Felix Herngren Movies
- 2005
Felix Herngren, Anja Lundquist, Sofia Ledarp, Anna Bjork Pal Strobaek, Adam Nordlund, Cecilia Frode, Mans Herngren and Dennis Fredriksson co-star in Every Other Week (AKA Varannan Vecka, 2005), a Swedish domestic comedy about broken and fractured nuptials. Herngren and Bjork headline the cast as Jens and Tessan, initially a happily married couple with two children. These two soon find the sanctity of their marriage tested - first by the revelation that Jens has a platonic female friend named Johanna (Cecilia Frode), then by the disclosure of Tessan's extramarital affair from years prior. Infuriated over his wife's unfaithfulness, Jens packs his suitcases and moves into the home of his brother, television director Pontus (Felix Herngren), himself a veteran of divorce with a young daughter. Oddly, Pontus and his ex-wife, Maria (Lundquist), desire a second child, even though they can barely stand each other. But they disagree on the method: Pontus wants to do it the old-fashioned way, while Maria desires artificial insemination. At least four different directors worked on Varannan Vecka: star Felix Herngren, Hannes Holm, Måns Herngren and Hans Ingemansson. Several are veterans of television commercials - hence the sly parodies of television ads scattered throughout the film. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Felix Herngren, Måns Herngren, (more)
- 1999
Fredrik Lindstrom and Felix Herngren's brisk and breezy Swedish sex comedy skewers male infidelity and sexual thrill-seeking. Frank (played by co-director Herngren) leads a respectable yuppie life working at a noted Stockholm law firm. He has also been married for eight years to his beautiful wife Nenne (Karin Bjurstrom), who runs an upscale boutique. Yet Frank is deeply bored with his life and is supremely randy. He even fantasizes about the marriage counselor that he and Nenne visit weekly. Eventually, Frank shacks up with a young fetching art student named Sofia (Kalla Bie), though the experience wracks Frank with guilt. Meanwhile, Nenne's friend and co-worker Rosie (Cecilia Ljung) suspects that Frank is having an affair, though she does not have the nerve to tell her. Little does Rosie suspect, however, that her friend is sleeping with her lover Georg ($Mikael Persbrandt), an uptight journalist with an ego the size of Finland. Soon wires get crossed, and all hell breaks loose. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Felix Herngren, Cecilia Ljung, (more)
- 1997
Stockholm policeman Martin Beck (Peter Haber), created by novelists Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo, is seen in this thriller about the search for a pedophile who kills his young victims. The Sjowall-Wahloo character has previously been adapted to numerous films by directors Stuart Rosenberg (The Laughing Policeman, 1973), Bo Widerberg (The Man on the Roof, 1976), Gosta Ekman, and others. Beck is a Swedish-German-Danish co-production, the first of a planned series of 16 feature films with all-new stories inspired by the 10 novels in the 1967-76 Beck series by Wahloo (who died in 1975) and Sjowall. Shown at the 1997 Haugesund Film Festival. ~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Peter Haber, Mikael Persbrandt, (more)
