Gunn Wållgren
Birthday: 1913-11-16
Place of Birth: Göteborg, Göteborg- och Bohus län, Sweden
Biography: Gunn Wållgren (16 November 1913 – 4 June 1983) was a Swedish actress. Considered one of Sweden's finest and also to date most appreciated actresses, Wållgren was famous for her fragile and sensual way of acting, her warm and rich inner soulfulness, and her never failing ability of presenting an absolute presence and naturalness on stage. Her Chekhov and Ibsen character interpretations, in particular, are considered to be unsurpassed.
Movies
Fanny and Alexander
As children in the loving Ekdahl family, Fanny and Alexander enjoy a happy life with their parents, ...
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The Brothers Lionheart
After brothers Jonathan and Crusty pass away, they reunite in Nangijala, the land of eternal spring....
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Minns ni?
A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 ...
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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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The Making of Fanny and Alexander
The Making of Fanny and Alexander is a fascinating look at the creation of a masterpiece. Directed b...
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The Sixth Shot
Georg Winkler meet Marguerite Hoffman at the casino in Monte Carlo. They become an item and travel t...
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Crime and Punishment
A Swedish version of Crime and Punishment. Raskolnikov, a poor student, is planning to assassinate a...
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Sally and Freedom
About choices in life and responsibilities. Sally has decided to have an abortion. It seriously affe...
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The Girl and the Devil
The soul of an evil witch about to be burned is transferred to the child of a pregnant woman in the ...
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While the Door Was Locked
The film follows a number of people in an apartment building during a night full of dramatic events ...
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Woman Without a Face
Martin is married to Frida and together they have a son. One day after a quarrel with his wife, he g...
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The Dress
Edit is pleased that her mother agrees to let her buy a dress she loves, but which in fact is made f...
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The Journey Away
Bernt comes to a small town to rob the bank. But behind the counter stands his old friends Hjalmar, ...
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Imprisoned Women
A priest decides to engage himself socially in prison. In the cells he meets a number of women with ...
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The Metamorphosis
A Swedish adaptation of the Franz Kafka novella. Gregor Samsa, wakes one morning to find himself tra...
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Begär
Carsten Berg returns home after 15 years abroad. He gets into a fight with his father, who dies of a...
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Fadren
A woman drives her husband into an uncertainty that ends with scorn, confusion and stroke....
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Tartuffe
The religious hypocrite Tartuffe parasites on a bourgeois family. He is looking for the daughter's h...
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The Glass Mountain
The successful glass artist Stellan Sylvester ends up in the hospital after a car accident. He looks...
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Each to His Own Way
A drama about a doctor and his wife. She used to be an actress, but became a housewife when she marr...
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The Emperor of Portugallia
The poor farmer Jan is getting very old when he becomes father to the girl, Klara Gulla. First, he s...
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Ordet
Swedish film of the Kaj Munk play that was made into a far more famous film by Carl Dreyer in Denmar...
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Miss and Mrs Sweden
To increase sales of the magazine Veckohatten, the management decides to invest heavily in the beaut...
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Svartskallen
About a Turkish boy who is trying to adapt to life in Sweden. A difficult task as it turns out....
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The Nuthouse
In Stockholm in the year 2248 an excavation leads to the discovery of 45,000 meters of film from the...
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Söderkåkar
The story of two brothers, one rich and one poor living next to each other , struggling along with t...
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Harald Handfaste
Harald Handfaste is a 15th century Swedish Robin Hood, who fights against foreign oppression. He bec...
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Sonja
Sonja (Birgit Tengroth) is a housewife happily married with the factory worker Kurt (Åke Grönberg). ...
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