Monica Zetterlund
Nacimiento : 1937-09-20, Hagfors, Värmlands län, Sweden
Muerte : 2005-05-12
Historia
Monica Zetterlund, born Eva Monica Nilsson, was a Swedish singer, stage and screen actress. In her late teens she sang with her fathers orchestra and Ib Glindemanns Big Band. She made her first recordings in 1957 and was discovered by Arne Domnérus 1958. Two years later she toured the U.S. with Thad Jones and Zoot Sims. In 1964, Monica Zetterlund recorded the critically acclaimed jazz album "Waltz for Debby" with Bill Evans. She made her film debut in "Gröna Hund" (1962). Her long career also included the song "En gång i Stockholm" ("Winter City"); a jazz ballad with which she represented Sweden in the 1963 Eurovision Song Contest.
Herself
A portrait of Swedish jazz singer Monica Zetterlund.
Self
Documentary about legendary Swedish jazz club "Nalen" featuring interviews with old musicians and singers, and old clips from the place in its glory days
Self
A Documentary about the Swedish Comedian Tage Danielsson. He was one member of the "Hasse & Tage" duo, the other beeing Hasse Alfredsson. He was also a writer and an Actor.
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.
Herself
Four parallel stories about a Russian and his daughter trying to get to his wife's Russian Pizza House in New York, but they are stranded in Copenhagen. A girl getting married. A man finding his brother and starting a new life in the city. Two men working at a bridge. And it's all happening the same night.
Jubilee show for Povel Ramel's 60th birthday
Hulda Krok
A mother is taken to a hospital and the town council wants to split up her children and put them in foster homes, but the children have a diffrent plan. They set out on a epic journey down thru Sweden, from Lappland down to Stockholm in search of their father. They encounter many people on their journey and make new friends while trying too elude the police.
This farce cocerns Sweden's King Gustav (Per Oscarsson who plays all the lead roles). The royal monarchs of three major European countries are patiently or not-so-patiently hovering on the sidelines while watching the future King Gustav closely. No single king appears to possess the brains he was born with, so history seems to be made by default, as it were. Gustav does blunder around, but not enough to miss being crowned king. As a result, France, England, and Germany invade Sweden hoping to take by force what they could not gain by incompetence.
Madame Petypon
A comedy by Hans Alfredson.
Documentary which follows Bo Widerberg during the making of 'Man on the Roof', 'The Butt' and a failed theater production.
Various
Svea hund, complete title Svea Hund på Göta Lejon (Svea Dog at Göta Lejon), was a Swedish variety show produced by AB Svenska Ord. It was written by Hans Alfredsson and Tage Danielsson, commonly known as Hasseåtage and directed by Tage. The show premièred on 15 February (although it had a sneak première on 9 February) 1976 on the theater Göta Lejon in Stockholm. It was the last of the three "Dog-revues"; the first was Gröna hund (Green Dog) the second being Gula Hund (Yellow Dog). Both Hasse and Tage starred in various roles. Other cast members were Gösta Ekman, Monica Zetterlund, Lena Nyman, and Tommy Körberg. The song quartet EBBA (Lena Eriksson, Lars Bagge, Kersint Bagge and Bo Andersson) and Gunnar Svenssons Bandhundband.
Greta
Nisse and Greta, a middle-aged married couple, sit and watch TV. To their surprise they get to experience their own life's in a TV show being broadcasted.
Malinda Karlsson
Poor painter helps a paralysed child.
Glaset i örat is a revue by Hans Alfredson and Tage Danielsson. It was recorded at Berns in Stockholm 1973 and on tour during the spring of 1974.
Lehrerin
Six year old Johan, a.k.a. Fimpen, loves football. One day his talents are discovered. It doesn't take long before Fimpen gets to travel around with the national team. Fimpen becomes an idol and media wants a piece of him all the time. It gets hard to catch up in school.
Povel Ramel jubilee show played at Berns in Stockholm in 1972.
Ulrika
A finales del siglo XIX, una familia sueca emigra a Minesota. Van en busca de una vida mejor y más libertad y aunque no pretenden convertirse en americanos, la cultura de su nuevo país va influenciando cada vez más sus vidas. La tierra en la que se establecen es mucho más fértil que la que poseían en Suecia, pero igualmente deben luchar contra los elementos.
Anna Lindberg
A German businessman wants to buy land in southern Sweden for a gigantic amusement park, his new project called "Deutschneyland" (a wordplay of Deutschland and Disneyland). Some of the locals dislike the idea, including the magically talented Lindberg family, and work to frustrate the development plans.
Ulrika
A mediados del siglo XIX, Kristina y Karl-Oskar viven en una pequeña aldea rural de Småland (al sur de Suecia). Se casan e intentan ganarse el sustento con un pequeño trozo de tierra. Sin embargo, el pequeño tamaño de su tierra, su suelo estéril, y algunas malas cosechas hacen las cosas muy difíciles. Incluso uno de sus hijos está a punto de morir. Por todo ello deciden emigrar a los EE.UU. Lo venden todo y se embarcan hacia América.
The story of two brothers, one rich and one poor living next to each other , struggling along with their families and daily lives in the south parts of Stockholm in the 1930's.
Hedvig Lindberg
Political satire set in the 18th century to Franz Schubert's music.
A Swedish family musical by Beppe Wolgers.
Lotten
A man on the verge of marriage is haunted by traumatic memories from his childhood.
Gula Hund (English title: Yellow Dog) is a Swedish variety show that was the second of "three dog-revues" (so called because they all have "dog" in their name). The first one being Gröna Hund (Green Dog) and the third and last one was Svea Hund.
Berit
A group of party goers have trouble getting their boat ashore on a small island. The inhabitants of the island try to help, often with the help of an old sailor, and the results are absurd and hilarious.
Musical variety special
Mejram
The unemployed Timjan discover Mejram singing and instantly fall in love with her.
Summer revue from 1963
herself
"A testimony about her." Her being the actor and vocalist Monica Zetterlund. At 25 in the beginning of her career. Monica sings with a trio at a concert. Returns to her empty home in Stockholm. Relaxes in loneliness. Next morning. An interview with writer Vilgot Sjöman. Then off to recording at a studio with the Phillips Recording Orchestra, featuring Jan Johansson on piano. Later a concert at Nalen in Stockholm.
The first variety show produced by AB Svenska Ord. It was the first of the three "Dog-revues", the second being "Gula Hund" and the third one "Svea hund".
