Birger Malmsten

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.

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The Silence (1963)

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 ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ingmar Bergman
CAST:  Ingrid Thulin  •  Gunnel Lindblom  •  Birger Malmsten  •  Håkan Jahnberg

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 ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ingmar Bergman
CAST:  Ingrid Thulin  •  Gunnel Lindblom  •  Birger Malmsten  •  Håkan Jahnberg

A Ship Bound for India (1947)

Sailor Johannes Blom returns to his home port, after seven years at sea, to find that Sally, the girl he has been thinking of while away, is completely despondent. Seven years earlier, obstreperous Alexander Blom, brings his mistress Sally to live with him, his ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ingmar Bergman
CAST:  Holger Löwenadler  •  Anna Lindahl  •  Birger Malmsten  •  Gertrud Fridh

Sailor Johannes Blom returns to his home port, after seven years at sea, to find that Sally, the girl he has been thinking of while away, is completely despondent. Seven years earlier, obstreperous Alexander Blom, brings his mistress Sally to live with him, his ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ingmar Bergman
CAST:  Holger Löwenadler  •  Anna Lindahl  •  Birger Malmsten  •  Gertrud Fridh

Face to Face (1976)

Dr. Jenny Isaksson is a psychiatrist whose temporary position at a mental hospital offers only modest responsibilities. With her husband out of the country for a seminar and her daughter at camp, Jenny moves in with her grandparents, expecting a relaxing few months ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ingmar Bergman
CAST:  Liv Ullmann  •  Erland Josephson  •  Aino Taube  •  Gunnar Björnstrand

Dr. Jenny Isaksson is a psychiatrist whose temporary position at a mental hospital offers only modest responsibilities. With her husband out of the country for a seminar and her daughter at camp, Jenny moves in with her grandparents, expecting a relaxing few months ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ingmar Bergman
CAST:  Liv Ullmann  •  Erland Josephson  •  Aino Taube  •  Gunnar Björnstrand

The Jönsson Gang Gets Gold Fever (1984)

Sickan has a new plan. This time, the gang are going to steal a small computer micro chip which contains a top secret plan of what the government intends to do with Sweden in the future. But, Wall-Enberg is also planning to steal the chip. The payment will be 55 ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mikael Ekman
CAST:  Gösta Ekman  •  Ulf Brunnberg  •  Björn Gustafson  •  Birgitta Andersson

Sickan has a new plan. This time, the gang are going to steal a small computer micro chip which contains a top secret plan of what the government intends to do with Sweden in the future. But, Wall-Enberg is also planning to steal the chip. The payment will be 55 ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mikael Ekman
CAST:  Gösta Ekman  •  Ulf Brunnberg  •  Björn Gustafson  •  Birgitta Andersson

Masculin Féminin (1966)

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, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jean-Luc Godard
CAST:  Jean-Pierre Léaud  •  Chantal Goya  •  Marlène Jobert  •  Michel Debord

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, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jean-Luc Godard
CAST:  Jean-Pierre Léaud  •  Chantal Goya  •  Marlène Jobert  •  Michel Debord

Summer Interlude (1951)

A jaded prima ballerina reminisces about her first love affair after she is unexpectedly sent her lover's old diary.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ingmar Bergman
CAST:  Maj-Britt Nilsson  •  Birger Malmsten  •  Alf Kjellin  •  Annalisa Ericson

A jaded prima ballerina reminisces about her first love affair after she is unexpectedly sent her lover's old diary.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ingmar Bergman
CAST:  Maj-Britt Nilsson  •  Birger Malmsten  •  Alf Kjellin  •  Annalisa Ericson

Eva (1948)

Marine Bo Fredriksson is travelling home on a leave. He reminisce about an accident he caused as a 12-year old which killed a young girl, an event that has made him feel revulsion for death. Back home he meets Eva, a girl he fancies and they move together to ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gustaf Molander
CAST:  Birger Malmsten  •  Eva Stiberg  •  Eva Dahlbeck  •  Stig Olin

Marine Bo Fredriksson is travelling home on a leave. He reminisce about an accident he caused as a 12-year old which killed a young girl, an event that has made him feel revulsion for death. Back home he meets Eva, a girl he fancies and they move together to ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gustaf Molander
CAST:  Birger Malmsten  •  Eva Stiberg  •  Eva Dahlbeck  •  Stig Olin

