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Kråkguldet
''Kråkguldet'' ("Crows Gold", literally "The Crow-Gold") is a Swedish television drama serial from 1969, directed by Leif Krantz and Olle Mattsson. Plot synopsis The story takes place during the weeks before Christmas, in the small mining town of fictitious Granhyttan in Bergslagen, Sweden. One day, a suspicious couple, Signe and Orvar, arrives in the small town and retires in an abandoned hut. Nobody knows what they are up to; but strange things starts to happen as Staffan finds a gold- nugget while playing in a disused mine at Kråkberget ("Crow Mountain", literally "The Crow-Mountain") during a skiing trip with his schoolmates. Staffan believes that the nugget is a part of Skarp-Erik's gold, as his grandpa had told exciting stories about. The news about the gold discovery spread quickly and Staffan and his friends are soon pursued by curious schoolmates, school-staff and also the mysterious strangers. All this happens as the students are rehearsing for the nativity play b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leif Krantz
John Leif Krantz (15 April 1932 – 28 December 2012) was a Swedish television producer, screenwriter and film director. Leif Krantz was born in 1932 in Gothenburg. He began his career as an assistant director during the filming of Astrid Lindgren's '' Vi pÃ¥ SaltkrÃ¥kan'' (1964). He broke through in the late 1960s with popular television dramas such as '' Kullamannen'' (1967) and ''KrÃ¥kguldet'' (1969), and later with ''Pojken med guldbyxorna'' (1975) and '' Sinkadus'' (1980). Krantz also wrote the screenplay for the animated films '' Peter-No-Tail'' (1981) and '' Agaton Sax och Byköpings gästabud'' (1976). Leif Krantz died in 2012 in Sköndal south of Stockholm after brief illness. Svenska Dagbladet, January 1, 2013. Filmography * 1964: ''[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Staffan Hallerstam
Staffan Hallerstam (born 21 May 1957 in Stockholm) is a Swedish actor and physician. He is the father of Leo Hallerstam. When Hallerstam became an adult, he participated in various theatrical productions, including ''Gamle Adam'' and ''Min käre man'' at Vasateatern in Stockholm, as well as ''Bamse'' at in Högdalen in Stockholm. During the 1980s and 1990s, Hallerstam dubbed voices for cartoons, in particular '' Duck Tales'', where he dubbed the voices of Huey, Dewey and Louie until Monica Forsberg took over. After that, he became a doctor and is still one today. Filmography * 1995 – '' Casper'' (voice) * 1994 - ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' (voice) * 1993 – ''Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog'' (voice) * 1992 – ''Biker Mice from Mars'' (voice) * 1992 – ''Dog City'' (voice) * 1990 - ''The Rescuers Down Under'' (voice) * 1986 - ''Silver Fang'' (voice) * 1982 - '' Zoombie'' * 1981 - '' Operation Leo'' * 1974 - ''Världens bästa Karlsson'' * 1972 - '' The Man Who Quit Smoking ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Åke Grönberg
Karl Ã…ke Edvard Grönberg (26 March 1914 – 15 September 1969) was a Swedish film actor who appeared in nearly 100 films. Grönberg was a versatile stage personality of his day, performing as a singer, variety artist, actor, in musical shows and in dramatic productions. He was born in Stockholm, Sweden, and died of a heart attack in 1969. Selected filmography * '' 65, 66 and I'' (1936) - Castle guard (uncredited) * '' Russian Flu'' (1937) - Ã…hörare i studentmössa (uncredited) * ''Klart till drabbning'' (1937) - Waiter (uncredited) * '' Comrades in Uniform'' (1938) - Bonzo (uncredited) * '' Thunder and Lightning'' (1938) - Chucker-out (uncredited) * ''Med folket för fosterlandet'' (1938) - Printing clerk (uncredited) * '' Just a Bugler'' (1938) - Ensign musician (uncredited) * '' Only One Night'' (1939) - Young Man (uncredited) * ''Adolf i eld och lÃ¥gor'' (1939) - Photographer (uncredited) * ''Hennes lilla majestät'' (1939) - Fighter (uncredited) * ''Melodin frÃ¥n Gaml ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olle Nordemar
Olof Harry "Olle" Nordemar (25 July 1914 – 18 February 1999) was a Swedish film director, film editor, film producer, cinematographer and screenwriter. Nordemar is best known as the producer behind Olle Hellbom's films based on novels by Astrid Lindgren. Nordemar edited and produced the Norwegian-Swedish documentary ''Kon-Tiki'' (1950) which received the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for 1951 at the 24th Academy Awards. Career Nordemar was born in Stockholm, Sweden and was brother to film editor and director Eric Nordemar. Nordemar was active in the film industry from 1932. After completing school education, Nordemar conducted laboratory practice in the film industry from 1931 to 1935. He was employed by the Army, Navy and Air Film (''Armé-, Marin- och Flygfilm'') to do work as photographer and editor from 1935 to 1940. Nordemar became chief photographer at the Sandrew Group in 1940 and was chief photographer at AB Europa Film from 1945. He was cinematograph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thriller (genre)
Thriller is a genre of fiction with numerous, often overlapping, subgenres, including crime fiction, crime, horror fiction, horror, and detective fiction. Thrillers are characterized and defined by the mood (psychology), moods they elicit, giving their audiences heightened feelings of suspense, Psychomotor agitation, excitement, Surprise (emotion), surprise, anticipation (emotion), anticipation and anxiety. This genre is well suited to Thriller film, film and television. A thriller generally keeps its audience on the "edge of their seats" as the plot builds towards a climax (narrative), climax. The cover-up of important information is a common element. Literary devices such as red herrings, plot twists, unreliable narrators, and cliffhangers are used extensively. A thriller is often a villain-driven plot, whereby they present obstacles that the protagonist or hero must overcome. Roots of the genre date back hundreds of years, but it began to develop as a distinct style in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bergslagen
