Anita Ekström

Svenska noveller

The Fire Engine That Disappeared

A routine mission ends up in a flaming inferno when a house suddenly explodes. It looks like a spectacular suicide attempt but the technical investigation reveals unexpected evidence. Beck and his men are soon on the tracks of a narcotic syndicate...

Pirates of the Lake

It is the first day of the summer vacation. Jojje, Jerker and Fabian wants to borrow a sailing boat to take a boat trip so they steal it. They plan to examine all of Lake Maelaren, but a storm breaks out and the boat sinks. They go ashore, steal food and a new boat. While everybody else believes them to be dead, they have a wonderful time. They meet a crazy Count and find a dead body.

Allt jag inte minns

Samuel dies in a car crash. His mother searches for truths in the memories of those closest to him. Based on the novel by Jonas Hassen Khemiri.

August Strindberg: A Life

A mini-series about the life of Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter, August Strindberg. He is portrayed as a misogynous, selfish and racial. And he loses everything, for the sake of the art.

Nattens lekar

Åke lives under oppressive conditions. The father, a painter, spends his salary on drinking with his buddies.

År av drömmar

Korset

Birger and Eivor's daughter is buried after having died from a heroin overdose. Birger reacts violently. Soon known drug profiles are being found crucified on the doors to the institutions of society

Children's Island

Reine is supposed to go to a summer camp called Children's Island but decides to remain in Stockholm over the summer while his mother is working at a hospital. She thinks he is at the camp, and he tells her he is. We then follow him around Stockholm that summer and see what he encounters on the path of life.

Their Frozen Dream

Poetic documentary about the polar expedition of S. A. Andrée which Troell had previously dramatized in "Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd" (1982).

Kamrer Gunnarsson i skärgården

Through a series of mishaps, the proper bank official Gunnarsson is forced to spend his first days of vacation in the archipelago of Stockholm, both in and out of the water.

1939

When the war breaks out, Annika lives with her parents in Värmland, close to the border to Norway. Her cousin Harald is a dealer in the black market but has to escape from the police to Norway. Annika moves to Stockholm and gets a job as a waitress. She meets the happy-go-lucky Berit and together they have a wonderful time. She also meets a young man, Bengt, whom she marries. But almost immediately she discovers that her husband is different from the man who was courting her. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

Annika - Ett Brott, Ett Straff, Ett Liv

Det är din boll, Jim

Jim Jansson is a woodcarver who gets retired.

Ticko

Ticko, 6, is trying to come up with a way to visit the mother at her job as a veterinarian.