Mimi Pollak

Mimi Pollak

Maria Helena "Mimi" Pollak was a Swedish stage and screen actress and director. She attended the Royal Dramatic Theatre school in Stockholm, Sweden, with fellow actress Greta Garbo from 1922 to 1924. It was Mimi that came up with the name Garbo. They became friends for life. Pollak became in 1948 the first contracted female director at the Dramaten with the production of Jean Genet's Jungfruleken (Les Bonnes/The Maids), with Anita Björk and Maj-Britt Nilsson. Mimi Pollak appeared since her 1922 debut in the film "Amatörfilmen" in about 30 feature films and TV productions. She directed and handfull during the 1950's.

  • Title: Mimi Pollak
  • Popularity: 1.174
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1903-04-09
  • Place of Birth: Karlstad, Värmlands län, Sweden
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Mimi Pollak Movies

  • 1922
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    Amatörfilmen

    Amatörfilmen

    1 1922 HD

    The jeweler Edmond gets a competitor, Mr. Snyder, who specializes in imitations. Snyder challenges him and claims he can make a perfect imitation of...

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  • 1986
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    Amorosa

    Amorosa

    5.4 1986 HD

    About the Swedish author Agnes Von Krusenstjerna during the period of her marriage to David Sprengel. In the hallucinatory opening sequence she is...

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  • 1984
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    Sömnen

    Sömnen

    6 1984 HD

    "The Sleep" - Tired of the touring life the rock star Tommy Cosmo cuts the strings of his guitar, empties his bank account, packs his revolver and...

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  • 1940
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    With You in My Arms

    With You in My Arms

    5.5 1940 HD

    Millionaire Krister Dahl loses his memory when he is hit in the head by a golf ball. He meets his ex-wife and immediately fall in love with her...

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  • 1951
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    Summer Interlude

    Summer Interlude

    7.4 1951 HD

    A jaded prima ballerina reminisces about her first love affair after she is unexpectedly sent her lover's old diary.

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  • 1982
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    The Flight of the Eagle

    The Flight of the Eagle

    7 1982 HD

    The Swedish 19th century engineer Salomon August Andrée sets out to become the first man on the north pole. His idea is to launch a polar...

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  • 1943
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    Kajan går till sjöss

    Kajan går till sjöss

    4 1943 HD

    Kajan, a young boy, spends the summer with his friends working on a barge, earning extra money in the ports with their song and dance number. A young...

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  • 1942
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    Flames in the Dark

    Flames in the Dark

    5.5 1942 HD

    Latin teacher Birger Sjögren at Ringsala boarding school threatens his possesive and chronically ill mother that he will get married. She gets a...

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  • 1947
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    Supper for Two

    Supper for Two

    5.667 1947 HD

    Louise Mareuil owns a perfume factory on the French Riviera. She is in a traffic accident with a sketch artist, Claude Dubois. She gives him a blank...

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  • 1955
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    Mord, lilla vän

    Mord, lilla vän

    5 1955 HD

    A member of "Sjöbjörnarna" (a group of executives), asks the newspaper editor Dick Mattson to find Brita Ljungdahl, the former wife of...

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  • 1949
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    Playing Truant

    Playing Truant

    5.3 1949 HD

    High school student Margareta fall head over heels in love with a young doctor and announce her engagement to him to her parents. She quits school...

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  • 1989
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    The Crown Witness

    The Crown Witness

    7 1989 HD

    Thomas, a scientist, lives in a childless marriage. When his wife travels to Copenhagen he begins an affair with a girl of 19. The girl and large...

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  • 1990
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    The Secret

    The Secret

    10 1990 HD

    Sam and Amanda are friends. One day, they accidentally throw Sam's sister's diaries in the garbage can and have to trace them to the city dump.

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  • 1949
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    Gatan

    Gatan

    5 1949 HD

    Britt Malm gets hit by a car on a Stockholm street and is taken to hospital. She is badly injured and must undergo surgery. While the anesthetic...

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  • 1991
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    Agnes Cecilia - En sällsam historia

    Agnes Cecilia - En sällsam historia

    6.1 1991 HD

    Nora is 15 years old. Her parents died when she was young and now she lives with Anders and Karin and their son Dag. They move into an old apartment...

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  • 1986
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    A Matter of Life and Death

    A Matter of Life and Death

    1 1986 HD

    "Life and Death" - A female reporter intended to go on a reporting trip about childbirth to Japan, declines the offer. Instead, she visits a...

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  • 1941
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    The Ghost Reporter

    The Ghost Reporter

    4 1941 HD

    Augustus Blomkvist sells his sausage factory and buys the newspaper Stockholms-Posten where he starts working as a reporter under false name.

