TELEPICTURE MARKETING LTD
16 Gun Wharf, 124 Wapping High Street, London E1W 2NJ
Tel: +44 20 7265 1644 Fax: +44 20 7481 2766

IF YOU WOULD LIKE US TO SEND YOU
PRINTED CATALOGUE/S,
AND/OR VIEWING CASSETTE/S
JUST CLICK ON THE E-MAIL ADDRESS BELOW
AND SEND US YOUR REQUEST AND YOUR DETAILS.

MODERN
SCANDINAVIAN
FEATURE FILMS

HIDING BEHIND THE CAMERA part 2

Original Title: MED KAMERAN SOM TRÖST
Released: 2004
Language: Swedish
Duration: 76 mins
Production Company: Bokomotiv De Geer & Olsson
Producer: Freddy Olsson
Director: Carl Johan De Geer
Screenplay, Design, Drawings, Paintings, Photographs: Carl Johan De Geer
Cinematographer: Harry Tuvanen
Cast: Carl Johan De Geer, Pia Johansson, Lil Trulsson Peter Gustavsson

GOTHENBURG FILM FESTIVAL 2004
Best Feature Film

Cameras became my upbringing, my education, my destination. One could regard this as a way of escaping. The darkroom became for me in my youth the place where I could daydream.

As a child I belonged to what you call the upper classes. But this class had no resemblance to the upper classes that I now see depicted in films and television series. I remember the upper classes of my childhood as eccentric. My relatives could have a chauffeur, a gardener, a cook, kitchen maids, parlour maids, and other servants. But they could also go bankrupt, wear threadbare clothes and behave unconventionally, to say the least.

I’ll return to the summer of 1951. My brother was 6, my sister was 10 and I was 12 years old. We lived in a huge flat in a posh area of Stockholm. But in our home nobody had made up the beds for many years. There was dust and dirt everywhere and the dark curtains were always drawn.

There was no food. All people living in the flat were paralysed by migraine attacks. Mother told us children every day that she was very ill. She would soon die. We children wished intensely that it would be true. This gave us a bad conscience, which we continued to have for the additional 50 years that she lived.

How far back do our do our memories go? Are they with us even though we have repressed them? When I was still fairly young I published a photo book with the title “Hiding Behind the Camera part 1”. I did this in order to fix everything with the help of the camera. But it does not work that way.

“Hiding Behind the Camera part 2” is a film.

MY BABY (2003)

Original Title: A FILHA
Language: Portuguese
Duration: 90 mins
Production Company: Ambar Filmes
Director: Solveig Nordlund
Screenplay: Solveig Nordlund
Music: Johan Zachrisson
Cast: Nuno Melo, Joana Bárcia, Margarida Marinho, Cecilia Guimaraes.

Story:
Ricardo Monteiro is a successful television producer specialising in reality shows. He is 45 years old and he has just received an award for the most popular television show of the year, when he receives an ultimatum from his 18-year-old daughter Leonor. If he does not come home that same evening to celebrate her birthday he will never see her again.

Ricardo is distracted by business or other commitments and he is too late for the last flight home. When he returns next day the apartment is empty and Leonor is gone.

At first Ricardo thinks that it is only a game, but there are no phone calls or messages and after a while he gets worried and starts looking for her. He discovers that she has quit school without telling him and that she has lost all contact with her old friends. She has become a complete stranger.

Another girl, more or less of the same age as Leonor, Sara, contacts Ricardo and says that she is a friend of Leonor’s and that she can help him find his daughter. Ricardo is grateful and together they start searching for Leonor in night-clubs and bars, places that Ricardo would never have connected with his daughter.

Slowly the picture he has of Leonor begins to change and it becomes more like Sara. And Sara, whose great ambition is to become a presenter on one of Ricardo’s television shows, encourages this development by pretending to be Leonor. In Ricardo’s mind Sara becomes Leonor. When he locks her in Leonor’s room Sara begins to understand why Leonor has run away..................

A DIFFERENT WAY (2003)

Original Title: HANNAH MED H
Language: Swedish
Duration: 98 mins
Director: Christina Olofson
Production Company: CO.Film
Screenplay: Per Nilsson, Annika Thor
Music: The Knife
Cast: Tove Edfeldt, Joel Kinnaman, Thomas Mork

A new feature film from Christina Olofson the director/producer of TRUTH OR DARE and TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL.

Story:
Hannah is 18 and she has just moved away from home, planning a life on her own. She meets Jens, who pretends to be a teacher and who says that he likes her poems. There are other friends as well like Edin from Bosnia and Andreas, an anti-racist skinhead.

But strange things start to happen. Hannah receives crank phone calls in the middle of the night. She has an uneasy feeling that somebody is watching her. Who and why? Is it somebody she knows?

Hannah finds out that Jens is not a teacher and that Jens is not even his real name. What does he want from Hannah? Things start to look increasingly suspicious when Hannah bumps into “Jens” in Copenhagen......

LOW-FLYING AIRCRAFT (2002)

Original Title: LOW-FLYING AIRCRAFT
Language: Portuguese and some English
Duration: 80 minutes
Production Company: Torromfilm (Sweden), Filmes do Tejo/RTV (Portugal)
Screenplay: Solveig Nordlund, Colin Tucker
based on a short story by J.G. Ballard
Cinematography: Acácio de Almeida
Music: Johan Zachrisson
Cast: Margarida Marinho, Miguel Guilherme, Rui Morrison, Sheila Buchanan

The English writer J.G. Ballard became famous with “Empire of the Sun”. He does not write science-fiction set in outer space or thousands years ahead. He writes stories that are very close to our own time. To close your eyes and imagine how the world would look if……………………is how a Ballard story works.

Story:
It’s not too far in the future, and the world looks much the same as it does today. Except for one thing… There are very few people. And no children at all. It seems that the human race is dying. Perhaps the genetic material has just worn out? Perhaps tampering with the food we eat has played a part?

Very few women are getting pregnant and nobody seems to give birth to normal healthy babies. Judith Foster is a physiotherapist, married to Richard. He’s a civil servant, working for the EU. Judith is still fertile: she has conceived on six occasions already. Each time however pregnancy tests have shown that the child is a mutant, and Judith has been forced, by the law, to abort. Now she conceives again and she thinks - suppose the elaborate tests on the foetus have the effect of causing the mutation to occur? Richard is horrified. He thinks Judith’s argument is nonsense, but his love for her overcomes his resistance.

