Jösta Hagelbäck
Director · 1945 – 2009 · Kolsva, Västmanlands län, Sweden
Jösta Hagelbäck, born Nils Gösta Hagelbäck, was a Swedish film-director, writer, actor, poet, artist and musician. Studied the film directing program at the Dramatic Institute, Stockholm, in the 70's. Jösta Hagelbäck was considered an offbeat and gifted artist. An invitation to Hollywood took hom nowhere. But the feature film "Kejsaren/The Emperor" (1979) did. He directed a number of feature films, documentaries, music videos and television productions. The cinematographer Thomas Ljungqvist made in 2005 the award-winning documentary film about Jösta Hagelbäck called "Desperadon från Kolsva".
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Movie7.0RomanceDramaMania is a new employee at a mental hospital, where she meets a young man with mutism. He gets her to realize that it is a fluid boundary between being healthy and being regarded as sick.
MovieDocumentaryThe meeting of two worlds that never met. One of poetry and freedom, and the other of silence and darkness. A story that begins in a maximum security prison in Sweden where a young actor, Jan Jönson, decides to stage " Waiting for Godot "with five prisoners as actors.
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Director Jösta Hagelbäck speaks on the importance of Werner Herzog.
Movie9.0ThrillerThe Swedish IB (Information Bureau) agents Henry Malm and Richard Ramberg travel to the Finnish-Russian border in order to receive a KGB agent who wants to defect.
MovieDocumentaryBased on the conversations Jösta Hagelbäck and Erik Ostlund had with Lars Kristiansson, a professor of information theory with data communication at Chalmers University in Gothenburg, Sweden. The talks took place at the difficult cancer sufferer Kristiansson's sick-bed and dealt with his insights in computer technology, his hopes and fears for the new technology, the role of religion, the history of mathematics, reasoning about algebra, analytic geometry and the fourth dimension, along with cultural outlooks over the Western society's lack of mysticism and spiritual values.
Illustrerat samtal med professor Lars Kristiansson
Illustrated conversation with Professor Lars Kristiansson
1985
Movie8.0DramaA film crew travels out in a future Europe to make a documentary about the birds and threats to the ecological contexts. The motto of the film has been downloaded from the Indian chief, Chief Seattle's famous words from 1855; "You can not sell the sky, and everything that affects the Earth affect the humans".
Venus 90
1988 · 1 votes
MovieDocumentaryAbout Jösta Hagelbäck (1945-2009), Swedish film director, writer, poet, musician, actor etc. A human bipolar mixture of genius and madman. Invited to Hollywood, had an artistic hit with the film "Kejsaren/The Emperor" (1979) at the Berlin Film Festival.
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TVDramaCrimeThe Swedish IB (Information Bureau) agents Henry Malm and Richard Ramberg travel to the Finnish-Russian border in order to receive a KGB agent who wants to defect.