Anita Björk
Nacimiento : 1923-04-25, Tällberg, Dalarna, Sweden
Muerte : 2012-10-24
Historia
Anita Björk (born 25 April 1923) is a Swedish actress. Born in Tällberg, Dalarna, Anita Björk attended Dramatens elevskola (The Royal Dramatic Theatre's acting school) in 1942-45. Anita Björk has been a leading lady of Swedish theatre for many years and has worked at the national stage; Dramaten, since 1945, where she has performed in more than 100 parts over the years (which makes her one of the greatest actors of Dramaten). On film, Anita Björk has played leading roles - in particular - in a number of style forming Swedish thrillers and crime mystery dramas, including Det kom en gäst (1947), Moln över Hellesta (1956), Damen i svart (1958), Mannekäng i rött (1958) and Tärningen är kastad (1960).
Still, her most famous part is probably her title role in Alf Sjöberg's celebrated film adaption of Strindberg's Miss Julie (1951) that was awarded with the grand prize at Cannes Film Festival. Married to Olof Bergström (1945–1951) and from 1953 with Stig Dagerman. After his death she had a relationship with Graham Greene. Currently performing in A.R. Gurney's play Kärleksbrev (Love Letters) at Dramaten, opposite Jan-Olof Strandberg (Lilla scenen; March-April, 2009).
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Fifty years after the Swedish author Stig Dagerman took his own life we view his short but intense career in retrospective.
Selma Lagerlöf
El encuentro entre Victor Sjöström, director de cine sueco de la era muda y Selma Lagerlöf, la primera mujer en ganar el Premio Nobel de Literatura. Victor está adaptando uno de los libros de la escritora.
Anna Åkerblom
En 1925, el inventor Carl Åkerblom ingresa en un centro psiquiátrico de Upsala a causa de una violenta crisis nerviosa. Allí, con la colaboración de otros pacientes, se propone rodar la primera película sonora de la historia del cine, que trataría sobre los últimos días de la vida de Schubert. En el hospital recibe la inquietante visita de un ambiguo y extraño payaso. Aunque fue creada para la televisión, se exhibió en la sección "Un certain regard", del Festival de Cine de Cannes.
Karin
By chance Erik meets Viivi, an Estonian violinist playing in the Stockholm subway. They start an intense romance. Erik's mother dislikes the relationship, not having forgotten her escape from Estonia during the war. She reveals facts from the past and Erik finds out that his Swedish father adopted him. His real father was an Estonian nazi. Viivi has grown up in communist Estonia where her father was a party member and worked for the KGB.
Karin Åkerblom
Drama sobre el adulterio con guión de Bergman y realizado por Ullmann para la televisión sueca, pero estrenado en cines.
A tribute to Swedish film, which was made to celebrate the 100th anniversary of film in 1995 and consists of about a hundred clips from Swedish film history with many of its stars.
A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 films.
Victoria av Baden
Año 1909. En el transcurso de una huelga general, Henrik, un humilde estudiante de Teología, conoce a una chica de una familia de clase alta a la que todos adoran, sobre todo su padre. Entre ellos nacerá, a pesar de la oposición familiar, una larga historia de amor que encarna la lucha contra el rígido sistema de clases dominante. Se basa en la historia de los padres de Bergman.
Madame de Montreuil
A theatre production of Yukio Mishima's play, filmed for Swedish television. It begins in France in 1772. Six Women, one of them Madame de Sade, discuss their views and feelings of the notorious sadist and sodomist Marquis de Sade.
About the Swedish writer Stig Dagerman (1923-1954). More than a style, there is a Dagerman voice. This simple voice speaks softly, without emphasis, of simple people, of children, of old men, of his native Sweden. She is friendly to the humble, the solitary, the victims.
Arvida
About the Swedish author Agnes Von Krusenstjerna during the period of her marriage to David Sprengel. In the hallucinatory opening sequence she is brought in a straitjacket by her husband and two psychiatric nurses through the Venice Carnival nocturnal antics to a mental hospital in the city. With her is a manuscript of her autobiography, which she calls "her child". The book is Agnes showdown with her family, and in flashbacks presented, Agnes progress from the author of innocent girls' books to serious and self-consuming novelist.
Having gone through many personal struggles, Eli (Lil Terselius) returns to her native village and begins to work on the farm of Ingeborg Eriksdotter (Anita Bjork), eventually tending a plot that once belonged to her family. But Eli has been gone a long time, and the opaque villagers see her as an outsider—she is suspicious from the start. The year is 1625, and stories of witches conjuring up evil are a part of the daily culture. Eli unwittingly makes matters worse for herself when she is able to cure the sick with herbs, and when she begins an affair with Aslak (Bjoern Skagestad) a farmhand—clearly she must have cast a spell on him. This all adds up to a witch hunt with a ready-made "witch." Eli, in the end, is officially accused of witchcraft by a devious bailiff, while Ingeborg makes every attempt to save her, and Aslak himself does not survive the stress—hardly a good omen for the outcome of the trial.
Ellen
Blind-Jonas is in a poorhouse dreaming about his past, in contrast the young girl Cecilia shows up dreaming about her future.
Märta Skaug
Gathered at a funeral for a successful business man, the testament is to be read. They will all inherit, with a big IF; if the family company is to be joint run by all the heirs.
Siri von Essen-Strindberg
Depicts the explosive relationship between August Strindberg and Siri von Essen in 1889 while Siri is rehearsing a lead role in a play written by Strindberg.
