Movies: Mimi Pollak

After a seven-year absence, Charlotte Andergast travels to Sweden to reunite with her daughter Eva. The pair have a troubled relationship: Charlotte sacrificed the responsibilities of motherhood for a career as a classical pianist. Over an emotional ...

Emil Svensson lives with his mother and father, little sister Ida, farmhand Alfred, and maid Lina on a picturesque farm in Småland. He is an unusually lively little boy, who just can't resist trying out every whim that enters into his white-haired he...

A jaded prima ballerina reminisces about her first love affair after she is unexpectedly sent her lover's old diary....

The Swedish 19th century engineer Salomon August Andrée sets out to become the first man on the north pole. His idea is to launch a polar expedition using a hydrogen balloon, together with two friends. The balloon, "The Eagle", takes off from Svalbar...

Kristoffer lives on the verge of poverty, just barely supporting himself on his photographic work and an allowance given him by his ex-wife to support their child. He is staying in his absentee mother's large old house, which she is preparing to sell...

High school student Margareta fall head over heels in love with a young doctor and announce her engagement to him to her parents. She quits school and move in with him in a large house. However, the life of a housewife soon becomes tedious. Her husba...

The stern, but kind-hearted, Kristiana from the country takes place as a maid with the Larsson family in Stockholm, previously (in)famous for its rapid turnover of housemaids....

One day when Ruben Stiller is playing in a bath, he gets an alien talking to Nadja, who asks him to find out the fate of Charly's dog. Ruben agrees because Charly's host was Mauritz Stiller, and Ruben is the grandson of Mauritz's brother....

Priests who call sex education the devil's invention rage against the progressive doctor whose bigoted wife may regret when his teenage daughter comes home and wants an abortion. The subject of Mimi Pollack's only feature film was controversial. The ...

Nora is 15 years old. Her parents died when she was young and now she lives with Anders and Karin and their son Dag. They move into an old apartment in an old house in Enköping. Behind a wall they find some old items from people who lived there a lon...

About the Swedish author Agnes Von Krusenstjerna during the period of her marriage to David Sprengel. In the hallucinatory opening sequence she is brought in a straitjacket by her husband and two psychiatric nurses through the Venice Carnival nocturn...

"The Sleep" - Tired of the touring life the rock star Tommy Cosmo cuts the strings of his guitar, empties his bank account, packs his revolver and takes off to find new values of life ....

A member of "Sjöbjörnarna" (a group of executives), asks the newspaper editor Dick Mattson to find Brita Ljungdahl, the former wife of another of the members. The first clue he tries is to ask a certain Maria Vaern, who knows Brita....

Brenda Brave gladly helps her grandmother to sell candy canes at the market square. But one day grandmother suffers from a sore leg. Brenda has to take care of the candy cane sales all by herself....

Grandmother sits with her grandchildren. She talks about the position of the Swedish woman through the centuries, about her struggle for freedom and justice. Grandma's words take shape in moving images....

A poor woman in a Swedish farming community struggles to feed her large family and is torn by her passion for two different men....

Edit is pleased that her mother agrees to let her buy a dress she loves, but which in fact is made for an adult woman....

Latin teacher Birger Sjögren at Ringsala boarding school threatens his possesive and chronically ill mother that he will get married. She gets a stroke and dies. Sjögren is affected by feelings of guilt, envy and hatred towards the surroundings. A se...

The fashion house boss Harry Martin has invited all his staff to a crayfish party at his home....

Britt Malm gets hit by a car on a Stockholm street and is taken to hospital. She is badly injured and must undergo surgery. While the anesthetic takes effect she sees hallucinatory images. This turns into a flashback of what happened Britt before the...