Gunnar Björnstrand

Gunnar Björnstrand

Date of Birth: 13 Nov 1909

Country: Sweden

Total Credits at Criticker: 76 (Actor)

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    Persona
    A nurse is put in charge of a actress who can't talk and finds that the actresses persona is melding with hers.
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    Wild Strawberries
    After living a life marked by coldness, an aging professor is forced to confront the emptiness of his existence. (imdb)
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    The Seventh Seal
    A man seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague. (imdb)
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    Fanny and Alexander
    The title characters are children in the exuberant and colorful Ekdahl household in a Swedish town early in the twentieth century... (imdb)
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    Winter Light
    On a cold winter's Sunday, the pastor of a small rural church (Tomas Ericsson) performs service for a tiny congregation; though he is suffering from a cold and a severe crisis of faith (imdb)
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    Smiles of a Summer Night
    A small town at the turn of the century. Lawer Fredrik Egerman has an ingénue-wife, Anne, and a grown-up son, Henrik, from an earlier marriage. His wife is still untouched, and instead he meets his former mistress Desiree after her performance at the theatre. They leave the theatre together and Egerman falls in one of the puddles. Desiree takes him to her home and Egerman changes into a night-shirt, owned by count Malcolm, Desirees present lover... (imdb)
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    Through a Glass Darkly
    On an island, Karin, a recently released mentally sick young woman, is spending her vacation with her husband Martin... (imdb)
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    Shame
    Ingmar Bergman's psychological study of how humans react in a situation of war. The film takes place on Gotland, where invasion forces arrives. (imdb)
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    Autumn Sonata
    After having neglected her children for many years, world famous pianist Charlotte visits her daughter Eva in her home.
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    Face to Face
    A sensitive exploration of the tragic irony of the psychiatrist suffering with mental illness. Dr. Jenny... (imdb)
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    The Devil\
    The devil has a stye in his eye, caused by the purity of a vicar's daughter. To get rid of it, he sends... (imdb)
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    The Magician
    When 'Vogler's Magnetic Health Theater' comes to town, there's bound to be a spectacle. Reading reports... (imdb)
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    A Lesson in Love
    After 15 years of marriage, David and Marianne have grown apart. David has had an affair with a patient... (imdb)
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    Sawdust and Tinsel
    On a gray morning, a circus caravan arrives in the town where Albert the ringmaster's family lives.... (imdb)
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    Secrets of Women
    Rakel, Marta, Karin and Annette are married to four brothers. While waiting in a summer cottage for their husbands to come home, they tell each other stories about their marriages (imdb)
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    Dreams
    Two women, a fashion editor nearing her mid-thirties and a model who's just twenty, go to Gothenburg for a photo shoot. Suzanne calls her lover, desperate to see him. Doris, the model, is stopped on the street by an elegant older man who offers to buy her the gown she is eyeing in a boutique window. Later that day, each women meets up with her man, and seduction seems imminent... (imdb)
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    Music in Darkness
    The heart-wrenching story of a wealthy, artistic young man who goes blind after an accident during military service and who must learn to live with his condition. (MovieMail-online.co.uk)
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    Ingmar Bergman Makes a Movie
    Vilgot Sjöman (I Am Curious -- Yellow 1967) and a crew from Swedish Television followed Ingmar Bergman during the filming of Winter Light and came away with a five-part documentary, including set construction, rehearsals, editing, and behind-the-camera conversations with Bergman and the cast and crew, and audience reactions to the film. (imdb)
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    Dokument Fanny och Alexander
    A documentary of the making of Fanny and Alexander
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    The Rite
    The Rite (1969) - TV Movie
    A judge in an unnamed country interviews three actors, together and singly, provoking them while investigating a pornographic performance for which they may face a fine. Their relationships are complicated: Sebastian, volatile, a heavy drinker, in debt, guilty of killing his former partner, is having an affair with that man's wife. She is Thea, high strung, prone to fits, and seemingly fragile, currently married to Sebastian's new partner, Hans. Hans is the troupe leader. (imdb)
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    Loving Couples
    Three expectant mothers think back over their sex lives. (imdb)
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    Två kvinnor
    When Cecelia is taken to the hospital after an attempt made on her life her husband finds out details about her past that she'd kept hidden from him.
