Hjördis Petterson
Birthday: 1908-10-17
Place of Birth: Visby, Gotlands län, Sweden
Biography: Hjördis Olga Maria Petterson was a Swedish stage and screen actress, pedagogue and singer. She was educated at The Royal Dramatic Theatre's acting school, Stockholm, 1927-30, made her film debut in "Kanske en diktare/Maybe a Poet" (1933). She has appeared in more than 140 feature films.
Movies
Bara en kvinna
Art professor Tore Stenwall is engaged to one of his young students, Anna-Lisa. He shows her a portr...
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Under svällande segel
The student Olle has signed up to sail the Atlantic. But his sensitivity and personal problems make ...
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Alla tiders Karlsson
Åke is employed as a singer in a revue tour and his uncle Karlsson becomes the tour bus driver....
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Ett dockhem
August Strindberg's feedback to Henrik Ibsen's "Doll's House"--a short story from the collection "Gi...
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The Passion of Anna
A recently divorced man and an emotionally devastated widow begin a love affair....
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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 Pleasure Garden
A small picturesque town at the turn of the century. The conservative views of the townspeople are s...
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Dance on Roses
Marianne is a dancer at the Lilla Teatern. The theatre has financial troubles and its existence is u...
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Gösta Ekman - En levande legend
Documentary about the Swedish actor Gösta Ekman (1890-1938) with interviews with friends and colleag...
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When Darkness Falls
Young Elisabeth comes to Västlinge to meet her old relative, the vicar and and his young daughter. S...
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Swing it, fröken
There is a new English teacher in school, Miss Lind. She moves in with the Nilssons, whose son Sigge...
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Åsa-Nisse och den stora kalabaliken
Sjökvist needs a woman to tidy up his general store and Åsa-Nisse helps him out to put an ad in the ...
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En karl i köket
Olle works as maître d' and hopes to buy a hotel with money he borrowed. When his creditor dies Olle...
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Landstormens lilla Lotta
It's time for conscription training outside the small town Lillköping. The bank clerk becomes an off...
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The Cats
A group of women are workmates at a laundry. Rike is spreading a rumor about the manager Marta, a ru...
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A Ship to India
Seven years after leaving home, a sailor returns and remembers both the dark and the light moments o...
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Försök inte med mej...
Björn Norell, a bookish assistant to an art dealer, is fired because of his inability to find the th...
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Dumbom
Two twins, separated at birth, meet again by chance many years later. One is a progressive but insen...
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Swinging at the Castle
Love triangle between Svante, his fiancee Inga and Sophie, a girl from a rich family....
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Little Fridolf and Me
Fridolf and his wife Selma gets a telegram from their daughter Maggan. She is engaged and are her wa...
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Fridolf sticker opp!
A comedy about the shunned office worker Fridolf who gets into trouble when a rationalization expert...
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Fridolfs farliga ålder
Selma and her friend Agatha are watching a movie on TV. Agatha starts to talk about older men and th...
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Lille Fridolf blir morfar
Fridolf's daughter becomes pregnant and Fridolf and Selma become strongly involved in this....
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Kiss Her!
Lisa Larsson, dancer at a theater, witnesses a traffic accident and banker Brenner's private driver ...
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Children's Island
Reine is supposed to go to a summer camp called Children's Island but decides to remain in Stockholm...
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I, a Woman Part II
Newly married to a sexually perverted German millionaire, Siv submits herself to endless degradation...
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När syrenerna blomma
The 1880s. Abandoned by his middle class parents in Stockholm, Johannes grows up in the countryside ...
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Miss Chic
Buster Carell, a talent agent is threatened by bankruptcy when his only real talent, a singing lumbe...
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Miss April
The banker Marcus falls in love with the young ballet-dancer Maj who works at the opera. To meet her...
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Ljuvlig är sommarnatten
Someone is murdered. Who is the killer? Members of all star cast are all suspects......
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Gårdarna runt sjön
A young and spoiled aristocrat is guilty of a hit-and-run accident....
