Margaretha Krook

Margaretha Krook

Birthday: 1925-10-15

Place of Birth: Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden

Biography: Margaretha Knutsdotter Krook (15 October 1925 – 7 May 2001) was a Swedish stage and film actress. She won the Eugene O'Neill Award in 1974. In 1976, she won the Guldbagge Award for Best Actress for the film Release the Prisoners to Spring.[

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Persona
Persona

A young nurse, Alma, is put in charge of Elisabeth Vogler: an actress who is seemingly healthy in al...

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Stängda dörrar
Stängda dörrar

Inès, Estelle, and Garcin are condemned to be together in a single room and soon start arguing and a...

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Karlsson on the Roof
Karlsson on the Roof

A beautiful, wise and fairly fat man at his best age — that’s Karlsson on the Roof. And he isn’t ver...

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The Best Intentions
The Best Intentions

In this film about Ingmar Bergman's parents, Henrik Bergman is studying for the priesthood and tryin...

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Rika barn leka bäst
Rika barn leka bäst

Six women get fired from a bank while the director gets a huge raise....

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The Jönsson Gang in Mallorca
The Jönsson Gang in Mallorca

Vanheden and Dynamit-Harry, together with Harry's fiancée Doris, are in Mallorca while Sickan is sti...

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The Man Who Quit Smoking
The Man Who Quit Smoking

The Plot focuses on Dante Alighieri, a young man who loves smoking. When his father dies Dante inher...

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Den beslöjade damen
Den beslöjade damen

Fredrik is a male feminist who has a big fight with his wife one morning. When a widow shows up in t...

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The Adventures of Picasso
The Adventures of Picasso

A farcical biopic about Pablo Picasso, from his early years, to his middle years, to the years right...

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Peas & Whiskers
Peas & Whiskers

Life isn't easy for the indecisive 40-year-old Claes-Henrik. Should he choose his mom or his girlfri...

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Sadist
Sadist

The plot revolves around a sadistic doctor, a macabre gravedigger, an innocent girl, sabotage, sex a...

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Och ge oss skuggorna
Och ge oss skuggorna

It is the 61st birthday of the American author Eugene O'Neill. He is sick, old and his name has star...

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Talk's cheap
Talk's cheap

SG and Acke are two aged photographers dreaming about their big scoop. They no longer get the major ...

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Lita på mej, älskling!
Lita på mej, älskling!

Anna and Karl are a young couple in Stockholm, unable to find an apartment of their own. However, th...

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Duo jag
Duo jag

Gösta Ekman and Kent Andersson play two men, living together for a long time. One a small, skinny an...

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The Secret Friend
The Secret Friend

A woman humiliates and shouts at her husband, before she ties him up and disappears. He frees himsel...

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Release the Prisoners to Spring
Release the Prisoners to Spring

Small and short Frida lives with her long, tall friend in a house in the countryside. Frida rejects ...

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Karin Månsdotter
Karin Månsdotter

Karin does not belong to the nobility but nevertheless marries the mentally ill king Erik XIV and be...

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The Bookseller Who Gave Up Bathing
The Bookseller Who Gave Up Bathing

A sleepy village around 1910. Jacob, the owner of a book store in a small town is a member of a club...

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Medea
Medea

Medea is a powerful witch who gets revenge on her cheating husband Jason by killing their children....

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SOPOR
SOPOR

One Monday morning, a thousand children leave the suburb of Farsta and go to Stockholm to occupy the...

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Söndagspromenaden
Söndagspromenaden

A tale about the Coriander family at the turn of the century....

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Salka Valka
Salka Valka

A coming of age story about young Salka Valka who lives in the small fishing village of Íseyri. She ...

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Gossip
Gossip

A Hollywood producer auditions ten Swedish actresses for the title role in a big-budget remake of Gr...

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Mother, Father, Child
Mother, Father, Child

During an afternoon and evening, we follow a family's everyday life. From the child's perspective, w...

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Sköna juveler
Sköna juveler

In a dystopian future two private detectives try to find a stolen bracelet....

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Storm over Tjurö
Storm over Tjurö

Karl Oskar Bohm looks back at his life, his estranged daughter Augusta and his wife Sofia....

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Nationalmonumentet
Nationalmonumentet

The sculptor Erik Some gets commissioned to create a national monument. His sculpture gets rejected ...

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Körsbärsträdgården
Körsbärsträdgården

Television adaptation of Chekhov's story about the spoiled widow Madame Ranevskaya....

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Swedish Portraits
Swedish Portraits

The unemployed Timjan discover Mejram singing and instantly fall in love with her....

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Brink of Life
Brink of Life

Three women in a maternity ward share their lives and intimate thoughts, and face the choice of keep...

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I
I

A young man is seeking an identity....

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The Magic Circle
The Magic Circle

Loosely based on the Sala gang, a group of five people that committed murders and thefts in Sweden i...

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Änkan
Änkan

Farce about an out of work actor that one day gets the chance to play the role he never got to play ...