Torment (1944)

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 ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alf Sjöberg
CAST:  Stig Järrel  •  Alf Kjellin  •  Mai Zetterling  •  Olof Winnerstrand

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 ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alf Sjöberg
CAST:  Stig Järrel  •  Alf Kjellin  •  Mai Zetterling  •  Olof Winnerstrand

Prison (1949)

A movie director is approached by his old math teacher with a great movie idea: the Devil declares that the Earth is hell. The director rejects the idea, but subsequent events in the life of a writer, a friend of the director's, and a young prostitute he loves seem ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ingmar Bergman
CAST:  Doris Svedlund  •  Birger Malmsten  •  Eva Henning  •  Hasse Ekman

A movie director is approached by his old math teacher with a great movie idea: the Devil declares that the Earth is hell. The director rejects the idea, but subsequent events in the life of a writer, a friend of the director's, and a young prostitute he loves seem ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ingmar Bergman
CAST:  Doris Svedlund  •  Birger Malmsten  •  Eva Henning  •  Hasse Ekman

Waiting Women (1952)

Rakel, Marta, Karin and Annette are married to four brothers. While waiting in a summer cottage for their husbands to come home, they tell each other stories about their marriages. Rakel tells about the time she had an affair and confronted her husband with it. ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ingmar Bergman
CAST:  Anita Björk  •  Eva Dahlbeck  •  Maj-Britt Nilsson  •  Birger Malmsten

Rakel, Marta, Karin and Annette are married to four brothers. While waiting in a summer cottage for their husbands to come home, they tell each other stories about their marriages. Rakel tells about the time she had an affair and confronted her husband with it. ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ingmar Bergman
CAST:  Anita Björk  •  Eva Dahlbeck  •  Maj-Britt Nilsson  •  Birger Malmsten

Det sista äventyret (1974)

An officers kadett is dismissed because of his strange behavior. At work he is considered deranged. At home he is dominated by his mother and fiancee. He manages to get a temporary job as a biology teacher, leave home and rent a room. He begins to flirt with a student.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jan Halldoff
CAST:  Göran Stangertz  •  Ann Zacharias  •  Marianne Aminoff  •  Tomas Bolme

An officers kadett is dismissed because of his strange behavior. At work he is considered deranged. At home he is dominated by his mother and fiancee. He manages to get a temporary job as a biology teacher, leave home and rent a room. He begins to flirt with a student.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jan Halldoff
CAST:  Göran Stangertz  •  Ann Zacharias  •  Marianne Aminoff  •  Tomas Bolme

Fröken Rosita (1960)

Play by Federico Garcia Lorca. Swedish interpretation of Hjalmar Gullberg and Karin Alin.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Bengt Lagerkvist
CAST:  Ulla Sjöblom  •  John Elfström  •  Naima Wifstrand  •  Margaretha Krook

Play by Federico Garcia Lorca. Swedish interpretation of Hjalmar Gullberg and Karin Alin.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Bengt Lagerkvist
CAST:  Ulla Sjöblom  •  John Elfström  •  Naima Wifstrand  •  Margaretha Krook

A Dream Play (1963)

"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, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ingmar Bergman
CAST:  Ingrid Thulin  •  Uno Henning  •  Allan Edwall  •  Olof Widgren

"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, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ingmar Bergman
CAST:  Ingrid Thulin  •  Uno Henning  •  Allan Edwall  •  Olof Widgren

Idag Röd (1987)

Harry Friberg photographs a mysterious lightning in the water outside the Blockhusudden. The light turns out to flow over a murder.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jonas Cornell
CAST:  Örjan Ramberg  •  Alexander Skarsgård  •  Stig Grybe  •  Marianne Stjernqvist

Harry Friberg photographs a mysterious lightning in the water outside the Blockhusudden. The light turns out to flow over a murder.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jonas Cornell
CAST:  Örjan Ramberg  •  Alexander Skarsgård  •  Stig Grybe  •  Marianne Stjernqvist

Snurriga familjen (1940)

