Anita Björk

Anita Björk

Anita Björk (born 25 April 1923) is a Swedish actress. Born in Tällberg, Dalarna, Anita Björk attended Dramatens elevskola (The Royal Dramatic Theatre's acting school) in 1942-45. Anita Björk has been a leading lady of Swedish theatre for many years and has worked at the national stage; Dramaten, since 1945, where she has performed in more than 100 parts over the years (which makes her one of the greatest actors of Dramaten). On film, Anita Björk has played leading roles - in particular - in a number of style forming Swedish thrillers and crime mystery dramas, including Det kom en gäst (1947), Moln över Hellesta (1956), Damen i svart (1958), Mannekäng i rött (1958) and Tärningen är kastad (1960). Still, her most famous part is probably her title role in Alf Sjöberg's celebrated film adaption of Strindberg's Miss Julie (1951) that was awarded with the grand prize at Cannes Film Festival. Married to Olof Bergström (1945–1951) and from 1953 with Stig Dagerman. After his death she had a relationship with Graham Greene. Currently performing in A.R. Gurney's play Kärleksbrev (Love Letters) at Dramaten, opposite Jan-Olof Strandberg (Lilla scenen; March-April, 2009). Description above from the Wikipedia article Anita Björk, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

  • Title: Anita Björk
  • Popularity: 1.541
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1923-04-25
  • Place of Birth: Tällberg, Dalarna, Sweden
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  • Also Known As: Anita Barbro Kristina Björk, Анита Бьёрк
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Anita Björk Movies

  • 1980
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    Midsommardröm i fattighuset

    Midsommardröm i fattighuset

    1 1980 HD

    Blind-Jonas is in a poorhouse dreaming about his past, in contrast the young girl Cecilia shows up dreaming about her future.

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  • 1944
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    Count Only the Happy Moments

    Count Only the Happy Moments

    4.5 1944 HD

    The old Victor Branzell has a grandson, Alf, who is in love with a clerk in a glove shop, Lilian Lind. But Lilian with her simple background doesn't...

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  • 2004
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    Stig Dagerman

    Stig Dagerman

    1 2004 HD

    Fifty years after the Swedish author Stig Dagerman took his own life we view his short but intense career in retrospective.

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  • 1992
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    The Best Intentions

    The Best Intentions

    7.131 1992 HD

    In this film about Ingmar Bergman's parents, Henrik Bergman is studying for the priesthood and trying to make ends meet when he encounters the...

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  • 1993
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    Minns ni?

    Minns ni?

    1 1993 HD

    A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 films.

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  • 1996
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    Private Confessions

    Private Confessions

    6.2 1996 HD

    Five conversations frame a flawed marriage in this film written by Ingmar Bergman about his parents. Guilt-ridden wife Anna (Pernilla August)...

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  • 1998
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    In the Presence of a Clown

    In the Presence of a Clown

    7.1 1998 HD

    Inventor Carl Åkerblom is a rosy-cheeked 54 year-old admirer of Franz Schubert - and a patient in the psychiatric ward of Akademiska Hospital...

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  • 1951
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    Miss Julie

    Miss Julie

    6.5 1951 HD

    Based on the play by August Strindberg, Miss Julie vividly depicts the battle of the sexes and classes that ensues when Julie, a wealthy...

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  • 1952
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    Waiting Women

    Waiting Women

    6.5 1952 HD

    Rakel, Marta, Karin and Annette are married to four brothers. While waiting in a summer cottage for their husbands to come home, they tell each other...

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  • 1979
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    Next of Kin

    Next of Kin

    4.9 1979 HD

    Gathered at a funeral for a successful business man, the testament is to be read. They will all inherit, with a big IF; if the family company is to...

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  • 1946
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    100 dragspel och en flicka

    100 dragspel och en flicka

    3.667 1946 HD

    Two inventors, Ville and Rulle have developed a revolutionary new accordion; however, they have competition. Twelve-year-old Pelle Borell gets to...

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  • 1958
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    The Lady in Black

    The Lady in Black

    5.9 1958 HD

    The married detective couple John and Kajsa Hillman goes on a vacation to Holmfors mill where a friend of Kajsa's lives with her husband. When a...

