Movies: Margaretha Byström

A Swedish housewife begins an adulterous affair with a foreign archaeologist. But he is an emotionally scarred man, a Jewish survivor from a concentration camp, consequently, their relationship will be painfully difficult....

A theatre production of Yukio Mishima's play, filmed for Swedish television. It begins in France in 1772. Six Women, one of them Madame de Sade, discuss their views and feelings of the notorious sadist and sodomist Marquis de Sade....

The old man PETTSON and his cat FINDUS live on a small farm way out in the countryside in Sweden. Christmas is approaching, and Pettson has given Findus the rash promise that THE TOMTE will come around with gifts for him at Christmas Eve. Pettson doe...

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 home, Katha, a woman in late middle age, tries to cope with an influx of discontented, disconnected...

A swimming machine turns up that has been doctored and modified into a tile thrower, but the machine malfunctions and causes an accident that imparts Pettson with amnesia. Suddenly, it seems as though the only hope for Pettson lies in old stories tha...

A bunch of homeless people becomes interested in a rehab facility for alcoholics, run by a religious foundation. They think it will be an easy and comfortable stay/cure to sober up and get fat. But they don't know what they are getting themselves in...

Carlo Goldoni's comedy 'I rusteghi' as adapted for Swedish television portrays the intrigues of the upper class in Venice in 1760....

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

A long flashback of an author and his relationship to an actress. Existential questions with no answers....

"True Women" - About the Bark family and their daughter Berta, who will fight against the house patriarchal order, includes the same problem as "A Doll's House". But Berta, unlike Nora, remains in the house and becomes a daily threat against those wh...

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

Tore Andersson is a depressed 43 year old sport journalist living in Stockholm. His girlfriend has left him so he decides to take a vacation in Cyprus....

A story about Gerda, maid and unmarried. And a New Year's Eve in her life....

This Swedish sex-comedy/drama explores the complications in the relationship of a couple who believe that if they make love to each other, they will die. They neck and are physically affectionate in public as well as in private, but have a big taboo ...

Jan and Gertrud have a sexual relationship, even though they are half siblings. Jan is an air traffic controller, while Gertrude is writing a dissertation on ferns. Jan falls in love with another woman, Jenny....

The story of the popular Swedish singer Ulla Billquist. The WW2's most famous voice in Sweden. The fate of a female that has never been told before....