Tom Alandh
Tom Hardy Alandh, (born 13 June 1944) is a Swedish journalist and documentary director.
Works
Min död är min
Stefan Nilsson chose to end his life on May 25, 2023, just months after being diagnosed with ALS. This follow-up documentary by Tom Alandh brings to the surface the issues revolving euthanasia when there seems to be nothing left to do.
Release Date:2024-05-19
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Self - Speakerröst
100-åringen som tror på framtiden
Bo wanted to become an explorer when he was young, but realized that everything had already been discovered. Instead, he came out into the world as a filmmaker. He tells about his travels and about the pioneer days of Swedish television.
Release Date:2024-04-25
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Self
Hej och tack för mig
Release Date:2024-01-07
Character:self
Episode Count:3
Musikmakarna
Monica & Carl-Axel Dominique have been married for over 60 years and have played music for as long as they can remember. They have worked with some of Sweden's biggest names. Tom Alandh finally gets the chance to make his documentary about them, something he has wanted to do for two decades.
Release Date:2023-12-24
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Self - Speakerröst
Beskedet
Pianist Stefan Nilsson died in his home on May 25. He is best known as a composer of music for popular films and television series. In February 2023, after a period of illness, he received shocking news - he had the incurable disease ALS. Stefan Nilsson and his wife Charlotte Hasselquist Nilsson then contacted Tom Alandh and it resulted in a conversation about life, love and Stefan Nilsson's rich musical work.
Release Date:2023-05-26
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Self - Speakerröst
Vote Count:1
Kåge Jonsson - Vardagens betraktare
Despite having made some of television's most popular documentaries, Kåge Jonsson is almost unknown. For 35 years he and Tom Alandh have been workmates and for just as long they have grumbled about what a documentary film really is. Leif Furhammar's definition reads "a piece of reality, seen through a temperament".
Release Date:2023-03-18
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Self - Speakerröst
När världen kom till Ronneby
With the refugee influx in 2015, Ronneby gained 3,000 new inhabitants and the schools 1,000 new students. Tom Alandh traveled to Ronneby to find out how this has affected society and its inhabitants and their real and perceived security.
Release Date:2022-01-09
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Self - Speakerröst
Vote Count:3
Ett par dagar i november med Jan Troell
A film about Jan Troell who turns 90 this summer. We get to see Jan Troell's own pictures, but also a conversation about childhood happiness and the joy of creation.
Release Date:2021-07-23
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Self - Speakerröst
Vote Count:1
Partiledaren som klev ut ur kylan
Håkan Juholt came from the reserve bench and became captain of the whole team. A high-stakes bet that hardly anyone had dared to bet on. But after only 303 days, Håkan Juholt's time as party leader for the Social Democrats was over.
Release Date:2021-06-02
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Self - Speakerröst
Vote Count:4
Mörtfors-Tarzan
Dark as ebony and agile as a panther was Tom Alandh's father. Many said that the darkness and wildness of him made him look like Tarzan, even though he only came from Åmål.
Release Date:2020-12-25
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Himself
Vote Count:1
Det Sköra Livet
Pia Sjögren was the subject of three documentaries by director Tom Alandh, beginning in 2001. He first saw her on the street selling newspapers, homeless, addicted to drugs, trying to make enough money for the day. Since then, she has become clean, and now gives lectures about her experiences, sharing her knowledge. This is the fourth film about her, filmed between 2011-2020. At the start of this installment, Pia has recently begun having heart and breathing issues, her own daughter is in prison for narcotics, and her mother, who we were introduced to in previous installments, continues to struggle with rapidly decreasing eyesight.
Release Date:2020-08-23
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Self - Speakerröst
Vote Count:4
Tomtens Minnesluckor
Release Date:2019-12-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Self - Speakerröst
Episode Count:24
Vote Count:3
Silbersky
Release Date:2019-02-19
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:3
Jan Johansson - en liten film om en stor konstnär
"A small film about a great artist" - The Swedish pianist Jan Johansson (1931-1968), one of the most celebrated jazz/folk music pianist's of Northern Europe. The film tracks the pianist's coming greatness through the great masters Schubert, Mozart, and Hayden, to jazz music and Jan Johansson's transformation of Swedish folk songs, records on the album "Jazz på svenska".
Release Date:2018-11-04
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Self - Speakerröst
Vote Count:5
Martina har sett alla mina filmer
'Martina och jag', from 2008, was intended to be the last film about Martina Schaub, a woman with Down's Syndrome. But now, another ten years later, director Tom Alandh returns to Martina's world once more. She has been a part of Tom Alandh's filmography since she was five, and now at fifty, new challenges present themselves.
