The Other Swede - The films directed by Hasse Ekman
An overview of the 41 full length films directed by Hasse Ekman 1940-1964.
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- DirectorHasse EkmanStarsEdvin AdolphsonKarin EkelundThor ModéenMillionaire Christer Dahl loses his memory when he is hit in the head by a golf ball. He meets his ex-wife and immediately fall in love with her again. She does not know what to believe, is it true or is it only a joke? He also discovers how he has mismanaged his company in his earlier life.
- DirectorHasse EkmanStarsLars HansonGunnar SjöbergStig JärrelThe year is 1941 and Nazi Germany is at its peak. Hitler's army is storming into the Soviet Union. Sweden stands lonely and isolated while the air force is training intensely due to a coming attack. The squadron leader pushes his men at their hardest. It's a constant game with death where death unfortunately often wins.
- DirectorHasse EkmanStarsEdvin AdolphsonStig JärrelInga TidbladIn this obvious forerunner to Torment (1944), Stig Järrel plays mentally-disturbed Latin teacher Birger Sjögren at Ringsala boarding school. A series of mysterious fires have taken place around the school in the last few months. One of the students has seen Sjögren setting fire to a barn. But can he convince the trusted biology teacher Nordmark, expert of the criminal mind?
- DirectorHasse EkmanStarsStig JärrelMarguerite VibyCarl ReinholdzThe idle rich have their own particular problems. Case in point, Georg and Monika Hedberg were once poor and happy but since they got rich family bliss has decreased for every fur coat Monika has received. Their divorce lawyer suggest that they try to save their marriage by moving to a small apartment and live life frugally but happy. Before the trial period is over they want to return home again, then it shows their lawyer has stolen their money and disappeared. The Hedbergs are about to get evicted for unpaid rent and terminal poverty seem to be imminent.
- DirectorHasse EkmanStarsSonja WigertHasse EkmanGeorg RydebergAn actress is in desperate need of work. She is looking up a director. When he rejects her, she collapses on the sidewalk outside the theatre.
- DirectorHasse EkmanStarsEdvin AdolphsonKarin EkelundGunn WållgrenMarksman travel the world with his partner and shooting act.
- DirectorHasse EkmanStarsEdvin AdolphsonElsie AlbiinHasse EkmanAn army officer kills his wife's lover, then escapes to Finland to fight in the Winter War.
- DirectorHasse EkmanStarsLars HansonGunnar SjöbergElsie AlbiinCelebrated elderly Austrian poet opposes nazism, while his daughter admires and falls in love with leading nazi activist, who eventually becomes concentration camp commander with his father-in-law as prisoner.
- DirectorHasse EkmanStarsJohn BotvidTerje ValenkamphStig JärrelKurre and Inga are engaged to be married. However, as they are very poor, they can't afford it just yet. They live separate, both in small apartments with a friend. Inga works at an office and Kurre at a small factory. Inga has a liability to be late in the mornings and this gets her into some trouble at the office, because of her very strict boss. This, along with the fact that another girl starts to court Kurre puts their relationship to the test, a crisis which is easier said than done to solve.
- DirectorHasse EkmanStarsEdvin AdolphsonEster Roeck HansenHasse EkmanThe ups and downs of three generations of an acting family.
- DirectorHasse EkmanStarsEva HenningAlf KjellinStig JärrelDan, aged 19, leaves his home after a quarrel with his father. At the side of the country road he meets a traveling theater company who has run out of money. He falls in love with the young actress Pia and together they leave, meeting a string of peculiar characters: a vagabond, a friendly vicar and a cynical adventurer.
- DirectorHasse EkmanStarsStig JärrelHasse EkmanElsie AlbiinAn out-of-work musician (Järrel) is desperate for work and when his best friend (Ekman) sees an add requesting a cellist he signs him up. However, the work is for a female, so he creates the character Märta Letterström and joins the trio at a small-town hotel. But being a woman is not as easy as you think.
- DirectorHasse EkmanStarsViveca LindforsHasse EkmanErik 'Bullen' BerglundSwedish man is admitted to a Swiss clinic for terminally sick people.
- DirectorHasse EkmanStarsHasse EkmanEva DahlbeckUlf PalmeA journalist is writing a critical article about the prison service in Sweden. The magazine's editor in chief does not agree with him and removes the article. The journalist then plans to fake a crime to gain knowledge about life in prison.
- DirectorHasse EkmanStarsTollie ZellmanOlof WinnerstrandInga LandgréAbout a number of people in an apartment building during a night full of dramatic events and entanglements.
- DirectorHasse EkmanStarsEva HenningHasse EkmanSonja WigertWhen Inga Brantemo goes on a business trip to Italy, her husband Bertil gets romantically involved with Christina Lovén, whose father is a book publisher. When Inga returns, Bertil has a difficult time trying to explain who the woman the neighbors saw in the Brantemo home was. Bertil is an author and it doesn't get easier when he and his wife gets invited to Christina's father to talk business.
- DirectorHasse EkmanStarsGunn WållgrenHasse EkmanUno HenningA drama about a doctor and his wife. She used to be an actress but became a homemaker when she married. When she resumes her acting career the marriage crashes.
- DirectorHasse EkmanStarsSten LarssonHugo JacobsonTollie ZellmanSture Letterström and Kurre Svensson take the task of saving secret documents from Swedish Nazis. Since both of them are known by the local Nazis, Sture has the role of Miss Märta Letterström.
- DirectorHasse EkmanStarsErnst EklundElsa CarlssonSture LagerwallJacob Cotten is a rich banker quickly approaching his 60th birthday. He is concerned that neither of his sons are willing or able to be in charge of the bank. One is a spoiled parasite unable to do an honest day's work; the other has devoted his life to the communist youth club. Meanwhile, his beloved daughter Vica is unable to divorce her masochistic husband and gets herself a lover, an idealistic young medical student.
