Tomas Norström Movies

Director Bent Hamer's comedy drama Salmer Fra Kjøkkenet (Kitchen Stories) is based on the real-life social experiments conducted in Sweden during the 1950s. In the years following WWII, a research institute sets out to modernize the home kitchen by observing a handful of rural Norwegian bachelors. In the small town of Landstad, middle-aged Isak (Joachim Calmeyer) is one such research subject who regrets ever agreeing to participate in the study. Nevertheless, he is observed by Folke (Tomas Norström), and the two develop a strange friendship until the observer becomes sick. This causes a problem with Folke's boss (Reine Brynolfsson) and Isak's friend Grant (Bjørn Floberg). ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide

Taut, moody and intensely violent (by Swedish standards) this action-packed Swedish thriller was filmed in a snowy northern village and centers on a cop's attempts to stop the slaughter of Laplanders' reindeer by greedy locals. Erik is that policeman. After working many years for the Stockholm police, he returns to his home village to live with his younger brother Leif and work in the local police department. Erik is angered to hear that the Laplander reindeer are being killed by a gang and that the town cops are ignoring the problem. He decides to single-handedly bring the killers to justice. Things get complicated when he learns that Leif is their ring leader. As Erik works to stop them, real violence erupts in the village until the exciting climax when Erik and Leif engage in a final face-off. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

In this Swedish thriller, a man with "divine" abilities wreaks havoc upon the residents of a small island off the Swedish coast. Tomas is accepted into the tiny community after he demonstrates his talent for diving water or oil. Tomas is a con artist. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

Roland (Jesper Salen) is a boy growing up in Stockholm. It is the middle of the 1920s, and he suffers from the twin handicaps of being Jewish and the son of a socialist. However, despite the taunts and bullying he endures, he gets in a few licks of his own, and manages to have some fun (and get some revenge on his tormentors). One particularly successful ploy of his is to take some of the illegal condoms his mother is selling in her tobacco store and use them to power some slingshots he has made, sellling them to neighborhood boys. This affectionate, richly detailed portrait of a man's early adolescence in pre-war Stockholm is based on an autobiographical novel by Roland Schutt) ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

In this epic historical drama, set in the 10th century, a young Christian man is sent by his Scandinavian superiors to Iceland to assist in the conversion of that island to Christianity. Young Askur is deeply in love with Embla, but he must leave for the remote realm of Iceland on his mission before he can come back and make her his wife. There is much bad blood between those who follow the old ways and those who follow the new, and a strong arm on the side of the Christians is warmly welcomed. This production drew on talent and funding from all over Scandinavia and by local standards was a phenomenally expensive picture, costing around $7 million dollars to make; it did not repay these costs during its Scandinavian release. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 1774 novel The Sorrows of Young Werther is reputed to have single-handedly instituted the Romantic movement which gave birth to so much music and literature in the nineteenth century. It is also reputed to have sparked an epidemic of suicides similar to the one depicted in the novel. It has been the subject of solemn commentaries since the day it was first published. This Swedish film spoofs both the original story, and the business of filmmaking. In the story, Max Karlsson (Tomas Norstrom) ,a sensitive young writer/director is filming the aforementioned novel, simultaneously suffering the non-stop harassment of his producer and the pangs of his own great tendency to powerful romantic attachments. The final result of his various tribulations is that the director decides to emulate the hero of the novel he has been filming. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide