Johanna Hald Movies
- 2003
Colin Nutley's prequel to his 2001 film Deadline, Paradise tells the story of how tabloid reporter Annika Bengtzon (Helena Bergström) cracked her first big story. On the low-end of the totem pole at the tabloid where she is employed, Annika receives a call from Rebecca Björkstig (Lisa Nilsson) encouraging her to write a story about a domestic abuse protection and recovery foundation known as Paradise. Having had first-hand experience with that problem, Annika is sympathetic to Paradise's aims. After taking a call from a distressed woman named Aida (Suzanna Dilber) in which Aida claims to have an abusive significant other, Annika puts Aida into the Paradise program. However, Annika does some investigative work and discovers that Aida may be involved in a shooting and that Paradise may not be what it seems. Paradise is an adaptation of one of a popular series of novels written by Liza Marklund. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Helena Bergström, Niklas Hjulstrom, (more)
- 1997
Kalle Blomkvist is only twelve, but this doesn't make him any less effective when he becomes a freelance private detective. He and his buddies band together to solve a murder. One of them has witnessed something so important that the murderer has tried to poison the girl with some doctored chocolates. Their investigation leads them to confront the culprit in a scary abandoned house. The story is based on 1940s-era children's novels by Astrid Lindgren. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- 1992
In this children's feature based on one of the well-loved stories of octogenarian Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren, Lotta is a willful five-year-old girl who is in trouble with her parents because she won't stop saying a bad word, and they keep scolding her for it. Perhaps she will run away. But then, how would she get to see her loving grandparents, or eat waffles in the lovely garden of her family home? And what would become of her efforts to learn how to ride a bicycle without using training wheels? Adults with a low boredom threshold should be forewarned: this feature is aimed strictly at younger audiences. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- 1990
Inger (Helena Bergström), a single mother, has decided to return to her father's home from her life in Stockholm and sort out her life. Unfortunately, her father has grown restless, too, and is planning to sell the family house and move away, so she cannot stay long. To pass the time, she hangs out at the local dance hall. There, she dangles one man on a leash while she courts the drummer in the dance-hall band (Carl Kjellgren). She thinks that theirs is a romance beyond all others. He thinks of it merely as a pleasant affair. Eventually, she figures that out and moves back to Stockholm, and regrets stringing the second, nicer, man along. There was something epochal in the meeting of these two people however, and the band members recognize that something important has changed. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Helena Bergström, Jan Mybrand, (more)
- 1987
In refutation of Arturo Toscanini's cavil that women lack the necessary creative genius to be conductors, this documentary catches six contemporary women conductors "in the act." The women featured are: JoAnn Faletta, of the Queens Philharmonic; Victoria Bond of the Roanoke Virginia Symphony; Ortrud Mann of Sweden on a freelance conducting job; Veronika Dudarova of the Moscow State Symphony; Camilla Kolchinsky with the Israel Symphony; and Kerstin Nerbe with the Stockholm People's Opera. Though basically a documentary, there are some staged sequences depicting the difficulties women conductors undergo in preparing for their careers and finding and keeping work. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- 1986
This is an overly long, socio-psychological drama about the emotional turmoil of 15-year-old foster-child Sussie (Anna Linden) and the difficulties experienced in her foster family. After Sussie arrives in her new home, her own inadequacies are mirrored in the family. The mother wants to win Sussie's affection, the father wants perhaps a little more than her affection, and the son is out-and-out infatuated with her. Given this environment, and her own instability, Sussie either is literally slashing out at people and things, or at herself. With little visible redemption in sight (though not ultimately discarded either), this is not a movie for the casual filmgoer. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Anna Linden, Lena Granhagen, (more)
