kiss by Thomas she runs away. In his misfortune Thomas writes a screenplay inspired by Bessie. But she has not been really honest with him. 31 minutes of runtime are missing and presumed lost.
Thomas Graal's Best Film
Production Design
Thomas Graal's a screenwriter, is very fond of his secretary Bessie. Overtaken by a kiss by Thomas she runs away. In his misfortune Thomas writes a screenplay inspired by Bessie. But she has not been really honest with him. 31 minutes of runtime are missing and presumed lost.
Allt hämnar sig
Production Design
"Everyone Avenges Themselves". At the instigation of Louis Berger, Henry Rogers is falsely accused of having embezzled a large sum of money and sentenced to prison. As a convict in the prison quarry, he becomes good friends with the warden's son, Allan. Lille Allan believes in Henry's innocence and help him escape.
Jungeldrottningens smycke
Art Direction
Había una vez un hombre
Production Design
La película se basa en las 52 estrofas del poema épico del mismo nombre (1882), que narra la dramática historia del marinero Terje Vigen, que durante las guerras Napoleónicas (1807-1814), iba en barca desde Mandal a Dinamarca para llevarle cebada a su hambrienta familia.
The Ballerina
Art Direction
Lovers are torn apart by a noble's desire for the female half of the couple.
The Wings
Writer
The story is that of a conniving countess coming between a gay sculptor, Claude Zoret, and his bisexual model and lover, Mikaël, ultimately leading to Zoret's death in a raging storm at the base of a statue of Mikaël as the mythological Icarus. The film is missing 19 minutes of run time.
The Wings
Art Direction
The story is that of a conniving countess coming between a gay sculptor, Claude Zoret, and his bisexual model and lover, Mikaël, ultimately leading to Zoret's death in a raging storm at the base of a statue of Mikaël as the mythological Icarus. The film is missing 19 minutes of run time.
Kiss of Death
Art Direction
After the respectable Dr. Monro was found dead, the housekeeper and two engineers testify in court. A case of commercial delinquency and bribery is reconstructed on that occasion. Sadly only about half the film exists today.
Love and Journalism
Art Direction
A woman journalist employed as a maid by a great explorer is overcome with remorse at revealing his private life to the public. He shares her feelings and marries her