Kent Andersson Movies

Based on a Swedish television series, this comedy considers the life of the hapless, hopelessly serious and infinitely clueless one-man natural disaster Kurt Olsson (mostly played by Lasse Brandeby) from his beginnings in his mother's womb up to the time when he becomes a father himself. While Kurt himself is humorously humorless in all his undertakings, his streetcar conductor father (also played by Brandeby) is quite simply a fanatic. The film features successive appearances by Kurt's TV partner Hans Wiktorsson as Arne Nystrom, also shown from birth to the "present." ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

This light farce chronicles the eventual emancipation of rebellious "Mama's boy" Claes-Henrik (Gosta Ekman), who falls into more than one funny mishap before the apron strings are cut. Prone to practical jokes and intent on making a living as a con artist, Claes-Henrik, who goes by the nickname of "Double H" hits upon a chance to make some easy cash. A porno film producer wants to use his mother's apartment for three days of shooting and will generously pay for its rental. Double H cons Mama (Margaretha Krook) into taking a vacation to visit some relatives, but when they get to the train, a hilarious sequence of misunderstandings leaves Mama at the station in her nightie. Double H ends up in the sleeper compartment without a ticket but with a happy female companion in the upper berth and a bottle of Irish whiskey. Emancipation has to begin somewhere. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide

In this poetic vision of a factory in which the workers appear to have their life-force drained by the dull, demanding routine of each day's work, the directors (Christina Olofson and Goeran du Rees) have hushed the normally strident voices of the disaffected and moved through their environment as though in slow-motion. The axis around which the story revolves is a young artist who works with the machines for his living and sketches his fellow workers for enjoyment -- sketches that his cohorts do not always appreciate. The quiet, somber artist changes when one of the workers collapses and dies on the job -- he starts sleeping with a woman who used to make fun of him (as though to vanquish her), he puts up all his canvasses in the dining hall during the night and despairs when his colleagues still belittle him, burning all his work as a consequence. His battle with creating art for its own sake versus obtaining the approval of his co-workers reaches a climax when he sneaks into the factory again and spends the night painting a large mural. This artistic breakthrough is challenged by a nightwatchman who catches him in the act. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide