Mimi Pollak
Birthday: 1903-04-09
Place of Birth: Karlstad, Värmlands län, Sweden
Biography: Maria Helena "Mimi" Pollak was a Swedish stage and screen actress and director. She attended the Royal Dramatic Theatre school in Stockholm, Sweden, with fellow actress Greta Garbo from 1922 to 1924. It was Mimi that came up with the name Garbo. They became friends for life. Pollak became in 1948 the first contracted female director at the Dramaten with the production of Jean Genet's Jungfruleken (Les Bonnes/The Maids), with Anita Björk and Maj-Britt Nilsson. Mimi Pollak appeared since her 1922 debut in the film "Amatörfilmen" in about 30 feature films and TV productions. She directed and handfull during the 1950's.
Movies
Amatörfilmen
The jeweler Edmond gets a competitor, Mr. Snyder, who specializes in imitations. Snyder challenges h...
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Amorosa
About the Swedish author Agnes Von Krusenstjerna during the period of her marriage to David Sprengel...
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Sömnen
"The Sleep" - Tired of the touring life the rock star Tommy Cosmo cuts the strings of his guitar, em...
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With You in My Arms
Millionaire Krister Dahl loses his memory when he is hit in the head by a golf ball. He meets his ex...
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Summer Interlude
During a brief summer vacation, a lonely woman recalls her first love thirteen years earlier....
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The Flight of the Eagle
The Swedish 19th century engineer Salomon August Andrée sets out to become the first man on the nort...
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Kajan går till sjöss
Kajan, a young boy, spends the summer with his friends working on a barge, earning extra money in th...
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Flames in the Dark
Latin teacher Birger Sjögren at Ringsala boarding school threatens his possesive and chronically ill...
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Supper for Two
Louise Mareuil owns a perfume factory on the French Riviera. She is in a traffic accident with a ske...
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Mord, lilla vän
A member of "Sjöbjörnarna" (a group of executives), asks the newspaper editor Dick Mattson to find B...
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Playing Truant
High school student Margareta fall head over heels in love with a young doctor and announce her enga...
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The Crown Witness
Thomas, a scientist, lives in a childless marriage. When his wife travels to Copenhagen he begins an...
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The Secret
Sam and Amanda are friends. One day, they accidentally throw Sam's sister's diaries in the garbage c...
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Gatan
Britt Malm gets hit by a car on a Stockholm street and is taken to hospital. She is badly injured an...
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Agnes Cecilia - En sällsam historia
Nora is 15 years old. Her parents died when she was young and now she lives with Anders and Karin an...
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A Matter of Life and Death
"Life and Death" - A female reporter intended to go on a reporting trip about childbirth to Japan, d...
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The Ghost Reporter
Augustus Blomkvist sells his sausage factory and buys the newspaper Stockholms-Posten where he start...
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Nightmare
A woman is driving alone one evening, when she almost run over a man lying in the road. She gets out...
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Near and Far Away
Mania is a new employee at a mental hospital, where she meets a young man with mutism. He gets her t...
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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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One, But a Lion!
The fashion house boss Harry Martin has invited all his staff to a crayfish party at his home....
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Bröder emellan
Identical twin brothers Patrik and Peter Brodd haven't seen each other for twelve years until Peter ...
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Den långa vägen
Grandmother sits with her grandchildren. She talks about the position of the Swedish woman through t...
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The Sixth Commandment
Jane and Karl have been married for many years. Jane feels trapped in their marriage and takes a lov...
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I frid och värdighet
Erik Levin leases the farm to his son and retires. In order not to be in the way of the son, he move...
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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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Gentleman att hyra
Two friends, a rich landowner and a flight lieutenant, compete for the love of the same woman, singe...
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The Man All Wanted to Kill
A brutal businessman, Vilhelm Gerner, triggers a stock speculation by providing false information. T...
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The Farewell
Set between 1930s and 50s, The Farewell the story of Valerie, who lives in a household totally repre...
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Kristoffers hus
Kristoffer lives on the verge of poverty, just barely supporting himself on his photographic work an...
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Brenda Brave
Brenda Brave gladly helps her grandmother to sell candy canes at the market square. But one day gran...
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Emil i Lönneberga
Emil Svensson lives with his mother and father, little sister Ida, farmhand Alfred, and maid Lina on...
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Stiller, Garbo & jag
One day when Ruben Stiller is playing in a bath, he gets an alien talking to Nadja, who asks him to ...
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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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Autumn Sonata
After a seven-year absence, Charlotte Andergast travels to Sweden to reunite with her daughter Eva. ...
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