Birgit Tengroth
Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Birgit Tengroth (13 July 1915 – 21 September 1983) was a Swedish film actress. She appeared in 46 films between 1926 and 1950. Description above from the Wikipedia article Birgit Tengroth,licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born: July 13, 1915
Place of Birth: Stockholm, Sweden
Known For
Girl with Hyacinths
A young woman dies by suicide and leaves all her belongings to her next-door neighbour, who becomes determined to investigate her reasons for taking her life.
Karl för sin hatt
Urban girl falls for rugged forest ranger.
Sonja
Sonja (Birgit Tengroth) is a housewife happily married with the factory worker Kurt (Åke Grönberg). But what he doesn't know is that Sonja has a dark secret of the past; she is a former prostitute. When suddenly Sonja's former, sleazy pimp Nick (Sture Lagerwall) shows up, he blackmails her into giving him money and letting him stay at their home. Otherwise he will tell Kurt about Sonja past. Sonja comply, but when Nick starts a relationship with Kurt's young and innocent sister Maj, Sonja has to act so Maj doesn't make the same mistake she did.
Thirst
A fractured portrait of desire and isolation, following a failing marriage and parallel stories of emotional entrapment as memories surface during a train journey through postwar Europe. Told through flashbacks and multiple narrative threads, the film signals Ingmar Bergman’s emerging mature style.
Sin
A married writer's luck turns when he gets a play produced at Théâtre de Paris. He meets the femme fatale who should play the lead in his play. Passion and conflict occurs.
Life and Death
Thriller set in northern Sweden during WWII where a regiment of ski-borne soldiers and guests in a tourist hotel experience and investigate acts of treason.
Oss baroner emellan
Baron Leijoncloo comes back to Sweden after many years in Argentina. On his way to his good friend Victor Sällberg's home, he loses his luggage. A con artist, Jönsson, finds it, and uses the baron's title to get invited to the manor of Mr. and Mrs. Blomqvist. By a coincidence, the baron also comes to the manor using a fake name. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Rospiggar
A lonely fisherman drowns and his elderly brother Efraim is left to do an inventory of the estate. He discovers that his brother had a son, Karl-Erik. Keeping it a secret, he travels to Stockholm to employ the young man as a hired hand. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Västkustens hjältar
Torsten and Sven are in love with Inger, who prefers Sven. Due to jealousy, Torsten destroys the radio system aboard the fishing boat as Sven will release the following morning. During the fishing season it blows up, but as the radio is not working, the crew does not know anything about the danger.
...som en tjuv om natten
Nisse Ekberg is in San Francisco but wants to get back to Sweden. Not being a completely honest guy, he gets mixed up with another person and assumes his identity.
Filmography
as Britt Wikner
as Viola
as Anna
as Gudrun Brogren
as Kristina Tarvolander
as Märit
as Märta Lannier
as Sonja Larsson
as Maria
as Karin Sjövall
as Saga Svensson
as Inga Dahlin
as Anna i Kraja
as Anna
as Anne-Marie Hedberg, senare Brehmer
as Gun Bergström
as Inger Mattson
as Ann-Marie
as Inga-Lill Dahlström
as Katja von Battwyhl
as Edit Zelin
as Film actress in the window
as Mary Lind, secretary
as Marie-Louise Löwencreutz
as Birgit Brink
as Morkoga
as Tusse Telmi
as Lotta
as Ella