Gunnar Sjöberg
Acting
Biography
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Born: March 25, 1909
Place of Birth: Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
Known For
Wild Strawberries
Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. Along the way, they encounter a series of hitchhikers, each of whom causes the elderly doctor to muse upon the pleasures and failures of his own life. These include the vivacious young Sara, a dead ringer for the doctor's own first love.
Brink of Life
Three women in a maternity ward share their lives and intimate thoughts, and face the choice of keeping their babies or offering them for adoption.
Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates
Set in 1860s Holland along the famed Zeider Zee — young Hans Brinker finds himself responsible for supporting his family after his father becomes injured in an accident. He and his sister, Gretel, travel to Amsterdam in search of funds to help pay for their father's operation. Their only hope lies in the city's annual ice skating race in which Hans must face off against his arch-rival, Ludwig Schimmel, in hopes of winning the prize money.
The Devil's Eye
Don Juan is sent from Hell to Earth with a mission: to seduce a virgin in order to spoil her pure wedding. The mission becomes frantic when Don Juan falls in love for the first time in centuries.
Seger i mörker
The story about Gustaf Dalén, the farm boy who became one of Sweden's greatest inventors.
The Great Adventure
Arne Sucksdorff’s celebrated nature film follows two brothers in rural Sweden as they witness a fox raid and secretly raise an orphaned otter. Told through an adult’s memories, it reflects on childhood, nature, and the fragile balance between wilderness and civilization. The film won the International Prize at the 1954 Cannes Film Festival.
To Kill a Child
In a Swedish village, situated in a rural idyll, a father, mother and little daughter are preparing breakfast on a Sunday morning. The family is looking forward to the boat trip that is to follow. The little girl's thoughts are already completely on the water. But there is no sugar in the house, so the mother sends her little daughter to the neighbor across the street to quickly get some. Two villages further on, a young man is filling up his car with gas so that he can drive to the Baltic Sea with his girlfriend. In their convertible, the young people feel blithe and free on the country road and race towards the village where the little girl is just crossing the street with the sugar to return home.
Do You Believe in Angels?
Jan Froman is a young man with great plans for the future. He gets a job as an assistant janitor at a bank, but with inherited money he starts to buy and sell real estate which eventually increases in value. He falls in love with Margareta, whose father is a naval officer. Margareta is slighted by her fiance and follows Froman on a sailing trip in the archipelago. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Barabbas
The story about the thief who didn't get crucified because Jesus was choosen to take his place.
The First Squadron
The year is 1941 and Nazi Germany is at its peak. Hitler's army is storming into Russia. Sweden stands lonely and isolated while the air force is training intensely due to a coming attack. The squadron leader pushes his men at its hardest. It's a constant game with death where death unfortunately often wins.
Filmography
as Doktor Henck
as Francesco Felici
as Dr. Boekman
as Johan
as Karl-Evert Raeder
as Marquis Giuseppe Maria de Macopanza
as Leonard Brett
as Dr. Nordlander
as Fabian
as sergeant
as Alman
as Narrator (voice)
as Narrator (voice)
as Bernhard Svanström
as Hjalmar "Hjalle" Ek
as Narrator
as Johan III
as Gustaf De Laval
as Narrator (voice)
as Narrator (voice)
as Self - Narrator (voice)
as Doctor
as Nilsson
as Kapten Hansson (archive footage)
as Reverend
as Martin Alm
as Bo Wärn
as Baron Freutiger
as Arnman
as Carl Nyraeus
as Axel Dehlin
as Max Karbe
as Nicklas Botvide
as Martin
as Sergeant Lundblad
as Pastor Brobäck
as Artist
as Frans, löjtnant
as Kärre
as Prosecutor
as God's Angel
as Foreign Peasant
as Officer at Vaxholm
as Långe-Tuve
as Captain Hansson
as Engineer
as Blomqvist
as Nils Asklund
as Lars Gouveng
as Knut Almlöf
as Harald Berg