Birger Malmsten
Acting
Biography
Birger Malmsten was born on December 23, 1920 in Gräsö, Uppsala län, Sweden. He was an actor, known for A Ship to India (1947), It Rains on Our Love (1946) and Eva (1948). He was previously married to Haide Göransson. He died on February 15, 1991 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden.
Born: December 24, 1920
Place of Birth: Gräsö, Uppsala län, Sweden
Known For
Face to Face
Two psychiatrists' marriage is tested when one suffers a mental breakdown.
Engeln
Bertil "Engeln" Engelbrecht is tired of working for his half-brother's detective agency. After being released from prison his girlfriend Maggie begs him to find another job. But leaving his prior work is harder than Bertil thought.
The Silence
Traveling through an unnamed European country on the brink of war, sickly, intellectual Ester, her sister Anna and Anna's young son, Johan, check into a near-empty hotel. A basic inability to communicate among the three seems only to worsen during their stay. Anna provokes her sister by enjoying a dalliance with a local man, while the boy, left to himself, has a series of enigmatic encounters that heighten the growing air of isolation.
Summer Interlude
During a brief summer vacation, a lonely woman recalls her first love thirteen years earlier.
Masculin Féminin
Paul, a young idealist trying to figure out what he wants to do with his life, takes a job interviewing people for a marketing research firm. He moves in with aspiring pop singer Madeleine. Paul, however, is disillusioned by the growing commercialism in society, while Madeleine just wants to be successful. The story is told in a series of 15 unrelated vignettes.
Face to Face
Two psychiatrists' marriage is tested when one suffers a mental breakdown.
A Dream Play
"A dream play" - This made-for-television film constituted Bergman’s first production of Strindberg’s A Dream Play – a play he would revisit three times more. Gunnar Ollén’s Malmö crew was behind this, for its time, prestigious and costly theatre production, involving more than 40 actors and no less than 75 extras.
Torment
Jan-Erik Widgren meets the lonely Bertha Olsson, a woman struggling with alcoholism. Though Bertha is already linked to Caligula, Jan-Erik's heartless teacher, she begins a relationship with the boy anyway. When Caligula learns that Jan-Erik is having an affair with Bertha, he begins to torture his student psychologically. He reserves his cruelest behavior for Bertha, however, which results in a tragic turn of events.
Prison
A filmmaker sets out to create the greatest film in history, but finds out that human abilities have limits.
Idag Röd
Harry Friberg photographs a mysterious lightning in the water outside the Blockhusudden. The light turns out to flow over a murder.
Filmography
as Salesman
as The Commander-in-Chief
as Rune
as Bokförläggare
as The Older Rapist
as Older Rapist
as Captain Florin
as Linder
as Amos Mathews
as Dr Per Ek
as Susanne's uncle
as He (Man in the Film)
as Bartender
as Paul Forsman
as Jimmy Wilson
as Mellet Omma
as Mikael Sjöberg
as Carl Anckarberg
as Christer Allard
as Bertil Lindström
as Algot Wiberg
as Erland Klemensson
as Martin Lobelius, artist
as Henrik
as Kurre
as Alf Lindholm
as Marcel
as Bertil
as Thomas
as Torsten Hertgren
as Bo Fredriksson
as Rex Lundgren
as Bengt Vyldeke
as Harry Werner
as Johannes Blom
as Gunnar Hellman
as David
as Kaj Lidner (uncredited)
as Kreutz, student
as Helge Wikström
as A Young Man at the Railway Café (uncredited)
as Lieutenant at Svea Livgarde
as Employee leaving the hotel