Håkan Alexandersson

Håkan Alexandersson was a multi artist and a man of many talents. He was considered one of the more remarkable and the most wayward visionaries in the Swedish film. Among other things, he worked as a film director, screen writer, author, producer, actor, photographer, artist and musician. He studied at Konstfack, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, in the late 1950's. Håkan Alexandersson and Carl Johan De Geer met at Konstfack and the two produced a large number of films together. "Tårtan / The Cake" (1973) eventually became a cult hit among children and adults. At first it was viewed as mildly odd and incomprehensible. Lasse Sarri, CEO at the Swedish Television company, called the production crazy and absurd, but changed his mind after being informed by a hired plumber, that "Tårtan" was the best he had ever seen on TV. Håkan Alexandersson directed 40 feature films, shorts and television productions from 1959 to 2004. He suffered from cancer during his last ten years and died March 1, 2004 in Stockholm.

Works

Hasan the Rose

A film director comes to Stockholm claiming he is an internationally renowned filmmaker. The truth is that he is a total failure. He is counting on that his compatriots have saved big money working in Sweden. Money he intend to spend on making a film.

Release Date1980-06-23

Charactersd The customer

Tills elden släcks

A satirical showdown with the optimism surrounding the atomic war that were expressed in the Swedish national brochure "Om kriget kommer/ If the war comes."

Release Date1960-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Self

Tabu

Solidarity with the border people. Equal rights for the sexual deviants. Kristoffer Lohman is a young solicitor who collects stories and knowledge of different perversions. This has affected and changed his own sexual life. Sara, a young well-behaved and adorned woman, becomes interested in Kristoffer's activity.

Release Date1977-01-28

DepartmentArt

JobProduction Design

Vote Count6

Tårtan

Three sailors, Janos, Frasse and Hilding, going ashore after many years at sea. They take over a bakery. But it is not always that easy to become bakers. Many difficulties and challenges await them in their new profession.

Release Date1973-06-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count14

A Summer of Love

David, a middle-aged researcher, lives happily with his wife Ingrid and their kids. By a coincident he meets and falls in love with a young woman named Eva. Their relationship will only last a few months.

Release Date1979-02-21

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count2

Never Travel on a One Way Ticket

A hardboiled story that takes place in a far future when most things are over. What’s left is greed, cruelty, sexuality, fire and a tad of poetry.

Release Date1987-10-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3

Werther

The neurotic director Max Karlsson tries to do a film of Goethe's "Die Leiden des jungen Werthers". He finds all actors for his melodrama - except Lotte, the wonderful girl who is an object of two mens love. He auditions a number of girls. But when he finds the right one nothing goes the way he had figured.

Release Date1990-02-02

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Spårvagn till havet

The bohemian filmmaker and composer Manfred is plagued by an event in the past. At the age of sixteen, his father died. When Manfred was coming from Karlsruhe with his father's grave urn, to spread ashes over the ocean, the tram collided.

Release Date1987-02-06

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

A Gas Film

The film, which is about the Stockholm gasworks staying mostly at work on the so-called. chamber furnaces, where the gas is extracted from coal. It depicts both the process and some of the workers, who talk about how it is to work in the heat and dirt on the chamber ceiling. The extraction process as depicted in the film is abandoned since 1972

Release Date1971-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Stortjuven

Peter, 13, lives with his mother and brother Göran in a Stockholm suburb. He often skip school. After committing a theft in the classroom Peter is transferred to another school. His problems escalate.

Release Date1979-02-12

DepartmentArt

JobProduction Design

School Master - an Inch from Black

Schoolmaster Hoffmann on his way far down in the basement to the Janitors office to get coal for his chilly classroom, hears no warning signals. Gorm, the janitor, manipulates the gullible Hoffmann into signing a contract with a dark context.

Release Date2005-04-29

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Grötmyndigheten

An artist tries to get some money for food of the social wellfare but is denied, with the recommendation to start eating porridge instead. He claims that is exactly what he is doing at the moment.

Release Date2003-02-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Hammar

About Bror Hammar, a 35-year-old man who, due to insomnia, reads a huge amount of crime fiction. His life becomes one with what he reads.

Release Date1992-02-20

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Calle Schewens vals

Calle, a real-life character living in Stockholm's Old Town, finds himself - to his astonishment - in the midlle of the play "Hamlet, Prince of Denmark".

Release Date1990-11-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

The Laundry

Lisa is a little girl looked after by Dr. Flower, since he believes that the Mona Lisa's mother, who runs a laundry, is not a good and orderly mother.

Release Date1985-10-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

The Perforated Epoch

In 2056, a scientist will receive the risky task of resuming the excavations of the Meyeratelies in 2056.

Release Date1985-01-18

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count1

Evert

A crime is defined as an act which follows by a punishment, according to applicable law. Therefore it can not be a crime unless you are punished. But then it will not be the perfect crime either. Just perfect.

Release Date2001-09-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Den ljuva tiden

A letter to the editor performed as a film. It lacks statistical basis. No adults, experts or others have been consulted. However, a group of children are asked about one thing: What would it be like if they were to decide?

Release Date1980-03-17

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Tårtan

Release Date1973-06-16

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

I Remember Håkan Alexandersson

A film about male friendship that cracks. And a settlement with the 1900s patriarchal genius myth. Håkan Alexandersson (1940-2004) was an artist rebel in 60s.

Release Date2006-03-24

Vote Count1

Blushing Charlie

Truckdriver and bachelor Charlie meets homeless and seven months pregnant Pia. They both dream of finding someone to share their lives with. Charlie then faces a dilemma whether to take part in a demonstration in favor of Cuba, and in addition with his employer's truck.

Release Date1970-09-08

Vote Count6

Du gamla, du fria

A street theatre group performs anti-capitalist and anti-militarist plays. The inner conflicts, about how to reach and how tight they shall embrace the working class, escalates and the group split up.

Release Date1972-03-04