Bo Widerberg
Nacimiento : 1930-06-08, Malmö, Sweden
Muerte : 1997-05-01
Historia
Bo Widerberg, (June 8, 1930 – May 1, 1997) was a Swedish film director, writer, editor and actor. He was born Bo Gunnar Widerberg in Malmö, Skåne län, Sweden. He died in Ängelholm, Skåne län, Sweden of stomach cancer.
Widerberg was the director of films such as Raven's End (1963), Elvira Madigan (1967), Ådalen 31 (1969), Joe Hill (1971), Fimpen (1974), The Man on the Roof (1976), Victoria (1979), The Man from Majorca (1984), The Serpent's Way (1986) and All Things Fair (1995).
He won a Silver Bear prize in Berlin for All things fair and a Special Grand Jury Prize at Cannes Festival for Ådalen 31. Raven's End, Ådalen 31 and All things fair all received a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar Nomination
Bo Widerberg's vision of Swedish cinema parted radically with its contemporary form. He called for a greater political significance and more progressive story telling. Bergman being the leading figure of Swedish cinema, was not his ideal at all, although he recognized his position: "Nor me or my friends saw very much in him. We didn't find the issue of god's existence that damn important. But it's safe to say you'd be putting yourself in a bad position if you're trying to slit the throat of the father figure before your own debut." In his book A vision of Swedish cinema he concluded that Ingmar Bergman's films almost exclusively dealt with issues directed upwards, but more seldom in sideways, between people. According to Widerberg, Bergman made vertical films when the need for horizontal ones was most dire. On the other hand, Widerberg wanted film to be a tool of the social sciences, a kind of sociological report.
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Director Jan Troell films the process of making Bo Widerberg's last film 'Lust och fägring stor' ('All Things Fair'). The footage was compiled into this documentary by Stefan Nylén and Tomas Ehrnborg in 2015.
Himself (archive footage)
A portrait of four generation Widerberg's.
Writer
Un documental que narra la vida del líder sudafricano Nelson Mandela. Mandela es probablemente mejor conocido por sus 27 años de prisión, y para poner fin al apartheid. Pero esta película también arroja luz sobre el primer período poco conocido de la vida de Mandela.
Editor
En 1943, durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Stig, un joven de 15 años, comparte con sus compañeros de clase el interés adolescente por los misterios del sexo. Pronto descubre antes que nadie algo que no comparte con ellos: tiene un affair con su profesora, Viola, que está casada con Kjell, un vendedor ambulante de lencería. Kjell, que se apoda a si mismo Frank porque vende más, es amante de la ginebra, de Beethoven y de Mahler, y aunque está enamorado de su mujer, ocasionalmente también le es infiel. Al tiempo que tiene sus encuentros amorosos con Viola, Stig desarrolla una fuerte amistad con Frank.
Screenplay
En 1943, durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Stig, un joven de 15 años, comparte con sus compañeros de clase el interés adolescente por los misterios del sexo. Pronto descubre antes que nadie algo que no comparte con ellos: tiene un affair con su profesora, Viola, que está casada con Kjell, un vendedor ambulante de lencería. Kjell, que se apoda a si mismo Frank porque vende más, es amante de la ginebra, de Beethoven y de Mahler, y aunque está enamorado de su mujer, ocasionalmente también le es infiel. Al tiempo que tiene sus encuentros amorosos con Viola, Stig desarrolla una fuerte amistad con Frank.
Director
En 1943, durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Stig, un joven de 15 años, comparte con sus compañeros de clase el interés adolescente por los misterios del sexo. Pronto descubre antes que nadie algo que no comparte con ellos: tiene un affair con su profesora, Viola, que está casada con Kjell, un vendedor ambulante de lencería. Kjell, que se apoda a si mismo Frank porque vende más, es amante de la ginebra, de Beethoven y de Mahler, y aunque está enamorado de su mujer, ocasionalmente también le es infiel. Al tiempo que tiene sus encuentros amorosos con Viola, Stig desarrolla una fuerte amistad con Frank.
Self
Interviews with and about Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt interspersed with clips from his old performances. Recorded to celebrate his 70th birthday, which would be his last.
Writer
During a midsummer weekend in the eighties a family gather in their summerhouse in the archipelago. The memory of the dead family father surfaces when Britt-Marie, now calling herself Hebriana, gets out from the mental hospital to celebrate midsummer with the family.
Director
During a midsummer weekend in the eighties a family gather in their summerhouse in the archipelago. The memory of the dead family father surfaces when Britt-Marie, now calling herself Hebriana, gets out from the mental hospital to celebrate midsummer with the family.
Writer
A charged power struggle between spouses. A tug of war to the death of an only child as ends and means. From an August Strindberg play.
