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Hasse Ekman
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.
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As director
KaRamellodier
De sista entusiasterna
Cabarét Canalhumorn
The Marriage Wrestler
My Love Is Like a Rose
Funny Boy
The Heist
On a Bench in a Park
Decimals of Love
Miss Chic
Heaven and Pancakes
Jazz Boy
The Great Amateur
Summer Place Wanted
The Halo Is Slipping
Seventh Heaven
The Staffan Stolle Story
Private Entrance
Gabrielle
We Three Debutantes
The Firebird
The Nuthouse
Girl with Hyacinths
The White Cat
Jack of Hearts
The Girl from the Third Row
The Banquet
Little Martin Returns
Each to His Own Way
One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer
As actor
Minns ni?
Meeting with Hasse
Gösta Ekman - En levande legend
On a Bench in a Park
Decimals of Love
Miss Chic
Heaven and Pancakes
Jazz Boy
The Great Amateur
The Halo Is Slipping
Seventh Heaven
The Staffan Stolle Story
Private Entrance
The Yellow Squadron
Gabrielle
I rök och dans
Sawdust and Tinsel
We Three Debutantes
The Glass Mountain
The Nuthouse
Jack of Hearts
Thirst
The Girl from the Third Row
Prison
Terras fönster 2
The Banquet
Little Martin Returns
Each to His Own Way
One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer
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