Torkel Petersson

Actor

August 19, 1969 (56 years)

Lund, Sweden

Biography

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Filmography

5.0

Vaka

Kaj

An insomnia epidemic plunges Stockholm into chaos. A prime minister manages the crisis while protecting his son, a nurse fights to save her infected partner, and a teenager protects her neighbor amid the spreading disease.

6.7

Thicker Than Water

Manne

The beautiful island of Sunnanö in the Swedish archipelago is home to a popular B&B run by Anna-Lisa and her son Oskar. Anna-Lisa has summoned her daughter Jonna, an actress, and son Lasse, an opportunist, to the island. It is the first time in years that they are together again. When Anna-Lisa is found dead one morning, the siblings learn that she had terminal cancer: Her will stipulates that all three siblings must run the family B&B together for a year, or they won't inherit it at all. It is a mother’s last effort to reunite her children. But it will also confront them with the family’s unsolved past, present forces of attraction, and a very dark secret buried in a most unfortunate place...

7.1

End of Summer

Harald

On a summer's evening in 1984, a five-year-old boy vanishes in rural southern Sweden. The police investigation fails to find the truth, leaving behind rumors, suspicion, and a grieving family. Twenty years later, the boy's older sister Vera is leading a group therapy session in Stockholm, when a young man describes a strangely familiar childhood memory of a disappearance. A shaken Vera travels home to her fractured family to uncover, once and for all, what really happened in the summer that never ended.

6.1

Off Track

Björn

A mid-age hipster in Stockholm is a training freak and trains for the 90 km ski race Vasaloppet. His sister is the opposite, no job, drinks but has a daughter. Suddenly secrets reveals and promises are made.

6.3

30 Degrees in February

Johnny

Follow a group of Swedes who've left the snow and cold of Scandinavia for the warm, sandy beaches of Thailand in the dead of winter. Why? To embark on a life-changing adventure, a fresh start and a new life, of course.

6.4

Kopps

Benny

A small Swedish village, Högboträsk, is so peaceful that crime is nonexistent. The police spend their shifts drinking coffee, eating hot dogs and chasing down runaway cows. This is all well and good for the village's own police, but the police management board wants to discontinue the local police force for lack of crime.

6.7

Patrik, Age 1.5

Sven Skoogh

Göran and Sven have been cleared for adoption and they have a possibility to adopt a swedish orphan, Patrik 1,5. But when Patrik arrives he turns out to be someone else, not the little boy they were expecting. A comma had been misplaced, and in comes a 15-year-old homophobic with a criminal past.

7.2

The Torpedoes

Sonny Jakobson

Sonny is released from prison where he got a romantic relationship with one of the employees Camilla. He is getting ready to live a normal life and move in with her, but a last minute bid on the house is getting in the way.

6.2

The Best Man's Wedding

Måns

Roro, a foreign worker in Swedish parks, loves his girlfriend but is about to marry another girl to prevent her from being sent back to Lebanon. Meanwhile, Roro's best friend, Måns, has serious problems getting an erection.

6.5

The Days the Flowers Bloom

Roffan

The Days the Flowers Bloom follows the lifes of three friends on different decades. Erik, Mikael and Benny live their youth in 1970s Stockholm. Their families interact with each other, like neighbors tend to do, but behind the facades lies pain, sadness and shame.

7.3

Kevlar Soul

Brothers Alex and Robin live in miserable conditions with their violent and severely alcoholic father. In an effort to make life bearable, Alex tries to keep his father in a good mood while taking on a parental role for his younger brother, who is aggressive and unruly. When Alex falls for Ines and travels with her to Berlin, the brothers begin to drift apart, and disaster soon becomes inevitable.

5.6

The Jönsson Gang - The Master Plan

Dynamit-Harry

Charles Ingvar Jönsson gathers three criminals to take vengeance upon the people who killed his uncle.

5.3

Offside

Tommy

In the small Swedish town of Stensfors, the local football team faces dissolution unless it can win its remaining matches. Team member Kent recruits former 1980s Premier League star Duncan Miller to help, only to discover their hero is out of shape, alcoholic, and far from match-ready.

6.2

Zero Tolerance

Urban

Johan is a two-fisted Gothenburg cop who finds himself in a shoot-out with jewel robbers. After the smoke has cleared, one robber, shot by his accomplice, and an innocent bystander, are dead. Three witnesses, including Helen, identify thug extraordinaire Leo Gaut as being the dead crook's trigger-happy colleague. Gaut soon threatens the three witnesses, and only Johan, the badge-wearing hero, can save them.

4.8

The Adventures of Halvdan Viking

Ragnar

Halvdan is not a proper Viking. He's having a limp and is regarded by the other kids as a strange loner with no friends, except for the village blacksmith Björn who's taken care of him since Halvdan's father left on a plundering trip. Across the mighty river there's an enemy village that has been in a feud with Halvdan's tribe for as long as anyone can remember. One day during Halvdan's lonely excursions to the river he encounters Meia, the daughter of the enemy village ruler. A heart-warming and funny family adventure about bridging differences and forbidden friendship unfolds

5.4

The Stockholm Syndrome

Jan-Erik Olsson

This is the true story of the failed bank robbery-cum-hostage taking in a bank at the square Norrmalmstorg in Stockholm, in September 1973. The Stockholm Syndrome is named after this incident.

5.7

A One-Way Trip to Antibes

Tony

When George (Sven-Bertil Taube), a half-blind widower, learns that his children (Malin Morgan, Dan Ekborg) have conceived an elaborate plan to get their hands on his assets before he dies, he must confront his life choices. After catching his young home help Maria (Rebecca Ferguson's screen debut) red-handed in the act of stealing, George blackmails her into assisting him in a counterattack, triggering off a chain reaction in the family. George's children discover that he has a secret mistress in France.

6.8

Old Men in New Cars: In China They Eat Dogs II

Ludvig

The last wish of the dying "Monk" is for his foster child, Harald, to find his real son, Ludvig. But the latter is currently in a Swedish prison cell...

6.3

Round-Trip

Peter

11-year old Julia and Martin are tired of having to flip back and forth between their divorced parents and when they realize how much they look like, they decide to swap places. After meeting at an airport, the each embark on a journey that will change their lives forever.

N/A

Christina Schollin - sista föreställningen

Self

It is a new documentary made by film director, author and film critic Stig Björkman that will be shown on Sveriges Television in May. It was recorded in connection with Christina Schollin's last theater role as Helena Ekdahl in Teater Galeasen's production of "Fanny and Alexander". In the documentary, Christina looks back on her long film and theater life.