Hasse Ekman
Hasse Ekman (10 September 1915 – 15 February 2004) was a Swedish director, actor, writer and producer for film, stage and television.
Hasse Ekman is probably Sweden's most successful and critically acclaimed film director pre Ingmar Bergman (and aside from him) and post Sjöström and Stiller, with his peak in mid-1940s to the year 1950. Much influenced by filmmaker Orson Welles and also by episodic-films. His most successful film as a director is often said to be the 1950 film Flicka och hyacinter (Girl with Hyacinths), a crime/mystery drama about a young woman committing suicide by hanging herself in her apartment.
Hasse Ekman is part of the prominent "Ekman acting family" in Sweden: He was the son of Swedish star actor Gösta Ekman (senior) and father of actor Gösta Ekman (junior), actor Stefan Ekman and stage/film director Mikael Ekman. Also grandfather of actress Sanna Ekman.
As an actor Ekman also came to act in most of his own films, as the leading man and in a number of strong supporting roles, and he also acted in a three of early Ingmar Bergman-films (Prison, Thirst and Sawdust and Tinsel). He also played opposite his famous father in Intermezzo; the original Swedish 1936 film starring Ingrid Bergman in the female lead. Overall he made 50 roles in Swedish films.
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| Known For | Directing |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.509 |
| Birthday | 1915-09-10 |
| Place of Birth | Stockholm, Sweden |
| Also Known As | Hans Ekman, Hans Gösta Ekman, Heman, |
1954
The Yellow Squadron
5.3/6
The year is 1954. The war in Korea has just ended and the superpowers stand by each side of the boarder. The peace in Europe is fragile and the cold w...
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The Yellow Squadron
1993
Minns ni?
0/0
A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 films.
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Minns ni?
1940
June Night
5.7/11
A woman flees to avoid rumors of promiscuity, but is trailed by a reporter who wants to expose her dark past.
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June Night
1946
Den gamla goda tiden
0/0
A documentary short featuring a 50th anniversary party in celebration of film.
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Den gamla goda tiden
1953
Sawdust and Tinsel
7.3/134
The complicated relationships between a circus ringmaster, his estranged wife and his lover.
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Sawdust and Tinsel
1949
Thirst
6.45/60
A needy couple in a bad marriage travel back to Stockholm after a trip to Italy. Meanwhile, a widow resists seductions from two different persons - he...
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Thirst
1954
Gabrielle
5/3
While Bertil Lindström works at the Swedish embassy in Paris, his wife Gabrielle spends the summer alone in Sweden. After a phone call to her, he star...
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Gabrielle
1987
Gösta Ekman - En levande legend
0/0
Documentary about the Swedish actor Gösta Ekman (1890-1938) with interviews with friends and colleagues.
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Gösta Ekman - En levande legend
1993
Meeting with Hasse
0/0
Hasse Ekman speaks about his career, films, colleagues, inspirations and role models.
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Meeting with Hasse
1949
The Girl from the Third Row
5.9/7
A ring passes between a lot of different people, giving the bearer or someone close a new meaning to life. Actors, embezzlers, old ladies and cheated...
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The Girl from the Third Row
1948
The Banquet
5.9/10
As his 60th birthday approaches, Jacob grows concerned that none of his sons is capable of running his company.
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The Banquet
1945
The Royal Rabble
6.6/5
The ups and downs of three generations in an acting family.
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The Royal Rabble
1942
Flames in the Dark
5.5/2
Latin teacher Birger Sjögren at Ringsala boarding school threatens his possesive and chronically ill mother that he will get married. She gets a strok...
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Flames in the Dark
1943
The Sixth Shot
5/2
Georg Winkler meet Marguerite Hoffman at the casino in Monte Carlo. They become an item and travel the world with their act - Winkler is an accomplish...
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The Sixth Shot
1941
Life Goes On
3/1
The Swedish officer Mikael Bourg has served with the French army in Africa. When he returns to Sweden after many years abroad to recover from malaria,...
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Life Goes On
1943
Changing Trains
4.5/2
Inga, an unemployed actress meets a sweetheart Kim, from days long gone at a train station. Over coffee they reminisce about their romance and how Ing...
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Changing Trains
1936
Intermezzo
5.9/19
The world famous violinist Holger Brandt comes back to his family after a tour. He and his wife have been married for many years, but their love has f...
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Intermezzo
1941
The First Squadron
6.2/4
The year is 1941 and Nazi Germany is at its peak. Hitler's army is storming into Russia. Sweden stands lonely and isolated while the air force is trai...
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The First Squadron
1942
Happiness Is on Its Way
6/2
The idle rich have their own particular problems. Case in point, Georg and Monika Hedberg were once poor and happy but since Georg became an establish...
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Happiness Is on Its Way
1949
Prison
7.1/44
A movie director is approached by his old math teacher with a great movie idea: the Devil declares that the Earth is hell. The director rejects the id...
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Prison
1946
Interlude
4/2
The Swedish doctor of literature Vilhelm Canitz arrive to Lugano in Italy for a few weeks stay at a medical clinic. Canitz considers himself to be qui...
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Interlude
1960
On a Bench in a Park
4.4/7
Sam Persson is released from a mental hospital. He goes to Stockholm to meet a man he hates, theater manager Stig Brender. In Brender's office they ge...
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On a Bench in a Park
1959
Miss Chic
4.3/9
Buster Carell, a talent agent is threatened by bankruptcy when his only real talent, a singing lumberjack, runs off with the company funds. Watching a...
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Miss Chic
1944
A Day Will Dawn
6/3
After finding his wife in the arms of another man, an army officer kills his rival and then goes by train to Finland to fight in the Winter war.
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A Day Will Dawn
1946
While the Door Was Locked
6.4/9
The film follows a number of people in an apartment building during a night full of dramatic events and entanglements.
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While the Door Was Locked
1956
Seventh Heaven
4.8/4
"Seventh Heaven" - Famous radio personality Willy Lorens has a big success with the radio series "Seventh Heaven." The amount of fan mail and attentio...
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Seventh Heaven
1958
Jazz Boy
5.8/2
The rich young man Teddy Anker invests his money in the theater at the beginning of the 1920s. Whatever he does becomes a success. He falls in love wi...
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Jazz Boy
1953
Vi tre debutera
7/2
Three young poets are about to make their debuts.
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Vi tre debutera
1957
Med glorian på sned
4.5/4
A secretary at a publishing company, Birgitta, writes a novel, based on her secret love of her boss. She sends it anonymously to her own company, who...
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Med glorian på sned
1945
Put Our Märta First or As Luck Will Have It
5.3/7
An out-of-work musician is desperate for work and when his best friend sees an add requesting a cellist he signs him up. However, the work is for a fe...
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Put Our Märta First or As Luck Will Have It
1948
Little Martin Returns
5.2/5
Sture Letterström and Kurre Svensson take on the task of rescuing a secret document during World War II from a group of Swedish Nazis. Since both of t...
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Little Martin Returns
1956
The Staffan Stolle Story
5.9/9
Staffan Stolle becomes the sole heir to a rich and noble family when he is just a little boy. Early on he is engaged to be married to a girl he finds...
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The Staffan Stolle Story
1951
The Nuthouse
4.2/4
In Stockholm in the year 2248 an excavation leads to the discovery of 45,000 meters of film from the 1940's master director Hasse Ekman . The material...
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The Nuthouse
1933
En natt på Smygeholm
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It is rumored that there are ghosts at Smygeholm Castle.
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En natt på Smygeholm
1938
Med folket för fosterlandet
0/0
This film depicts every noteworthy event (in the eyes of the film-makers) in Sweden from the death of King Oscar II, in 1907, to the celebration of th...
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Med folket för fosterlandet
1938
Thunder and Lightning
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The aristocratic count Hägerskiöld is very proud of his swine Helen of Troy who wins a prize every year as the best swine in the area. This year his s...
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Thunder and Lightning
1937
The Great John Ericsson
0/0
In 1803 the Swedish inventor John Ericsson is born. After a military career he went to England and became one of the first builders of locomotives. De...
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The Great John Ericsson
1924
The Young Nobleman
0/0
A young Countess meets a young Count and they share a common interest in fast cars.
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The Young Nobleman
1944
Stopp! Tänk på något annat
0/0
Karsten falls in love with Sonja, she rejects him, but not because of lack of interest. She travels to France and he goes after her. They get to know...
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Stopp! Tänk på något annat
1933
Hemslavinnor
0/0
The Rosenqvist family needs domestic help.
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Hemslavinnor
1953
The Glass Mountain
0/0
The successful glass artist Stellan Sylvester ends up in the hospital after a car accident. He looks back at his life and finds it empty and meaningle...
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The Glass Mountain
1956
Private Entrance
4.2/5
A seemingly ordinary day in October. A woman has since she separated from her husband lived in a single room with a separate entrance. But for her thi...
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Private Entrance
1946
Meeting in the Night
5.3/3
A journalist is writing a critical article about the prison service in Sweden. The magazine's editor in chief does not agree with him and removes the...
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Meeting in the Night
1959
Heaven and Pancakes
4/3
Sequel to Sjunde himlen (1956). Dr. Lovisa Sundelius (Sickan Carlsson) and radio host Willy Lorens (Hasse Ekman) have been happily married for a coupl...
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Heaven and Pancakes
1948
Var sin väg
6/1
A drama about a doctor and his wife. She used to be an actress, but became a housewife when she married. When she resumes her acting career the marria...
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Var sin väg
1950
Jack of Hearts
3.5/2
Lieutenant Anders Canitz is a womanizer and gambler from the upper class. He has spent all of heritage and tries to get to his sister's money by engag...
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Jack of Hearts
1947
One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer
5/1
When Inga Brantemo goes on a business trip to Italy, her husband Bertil gets romantically involved with Christina Lovén, whose father is a book publis...
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One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer
1960
Decimals of Love
1/1
Charlie Gedelius has spent the last years abroad as a golf trainer. In Copenhagen, Denmark, he meets young Lena, who happens to be his brother-in-law'...
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Decimals of Love
1945
Wandering with the Moon
6.5/2
Dan, aged 19, leaves his home after a quarrel with his father. At the side of the country road he meets a traveling theater company who has run out of...
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Wandering with the Moon
1939
Cadets Together
0/0
A story about the Swedish navy and their cadet school.
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Cadets Together
1954
I rök och dans
5.5/2
Episodic, musical comedy. Povel Ramel company Knäppupp's first film where Martin Ljung plays 16 different roles.
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I rök och dans
1958
The Great Amateur
0/0
Modern fairy tale about the small town of Fårtuna where the chief of police is also an amateur theater director. The local shop assistant Linda aspire...
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The Great Amateur
1943
Life and Death
5.5/2
Thriller set in northern Sweden during WWII where a regiment of ski-borne soldiers and guests in a tourist hotel experience and investigate acts of tr...
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Life and Death
1944
Jag är eld och luft
0/0
Vicar Ahrman's young daughter Jenny has left the home to start a new life with her beloved Stefan. But Jenny's dreams for the future is shattered when...
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Jag är eld och luft
1945
Skådetennis
0/0
Tennis competitions between Swedish actors at Saltsjöbaden.
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