Gustaf's Unofficial Encyclopedia

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Detaljer / Details
2003 Film, 115 minutes
Role – Daniel, age 17 (Valter plays the younger version of this character earlier in the film!)
Directed by Kristian Petri; Written by Jonas Frykberg and Lars Norén
Jonas Karlsson won a Guldbagge for best actor; film was nominated for four other Guldbagge awards.
Description: Emma, a young author, goes to see Erik, the publishing editor to whom she's sent her debut novel. Their meeting leads to a love affair. The middle-aged Erik leaves his wife. What Erik doesn't know is that Emma recently began a relationship with the playwright Stefan, whose play is also being published by Erik's company. One day Stefan overdoses and is brought to the emergency room where Erik's wife Ann works as a doctor. This incident is the start of the story about how four people's lives are crossed during ten years, until the four of them finally end up in the same loneliness they started.

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Var Man
2004 Theatre, Dramaten; 67 performances beginning Feb. 7, 2004
Role – Kristian
Directed by Agneta Ehrensvärd; Written by Greta Sundberg
Description: Sanna writes poems about her desire for something else. Kristian tries to get in contact with his absent biological father. Tobias, a hardcore patriot, curses the “multicultural hell”. A modern day story about three young, vulnerable people and the consequences of their ideals.

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Köpmannen i Venedig / The Merchant of Venice
2004-2005 Theatre, Dramaten; 117 performances beginning Sept. 10, 2004
Role – Bassanio
Directed by Mats Ek; Written by William Shakespeare
Description: Bassanio is a failed Venice merchant in love with a rich woman named Portia who lives in Belmont. He needs money so that he can travel to Belmont and convince her to marry him. Portia has a problem as well, because her father died without choosing a husband for her, a potential suitor would have to solve a puzzle involving chests. Bassanio's friend Antonio offers to borrow money to pay for the trip. Unfortunately, the loan shark, Shylock, has a grudge against Antonio. Antonio had interfered with his business, and insulted his religion at every opportunity. Shylock plans to use this opportunity to take revenge on him.

Köpmannen i Venedig (Dramaten 2005) from Niko Röhlcke on Vimeo.

 

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Ikke Naken / Första Kärlek / The Color of Milk
2004 Film, 94 minutes
Role – the stranger
Directed and written by Torun Lian
Won 6 film festival awards, nominated for two others and three Amanda awards.
Description: Selma's mother died giving birth to her, and Selma's step aunt is living proof that men only cause trouble. So the 11 year old girl makes a deal with her best friends that they will stay away from boys and dedicate their lives to science. And by the way, Selma was probably born on another planet and not meant to fall in love with anyone. But what happens when her friends break the pact, and she actually meets a boy who's not like the rest? A beautiful story about exploring and finding out about life and what you want, and how difficult it can be sometimes. Especially when "nature" works against your principles and beliefs... (description via imdb)

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Babylonsjukan / Babylon Disease
2004 Film, 93 minutes
Role – Olle
Directed by Daniel Espinosa; Written by Clara Fröberg
Description: When Maja's boyfriend travels to India for a couple of months, she is left with no place to stay. She becomes a lodger of Mattias, a young unemployed man with a group of slacker friends and a 'seize the day' attitude to life. At first terrified by their irresponsibility, she is soon attracted to Mattias. (description via imdb)

Trailer here: rstvideo.com/trailer/babylonsjukan/

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Platonov
2005 Theatre, Dramaten; 42 performances beginning Feb. 5, 2005
Role – Nikoláj Trilétskij
Directed by Karl Dunér; Written by Anton Chekhov
Description: What do women want? Any man? Platonov was a distinguished academic, now a village schoolteacher married to the simple but cheerful and loving Sasha. Platonov is a witty if temperamental guest, sought after at the dinner parties of Anna, a general's widow, who lives on her estate, deeply in debt, flirting with him. To the season's first dinner, Anna's aged stepson brings his new wife, Sofia, whom Platonov knew when he was a professor. She's still in his thrall and he presses his suit. He also behaves badly at the party toward Maria Grekova, a young single woman. By the night's end, he has stirred up enough passion to overwhelm the neighborhood. Will anyone take any action, or will it be all talk?

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Valiant och de fjäderlätta hjältarna / Valiant
2005 Animated Film, 76 minutes
Role – voice of Valiant in the Swedish version
Directed by Gary Chapman; Written by Jordan Katz, George Webster, and George Melrod
Description: Set in 1944, Valiant is a woodland pigeon who wants to become a great hero someday. When he hears they are hiring recruits for the Royal Homing Pigeon Service, he immediately sets out for London. On the way, he meets a smelly but friendly pigeon named Bugsy, who joins him, mainly to get away from clients he cheated in a game of find-the pebble, and helps him sign up for the war.

