Hampe Faustman
Director · 1919 – 1961 · Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
Born as Erik Stellan Chatham. His parents was the artists Gösta Chatham and Mollie Faustman. Hampe Faustman was a Swedish director, writer and actor. He appeared in 23 feature films and directed 20 films between during the 1940s and 50s. Faustman is best known for his socially engaged films. Producer Lorens Marmstedt contracted Faustman to Terrafilm which gave him artistic freedom. He died of pneumonia at 42.
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Movie5.5DramaYoung drifter tells his story in flashback from prison.
Lars Hård
1948 · 2 votes
Movie9.0DramaWarDuring the spring of 1940 two young men gets drafted and deployed close to the Norwegian border, where they fall in love with the same woman.
En vår i vapen
1943 · 1 votes
Movie6.4DramaThe film follows a number of people in an apartment building during a night full of dramatic events and entanglements.
Movie5.9HistoryDramaIn the south of Sweden, some farmers get into trouble when the German Count is forcing them to perform day labor for him. But a man refuses to bow to the German Count.
Movie6.7Drama"She Came Like a Wind" - Fabian Rosander works at a factory and is close to 50 years old. When a new employee named Lilly, a young beautiful girl, comes to the factory Fabians life takes a new turn.
Hon kom som en vind
1952 · 3 votes
Movie6.0ActionRomanceHarald Handfaste is a 15th century Swedish Robin Hood, who fights against foreign oppression. He becomes the leader of a band of highwaymen and they start dealing with the evil bailiff. However, the bailiff will stop at nothing to catch Handfaste and show the people who is in charge. He even attempts to marry Handfaste's beloved Karin, and when she refuses to subdue, the bailiff decides to execute both her, her father and a monk who has been helping them.
Harald Handfaste
1946 · 2 votes
Movie5.3DramaA priest decides to engage himself socially in prison. In the cells he meets a number of women with different fates. One is Mary, a young honest woman gone wrong.
Movie7.0DramaThe farm workers at Näs Farm, lead by Hellman, go on strike, demanding that their employer recognize their labor union. But he calls on strike-breakers to perform the farm work. Hellman's son Gunnar is a hothead who easily gets in trouble.
När ängarna blommar
1946 · 1 votes
Movie9.0WarDramaAn allegory of Germany's WWII occupation of Norway. Members of a theater ensemble join the resistance.
Movie4.9CrimeThrillerLars Ekborg and Sven Eric Gamble portray bumbling criminals who get involved in a safe-cracking heist.
Movie6.0DramaWarNews reel film sequences from September 1938 until the end of 1942, integrated with the fictive Swedish family Söderberg in their everyday life at home and the changes, because of the escalating war, that are brought upon them.
Vi mötte stormen
1943 · 2 votes
Movie7.7DramaFormer student Raskolnikov is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police, Raskolnikov struggles between trying to hide his guilt and the pressure to confess.
- Movie10.0Drama
Alan Kennebeck is unable to accept a brief, realistic romance for what it is. Eventually it leads to his complete moral downfall. Triggered by the factory official Eric Walderman, being a sadistically suave conniver and villain, who babbles a Nietzschean creed of ruthlessness and brings the picture to its grim, melodramatic conclusion.
A Matter of Morals
1961 · 1 votes
Movie6.4DramaWarIn an unnamed country under occupation, a senior officer is killed in an attack by a member of the resistance.
Movie6.0DramaCelebrated elderly Austrian poet opposes nazism, while his daughter admires and falls in love with leading nazi activist, who eventually becomes concentration camp commander with his father-in-law as prisoner.
Movie7.0ComedyMarianne is not very interested in love, but still has company with Bertil. It's only when he decides to try his luck over in America that she realizes how much she likes him.
Älskling, jag ger mig
1943 · 1 votes
Movie5.7DramaRomanceIn the beginning of WW II a Swedish ship in a northern French port is exposed to German air raids. The captain take a chance to leave the port without permission. A stranded woman seize the chance to get home to Sweden.
En kvinna ombord
1941 · 6 votes
Movie8.0DramaProud Katrina falls in love with Johan, who's a sailor, and follows him home to the island of Åland. She has been promised a paradise with blooming apple trees but are greeted by poverty and hard work.
Katrina
1943 · 1 votes
Movie6.5DramaWar"With life at stake"- Max is illegal arms dealers and lives with Wanda, a spy for the dictatorship in which they live. She is ordered by her superiors to reveal the actions and members resistance group. The freedom fighter John falls in love with Wanda.
- Movie8.0Drama
A female reporter invents a story about a man who threatens to take his life to protest the injustices of society. But the scam is about to be revealed. She is forced to persuade a tramp to play the fictional man.
Vi behöver varann
1944 · 1 votes
Movie9.0DramaMidsummer Eve in Malmfors in the 1880s. The holiday is celebrated with a big party. Three blacksmiths leave the ironworks and become drifters, seeking out jobs elsewhere. During their travels, they come across beautiful girls as well as jobs in different ironworks, where the workers are organizing, monitored by a brutal police force.
Movie9.0DramaComedy"Love on Tour" - A traveling theatre company has arrived at an outdoor stage. They are ready for the rehearsal. But one of the actors is missing.
Kärlek på turné
1955 · 1 votes
- Movie7.0Drama
The Nazis seize power and occupies a country. A celebrated pianist returns home from abroad during this time of national crisis and reconnects with Major von Ritter who leads the occupation and whom she had a passionate love affair in the past.
Mitt folk är icke ditt
1944 · 1 votes