With the help of a friend, Van Dorn, he obtains the necessary forged papers and takes Judith away from the city to a hotel in a tiny, decaying seaside resort on the fringes of the European continent, where there are no police, no laws. Here Judith will be in the care of the enigmatic Doctor Gould, who seems to accept Judith’s belief that her baby is not a mutation. A rapport springs up between them and Richard begins to become jealous. He is also suspicious of Gould’s other activities - particularly the frequent flights he makes in his small aircraft. Where is Gould going? What is he doing?

And Judith herself becomes increasingly alarmed about her baby. It kicks so powerfully in the womb, as if it wants to harm her. She begins to fear that she’s carrying a monster, begins to hate the baby, begins to hope that it will die………..

TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL (2001)

Original Title: KATTBREVEN
Language: Swedish
Duration: 90 mins
Production Company: CO.Film AB
Producer & Director: Christina Olofson
Screenplay: Annika Thor based on a novel by Elsie Johansson
Cast: Daniela Holm-Verzola, Lia Boysen, Felix Engström, Patricia Otter,
Max Waller-Zandén, Barbro Kollberg,Christina Stenius, Pale Olofsson.
Target Audience: Older children and family viewing.

A new feature film by Christina Olofson and Annika Thor, the team behind the award-winning film “TRUTH OR DARE”

INTERNATIONAL PRESS REVIEWS
Partly a kids’ thriller with supernatural touches, partly the story of a young teen who finally finds her place in life. “Touched by an Angel” again shows helmer Christina Olofson’s natural ease when working with kids and young women. As in her fine film about school bullying, “Truth or Dare”, many of the pic’s virtues lie in the excellent performances from young and inexperienced actors. VARIETY

Story:
13-year-old Sofi has to leave her friends in town and move to a small place in the countryside with her mother and her mother’s new boyfriend. She has difficulty adapting to her new life and feels lonely and unwanted.

In the village Sofi meets an old woman who tells her exiting stories about unsolved mysteries from the village’s past.

Sofi finds an abandoned cat by the name Mitzi. A remarkable cat that receives letter………...

She also finds some strange newspaper cuttings about a theft in a local church and when Mitzi’s previous owner suddenly turns up together with Sofi’s best friend Ubbe, strange things really start happening……

TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL is a magical and exiting story about deceit and how to take responsibility. About being left alone and having the courage to trust others.

MAMY BLUE (2000)

Original Title: MAMY BLUE
Language: Swedish
Duration: 96 mins
Production Company: Strange Production
Producer: Anette Skåhlberg
Script: Anette Skåhlberg
Director: Martin Lima de Faria
Cast: Viveka Seldahl, Göran Engman, Julia Dehnisch, William Svedberg, Kalle Thor, Ann Petrén.

Her only solution was to steal a family

Story:
MAMY BLUE is a suspension drama about a woman (Lena), who loses both her husband and her two children in a car accident. When she wakes up in hospital after a general anaesthetic, she has a furious outburst of anger and despair and she tries to take two newly born babies and leave the hospital.

Six years later and her obsession with the past is still there. Planning her actions very carefully Lena now sets out to kidnap two small children in a park. But that is only the beginning as far as she is concerned. She also needs a husband to create the perfect family and one day she finds him (Torben).

Lena pursues Torben who is flattered, but at the same time slightly worried about the intensity of Lena’s pursuit. After a while Torben also becomes suspicious. Why do the children claim that Lena is not their real mother………..

ABANDONED HOUSES (2000)

Original Title: HYLÄTYT TALOT, AUTIOT PIHAT
Language: Finnish
Duration: 104 mins
Production Company: Jörn Donner Productions
Director: Lauri Törhönen
Based on a novel by: Laila Hietamies
Cinematographer: Robert Nordström
Cast: Jonna Järnefelt, Mats Långbacka, Sari Puumalainen,
Carl-Kristian Rundman.

Also available as a series: 3 x 45 mins

INTERNATIONAL REWARDS:
“GRAND PRIX for Best Feature Film”
“SPECIAL MENTION for Best Original Soundtrack”
Mar del Plata Film Festival 2001, Argentina

Story:
ABANDONED HOUSES is a story about love in the shadow of war. It is 1944 and the place is Karelia in eastern Finland. Finland is at war with Russia.

Martta, a teacher, is pregnant by her boyfriend Aarne, Captain in the Finnish army. They arrange a quick wedding as the Russians are starting a major offensive. Then he has to leave.

The farm where Martta is staying with her in-laws has to be abandoned. They have to flee. The long and dangerous exodus of the Karelian people has begun.

By pure coincidence Martta and a woman friend, Heimi Elisa, are both being caught up in the town of Viborg at the same time as the Russians are approaching…………….

This is not a film about war as such, but rather two love stories set against a background of war.

SEVEN SONGS FROM THE TUNDRA (2000)

Original Title: SEITSEMÄN LAULUA TUNDRALITA
Duration: 90 mins
Language Versions Available:
Nenets and Russian dialogue with English subtitles.
Producer: Jörn Donner Productions Helsinki.
Script: Anastasia Lapsui
Director/Editor: Markku Lehmuskallio and Anastasia Lapsui

Press reviews: This anthology, consisting of seven short stories, takes the viewers to the isolated land of the Nenets, who live, literary, at the top of the world. Fascinating and beautifully made. It’s the small details of Nenet life, captured in grainy B&W images, that fascinate in this strangely beautiful film. (Variety)

INTERNATIONAL AWARDS:
“Grand Prix du Jury – Meilleur Long Métrage Fiction”
International Film Festival in Créteil 2000 (France)

“Nordic Amanda Award – Best Feature Film”
Haugesund 2000 (Norway)

“Best European Feature Film Made in a Lesser Language”
Festival de cinéma de Douarnenez 2000 (France)

The French Press Prize 2001.
800,000 FFr for press advertising for the French theatrical release.

Story:
The Nenets are the people who inhabit the tundra in the far north of Russia.

Filmmakers Anastasia Lapsui and Markku Lehmuskallio made several documentaries about the Nenets in the 1990s, but decided their new film SEVEN SONGS FROM THE THUNDRA, would be largely fictional.

