Hans Daniel Björn Alfredson (born 23 May 1959 in Stockholm, Sweden) is a Swedish film director who is best known for directing film versions of two parts of the Millennium Trilogy: The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest. He is the older brother of Tomas Alfredson (director of Let the Right One In) and the son of Hasse Alfredson.
The great story of our country. About the people and forces that shaped it - from the Ice Age to the present day. Simon J Berger is the narrator of the series. The program series consists of ten parts and is based on reconstructions of historical events and people. Over 300 experts have contributed to the content and 100 of them appear in the series. The series' signature melody is composed by Ludwig Göransson and Per-Gunnar Juliusson.
Release Date: 2023-11-05
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 6
Nineteen-year-old Vera Kall cycles home through the night. She arrives at a farm, leaves her bike and sneaks quietly in through the door. She enters the kitchen and doesn't even have time to notice that she's not alone.
Release Date: 2019-10-10
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 40
What is a human life worth? How is it possible that a woman like Agnes could agree to kill another human being? Is it the money? Or are there other forces at play?
Release Date: 2019-10-10
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 28
Hasse and Tage were best friends for over 30 years. Their films, shows, songs and books influenced an entire nation and were the glue that held people's home together. As a comedic duo, they united right-wing ghosts and anarchists in laughter. When Tage dies prematurely, his children lose a father, Hasse a father figure and all of Sweden a country father. And when Palme dies just months after Tage, the Swedish stable society begins to crumble. For the first time, the Alfredson and Danielsson families open up the archives and give us exclusive access to their stories, photographs and recordings.
Release Date: 2019-09-06
Character: Self
Vote Count: 9
A young author comes into possession of a manuscript sent by critically acclaimed writer, Germund Rein, shortly before he commits suicide.
Release Date: 2018-10-11
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 57
A young woman newly returned to her hometown becomes the subject of harassment by a man named Blackway, an ex-cop turned violent crime lord who operates with impunity in this small community on the edge of the wilderness. Forsaken by the local townspeople—and advised by the Sheriff to leave town—Lillian decides instead to take a stand against her sociopathic stalker, and enlists the help of ex-logger Lester and his laconic young sidekick.
Release Date: 2015-10-03
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 383
The true story of the kidnapping of Freddy Heineken, the grandson of the founder of the Heineken brewery, and his driver. They were released after a ransom of 35 million Dutch guilders was paid.
Release Date: 2015-03-12
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 641
On a foggy day, Julia's six-year-old son Jens is called missing. Despite a thorough search, the boy is never found. Twenty years later, Julia’s father receives one of the shoes Jens was wearing the day he disappeared. Who sent it? Why? Is the boy still alive? This inexplicable act suddenly awakens a hope in Julia that she might see her son again… or that she could find his body and murderer. As she returns to her father’s island, she hears stories of the mythical Nils Kant – a murderer who once was the terror of the island. He is dead and buried for years, long before Julia’s son disappeared. But Julia’s father uncovers that his death and burial were only a fake. While on his tracks, Julia accepts the help and love of Lennart, a local police inspector. His dark and mysterious past brings him a lot closer to Jens’s disappearance that she might think…
Release Date: 2013-09-27
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 20
A man takes law into his own hands after the search for his daughter's murderer and rapist fails and instead the police go after him.
Release Date: 2012-12-18
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 1
Investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist is drawn into an endlessly dark world, with enigmatic hacker Lisbeth Salander his only guide.
Release Date: 2010-03-20
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 4
Vote Count: 101
After taking a bullet to the head, Salander is under close supervision in a hospital and is set to face trial for attempted murder on her eventual release. With the help of journalist Mikael Blomkvist and his researchers at Millennium magazine, Salander must prove her innocence. In doing this she plays against powerful enemies and her own past.
Release Date: 2009-11-27
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 1385
Mikael Blomkvist, publisher of Millennium magazine, has made his living exposing the crooked and corrupt practices of establishment Swedish figures. So when a young journalist approaches him with a meticulously researched thesis about sex trafficking in Sweden and those in high office who abuse underage girls, Blomkvist immediately throws himself into the investigation.
