Lars Johan Rudman Bergenstråhle (/bɛərɡənˈʃtrɔːlə/; Swedish: [bærˈɡɛnˌstrɔːlə]; born 10 February 1935 – 15 July 2007) was a Swedish film director and screenwriter. He directed 14 films between 1965 and 1994. His 1969 film Made in Sweden was entered into the 19th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won a Silver Bear award. His 1972 film Foreigners won the award for Best Director at the 9th Guldbagge Awards.
Release Date:1994-09-19
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
An innocent and beautiful girl, Linnea rents an apartment in Stockholm just before WWI. As she works for an old man who owns a photography studio she meets Anna, a photographer with whom she develops a complex friendship. Anna’s circus-performer boyfriend and European politics complicate Linnea’s routine.
Release Date:1989-09-15
Character:Photographer Halling
Vote Count:8
A mini-series about the life of Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter, August Strindberg. He is portrayed as a misogynous, selfish and racial. And he loses everything, for the sake of the art.
Release Date:1985-02-18
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:6
Vote Count:2
About the artist Tamara de Lempicka. At the outbreak of the World War One she fled Poland and settled in Paris. She was quickly drawn into the interaction with Paris's cultural elite.
Release Date:1981-01-01
Character:Poiret
"A Dream Play" - Agnes, a daughter of the Vedic god Indra, descends to Earth to bear witness to problems of human beings. She meets about 40 symbolical characters.
Release Date:1980-11-30
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
Finland in the late 1950s. A touring theatre company travels the countryside and play English light comedies. But the audience fails.
Release Date:1978-04-07
Department:Directing
Job:Director
About a girl growing up in a big city in the seventies. She cultivates her artistic ambitions. After a series of relationships, she gets a small part in a play and becomes pregnant.
Release Date:1976-01-27
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:6
Based on play by famous swedish author/playwright August Strindberg adapted for swedish TV in 70's. It's about the real life assassination on swedish king Gustav III who was killed by a lieutenant Jacob Johan Anckarström who acted on behalf of a group conspirators.
Release Date:1974-04-08
Department:Directing
Job:Director
When the gods appear in disguise the only person who shows them hospitality is the young girl Shen Te and for this she is awarded by them. After a while she finds her new life has also brought new problems.
Release Date:1973-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
The Ghost Sonata relates the adventures of a young student, who idealizes the lives of the inhabitants of a stylish apartment building in Stockholm. He makes the acquaintance of the mysterious Jacob Hummel, who helps him to find his way into the apartment, only to find that it is a nest of betrayal and sickness. The world, the student learns, is hell and human beings must suffer to achieve salvation. The play centers on a family of strangers who meet for the sake of meeting. They exchange no dialogue, nor gestures, they simply sit and bask in their own misfortune.
Release Date:1972-10-30
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
A drama about Greek immigrants in Stockholm in the 1960s.
Release Date:1972-09-04
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:3
Latvian soldiers seek political asylum in Sweden after their country falls under Russian control at the end of World War II. They had been forced into military service by the Nazis to fight against the Russians. Fearing reprisals from the Russians for fighting against them, they struggle desperately to stay in Sweden. After a hunger strike, suicides, and political intervention by Sweden fails to keep them from their former enemy, they are ultimately given over to the Russian authorities. The men are sentenced to hard labor in prison camps and later released, and Latvians are plunged into repression by the aftermath of the bloody war. The cycle of political unrest was still apparent more than 50 years after the conflict.
Release Date:1970-09-29
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Joergen (Per Myberg) is the Swedish journalist who uncovers a gun-running operation on the borders of Vietnam. The trail leads to a financial group of wealthy industrialists lead by Magnus Rud (Max von Sydow). He refuses to bury the story, leading to trouble for the idealistic reporter and his girlfriend Christine (Lena Granhagen) in this political drama about the war machine and freedom of the press.
Release Date:1969-03-17
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
About the foolish and lost Gabriel who lives entirely in the shadow of his brother, the brave soldier Mart who died in the war and is continuously immortalized by the dominant mother.
Release Date:1966-02-21
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Verner is a faithful staff manager. He seems to live a perfect family life, but the relationships are fragile. One morning, a man comes to the office. He is looking for a job, but his behavior is pretty strange. Verner makes fun of him. What he does not know is that they soon will meet again, under completely different circumstances.
Release Date:1965-12-20
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Shows the people who visit a café that is open late at night
Release Date:1965-01-18
Department:Directing
Job:Director