The first story Sacrifice, depicts a chilly winter’s religious ceremony in which a reindeer is sacrificed to the Gods. Next, the Bride explores the traditional pre-Revolution ways of these people. A young girl is supposed to marry a rich man chosen by her widowed mother, but she prefers a local boy and elopes.

The next four stories deal with Soviet communism’s effect on the Nenets. Commissars arrive in the community, demanding the people conform to the new order. The Nenets have difficulty accepting Lenin as a kind of replacement god, and react angrily when their children are taken away to Russian-Soviet schools.

HAPPY END (1999)

Original Title: HAPPY END
Language: Swedish
Duration: 98 mins
Production Company: CO.Film AB
Producer & Director: Christina Olofson
Screenplay: Soni Jörgensen
Editor: Stefan Sundlöf
Cinematographer: Robert Nordström
Cast: Harriet Andersson, Stefan Norrthon, Alexander Skarsgård,
Robert Jelinek, Rebecka Hemse.

VARIETY September 1999:
“..it’s a thoroughly watchable film and Andersson glows in a part that seems to have been written for her.”

“Happy End has its most appealing asset in the performance by veteran Bergman actress Harriet Andersson, who paints a moving portrait…”

“…the story provides ample scope for the two leads to create believable characters. Now 67, Andersson is still a gem.”

Story:
HAPPY END is a story about Lukas (Stefan Norrthon), a self-absorbed young man adrift who meets Marja (Harriet Andersson), an experienced, older woman.

Lukas dreams of becoming a rock star. He escapes the city to his father's holiday flat in Visby, a town on the Baltic island of Gotland. But the flat has been rented out to Marja, an eccentric 69-year-old writer determined to complete her memoirs. Nothing can hold her back, least of all a confused dreamer. Much against their will, a friendship slowly develops. But Marja harbours a secret, and when the truth emerges their friendship is put to the test. Their stay on Gotland takes an unexpected turn....

COMÉDIA INFANTIL – NELIO´s STORY (1998)

Original Title: COMÉDIA INFANTIL
Language: Portuguese
Duration: 92 mins
Producer: Torromfilm, Sweden
Director: Solveig Nordlund, Sweden
Editor: Nelly Quettier, France
Script: based on a novel by Henning Mankell, Sweden
Photography: Lisa Hagstrand, Sweden
Sound: M+E tracks available
Shot on location in Mozambique
Target Audience: Adults and older children

INTERNATIONAL PRESS REVIEWS
Comédia Infantil is a simplistic but charming fable about the spirit of a people devastated by war and the secret strengths in even the most apparently feeble of them.Pic's clean, direct storytelling and elements of magic and spirituality make it appropriate for TV. The kids yearning for such modest rewards as an ID card, a birthday celebration or a night's sleep in a real bed should make it enlightening for young audiences. VARIETY

INTERNATIONAL AWARDS:
CANNES FILM FESTIVAL 1999
“PRIX SPECIAL DU JURY CANNES JUNIOR”

“GULDBAGGE”1999
Nominated Best Swedish Director

INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, CRÉTEIL, FRANCE 1998
“GRAINE DE CINÉPHAGE”

Story:
Nelio is only ten years old but he has the wisdom and experience of a very old man. He has to leave the village where he was born after a terrorist attack. He is taken prisoner of war, but manages to escape. After a long walk he arrives in the big city, where he hides in a hollow statue in the city centre.

Here he becomes a street kid among other street kids. He meets Nascimento, the fighter, who talks with his fists, tormented by the monsters inside his head; Mandioca, who grows tomatoes and onions in his pockets; Bomba, who only has one arm and the quick-witted and spirited albino girl Deolinda, only girl among the boys.

Nelio is the natural leader of the gang and the others believe that he possesses magical powers. Nobody, not even the police, dares to touch him and sick and crippled people come to him to be cured....

TRUTH OR DARE (1997)

Original Title: SANNING ELLER KONSEKVENS
German Title: ICH HÄTTE NEIN SAGEN KÖNNEN
French Title: J´AURAIS PU DIRE NON
Language: Swedish
Duration: 80 mins
Producer: CO.Film, Sweden
Director: Christina Olofson
Script: Annika Thor
Photography: Robert Nordström
Editor: Stefan Sundlöf
Cast: Suzanne Reuter, Carina Lidbom, Tove Edfeld

Christina Olofson´s award-winning feature film.

BERLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 1998
Nominated Best Feature Film, children´s section.
Received a Special Mention by the Childrens' Jury ("Lobende Erwähnung"): We were most impressed by the film’s extraordinarily realistic subject-matter. The actor’s convincing performances made it easy to identify with the various characters.

INTERNATIONAL PRESS REVIEWS
A moving and painfully true portrait of being a teenager and trying to make the right friends, "Truth or Dare" is a perfect film for its target audience, girls in their early teens and their parents. Pic realistically depicts the intrigue that is common at schools of both sexes. Young actors are talented and convincing.

It's certainly the most accomplished film to date by Christina Olofson. Film does not fall into trap of caricaturing the parents. Subject matter is universal.
VARIETY

Story:
Everything is as usual, but nothing is as before. The holidays are over and Nora is starting a new term at school. She is 12 years old and is in the uncertain borderland between childhood and the teenage world.

The trendy Fanny and Sabina are in the leading gang that Nora wants to be with. Karin, is a bit different and a victim of bullying. She wants to be friends with Nora. But does Nora? She is drawn into a spiral of intrigue and secrecy. It becomes more and more difficult to choose....

The film is set in a Swedish city and tells a story of teenage friendship and rivalry, about alienation and the price of friendship.

LINES FROM THE HEART (1996)

Original Swedish Title: I ROLLERNA TRE
Documentary Feature Film
Duration: 75 mins (50 mins version also available)
Producer: Christina Olofson, CO.Film, Stockholm, Sweden
Director: Christina Olofson
Script: Christina Olofson
Photography: Lisa Hagstrand
Editing: Christina Olofson, Stefan Sundlöf
Sound: Wille Peterson-Berger
Music: Johan Zachrisson
Cast: Bibi Andersson, Harriet Andersson, Gunnel Lindblom

International Press Reviews
“Anyone who knows old Swedish movies is sure to get a charge out of LINES FROM THE HEART … would fit neatly into cultural web skeds.” Derek Elley VARIETY

Cuttings from the Swedish Press:
"Three women with intelligence, humour and integrity"
"Entertaining, interesting and beautiful"
"...brings out laughter and admiration"
“They treat us actors as kids, but Ingmar Bergman made us respectable”

Story:
“They treat us actors as kids, but Ingmar Bergman made us respectable.”

