Hasse Ekman

Hasse Ekman is probably Sweden's most successful and critically acclaimed film director from the period after Sjöström and Stiller and prior to Ingmar Bergman, peaking between the mid-1940s and 1950. He was greatly influenced by filmmaker Orson Welles and also by episodic-films. His most successful film as a director is often said to be the 1950 film Flicka och hyacinter (Girl with Hyacinths), a crime/mystery drama about a young woman committing suicide by hanging herself in her apartment. His 1957 film Summer Place Wanted was entered into the 1st Moscow International Film Festival. Hasse Ekman is part of the prominent "Ekman acting family" in Sweden: He was the son of Swedish star actor Gösta Ekman (senior) and father of actor Gösta Ekman (junior), actor Stefan Ekman and stage/film director Mikael Ekman. He is the grandfather of actress Sanna Ekman. As an actor Ekman appeared in most of his own films, as the leading man and in a number of strong supporting roles, and he also acted in three early Ingmar Bergman films (Prison, Thirst and Sawdust and Tinsel). He also played opposite his famous father in Intermezzo, the original Swedish 1936 film starring Ingrid Bergman as the female lead. Overall, he appeared in fifty Swedish films.

1938: Thunder and Lightning 1940: Swing it, magistern! 1940: A Real Man 1940: Heroes in Yellow and Blue 1941: Magistrarna på sommarlov 1941: The Ghost Reporter 1943: Ombyte av tåg 1943: Men of the Navy 1945: Fram för lilla Märta 1945: Kungliga patrasket (The Royal Rabble) 1946: Medan porten var stängd (While the Door Was Locked) 1948: Love Goes Up and Down 1948: Each to His Own Way 1948: Banketten ("The Banquet") 1949: Flickan från tredje raden (The Girl from the Third Row) 1950: Girl with Hyacinths 1950: The Kiss on the Cruise 1953: Resan till dej 1956: Ratataa 1956: Egen ingång 1956: Seventh Heaven 1957: The Halo Is Slipping 1958: You Are My Adventure 1958: The Jazz Boy 1959: Fröken Chic