Ingvar Hirdwall Trailers
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Ingvar Hirdwall (December 5, 1934 – April 6, 2023) was born in Stockholm, and was educated at Gothenburg City Theatre stage school 1957-1960. Since the early 1960s until his death he has been active as an actor in many films, TV series and on theatrical stages, mainly Stockholms stadsteater. He is well known in Sweden, was often portraying obstinate or strange characters, like the eccentric neighbor in the many Swedish Martin Beck TV-movies made from 1997 on. He was also often in director Lars Molin's productions. In December 1993, Hirdwall played the leading role in the Swedish TV company SVT's annual children's Christmas “Advent calendar” - Tomtemaskinen (The mechanical santa), one of the Pettson and Findus stories by Sven Nordqvist - with one 15-minute part shown each day up until Christmas Eve. Hirdwall played the character of Pettson.
Hirdwall received the Swedish Guldbagge Award for Best Actor at the 17th Guldbagge Awards for Barnens ö (Children's Island) and the Thaliapriset prize in 1993.
Hirdwall was married to the actress Marika Lindström. They have two children, director Jacob Hirdwall and actress Agnes Hirdwall.
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17 May 1972
A satire of the welfare society showing the mechanical nature of the elderly care.
27 February 2009
Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker. In the opening of the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged publisher for the magazine Millennium, loses a libel case brought by corrupt Swedish industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström.
24 February 1982
Five men with roots in a political youth organization reunite after 30 years for a collective manifestation/celebration march through the forest.
06 January 1983
The film depicts a stubborn farmer who refuses to adapt to new rules that require him to leave his milk on the village common milk stool instead of his own.
13 January 2005
On September 28th, 1994, two Swedish men robbed a bank in the small Norwegian town of Larvik. Soon, with a massive police hunt underway, the robbers ended up taking two civilians and two police officers hostage.
01 April 2016
Two traffic officers on a quiet morning shift try to stop a car for speeding. When the car finally pulls over, the driver gets out and shoots at them, killing one of the officers in cold blood.
31 July 2003
Tobias is the new, idealistic priest in a suburb but he soon learns that his flock is quite uninterested in Christianity.
18 February 1987
Spring 1944 - shortage of fuel, refugees, antisemitism and Swedish home made nazism. Eleven year old Ragnar grows up in a home where the parents look forward to a Nazi power takeover in Sweden.
09 October 2025
Stall-Erik och snapphanarna is a Swedish film project that began filming in 1996 with a preliminary premiere in 2025.
01 March 1965
A young woman gets tired of society's patriarchal order and women's sexual bondage.
08 April 1974
Based on play by famous swedish author/playwright August Strindberg adapted for swedish TV in 70's. It's about the real life assassination on swedish king Gustav III who was killed by a lieutenant Jacob Johan Anckarström who acted on behalf of a group conspirators.
21 October 1962
Youth criminals Fredriksson and Bergström are taken to the police station on suspicion of robbery and manslaughter.
27 February 1998
When the police reveal a narcotic smuggling the driver is shot dead. It appears that the driver is Superintendent Martin Beck's son.
22 November 2009
Carl-Ivar Nilsson was an actor in the series "Hem till byn", but he carried a big secret that was revealed to a shocked family 1985.
28 March 2015
An elderly woman dies in a hospital in Stockholm and it turns out that she suffered from an incurable disease.
22 August 2007
A teenage girl is found by her parents brutally raped and murdered in the woods. It's now up to Beck and his team to catch the criminal.
17 April 2002
A series of grisly murders where the victims faces have been removed by acid starts to turn up around Stockholm.
20 March 2002
A man is raping women after having met them through ads on public noticeboards. At first this seems like an easy crime to solve for Martin Beck and his colleagues but they soon discover that somebody's motivations are far more complex.
12 December 2001
It's a dark night in Stockholm. A chef is murdered in his own kitchen and Martin Beck gets on the case.
27 June 1997
A man working at a garbage incinerator discovers the body of a dead man burned to ashes in the oven. Police detective Martin Beck handles the case.
25 December 1980
Reine is supposed to go to a summer camp called Children's Island but decides to remain in Stockholm over the summer while his mother is working at a hospital.
01 October 1976
When an inspector is murdered in hospital, the investigation led by Detective Martin Beck uncovers reports of misconduct and possibly revenge.
19 April 2004
Mick and his brother Aston live alone together in a West London house until one night Aston brings home Davies, who just left his job as a kitchen helper at a restaurant.
12 March 1996
In this Swedish TV drama, a once-kittenish young woman has become a fortyish spinster, still helping her widowed father on the family farm.
16 January 2002
An Asian woman is found dead in the water of Stockholm's archipelago. She has been murdered and everything indicates that she was a prostitute.
