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.