Movies: Tom Alandh

The bags are packed and the transport is waiting in the courtyard, because Edit Falk is to be moved today. Ösbyholm is to be closed down, her home for 27 years where she thrived so well, cozy, beautiful, no locked doors. Her next address will be a lo...

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?...

Tom Alandh found a box that has been standing in his basement for almost 40 years, untouched. When he started to go through the contents, he found what was left of his foster parents' lives together: Photographs, old bills, receipts and letters he ha...

Another film about Martina Schaub, now thirty years old....

Pia Sjögren was the subject of three documentaries by director Tom Alandh, beginning in 2001. He first saw her on the street selling newspapers, homeless, addicted to drugs, trying to make enough money for the day. Since then, she has become clean, a...

The legendary sports journalist Bengt Ahlbom. Who was already at the Olympics in Stockholm in 1912 and who was a gigolo in Cannes and who beat old King Gustaf V in tennis. Now, 87 years old, he talks about his life....

Tord Grip is only 1.72 tall, but still one of the greats in Swedish football. Yes, he is the baker from Ytterhogdal who through football got the world as a workplace. But constantly in the shadow of Sven-Göran "Svennis" Eriksson....

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....

Festival of the Midnight Sun, a.k.a. the Mantorp Festival became the biggest fiasco in Swedish pop festival history. The festival was presented the midsummer weekend 19-21 June 1970 at Mantorp Raceway. A local band, Magazine Story, from Linköping, ha...

Despite having made some of television's most popular documentaries, Kåge Jonsson is almost unknown. For 35 years he and Tom Alandh have been workmates and for just as long they have grumbled about what a documentary film really is. Leif Furhammar's ...

'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...

Nine years ago Tom Alandh included five year old Martina Schaub as part of a program about how society dealt with people with various handicaps. Martina, who has Down's Syndrome, is now fifteen years old....

"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...

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He was 14 years old when he was at Solvalla for the first time. He had four kroner with him, two he put on Smaragd with Sören Nordin in the sulky. It's been more than thirty years, but he hasn't missed many competition days since then....

If you are an immigrant in Sweden, then you have to be able to cope, Majid has learned that. And if you live in Tensta, you have the whole world at your fingertips. And all dreams. Majid Jelili dreams of the Olympics in Sydney. He weighs only 54 kilo...

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....

"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....

Dark as ebony and agile as a panther was Tom Alandh's father. Many said that the darkness and wildness of him made him look like Tarzan, even though he only came from Åmål....