Director
A charged power struggle between spouses. A tug of war to the death of an only child as ends and means. From an August Strindberg play.
Editor
A salesman and his son sexually abuse the generations of women of a poor family as payment for debt. Janni must see his mother, sister, niece and wife all being exploited, and the family grow bigger with the abuser's kids.
Writer
A salesman and his son sexually abuse the generations of women of a poor family as payment for debt. Janni must see his mother, sister, niece and wife all being exploited, and the family grow bigger with the abuser's kids.
Director
A salesman and his son sexually abuse the generations of women of a poor family as payment for debt. Janni must see his mother, sister, niece and wife all being exploited, and the family grow bigger with the abuser's kids.
Editor
In the aftermath of a daring post office robbery on Saint Lucy’s Day, two Stockholm vice cops venture into a world of corruption, cover-ups and murder stretching across all levels of society, from the streets to the government.
Screenplay
In the aftermath of a daring post office robbery on Saint Lucy’s Day, two Stockholm vice cops venture into a world of corruption, cover-ups and murder stretching across all levels of society, from the streets to the government.
Director
In the aftermath of a daring post office robbery on Saint Lucy’s Day, two Stockholm vice cops venture into a world of corruption, cover-ups and murder stretching across all levels of society, from the streets to the government.
Films the process of making Bo Widerberg's film "Death of a Salesman'.
Writer
Willy Loman is an over-the-hill salesman who faces a personal turning point when he loses his job and attempts to make peace with his family: Willy's long-suffering wife Linda, and Biff and Happy, his troubled sons and his life.
Director
Willy Loman is an over-the-hill salesman who faces a personal turning point when he loses his job and attempts to make peace with his family: Willy's long-suffering wife Linda, and Biff and Happy, his troubled sons and his life.
Editor
The tragic romance between the son of a miller and a landlord's daughter. Based on the novel by Knut Hamsun.
Writer
The tragic romance between the son of a miller and a landlord's daughter. Based on the novel by Knut Hamsun.
Director
The tragic romance between the son of a miller and a landlord's daughter. Based on the novel by Knut Hamsun.
Documentary which follows Bo Widerberg during the making of 'Man on the Roof', 'The Butt' and a failed theater production.
Un policía se encuentra ingresado en un hospital de Estocolmo cuando es brutalmente asesinado. Martin Beck y Einar Rönn iniciarán la investigación del caso. El hombre asesinado era una persona infame, conocido entre sus colegas por abusar de sus privilegios de policía.
Editor
Un policía se encuentra ingresado en un hospital de Estocolmo cuando es brutalmente asesinado. Martin Beck y Einar Rönn iniciarán la investigación del caso. El hombre asesinado era una persona infame, conocido entre sus colegas por abusar de sus privilegios de policía.
Screenplay
Un policía se encuentra ingresado en un hospital de Estocolmo cuando es brutalmente asesinado. Martin Beck y Einar Rönn iniciarán la investigación del caso. El hombre asesinado era una persona infame, conocido entre sus colegas por abusar de sus privilegios de policía.
Director
Un policía se encuentra ingresado en un hospital de Estocolmo cuando es brutalmente asesinado. Martin Beck y Einar Rönn iniciarán la investigación del caso. El hombre asesinado era una persona infame, conocido entre sus colegas por abusar de sus privilegios de policía.
Producer
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.
Writer
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.
Director
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.
Editor
In the early 1900s, the legendary Joe Hill emigrates with his brother to the United States. But after a short time, he loses touch with his brother. Joe gets a few jobs but is struck by all the injustice and tragedy going on. He becomes active in the forbidden union IWW, a union for workers without trades. It is forbidden to demonstrate and to speak in public but Joe gets around that by singing his manifests with the Salvation Army. He manages to get more and more people to go on strike with him but he also makes powerful enemies doing that. Finally he gets connected with a murder and during the trial he fires his lawyer and takes upon himself to become his own defender.
Producer
In the early 1900s, the legendary Joe Hill emigrates with his brother to the United States. But after a short time, he loses touch with his brother. Joe gets a few jobs but is struck by all the injustice and tragedy going on. He becomes active in the forbidden union IWW, a union for workers without trades. It is forbidden to demonstrate and to speak in public but Joe gets around that by singing his manifests with the Salvation Army. He manages to get more and more people to go on strike with him but he also makes powerful enemies doing that. Finally he gets connected with a murder and during the trial he fires his lawyer and takes upon himself to become his own defender.
Writer
In the early 1900s, the legendary Joe Hill emigrates with his brother to the United States. But after a short time, he loses touch with his brother. Joe gets a few jobs but is struck by all the injustice and tragedy going on. He becomes active in the forbidden union IWW, a union for workers without trades. It is forbidden to demonstrate and to speak in public but Joe gets around that by singing his manifests with the Salvation Army. He manages to get more and more people to go on strike with him but he also makes powerful enemies doing that. Finally he gets connected with a murder and during the trial he fires his lawyer and takes upon himself to become his own defender.
