Gertrud Fridh

Actress

November 26, 1921 (62 years)

† October 11, 1984

Göteborg, Göteborg- och Bohus län, Sweden

Biography

Gertrud Fridh was a Swedish stage and screen actress. She graduated from The Gothenburg City Theatre's school ac acting in 1943. She made her film debut in Gustaf Molnader's "Rid i natt!/Ride Tonight!" (1942). Getrud Fridh played "Pax" in the controversial Hasse Ekman film "The White Cat" (1950).

Filmography

8.1

Wild Strawberries

Karin, Isak's Wife

Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. Along the way, they encounter a series of hitchhikers, each of whom causes the elderly doctor to muse upon the pleasures and failures of his own life. These include the vivacious young Sara, a dead ringer for the doctor's own first love.

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Svenska noveller

Ilse Siedel

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7.1

The Devil's Eye

Renata

Don Juan is sent from Hell to Earth with a mission: to seduce a virgin in order to spoil her pure wedding. The mission becomes frantic when Don Juan falls in love for the first time in centuries.

7.4

Hour of the Wolf

Corinne von Merkens

While vacationing on a remote German island with his younger pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.

7.4

The Magician

Ottilia

A traveling magician and his troupe arrive in a Swedish town in the 1840s, where their act is scrutinized by local authorities and a skeptical medical official. Their stay leads to a series of confrontations that test the boundaries between performance, belief, and deception.

6.7

Halsduken

Marianne Hastings

This is a Swedish remake based on The Scarf, the British original from 1959 (script : Francis Durbridge). The English script was translated to Swedish by Ulla Berthel and Börje Lindell. The Swedish version retains the English setting.

6.3

Siska

Annabella Myrman

A young woman struggles with life, love and career. She is courted by a young man but is unwilling to enter into a relationship if it means limiting her freedom.

4.1

Private Entrance

Margit Friberg

A seemingly ordinary day in October. A woman has since she separated from her husband lived in a single room with a separate entrance. But for her this is not an ordinary day. She only has six hours left to live.

10.0

Lyckodrömmen

Gull Fernström

The Karlsson family moves from a small village to a suburb outside Stockholm. The change from a country life to the big city is not easy.

6.5

A Ship to India

Sally

Returning home after seven years at sea, a sailor relives his youth aboard a salvage ship dominated by his abusive father, recalling love, betrayal, and the desire to escape. Told in flashback, the film explores family conflict, longing, and moral reckoning in an early milestone of Ingmar Bergman’s career.

8.0

Två trappor över gården

Inga Larsson

The rootless, misfit artist Bengt Hallberg escapes from a mental hospital. The head doctor believes him to be a hopeless case and dangerous for the environment. Bengt looks up Inga Larsson, the only person that matters to him.

5.9

Ride Tonight!

Peasant Woman (uncredited)

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.

6.5

Behind the Scenes of Wild Strawberries

Self

A short documentary capturing behind-the-scenes footage from the production of Wild Strawberries, offering a glimpse of Ingmar Bergman at work with his cast and crew during the making of one of his most celebrated films.

6.1

All These Women

Traviata

Pretentious critic Cornelius is writing a biography on a famous cellist and to do some research he stays in the cellist's house for a few days. He doesn't manage to get an interview with the man, but by talking to all the women who live with him, he comes to learn a lot about the musician's private life none the less. Cornelius then decides to use this information to blackmail the cellist into performing a composition that he, Cornelius, has written.

6.3

The White Cat

"Pax", Lena Gall

A man comes to Stockholm's central station. He does not know who he is or where he has been. He has some keys and a phone number. Perhaps he is the escaped sex maniac the police are searching for. A waitress at a café tries to help him.

5.9

The Yellow Squadron

Inger Bart-Wretling

The year is 1954. The war in Korea has just ended and the superpowers stand by each side of the boarder. The peace in Europe is fragile and the cold war is imminent. At F8 - Air Fore Base, the yellow squadron stand ready with its J29 fighters.

9.0

Wild Birds

Lizzie

A Swedish film noir with the character of a French noir ('Quai des brumes', 'Le jour se lève'). Two worlds meet for a brief experience of happiness ended by a violent tragedy. In one world the unhappy prostitute (Ulla) finds a drunken young man (Nisse) who had previously failed in many occupations. She takes him home. Her feelings are like those for a younger brother.

4.8

Jack of Hearts

Charlotta Ulfhammar

Lieutenant Anders Canitz is a womanizer and gambler from the upper class. He has spent all of heritage and tries to get to his sister's money by engaging her to invest in a shady business project he is involved in.

4.5

Trav, hopp och kärlek

Rose-Marie Nilsson

The estate Bokegård has big debts, mostly because the owner Måns Nilsson and his daughter Rose Marie just care about their horses.

8.0

På flykt undan mina landsmän

Naima Wifstrand

"On the Run from my Fellow Countrymen" - About Bertolt Brecht as a refugee in Sweden. When war seemed imminent in April 1939, Brecht moved to Stockholm, where he remained for a year.

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