Cecilia Fröding
A tv play about the Swedish poet Gustaf Fröding. Flashbacks from his life in a mental hospital.
Ulrika Eleonora
Tyra Hellgren
Sören Hellgren comes home drunk one night and his wife Tyra is furious because he is boozed up and has spent a lot of money. Sören doesn't understand why she is mad, he thinks she should be happy that he came home at all.
Hedvig Björklund
Narra la historia de amor de dos jóvenes inmersos en el clima de agitación social que se vivió en Suecia durante la huelga de 1931 contra la empresa papelera Adalen, que enfrentó a los trabajadores con las fuerzas estatales y terminó con dramáticos resultados.
Narcissa
Narcissa and Elina work in a small town social service office and have various erotic encounters with the people who visit it.
An engineer and an actor, two extremely similar men, change their identity with each other.
She loves to ride in the bus and read smart book ... He likes to sit by the water and drink soda ... She loves to write down their thoughts on the fly and be glad that they do not end ... He likes to watch as boats come and invent passengers biography ... She loves ice cream and menthol cigarettes ... And he - horses and storefronts ... She had to roam the streets at night, even if you do not want to ... he loves the city nightlife, which helps him to dream ... and one day ... quite by accident ... They meet ... hE and SHE ...
A monologue of a woman who tells about her life, mainly about the men she met, while walking.
Petra von Pahlen
As three pregnant women wait to have their babies in a hospital in Stockholm at the outbreak of the Great War, they relive their childhood and youthful experiences.
Helen G:son Lundberg
A ghost called Vita Frun (White Lady) is accused of several murders. Detective Hillman is contacted to resolve the case.
Sophia
El médico de un pequeño pueblo italiano, cuyo hijo ha sido asesinado por los alemanes, arroja una bomba en mitad de las tropas alemanas, causando muchas bajas. El oficial al mando amenaza con fusilar a muchos rehenes si el causante no se entrega.
Yvonne, Hugo Frejers fru
Hugo Frejer terrorizes his family and surroundings with his unhappy mood.
Rebecka Striid
A member of a highly successful crime drama series is found murdered in a television studio. The screenwriter of the TV-series is found as prime suspect but claims his innocence and tries to clear his name. But who is the murderer and what is his motive?
Birgitta Lindell
A model is murdered at a famous fashion house and the Hillmans start to investigate. Kajsa Hillman is employed as a model and discovers that several people had motives to kill her.
Mrs. Holm
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.
Inger von Schilden
The married detective couple John and Kajsa Hillman goes on a vacation to Holmfors mill where a friend of Kajsa's lives with her husband. When a young woman is found murdered it is clear that this is another case for the Hillmans.
Eva Dahl
Eva Dahl, a doctor's wife, starts an affair with a younger man.
Kyllikki Malm
Un joven en busca del amor y la libertad conoce a tres mujeres muy distintas.
Margareta Snellman
Margareta, newly engaged with count Carl Anckarberg, visits his estate for the first time. During the visit she gets to know that his last fiancee died in a mysterious accident and she sets out to discover what really happened. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Gräfin von Zathmar
Adventure film based on a Rilke poem.
"Hoffy" Hoffmeir
Un oficial de inteligencia de los Estados Unidos, destinado en Berlin tras la II Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), se ve atrapado en un dilema político cuando los rusos secuestran un soldado norteamericano, hijo de un importante hombree de negocios. Pretenden canjearlo por un matrimonio de ancianos alemanes, a los que buscan por traición.
Rakel
En una casa de verano, cuatro mujeres esperan la llegada de sus maridos desde Estocolmo. Alrededor de una taza de café, evocan sus experiencias conyugales. La más joven de ellas, que espera a su novio, las escucha hablar de sus fracasos, de su amargura y de sus desilusiones.
Karin Engström
American businessman Chris Johnson spent WW2 in Sweden and fell in love with a nurse, Karin Engström. He lost contact with her after war and now, seven years later, he returns to Sweden on a business trip, trying to find her again.
Miss Julie
Julia (Anita Björk), hija de un Conde con una infancia infeliz y un matrimonio fracasado, se deja seducir en la noche más corta del año (la noche de San Juan) por un sirviente (Ulf Palme), que la desea desde que era pequeña
Maj Andersson
A small Swedish town just after WW1. An accountant and his two journalist friends have entered the stock market. The result is not as good as expected.
Birgit Maria Larsson
A man is forced to leave his family estate and start again.
Siv
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.
Frida Grande
Martin is married to Frida and together they have a son. One day after a quarrel with his wife, he goes to buy flowers to ask for forgiveness. In the flower shop he meets the beautiful Rut and falls instantly in love. They both start a passionate love affair but beneath the beautiful surface hides a completely different woman than he expected ...
Elsa Borell
Partners Ville and Rulle have developed an improved accordion but competitors try to get their hands on it.
Lilian Lind
The old Victor Branzell has a grandson, Alf, who is in love with a clerk in a glove shop, Lilian Lind. But Lilian with her simple background doesn't get accepted in the circles where Alf belongs, and they have now reached the conclusion that they can't have a future together. Marriage is impossible. Victor summons Lilian and Alf and starts telling them his life story.
Anna Jesper
"The Heavenly Play" - Mats Ersson is engaged to Marit and they plan to get married in the spring. But when the plague comes, the people accuse Marit of witchcraft. She is sentenced to death. Mats can not understand the divine justice and decides to go to paradise and ask God himself. It becomes a journey where he meets the prophets, king Solomon and finally God himself.