Bergslagen is a historical, cultural, and linguistic region located north of Lake Mälaren in northern Svealand, Sweden, traditionally known as a mining district. In Bergslagen, the mining and metallurgic industries have been important since the Middle Ages although Malmfälten ("the Ore Fields"), the mining district of northernmost Sweden centred at the towns of Kiruna and Malmberget, has been of greater importance during the 20th century. Bergslagen is not precisely defined, but generally understood to cover part of the provinces of Västmanland, Dalarna (the southern part), and Värmland (the eastern part). Typical towns in the area include Lindesberg, Nora, Fagersta, Sala, Kristinehamn, Filipstad, Grythyttan, Ludvika and Hedemora. Also parts of northern Östergötland, around Finspång, as well as southern Närke can be included, then often referring to ''South Bergslagen''. A wider definition of the area can include parts of Gästrikland ( Hofors) and Uppland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1969 Swedish Television Series Debuts
1969 (Roman numerals, MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1969th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 969th year of the 2nd millennium, the 69th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1960s decade. Events January * January 4 – The Government of Spain hands over Ifni to Morocco. * January 5 – Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 crashes into a house on its approach to London's Gatwick Airport, killing 50 of the 62 people on board and two of the home's occupants. * January 14 – USS Enterprise fire, An explosion aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN-65), USS ''Enterprise'' near Hawaii kills 28 and injures 314. * January 16 – First successful docking of two crewed spacecraft in orbit and the first transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another (by a space walk) between Soviet craft Soyuz 5 and Soyuz 4. * January 18 – Failure of Soyuz 5's service module to separ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1960s Swedish Television Series
Year 196 ( CXCVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Dexter and Messalla (or, less frequently, year 949 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 196 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus attempts to assassinate Clodius Albinus but fails, causing Albinus to retaliate militarily. * Emperor Septimius Severus captures and sacks Byzantium; the city is rebuilt and regains its previous prosperity. * In order to assure the support of the Roman legion in Germany on his march to Rome, Clodius Albinus is declared Augustus by his army while crossing Gaul. * Hadrian's wall in Britain is partially destroyed. China * First year of the Jian'an Era, during the reign of the Xian Emperor of the Han. * The Xian Emperor returns to war-r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Internet Movie Database
IMDb, historically known as the Internet Movie Database, is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews. IMDb began as a fan-operated movie database on the Usenet group "rec.arts.movies" in 1990, and moved to the Web in 1993. Since 1998, it has been owned and operated by IMDb.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon. The site's message boards were disabled in February 2017. , IMDb was the 51st most visited website on the Internet, as ranked by Semrush. the database contained some million titles (including television episodes), million person records, and 83 million registered users. Features User profile pages show a user's registration date and, optionally, their personal ratings of titles. Since 2015, "badges" can be added showing a count of contributions. These badges range ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language that developed in early medieval England and has since become a English as a lingua franca, global lingua franca. The namesake of the language is the Angles (tribe), Angles, one of the Germanic peoples that Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, migrated to Britain after its End of Roman rule in Britain, Roman occupiers left. English is the list of languages by total number of speakers, most spoken language in the world, primarily due to the global influences of the former British Empire (succeeded by the Commonwealth of Nations) and the United States. English is the list of languages by number of native speakers, third-most spoken native language, after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish language, Spanish; it is also the most widely learned second language in the world, with more second-language speakers than native speakers. English is either the official language or one of the official languages in list of countries and territories where English ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herod The Great
Herod I or Herod the Great () was a History of the Jews in the Roman Empire, Roman Jewish client king of the Herodian kingdom of Judea. He is known for his colossal building projects throughout Judea. Among these works are the rebuilding of the Second Temple#Herod's Temple, Second Temple in Jerusalem and the expansion of its base—the Western Wall being part of it. Vital details of his life are recorded in the works of the 1st century CE Roman–Jewish historian Josephus. Despite Herod's successes, including forging a new aristocracy, he has been criticized by various historians. His reign polarizes opinion among historians, some viewing his legacy as evidence of success, and some viewing it as a reminder of his tyrannical rule. Herod the Great is described in the Christian Bible as the coordinator of the Massacre of the Innocents. However, most of the New Testament references are to his son Herod Antipas (such as the events leading to the executions of John the Baptist a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nativity Play
A Nativity play or Christmas pageant is a play which recounts the story of the Nativity of Jesus. It is usually performed at Christmas, the feast of the Nativity. For the Christian celebration of Christmas, the viewing of the Nativity play is one of the oldest Christmastime traditions, with the first reenactment of the Nativity of Jesus taking place in A.D. 1223 in the Italian town of Greccio. Liturgical The term "Nativity Drama" is used by Wellesz in his discussion of the '' troparion'' hymns in the Christmas liturgy of Byzantine Rite Churches, from Sophronius in the seventh century. Goldstein argues that the label "drama" is misleading, that the ''troparia'' are more akin to an oratorio than a play, and that the form is not a precursor of later more decidedly dramatic forms. Saint Francis of Assisi performed Midnight Mass in the Italian town of Greccio on Christmas Eve 1223 in front of a life-size nativity scene (crib or creche) built by Giovanni Velita, with live anima ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