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Lika för lika / Measure for Measure
2005 Theatre, Dramaten; 34 performances beginning Sept. 24, 2005
Role – Claudio
Directed by Yannis Houvardas; Written by William Shakespeare
Description: A dark, sometimes bitter play, Measure for Measure is a comedy that often feels more like the tragedies Shakespeare was writing in the same period. Its preoccupation with themes of sex, morality, and the law are far removed from A Midsummer Night's Dream's and As You Like It's lovers frolicking in green woods. Set in urban Vienna, Measure for Measure depicts a near-criminal underworld that many Elizabethans would have associated with the world of the public theatres themselves.

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Snapphanar
2006 TV Mini-series, 167 minutes. Shown in three parts over Christmas 2006 on svt.
Role – King Karl XI
Directed by Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein; Written by Niklas Rockström
Description: One night in 1678, the devout boy Nils loses everything he holds dear. His entire family is wiped out by Swedes disguised as Snapphanar (a peasant rebel group who secretly fought for Denmark against the Swedish rule of Scania from 1660-1700.) He begins his journey for revenge, soon finding allies amongst the Snapphanar.

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Förortsungar / Kidz in da Hood
2006 Film, 96 minutes
Role – Johan
Directed by Ylva Gustavsson and Catti Edfeldt; Written by Ylva Gustavsson and Hans Renhäll
Winner of 14 festival prizes and 7 Guldbagge, including one for Gustaf for best actor
Description: Kidz in da Hood is the gripping and warm story of Amina, who came to Sweden with her grandfather three years ago. Amina has not yet received her residency permit and when her grandfather dies everything seems to fall apart. She temporarily hides out with pierced and tattooed rocker Johan, who lives in a worn-down suburb. The wild girl Mirre lives on the same floor as Amina and together they begin fighting for Amina to stay in Sweden and live with Johan. (description via imdb)

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Lulu
2006 Theatre, Dramaten; 30 performances beginning Sept. 15, 2006
Role – Alwa Schöning
Directed by Ole Anders Tandberg; Written by Frank Wedekind
Description: She is the face that launched a thousand fantasies. She is all things to all men. She is a snare and the one who sets you free, the hunter and the hunted. She is amoral but also curiously selfless, the femme fatale who embraces death at the hands of Jack the Ripper. She is a contradiction. She is a blank. She is what you want her to be. Her name is Lulu and she is nothing but trouble. (http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2002/mar/23/1)

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Wallander: Pyramiden
2007 Film, 88 minutes
Role – Wallander, age 24
Directed by Daniel Lind Lagerlöf; Book by Henning Mankell, screenplay written by Micke Hjorth
Description: A grenade is found in the wreckage of an crashed airplane and Wallander is sent to investigate. By coincidence, he makes a strange observation of one of the suspects that brings back memories of a traumatic experience from when he was a young, inexperienced officer.

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Råttatouille / Ratatouille
2007 Animated film, 110 minutes
Role – voice of Remy, Swedish version
Directed by Brad Bird and Jan Pinkava; Written by Brad Bird
Description: Remy is not like the other rats. When he is accidentally separated from his family and ends up in a restaurant, his interest in food can blossom. Linguini is recruited to work in the restaurant but cannot cook. With Remy’s help, can he become a master chef?

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Arn: Tempelriddaren/Arn: The Knight Templar
2007 Film, 138 minutes
Role – Knut
Directed by Peter Flinth; Book by Jan Guillou, Screenplay by Hans Gunnarsson
Part of the six episode Arn: Hela Historien/Arn: The Knight Templar – The Complete Series. This film and Arn: The Kingdom at the End of the Road were combined into one shorter film (also known as Arn: The Knight Templar) for international release, as well.
Four Guldbagge awards plus one Guldbagge nomination. One film festival Audience Award.
Description: Based on the first part of Jan Guillou's well-known trilogy, Arn - The Knight Templar takes place in Sweden and the Middle East, and evokes a rich tapestry of gallant knights, powerful queens and treacherous kings. Arn, the son of a high-ranking Swedish nobleman is educated in a monastery and sent to the Holy Land as a knight templar to do penance for a forbidden love. An epic saga about war and intrigue, friendship and betrayal, and above all: love

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Patrik 1,5 / Patrik, Age 1.5
2008 Film, 102 minutes
Role – Göran Skoogh
Directed by Ella Lemhagen; Written by Michael Druker and Ella Lemhagen
Won 7 film festival awards, nominated for 1 more, as well as 2 Guldbagge awards, including best actor for Gustaf.
Description: Goran and Sven have been cleared for adoption and are given the option to adopt Swedish orphan "Patrik 1,5," but when Patrik arrives, he turns out not to be the toddler they were expecting. A comma was misplaced, and the boy they receive is a 15-year-old homophobe with a criminal past.