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Tag Archives: Stellan Skarsgård
The Simple-Minded Murderer AKA Den enfaldige mördaren (1982) Stellan Skarsgård, Maria Johansson, Hans Alfredson
In the 1930s, the feeble-minded Sven’s mother dies and he is hired as a farm-hand at the rich, affluent Höglund’s farm. Read More »
The Ox AKA Oxen (1991) Sven Nykvist, Stellan Skarsgård, Ewa Fröling, Erland Josephson
In desperation brought on by near-starvation, Helge Roos kills his master’s ox Read More »
Aberdeen (2000) Hans Petter Moland, Stellan Skarsgård, Lena Headey, Jean Anderson
Kaisa is a Scot, a successful London lawyer, who snorts coke and has one-night stands with strangers. Read More »
Ormens väg på hälleberget / The Serpent’s Way (1986) Bo Widerberg, Stina Ekblad, Stellan Skarsgård, Reine Brynolfsson, Drama
A salesman and his son sexually abuse the generations of women of a poor family as payment for debt. Read More »
Kraftidioten / In Order of Disappearance (2014) Hans Petter Moland, Stellan Skarsgård, Bruno Ganz, Pål Sverre Hagen, Action, Crime, Thriller
Nils ploughs snow in the wild winter mountains of Norway, and is recently awarded a Citizen of the Year Award. When his son is murdered for something he did not do, Nils wants revenge. And justice. His actions ignite a war between the vegan gangster “the Count” and the Serbian mafia boss “Papa”. Winning a blood feud isn’t easy, especially not in a welfare state. But Nils has something going for him: Heavy machinery and beginners luck.
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Anita – ur en tonårsflickas dagbok / Anita: Swedish Nymphet (1973) Torgny Wickman, Christina Lindberg, Stellan Skarsgård, Danièle Vlaminck, Drama, Erotic
Anita is a girl of only 16 years, and while she has developed early physically, to a mature woman, she is psychologically completly ruthless. Her relationship the her parents and her friends is very poor and she is regarded with contempt by the people around her, even by the men who so ruthlessly use her. During her troubles she meets Erik, a young psychology student. Gently and carefully he begins to dispell her psychological blocks. In the course of this treatment she reveals to him some of the shocking espisodes of her previous experience and how an inner compulsion forces her into humiliating debauchery in dangerous environments. Erik believes he has the solution to Anita’s problems: to let her move into an artist’s communal experiment, of which he is already a member. The common interest of this collective is largely the performing of classical music. Anita’s prosence in the collective, however, is regarded by some of the other girls as highly provocative.
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