Karin Falck (Directing)

Det svenska schlagerkriget

After ABBA won Eurovision in 1974 Sweden was tasked with hosting it the next year. This documentary tells the story of that production and places it in the social and political context of Sweden in 1975 and a music scene that was anything but supportive of the endeavour.

Release Date:2024-05-04

Character:Self

Året var 1974

The year begins with an energy crisis and petrol rationing. And there will be parental insurance so that even fathers can stay at home with their children. Cleaners around Sweden are on strike for better conditions. Worry grows for the Swedish tourists in the holiday paradise of Cyprus. That and much more in this column about the year 1974.

Release Date:2023-12-29

Character:Self (archive footage)

Vote Count:1

Svenska tv-historier

Factual series about Swedish television shows that left an impression.

Release Date:2015-01-05

Character:Karin Falck

Episode Count:2

I nöd och lust...

Release Date:1996-09-23

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Tre kronor

Tre kronor was a Swedish soap opera that aired on TV4 during the period 1994-1999. The series took place in the fictive middle class suburb Mälarviken, located in the vicinity of Stockholm. The exteriors were filmed in Sätra, a suburb of Stockholm, and the interiors were filmed in a studio in Kvarnholmen as well as in Kungens Kurva. Tre kronor aired at the same time period as Rederiet was on SVT and the shows where rivals of the viewers and they both had around 1-2 million viewers. TV4 started Tre kronor in 1994 to compete for the viewers of Rederiet. The signature tune was written by Lasse Holm. The spin-off movie Reine och Mimmi i fjällen! was based on two of the characters; Reine and Mimmi. The series had a dramatic ending where all the characters besides six were fatally wounded in a suicide bombing that took place at the local restaurant Tre Kronor. It was a priest himself who was the perpetrator. Two big cliffhangers in the series was when Hans Wästberg, played by Ulf Brunnberg, robbed the post office and shot his son Hans-Åke by mistake. Hans Wästberg was taken to prison and disappeared from the series after the second season. Season Three ended with Sirpa "Bimbo" Koskinen, the girlfriend of Hans-Åke Wästberg, died in a bus crash. Salongo played by Richard Sseruwagi was a refugee and a rich business man from Uganda who fell in love with a married police woman Lena Sjökvist played by Catharine Hansson and he later bought the restaurant Tre Kronor. Later in the series, Salongo buys another restaurant and he to disappeares from the series.

Release Date:1994-09-21

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:8

Rederiet

This Swedish soap opera follows the lives of the captain and crew of the MS Freja, a cruiseferry that travels on the Baltic Sea between between Stockholm, Sweden and Turku, Finland.

Release Date:1992-08-20

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:9

Vote Count:10

Imorron och imorron och imorron

A documentary about repetition. People from different professions give their view on what repetition means to them.

Release Date:1989-02-06

Character:Self

Varuhuset

Release Date:1987-03-10

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:14

Vote Count:7

Gäster med gester

Release Date:1982-09-08

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Episode Count:20

Casino i sommarbusken

In front of and behind the scenes with the Casino gang on their summer tour.

Release Date:1981-04-11

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Dreamboy

Ante Nordlund is on his way to Stockholm and gets a ride with a diplomat in his car. He leaves Ante at the entrance of Grand Hôtel where he gets treated like a millionaire.

Release Date:1964-10-12

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Melodifestivalen

The annual music competition organised by Swedish public broadcasters Sveriges Television and Sveriges Radio to determine the country's representative for the Eurovision Song Contest.

Release Date:1959-02-26

Character:Self

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:5

Eurovision Song Contest

The Eurovision Song Contest is an international song competition, organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and featuring participants representing primarily European countries. Each participating country submits an original song to be performed on live television and radio, transmitted to national broadcasters via the EBU's Eurovision and Euroradio networks, with competing countries then casting votes for the other countries' songs to determine the winner.

Release Date:1956-05-24

Character:Self - Presenter

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:28