Release Date: 2009-09-18
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 1681
A story from the wilderness, where conditions of survival challenge the rules of modern society, Wolf is a contemporary drama set in northern Scandinavia. Klemens (Peter Stormare) and Nejla (Robin Lundberg) own a small herd of reindeer. Klemens lives in tune with nature and according to the rhythm dictated by his work. His young nephew, Nejla admires him and wants to follow in his footsteps. But neither his mother nor society will allow that to happen. The herd is attacked and they react without regard for the law. A well aimed stroke of the axe puts relationships to the test. What are the consequences and who will take the blame?
Release Date: 2008-04-04
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 11
The film is set in the middle of winter in Ystad and the main character is the middle-aged policeman Kurt Wallander, who this time investigating a drug tangle. It starts with his own goddaughter Eva found dead after taking an overdose. It turns out that heroin is unusually strong and Kurt are now beginning their search for those behind the drugs. But he has a big problem. His boss will not let him look for the person who he suspects has sold the new heroin , but she wants them to look for another drug dealer named Yngve Holm. But Kurt defy the boss's orders and go again and again to Malmo to try to unravel the case. Eventually he gets a hold of the person he suspected. He'll take some photos of him and shows them for their guddotters friend Emma who were drug dealers. She takes Kurt to a friend who claims to have seen the man. The man in the photo is called Heinrich Pasila. Wallander thinks one recognizes Pasila from an earlier murder of guddotterns mother, where the offender is found.
Release Date: 2007-11-28
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 9
Hoffa floats ashore in Estonia after his stolen getaway boat has exploded. He tries to begin a new life in Estonia, but the longing for his family back home becomes too big and he decides to get back to Sweden. Now a tough struggle begins to get himself home to the family, a family that has moved on with their lives and also thinks that he's dead. A past as a bank robber and a fugitive is not making the journey easier. Along the way back to Sweden more problems arise that makes it even harder for him to meet his family again. Meantime back in Sweden his family is struggling with difficulties which they don't know how to solve. The time is running out and things don't look good at all.
Release Date: 2006-03-10
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 14
A Swedish IT-company gets a new boss, who turns out to be a soulless hatchet man in Schildt's dark satire on the evils of the corporate world. He's opposed by Daniel, one of his employees, and eventually comes crashing down, impaled on his own hubris. So Daniel gets given the poisoned chalice of leadership in his place, just to end up as amoral and platitudinous as the man and values he initially stood up against.
Release Date: 2002-10-10
Department: Production
Job: Co-Producer
Vote Count: 2
In the mid-1920s, four young men and women have decided to spend their summer holiday studying together and have rented a wonderful house in the Swedish archipelago. Rationally, they realize that this cohabitation may lead to some of the members being attracted to one another. Thus, in order to avoid unnecessary passions, conflicts, jealousy, grief and enmity, the women sleep in a separate house on the other side of the creek. In spite of believing that they are prepared for anything, and even though they share the task of cooking, their feelings get carried away.
Release Date: 2001-11-30
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 4
A hunting team meets before the annual moose hunt. A fatal accident occurs that severely tests the loyalties of those involved.
Release Date: 1999-09-25
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 4
Vildhundarna is a drama far away from the Swedish reality. It's about four young people on the outermost, with norms dispersed, the only survivors in a nameless city, in a nameless country. Vildhundarna could take place in the former Yugoslavia, or why not Warszawa in 1944 or Rwanda...?
Release Date: 1999-02-05
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 1
During one single day a number of life destinies cross one another. It becomes a night for the involved they will never forget, a night when the coincidences are going to change their lives forever.
Release Date: 1997-10-31
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 25
Release Date: 1996-12-25
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Release Date: 1996-12-25
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 1
Cluedo was a Swedish television game show based on the board game of the same name. It was hosted by Martin Timell and broadcast on TV4.
Release Date: 1996-01-22
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 12
Vote Count: 1
"The Dense Fire" - Petra has left the big city for a small commune in the country. Gradually, she is pulled into an intrigue with religious undertones.
