
Åke Lagergren
Known For & Full Filmography20 Titles

Movie - 1995, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Izabella Scorupco plays Carla, who is a con-artist somewhere in mediavel Sweden. Carla is disguised as a man and she is selling a "product" called Petri tårar (Tears of St. Peter). This product cures every sickness. In order to promote her product she promises to wake up from the dead all citizens of the town who have died within the last ten years. Both the bishop and the mayor are alarmed as they fear loss of influence over them and try to work against Carla. There are also many citizens who don't want to see their "loved ones" wake up from the dead. In order to make things more confusing, Carla and the son of the mayor, Mark, fall in love with each other.

Drama Series - 1982, 16 episodes • as Theobald Svensson
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

Movie - 1985, 2h 15m • as Murre från Skogstibble
Peter-No-Tail (Pelle Svanslös) is a cat who was born without a tail. He compensates this by studying hard and, much to the dismay of his arch-rival Magnus (Måns), he receives a fancy university degree very few cats in the university town Uppsala, Sweden have obtained. Peter is visited by his American relative Pelle Swanson who invites him to visit his new home country America - in the movie called Americat. There everything is bigger and everything seems possible.

Movie - 1992, 2h 15m • as Kammarherre
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 lovely, affluent Anna. Despite their social differences, Henrik and Anna fall in love, wed and move to the country. They lead a quiet life as Henrik works as a priest, but it isn't long before the simple people and plain surroundings make Anna long for a more lavish lifestyle, which causes marital stress.

Movie - 1962, 2h 15m • as The Poet
16 -year-old Mari has just been released from a juvenile detention school after one year of treatment. To prevent her from making contact with her old gang, she is sent to Skåne in southern Sweden, where she will work in a dairy shop. She doesn't like being there so she decides to run away and hitchhike her way up to Stockholm. She makes contact with her old gang but realizes that she's not welcome anymore and her boyfriend has even hooked up with a new girl.

Movie - 1976, 2h 15m • as Man with puzzle
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 being healthy and being regarded as sick.

Movie - 1981, 2h 15m • as Murre från Skogstibble
Peter-No-Tail is a cat who's born without a proper tail on a farm by the Swedish countryside. Due to economical difficulties, the farmer is forced to get rid of Peter. The farmer can't bring himself to drown the cat, so he sneaks Peter inside the car of a family who are renting a house close to the farm for their summer vacation. When the family finally reach their home in Uppsala, Sweden, they find Peter and decide to keep him. Without a tail, he becomes the talk of the town among the other cats and, especially Mike, who teases him cruelly. Mean Mike and his two companions, Bill and Bull, are notorious for the nasty tricks they like to play on other cats. Mike is currently trying to court Molly Silk-Nose, but his rough and silly approach does not impress her, since she becomes interested in the kind and gentle Peter. But Mike won't give up that easily and he has a plan for how he'll get his revenge.

Movie - 1983, 2h 15m • as Butler
The story of the charlatan Gustaf Raskenstam life and times during World War II, who for financial gain seduced a large number of women.

Drama Series - 1965, 16 episodes • as Francisque
This television adaptation retells the story of Dom Juan, an aristocratic libertine whose serial seductions culminate in a fatal confrontation with a supernatural avenger. The production presents the classic Don Juan legend in a comic tone for television.

Movie - 1980, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
The journalist Alf Mattson gets thoroughly drunk at his birthday party, where his wife announces that she intends to divorce him. He is knocked down on the street and is later carried home by a friend. The next day he is to fly to Budapest in order to make a report for the Stockholm television. Mattson disappears in Budapest.

Movie - 1992, 2h 15m • as Hugo Börjesson
Three prisoners, all specialists within their area, are freed from prison in a dramatic fashion. But who helped them - and why?

Movie - 1963, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A television adaptation of August Strindberg’s A Dream Play, the film follows Agnes, the daughter of the god Indra, as she descends to Earth to witness the conditions of human existence. Through a succession of loosely connected scenes, she encounters individuals from different walks of life, with events unfolding according to dream logic rather than linear narrative.

Drama Series - 1978, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
Harry H. is a detective who prefers to sit by the water and fish but can never say no to a case when someone is in need.

Drama Series - 1981, 16 episodes • as Karrek
A dramatization of the Karin Boye's last novel. A nightmarish existence in a future regimented society. In this welfare state introduced the drug Kallocain that may reveal the crimes of dissent.

Movie - 1991, 2h 15m • as Ek's Neighbor
Harry Lund is having a bad day. First he gets fired. And then loses his entire fortune at an illegal gambling club. On his way out, he is assaulted and drugged by unknown men, and wakes up in a car with another man. A very dead man. A very murdered man. And Harry's penknife sticks out of his body. Harry flees in panic to Stockholm. And now not only the bad guys are close on his heels - but also the police...

Movie - 1962, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A newspaper misprints Pontus Blom's (Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt) yearly income as being much more than it is; this leads to various comical situations of exceeding hilarity.

Movie - 1952, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A high school in a small city. Torben and Ninni are deeply infatuated with each other but their parents dislike the pair seeing each other. After graduation Torben joins the army and when Ninni discovers that she is pregnant her parents send her to a farm in Denmark to bear her child.

Movie - 1978, 2h 15m • as Kurt Svedner
A major routine explosion is to be carried out at a power plant, but it does not work properly.

Movie - 1980, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
The terrorist Fors arrested after an attack on a OPEC meeting. Shortly afterwards town minister's daughter gets kidnapped by two men who require Fors be released and that he will flight phase to Albania. SÄPO agent Olsson will handle the case.

Movie - 1982, 2h 15m • as Delegationsman
A comedy about taxi driver Bengt, who finds himself in trouble when he is unable to repay a loan to loan shark Kurt. At the same time, researcher Johan receives an urgent assignment from his professor, which is complicated by the fact that he unexpectedly has to take care of Bengt's daughter Pia. Their lives become intertwined in a series of comical and dramatic events that take place in the same apartment building.