Release Date:2018-01-08
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Self - Speakerröst
Vote Count:2
Cheers Kosovo, Hang in There!
There will be no 2018 World Cup in Russia for the new small nation of Kosovo. Only three goals scored, one point earned and last place in their qualifying group. In Kosovo, there is talk of crisis and disaster. But in Sweden, life goes on as usual for the NT stars Arber Zeneli and Albert Bunjaku.
Release Date:2017-10-08
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Character:Self - Speakerröst
Vote Count:1
Oscar och Greta och huset de byggde
Tom Alandh found a box that has been standing in his basement for almost 40 years, untouched. When he started to go through the contents, he found what was left of his foster parents' lives together: Photographs, old bills, receipts and letters he had never seen.
Release Date:2017-09-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Himself
Vote Count:3
Muck! men sen då, Kenneth Viken?
For almost half of his life, Kenneth Viken has been in prison, and he does not know how many times he has been released, only to soon return . In January 2016 he is released again.
Release Date:2017-05-30
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Self - Speakerröst
Vote Count:4
Ibland är det tungt att vara människa
Balder's premises are located in Norrtull's old hospital in Stockholm, a couple of rooms, a kitchen, some simple furniture, a piano that Lars could play on, if he only dared.
Release Date:2016-08-25
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Character:Self - Speakerröst
Vote Count:4
Krokiga vägen till Lyckliga gatan
A film about dreams and opportunities, not about problems.
Release Date:2016-05-19
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Character:Self - Speakerröst
Vote Count:2
Sämsta bandet ever?
In the 1980s there was a punk band in Stockholm who put out one single, got torn apart by local music critics and went away. 35 years later they are contacted by a music label from New York interested in their music.
Release Date:2015-09-17
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Character:Narrator (voice)
Ur Svennis Skugga
Tord Grip is only 1.72 tall, but still one of the greats in Swedish football. Yes, he is the baker from Ytterhogdal who through football got the world as a workplace. But constantly in the shadow of Sven-Göran "Svennis" Eriksson.
Release Date:2015-03-26
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Self - Speakerröst
Vote Count:3
Hellre En Skrynklig Själ Än Ett Slätstruket Liv
Lars Nordlander often bases his lyrics on his own life. He has written lyrics to Monica Zetterlund, Lill Lindfors, Lill-Babs, Tommy Körberg and Björn Skifs for more than 40 years.
Release Date:2015-02-05
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Character:Self - Speakerröst
Vote Count:2
Jan Allan och trumpeten som försvann
For 35 years, Jan Allan played the same trumpet, a Bach bought in New York in 1965. And he had intended to play it until the very last note. But then Jan Allan's beloved trumpet was stolen, and what happened to his airy lyrical tone?
Release Date:2015-01-04
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Self - Speakerröst
Vote Count:2
Gymnasten Som Lärde Sig Gå
He was 19 years old and promising gymnast. But one volt went wrong, one in a hundred thousand, and he broke his neck. Never go again, the doctors thought. And never again breathe on your own, without a respirator.
Release Date:2014-09-29
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Character:Self - Speakerröst
Vote Count:4
Alltid På Mors Dag - Elitloppet
Tom Alandh tells both about his soul and the story of the Elite Race. As every year goes off the rails on Mother's Day
Release Date:2014-05-22
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Self - Speakerröst
Vote Count:3
Och Förlåt Oss Våra Skulder
It is more than forty years ago and the story is almost forgotten, the one about Inger Svensson, a young woman from Öland who wanted to be a priest when the resistance against female priests was the hardest. When the woman would be silent in the congregation and only the man could proclaim the word of God. A film about faith and doubt, about hope and despair and deepest sorrow. And whether to forgive our debtors.
Release Date:2014-02-13
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
Anna Lindh 1957 - 2003
Anna Lindh, the successful and popular, became history and a monument, in Sweden and around the world. But who was she really, the living Anna Lindh?
Release Date:2013-09-11
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Self - Speakerröst
Samtal med Bengt Lagerkvist
Meeting with Bengt Lagerkvist
Release Date:2013-05-14
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Self - Speakerröst
What happened to the children?
In this documentary we meet five children in Sweden and see what happened in their lives. Robin was nine years old, but he already knew what a prison looked like and the bad a punishment can do. Frida was not yet born when we filmed her mother Angela in 1983. Her sister Malin lived for several years in a foster family. Bosse was 14 years old and in 9th grade when we met him in 1978. He was the only guy in the class who had glasses. Marie received many postcards and letters from her father, but very rarely met him while she was growing up.
