Gunnel Lindblom

Gunnel Lindblom

1931-12-18 Gothenburg, Sweden 56 Credits

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Gunnel Lindblom (born Gunnel Märtha Ingegärd Lindblom, 18 December 1931 – 24 January 2021 Gothenburg, Sweden), was a Swedish film actress and director. As an actor she was particularly associated with the work of Ingmar Bergman, though in 1965 she performed the lead role in Miss Julie for BBC Television. She also played the key-role of The Mummy in Bergman's staging of Strindberg's The Ghost Sonata in 1998-2000, a performance that earned her much critical acclaim. Married to senior lecturer Stu...

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Bergman: A Year in a Life

Bergman: A Year in a Life

2018

as Self

7.4
Acting

The year 1957 was one of the most prolific for the Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman: he shot two films, released two of his most celebrated films and ...

Searching for Ingmar Bergman

Searching for Ingmar Bergman

2018

as Self - Filmmaker

6.0
Acting

A meaningful account of the personal and professional life of the great Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) that explores his film legacy, wi...

Gunnel Lindblom: ut ur tystnaden

Gunnel Lindblom: ut ur tystnaden

2018

8.0
Acting

The working class girl from Landala, Gothenburg, through the fine art of theatre and all the way to Hollywood.

Bergman's Reliquarium

Bergman's Reliquarium

2018

6.5
Acting

A visual association play into Ingmar Bergman's deepest secrets. A pop video attempting to connect Bergman's various works by borrowing, mirroring, cr...

Afternoon Encounter

Afternoon Encounter

2017

Acting

She wants a divorce, a cleaning prior to death - but he refuses. Here’s an old couple that can’t stand each other, other than as memories. The film is...

Regissören: en film om Mai Zetterling

Regissören: en film om Mai Zetterling

2015

as Self

6.0
Acting

A celebrated movie star, Mai Zetterling stepped behind the camera in the early 1960's as one of the few female directors in the world. Her works were ...

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

2009

as Isabella Vanger

7.5
Acting

Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker. In the opening of the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, a mi...

Women and Bergman

Women and Bergman

2007

as Self

Acting

A roundtable conversation was recorded for television in 2007 at the Stockholm International Film Festival.

The Ghost Sonata

The Ghost Sonata

2007

as Mumien

5.8
Acting

The Ghost Sonata relates the adventures of a young student, who idealizes the lives of the inhabitants of a stylish apartment building in Stockholm. H...

The Girl from Auschwitz

The Girl from Auschwitz

2005

as the voice

Acting

A portrait of the legendary Swedish journalist and writer Cordelia Edvardson (1929-2012). She was only fourteen when she alone was brought to the conc...

Light Keeps Me Company

Light Keeps Me Company

2000

as Self

7.8
Acting

Carl-Gustaf Nykvist's documentary about his father, Sven Nykvist. The film is based on Sven's memoirs with Sven himself as narrator. A journey to the ...

Når mørket er forbi

Når mørket er forbi

2000

as Anna

1.0
Acting

"Passing Darkness" - Oslo lawyer Josef Omgang returns to his native village on the Finnmark coast, where he finds his father's seafood company in trou...

Expectations

Expectations

1997

as Eva

7.0
Acting

A recently separated ladies' magazine reporter, a young couple who are in love, an unfaithful but jealous crane driver, a longing father and his unkno...

Lines from the Heart

Lines from the Heart

1996

as Self

Acting

The trio of actresses have ostensibly gathered to pay tribute to Mai Zetterling, but also reminisce about their own careers and the illustrious figure...

Nadja

Nadja

1995

as Grandmother

Acting

Summer by the sea. Young Nadja is about to learn how to swim. In the swim-school she is by far the best at swimming on dry land.

Betraktelse

1994

Director, Writer

4.0
Directing Writing

An elderly man and his existence in a harsh environment. He fishes, dig up potatoes, take care of his sheep and workhorse. He works in the barn, colle...

Hedda Gabler

Hedda Gabler

1993

as Juliane Tesman

Acting

Hedda and Tesman have just returned from their honeymoon and the relationship is already in trouble. Trapped but determined, Hedda tries to control th...

Die Frauen in Ingmar Bergmans Filmen

Die Frauen in Ingmar Bergmans Filmen

1993

as Self

Acting

Documentary about the Woman in Ingmar Bergman's Movies

Captain Escalaborns

Captain Escalaborns

1991

6.3
Acting

After the death of his parents, Juan goes into an adventure to find Captain Escalaborns to whom he must deliver the map of a treasure to be searched t...

True women

True women

1991

Director, Adaptation, Producer

Directing Producing

The drama about the Bark family and their daughter Berta, who will fight against the house patriarchal order. Berta remains in the house and becomes a...

Summer Nights on Planet Earth

Summer Nights on Planet Earth

1987

Director, Screenplay

Directing Writing

Gunnel Lindblom twists every plot and family conflict to the breaking point in her intense infidelity drama about a family on the verge of a nervous b...

Bakom jalusin

Bakom jalusin

1984

as Bente Sanders

8.0
Acting

A Swedish writer is visiting Morocco. At his hotel, he stays next door to an Italian couple. He becomes obsessed with the woman, spying and following ...

Helligtrekongersaften

1981

Director, Writer

Directing Writing

Disguised as a man, Viola (Kirsten Olesen) is stranded in the wonderland of Illyria where she awakens the love of the beautiful Olivia (Susse Wold). V...

Sally and Freedom

Sally and Freedom

1981

as Nora

5.5
Acting

About choices in life and responsibilities. Sally has decided to have an abortion. It seriously affects her relationship with her partner Jonas, and t...

