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Memfis Film
Memfis Film AB also known as Memfis Filmproduktion AB and AB Memfis Film & Television, is a Swedish film production company. Founded by Lars Jönsson in 1989, Memfis is one of few comparatively new production units that has shown staying power and played a continuous role in the Swedish film community. Memfis have produced film by Lukas Moodysson, Josef Fares, and Lars von Trier among others. Selected productions References External linksMemfis Filmat the Swedish Film Database The Swedish Film Database ( sv, Svensk filmdatabas) is an Internet database about Swedish films, published by the Swedish Film Institute The Swedish Film Institute ( sv, Svenska Filminstitutet) was founded in 1963 to support and develop the S ... * Film production companies of Sweden Mass media companies established in 1989 Companies based in Stockholm {{Film-company-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, Finland to the east, and is connected to Denmark in the southwest by a bridgetunnel across the Öresund. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic country, the third-largest country in the European Union, and the fifth-largest country in Europe. The capital and largest city is Stockholm. Sweden has a total population of 10.5 million, and a low population density of , with around 87% of Swedes residing in urban areas in the central and southern half of the country. Sweden has a nature dominated by forests and a large amount of lakes, including some of the largest in Europe. Many long rivers run from the Scandes range through the landscape, primarily ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Per Fly
Per Fly Plejdrup (born 14 January 1960) is a Danish film director, generally credited simply as Per Fly. He has made many films and television shows broadcast on Danish television. Per Fly's awards includes the Crown Prince Couple's Culture Prize in 2005. Biography Fly graduated from The National Film School of Denmark in 1993. He debuted in 2000 with the feature film ''Bænken'' (''The Bench''), which told the story of Kaj, a man whose life has led him into serious alcoholism. This film was the first part of what would become the Denmark trilogy, which portrayed situations and characters from the lower, upper and middle classes in Denmark, in that order. The stop-motion animation film '' Prop og Berta ''(''Prop and Berta'', 2001) followed ''Bænken'', but was not part of the trilogy. The trilogy continued with '' Arven'' (''The Inheritance'', 2003) depicting the upper class, and the middle class in ''Drabet ''(''Manslaughter'', 2005). In 2007 he shot a series entitled '' Forest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Production Companies Of Sweden
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swedish Film Database
The Swedish Film Database ( sv, Svensk filmdatabas) is an Internet database about Swedish films, published by the Swedish Film Institute The Swedish Film Institute ( sv, Svenska Filminstitutet) was founded in 1963 to support and develop the Swedish film industry. The institute is housed in the ''Filmhuset'' building located in Gärdet, Östermalm in Stockholm. The building, comp .... It contains information about all Swedish films from 1897 onwards and foreign films that had cinema premiere in Sweden. It also provides many biographies of actors, directors, producers etc. who participated in Swedish films over the years. It is created with the support of the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation. The database comprises about 62,000 films (17,000 Swedish films) and 265,000 people. References External linksSwedish Film Database Swedish film websites Online film databases Databases in Sweden {{website-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Nutley
Colin James Nutley (born 28 February 1944) is an English director successful in the Swedish film industry. Career Nutley went to Portsmouth Art College and began his career in British television as a graphic designer. He then turned to drama and documentary film-making for ITV, BBC and Channel 4. He directed the first two episodes of children's television series ''Press Gang'', but was unhappy with the final edit so asked for his name to be removed from the credit He was, however, the driving force behind Southern Television's ITV-networked children's series The Flockton Flyer, taking personal responsibility for much of the casting, and acting as producer of the first series (filmed 1976, broadcast 1977) and producer/director of the second series (filmed 1977, broadcast 1978). Nutley's work in Sweden began with the making of ''Annika'', a TV series about a Swedish girl who spent three weeks on the Isle of Wight as a language student in England. Then came the documentary ''Where R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of Angels
''House of Angels'' ( sv, Änglagård) is a Swedish drama film which was released to cinemas in Sweden on 21 February 1992, about a little village in Västergötland, Sweden, where an aging recluse lives in a mansion on a large wooded property. One day he is accidentally killed and an unknown relative by the name of Fanny Zander inherits the mansion and land. When she and her friend Zac arrive, they turn life in the staid village upside down. The film was screened out of competition at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival. At the 28th Guldbagge Awards the film won the awards for Best Film and Best Director. It was also nominated for Best Actress (Helena Bergström), Best Screenplay and Best Cinematography (Jens Fischer). The film was selected as the Swedish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 65th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences A sequel, '' Änglagård – andra sommaren'', was p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Björn Runge
Björn Lennart Runge is a Swedish director and author. He was nominated for The Nordic Council Film Prize in 2006 for ''Mun mot mun''. Runge was born in Lysekil. He has worked in film since he was 20 and with Roy Andersson, amongst others. He graduated from the Dramatiska Institutet in Stockholm in 1989. In 1991, he worked on the prizewinning short film ''Greger Olsson köper en bil'', and in 2004, he won a Guldbagge Award for the best directing and script for the film ''Om jag vänder mig om''. The film also won a Blue Angel at the Berlin Film Festival in the same year. In 2006, he was nominated for The Nordic Council Film Prize for '' Mun mot mun'' with the producer Clas Gunnarson. The film deals with a family in crisis when their daughter, Vera, comes home with Morgan, an old criminal. Her father, Mats, fights desperately to win his daughter back. Runge has directed a number of short films and TV productions. In 2017, Runge directed the drama film, '' The Wife'' starri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fucking Åmål
''Fucking Åmål'' (released in some countries as ''Show Me Love'') is a 1998 Swedish romantic comedy drama film written and directed by Lukas Moodysson in his feature-length directorial debut. It stars Rebecka Liljeberg and Alexandra Dahlström as two seemingly disparate teenage girls who begin a tentative romantic relationship. The film was released theatrically in Sweden on 23 October 1998, and first premiered internationally at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. The film received an overwhelmingly positive reception and won four Guldbagge Awards (Sweden's official film awards) at the 1999 ceremony. Its international awards include the Teddy Award at the 1999 Berlin International Film Festival, and the Special Jury Prize at the 34th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. The Swedish title refers to the small town of Åmål in Västra Götaland County, western Sweden. However, only a few scenes were filmed in Åmål, and they were not included in the final version. The main s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jalla! Jalla!
