Olle Häger Movies

A documentary that tells the history of Sweden through the eyes of the people and showing their living conditions for the past 1000 years.

1953 - this is the year when Frank Sinatra tours Sweden and Stockholm celebrates 700 years with the entire air force in the air. The American way of...

We follow the Swedish national cross-country team for a year. The sport has come a long way from the quiet lumberjack types of the old days to...

1965 - The Rolling Stones is coming to Sweden - a little rougher and tougher than The Beatles who were here a few years earlier. And the fashion...

What happens to a person's self when she retires and no longer has the job to lean on? Documentary filmmaker Lars Lennart Forsberg asked that...

At dawn on June 22, 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union. On the same morning, Germany demanded permission from the Swedish government to transport...

About the Siemens Geheimschreiber - G printer - a crypto machine that Hitler's engineers designed in the 30's. The mathematician Arne Beurling at...

1963 - the year when the Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space. Sweden suffers from an smallpox epidemic - hundreds...

"He who is not with us - Sweden in the Cold War" - During the post-war period, the Nordic countries adapted their foreign policy to the prevailing...

Frank Sinatra was at rock bottom as far as his career in Hollywood was concerned, but made his way back to the spotlight via Finspångs Folkets...

A brand new decade begins. There is unrest in many places in Africa and Sweden is sending UN troops to the Congo. The Shah of Persia visits Stockholm...

1956 - the year when Elvis Presley breaks through and Grace Kelly celebrates a fairytale wedding in Monaco. In Ställdalen, a rail bus carrying...

Ingmar Bergman tells Olle Häger about "The Seventh Seal" and "Wild Strawberries". 1957 was one of Ingmar Bergman's great years. Then both "The...

A story between accordion and dynamite. Filmmaker Olle Häger returns to his childhood villages in Hälsingland.

"A voice from the past: a program about the explorer and politician Sven Hedin (1865-1952)" - based on his own statements and writings. Takes us...

1954 - this is the year when Marilyn Monroe wave to the American soldiers in Korea. In Sweden, a black hurricane takes the forest with it and the...

A film about Alfred Nobel.

1961 - the year when Swedish UN soldiers are in the crisis-ridden Congo and Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in a plane crash. Swedish...

1957 - this is when the space age begins. The Soviets send up Sputnik 1 and 2. The whole world searches the sky for moving stars and the radio...