Hakan Wennberg Movies
- 1999
- NR
A little town is home to some big secrets in this thriller from Sweden. When Lisa (Regina Lund) receives word that her father has disappeared, she travels to the small village where she grew up, hoping to discover clues to his whereabouts. However, the residents of her old home town don't exactly welcome her with open arms, making it clear she should keep her big nose out of their business. With time, Lisa discovers some disturbing secrets about her father, as well as what is at the bottom of a hidden lake. Sjon/The Lake was a surprising commercial success in Sweden, where leading lady Regina Lund received favorable notices for her performance. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Regina Lund, Mats Rudal, (more)
- 1990
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
- 1985
This uneven comedy is set in the 1920s and stars Janne Carlsson, one of Sweden's favorite comics, in the role of Albert Jansson, a fisherman who turns from fish to foul in order to make a better living. In a near-parody of its cinematic predecessors, Smugglarkungen is also set in a bucolic coastal community where love and the forces of virtue face heavy-duty challenges. Albert is an honest fisherman until he succeeds with a vengeance at bootlegging and cannot but enjoy the happy consequences of his success: namely, the physical attractions of the fair Sickan (Nina Gunke) and equally appealing Grethe (Sanne Salomonsen, one of Denmark's more popular rock stars). Albert's love-life is rudely interrupted when the "smuggling king" Strauss (Ernst Gunther) and his minions resent his intrusion on their lucrative turf, and to make matters worse, Lt. Winkel (Bjorn Skifs) is sent from Stockholm to investigate possible customs violations in the area. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Janne Carlsson, Bjorn Skifs, (more)