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  • 1956
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    Moon Over Hellesta

    Moon Over Hellesta

    4 1956 HD

    Margareta, newly engaged with count Carl Anckarberg, visits his estate for the first time. During the visit she gets to know that his last fiancee...

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  • 1958
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    Mannequin in Red

    Mannequin in Red

    6.5 1958 HD

    A model is murdered at a famous fashion house and the Hillmans start to investigate. Kajsa Hillman is employed as a model and discovers that several...

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  • 1960
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    The Die Is Cast

    The Die Is Cast

    6 1960 HD

    A member of a highly successful crime drama series is found murdered in a television studio. The screenwriter of the TV-series is found as prime...

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  • 1954
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    Night People

    Night People

    5.9 1954 HD

    A US intelligence officer, stationed in Germany, is caught in a political dilemma when the Russians kidnap a young Army private, the son of prominent...

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  • 2001
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    An Image Maker

    An Image Maker

    1 2001 HD

    Making of-documentary about Ingmar Bergman's The Image Makers, featuring behind the scenes footage and an interview with its writer, Per Olov Enquist.

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  • 1978
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    Tribadernas natt

    Tribadernas natt

    1 1978 HD

    Depicts the explosive relationship between August Strindberg and Siri von Essen in 1889 while Siri is rehearsing a lead role in a play written by...

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  • 1956
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    Song of the Scarlet Flower

    Song of the Scarlet Flower

    4 1956 HD

    Olof is driven from home when he wants to marry the wrong girl. He takes a job as a log driver and his reputation as a womanizer goes far and wide.

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  • 1957
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    Guest at One's Own Home

    Guest at One's Own Home

    6 1957 HD

    Eva Dahl, a doctor's wife, starts an affair with a younger man.

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  • 1964
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    Loving Couples

    Loving Couples

    5.8 1964 HD

    As three pregnant women wait to have their babies in a hospital in Stockholm at the outbreak of the Great War, they relive their childhood and...

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  • 1968
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    Komedi i Hägerskog

    Komedi i Hägerskog

    1 1968 HD

    Narcissa and Elina work in a small town social service office and have various erotic encounters with the people who visit it.

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  • 1947
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    A Guest Is Coming

    A Guest Is Coming

    6.3 1947 HD

    It's Christmas. The owner of an old mansion decides to tell his family he's going to sell it. The following morning he's found murdered.

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  • 2000
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    The Image Makers

    The Image Makers

    6.5 2000 HD

    Per Olov Enquist's play about Selma Lagerlöf and Victor Sjöström after the shooting of The Phantom Carriage. Director Victor...

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  • 1947
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    Woman Without a Face

    Woman Without a Face

    5.667 1947 HD

    Martin is married to Frida and together they have a son. One day after a quarrel with his wife, he goes to buy flowers to ask for forgiveness. In the...

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  • 1948
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    On These Shoulders

    On These Shoulders

    1 1948 HD

    Kjell Loväng returns to his parent's farm after a few years of work in Stockholm. He discovers that his father Arvid neglects the farm and...

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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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  • 1969
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    Adalen 31

    Adalen 31

    6.7 1969 HD

    A film about the 1931 Ådalen shootings, in which Swedish military forces opened fire against labour demonstrators in the Swedish sawmill...

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  • 1995
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    Stjärnbilder

    Stjärnbilder

    1 1995 HD

    A tribute to Swedish film, which was made to celebrate the 100th anniversary of film in 1995 and consists of about a hundred clips from Swedish film...

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  • 1954
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    The Witch

    The Witch

    1 1954 HD

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  • 1967
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    Henpecked

    Henpecked

    1 1967 HD

    An engineer and an actor, two extremely similar men, change their identity with each other.

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  • 1953
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    Med Ingrid Bergman på Berns

    Med Ingrid Bergman på Berns

    5 1953 HD

    Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini at a gala held in Sweden in 1953.

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  • 1947
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    Ingen väg tillbaka

    Ingen väg tillbaka

    1 1947 HD

    The newly appointed director Hugo Henriksen gets into a fight and accidentally hits a prostitute. When Hugo is trying to leave the scene the girl...

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  • 1955
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    Hamlet

    Hamlet

    1 1955 HD

    Prince Hamlet returns home from the university of Wittenberg to attend his father's funeral. His uncle Claudius, the new King, has announced his...