30 November 1996
About the individuals who live in a mad-house. This kind of people usually seem to be quite normal. However, from one scene to another they may dramatically change, thereby revealing their deep problems with themselves and the society they cannot live in anymore.
28 June 2006
An abused woman is feverishly sought by police in the murder of her ex-husband but is being hidden by abused woman-advocates.
27 June 2001
Two patrolling cops stumble on to three criminals who have just stolen large amounts of explosives, and are killed in cold blood.
07 March 1997
"Th Head of a Woman" - "In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
30 November 1986
The King is about to visit a small town, and everyone is excited to prepare for the event. Everyone but Egon Karlsson, vice municipal commissioner and and member of the Republican Association.
21 March 2015
The bodies of two buried men are found and despite persistent attempts, they cannot be identified. When another man is murdered they discover new evidence that soon leads them to an Islamist terrorist cell.
06 November 2006
A small girl is found dead in a deserted underground cellar. She has been dead for some time but there is fresh food for her.
04 September 2004
Documentary about actor and writer Kent Andersson for his 70th birthday.
19 September 1998
A serial killer that decapitates people is on the loose in the Stockholm subway. Martin Beck and his colleagues try to catch the killer, while the panic in the city increases.
25 August 2009
When the charred remains of woman are found, Säpo, the Swedish Security Services, suspect Gunvald Larsson of being mixed up in her murder.
17 September 2007
Two young girls are killed on railway by a passing train. It does not seem to fit the profile of a normal suicide.
12 October 1984
On 13 December (St Lucy's Day), a bandit daringly robs a crowded post office. Within a fortnight, two witnesses are dead.
21 February 2007
The murder of a prominent attorney is connected to one of his recent cases, in which a company was being sued for serious environmental damage.
10 January 2015
When a well-known crime boss is murdered by a sniper in front of his family, Beck and his team are challenged to discover which one of his many enemies could be responsible for the crime.
21 June 2010
In a playground in the centre of the urban idyll, the police find a buried wooden box containing a famous and well-respected prosecutor.
27 March 1998
In this film Beck and his team are trying to find a serial killer, whose victims are spread all over Sweden.
28 May 1998
A bomb threat is called in to a police station in Stockholm. The police bomb squad blows the briefcase to pieces and it looks like false alarm, until a baby is found inside.
06 June 2007
After a woman buys a Japanese shunga painting from an auction and later is found murdered in a hotel in Stockholm, the police gets dragged into a murder investigation where they meet the dark side of the art world.
27 August 2001
A man is found dead, stabbed to death with a knife. The chocking thing is that his face has been removed.
10 April 2002
Mother of an autistic boy is found murdered in her home. The boy holds the murder weapon, covered in blood.
17 January 2007
Swedish politician John Veden vanishes without a trace. There's no hint he's dead yet but Beck's team gets the case due to Police Chief Oberg's friendship with the man whom she dined with him the evening before he vanished.
03 June 1998
A gay police officer's double life is paid by Becks archenemy, Gavling. A man who runs Stockholm's underworld.
10 November 2007
A paparazzi photographer gets brutally murdered in Stockholm. His apartment is searched and the computer together with photo equipment is missing.
01 January 2015
The body of a young woman is found in a Stockholm hotel room. It appears that she has been strangled after a night partying with two young men, but the room was paid for using the credit card of a mugging victim whose alibi doesn't add up.
13 February 2002
Martin Beck, Gunvald Larsson and Alice Levander investigate the mysterious murder of an accountant that was found shot to death at the airport parking.
06 October 1989
14 year old Sven is a technical genius, who has rebuilt an old caravan into a radio communication center.
17 December 1997
Beck and his men investigates a murder of a Russian woman. At the same time as SÄPO (The Swedish Security Agency) sees a chance of getting a Russian in the embassy deported.
07 December 2024
In the documentary Beck: Behind the Scenes we get an exclusive insight into the production of the latest Beck films (51 and 52).
25 December 2005
The teenage girl Vera left her family after an incident at home, and is now living with a middle-aged drug addict, Morgan, who is using her as a prostitute to get money for drugs and debts.
19 December 1969
The relationship between a young couple with a child is stagnating.
08 April 1998
Inspector Beck and his team get involved in a large-scale smuggling of cesium 133. A gang from the east uses refugees who with a promise to stay in Sweden and with danger to their own life take in the dangerous explosive chemical substance.
22 September 1996
The 1930s. Sidner's mother Solveig dies in a very unfortunate bicycle accident involving some cows. Sidner, his sister and his father Aron move to Sunne to work at a hotel.
23 December 1989
When the war breaks out, Annika lives with her parents in Värmland, close to the border to Norway. Her cousin Harald is a dealer in the black market but has to escape from the police to Norway.
10 March 1998
Ester is the perfect grandmother everyone expects her to be. But she unexpectedly inherits an old aunt and gets a big apartment and a lot of money.
