Sven Wollter
Birthday: 1934-01-11
Place of Birth: Gothenburg, Sweden
Biography: Sven Justus Fredrik Wollter (11 January 1934 – 10 November 2020) was a Swedish actor, writer, and political activist. Wollter is one of the most renowned Swedish actors, he was awarded Best Swedish actor twice. In his native country, he became widely known through his role as Madame Flod's son Gusten in Swedish Television's adaption of The People of Hemsö by August Strindberg in 1966. Later he had several notable roles, including in 1976 when he played Detective Sergeant Lennart Kollberg in Bo Widerberg's film The Man on the Roof. For international viewers, he is best known for his role Victor in the dramatic film The Sacrifice by Andrei Tarkovsky, and for a wider television audience as the retired Detective Chief Inspector Van Veeteren in the cinematic adaptations of Håkan Nesser's police novels.
Movies
Trigger
A warm, dramatic story about eleven-year-old Alise's encounter with a wild horse on the run....
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Man on the Roof
Detective Martin Beck investigates the grisly murder of a police Lieutenant in his hospital room, he...
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House of Angels
In a small village in Västergötland, everything is turned upside-down when the local loner dies and ...
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I Am Curious (Yellow)
Lena, aged twenty, wants to know all she can about life and reality. She collects information on eve...
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House of Angels: The Second Summer
Fanny and Zack is back, after she inherited Änglagård last year. Everytone looks forward to their ne...
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Kira's Reason: A Love Story
Kira and Mads try to work out their marriage, after Kira has been two years in a mental institution,...
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A Song for Martin
Martin, conductor of a symphonic orchestra, meet Barbara, violine player and they start a relationsh...
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Alfred
The life of the Swedish engineer Alfred Nobel. How he invented dynamite and later in his life founde...
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Rider in Blue
When private eye John Hillman is on assignment in London his wife Kajsa visits the Army's riding sch...
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The Tattooed Widow
Ester is the perfect grandmother everyone expects her to be. But she unexpectedly inherits an old au...
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Vildhussen
Documentary drama about Sweden's biggest natural disaster, which destroyed one of the biggest whitew...
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The House
Across different eras, a poor family, an anxious developer and a fed-up landlady become tied to the ...
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Svalan, katten, rosen, döden
Münster stumbles upon the body of a young woman who has been strangled in her home and surprises the...
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The Man from Majorca
In the aftermath of a daring post office robbery on Saint Lucy's Day, two Stockholm vice cops ventur...
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Ögat
Fredrik is a director for a company that has developed a camera that can be operated from a distance...
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In the Name of the Law
A group of four policemen is known for cruising the streets of Stockholm in their van, looking for d...
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House of Angels - Third Time Lucky
A lot happens in a small village in 15 years. People fall in love, get married, have kids and divorc...
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Sista leken
In this somber, psychological drama about the conflict between a man's innermost feelings and a soci...
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Day by Day
Five people embark on a motorhome road trip through Europe to fulfill an elderly man's last wish. "D...
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Moreno and the Silence
When a girl is murdered soon after leaving a closed religious community, Moreno faces a difficult in...
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Molly in the World
Molly in the World (Molly i världen) is a small film about the great frustrations and questions in l...
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Fallet G
The daughter of a murdered private detective comes to Van Veeteren for help with a case that might b...
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Münsters fall
When the body of a wealthy wine merchant washes up on a beach with multiple stab wounds, police fear...
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Carambole
Carambole is the story of a doctor, in love and happy, who one rainy night accidentally hits a young...
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Störst av allt
A young female journalist suddenly finds out that who she believed was her father is not that at all...
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Borkmann's Point
Van Veeteren finds retiring from the police force is easier said than done when two decapitated bodi...
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Facklorna
Exciting miniseries about some dramatic events in a small Swedish town in the 1950s. Kråkan, 17, liv...
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Flicker
There is something going on in the small town of Backberga. The towns proud telecom company Unicom i...
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Jag tänker på mig själv - och vänstern
Artist Marianne Lindberg De Geer thinks about her old friends from the 70s, where did they all go?...
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With a View to Realism: The Making of Man on the Roof
A documentary by Ronny Svensson and Markus Stromqvist on the making of Bo Widerberg's 1976 movie Man...
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Jerusalem
Members of a devout Christian congregation try to start a new life in Palestine....
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Tack ska du ha, Karl Gerhard heter jag
Talking head documentary about the early 20th century Swedish comedian and singer Karl Gerhard made ...
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Sandlådan
What will happen to the kids in the sandbox? The ones digging in the same sand, how will they live w...
