Tora Teje
Acting
Biography
Tora Teje (17 January 1893 – 30 April 1970) was a Swedish theatre and silent film actress. She appeared in ten films between 1920 and 1939.
Born: January 18, 1893
Place of Birth: Stockholm, Sweden
Known For
Häxan
Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen's legendary film uses a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that the witches of the Middle Ages suffered the same hysteria as turn-of-the-century psychiatric patients. But the film itself is far from serious-- instead it's a witches' brew of the scary, gross, and darkly humorous.
The Norrtull Gang
A collective of office girls and their tribulations in the male world, female solidarity, the place of women in the labor and civil rights struggles and the conflict between love and work.
The Monastery of Sendomir
Two riders on their way to Warsaw stop at a monastery for the night and ask an old monk there to tell them the story of its founding.
Karin, Daughter of Ingmar
Karin Daughter of Ingmar is a 1920 Swedish silent drama film directed by Victor Sjöström. It is the second part in Sjöström's large-scale adaption of Selma Lagerlöf's novel Jerusalem, following Sons of Ingmar from the year before, and depicting chapter three and four from the novel. The critical reception was however unenthusiastic and Sjöström decided to not direct any more parts.
Erotikon
Erotikon is a 1920 Swedish romantic comedy film directed by Mauritz Stiller, starring Tora Teje, Karin Molander, Anders de Wahl and Lars Hanson. It is based on the 1917 play A kék róka by Ferenc Herczeg. The story revolves around an entomology professor obsessed with the sexual life of bugs, and his easygoing wife who is courted by two suitors.
Gubben kommer
The old man, Carl-Henrik de Grévy, left his family many years ago, when the stock market collapsed. His sister Louise believes that he is dead and wants to get control of her brother's property, being the sole inheritor. The Sneijder's live on one of the old man's manors. They have also lost their money but as a sign of friendship he promised them before he left that they will stay there for as long as they live. Louise and her 'creative' lawyer is trying to find a way to get rid of the Sneijder's. It seems as if the only hope they have is that the old man returns.
Familjens traditioner
"Family Traditions" - The young Baron Robert falls in love with his distant relative Helga.
Giftas
"Marriage" - Paul Rosenkrans is a Captain of the Swedish Navy and has been married to his Signe for six years. They are still as in love as if they were newly engaged. But when Paul's leave is over for this time, Signe meets an old good friend, the plucky suffragette Annie Behrman, chairman of "Women's Political Freedom Party". Annie has written a book about the woman's slavery in marriage and begins to process Signe with her ideas that soon makes Signe see her marriage in a whole new light.
33.333
A shoemaker purchases a lottery note with two friends, and hides it from his wife for safekeeping. He soon learns that their ticket has the winning numbers but is afraid to tell his colleagues it is missing. Based on the play by Algot Sandberg.
The Lady of the Camellias
Alexandre Dumas' tragic love story between Marguerite Gautier and Armand Duval.
Filmography
as Signe Rosenkrans
as Pegg
as Modern Hysteric and Kleptomaniac
as Helga
as Irene Charpentier
as Karin Ingmarsdotter
as Elga