Leif Ahrle Movies
- 1987
In this drama, based on a stage play by Agneta Pleijel, an entire family, including grandparents, their children, and the grandchildren (and their lovers, husbands and wives) have gathered to celebrate the family matriarch's birthday. In this dialogue-heavy production, the celebration provides the discontented family members with an opportunity to voice their complaints about their lives and against one another as loudly as possible. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Sif Ruud, Margareta Byström, (more)
- 1986
Nadja (Lena Olin) is a television reporter who turns down an assignment in Japan to seek revenge against a philandering physician in this uneven drama. Stefan (Svante Martin) is the doctor who had been Nadja's lover 15 years ago before he left without explanation and married another woman. Nadja goes through emotional turmoil as she gathers information on the maternity ward and rekindles her affair with the dashing doctor. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi
- Starring:
- Lena Olin, Svante Martin, (more)
The internationally produced The Inside Man was inspired by a true story. In 1981, a Soviet submarine ran aground on the coast of Sweden. The sub was carrying a hush-hush laser search device, which promptly vanished. In this 1984 recreation of the incident, Dennis Hopper is cast as the CIA agent assigned to track down the missing laser. Aided by young assistant Gosta Ekman Jr., Hopper finds himself in a life-and-death struggle with a variety of foreign agents, each with his own agenda. Hardy Kruger co-stars in this rugged adventure yarn. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Dennis Hopper, Hardy Kruger, (more)
- 1983
In a clichéd, slow rendering of three people caught in a love triangle, Jackie (Pia Green) goes to an island looking for her lover of 10 years previous, Carl-Adam (Stig Engstroem), not knowing that his bride-to-be, the daughter of his boss, is also there with him. The twist is that Carl-Adam and Jackie were once political activists, but now he has become a successful businessman -- so will Jackie and the old politics win the day? A few other sub-plots play out against a backdrop of the good-hearted poor people on the island versus the spoiled and foolish rich visitors. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Starring:
- Pia Green, Stig Engstrom, (more)
- 1981
In a characterization that twists and turns like an insomniac, (Ewa Froeling) does the best she can with the female lead, Sally. The "liberated" Sally (a social worker) first wants to marry, and did marry Jonas, the lawyer. She wanted a child and did have little Mia. She does not want another child, gets pregnant, and gets an abortion without telling Jonas ahead of time. She next wants a divorce, and gets one, leaving with Mia. Then she wants to live together with Simon, a teacher, but does not want to marry him - and she carries that out. Then she wants Mia to live with Jonas, and sends her away. When she sees Jonas is happily married again, and Mia is happy, she wants to be married too. Simon does not. She wants a child. Simon does not. She gets pregnant. Simon does not want the child. She goes for another abortion. To say that Sally does not know her own mind, is to assume that the character has one as she fluctuates between wanting marriage and wanting divorce, wanting a baby and wanting an abortion, not wanting marriage and wanting marriage, not wanting an abortion and not wanting a baby. There are only so many of these combinations that can go around before three lemons come up. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Starring:
- Ewa Fröling, Leif Ahrle, (more)
