Helge Skoog Movies
- 1991
The Ture Sventon detective novels and stories by Ake Holmberg have delighted generations of Swedish youngsters. This somewhat stylized film takes the private detective on a search for a famous horse stolen from the circus. The clever language of the novel this film is based on enlivens narrated sections. The filmmakers chose to minimize the magical aspects of the novel and to present the action in a larger-than-life manner harking back to silent films. Given the iconic status of the novels, neither decision pleased those reviewers who were familiar with them. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Helge Skoog, Nils Moritz, (more)
- 1988
This horror feature send-up concerns an actor/director (Etienne Glaser) trying to talk his two female employers into letting his crew shoot a film about real people. The crew plays practical jokes that involve severed limbs and lots of blood in this tongue-in-cheek look at the horror film-factory that exposes the colorful carnage. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Etienne Glaser, Stina Ekblad, (more)
- 1986
Nadja (Lena Olin) is a television reporter who turns down an assignment in Japan to seek revenge against a philandering physician in this uneven drama. Stefan (Svante Martin) is the doctor who had been Nadja's lover 15 years ago before he left without explanation and married another woman. Nadja goes through emotional turmoil as she gathers information on the maternity ward and rekindles her affair with the dashing doctor. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Lena Olin, Svante Martin, (more)
- 1986
Originally titled Broderna Mozart, the Swedish The Mozart Brothers stars Etienne Glaser as a highly unorthodox opera director. His plans to stage Don Giovanni in bizarre, inappropriate costumes, and to have the orchestra members take singing roles, enrages the conservatory opera company that has engaged him. Glaser is motivated by the "voice of God"--God being in this instance Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, whose ghost commiserates with the innovational director from time to time. The Mozart Brothers was itself directed by Suzanne Osten, daughter of a leading Swedish film critic. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Etienne Glaser, Philip Zandén, (more)
- 1976
After receiving the warm, attentive care of an interning female psychologist, a handsome, hysterically mute young man begins to speak. However, all his progress stops when the inhumanly emotionless intellectual who is the head of the clinic puts this treatment in perspective, as part of a scheduled "plan of care." As the psychologist's frustration at this new impasse mounts, the tables are turned, and it is the mute whose warmth and caring brings her around. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Helge Skoog