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    Stimulantia
    An anthology film, compiling personal short films made by several Swedish directors.
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    The Girls
    Aristophanes' Lysistrata inspires the contemporary Swedish actresses embodying its characters to end, perhaps, the war of the sexes.
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    My Sister, My Love
    A young nobleman, named Jacob (Per Oscarsson) returns from France to his home and cherished sister Charlotte (Bibi Andersson) who is engaged to Baron Alsameden (Jarl Kulle). (imdb)
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    June Night
    Young Karin Nordbäck lives in a small town. She has a relationship with a sailor, but when she tries to leave him, he shoots her. She survives and begins a new life in Stockholm. There she meets kind people and new friends but the newspapers find her and start to write about her. (imdb)
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    Skolka skolan
    Margareta is tired of school and plays sick, her mother calls in for a doctor which also happens to be Margareta's great love - her love is mutual and soon they marry...
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    Den røde kappe
    The story, based on an ancient legend, concerns Hagbard (Oleg Vidov), the son of a slain Norse king. Seeking revenge against the rival clan responsible for the killing, Hagbard calms down long enough to establish a truce. (allmovie.com)
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    Blow Hot, Blow Cold
    A man kills the former employer of his wife then attempts to use the same method with another victim. (allrovi.com)
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    Here\
    A 1966 Swedish drama film directed by Jan Troell, based on the second of Eyvind Johnson's semi-autobiographical series of four novels Romanen om Olof, about a working-class boy growing up in northern Sweden. (en.wikipedia.org)
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    Mot nya tider
    A Swedish drama from 1939 about the social and political developments in Sweden from 1885 until the dissolution of the union in 1905. The year is 1885, Christina Nilsson sings "Fourteen years I believe certain that I was" in the Grand Hotel's Great Hall . She also sings from the balcony of the hotel and the panic arising among listeners outside the hotel.
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    Soldat Bom
    The station-master Fabian Bom is a very meticulous person, and he makes sure that the train leaves exactly - on the second. To him, nothing could be more important than duty, efficiency and punctuality, in fact, his sense of duty is clearly perverted. His beloved Plum-Plum, the major's daughter, is infatuated with army officers. To regain her attention, he joins the army. (imdb)
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    Pistolen
    An aristocratic old lady ponders committing suicide.
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    Glasberget
    The successful glass artist Stellan Sylvester ends up in the hospital after a car accident. He looks back at his life and finds it empty and meaningless. He falls in love with the nurse Marta but when he finds out that she is engaged, life turns out to be even more meaningless.
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    Kvartetten som sprängdes
    In a small Swedish town during the aftermath of World War 1, an accountant and his two journalist friends enter the stock market but the results are not as good as expected.
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    Stampen
    Pawnshop assistant Patrick and maid Viveka meet by chance and become fond of each other, but none of them want to reveal his real profession for the other. Soon, this puts the intricacies started with misunderstanding, burglary and a forged painting.
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    Gabrielle
    While Bertil Lindström works at the Swedish embassy in Paris, his wife Gabrielle spends the summer alone in Sweden. After a phone call to her, he starts to think of all the things she can possibly be doing separated from him.
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    Seger i mörker
    The story about Gustaf Dalén, the farm boy who became one of Swedens greatest inventors.
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    Livat på luckan
    Johansson has managed to stay away from the military service for several years. But now his time has come.
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    Min kära är en ros
    A middle-aged doctor begins a relationship with a teenage girl. His best friend is dating the girl's mother. A group of boys plan to blackmail the doctor or expose him as a paedophile. (imdb)
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    Lockfågeln
    On his death-bed, Per Henrik Pistolekors must promise his father two things: first of all to kill king Gustav III, who his father hates; second, to take his half-sister Annarella to Stockholm to find her a rich and noble husband.
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    The Girl from the Third Row
    A ring passes between several different people, giving the bearer or someone close a new meaning to life.
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    The Dress
    Edit is pleased that her mother agrees to let her buy a dress she loves, but which in fact is made for an adult woman. (imdb)
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    Daddy Wanted
    The spoiled son of a weapons manufacturer falls in love with a manicurist, to the horror of his parents. Class limits may not be exceeded. (imdb)
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    Dansa, min docka...
    In the small town Skrabbarp lives the school teacher Sebastian Pettersson, an amateur detective and one of the most diligent correspondents of the Stockholm police.
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    Flyg-Bom
    More of the same thing when Fabian Bom returns to the military, this time it is the air force who has to deal with his antics and meticulousness. He falls in love with a sami girl, Lisa, but has trouble finding her.
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    Tull-Bom
    Bureacratic customs officer searching for a missing girl.
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    It Rains on Our Love
    Put simply, the story theorizes that just because someone commits a criminal act, that someone isn't necessarily a criminal. Barbro Kollberg plays the unfortunate soul whose solitary indiscretion seriously jeopardizes his future happiness... (All Movie Guide)
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    The Making of Autumn Sonata
    An almost three-and-a-half hour documentary about the making of Bergman's Autumn Sonata.
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    Night Light
    The naive Maria, 16, moves from the country to Stockholm. Her first night in the big city becomes quite eventful.
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    Lustgården
    A small picturesque town at the turn of the century. The conservative moral of the townspeople is shaken when they find out that the school teacher Franzén published his own poetry anonymously many years ago. At the same time he acknowledges his love affair with a waitress at the city hotel, Fanny. What is most upsetting is the fact that Fanny has a grownup daughter, Anna, with no known father. Could their poet teacher be the father although he and Fanny are not married? (imdb)
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    Swinging at the Castle
    Singer Inga and art restorer Svante are engaged to be married. But their jobs are keeping them apart, and Svante is mysteriously sleepwalking whenever there is a full moon. Svante catches the eye of the beautiful Sophie, who employs him to work at her castle.
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    Nyordning på Sjögårda
    Major Grasser lives on his estate with his twin daughters Britta and Stina. Stina is studying at the university and Britta wants to work with farming. The major wants to put Britta in a school of commerce and hires a tutor to prepare her for higher education. This she dislikes and things doesn't gets better when her father thinking of selling the estate.
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    Sjunde himlen
    Radio star Willy Lorens needs to recover from exhaustion and goes on a bus trip to Italy. Also on the trip is one of his most outspoken critics, doctor Lovisa Sundelius. (imdb)
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    Himmel och pannkaka
    Since "Sjunde himlen" (1956) Dr. Lovisa Sundelius (Sickan Carlsson) and radio host Villy Lorens (Hasse Ekman) have married, but when Villy becomes a TV host with cutie Suss (Lena Granhagen) by his side, things start to fall apart. (imdb)
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    Rötägg
    Olga Sundblom has alone after the divorce the custody of the son Krister. He has trouble of controlling himself. He cheats in school, smokes in the bed and is generally unbearable. He is send to Granberga boarding school and soon he starting to turn everything upside down. He offers the schoolmates alcohol and begins a relationship with a young woman that he treats like a slut. When he gets expelled he escapes to his summerhouse. (imdb)
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    Brott i paradiset
    While four men blow up a safe, a night watchman is accidentally killed. They get away with the loot. Ten years later, the stepson of the dead night watchman receives vital information. (imdb)
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    Träfracken
    The beautiful Vivi Sander is living a hard life and is deeply in debt. She tries to force her family to sell the house. Vivi's car crash after a sabotage. She is injured and brought to a medical center where she meets the perverted Dr. Wester. (imdb)
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    Miss April
    The banker Marcus falls in love with the young ballet-dancer Maj who works at the opera. To meet her he takes a job there but Maj is in love with Osvald Berg, the big star of the opera. To wake Osvald's interest for her she asks Marcus if he could play deeply in love with her. (imdb)
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    En fästman i taget
    Lilian is tired of being the nice, obedient fiancée of engineer Arne Stockman. She feels that he doesn't appreciates her, and she gets on a plane to travel far and wide to meet other men.