Release Date:2013-04-09
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Self - Speakerröst
Vote Count:1
Vad hände med grabbarna på kåken
Sonny was in Hällby Prison in 1990. Kenneth, Sture, Anders, Pertti and Johnny were also in the same ward. Six ordinary prisoners, far from headlines and media interest.
Release Date:2013-03-26
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Self - Speakerröst
Vote Count:1
Drömmen Om Sverige
Release Date:2011-06-05
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:2
Jocke hette Sussis man
Joakim Alpgård was completely paralyzed after crashing his car for six years and for six years he struggled against authorities in order to live a dignified life.
Release Date:2011-02-08
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
Musikresan
An easy trip a bit criss-cross that goes to Hjo and Gambia, Vimmerby and Ecuador, Greenland and Solvalla and Sarajevo. And on the trip you get to meet Ingemar Johansson and Ingmar Bergman and Gösta Bohman and Olof Palme and General Franco. And then the ruffler and the municipal councilor. And you can enter Livets Ord and ride the Inlandsbanan and listen to Internationalen and Cielito Lindo and O Great Gud and Grindslanten and Viva Espana.
Release Date:2011-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Leva Livet
Ten years after documentary filmmaker Tom Alandh started filming homeless drug addict Pia Sjögren, he makes his third and final film about her. Pia was 14 years old when she started smoking cannabis and using drugs. Then it all happened really fast. The heavier drugs, the men who beat, and years of cold nights in basements and attics. Treatment and punishment. Rehabs and prisons. Relapse. Constantly back, at the complete bottom, among shame and guilt. For ten years, Tom Alandh and photographer Björn Henriksson documented Pia's life. Two films were made, this is the third and last film, which shows how she managed to get clean against all odds.
Release Date:2011-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:4
Att Stå Utanför Och Se In…
Release Date:2010-04-24
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:2
Scener ur ett vardagsliv
"Scenes from everyday life" is about a few weeks in the life of actor Erland Josephson. Once constantly out around the world, now 86 years old, the world comes to visit his home. A film about art and aging, life, love and death.
Release Date:2009-09-27
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Martina och jag
In 1974 documentary film maker Tom Alandh did a TV story about institutions for the mentally retarded. Then he met Martina, who was five and who had Down syndrome. For 35 years, which is unique in the Swedish television history, Tom Alandh and photographer Björn Henriksson has followed Martina's struggles against all odds.
Release Date:2009-05-07
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Self - Speakerröst
Vote Count:1
Bergmans Hushållerska
Anita Haglöf was Ingmar Bergman's housekeeper for eight years, in his home at Karlaplan in Stockholm and at Fårö. She constantly accused him of harassment in her diary, but didn't quit the job.
Release Date:2009-01-01
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Character:Self - Speakerröst
Vote Count:3
Diskuskastarens dröm
Stefan Fernholm would throw the discus farther than anyone else and win glory and money and Olympic gold, and he was prepared to sacrifice everything to reach his goal. At the age of 37, he died at the kitchen table in Västerås.
Release Date:2008-08-03
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:
Vi som överlevde Rågsved
Michaela had three brothers. Christer died aged 28, Benny at 38:th, and Dag was 43 when the drugs finally took his life. Yes. There was hard times in Rågsved in the 70s. But Göte lives and so do many more. So what happened then?
Release Date:2008-03-02
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:3
Underbart är kort - en film om Monica Zetterlund
A portrait of Swedish jazz singer Monica Zetterlund.
Release Date:2007-11-20
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Self - Speakerröst
Vote Count:1
Blott en afton bor jag här
It's like a miracle, writing a book with the knuckles of the left index finger and the right thumb. Mattias Agnesund is the author who, despite a paralyzing muscle disease, wrote a biography of Einar Ekberg.
Release Date:2006-11-19
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Lindansaren
Documentary about wheel-chair bound stand-up comedian Jesper Odelberg. He was born with cerebral palsy and largely uses this as his material, but mixes his comedy with an overall serious message about inclusion and understanding.
Release Date:2006-01-01
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:2
Det finns bara en Ingemar Johansson
The stone-mover boy from Göteborg who became world champion in heavyweight boxing, a midsummer night in 1959 that the Swedish people will never forget. The short straight right - made in Sweden - made "Ingo" the world's best-known Swede.
Release Date:2005-09-08
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vad hände med rufflaren?
About the former director Ulf Berner with millions in tax debts during the 1970s.