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  • 1983
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    Alf Sjöberg - mästaren

    Alf Sjöberg - mästaren

    1 1983 HD

    Alf Sjöberg (1903-1980) was Swedens greatest theater director of the 20th century and as a film director the first of international importance...

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  • 1981
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    The Witch Hunt

    The Witch Hunt

    5.7 1981 HD

    Having gone through many personal struggles, Eli (Lil Terselius) returns to her native village and begins to work on the farm of Ingeborg Eriksdotter...

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  • 2006
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    Miss Julie: 100 Years in the Limelight

    Miss Julie: 100 Years in the Limelight

    1 2006 HD

    Documentary about the play Miss Julie and dramatist August Strindberg

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  • 1962
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    Lady in White

    Lady in White

    5.7 1962 HD

    A ghost called Vita Frun (White Lady) is accused of several murders. Detective Hillman is contacted to resolve the case.

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  • 1966
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    Utro

    Utro

    5.5 1966 HD

    She loves to ride in the bus and read smart book ... He likes to sit by the water and drink soda ... She loves to write down their thoughts on the...

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  • 1961
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    Square of Violence

    Square of Violence

    6.3 1961 HD

    Set in Italy, the story takes place in this very country, during WW2, where German occupation army ruled everything, just before the allied forces...

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  • 1952
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    Han glömde henne aldrig

    Han glömde henne aldrig

    1 1952 HD

    American businessman Chris Johnson spent WW2 in Sweden and fell in love with a nurse, Karin Engström. He lost contact with her after war and...

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  • 1976
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    Sing Beautifully About Love

    Sing Beautifully About Love

    1 1976 HD

    A tv play about the Swedish poet Gustaf Fröding. Flashbacks from his life in a mental hospital.

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  • 1942
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    The Heavenly Play

    The Heavenly Play

    1 1942 HD

    "The Heavenly Play" - Mats Ersson is engaged to Marit and they plan to get married in the spring. But when the plague comes, the people accuse Marit...

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  • 1992
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    Madame de Sade

    Madame de Sade

    7.4 1992 HD

    A theatre production of Yukio Mishima's play, filmed for Swedish television. It begins in France in 1772. Six Women, one of them Madame de Sade,...

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  • 1989
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    Dagerman

    Dagerman

    1 1989 HD

    About the Swedish writer Stig Dagerman (1923-1954). More than a style, there is a Dagerman voice. This simple voice speaks softly, without emphasis,...

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  • 1955
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    Der Cornet

    Der Cornet

    9 1955 HD

    Adventure film based on a Rilke poem.

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  • 1998
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    Sanna ögonblick

    Sanna ögonblick

    4.3 1998 HD

    By chance Erik meets Viivi, an Estonian violinist playing in the Stockholm subway. They start an intense romance. Erik's mother dislikes the...

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  • 1950
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    Kvartetten som sprängdes

    Kvartetten som sprängdes

    1 1950 HD

    A small Swedish town just after WW1. An accountant and his two journalist friends have entered the stock market. The result is not as good as...

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  • 1958
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    The Phantom Carriage

    The Phantom Carriage

    5.7 1958 HD

    The third film adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf's novel of the same name. The drinker David Holm gets killed right on the stroke of midnight on New...

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  • 1973
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    Kommer hem och är snäll

    Kommer hem och är snäll

    8 1973 HD

    Sören Hellgren comes home drunk one night and his wife Tyra is furious because he is boozed up and has spent a lot of money. Sören doesn't...

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  • 1965
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    Waiting Waters

    Waiting Waters

    1 1965 HD

    A monologue of a woman who tells about her life, mainly about the men she met, while walking.

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  • 1974
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    Karl XII

    Karl XII

    1 1974 HD

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  • 1960
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    Good Friends and Faithful Neighbors

    Good Friends and Faithful Neighbors

    1 1960 HD

    Hugo Frejer terrorizes his family and surroundings with his unhappy mood.

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  • 1955
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    Giftas

    Giftas

    1 1955 HD

    The General's daughter, Helene, grows up in a safe world. She doesn't want to get married or have kids. She meets a man who talks about platonic love...

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  • 1949
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    Realm of Man

    Realm of Man

    1 1949 HD

    A man is forced to leave his family estate and start again.

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