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Flying Devils
Flying Devils

A family of aerialists decides to go after the $250,000 prize being offered to any group that can ex...

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Alf Sjöberg - mästaren
Alf Sjöberg - mästaren

Alf Sjöberg (1903-1980) was Swedens greatest theater director of the 20th century and as a film dire...

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Kvinnofest 1981
Kvinnofest 1981

A gala performance at Cirkus in Stockholm ahead of the International Women's Day on March 8, 1981....

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Hon kräver upprättelse
Hon kräver upprättelse

It's New Year's Eve and she sits alone on her floor accompanied by the glamour and bustle of her nei...

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Det går an
Det går an

Albert falls in love with Sara, but she doesn't want a conventional marriage....

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Swedish Wedding Night
Swedish Wedding Night

A wealthy butcher, fond of liquor and women is about to marry a much younger woman. The woman's fath...

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Barabbas
Barabbas

The story about the thief who didn't get crucified because Jesus was choosen to take his place....

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Miss Julie
Miss Julie

Based on the play by August Strindberg, Miss Julie vividly depicts the battle of the sexes and class...

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Kattresan
Kattresan

Based on the classic swedish children's book from 1909. Kattresan is the story of a little girl that...

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Trasiga änglar
Trasiga änglar

Three kind-hearted criminals, Joseph, Albert, and Jules, plan to escape from Devil's Island. Fate in...

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Adam in Sweden
Adam in Sweden

Rikard Adamsson, a young man dreaming of becoming a writer, lives a wild and dissolute bohemian life...

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Patrasket
Patrasket

A poor Jewish family, called the Riffraff by the author, puts the great Joe Meng at the heart of hig...

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Broken Sky
Broken Sky

Erika is 13 years and lives with her parents and her grandmother in the far north of Sweden in the 1...

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Monismanien 1995
Monismanien 1995

In a fictional future totalitarian society ruled as a one-party state. A teacher commits the crime t...

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A Dream Play
A Dream Play

"A dream play" - This made-for-television film constituted Bergman’s first production of Strindberg’...

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Topaze
Topaze

A shy but righteous teacher - Topaze - with no social skills what so ever, gradually becomes aware o...

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Skuggan av Mart
Skuggan av Mart

About the foolish and lost Gabriel who lives entirely in the shadow of his brother, the brave soldie...

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Fröken Rosita
Fröken Rosita

Play by Federico Garcia Lorca. Swedish interpretation of Hjalmar Gullberg and Karin Alin....

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Onkel Vanja
Onkel Vanja

A retired professor has returned to his estate to live with his beautiful young wife, Yelena. The es...

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Good-Bye Nana
Good-Bye Nana

A film that questions the right of parents to force their children into the adult world's rational b...

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Adam och Eva
Adam och Eva

Eva discovers a contest of an altarpiece. Her husband Adam makes a simple sketch. Adam wins the comp...

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A Walk in the Sun
A Walk in the Sun

Tore Andersson is a depressed 43 year old sport journalist living in Stockholm. His girlfriend has l...

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Tingel Tangel på Tyrol
Tingel Tangel på Tyrol

A show/happening recorded at restaurant Tyrol in Stockholm....

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The Wedding
The Wedding

"The Marriage" - Eva and Kent are planning to get married. Their bridal stag parties causes some pro...

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The White Carnation
The White Carnation

An absent-minded University teacher lives a double life as an impostor. His butler helps him find vi...

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Tre långa kvinnor
Tre långa kvinnor

Three women in different ages. Based on the theatre play Three Tall Women by Edward Albee....

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Swedenhielms
Swedenhielms

Tv play based on Hjalmar Bergmans play Swedenhielms from 1923....

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Only a Mother
Only a Mother

A poor woman in a Swedish farming community struggles to feed her large family and is torn by her pa...

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Mother's Revolution
Mother's Revolution

Ester is a housewife and struggles for the family but is oppressed by both her husband and her oldes...

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Sverige åt svenskarna
Sverige åt svenskarna

This farce cocerns Sweden's King Gustav (Per Oscarsson who plays all the lead roles). The royal mona...

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Mr. Ernest
Mr. Ernest

Mr. Worthing and Mr. Moncrieff both use the pseudonym Ernest, leading to a lot of misunderstandings....

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Dödsdansen
Dödsdansen

Edgar and Alice have been married 25 years. Now their marriage is falling apart as all the pent up b...

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Stockholmania
Stockholmania

Documentary depicting a group of different people and their lives in Stockholm under different condi...

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Lek ej med kärleken
Lek ej med kärleken

The baron wants his niece and her cousin to get married but their own intrigues challenge his plans....

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Misantropen
Misantropen

Alceste has a very low opinion about humanity and is always brutally honest. This gets him into a lo...

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Blodsbröllop
Blodsbröllop

A bride sneaks away with her lover on the eve of her wedding....

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Barabbas
Barabbas

The story about the thief who didn't get crucified because Jesus was choosen to take his place....

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