Release Date:2004-07-07
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:2
Det sista örådet
Documentary about the Swedish television reality show Expedition Robinson (Survivor) and how it got made.
Release Date:2004-02-15
Character:Himself
Vote Count:1
Det nya livet
It has been three years since Tom Alandh made the film "Det svåra livet" about homeless drug addict Pia. This film shows what has happened to her since.
Release Date:2004-01-01
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:3
I Want to Live
Documentary which follows Kenneth Lantz, who is addicted to heroin.
Release Date:2004-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Två bröder - Två världar
Christer and Bertram Schmiterlöw were both artists. But Christer could never make a living from his art and only paint early mornings before going to his job as a janitor at SVT.
Release Date:2002-10-09
Department:Directing
Job:Director
En Man Kom Från Texas
For 20 years, Rikard Viking Flinga was in Texas' harshest prisons, convicted of murder. Rikard Viking Flinga is a Swedish citizen but has never been to Sweden. But in early March 2000, he was transferred there to start a new life.
Release Date:2002-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Boogieman - På turné med Owe Thörnqvist
Sweden's first rock'n roll performer Owe Thörnqvist is on tour. There is still power and joy in the music and there is a slight gnola in the lyrics. Folk home rock and vadmals blues for full houses and standing ovations, and it makes Berit and Börje's hearts a little tight because they remember how it was once there in the late 50s.
Release Date:2001-12-08
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:2
Det goda livet
"The good life" is a documentary about Alf, a broker who sells expensive apartments in Stockholm. Alf lives the good life. But even the good life has several sides.
Release Date:2001-10-24
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Det svåra livet
This documentary follows Pia, who is homeless. She is struggling with her drug addiction. During the day she (and many other homeless people) sells the newspaper Situation Sthlm.
Release Date:2001-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Self - Speakerröst
Vote Count:4
Majid Jelili - Sverige
If you are an immigrant in Sweden, then you have to be able to cope, Majid has learned that. And if you live in Tensta, you have the whole world at your fingertips. And all dreams. Majid Jelili dreams of the Olympics in Sydney. He weighs only 54 kilos but he is fast and hits hard and with a will as strong as a dream. What happened then?
Release Date:2000-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Bosse Högberg - en film om kärlek, sjukdom och feta smällar
Bosse Högberg - once a tough European champion in light-middleweight since suffering from aphasia after stroke in 1988. The toughest fighter of Sweden ever. Against a Frenchman, he boxed fifteen rounds with the rejected jawbone.
Release Date:2000-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:2
Annika - Ett Brott, Ett Straff, Ett Liv
Release Date:1999-09-30
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:1
Martina - Mot Alla Odds
Another film about Martina Schaub, now thirty years old.
Release Date:1998-08-06
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:4
Gustav och Maria - en kärlekshistoria
"Killing a person, especially the one you love, is very difficult..." - that's what was written in the farewell letter that the police found in Gustaf and Maria's apartment in March 1997. In her bed, Maria was also found dead from drugs and suffocation. She was 87 years old and severely senile. In the last years, Gustaf himself had taken care of her at home because Maria was afraid of institutions and medical equipment. "....difficult, damn hard, even if you're logically and emotionally convinced that it's the best for her - and for me." The following day, Gustaf boards a Finland boat. In open water, he sinks his body into the sea with a chain wrapped around the body, "so that the corpse does not float up". That's how Gustaf and Maria died - after a whole life together,
Release Date:1998-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Cornelis - dokumentären
A portrait of Swedish troubadour Cornelis Vreeswijk.
Release Date:1997-12-31
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:3
Det var ju bara en...
His real name was Gerard Gbeyo. He had been in Sweden for just over a year when he got off the bus in Skåne's Klippan one night in September last year and was persecuted by two racists,
Release Date:1996-09-30
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:
The Road of a Hustler - There and Back Again
Ulf Berner is home again - who was faster than the Swedish justice system and so snobbishly disappeared from prosecutors and bailiffs in the mid-80s. - Serious tax crimes, said the prosecutor, and the bailiff wanted thirteen million.
Release Date:1994-10-06
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:
Kronofogden Kommer - Vems Är Skulden?
In the unemployed Vimmerby there is one who does not need to be afraid of losing the job. On the contrary, he has never had so much to do before. Tom Alandh follows the crown bailiff Bror Carlsson as he treads away on his bicycle with the document portfolio on the package holder.
Release Date:1993-11-18
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
En kungamördares bekännelser
The legendary sports journalist Bengt Ahlbom. Who was already at the Olympics in Stockholm in 1912 and who was a gigolo in Cannes and who beat old King Gustaf V in tennis. Now, 87 years old, he talks about his life.
