Hasse Ekman

Known for DirectingBorn 1915-09-10Died 2004-02-15Stockholm, Sweden

Hasse Ekman (10 September 1915 – 15 February 2004) was a Swedish director, actor, writer and producer for film, stage and television. Hasse Ekman is probably Sweden's most successful and critically acclaimed film director pre Ingmar Bergman (and aside from him) and post Sjöström and Stiller, with his peak in mid-1940s to the year 1950. Much influenced by filmmaker Orson Welles and also by episodic-films. His most successful film as a director is often said to be the 1950 film Flicka och hyacinter (Girl with Hyacinths), a crime/mystery drama about a young woman committing suicide by hanging herself in her apartment. Hasse Ekman is part of the prominent "Ekman acting family" in Sweden: He was the son of Swedish star actor Gösta Ekman (senior) and father of actor Gösta Ekman (junior), actor Stefan Ekman and stage/film director Mikael Ekman. Also grandfather of actress Sanna Ekman. As an actor Ekman also came to act in most of his own films, as the leading man and in a number of strong supporting roles, and he also acted in a three of early Ingmar Bergman-films (Prison, Thirst and Sawdust and Tinsel). He also played opposite his famous father in Intermezzo; the original Swedish 1936 film starring Ingrid Bergman in the female lead. Overall he made 50 roles in Swedish films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Hasse Ekman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

The Young Nobleman

Love Goes Up and Down

Cadets Together

Cabarét Canalhumorn

We Three Debutantes

Jazz Boy

Stopp! Tänk på något annat

Emelie Högqvist

Med folket för fosterlandet

En natt på Smygeholm

Sawdust and Tinsel

Girl with Hyacinths

My Love Is Like a Rose

Swinging at the Castle

Prison

The Glass Mountain

Resan till dej

Each to His Own Way

A Day Will Dawn

Jag är eld och luft

The First Squadron

Man of the Forest

Thunder and Lightning

The Great John Ericsson

Hemslavinnor

The Royal Rabble

Meeting in the Night

Wandering with the Moon

The Sixth Shot

Life and Death

One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer

Like Everyone Else

You Are My Adventure

While the Door Was Locked

The Staffan Stolle Story

The White Cat

Thirst

Hjältar i gult och blått

Flames in the Dark

Happiness Is on Its Way

The Heist

With You in My Arms

The Great Amateur

I rök och dans

June Night

His Excellency

Örlogsmän

The Yellow Squadron