- DirectorHasse EkmanStarsHilda BorgströmGunnar OlssonSigge FürstIs man's existence really meaningful and hopeful? As a reply to Ingmar Bergman's Prison (1949), this movie claims that it is. A ring passes between a lot of different people, giving the bearer or someone close a new meaning to life. Actors, embezzlers, old ladies, and cheated husbands all seem to gain temporary hope from misery and disillusionment.
- DirectorHasse EkmanStarsEva HenningUlf PalmeBirgit TengrothAfter a young woman commits suicide, her neighbors try to piece together why she did it by tracking down her acquaintances.
- DirectorHasse EkmanStarsHasse EkmanMargareta FahlénHans StrååtLieutenant Canitz only interests in life are women and horses. Soon, he has wasted his inheritance, and when he learns that his brother leave home to meet with an old flame, he tries to seduce his wife.
- DirectorHasse EkmanStarsAlf KjellinEva HenningSture LagerwallA man comes to Stockholm's central station. He does not know who he is or where he has been. He has some keys and a phone number. Perhaps he is the escaped sex maniac the police are searching for. A waitress at a café tries to help him.
- DirectorHasse EkmanStarsHasse EkmanLars HansonElsie AlbiinDuring excavations in Stockholm in 2248, old film footage from the 1940s is found. The Research Group for Ancient Films tries to arrange the finds into a movie, while guessing the original director's intentions.
- DirectorHasse EkmanStarsEllen RaschTito GobbiEva HenningItalian opera singer visits the Royal Opera in Stockholm and falls in love with the prima ballerina.
- DirectorHasse EkmanStarsMaj-Britt NilssonSven-Eric GamblePer OscarssonThree debuting poets, Lo, Ludvig and Lillebror merge when a collection of poems with their works is published. But the trio's time together is short. Love gets in the way.
- DirectorHasse EkmanStarsEva HenningBirger MalmstenHasse EkmanWhile 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.
- DirectorHasse EkmanStarsMaj-Britt NilssonAlf KjellinHasse EkmanA seemingly ordinary day in October. A woman has since she separated from her husband lived in a single room with a separate entrance. But for her this is not an ordinary day. She only has six hours left to live.
- DirectorHasse EkmanStarsSickan CarlssonHasse EkmanGunnar BjörnstrandRadio star Willy Lorens need from recover from exhaustion and go on a bus trip to Italy. Also on the trip is one of his most outspoken critics, doctor Lovisa Sundelius.
- DirectorHasse EkmanStarsPovel RamelMartin LjungGunwer BergkvistStaffan Stolle becomes the sole heir to a rich and noble family when he is just a little boy. Early on he is engaged to be married to a girl he finds he does not love. Instead he flees the country only to return under a false name, looking for true love.
- DirectorHasse EkmanStarsSickan CarlssonHasse EkmanSture LagerwallA secretary at a publishing company, Birgitta, writes a novel, based on her secret love of her boss. She sends it anonymously to her own company, who decides to publish it. The book becomes a success. Birgitta's husband's mistress get hold of the script and confesses that *she* wrote the novel.
- DirectorHasse EkmanStarsEva DahlbeckGunnar BjörnstrandBibi AnderssonMarried couple have romantic interludes in the summer, she at their summer cottage, him in the apartment in town.
- DirectorHasse EkmanStarsMartin LjungMarianne BengtssonHasse EkmanA couple of school kids in the little town of Fårtuna finds an old document with information that their town is 800 years old. Now it's time for an anniversary party.
- DirectorHasse EkmanStarsMaj-Britt NilssonHasse EkmanElof AhrleThe rich young man Teddy Anker invests his money in the theater in the beginning of the 1920s. Whatever he does becomes a success. He falls in love with a dancer, Karin. He decides to put up a show with Karin as the leading lady, but for the first time one of his shows becomes an economic disaster.
- DirectorHasse EkmanStarsSickan CarlssonHasse EkmanMeg WestergrenAn agent on the brink of bankruptcy finds a reluctant singing talent on a TV quiz show.
- DirectorHasse EkmanStarsSickan CarlssonHasse EkmanGunnar BjörnstrandSince Seventh Heaven (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.
- DirectorHasse EkmanStarsHasse EkmanEva HenningStig JärrelCharlie Gedelius has spent the last years abroad as a golf trainer. In Copenhagen, Denmark, he meets young Lena, who happens to be his brother-in-law's mistress. He goes back to Sweden to meet his sister Astrid. Her son Staffan has borrowed money from a money-lender to pay for an abortion for a girl he has met.
- DirectorHasse EkmanStarsHasse EkmanSigge FürstBengt EkerotSam Persson is released from a mental hospital. He goes to Stockholm to meet a man he hates, theater manager Stig Brender. In Brender's office they get into a fight and Persson falls down dead. Brender uses his car to get rid of the body in a park. However, the following day he is visited by police inspector Envall, who wants to talk to him. Brender's lies and strange behavior is no match for some thorough police work.
- DirectorHasse EkmanStarsGunnar HellströmMaude AdelsonTor IsedalTwo criminals escape from prison. Together with two old accomplices they plan a big heist against a racetrack.
- DirectorHasse EkmanStarsGunnar BjörnstrandGunnel LindblomAlf KjellinA middle aged doctor begins a relationship with a teenage girl. His best friend is dating the girls mother. A group of boys plan to blackmail the doctor or expose him as a pedophile.
- DirectorHasse EkmanStarsGunnar BjörnstrandSiv EricksCarl-Gustaf LindstedtStockholm 1912. Site for the Olympic Games. Love entanglements and eroticism at hotel Eros.