Release Date:1992-12-28
Department:Directing
Job:Director
När bollen var rund
Chronicles the hosting of Euro '92 in Sweden and the journey of the Swedish team in that tournament.
Release Date:1992-11-09
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Character:Narrator (voice)
Inlandsbanan: De som tog tåget
A journey along the Inlandsbanan, from Mora to Gällivare, in the last summer of 1991 when the passenger traffic is to be shut down. A decision and its consequences. A film about the view of Norrland in these EC times.
Release Date:1991-09-22
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Self - Speakerröst
Vote Count:3
Svenska bostäder: Härbärget
Follows a couple of people who share issues regarding homelessness and alcoholism.
Release Date:1991-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Svenska bostäder: Kåken
"It is not only the school but also the prison that is a mirror of society," says a board member at Hällbyanstalten outside Eskilstuna. Here are the strong and the weak, the stupid - who eventually perish - and the smart who always manage at the expense of the stupid. Here are all the prejudices and all the humiliation, hatred and anger, indifference and wild dreams. Caregiver and cared for but where the words have lost their meaning. A film by Tom Alandh about plates and thieves and Folkhemsmoral.
Release Date:1991-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Svenska bostäder: Hemmet
The bags are packed and the transport is waiting in the courtyard, because Edit Falk is to be moved today. Ösbyholm is to be closed down, her home for 27 years where she thrived so well, cozy, beautiful, no locked doors. Her next address will be a locked ward at Beckomberga. All the other old mentally ill women have already been moved there. Now only Edit remains. The Ösbyholm case is closed. The decision has been made. By talented people who really only want to do well.
Release Date:1991-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Nacka - The myth and the man
Documentary about the Swedish soccer legend Nacka Skoglund.
Release Date:1989-07-04
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:2
Martina - med lust och glädje stor...
The fourth film in a long series about Martina Schaub, a woman with Down's Syndrome. Tom Alandh documented part of her life from age 5 to 50. In this film, she is in her early twenties.
Release Date:1989-01-24
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Self
Vote Count:1
Solvalla
He was 14 years old when he was at Solvalla for the first time. He had four kroner with him, two he put on Smaragd with Sören Nordin in the sulky. It's been more than thirty years, but he hasn't missed many competition days since then.
Release Date:1988-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Fräls oss ifrån ondo
The first documentary to portray the Swedish religious group Livets Ord.
Release Date:1985-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Kulan i Karlsborg
A portrait of the idyllic town of Karlsborg, Sweden, home to 4000 inhabitants, whose economy is dependent on the prominent local manufacturer of the latest technology in ammunition.
Release Date:1985-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Van att få som han vill
Municipal councilor Håkan Davidsson in Hjo is the strong man of the small community. A film about power and people in a very ordinary Swedish society.
Release Date:1984-10-26
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Martina
Nine years ago Tom Alandh included five year old Martina Schaub as part of a program about how society dealt with people with various handicaps. Martina, who has Down's Syndrome, is now fifteen years old.
Release Date:1983-11-16
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Self - Speakerröst
En sak ångrar jag
Aina Eriksson is eighty years old. She stays in a nursing home and is largely immobile. She looks back at her life in Stockholm and Paris, and the fact that the only thing she regrets is that she never learned how to tap dance.
Release Date:1981-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
The Canary Islands
Approximately half a million Swedes vacationed to Spain in 1972, one of Europe's poorest countries who had then been controlled by Franco since 1939. 120 000 of them chose The Canary Islands as their destination. The documentary highlights and contrasts the carefree tourism with the censorship and oppression granted by a dictatorship.
Release Date:1973-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Repövning
There has been war in Sweden again. And Sweden won as usual. Fokus was involved in the Battle of Östergötland - one of the toughest front sections. But how would we have coped - if it had been a real war?
Release Date:1973-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Festival of the Midnight Sun - Mantorp 1970
Festival of the Midnight Sun, a.k.a. the Mantorp Festival became the biggest fiasco in Swedish pop festival history. The festival was presented the midsummer weekend 19-21 June 1970 at Mantorp Raceway. A local band, Magazine Story, from Linköping, had the honor of opening the festival with Clabbe af Geijerstam as MC. The raceway and surroundings were almost empty. Clabbe's welcome speech explained that the sun was the guest of honor at the festival, which was dedicated to "peace, friendship, love, community and everything that can be thought of as beautiful".
Release Date:1970-11-30
Department:Directing
Job:Director