Pernilla August
Birthday: 1958-02-13
Place of Birth: Stockholm, Sverige
Biography: Pernilla August (born February 13, 1958) is a Swedish actress, director and screenwriter. Being one of Sweden's leading actresses and a longtime collaborator with director Ingmar Bergman, she won the Best Actress Award at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival for her role in his “The Best Intentions”. She is also known for her role of Shmi Skywalker in the “Star Wars” franchise.
Movies
Surprise
As the successful actor Ingrid arrives at her daughter's 35th birthday party, her unexpected return ...
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Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
Anakin Skywalker, a young slave strong with the Force, is discovered on Tatooine. Meanwhile, the evi...
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Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
Following an assassination attempt on Senator Padmé Amidala, Jedi Knights Anakin Skywalker and Obi-W...
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Mr. Sleeman Is Coming
A young girl is torn between marrying the old man herr Sleeman for money or the young hunter out of ...
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Fanny and Alexander
As children in the loving Ekdahl family, Fanny and Alexander enjoy a happy life with their parents, ...
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Daybreak
Sweden, shortly before Christmas. Surgeon Rickard is told the job he expected goes to a Dane, becaus...
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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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I Am Dina
In Northern Norway during the 1860s, a little girl named Dina accidentally causes her mother's death...
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The Best Intentions
In this film about Ingmar Bergman's parents, Henrik Bergman is studying for the priesthood and tryin...
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The Rooster
In 1944, Cederqvist comes to a small cloth factory to see how the all-women employees can work more ...
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A Rational Solution
Four of Sweden's top actors anchor Jörgen Bergmark's tragi-comedy about a couple, both marriage coun...
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Those Who Whisper
Anna a teacher with alcohol related problems wakes up one morning in her house and finds a dead 16-y...
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Private Confessions
Five conversations frame a flawed marriage in this film written by Ingmar Bergman about his parents....
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Manslaughter
A college professor abandons his family and his career in order to champion his mistress, a student ...
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In the Presence of a Clown
54-year-old Franz Schubert fan Carl, admitted the psychiatric ward of Akademiska Hospital following ...
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You Do the Best You Can
Follows Roy Andersson around different film festivals as he tries to launch his new film "Songs from...
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The Last Contract
Young police officer Roger is on the trail of the international master assassin, while the assassin ...
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Hamilton: In the Interest of the Nation
Carl Hamilton manages to infiltrate an international gang that has stolen advanced Swedish GPS-guide...
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Light Keeps Me Company
Carl-Gustaf Nykvist's documentary about his father, Sven Nykvist. The film is based on Sven's memoir...
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Giliap
In a minor town the morose manager is primarily responsible for the bad atmosphere of a restaurant. ...
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The Glass-Blower's Children
Based on the novel by Maria Gripe, this is the story of two children, Klas and Klara, growing up in ...
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Mouth to Mouth
The teenage girl Vera left her family after an incident at home, and is now living with a middle-age...
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Miss Kicki
Kicki has after several years abroad returned to Sweden. Her 17-year old son has been brought up by ...
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Deadline
The Victoriastadium is totally destroyed in a bomb attack and Christina Furhage, head-responsible fo...
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Details
Emma, a young author, goes to see Erik, the publishing editor whom she's sent her debut novel. Their...
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Call Girl
Stockholm, late 1970s. Within a stone’s throw of government buildings and juvenile homes lies the se...
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The Serpent's Way
A salesman and his son sexually abuse the generations of women of a poor family as payment for debt....
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The Last Sentence
Renowned journalist Torgny Segerstedt declares war against Hitler as he criticizes Swedish politicia...
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Mary, Mother of Jesus
Mary, Mother of Jesus is a 1999 made-for-television Biblical film that retells the story of Jesus th...
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Løven - Henrik Ibsen
We follow Henrik Ibsen throughout his life. From early shame over his father's bankruptcy, via bitte...
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Jerusalem
Members of a devout Christian congregation try to start a new life in Palestine....
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Gossip
A Hollywood producer auditions ten Swedish actresses for the title role in a big-budget remake of Gr...
