Movies: Olle Häger

Frank Sinatra was at rock bottom as far as his career in Hollywood was concerned, but made his way back to the spotlight via Finspångs Folkets park in 1953 in front of 537 local fans. Hollywood no longer wanted to know about Frank Sinatra, he divorce...

At dawn on June 22, 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union. On the same morning, Germany demanded permission from the Swedish government to transport 18,000 German soldiers from Norway to Finland across Sweden by railway. This was a difficult problem...

Ingmar Bergman tells Olle Häger about "The Seventh Seal" and "Wild Strawberries". 1957 was one of Ingmar Bergman's great years. Then both "The Seventh Seal" and "Wild Strawberries" had their theatrical premieres. In an interview, which was conducted ...

A story between accordion and dynamite. Filmmaker Olle Häger returns to his childhood villages in Hälsingland....

A documentary that tells the history of Sweden through the eyes of the people and showing their living conditions for the past 1000 years....

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A film about Alfred Nobel....

What happens to a person's self when she retires and no longer has the job to lean on? Documentary filmmaker Lars Lennart Forsberg asked that question to about ten retirees but never had the chance to complete his project. Olle Häger and Kjell Tunegå...

About the Siemens Geheimschreiber - G printer - a crypto machine that Hitler's engineers designed in the 30's. The mathematician Arne Beurling at Uppsala University revealed the G-printer's secret....

Swedish documentary from 1977. The film is about the last starvation year in Sweden, the emergency year 1867 in Ångermanland. It is a story about people who are hurting, but also about efforts from the outside world to help the developing country Swe...

About the former small town of Messaure in the 1950s, and about its inhabitants....

"He who is not with us - Sweden in the Cold War" - During the post-war period, the Nordic countries adapted their foreign policy to the prevailing political situation. Sweden officially balanced its foreign policy between the two great powers of the ...

"Damn, such a country!" from 2000, is about Kiruna which had just turned one hundred years old. There is no age for a city, but the past hundred years have been remarkable in many ways. And no other Swedish city has so much of the wild west about it....

In the fall of 1944, four ships sailed out of Finnish ports and headed west. On board were not only the core group of Finnish intelligence, but also hundreds of boxes of top-secret material on the Soviet military, as well as technical equipment for a...

Beginning at Bohu's fortress, Hans Villius guides viewers through Norway, a country whose history has often coincided with ours. It is a story not only of the death of Charles XII and Carolines in a blizzard on their way to disaster, but also of the ...

"A voice from the past: a program about the explorer and politician Sven Hedin (1865-1952)" - based on his own statements and writings. Takes us through expeditions in Asia, Olympic Games in Stockholm and Berlin, two world wars, and a Swedish politic...

Olle Häger interviews former Army General Bo Westin who shares his thought during all the crises in the sixties....