A documentary feature film with Ingmar Bergman's three favourite actresses. A rare meeting between Bibi Andersson, Harriet Andersson and Gunnel Lindblom, discussing the art of acting and their own experiences of life over the last four decades. What expectations did they have of their profession when they started and how do they feel now? All three are all still very active professionally.

Almost 30 years ago they participated in THE GIRLS, a film by Mai Zetterling, who died in 1994. As a tribute to her, LINES FROM THE HEART was filmed in Mai's house in Le Mazel, Ardèche, France

MISS AMERIGUA (1994)
Original Title: MISS AMERIGUA
Language: Spanish
Co-Production: Paraguay/Sweden
Drama/Comedy
Duration: 95 mins
Director: Luis R. Vera
Script: Luis Vera, Andres Colman
Cast: Raquel Baeza, Ayesa Frutos, Sonia Marchewka, Hector Silva, Jesus Perez.

"..this satiric film turns up a winner. A fun and sometimes sexy romp about the small-town uproar surrounding a beauty contest" HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

"..reliably amusing. ..could bring LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE fans sniffing." VARIETY

"...sharp, funny and shamelessly sentimental story.." LOS ANGELES TIMES

Story:
MISS AMERIGUA is a satiric tragicomedy that takes place in Paraguay, but it has universal validity. The film pokes fun at vain, greedy and dishonest people everywhere. Miss Amerigua is a story of good vs. evil.

The film starts with a hint of a childhood bond between Evaristo and Maria. This reverie is shaken when the boy witnesses the murder of his activist father at the hands of Amerigua's resident fascist, Col. Banderas. Years later, the grown Evaristo returns with revenge and Maria on his mind. The military regime in Amerigua has recently been deposed.

At first the town doesn't notice his return. Everybody is caught up in the annual beauty contest. This time there is unusual stiff competition between the very grown-up Maria, Evaristo's sexy sister Rosa and Carmen Banderas, haughty daughter of the colonel, who by now owns most of the verdant region......

THE FACELESS MAN (1995)
Original Finnish-Swedish Title: MANNEN UTAN ANSIKTE
Language: Swedish
Drama/Thriller
Duration: 79 mins
Director: Lauri Törhönen
Script: Pertti Takatalo, Lauri Törhönen
Cast: Tom Pöysti, Jonna Järnefelt, Stina Rautelin

"This modest but thoroughly gripping pic is based on a bank holdup and hostage drama that rocked Finland in 1986. Lauri Törhönen's tautly directed thriller should find fest exposure and TV playtime without difficulty"
VARIETY February 1995

Story:
This feature film is based on an actual incident that took place in 1986. The sleepy summer season in Helsinki was rudely shattered by a young man carrying explosives. He entered a suburban branch of a large commercial bank, took hostages, and demanded a large sum of money.

The Finnish police were unaccustomed to this sort of drama, well known in some other countries, and the police team behaved with little psychological insight, possibly pushing the gunman over the edge. Some money was handed over, and a getaway car was arranged. The robber and his three hostages, a young male customer and two of the bank's female employees, drove off and were followed by a convoy of police cars.

A siege ensued. The inevitable happened. At the last moment, the two girls were able to escape before the robber detonated the car, killing himself and his male hostage.

A LIFE FOR THE TAKING - A Case Study (1995)
Original Swedish Title: TAG DITT LIV - en personundersökning
Language: Swedish
Drama/Thriller
Duration:80 mins
Director: Göran du Rées
Script: Göran du Rées, based on the novel UPPKOMLINGARNA by Per Gunnar Evander
Cast: Hans Mosesson, Björn Granath, Barbro Kollberg, Benny Granberg, Nicklas Hald, Annelie Martini, Anna Lindholm, Bibi Nordin.

Story:
Stig and Göran have been friends since 1968. The last time they meet is at an anti-racist demonstration in 1992. Stig is confused and lonely. He is talking about children who live in his basement, but he does not make sense. He writes down his phone number on Göran's hand and asks him to call. Göran never makes that call.

Six months later Göran reads in the paper that his friend Stig has been found dead. According to the police Stig has been dead for three months. When the police decide to close the case Göran starts his own investigation. What has happened to Stig? Has he committed suicide or could he have been murdered?

ANITA (1994)
Original Finnish Title: ANITA
Language: Finnish
Drama
Duration: 85 mins
Director: Peter Lindholm
Script: Peter Lindholm & Olli-Pekka Parviainen
Cast: Liisa Mustonen, Pirkka-Pekka Petelius

"Commercial director Peter Lindholm makes a smooth transition to features with ANITA, a high-gloss, fast-paced caper-crimer about a female con-artist that's solid, if not socko entertainment"
VARIETY June 1994

Story:
Anita is a beautiful young woman who cons others into giving her money until she falls in love with a man like her. Together they prepare a huge scam. Their plans however, take a surprising turn...

GINEVRA (1994)
Original French/German title: GINEVRA
Language: 70% French, 30%German
Drama
Duration: 152 mins
Director: Ingemo Engström
Script: Ingemo Engström
Cast: Amanda Ooms, Serge Maggiani

Ingemo Engström's groundbreaking cult movie FLUCHTWEG NACH MARSEILLE was, for those who remember, one of the highlights of the 1977 Berliane.

Many serious film magazines devoted special sections or whole issues to it and continue to support Engström's highly original work with special care and attention, though she has only made four films in the intervening fifteen years. One of these films is FLUCHT NACH DEN NORDEN with Lena Olin (also distributed by Telepicture Marketing)

Story:
Like the wife of King Arthur in the legend, the main character in GINEVRA, actress Cecilia Linné, is a figure of inspiration torn between two worlds and two men. She gives up her "contract" with society and its entanglement of love, work and money. GINEVRA has to find a new life for herself in order to survive.