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Den döende dandyn
A movie about the volatile marriage between artist Nils Dardel and Thora Klinckowström....
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Where The Rainbow Ends
"Where The Rainbow Ends" - Mikael Persson is about to realize his dream, a great musical with some o...
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The Birthday
Michael has a secret that he intends to announce during his birthday party. He has finally decided t...
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The Last Yankee
"All people with a tiny bit of sense get depressed in this country", says Patricia in "The Last Yank...
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Kenny Begins
Kenny Starfighter is probably the most hopeless student the Hero academics of the galaxy has ever ha...
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Building Happiness
The Scandinavian countries are consistently at the top of the World Happiness Report, which is publi...
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Gentlemen
Beaten up, bruised, and scared, a young writer hides in a Stockholm apartment, writing the story of ...
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White People
The story follows a group of people who are kidnapped from the street and held hostage in an undergr...
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Search
Woman, 38, no children no husband! Lisa wants a change of life. She starts internetdating, but it tu...
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Holy Birgitta
Saint Birgitta is probably the strangest woman in Swedish history - mother of eight, prophet, politi...
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The Beginning: Making Episode I
The entire process of making Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) is shown here in this ...
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Bergmans början: Ilska. Kärlek. Magknip.
Documentary relating Ingmar Bergman's life, from his high school graduation up until he became an es...
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Law of the Land
A retiring policeman gets caught up in between two younger men trying to kill each other. A modern ...
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Den tragiska historien om Hamlet - Prins av Danmark
Prince Hamlet is the son of the late king. He hears from a ghost that the current king, Claudius, ha...
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Death of a Juror
A young woman is found murdered in a small village. Police inspector Sandor Gross leads the investig...
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Rancid
Once a promising writer, John Hayson now gets by on the odd writing job. Hayson tries to right old w...
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Trespassing Bergman
In the sixties, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) built a house on the remote island of F...
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Bergman's Reliquarium
A visual association play into Ingmar Bergman's deepest secrets. A pop video attempting to connect B...
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Scenes in the Night
Henrik lies in his death bed and his wife Marianne is there with him. For the first time she get to ...
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Tales of Innocence
In Italy, Indy's espionage work takes him behind enemy lines where he embarks on an important propag...
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid
First love - or first infatuation - overwhelms Indy in Vienna, where he is smitten with the daughter...
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Filmworker
The story of Leon Vitali, who surrendered his promising acting career to become Stanley Kubrick's de...
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Bergman: A Year in a Life
The year 1957 was one of the most prolific for the Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman: he shot two fil...
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Bergman Revisited
As we celebrate Ingmar Bergman, one of the greatest directors of all time, we asked how his legacy h...
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Britt-Marie Was Here
Britt-Marie, a woman in her sixties, decides to leave her husband and start anew. Having been a hous...
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Swoon
John and Ninni – both heirs to their own individual amusement parks – fall in love amidst the whirli...
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Women and Bergman
A roundtable conversation was recorded for television in 2007 at the Stockholm International Film Fe...
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Kursk
Barents Sea, August 12th, 2000. During a Russian naval exercise, and after suffering a serious accid...
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Eiffel Tower
A man tells his wife about a dream he had last night, he was in Paris and the Eiffel Tower was missi...
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Doxa
Sanna has broken up with her boyfriend Jon. Because her father is in the hospital, she moved into he...
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The Ape Star
The orphan Jonna is longing for a mother. One day, an old car stops outside the orphanage and out st...
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Day and Night
Thomas has decided to die, and spends his last day driving around to say good-bye to everybody, his ...
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Hej du himlen!
A poetic portrait of the Russian writer, revolutionary, diplomat and feminist Alexandra Kollontai....
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Everyone Loves Alice
A love triangle between a man, two women and three children. When love suddenly explodes in these pe...
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The Dance Club
Johannes, an eccentric psychology student, takes us on a twisted journey. Together with performance ...
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The Wolf Will Tear Your Immaculate Hands
A British widower in the 1880s Pacific Northwest hires a Native American governess, educated in a Ch...
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