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  • 1965
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    Nightmare

    Nightmare

    7 1965 HD

    Fashion-designer May Berg is driving alone one evening, when she almost run over a man lying in the street. She gets out of the car to see. Suddenly...

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  • 1976
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    Near and Far Away

    Near and Far Away

    4 1976 HD

    Mania 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...

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  • 1964
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    The Dress

    The Dress

    8 1964 HD

    Edit is pleased that her mother agrees to let her buy a dress she loves, but which in fact is made for an adult woman.

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  • 1938
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    Den stora kärleken

    Den stora kärleken

    1 1938 HD

    The maid Agnes lives a rather lonely and boring life.

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  • 1940
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    En, men ett lejon

    En, men ett lejon

    1 1940 HD

    The fashion house boss Harry Martin has invited all his staff to a crayfish party at his home.

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  • 1946
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    Bröder emellan

    Bröder emellan

    1 1946 HD

    Identical twin brothers Patrik and Peter Brodd haven't seen each other for twelve years until Peter returns from America and goes to Patrik's office...

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  • 1947
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    Den långa vägen

    Den långa vägen

    1 1947 HD

    Grandmother sits with her grandchildren. She talks about the position of the Swedish woman through the centuries, about her struggle for freedom and...

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  • 1947
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    The Sixth Commandment

    The Sixth Commandment

    6 1947 HD

    Jane and Karl have been married for many years. Jane feels trapped in their marriage and takes a lover. She is caught by her daughter Kerstin and...

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  • 1979
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    I frid och värdighet

    I frid och värdighet

    1 1979 HD

    Erik Levin leases the farm to his son and retires. In order not to be in the way of the son, he moves to a retirement home, where he looks forward to...

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  • 1942
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    We Home Toilers

    We Home Toilers

    6 1942 HD

    The stern, but kind-hearted, Kristiana from the country takes place as a maid with the Larsson family in Stockholm, previously (in)famous for its...

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  • 1940
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    Gentleman att hyra

    Gentleman att hyra

    4.5 1940 HD

    Two friends, a rich landowner and a flight lieutenant, compete for the love of the same woman, singer Claire Wanner.

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  • 1940
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    Mannen som alla ville mörda

    Mannen som alla ville mörda

    1 1940 HD

    "The man all wanted to kill" - A brutal businessman, Vilhelm Gerner, triggers a stock speculation by providing false information. Two of his...

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  • 1982
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    The Farewell

    The Farewell

    0.8 1982 HD

    Set between 1930s and 50s, The Farewell the story of Valerie, who lives in a household totally repressed by her stern father. When Valerie has a...

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  • 1979
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    Kristoffers hus

    Kristoffers hus

    1 1979 HD

    Kristoffer lives on the verge of poverty, just barely supporting himself on his photographic work and an allowance given him by his ex-wife to...

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  • 1989
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    Brenda Brave

    Brenda Brave

    6 1989 HD

    Brenda Brave gladly helps her grandmother to sell candy canes at the market square. But one day grandmother suffers from a sore leg. Brenda has to...

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  • 1971
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    Emil of Lonneberga

    Emil of Lonneberga

    6.7 1971 HD

    Emil Svensson lives with his mother and father, little sister Ida, farmhand Alfred, and maid Lina on a picturesque farm in Småland. He is an...

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  • 1988
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    Stiller, Garbo & jag

    Stiller, Garbo & jag

    2 1988 HD

    One day when Ruben Stiller is playing in a bath, he gets an alien talking to Nadja, who asks him to find out the fate of Charly's dog. Ruben agrees...

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  • 1949
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    Only a Mother

    Only a Mother

    6.9 1949 HD

    A poor woman in a Swedish farming community struggles to feed her large family and is torn by her passion for two different men.

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  • 1978
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    Autumn Sonata

    Autumn Sonata

    7.989 1978 HD

    After a seven-year absence, Charlotte Andergast travels to Sweden to reunite with her daughter Eva. The pair have a troubled relationship: Charlotte...

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  • 1956
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    The Right to Love

    The Right to Love

    4.8 1956 HD

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  • 1957
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    Tredje personen

    Tredje personen

    1 1957 HD

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  • 1953
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    Malin Goes Home

    Malin Goes Home

    1 1953 HD

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  • 1950
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    Mother's Revolution

    Mother's Revolution

    4 1950 HD

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  • 1961
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    Mr. Ernest

    Mr. Ernest

    1 1961 HD

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  • 1975
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    Emil of Lönneberga

    Emil of Lönneberga

    7.5 1975 HD

    Emil i Lönneberga is a Swedish television adaptation of Astrid Lindgren's Emil i Lönneberga books

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  • 1985
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    August Strindberg: Ett liv

    August Strindberg: Ett liv

    6 1985 HD

    A mini-series about the life of Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter, August Strindberg. He is portrayed as a misogynous, selfish...

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