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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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Sängkammartjuven
Rich socialite must deny persistent rumours that she has an affair with a poor author....
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Resan till dej
The marriage of the newlyweds Gun and Emil is strained when Gun sings in a radio show and makes a br...
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Göingehövdingen
When the Swedish army occupies the eastern part of Denmark in 1678, the local inhabitants decide to ...
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Enslingen Johannes
Johannes live a lonesome life in the archipelago and use to have on the air phone calls with Gösta B...
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The Turnstile
The small town of Gåtatorp in Småland is entirely dependent on its prominent furniture factory. But ...
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Rolling Sea
"Rolling Sea" - After a longer stay at the hospital, the young Martin comes to Gothenburg and notice...
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Rasmus, Pontus and Toker
Ten-year-old Rasmus, his friend Pontus and his dog Toker, find out about a silver theft in the small...
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Little Martin Returns
Sture Letterström and Kurre Svensson take on the task of rescuing a secret document during World War...
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Anderssonskans Kalle
Anderssonskans Kalle is the typical 'Söderkis'. It's a boy growing up on Söder in Stockholm and he i...
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The Sin of Anna Lans
At a meeting at the Salvation Army a female soldier tells the story of her life....
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Kanske en diktare
Filip works as a coat janitor at a restaurant; he is a dreamer who has failed in life and sees peopl...
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The Serious Game
Arvid share the love with a young woman named Lydia, but as is customary at the turn of the century,...
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Janssons frestelse
John Smith is an accountant at a stockbroking firm, where the firm ends up in the liquidity crisis b...
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His Grace's Will
His grace, the Lord Chamberlain and Colonel Baron Roger Bernhusen de Sars of Rogershus, Klockeberga ...
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We Home Toilers
The stern, but kind-hearted, Kristiana from the country takes place as a maid with the Larsson famil...
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Östermans testamente
The fishermen Österman and Sjöberg are sued by merchant Wikström. In order to raise capital, they de...
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Roses Every Night
Birgit Johansson works at the Match Factory in Jönköping. In a matchbox she puts her photo and addre...
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En flicka kommer till sta'n
Ulla takes the train to Stockholm to try her luck in the big city....
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Sången till henne
The opera singer Carlo Martin comes to the Royal Opera for a guest performance and the girls in the ...
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Eva går ombord
Eva is an employee in a fashion store. One day she finds cruise tickets in the name of Bo Stensjö an...
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Stora famnen
In the late 1800's, the old Karolina Koger dictates his will: all her money shall form a family fund...
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I dag gifter sig min man
Mette divorced from her husband, the architect Sven, a year ago. But her feelings for him are still ...
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Stopp! Tänk på något annat
Karsten falls in love with Sonja, she rejects him, but not because of lack of interest. She travels ...
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Sju svarta "Be-Hå"
The scam artist Jens Nielsen is in prison. In exchange for a cigarette, he is told by fellow prisone...
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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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The Family Secret
Arvid and Lilli Ekman is a senior couple with one single adult son, Arne. They find out that the son...
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Johansson och Vestman
Olga Hallman is waiting outside Långholmens prison. Out comes Adolf Johansson. Released after eight ...
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Defiance
A teacher is so hard on his students that he faces a warning by the school principal. In order to at...
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Dolly tar chansen
Dolly Holm work as a waitress, but her big dream is to stand on stage and act....
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The Heist
Four young criminals are planning a heist against a racecourse and in order to obtain a seed capital...
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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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Äventyret
At the home of the famous scientist Count Knut Lagercrona the wedding preparations has begun. The Co...
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Stackars lilla Sven
Poppe plays Sven, an orphan who is being taken care of by the kind Mr. Carlsson. However, when Carls...
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Pappas pojke
Manager Hellman has an extramarital child he pays for maintenance. Soon he discovers that there are ...
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Pettersson - Sverige
A safe is blown up and an old soccer hero, now a policeman, get the task of solving the case....
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Flicka i kasern
They are currently developing a new type of mine at Fredrik's workplace. The head of the company is ...
