Tomas Alfredson

Director

April 1, 1965 (61 years)

Lidingö, Stockholms län, Sweden

Biography

Hans Christian Tomas Alfredson (born 1 April 1965) is a Swedish film director best known internationally for directing the 2008 vampire film Let the Right One In and the 2011 espionage film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Alfredson has received the Guldbagge Award for Best Direction twice: in 2005 for Four Shades of Brown and in 2008 for Let the Right One In. He is the son of director and actor Hans Alfredson and the brother of director Daniel Alfredson. Description above from the Wikipedia article…

Filmography

6.6

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

George Smiley, the aging master spy of the Cold War and once heir apparent to Control, is brought back out of retirement to flush out a top level mole within the Circus. Smiley must travel back through his life and murky workings of the Circus to unravel the net spun by his nemesis Karla 'The Sandman' of the KGB and reveal the identity of the mole before he disappears.

5.2

The Snowman

Detective Harry Hole investigates the disappearance of a woman whose pink scarf is found wrapped around an ominous looking snowman.

6.2

Faithless

In the twilight of his life, a filmmaker reunites with a woman who was once his best friend's partner and confronts the story of their affair.

7.5

Let the Right One In

When Oskar, a sensitive, bullied 12-year-old boy, meets his new neighbor, the mysterious and moody Eli, they strike up a friendship. Initially reserved with each other, Oskar and Eli slowly form a close bond, but it soon becomes apparent that she is no ordinary young girl.

6.0

Bert

The first appearance on screen for Bert Ljung, a normal teenager who's diary Swedes have been able to follow in well over ten books now. As in the books, he fights spots, looks for girls, runs his moped, plays with his weird friends Ake and Erik, and a lot of other stuff teenagers are supposed to do.

9.0

Four Shades of Brown

Drama comedy that is invented, written down and performed by the Killing Gang: Tomas Alfredson, Jonas Inde, Martin Luuk, Henrik Schyffert, Robert Gustafsson, Andres Lokko and Johan Rheborg.

8.0

Soldiers by Moonlight

The master builder Roffe (Göran Ragnerstam) and the sick Gunnar (Gösta Ekman) could have lived their lives without hearing about each other, but fate wanted something else.

4.3

Office Hours

Lotta is 27 years old and an office slave. She has absolutely no ambitions to advance. Most of the time she sits and waits until office hours are over. Then she gets promoted...

5.0

Bert: The Last Virgin

The film is based on a series of immensely popular Swedish children's books, about the boy Bert, who is just hitting puberty and having the usual problems with it. But that's where the usual ends abruptly.

4.6

The Jonsson Gang

Following a failed heist, Charles-Ingvar ‘Sickan’ Jonsson ends up in prison. Once released, his gang have become law-abiding citizens and Sickan has to continue on his own. Crime broker Anita tasks him with a simple burglary, but it turns out to be something a lot bigger than Sickan thought it was. Now he needs the help of his past accomplices to carry out the most difficult heist in the history of the gang.

6.9

Screwed in Tallinn: A Small Film About Loneliness

Percy Nilegaard collects Swedish single men and embarks on a bus trip to Tallinn with a so-called "highly-experienced driver".

6.5

Four Shades of Brown

An eccentric millionaire dies at a manor in Dalarna in Sweden, leaving behind three sons and a mistress. One of four parallel stories about parents and children. Four sides of Sweden. Four shades of brown.

6.5

Bergman's Reliquarium

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

6.0

On the Last Verse: A Small Film About Death

The documentary director KG Forsberg makes a film about his dying father.

N/A

Séance on a Wet Afternoon

Myra, a self-proclaimed medium, convinces her husband, Billy, to kidnap the son of a wealthy family so she can lead the police to the “missing” child and legitimize her psychic abilities. When Myra’s true intentions come to light, however, Billy realizes her plan threatens to consume them both.

N/A

Bergman Revisited

As we celebrate Ingmar Bergman, one of the greatest directors of all time, we asked how his legacy has affected Swedish filmmakers of today. Bergman Revisited is a compilation of six very different films, spanning from Bergmanesque drama to animated critical satire.

7.2

Gunnar Rehlin - A Small Film About Hurting Someone

A satiric campaign against the film critic Gunnar Rehlin.

7.0

Ikas TV-kalas

The program consisted of Ika acting different roles in a blue checkerboard studio together with the skeleton Åke.

5.8

Albert Åberg

Alfie Atkins is about to celebrate his birthday. Aunt Fifi is making all the arrangements, but it's turning out to be a bit of a different birthday party than Alfie would have liked.

N/A

Lek med Alfons Åberg

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