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    Sommarnöje sökes
    Married couple have romantic interludes in the summer, she at their summer cottage, him in the apartment in town. (imdb)
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    Midvinterblot
    Depicts the suggestive empathy the Old Norse blood sacrifice.
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    Du är mitt äventyr
    Two journalists marry but the husband grows unhappy when he is left to take care of their child and she focuses on her career. (imdb)
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    Flottans glada gossar
    When Ludvig Ekman is ordered to do his military rehearsals course, he sends one of his employees, Lasse Alm, to do it for him. Everything is fine until Alm also is ordered to do the same thing - on the same boat! There is only one thing to do: Ekman goes as Alm. When Ekman goes aboard, he discovers that it is his wife's ex-husband who is captain and Ekman really is punished for marrying his wife. (imdb)
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    Det är aldrig för sent
    Görel and Arne is about to get divorced. Görel think back on how history repeats itself in her family. (imdb)
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    Torment
    Jan-Erik Widgren is a high-school senior. His Latin teacher, Caligula, is feared by everybody, both teachers and students. Widgren falls in love with Berta, who works in a tobacco store. She tells him that she is harassed by a mean, sadistic man, but does not tell him that it is Caligula himself. (imdb)
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    Lilla Märta kommer tillbaka
    Sture Letterström and Kurre Svensson are saving secret documents from Swedish Nazis. Since both of them are known by the local Nazis, Sture takes the role of Miss Märta Letterström. (imdb)
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    Medan porten var stängd
    About a number of people in an apartment building during a night full of dramatic events and entanglements. (imdb)
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    Vad vet ni om Sussie
    A young, recently divorced writer attacks in bitterness "the woman" in his new book called - An unhappy marriage. This raises media attention.
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    Kristin kommenderar
    Translator Vilhelm and his young wife have a child, as well as a grumpy house maid who doesn't hesitate to give her opinion on how they behave as parents. In secret Kristin arranges a scholarship for Vilhelm so he can go back to his medical studies. imdb.
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    Vi två
    Architect Sture Ahrengren (Sture Lagerwall) walks out of his job with an architectural firm for several reasons, and with the support of his wife Helena (Signe Hasso). He gets a position with an old friend, Baltsar Ekberg (Stig Järrel), who has a big engineering job going. But Ahrengren gets entangled in a romance with Ekberg's wife, Helena (Ilse-Nore Tromm). (imdb)
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    Mitt folk är icke ditt
    The pianist Else returns to Sweden after a world tour. Her father John welcomes her with an event. But the dinner is disturbed by a flight alarm. The country has been occupied by a foreign power and their leader is Major Rolf Von Ritter. (imdb)
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    Var sin väg
    A drama about a doctor and his wife. She used to be an actress, but became a housewife when she married. When she resumes her acting career the marriage crashes. (imdb)
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    Pappa Bom
    One-day auctioneer Fabian Bom finds a little child in a cradle that is about to be called out. He leaves for the orphanage, but there they don't want to take the boy. Bom thinks about adoption but that requires some qualifications. The boy needs a mother and that means that Fabian Bom have to get married.
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    I som här inträden
    A drama about revenge, lies and destruction. A civil servant is subjected to a violated woman's revenge. It happens to be his boss's wife. (imdb)
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    General von Döbeln
    1813. The Swedish army is fighting in the War of the Sixth Coalition. The popular general Von Döbeln is arrested for sending the army against the French in breach of orders by the crown prince. At the court martial he is sentenced to death but is pardoned by the king and sent to prison instead. A group of conspirators are planning to set him free and make him their leader in a coup d'etat. (imdb)
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