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Morgondagens melodi
The schoolgirl Maj-Lis comes from a wealthy family and is unhappy with her life. Emmy, her friend at...
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Vår herre luggar Johansson
Johansson has a small mechanical workshop, which provides for him and his family....
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Ung dam med tur
The office worker Eva is told that she has inherited a massive amount of money in the United States....
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Girl in Tails
The beautiful student Katja shocks the conservative and rigid city of Wadköping by appearing in tail...
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Den underbara lögnen
The night before her wedding, a nervous bride examines her gifts and picks out a book of romantic sh...
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Greven från gränden
Tiburtius "Tibbe" Pettersson is a poor photographer in Stockholm's Old Town. He has a fiancee, Maja ...
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Sadist
The plot revolves around a sadistic doctor, a macabre gravedigger, an innocent girl, sabotage, sex a...
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Friarannonsen
Algot and Bengt have built a house together. But they can not agree on how ownership should be distr...
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Web of Desire
Lars Ekborg and Sven Eric Gamble portray bumbling criminals who get involved in a safe-cracking heis...
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Face of Fire
A local handyman saves a child in a fire, but the burns he receives disfigure his face so much that ...
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Det glada kalaset
Bojan runs a guest house, with economical problems. She decides, therefore, to arrange a big party. ...
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Enslingen i blåsväder
The lonesome Johannes gets a phone call from Gösta Bernhard who wants to come over to him for a vaca...
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Vara eller inte vara
"Be Or Not To Be" - The devil and his grandmother pose a problem for humanity by making it forget th...
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They Fought Their Way to Freedom
The film shows episodes from the labor movement's breakthrough and reform work....
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SOPOR
One Monday morning, a thousand children leave the suburb of Farsta and go to Stockholm to occupy the...
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Private Entrance
A seemingly ordinary day in October. A woman has since she separated from her husband lived in a sin...
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Löjtnantshjärtan
"Bleeding Hearts" - Comedy with charming hussar lieutenants, indulgent landlord daughters, wild ride...
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Jack of Hearts
Lieutenant Anders Canitz is a womanizer and gambler from the upper class. He has spent all of herita...
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Heaven and Pancakes
Sequel to Sjunde himlen (1956). Dr. Lovisa Sundelius (Sickan Carlsson) and radio host Willy Lorens (...
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Styrman Karlssons flammor
Kalle and his girlfriend Blenda is on his way home from Tivoli, when he says that he will be away fo...
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Three Wishes
Oskar and Mona meet when they come to the Academy of Music to see if they have been accepted, he as ...
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Pettersson & Bendels nya affärer
After some time abroad, Bendel returns to Sweden and seeks up his old friend and business accomplice...
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Lady in White
A ghost called Vita Frun (White Lady) is accused of several murders. Detective Hillman is contacted ...
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Wandering with the Moon
Dan, aged 19, leaves his home after a quarrel with his father. At the side of the country road he me...
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Jacob's Ladder
A young fisherman starts a business and climbs on the social ladder to avenge the man who plagued hi...
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Lärarinna på vift
Karin Berggren is living a double life. In the daytime she is a strict teacher at a boarding school ...
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The Bride Came Through the Ceiling
The police is looking for a female burglar all dressed in white....
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The lift that went down into hell
A loving couple on an escapade, ending in a hotel room in the underworld. When the floor waiter show...
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Eviga länkar
Hilda Granström runs a ladies' tailoring shop. Her husband Richard is a cellist in the Opera Orchest...
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I rök och dans
Episodic, musical comedy. Povel Ramel company Knäppupp's first film where Martin Ljung plays 16 diff...
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Sällskapslek
In a magnificent villa a 25-year-old son of Count lives with his family. He falls in love with an el...
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Count on Trouble
A common shoe-shiner inherits a castle. Something his mean relatives dislikes. They try to scare him...
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Lidelse
An artist lives with his wife in a large house on the countryside. She is bored, longing to return t...
