Hampe Faustman
Biography
Born as Erik Stellan Chatham. His parents was the artists Gösta Chatham and Mollie Faustman. Hampe Faustman was a Swedish director, writer and actor. He appeared in 23 feature films and directed 20 films between during the 1940s and 50s. Faustman is best known for his socially engaged films. Producer Lorens Marmstedt contracted Faustman to Terrafilm which gave him artistic freedom. He died of pneumonia at 42.
Known For & Full Filmography20 Titles
Movie - 1948, 2h 15m âą as Priest at prison
Young drifter tells his story in flashback from prison.
Movie - 1942, 2h 15m âą as Bo Eriksson
In the south of Sweden, some farmers get into trouble when the German Count is forcing them to perform day labor for him. But a man refuses to bow to the German Count.
Movie - 1944, 2h 15m âą as Patrol Commander
In an unnamed country under occupation, a senior officer is killed in an attack by a member of the resistance.
Movie - 1946, 2h 15m âą Main Cast Role
The farm workers at NĂ€s Farm, lead by Hellman, go on strike, demanding that their employer recognize their labor union. But he calls on strike-breakers to perform the farm work. Hellman's son Gunnar is a hothead who easily gets in trouble.
Movie - 1943, 2h 15m âą as Narrator (voice)
News reel film sequences from September 1938 until the end of 1942, integrated with the fictive Swedish family Söderberg in their everyday life at home and the changes, because of the escalating war, that are brought upon them.
Movie - 1945, 2h 15m âą as Rodja Raskolnikov
Former student Raskolnikov is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police, Raskolnikov struggles between trying to hide his guilt and the pressure to confess.
Movie - 1943, 2h 15m âą as Roland
A priest decides to engage himself socially in prison. In the cells he meets a number of women with different fates. One is Mary, a young honest woman gone wrong.
Movie - 1946, 2h 15m âą as Farmer at feast (uncredited)
Harald Handfaste is a 15th century Swedish Robin Hood, who fights against foreign oppression. He becomes the leader of a band of highwaymen and they start dealing with the evil bailiff. However, the bailiff will stop at nothing to catch Handfaste and show the people who is in charge. He even attempts to marry Handfaste's beloved Karin, and when she refuses to subdue, the bailiff decides to execute both her, her father and a monk who has been helping them.
Movie - 1946, 2h 15m âą as Tomas Ekberg
The film follows a number of people in an apartment building during a night full of dramatic events and entanglements.
Movie - 1944, 2h 15m âą as Prison guard
Celebrated elderly Austrian poet opposes nazism, while his daughter admires and falls in love with leading nazi activist, who eventually becomes concentration camp commander with his father-in-law as prisoner.
Movie - 1957, 2h 15m âą Main Cast Role
Lars Ekborg and Sven Eric Gamble portray bumbling criminals who get involved in a safe-cracking heist.
Movie - 1943, 2h 15m âą as Georg Brandt (as Erik Faustman)
An allegory of Germany's WWII occupation of Norway. Members of a theater ensemble join the resistance.
Movie - 1952, 2h 15m âą as Funfair visitor
"She Came Like a Wind" - Fabian Rosander works at a factory and is close to 50 years old. When a new employee named Lilly, a young beautiful girl, comes to the factory Fabians life takes a new turn.
Movie - 1941, 2h 15m âą as Martin Frost
In the beginning of WW II a Swedish ship in a northern French port is exposed to German air raids. The captain take a chance to leave the port without permission. A stranded woman seize the chance to get home to Sweden.
Movie - 1943, 2h 15m âą as Einar
Proud Katrina falls in love with Johan, who's a sailor, and follows him home to the island of Ă land. She has been promised a paradise with blooming apple trees but are greeted by poverty and hard work.
Movie - 1949, 2h 15m âą Main Cast Role
Midsummer Eve in Malmfors in the 1880s. The holiday is celebrated with a big party. Three blacksmiths leave the ironworks and become drifters, seeking out jobs elsewhere. During their travels, they come across beautiful girls as well as jobs in different ironworks, where the workers are organizing, monitored by a brutal police force.
Movie - 1940, 2h 15m âą as Freedom fighter
"With life at stake"- Max is illegal arms dealers and lives with Wanda, a spy for the dictatorship in which they live. She is ordered by her superiors to reveal the actions and members resistance group. The freedom fighter John falls in love with Wanda.
Movie - 1943, 2h 15m âą as Furir Ă ke Berglund
During the spring of 1940 two young men gets drafted and deployed close to the Norwegian border, where they fall in love with the same woman.
Movie - 1955, 2h 15m âą Main Cast Role
"Love on Tour" - A traveling theatre company has arrived at an outdoor stage. They are ready for the rehearsal. But one of the actors is missing.
Movie - 1943, 2h 15m âą as Bertil Hellman
Marianne is not very interested in love, but still has company with Bertil. It's only when he decides to try his luck over in America that she realizes how much she likes him.