Mimi Pollak
Maria Helena "Mimi" Pollak was a Swedish stage and screen actress and director. She attended the Royal Dramatic Theatre school in Stockholm, Sweden, with fellow actress Greta Garbo from 1922 to 1924. It was Mimi that came up with the name Garbo. They became friends for life. Pollak became in 1948 the first contracted female director at the Dramaten with the production of Jean Genet's Jungfruleken (Les Bonnes/The Maids), with Anita Björk and Maj-Britt Nilsson. Mimi Pollak appeared since her 1922 debut in the film "Amatörfilmen" in about 30 feature films and TV productions. She directed and handfull during the 1950's.
Autumn Sonata
as Piano InstructorAfter a seven-year absence, Charlotte Andergast travels to Sweden to reunite with her daughter...
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Summer Interlude
as Mrs CalwagenA jaded prima ballerina reminisces about her first love affair after she is unexpectedly sent...
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Emil of Lonneberga
as LillklossanEmil Svensson lives with his mother and father, little sister Ida, farmhand Alfred, and maid...
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The Flight of the Eagle
as Mina AndréeThe Swedish 19th century engineer Salomon August Andrée sets out to become the first man on the...
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Kristoffers hus
as GrandmaKristoffer lives on the verge of poverty, just barely supporting himself on his photographic...
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Nightmare
as Anna SöderblomFashion-designer May Berg is driving alone one evening, when she almost run over a man lying in...
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Gatan
as Mrs RodeliusBritt Malm gets hit by a car on a Stockholm street and is taken to hospital. She is badly...
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A Matter of Life and Death
as Rickos Mormorsmor"Life and Death" - A female reporter intended to go on a reporting trip about childbirth to...
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Supper for Two
as SophieLouise Mareuil owns a perfume factory on the French Riviera. She is in a traffic accident with a...
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Brenda Brave
as Market WomanBrenda Brave gladly helps her grandmother to sell candy canes at the market square. But one day...
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Sömnen
as The Grandma"The Sleep" - Tired of the touring life the rock star Tommy Cosmo cuts the strings of his...
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Only a Mother
as Erika RostA poor woman in a Swedish farming community struggles to feed her large family and is torn by...
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Mord, lilla vän
as Olga VaernA member of "Sjöbjörnarna" (a group of executives), asks the newspaper editor Dick Mattson to...
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Flames in the Dark
as Miss DanielssonLatin teacher Birger Sjögren at Ringsala boarding school threatens his possesive and chronically...
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The Dress
as Mrs. RubinEdit is pleased that her mother agrees to let her buy a dress she loves, but which in fact is...
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Near and Far Away
as Fortune tellerMania is a new employee at a mental hospital, where she meets a young man with mutism. He gets...
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Amorosa
as Miss RosenhjelmAbout the Swedish author Agnes Von Krusenstjerna during the period of her marriage to David...
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Stiller, Garbo & jag
as uncreditedOne day when Ruben Stiller is playing in a bath, he gets an alien talking to Nadja, who asks him...
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Agnes Cecilia - En sällsam historia
as HuldaNora is 15 years old. Her parents died when she was young and now she lives with Anders and...
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Kajan går till sjöss
as Miss LidegrenKajan, a young boy, spends the summer with his friends working on a barge, earning extra money...
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We Home Toilers
as Rosa "Rose" RéenchronaThe stern, but kind-hearted, Kristiana from the country takes place as a maid with the Larsson...
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Playing Truant
as Märta HoffmanHigh school student Margareta fall head over heels in love with a young doctor and announce her...
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Den stora kärleken
as uncreditedThe maid Agnes lives a rather lonely and boring life.
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The Crown Witness
as The old ladyThomas, a scientist, lives in a childless marriage. When his wife travels to Copenhagen he...
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The Ghost Reporter
as uncreditedAugustus Blomkvist sells his sausage factory and buys the newspaper Stockholms-Posten where he...
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The Farewell
as uncreditedSet between 1930s and 50s, The Farewell the story of Valerie, who lives in a household totally...
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The Sixth Commandment
as uncreditedJane and Karl have been married for many years. Jane feels trapped in their marriage and takes a...
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Gentleman att hyra
as SecretaryTwo friends, a rich landowner and a flight lieutenant, compete for the love of the same woman,...
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With You in My Arms
as Miss CarlanderMillionaire Krister Dahl loses his memory when he is hit in the head by a golf ball. He meets...
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Mannen som alla ville mörda
as Erna Larsson"The man all wanted to kill" - A brutal businessman, Vilhelm Gerner, triggers a stock...
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Amatörfilmen
as Eva, Garters dotterThe jeweler Edmond gets a competitor, Mr. Snyder, who specializes in imitations. Snyder...
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Den långa vägen
as Fredrika BremerGrandmother sits with her grandchildren. She talks about the position of the Swedish woman...
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En, men ett lejon
as uncreditedThe fashion house boss Harry Martin has invited all his staff to a crayfish party at his home.
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I frid och värdighet
as uncreditedErik Levin leases the farm to his son and retires. In order not to be in the way of the son, he...
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Bröder emellan
as uncreditedIdentical twin brothers Patrik and Peter Brodd haven't seen each other for twelve years until...
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Emil of Lönneberga
as LillklossanEmil i Lönneberga is a Swedish television adaptation of Astrid Lindgren's Emil i Lönneberga books
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August Strindberg: Ett liv
as ÄnglamakerskanA mini-series about the life of Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter, August...
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