Release Date: 1995-09-19
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 2
It is summertime and the campaign for the upcoming parliament election is in full swing. A young policeman is the first victim of a political terrorist who guns down senior officials and politicians. The two police inspectors Anna Holt and Bo Jarnebring are two of the policemen investigating. It is soon obvious that the murderer is in full control and knows every step they take. And some politicians and high officials are primarily interested in using the investigation to gain votes or make a career...
Release Date: 1994-04-19
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 4
Vote Count: 2
A serial-killer attacks and murders young girls in the parks of Stockholm. The police have trouble finding any evidence to find the killer. But when a newsstand is robbed in one of the parks while the murderer strikes again, police inspector Martin Beck believes that the robber may be an important witness. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Release Date: 1993-11-26
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 28
A young American girl is found dead in Gota Kanal, Swedens largest channel. Since there are hardly any clues or evidence at all it seems as if the murder cant be solved. Martin Beck and his men are assigned to the case. Soon they find a likely suspect and together with a police woman they begin a cat and mouse game to catch him. Plot by Mattias Pettersson.
Release Date: 1993-10-06
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 25
Release Date: 1992-03-30
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 3
The story of the fictional evening newspaper Kvällspressen and the journalists who works at its editorial office in Stockholm.
Release Date: 1992-03-30
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 1
Harry Lund is having a bad day. First he gets fired. And then loses his entire fortune at an illegal gambling club. On his way out, he is assaulted and drugged by unknown men, and wakes up in a car with another man. A very dead man. A very murdered man. And Harry's penknife sticks out of his body. Harry flees in panic to Stockholm. And now not only the bad guys are close on his heels - but also the police...
Release Date: 1991-08-02
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
Vote Count: 14
A salesman and his son sexually abuse the generations of women of a poor family as payment for debt. Janni must see his mother, sister, niece and wife all being exploited, and the family grow bigger with the abuser's kids.
Release Date: 1986-12-25
Department: Art
Job: Set Dresser
Vote Count: 14
Life isn't easy for the indecisive 40-year-old Claes-Henrik. Should he choose his mom or his girlfriend?
Release Date: 1986-02-07
Department: Art
Job: Set Decoration
Vote Count: 26
John and Carl have a small publishing company. One day John meets the poet Clara who recently made her debut, and Clara's fiancé Stig. John and Clara fall in love with each other, and she moves into an apartment owned by John. John breaks up with his wife and moves in with Clara. But Clara has a nervous breakdown.
Release Date: 1985-11-08
Department: Art
Job: Set Decoration
Vote Count: 20
Pettersson and Bendel are both worn, run-down and broke. Despite this they decide to start a business and become rich. Unexperienced they are open to any deal. They tamper, scam and exploit loopholes that exist.
Release Date: 1983-12-10
Department: Art
Job: Set Decoration
Vote Count: 9
The feeble-minded Sven's mother dies and he gets work as a farm-hand at the rich, affluent Höglund's farm. He has to work without pay and sleeps together with the cows. He meets the disabled Anna who is the first one to treat him as an adult. One day he has had enough of Höglund's maltreatment and moves in with Anna's family. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Release Date: 1982-02-12
Character: Angel
Vote Count: 65
The Guldbagge Awards is an official and annual Swedish film awards ceremony honoring achievements in the Swedish film industry. Winners are awarded a statuette depicting a rose chafer, better known by the name Guldbaggen. The awards, first presented in 1964 at the Grand Hôtel in Stockholm, are overseen by the Swedish Film Institute. It is described as the Swedish equivalent of the Academy Awards. The awards ceremony was first televised in 1981.
Release Date: 1981-10-30
Character: Self - Best Screenplay winner
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 2
Images of Stockholm and the people who live there set to music.
Release Date: 1981-06-01
Department: Production
Job: Production Assistant
One Monday morning, a thousand children leave the suburb of Farsta and go to Stockholm to occupy the Royal Castle. The children have formed a group called S.O.P.O.R. as a protest against the way adults treat them and have destroyed their future. They demand that the robots in the industry are replaced by humans to create job opportunities. They take the royal family as hostages.
Release Date: 1981-03-21
Department: Crew
Job: Property Master
Vote Count: 16