Sally and Freedom

Sally and Freedom

1981

Director

5.5
Directing

About choices in life and responsibilities. Sally has decided to have an abortion. It seriously affects her relationship with her partner Jonas, and t...

Tamara - La Donna d'Oro

Tamara - La Donna d'Oro

1981

as Tamara (voice)

Acting

About the artist Tamara de Lempicka. At the outbreak of the World War One she fled Poland and settled in Paris. She was quickly drawn into the interac...

Misfire

Misfire

1978

as Alma Andersson

6.0
Acting

A major routine explosion is to be carried out at a power plant, but it does not work properly.

Summer Paradise

Summer Paradise

1977

Writer, Director

5.3
Writing Directing

Conventions of civility among family members are severely strained by the very real breakup of the bonds between them. During a few days at a vacation...

Sing Beautifully About Love

1976

Director

Directing

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

Scenes from a Marriage

Scenes from a Marriage

1974

as Eva

8.1
Acting

Johan and Marianne are married and seem to have it all. Their happiness, however, is a façade for a troubled relationship, which becomes even rockier ...

Brother Carl

Brother Carl

1971

as Lena Holmberg

5.7
Acting

Two women, Karen (theatre director) and Lena, visit an island, a Swedish resort, where Lena's ex-husband, Martin (choreographer), lives in comparative...

The Lie

The Lie

1970

as Anna Fromm

Acting

A Swedish couple are trapped in their marriage and way of life. Locked up in their bourgeois inferno.

The Father

1969

as Laura

8.0
Acting

The Cavalry Captain and his brother, the Chaplain, discusses whether an adjutant is the father or not of the child one of the maids is expecting.

The Girls

The Girls

1968

as Gunilla / Kalonike

6.1
Acting

As they tour Sweden in a theatrical production of "Lysistrata", performing to often uncomprehending audiences, three women find their own lives and ma...

The Vicious Circle

The Vicious Circle

1967

as Maria

2.0
Acting

Maria, a young woman is processing her life trauma. She travels head-first to a small village and finds shelter at an inn, inhabited by a dysfunctiona...

Woman of Darkness

Woman of Darkness

1966

as Anna Månsdotter

7.1
Acting

Sweden 1889. The young Per Nilsson has a very dominant mother, Anna Månsdotter. His father died many years ago and he and his mother have for a long t...

Hunger

Hunger

1966

as Ylajali

7.4
Acting

In 1890, Pontus, the starving writer, wanders the streets of Christiania, in search of love and a chance to get his work published. All he meets is de...

The Dance of the Heron

The Dance of the Heron

1966

as Elena

6.0
Acting

The rich and conservative Edward can not forgive his younger wife who had been unfaithful. She's trying to get his attention by flirting with a Dutch ...

Miss Julie

1965

as Miss Julie

Acting

Miss Julie has a torrid, strange relationship with her servant, Jean.

Rapture

Rapture

1965

as Karen

7.0
Acting

Agnes, a lonely teenage girl, and her father befriend an escaped convict, named Joseph, who arrives at their farm in Brittany, France. When Joseph dev...

Loving Couples

Loving Couples

1964

as Adele Holmström

6.0
Acting

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 youthfu...

Är du inte riktigt klok?

Är du inte riktigt klok?

1964

as Ellen Ringmar

6.0
Acting

Lawyer Hans is having an affair with his secretary Anni and is trying to get his wife to meet another husband. When his wife falls in love with anothe...

My Love Is Like a Rose

My Love Is Like a Rose

1963

as Ninni Ahlgren

4.0
Acting

A middle aged doctor begins a relationship with a teenage girl. His best friend is dating the girls mother. A group of boys plan to blackmail the doct...

The Silence

The Silence

1963

as Anna

7.5
Acting

Traveling through an unnamed European country on the brink of war, sickly, intellectual Ester, her sister Anna and Anna's young son, Johan, check into...

Winter Light

Winter Light

1963

as Karin Persson

7.9
Acting

A Swedish pastor fails a loving woman, a suicidal fisherman and God.

Good Friends and Faithful Neighbors

Good Friends and Faithful Neighbors

1960

as Margit, Roberts fru

1.0
Acting

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

The Virgin Spring

The Virgin Spring

1960

as Ingeri

7.8
Acting

Devout Christians Töre and Märeta send their only daughter, the virginal Karin, and their foster daughter, the unrepentant Ingeri, to deliver candles ...

Måsen

Måsen

1959

Acting

This quintessential Chekhov drama--his first success--is both comic and tragic. A group of friends and relations gather at a country estate to see the...

Rabies

Rabies

1958

as Jenny

6.3
Acting

A relay race of "scenes from human life". Depicts the human characters inferior traits are spreading like a disease: the person who gets rejected / hu...

The Venetian

The Venetian

1958

as Valeria

4.2
Acting

A young beautiful man from Milan arrives at the carnival in Venice. He meets two flirtatious women.

Wild Strawberries

Wild Strawberries

1957

as Charlotta

8.1
Acting

Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receiv...

The Seventh Seal

The Seventh Seal

1957

as Mute Girl

8.2
Acting

When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Dea...

Song of the Scarlet Flower

Song of the Scarlet Flower

1956

as Kerstin

4.0
Acting

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.

Krut och kärlek

Krut och kärlek

1956

as Inga

Acting

Set in Sweden the 1700s. Local rebels are raging in the south. Two riders are commissioned to capture the Dane rebel who is their leader.

Flickan i regnet

Flickan i regnet

1955

as Ingrid

5.0
Acting

Young Anna Rydell comes to a boarding-school for girls. She is very shy and the other girls don't really try to get to know her. The French teacher Ma...

Kärlek

Kärlek

1952

Acting

A new young priest begins his duty on a small island. He assumes that the service should not be to demanding, so that he will be able to finish his do...