SEE YOU TOMORROW MARIO (1994)
Swedish/Portuguese co-production.
Original Portuguese Title: ATÉ AMANHÃ, MÁRIO
Language: Portuguese
Family Film
Duration: 76 mins
Director: Solveig Nordlund
Script: Solveig Nordlund based on a novel by Grete Roulund
Cast: João Silva, Paulo César, Victor Norte, Percy Brandt, Ulla Wikander, Gunnar Nielsen

The Fort Lauderdale Int'l Film Festival wrote: "It was beautifully made, extremely funny and very moving."

"Charming low-budgeter about a day in the life of street urchins on the tourist island Madeira is an appealing combo of indignation and humor. Carefully handled.."
VARIETY April 1994

Story:
The poor children hustle Swedish and other foreign tourists, dive for coins and generally try for the best life possible. Now that his father has died Mario, the main character, has to support his brother and his sister while their mother is in hospital. When he grows up, he wants to become a whale hunter, but nobody hunts whales anymore.

RIPA HITS THE SKIDS (1993)
Original Finnish Title: RIPA RUOSTUU
Language: Finnish
Drama/Comedy
Duration: 80 mins
Director: Christian Lindblad
Script: Christian Lindblad
Cast: Sam Huber, Mari Vainio, Merja Larivaara

"It´s a film that may repel many people, but could become a cult item" VARIETY

Story:
Ripa is in his early thirties, a young man a bit confused in this strange world. He has a lot of energy but no patience. He's hot on music videos, women and beer. He has a background as a film maker and willingly calls himself a film director. But, despite his energy, he is not able to fulfil any of his many ideas as they never last for more than a moment. In fact, his brain works like a music video; the boundaries of reality and imagination are beginning to dissolve in his mind.

GOODBYE TRAINMEN (1992)
Original Finnish Title: VETURIMIEHET HEILUTTAA
Language: Finnish
Drama
Duration: 86 mins
Director: Kari Paljakka
Script: Juha Lehtovuori
Cast: Santeri Kinnunen, Samuli Edelmann, Liisa Mustonen

"A well-acted, downbeat drama about friendship" VARIETY

Story:
Vähy and Hapa grew up by the railway in a small provincial town. They met at the age of seven. During the wild years of youth they were inseparable, but on the threshold of adulthood their lives took different directions. The final separation was unavoidable.

GOODBYE TRAINMEN is a story about friendship, deceit and man's growth to adulthood. In order to survive and grow up, a man must give up some of his dreams of youth. The decision is sometimes cruel and painful, but life is too.

IL CAPITANO (1991)

JAN TROELL´s AWARD-WINNING FEATURE FILM

Original Swedish Title: IL CAPITANO

Language: Swedish and Finnish
Drama

Script: Per-Olov Enquist, Jan Troell, Göran Zetterberg

Director: Jan Troell

Producer: Panfilm AB in co-production with the Swedish Film Institute, B.T.S. Productions AB, AB Film-Teknik and Four Seasons Venture Capital.

Duration: 105 mins

Cast: "Jari" - Antti Reini, "Minna" - Maria Heiskanen

The film is based on an actual incident in July 1988.

"... as strong in thriller melodrama values as Bonnie and Clyde..."
HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

"... will attract considerable international interest."
VARIETY

Story:
On a warm Summer evening in a tiny village in Northern Sweden, two young Finns, in their early 20s, steal a bicycle. A simple, almost everyday crime, but the theft has fatal consequences: a whole family is murdered.

VIOLET BAY (1991)
Original title: VIOLBUKTEN/MENEKSE KOYU
Language: Turkish
Drama
Duration: 90 mins
Director: Barbro Karabuda
Script: Barbro Karabuda, Yasar Kemal
Cast: Sven Wollter, Türkan Soray, Macit Koper

Story:
A drama set in a small fishing village on the edge of the Black Sea in Turkey. In a time of great change - with cities growing, with women painfully stepping out of their traditional roles, with East meeting West - an idealistic fisherman, Kerem, settles on Violet Bay in hopes of finding a new way of life. But his dreams are soon shattered when the hut he builds for his family is torn down by order of the local municipality. His wife Neriman, unable to endure the hardships, leaves for Germany to find work, leaving behind an embittered Kerem. His disillusionment drastically alters Kerem's personality, rendering him almost satanic as he retreats into his shell and has an affair with a girl of the village. And then, one day, Neriman returns from Germany - with a baby in her arms.

MIDSUMMER (1991)
Original Title: MIDSOMMAR
Language: Swedish
Family/Youth feature film
Comedy
Duration: 74 minutes
Director: Judith Hollander
Script: Judith Hollander
Cast: Mona Seilitz, Regina Lund, Fredrika Palmstierna, Mimi Pollak.

Story:
It is Midsummer's Eve and 12-year old Dagny is feeling a bit sad. Her daddy has left the country and she and her younger brother are living with their mother, who is running a large camping site. A big party is planned for later that day.

Dagny is picking seven different flowers to put under her pillow, as the tradition says. If she can keep quiet until next day all her dreams will come true. Her silence however will cause major upheaval....

HONEY WOLVES (1990)
Original Swedish Title: HONUNGSVARGAR
Language: Swedish and some English
Duration: 98 mins
Drama
Director: Christina Olofson
Script: Christina Olofson and Annika Thor based on a novel by Sun Axelsson
Cast: Maria Grip, Johan Rabaeus, Nicolas Chagrin

Story:
Mignon is a young modern woman, full of curiosity and ambition, yet fearful, vulnerable and adrift. She wants to be a writer and looks to men (the honey wolves) for support in art, love and passion.

THE RABBIT MAN (1990)

Original Swedish Title: KANINMANNEN

Language: Swedish
Thriller

Director: Stig Larsson

Script: Stig Larsson

Cast: Börje Ahlstedt, Stina Ekblad, Leif André

Duration: 100 mins

Story:
What do you do when you realise that your own son might be a dangerous rapist?

Bengt Nääs has worked all his life as a newspaper reporter.

He is now working for TV9, a new television station, famous for their coverage of crime, rape etc. "This is what people enjoy watching on television", he says.

Through his contacts with the police he slowly begins to suspect that his own son (Hans) may be a rapist. Being divorced he has not seen his son a lot, and he does not really know him.

Could it really be true? His own flesh and blood. What is happening? It is like a nightmare.