''Jalla! Jalla!'' is a Swedish comedy film, which was released in cinemas in Sweden on December 22nd 2000. It was directed by Swedish-Lebanese filmmaker Josef Fares, and starred Fares Fares, Torkel Petersson, Tuva Novotny and Laleh Pourkarim in the leading roles. It Josef Fares's directorial debut film and received seven film festival nominations, of which it won four. “Jalla! Jalla!” is Arabic for “Come on!” or “Hurry up!”. Plot Best friends Roro (Fares Fares) and Måns (Torkel Petersson), work in park management carrying out day-to-day manual jobs. Roro's Swedish girlfriend Lisa (Tuva Novotny) is keen to be introduced to Roro's family, something he has been reluctant to do because his Lebanese family would prefer he marries a Lebanese woman. When Roro finally decides to introduce Lisa to his family, he walks into the apartment full of relatives who are planning his marriage to a Lebanese girl named Yasmine (Laleh Pourkarim Laleh Pourkarim ( fa, لاله پورک ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulf Malmros
Ulf Peter Vilhelm Malmros (born 16 March 1965) is a Swedish screenwriter and film director. Career At age of 13 Malmros started making home movies. Later he moved to Stockholm and studied at Dramatiska Institutet. In 2006 Malmros received the Guldbagge Award for "best directing" with '' Tjenare Kungen''. In 2010 he received a "Guldbagge" for the "best manuscript" which was the manuscript of his 2009 film ''Bröllopsfotografen''. In 2010 Malmros hosted the Sveriges Radio program '' Sommar''. Style and trademarks Many of Malmros' films refer to his birth province Värmland. He also frequently casts the same actors including Kjell Bergqvist, Tuva Novotny and Björn Starrin. Selected filmography *1992 - '' Ha ett underbart liv'' (director) *1994 - '' Rapport till himlen'' (TV) (director and screenwriter) *1996 - '' Silvermannen'' (TV) (director and screenwriter) *1999 - ''Sally'' (TV) (director and screenwriter) *2000 - '' På gränsen'' (TV) (screenwriter) *2000 - '' Den b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Summer Tale
''A Summer Tale'' is a 2000 comedy-drama. Its original Swedish title is ''Den bästa sommaren'', which means "The Best Summer". Written and directed by Ulf Malmros, the film stars Kjell Bergqvist, Rebecca Scheja, Cecilia Nilsson, and Brasse Brännström, and was produced by Zentropa and Memfis Film. Plot The film takes place in 1958 in Molkom, where two children, Mårten from Stockholm and Annika from Uppsala, will be "summer children" to Yngve Johansson, who every summer takes children to his home, but it has been bad earlier years. In the beginning Mårten and Annika don't like Yngve, but they love each other more and more and they also start liking Yngve. Maybe he isn't as bad as they think? This summer'll move everything in their life for all future. Cast *Kjell Bergqvist as ''Yngve Johansson'' *Anastasios Soulis as ''Mårten'' *Rebecca Scheja as ''Annika'' * Cecilia Nilsson as ''Miss Svanström'' *Brasse Brännström as ''Sven'' *Marcus Hasselborg as ''Harald, Sven's son'' * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Together (2000 Film)
''Together'' ( sv, Tillsammans) is a Swedish comedy-drama film, which was released to cinemas in Sweden on 25 August 2000. It is Swedish director Lukas Moodysson's second full-length film. Set in a Stockholm commune called "Tillsammans" (Swedish for "Together") in 1975, it is a satirical view of socialist values and a bittersweet comedy. A sequel titled ''Together 99'' is set to be filmed in 2022. Plot ''Together'' is set in one of the sharehome communes that was created around Stockholm in the 1970s. Loosely led by the kind-natured Göran, who will do anything to avoid a conflict, the group spend their time arguing about left-wing politics and other more practical issues, such as whether doing the dishes is bourgeois. The sharehome's dynamics are significantly shaken when Göran's sister, Elisabeth, leaves her violent husband Rolf and moves in, bringing her two children Eva and Stefan. Self-declared lesbian Anna lives in the commune with her ex-husband Lasse and their son Te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
