Mikael Segerström Movies
- 1993
Rita Hayworth was the idol of Rita's dad (Per Oscarsson). So much so that he once began a relationship with a woman simply because she looked like the star - and, of course, he also named his daughter for her. Now that his wife is dead, Rita's father is determined to discover what became of his former mistress, though he is not in the best of health. Rita, worried about her ailing father, leaves her newborn son with her yuppie husband, and goes off after him. Rita's husband is unhappy at being saddled with sole responsibility for the newborn, and soon takes off after Rita. Eventually they all meet up and reconcile with each other: mistress, father, daughter and husband. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Marika Lagercrantz, Per Oscarsson, (more)
- 1992
Scripted (but not directed) by Ingmar Bergman, Best Intentions is a multilayered backwards glance at the courtship of Bergman's own parents. Henrik Bergman (Samuel Froler) is a struggling theology student in the year 1909. His intended, Anna Aakerbloom (Pernilla August, who married director Bille August while the film was in progress) is from a well-to-do family. Despite the expected class differences and personality clashes, love-or at least mutual understanding-prevails. But after a harsh, spare few years as the wife of a clergyman, Anna yearns for the more bountiful pleasures of her family home. Bergman writes himself into the proceedings as a mewling infant. The current three-hour theatrical version of Best Intentions (original title: Den Goda Viljan) was simultaneously prepared as a six-hour TV miniseries, which ran in Europe, Scandanavia, and Japan. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Samuel Fröler, Pernilla August, (more)
- 1988
This drama follows a zoologist during his explorations of arctic life in northern Canada over one winter and his relationship with the local Inuit (popularly known as "Eskimo") people. When a European woman scientist joins him, things get considerably livelier. However, after returning from an expedition with his native guides in the spring, they discover that she has been killed by a polar bear. A conflict arises between the scientist and his native friends on the kinds of rites and ceremonies with which to commemorate her life and death. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- 1986
Gunilla Nyroos plays celebrated Swedish author and heroine Moa Martinson in this historical film biography. She marries a hard-drinking miner and the union produces five children. Two of the children die, and her husband commits suicide by blowing himself up with dynamite. But Moa finds solace and a kindred spirit in writer Harry Martinson (Reine Brynolfsson) after her unhappy first marriage. Moa and Harry both becomes famous authors, with Harry winning the Nobel Prize for literature. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Gunilla Nyroos, Reine Brynolfsson, (more)
- 1985
In a farce that starts out galloping but then stumbles and essentially collapses, a few crooks end up cheating other crooks as the story bobbles along between Sweden and Cuba. First a sleazy used-car salesman cons an innocent hair stylist into buying a wreck of a car. Next, the stylist's crooked brother gets out of prison and decides to fleece the car dealer in turn. And so it goes, back and forth, until everything seems to get out of hand, and the story and characters are buried in the process. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Janne Carlsson, Gosta Walivaara, (more)