S/Y JOY (1989)
Original Swedish Title: S/Y GLÄDJEN
Language: Swedish
Drama
Duration: 98 mins
Director: Göran du Rées
Script: Göran du Rées/Inger Alfvén
Cast: Lena Olin, Stellan Skarsgård, Viveka Seldahl

Story: Annika and Klas have gone through a difficult time in their marriage. In an attempt to solve the crisis and begin a new life they buy a second-hand yacht, the S/Y JOY, with which they intend to sail around the world. The S/Y JOY has a strange history.

Its previous owners were caught in a hurricane in the Bay of Biscay and only two members of the family survived. Annika is intrigued by this fatal accident and endeavours to find out what happened.

ISTANBUL - KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN (1989)

Original Swedish Title:
ISTANBUL - KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN

Language: English
Thriller

Duration: 86 mins.

Director: Mats Arehn

Script: Mats Arehn, Bo Sigvard Nilsson, Thomas Samuelsson

Cast: Twiggy, Timothy Bottoms, Robert Morley, Lena Endre,

Sverre Anker Ousdal.

Story: Frank Collins (Timothy Bottoms) is an American journalist living and working in Sweden. When his wife's ex-husband disappears in Turkey in mysterious circumstances he decides to go to Istanbul to unravel the strange disappearance. He brings his daughter.

Possibly the only clue lies in a video cassette they received prior to the disappearance.

On arriving in Turkey events take a dangerous turn when they meet the ambiguous and beautiful Maud (Twiggy) and they find themselves implicated in a ruthless political murder with perilous repercussions.

ANGEL (1989) (Production 1983-89)

Original Swedish Title: ÄNGEL

Language: Swedish
Drama

Duration: 78 mins.

Director: Stig Larsson

Script: Stig Larsson

Cast: Kim Kuusisto, Leif Andree, Helena Bergström

Story: Kim is a self centred young man living outside society. He looks like an angel with his blond hair, but he is an angel without Heaven. Wherever he goes he brings destruction.

One evening he gains access to the home of a highly respectable young couple who are having a party.....

PS LAST SUMMER (1988)

Original Swedish Title: PS SISTA SOMMAREN

Language: Swedish
Drama

Duration: 100 mins.

Director: Thomas Samuelsson

Script: Thomas Samuelsson

Cast: Susanne Alfvengren, Patrik Stenman, Ulf Larsson, Lena Nilsson

Very good reviews in VARIETY. In ten weeks more than USD 2,500.000 gross in Sweden and 105,000 soundtracks sold.

Story: Two boys, Malte and Kranken, are both 17 years old. They are tired of school and unemployed, but they have an enormous appetite for life and are filled with vitality and curiosity. Then Lisa turns up and comes between them.

They become involved in an intricate triangle of emotions in which they share the joys of love, sex and dreams - and suffer the pains, rage and frustrations of jealousy. As their feelings for each other vacillate between hot and cool, playful and serious, their love and friendship are put to a cruel test. All three are on the verge of adulthood and they live as though life was as short as the summer itself.

ONE WAY TICKET (1988)

Original Swedish Title: ENKEL RESA

Language: Swedish
Comedy

Director: Hans Iveberg

Script: Hans Iveberg

Cast: Sven Wollter, Inger Lise Rypdal, Jan Teigen, Dan Ekborg, Sif Ruud, Gösta Engström, Sten Åke Cederhök, Jarl Borssen.

Story: A man (Sven Wollter) has just been released from prison. He has decided to start an honest life and he has borrowed a large sum of money which he has invested on the stock market. By making a considerable profit he figures he would have enough capital to start a new life. However things do not turn out as planned, and the shares fall in value.

To make things worse, the loan sharks want their money back. And now they are chasing him....

One last "job" in his old profession, something big, seems like the only solution.....

Some very expensive jeweller will be on the next ferry from Finland to Sweden. But he is not the only man who has found out about it......

ABOUT LOVE (1987)

Original Swedish Title: OM KÄRLEK

Language: Swedish
Drama/Romance

Duration: 100 mins.

Director: Mats Arehn

Script: Mats Arehn, Thomas Samuelsson

Cast:Sven Wollter, Linn Stokke, Sverre Anker Ousdal

Shot in Sweden and Spain (Mallorca).

Story: Peter, a photographer, suddenly sees Helene through his camera lens. Her picture becomes engraved in his camera and in his hart. Their eyes meet and the world comes to a standstill.

This is the beginning of a story about Peter and his passion for Helene. He is infatuated by this woman - or is it by the picture of her? Who is she? Peter pursues Helene from the beautiful summer city of Stockholm to the sunny island of Mallorca.

A film about love without limits.

MASCHENKA (1987)

Original English Title: MASCHENKA

Language: English
Drama

Duration: 103 mins

Director: John Goldsmidt

Script: John Mortimer based on a novel by Vladimir Nabokov

Cast: Cary Elwes, Irina Brook, Jean-Claude Brialy

Story: Berlin in 1925. A young Russian soldier (Ganin) is living in a rundown boarding house. Looking at some old photographs he is being reminded of times gone by and his first love.

These memories help him escape a drab existence in Berlin and make him dream about a better and happier future. Ganin's dream is called "Maschenka": She represents the ultimate happiness in a perfect world.

MASCHENKA is a film based on a autobiographic novel by Vladimir Nabokov: a film about love, women and memories.

The English script is written by John Mortimer.

A WOMAN IS A RISKY BET - six orchestra conductors (1987)
Original Swedish Title: DIRIGENTERNA
German Title: EINE FRAU IST IMMER EIN RISIKO
Language: Swedish, English, Norwegian and Russian.
Drama
Duration: 80 mins
Director: Christina Olofson
Script: Christina Olofson
Cast: Kerstin Nerbe, Victoria Bond; Joann Falletta, Veronika Dudarova, Ortrud Mann, Camilla Kolchinsky

A WOMAN IS A RISKY BET has been sold to television in many countries including USA and the UK.

"A feature film about orchestra conductors - the idea is ridiculous. But when the final frame faded, I was happy that such a ridiculous idea was actually carried through, since it turned out to be a stroke of genius"
AFTONBLADET

"Christina Olofson has made a fascinating film. It is fascinating because it gets so close to the process of conducting...The viewer is gripped."
SVENSKA DAGBLADET

Story: A WOMAN IS A RISKY BET is about women who share a passion; who are obsessed with their work and who have the courage to break with existing values and accept challenge. It is about not giving up; protecting your own life-force and believing in change. The six women are all pioneers, breaking their way into the men's world. Many orchestras are extremely conservative; many even ban female conductors.

Conductors need extremely high competence, personality and absolute belief both in themselves and their ability to gain the attention and respect of orchestras. What drives these women, despite the problems, sacrifices and all the opposition, is their great and common love of music.

THE UNDRESSING (1986)

Original Finnish Title: RIISUMINEN

Swedish Title: AVKLÄDNINGEN

Language: Finnish
Drama

Duration: 90 mins

Script: Lauri Törhönen

Director: Lauri Törhönen

Cast: Erkki Saarela, Eeva Eloranta

"The Undressing is a gripping drama played out between two players almost entirely within the confines of a Helsinki hotel room. Despite these limitations, the film is never dull and director Lauri Törhönen keeps it from seeming theatrical or looking like a small-screen fodder. This is an impressive battle of the sexes, a small-scale film with plenty of power and potency. It should be viewed by those on the lookout for original, exciting material"
VARIETY

Story: The man in question is a minister in the government, member of a left-wing party who has gone stale over the years and softened his principles. He accidentally meets a woman he hasn't seen for 10 years. Though he is married and an important man in the community, he unhesitatingly takes her to a hotel.

He accuses her of being an unrelenting communist and she accuses him of betraying his formerly held beliefs. She also accuses him of male chauvinism, hypocrisy and ultimately, desertion as she reveals something he never knew: that she had a daughter by him......

TROUBLE AT THE THEATRE (1985)

Original Swedish Title: TEATERTERRORISTERNA

Language: Swedish
Comedy

Duration: 80 mins.

Director: Mats Arehn

Script: Mikael Segerström

Cast: Mikael Segerström, Ann Petrén

Story: The small fringe theatre company is on the verge of going bankrupt.
The two actors are ready for the evening's performance. There is only one problem. Where is the audience?

In the meantime people keep phoning them trying to get tickets for another performance, given by an established and highly successful theatre company. It appears that their telephone numbers have been switched in the local press.

However, ONE person has bought tickets to the evening's performance. While they are waiting for him to turn up the bailiff pays them a visit......

ESCAPE TO THE NORTH (1985)

German-Finnish co-production

Original German Title: FLUCHT IN DEN NORDEN

Language: German
Drama

Duration: 130 mins

Script: Ingemo Engström based on a novel by Klaus Mann

Director: Ingemo Engström

Cast: Lena Olin, Katharina Thalbach, Tom Pöysti,

Käbi Laretei, Juuka-Pekka Palo

Story:: Summer 1933. Johanna, a young woman resistance fighter, flees from Germany with the intention of travelling via Finland to join her comrades-in-arms in France. She encounters Ragnar, who for many years has led an unsettled life on the continent, and who is unable to come to terms with his role as an estate owner. Like her but unlike his brother, he is uncompromising in his rejection of Fascism.

Ragnar and Johanna plunge into a passionate love affair. Confronted with Ragnar's demand for directness, her political goals which had previously seemed so clear, now begin to lose their reality. Together with Ragnar she sets out on a journey to the North.

As a result of the impressions gained during her journey and the conflict in her love affair, not merely does Johanna's political goal become more and more alien, but life itself.

In Ragnar's eyes Johanna's political commitment is nothing but a loss. Driven by Ragnar, the journey turns into a different kind of flight. Their feelings fluctuate from intimacy to alienation, from coalescence to detachment, and in Johanna's case culminate in a wish for death....

BUDDIES (1984)

Original Swedish Title: DÖDSPOLARE

Language: Swedish
Thriller/Comedy

Duration: 85 mins.

Director: Mats Arehn

Script: Mats Arehn, Rolf Börjlind

Cast: Gösta Ekman, Sten Ljunggren

Story: The morning after a boozing party with his pals, Torbjörn Skytt, hangover and miserable, finds a woman on his sofa. Beautiful and seemingly asleep....but not so...she is dead!

DIRTY STORY (1984)

Original Swedish Title: DIRTY STORY

Language: Swedish
Drama

Duration: 98 mins

Script: Jörn Donner

Director: Jörn Donner

Cast: Erland Josephson, Charlotta Larsson, Nils Brandt,

Agneta Ekmanner, Lasse Pöysti

Story: Gabriel Berggren is managing director of a big company, United Metal. He is a 62 year old gentleman with greying hair. Gabriel is a hero only because he suffers from small breaches in style, conceals his suffering under scarcely discernible disapproval; is always a little ashamed of his power and wealth, and tries to hide it behind his discrete behaviour and colourless appearance.

One day Gabriel discovers his closest colleague, the chairman of the board Erik Anders, dead in his room at the office.

Gabriel's first reaction is: why did you have to leave me just now? There is battle in progress in the boardroom of the company. On the same day Gabriel's wife of some twenty years of marriage leaves for Paris.

Gabriel is left alone, both at home and at work. At this moment of his life Gabriel meets Camilla - a 22 year old student temporarily working at the head office of United Metal. In his loneliness and uncertainty he falls a little in love with her and takes a few hesitant steps away from his accustomed life towards Camilla's world. But Camilla, with the remorselessness of youth, wants "all or nothing".

ANGELA'S WAR (1984)

Original Swedish Title: ANGELAS KRIG

Language: Swedish (some dialogue in German)
Drama

Duration: 97 mins

Script: Eija-Elina Bergholm based on a novel by Jörn Donner

Director: Eija-Elina Bergholm

Cast: Erland Josephson, Jörn Donner, Ida-Lotta Backman,

Birgitta Ulfsson

Story: The time is late 1943. Angela is a woman in her late thirties. Finland, allied with Germany, is at war with the Russians. Like other Finnish women of her age, Angela has to help the war effort and is sent to a Finnish-German military hospital in Lapland. She encounters a wounded German officer, Thomas Schmidt, who has apparently contracted amnesia.

Angela already has two men in her life - Bengt, a Finnish officer fighting on the front and Gabriel, her aunt's ex-husband. But against her will, she becomes involved with the German too.

She leaves Lapland and Thomas follows her but is repatriated. Angela is carrying Thomas' child and wants to marry him.

Her lawyer, however, finds that she has "Jewish blood", as the Nazis say. Her world falls apart and she has a miscarriage. Bengt, the Finnish officer is killed in action and Thomas is reported missing.

Politics take a hand in events: Finland severs relations with Germany, Thomas becomes an enemy.

Finland makes peace with the Russians and Angela's family holds a party to celebrate. At the party Angela runs into Gabriel again but continues to miss Thomas.....

WHERE WERE YOU JACOB? (1983)

Original Swedish Title: JACOB SMITAREN

Language: Swedish
Drama/Thriller

Duration: 80 mins

Script: Göran du Rées, Roland Janson, Christina Olofson

Director: Göran du Rées

Cast: Roland Janson, Sven Wollter, Hans Mosesson,

Margita Ahlin

Story: One day Jacob Andersson learns that his daughter Camilla has been found dead in mysterious circumstances. Jacob breaks down completely. He discovers that for forty years he has been making a swindle of his own life. He has been tricked and cheated by himself.

Jacob has never really given a thought to his life. He has slackly accepted what has happened and dodged all responsibility. That is why his wife left him and took their daughter with her after the divorce. Jacob has never been in close touch with Camilla, merely dreamed of her and longed for her.

Jacob begins to enquire into Camilla's life. He does not like what he finds and it throws him into an overwhelming rage. Under the decent surface there is another Jacob....

THE PAINTER (1982)

Original Swedish Title: MÅLAREN

Language: Swedish
Drama

Duration: 90 mins

Script: Göran du Rées

Director: Göran du Rées
Cast: Kent Andersson, Hans Mosesson, Hans Wiktorsson,
Sten Ljunggren, Anneli Martini

Story: When his shift finishes and daylight dies, his second life begins......There is no way he is going to die curious.

This is the story of Stig F Dahlman. By day he is a factory worker, at night he paints. In an age when indifference creeps in under our skin and cold darkness enfolds us, Stig Dahlman wants to create a world of beauty.

Stig is surrounded by scornful workmates, all prey to the first commandment of the Royal Swedish Code of Envy. "Don't Pretend You Are Better Than Anyone Else".

Stig's best friend dies at his machine on the factory floor, and Stig knows he can no longer lead a double life.....

SADDLED WITH A GIRL (1982)

Original Swedish Title: EN FLICKA PÅ HALSEN

Language: Swedish
Comedy

Duration: 90 mins.

Director: Tomas Löfdahl

Script: Tomas Löfdahl

Cast: Gösta Ekman, Björn Skifs, Gösta Engström

A thrilling, crazy, heart-warming comedy for all the family. Awarded the "CIFEJ" JURY's PRIZE at GIFFONI FILM FESTIVAL 1983 (Italy).

Story:: The young chemist has got it made if he can come up with the right chemical formula in time. He goes home to work on the project in piece and quiet. And there is Pia!

Seems her daddy is having problems with loan sharks. So he has skipped - leaving Pia in the care of their nice neighbour, the chemist. It is not long before the hoods are after Pia. They figure all they have to do is grab her and dad will come running. Pia resents always being locked in when the chemist goes off to work. She wants to have fun, and she keeps escaping.

After a madcap finale everything comes to a happy end.

MEN CAN'T BE RAPED (1978)

Original Swedish Title: MÄN KAN INTE VÅLDTAS

Language: Swedish
Drama

Duration: 98 mins

Script: Jörn Donner based on a novel by Märta Tikkanen published in English as "Manrape"

Cast: Anna Godenius, Gösta Bredefeldt, Toni Regnér,

Göran Schauman

Music performed by Lill Lindfors

Story:: A woman waits at a police station. She has come to report a crime. Here begins the story of Eva Randers, a divorced librarian with a teenage son on the eve of her fortieth birthday.

To celebrate her birthday, Eva invites a female colleague, Agneta, to have dinner at a restaurant. A man , Martin Wester, asks Eva to dance. He orders drinks for the women but Agneta is not impressed. She goes home.

Vaguely stirred by the man, by the evening, by the fact of her birthday Eva follows the stranger to his apartment for a cup of coffee. He starts seducing her. She tries to fight him off, running to the balcony. The man looses his temper and hits her almost unconscious. Then he rapes her on the living room sofa, leaving her lying there, and goes to his bed to sleep.

Eva's first reactions to the rape are deep shock and humiliation. But gradually from her shock and shame, a decision is born. She begins a systematical search for the rapist, of whom she knows nothing, not even his name.

Eva follows Martin Wester wherever he goes. One evening she waits outside his apartment, disguised in a wig. Suddenly she decides to face the situation. She removes the wig, rings at his door and when he answers, enters the apartment. She tells the man who she is, why she has come, and drawing a gun says: "I'm going to rape you Martin Wester".

At the police station a bored officer comments : Men Can't Be Raped.

BOXING
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILMS

BATTLE OF THE CHAMPIONS (MÄSTARNAS MATCH), 1959. The fight between heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson (USA) and the challenger Ingmar Johansson (Sweden) at Yankee Stadium in New York in June 1959. Johansson’s power stuns the world and he beats Patterson.

PUNCH BY PUNCH (SLAG FÖR SLAG), 1958. Ingmar Johansson (Sweden) vs. Eddie Machen (USA) in Gothenburg in 1958. Machen was knocked out in the second round by Johansson. Other fights: Lennart Risberg vs. Albert Douschka, Thörner Åhsman vs. Edgardo Romeo, Hans Friedrich vs. Joey Armstrong, Benny Wise vs. Bert Whitehurst.

THE HAMMER OF THOR (HÅRDA BANDAGE), 1960. Interviews from 1960 with Ingmar Johansson before his fight to defend his world champion title against the challenger Floyd Patterson. Sequences from the fight with Patterson in 1959. Other fights: light-heavyweights Risberg (Sweden) vs. Whittaker (England) and heavyweights Åhsman (Sweden) vs. Alonzo Johnson (USA)

RINGSIDE, 1960. The return fight between the champion Ingmar Johansson and the former champion Floyd Patterson, which Johansson lost at Polo Grounds in New York in 1960.

WE LICENSE THE ENTIRE FILMS, LONGER SEQUENCES OR SHORT CLIPS.

Other catalogues Back to first page