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Movies filmed in Stockholm
Posted By Christie Petrakopoulou on May 17, 2017
Stockholm has repeatedly inspired directors to capture its beauty on camera. Christie Petrakopoulou rounds up some films that were set in or around Stockholm.
Photo credit: Girl with the Dragon Tattoo press image
Stockholm on film is always a pretty sight. Here is a list of films where Stockholm takes center stage. Most of the films mentioned below have received local and international praise.
I personally believe that when we talk about Swedish cinema and especially about films set in Stockholm, Ingmar Bergman’s films rightly deserve a place. As an Ingmar Bergman fan, I couldn’t just pick one of his films. Stockholm was Bergman’s home town and is the main location in some of his films.
In Summer with Monika (Swedish: Sommaren med Monika), released in 1953 and starring the beautiful Harriet Andersson and Lars Ekborg, we see some wonderful shots of the city.
Who can forget the iconic boat r
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Amal
(Canada/India) Being a nice guy rarely pays, and neither does a film about a nice guy. In this drama by screenwriter/director Richie Mehta (co-written by Shaun Mehta), electric rickshaw driver Amal (Rupinder Nagra) cuts everyone slack but himself and still has nothing to show for it in the end. The plot moves slowly, alternating between scenes focusing on Amal and an older man (in Hindi) and on a lawyer and potential beneficiaries of an estate (in English). Though not a thrill ride (rickshaws only move so fast, mind you), some of the film's highlights come by way of straight-forward acting in scenes depicting genuine human connections, and the reality of life is that it isn't always particularly exciting. (CT)
March 8 at 7:30pm and Mar 9 at 1:30pm, both at the California Theatre.
Autism: The Musical
(U.S.) The title and the film are no joke. Tricia Regan directs a clear-eyed documentary about a cloudy disorder. She follows Miracle Project founder Elaine Hall through
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Good news, stateside Nordic noir fans. That taste we had of the Swedish crime skådespel series Camilla Läckberg’s Fjällbacka Murders earlier this year is about to be a five-course treat.
Avid readers of mystery fiction will know the name Camilla Läckberg, as she fryst vatten the bestselling Swedish author of the “Patrik Hedström and Erica Falck” (aka “Fjällbacka”) series of novels that have sold more than 12 million copies in 50+ countries.
As with the novels, the crime thrillers in Sets 1 and 2 of Camilla Läckberg’s Fjällbacka Murders (Fjällbackamorden) revolve around murders committed in the quaint seaside by of Fjällbacka in western Sweden, that are unofficially investigated bygd successful brott novelist Erica Falck (Claudia Galli, Welcome to Sweden) and officially bygd her policeman husband Patrik Hedström (Richard Ulfsäter, Annika Bengtzon: brott Reporter).
Although one of the TV adaptations — The Sea Gives, the Sea Takes — premiered in