Bo Widerberg
Date of Birth: 08 Jun 1930
Country: Sweden
Biography: 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. Ingmar Bergman being the leading figure of Swedish cinema, was not his ideal at all. In his book A vision of Swedish cinema he concluded that Ingmar Bergman's films almost exclusively dealt with issues directed upwards. According to Widerberg, Bergman made vertical films when the need for horizontal ones was most dire.
Total Credits at Criticker: 16 (Director), 12 (Writer)
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Hedvig Jensen is a famous ropewalker and is known to her public as Elvira Madigan. She meets Lieutenant Sixten Sparre, a Swedish officer who is married and has two children. They both decide to run away, but since Sixten deserted the army, he cannot find any job and the couple encounters many hardships... (imdb)
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Malmoe, Sweden during the Second World War. Stig is a 15 year old pupil on the verge of adulthood. Viola is 37 years old and his teacher. He is attracted by her beauty and maturity. She is drawn to him by his youth and innocence, a god-sent relief from her drunk and miserable husband. They start a passionate and forbidden relationship - but it has consequences they never could have expected. (imdb)
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The police lieutenant Nyman is murdered in his hospital bed and Martin Beck and his colleagues have another murder to solve. They discover that Nyman was a very brutal and tough policemen who got many complaints about police-brutality. Particularly interesting is Åke Eriksson, whose wife died in police custody because of Nyman.
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During a strike strike-breakers are being transported to Sandviken, where they are assaulted by the strikers. The military are sent in. On the 14th May 1931 there is a confrontation between demonstrators and the military who open fire and five people are killed and five injured. (imdb)
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Anders is 18 years old and lives with his parents in a poor section of the city. (imdb user comments)
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An in-the-face documentary in the height of the 1968 student rebellions. (imdb)
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A film about the life and death of the legendary Swedish/American agitator Joe Hill. (imdb)
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Following his manifesto for a new Swedish cinema, director Widerberg started his career with this realist tale of young woman, Britt, who has two flings, but finds herself with difficult decisions when she finds herself pregnant. (imdb)
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In Stockholm, on St. Lucy's feast day, a bandit daringly robs a crowded post office. Lowly Stockholm vice-squad officers, Jarnebring and Johansson are first on the scene and go on to unearth apparent corruption in high places, but the threads are difficult to pull together and the case is hard to crack. (imdb)
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Romantic love between two socially disparate people binds and separates a young man and young woman in this traged based on Nobel Prize-winner Knut Hamsun's novel. In order to win the right to be invited into the house of a wealthy girl whom he loves, a miller's son struggles and becomes a writer. However, the girl's father is now deeply in debt, and needs to get her married off to a rich suitor. (allmovie.com)
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A film director named Keve who's starting an erotic affair with his friend's wife. This movie was entered into the 15th Berlin International Film Festival.
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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 (imdb)
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Young Roland wants to write. In desperate need of money, he takes job at an advertising agency. He ends up in a department that advertise cosmetics. He is commissioned to do market research of a new remedy for pimples. (imdb)
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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. (imdb)
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En handelsresandes död (1979) - TV Movie
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. (imdb)
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En far (1988) - TV Movie
A charged power struggle between spouses. A tug of war to the death of an only child as ends and means. (imdb)
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