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Nils Bengt Folke Ekerot was a Swedish actor and director. He had several important roles in Swedish films, but he became immortalized in 1957 when he starred in Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal, portraying Death as a white-faced man in a black cloak, an archetype that has influenced the representation of Death in countless instances in film and other media since then. All in all Bengt Ekerot appeared in 35 feature films and directed 7 from 1940 to 1968.
"He was wrestled with the conditions of his hunger. He cried over his violent appetite. The demons destroyed his beauty." Erland Josephson on Bengt Ekerot in "The Role"(Book 1989)
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16 December 1942
When Nora's father unexpectedly dies, she moves to her uncle Berthold and his wife Alice. Berthold is immediately attracted to the 19-year old girl, but his wife, jealous and alcoholic, notices it and becomes hostile to Nora.
19 December 1960
Sam Persson is released from a mental hospital. He goes to Stockholm to meet a man he hates, theater manager Stig Brender.
20 August 1967
Ola is a pop idol, touring with his band in Sweden in the mid-60's. Julia is a young actress in a traveling theatre company.
26 December 1945
Filip Palm works as a clerk. His hobby is creating inventions of different sorts. He has just received a big inheritance and has fallen in love with Gun Svärdsjö.
21 September 1951
In Stockholm in the year 2248 an excavation leads to the discovery of 45,000 meters of film from the 1940's master director Hasse Ekman .
16 February 1957
When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life.
03 September 1946
Bojan runs a guest house, with economical problems. She decides, therefore, to arrange a big party. If she will go bankrupt, it might as well happen to cheerful music.
01 January 1940
"With life at stake"- Max is illegal arms dealers and lives with Wanda, a spy for the dictatorship in which they live.
24 September 1953
Marianne and Jojje are in the last grade of a Stockholm high school. Jojje is very fond of his talented, sensitive classmate.
30 November 1943
Rolf Berger, a hard working and dutiful deputy judge at the court of appeal, has been married for many years with Eva.
26 December 1941
In an occupied country, the people rise to throw off the occupants. This includes Jens the farmer and his three sons who successfully perform sneak attacks on the invading army.
29 September 1941
In a small town anonymous letters are delivered to five different families. The letters are signed "Veritas" (Truth).
04 February 1946
Brita moves from the countryside and her parent's cabbage patch to work as a housemaid in Stockholm. The big city overwhelms her at first and she falls in love with a young man.
27 September 1943
Early 1940s, during WW2, pitch black waters except for a moon-shadow over the waves. Surrounded by minefields and the fog slips in the sweeping headlights of the cargo ship S/S Rune.
26 December 1958
A traveling magician and his troupe arrive in a Swedish town in the 1840s, where their act is scrutinized by local authorities and a skeptical medical official.
04 April 1942
The stern, but kind-hearted, Kristiana from the country takes place as a maid with the Larsson family in Stockholm, previously (in)famous for its rapid turnover of housemaids.
06 October 1958
The rich young man Teddy Anker invests his money in the theater at the beginning of the 1920s. Whatever he does becomes a success.
05 November 1943
Kurt and Sonja are happily married and dream of buying a house and have children. One day Kurt's old friend Nick pops up.
18 March 1968
Sören Mårtensson is a middle school teacher. His classroom occupied by half-grown children. His work is tormenting him and at night he is haunted by nightmares.
31 October 1963
A realistic depiction of the cruelties of war in modern time.
11 December 1968
A newly graduated doctor finds trauma too heavy in everyday work of the hospital. He is constantly facing new demands which ultimately threatens to overpower him.
11 February 1946
The Swedish doctor of literature Vilhelm Canitz arrives in Lugano in Switzerland, close to Italy, for a few weeks stay at a medical clinic.
20 November 1959
This quintessential Chekhov drama--his first success--is both comic and tragic. A group of friends and relations gather at a country estate to see the first performance of an experimental play written and staged by the young man of the house, Konstantin, an aspiring writer who dreams of bringing new forms to the theatre.
16 October 1945
Former student Raskolnikov is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police, Raskolnikov struggles between trying to hide his guilt and the pressure to confess.
01 November 1943
Liv and Kåre both come from broken families bursting with frustration and aggression's. Having found each other they now feel supported and loved.
03 December 1956
A day in the life of a theater ensemble. The acting students are struggling to get one foot ahead of the others and the regular cast is fighting for the good parts.
29 September 1945
An out-of-work musician is desperate for work and when his best friend sees an add requesting a cellist he signs him up.
26 December 1966
A working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving through a series of jobs and romances that gradually shape his future.
04 November 1940
When the old colonel Hummerborg dies, he leaves his fortune and estate to his trusted housemaid Hanna.
04 December 1955
Prince Hamlet returns home from the university of Wittenberg to attend his father's funeral. His uncle Claudius, the new King, has announced his brother's widow queen.
23 January 1967
Two impressionable teenage girls fall in with a beatnik crowd that is content to avoid work and have fun.
02 March 1942
Latin teacher Birger Sjögren at Ringsala boarding school threatens his possesive and chronically ill mother that he will get married.
05 August 1945
A smuggler's daughter falls in love with the son of a customs inspector.
18 November 1946
Connie is growing up on an estate and cling especially to Gunnar. When Connie mention that she has met a man, Gunnar gets angry and repels her.
27 June 1966
An eccentric, offbeat man performing pranks and peculiarities becomes a major concern for the Stockholm authorities.
07 February 1947
Young Allan feed on petty crime and theft. He spice his life by scaring people with stolen dynamite.
19 January 1945
The ups and downs of three generations in an acting family.
10 October 1963
Albert falls in love with Sara, but she doesn't want a conventional marriage.
03 March 1945
Drama evolving around three brothers who join the air force to become flight cadets. When Åke's plane goes missing, the other two must find him.
01 January 1964
The material is taken from the exhibition 'Konstnärernas' (Artists) Stockholm in Liljewalch's art gallery in autumn 1963, with paintings from 1583 to the present day.