Director
In the early 1900s, the legendary Joe Hill emigrates with his brother to the United States. But after a short time, he loses touch with his brother. Joe gets a few jobs but is struck by all the injustice and tragedy going on. He becomes active in the forbidden union IWW, a union for workers without trades. It is forbidden to demonstrate and to speak in public but Joe gets around that by singing his manifests with the Salvation Army. He manages to get more and more people to go on strike with him but he also makes powerful enemies doing that. Finally he gets connected with a murder and during the trial he fires his lawyer and takes upon himself to become his own defender.
Director
Bo Widerberg talks with actress Vanessa Redgrave about giving birth without painkillers and the Vietnam War.
Himself
Bo Widerberg talks with actress Vanessa Redgrave about giving birth without painkillers and the Vietnam War.
Editor
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.
Writer
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.
Director
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.
Director
Documentary film about the protests against the 1968 Davis Cup tennis match between Sweden and Rhodesia, in Båstad, Sweden. In a series of interviews, demonstrators and members of the Swedish government give their views on sport, politics and civil disobedience.
Editor
Un aristócrata, teniente de la caballería sueca, decide abandonar el ejército y a su familia para marcharse con una emancipada y bella y artista de circo.
Writer
Un aristócrata, teniente de la caballería sueca, decide abandonar el ejército y a su familia para marcharse con una emancipada y bella y artista de circo.
Director
Un aristócrata, teniente de la caballería sueca, decide abandonar el ejército y a su familia para marcharse con una emancipada y bella y artista de circo.
Editor
In this absurdist comedy Roland Jung is a young man who wants to write, but when he is in desperate need of money, he has to take a job at an advertising agency in Stockholm. He lands on the department for cosmetics and especially deodorant preparations. He is asked by the agency to do market research among the youth to determine their reaction to a new drug against pimples.
Writer
In this absurdist comedy Roland Jung is a young man who wants to write, but when he is in desperate need of money, he has to take a job at an advertising agency in Stockholm. He lands on the department for cosmetics and especially deodorant preparations. He is asked by the agency to do market research among the youth to determine their reaction to a new drug against pimples.
Director
In this absurdist comedy Roland Jung is a young man who wants to write, but when he is in desperate need of money, he has to take a job at an advertising agency in Stockholm. He lands on the department for cosmetics and especially deodorant preparations. He is asked by the agency to do market research among the youth to determine their reaction to a new drug against pimples.
Editor
A film director has problems coping with his wife and marriage. The daughter is their only connecting link. He is looking for love and sex elsewhere. A married woman becomes his new partner for a while.
Screenplay
A film director has problems coping with his wife and marriage. The daughter is their only connecting link. He is looking for love and sex elsewhere. A married woman becomes his new partner for a while.
Director
A film director has problems coping with his wife and marriage. The daughter is their only connecting link. He is looking for love and sex elsewhere. A married woman becomes his new partner for a while.
Self
Filmed during the first ever Guldbaggen awards it was edited and developed that night and shown for the first time to the guests at the after party.
Writer
A tale of a young woman, Britt, who has two flings, but finds herself with difficult decisions when she finds herself pregnant.
Director
A tale of a young woman, Britt, who has two flings, but finds herself with difficult decisions when she finds herself pregnant.
Screenplay
In the middle of this film, about the working class in pre-world war II Sweden, is Anders, who wishes to become an author, his father, who is a notorious dreamer and liar, and his mother, who struggles to keep their family alive.
Director
In the middle of this film, about the working class in pre-world war II Sweden, is Anders, who wishes to become an author, his father, who is a notorious dreamer and liar, and his mother, who struggles to keep their family alive.
Editor
It is Arild's birthday, but his father has forgotten this and goes to work as usual. The mother is in the hospital to give birth. In the afternoon father and son visit the mother in the hospital. This was Bo Widerberg's debut film.
Writer
It is Arild's birthday, but his father has forgotten this and goes to work as usual. The mother is in the hospital to give birth. In the afternoon father and son visit the mother in the hospital. This was Bo Widerberg's debut film.
Director
It is Arild's birthday, but his father has forgotten this and goes to work as usual. The mother is in the hospital to give birth. In the afternoon father and son visit the mother in the hospital. This was Bo Widerberg's debut film.
Writer
From 1957 to 1961 170.000 Algerians flee to Tunisia because of the war. Most of them walk by feet across the mountains and the desert, carrying only a few of their belongings in their hands or on donkeys. As there is no clay in the desert they cannot build ordinary houses. They have to live in pits in the ground, covered with canvas, but some are offered to stay in American army tents.