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Friends
John is a legal assistant who is looking forward to marriage to his fiancee Sally, but his daydream ...
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Jacob smitaren
Jacob Andersson’s alcoholism leads to his wife leaving him together with their daughter....
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The Last Bid
The working class couple, Roger and Lisette, knows that it is impossible to live an honest life in a...
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Charlotte Löwensköld
1830 Värmland, Sweden. Master Karl Arthur Ekenstedt comes to aid the Minister at Crosss Church. He f...
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Suxxess
A Swedish IT-company gets a new boss, who turns out to be a soulless hatchet man in Schildt's dark s...
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Gnomes and Trolls: The Secret Chamber
Junior, a teenage gnome, wants nothing more than to invent gizmos and gadgets in his tree-house labo...
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Stjärnbilder
A tribute to Swedish film, which was made to celebrate the 100th anniversary of film in 1995 and con...
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One Way Ticket
Johannes, an ex-con now working as a antiques dealer, is faced with a huge debt. He is put under pre...
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Violet Bay
Kerem goes to a village to start a new life for his family. It will not be easy for Kerem's wife Ner...
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Key House Mirror
Lily (76) is sure there’s nothing wrong with her. The only reason she lives in a care home is becaus...
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Inga Tidblad - Lysande stjärna av sin tid
Inga Tidblad started acting in 1921 and became one of Sweden's greatest and most successful actresse...
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The White Wall
A day in the life of Monika, an ordinary, modern (ca.1975) Swedish woman. Her surroundings are a lot...
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Stall-Erik and the Snapphans
Stall-Erik och snapphanarna is a Swedish film project that began filming in 1996 with a preliminary ...
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No
How and why people refused military service in Sweden at the end of the 1960s. This is the reasoning...
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Samlaren
Lennart lives a very lonely life. He collects things and when he tests the limits of how far he can ...
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Dockpojken
A psychological drama where the son escapes his father's brutality in the isolated far north of Swed...
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The Sacrifice
Alexander, a journalist, philosopher and retired actor, celebrates a birthday with friends and famil...
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Havlandet
This is a tale that has an epic scope in scenery "the northern snow-covered lands of coastal Norway"...
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Smykketyven
Jan Strøm has always been popular with women and is used to getting what he wants. But one day he is...
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Heartbeat
A dazzling musical about a young Arab woman facing deportation just as she is about to receive a hea...
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Kim - Den skalliga primadonnan
About Swedish actress Kim Anderzon. Loved and acclaimed for her roles in theatre and on film. A femi...
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Lines from the Heart
The trio of actresses have ostensibly gathered to pay tribute to Mai Zetterling, but also reminisce ...
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The 13th Warrior
A Muslim ambassador exiled from his homeland joins a group of Vikings, initially offended by their b...
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A Film About Love
At a prom ball, Peter and Helen catch each other's eyes over the children's heads. Peter is desperat...
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Regeln och undantaget
A television drama about a trial against a merchant who killed one of his employees....
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Videoman
A VHS collector with a drinking problem finds a valuable movie that could save his terrible economic...
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Repetitionen
"The Rehearsal or The Patchwork of Love" - At the Ferbroques castle, the Count, Countess and their g...
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Rymmare
Two inmates escape from prison. The escape affects not only the two runaways but also their relative...
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Lust och fägring - en film om Bo Widerbergs sista
Documentary about the making of Bo Widerberg's last film 'Lust och fägring stor' ('All Things Fair')...
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I huvudet på en filmskapare
For over 20 years, film enthusiast and amateur filmmaker Anders Olofsson has worked on what quickly ...
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Georg & Lydia
Georg (age 70) and Lydia (age 30) are in two completely different stages in life when they meet....
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Husbonden
Young Charlie becomes a farmhand on a remote Swedish island during the early 19th century. His maste...
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Bo Widerberg
Documentary which follows Bo Widerberg during the making of 'Man on the Roof', 'The Butt' and a fail...
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The Truth About the New Anna Susanna
About the "aware, free and unrestrained modern woman" Anna Susanna....
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Hotet från yttre rymden
Jack Hamrin is a young journalist doing his best to keep his job at the local paper. In his desperat...
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Sunny Side
We join the three couples in a comedy about divorces, love, child longing, weird parents and unwritt...
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Like Rings on the Water
Chase and stress in the big city of Stockholm. Lines of cars, buses and trams, exhaust fumes, parkin...
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Sweetwater
Allan and Lisa flee the war-torn city of Sweetwater with their young son for the safety of the munic...
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