Manager Blom and his family stop at a mountain hotel. Once there, all family members are insolent and even cruel to both guests and staff. When the hotel manager tries to get rid of the family Manager Blom buys the hotel. But all of the staff resigns while a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ivar Johansson
CAST:  Thor Modéen  •  Elsa Carlsson  •  Åke Söderblom  •  Eivor Landström

Manager Blom and his family stop at a mountain hotel. Once there, all family members are insolent and even cruel to both guests and staff. When the hotel manager tries to get rid of the family Manager Blom buys the hotel. But all of the staff resigns while a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ivar Johansson
CAST:  Thor Modéen  •  Elsa Carlsson  •  Åke Söderblom  •  Eivor Landström

General von Döbeln (1942)

1813. The Swedish army is fighting in the War of the Sixth Coalition. The popular general Von Döbeln is arrested for sending the army against the French in breach of orders by the crown prince. At the court martial he is sentenced to death but is pardoned by the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Olof Molander
CAST:  Edvin Adolphson  •  Poul Reumert  •  Eva Henning  •  Kolbjörn Knudsen

1813. The Swedish army is fighting in the War of the Sixth Coalition. The popular general Von Döbeln is arrested for sending the army against the French in breach of orders by the crown prince. At the court martial he is sentenced to death but is pardoned by the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Olof Molander
CAST:  Edvin Adolphson  •  Poul Reumert  •  Eva Henning  •  Kolbjörn Knudsen

Changing Trains (1943)

Inga, an unemployed actress meets a sweetheart Kim, from days long gone at a train station. Over coffee they reminisce about their romance and how Inga left Kim for a moderately successful acting career and the attractive theater director Leo Waller.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hasse Ekman
CAST:  Sonja Wigert  •  Hasse Ekman  •  Georg Rydeberg  •  Karin Kavli

Inga, an unemployed actress meets a sweetheart Kim, from days long gone at a train station. Over coffee they reminisce about their romance and how Inga left Kim for a moderately successful acting career and the attractive theater director Leo Waller.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hasse Ekman
CAST:  Sonja Wigert  •  Hasse Ekman  •  Georg Rydeberg  •  Karin Kavli

The Serious Game (1945)

Arvid share the love with a young woman named Lydia, but as is customary at the turn of the century, is not love enough for a fairy tale to come true. While Arvid struggling to create the basis for their existence, Lydia's thirst for the good life leads her to ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Rune Carlsten
CAST:  Viveca Lindfors  •  John Ekman  •  Olof Widgren  •  Åke Claesson

Arvid share the love with a young woman named Lydia, but as is customary at the turn of the century, is not love enough for a fairy tale to come true. While Arvid struggling to create the basis for their existence, Lydia's thirst for the good life leads her to ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Rune Carlsten
CAST:  Viveca Lindfors  •  John Ekman  •  Olof Widgren  •  Åke Claesson

It Rains on Our Love (1946)

Maggi meets David after having missed her train, and they spend the night together. Penniless, the young lovers break into a summer cottage. The owner, Håkansson, offers to rent it to them, but he has an ulterior motive. By living together, they have to face their ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ingmar Bergman
CAST:  Barbro Kollberg  •  Birger Malmsten  •  Gösta Cederlund  •  Ludde Gentzel

Maggi meets David after having missed her train, and they spend the night together. Penniless, the young lovers break into a summer cottage. The owner, Håkansson, offers to rent it to them, but he has an ulterior motive. By living together, they have to face their ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ingmar Bergman
CAST:  Barbro Kollberg  •  Birger Malmsten  •  Gösta Cederlund  •  Ludde Gentzel

När ängarna blommar (1946)

The farm workers at Näs Farm, lead by Hellman, go on strike, demanding that their employer recognize their labor union. But he calls on strike-breakers to perform the farm work. Hellman's son Gunnar is a hothead who easily gets in trouble.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hampe Faustman
CAST:  Sigurd Wallén  •  Dagny Lind  •  Birger Malmsten  •  Ludde Gentzel

The farm workers at Näs Farm, lead by Hellman, go on strike, demanding that their employer recognize their labor union. But he calls on strike-breakers to perform the farm work. Hellman's son Gunnar is a hothead who easily gets in trouble.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hampe Faustman
CAST:  Sigurd Wallén  •  Dagny Lind  •  Birger Malmsten  •  Ludde Gentzel
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