Keve Hjelm Movies
- 1950
Dagmar's next-door neighbor, a writer, receives both a legacy and a mystery when Dagmar commits suicide. The legacy is her few belongings. The mystery is exactly why she killed herself. He investigates her stark life, from the fact that she was an illegitimate child, to the successful blackmailing of her father for money to help her alcoholic boyfriend seek treatment. In order to understand what triggered her to act, he needs to determine the identity of someone she writes of in her diary as the one true love of her life. This black-and-white Swedish language film probably has subtitles. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- 1948
Nearly a decade before his brilliant starring performance in Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries, Swedish actor/director Victor Sjostrom topped the cast of Arne Mattson's Rallare. At this point in time, Mattson was alternating between thrillers and romances. Rallare falls into neither category: it is instead a pageantlike paean to the 19th-century builders of the Swedish railroad. Ballong (Sjostrom) and his pal Valfrid (John Ellfstrom) are two of the many stout-hearted, strong-limbed laborers who braved the elements to bring transportation to the length and breadth of Sweden. When not driving spikes or laying track, the two venerable stars while away their time with liquor and women -- and sometimes, with women and liquor. A box-office bonanza in Sweden, Rallare was liberally adapted by Rune Lindstrom from his own novel Nordanvind. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- John Elfström, Gunnel Broström, (more)
