Movies: Tom Alandh

Municipal councilor Håkan Davidsson in Hjo is the strong man of the small community. A film about power and people in a very ordinary Swedish society....

Sonny was in Hällby Prison in 1990. Kenneth, Sture, Anders, Pertti and Johnny were also in the same ward. Six ordinary prisoners, far from headlines and media interest....

Balder's premises are located in Norrtull's old hospital in Stockholm, a couple of rooms, a kitchen, some simple furniture, a piano that Lars could play on, if he only dared....

Approximately half a million Swedes vacationed to Spain in 1972, one of Europe's poorest countries who had then been controlled by Franco since 1939. 120 000 of them chose The Canary Islands as their destination. The documentary highlights and contra...

Christer and Bertram Schmiterlöw were both artists. But Christer could never make a living from his art and only paint early mornings before going to his job as a janitor at SVT....

It's like a miracle, writing a book with the knuckles of the left index finger and the right thumb. Mattias Agnesund is the author who, despite a paralyzing muscle disease, wrote a biography of Einar Ekberg....

In the unemployed Vimmerby there is one who does not need to be afraid of losing the job. On the contrary, he has never had so much to do before. Tom Alandh follows the crown bailiff Bror Carlsson as he treads away on his bicycle with the document po...

"A small film about a great artist" - The Swedish pianist Jan Johansson (1931-1968), one of the most celebrated jazz/folk music pianist's of Northern Europe. The film tracks the pianist's coming greatness through the great masters Schubert, Mozart, a...

For 35 years, Jan Allan played the same trumpet, a Bach bought in New York in 1965. And he had intended to play it until the very last note. But then Jan Allan's beloved trumpet was stolen, and what happened to his airy lyrical tone?...

Monica & Carl-Axel Dominique have been married for over 60 years and have played music for as long as they can remember. They have worked with some of Sweden's biggest names. Tom Alandh finally gets the chance to make his documentary about them, some...

Ulf Berner is home again - who was faster than the Swedish justice system and so snobbishly disappeared from prosecutors and bailiffs in the mid-80s. - Serious tax crimes, said the prosecutor, and the bailiff wanted thirteen million....

"It is not only the school but also the prison that is a mirror of society," says a board member at Hällbyanstalten outside Eskilstuna. Here are the strong and the weak, the stupid - who eventually perish - and the smart who always manage at the expe...

A film about dreams and opportunities, not about problems....

Documentary about the Swedish soccer legend Nacka Skoglund....

'Martina och jag', from 2008, was intended to be the last film about Martina Schaub, a woman with Down's Syndrome. But now, another ten years later, director Tom Alandh returns to Martina's world once more. She has been a part of Tom Alandh's filmogr...

Aina Eriksson is eighty years old. She stays in a nursing home and is largely immobile. She looks back at her life in Stockholm and Paris, and the fact that the only thing she regrets is that she never learned how to tap dance....

A portrait of the idyllic town of Karlsborg, Sweden, home to 4000 inhabitants, whose economy is dependent on the prominent local manufacturer of the latest technology in ammunition....

Documentary which follows Kenneth Lantz, who is addicted to heroin....

Bo wanted to become an explorer when he was young, but realized that everything had already been discovered. Instead, he came out into the world as a filmmaker. He tells about his travels and about the pioneer days of Swedish television....

"Scenes from everyday life" is about a few weeks in the life of actor Erland Josephson. Once constantly out around the world, now 86 years old, the world comes to visit his home. A film about art and aging, life, love and death....