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The Happy Shoemaker
Sture and Birgit are secretly engaged. One day when they are kissing, they are discovered by Sture's...
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Taxi 13
A collection of human stories from the streets of Stockholm. Taxi 13 becomes the link between them. ...
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Sextuplets
A local newspaper editor in northern Sweden starts to spread a rumor that sextuplets has been born. ...
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Synnöve Solbakken
Swedish version of Norwegian National Author Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson's novel....
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Ä' vi gifta?
The well-known musician and composer Åke Kjellberg wakes up in a nice Stockholm apartment. He lives ...
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Hans Christian and the Geographic Society
Hans-Christian is a middle-aged priest who in the shadow of World War II decides to form a geographi...
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The Master Detective Lives Dangerously
When Eva-Lotta climbs the roof of moneylender Gren's house. Through a window she overhears a turbule...
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13 Chairs
Filip Palm works as a clerk. His hobby is creating inventions of different sorts. He has just receiv...
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To Be a Millionaire
The terrorist Fors arrested after an attack on a OPEC meeting. Shortly afterwards town minister's da...
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Enchanted Journey
A traveling theatre company comes to a small town and performs to a packed house. But during the sho...
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Lasse-Maja
About the Swedish trickster and thief Lars "Lasse-Maja" Molin. He often disguised himself and lived ...
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It Rains on Our Love
A young couple, penniless, break into a summer cottage; the owner offers to rent to them but he has ...
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Sjösalavår
The Troubadour sits at a rock beside his summerhouse Sjösala in the Stockholm archipelago. He is com...
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Leva på 'Hoppet'
A young theater cast transforms with enthusiasm an old freighter into a theater boat....
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Pappa varför är du arg? Du gjorde likadant själv när du var ung
"Dad, why are you angry? You did the same yourself when you were young." - The Swedish army is too e...
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Duellantens ansikte
An old woman with unusual complaint visits a district medical officer....
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Sten Stensson kommer tillbaka
Sten Stensson Stéen has been challenged by a professor of law in a TV-game-show. Stensson, always fi...
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Lilla helgonet
Celestin is the singing teacher in a monastery and Denis is one of her students. They both dream abo...
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Divorced
Gertrud is being abandoned by her husband after 20 years of marriage. Offended and unhappy she leave...
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Love Goes Up and Down
Sixten reluctantly go to a ski resort in Åre to write a script to a movie....
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A Singing Girl
A girl (Alice Babs) from the country moves to Stockholm to become a singer....
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Mask of Murder
In a Canadian village are women being killed by a psychopath. Chief Rich and Inspector McLane have n...
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Ticket to Paradise
A young woman owns a garden center outside Stockholm. Her two employees, a Swede and an Italian, has...
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Hemsöborna
The widow Anna Eva Flod at Hemsö needs help on the farm and hire the new boy Carlsson, who quickly w...
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Anderssonskans Kalle i busform
The kid Anderssonskans Kalle is a menace to his surroundings and this time he uses nails, fireworks ...
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The Fight Continues
Georg Hammar works at the General Hospital and is engaged to the famous professor Berg's daughter In...
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Lillebror och jag
Manager Björkman is going bankrupt and has to take desperate measures to try to sort his life togeth...
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Solkatten
The waitress Monica goes to Västerköping to find out who actually was her father. By aunt Margareta,...
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Doktor Knock
Doctor Knock takes over a medical clinic in a small town and provides a medical revival....
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Farliga vägar
A stateless lawyer comes with his son Karel and his two daughters Vanja and Sonja as refugees to Sto...
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Parisiennes
A house in Paris happens to have two families living there with the same last name. In one apartment...
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It Pays to Advertise!
Mr. Miller is the CEO of a big soap company whose son Henry like to spend his father's money but isn...
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En sån strålande dag
A comedy about the young notary Thore, who mistakenly opens a private letter to his boss, lawyer Lar...
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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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Face of Fire
A local handyman saves a child in a fire, but the burns he receives disfigure his face so much that ...
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