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Klas Östergren (born 20 February 1955) is a Swedish novelist, screenwriter and translator who, in 1999, was nominated for his country's top film award, the Guldbagge and, in 2005, received the grand prize bestowed by the country's premier literary society, Samfundet De Nio.
A native of Stockholm, Klas Östergren was twenty years old when his first novel, Attila, was published in 1975, and gained critical acclaim and high readership five years later with the novel, Gentlemen. As a writer of screenplays and teleplays, he was honored in 1999 when Veranda för en tenor [Waiting for the Tenor], the screen treatment (which he co-wrote with Lisa Ohlin) of his novel, Med stövlarna på och andra berättelser, was nominated for Sweden's equivalent of the Academy Award, the Guldbagge. He is also one of his country's most highly regarded literary translators, having published a Swedish-language version of J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye and also having translated a two-volume edition (issued in September 2008) of the plays of Henrik Ibsen.
From 1982 to 1989, Klas Östergren was married to Swedish actress, Pernilla Wallgren, who subsequently continued her career using the name, Pernilla Östergren. They became the parents of a daughter, Agnes, and following their divorce and her marriage to director Bille August, she appeared, using her new professional name, Pernilla August, in two films for which Östergren wrote the screenplays. The first, 1996's Jerusalem, adapted from the novel by Selma Lagerlöf, was directed by her husband, Bille August, and the other, Offer och gärningsmän, was a 1999 miniseries directed for Sweden's national television broadcaster, SVT, by Tomas Alfredson.
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Klas Östergren (born 20 February 1955) is a Swedish novelist, screenwriter and translator who, in 1999, was nominated for his country's top film award, the Guldbagge and, in 2005, received the grand prize bestowed by the country's premier literary society, Samfundet De Nio.
A native of Stockholm, Klas Östergren was twenty years old when his first novel, Attila, was published in 1975, and gained critical acclaim and high readership five years later with the novel, Gentlemen. As a writer of screenplays and teleplays, he was honored in 1999 when Veranda för en tenor [Waiting for the Tenor], the screen treatment (which he co-wrote with Lisa Ohlin) of his novel, Med stövlarna på och andra berättelser, was nominated for Sweden's equivalent of the Academy Award, the Guldbagge. He is also one of his country's most highly regarded literary translators, having published a Swedish-language version of J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye and also having translated a two-volume edition (issued in September 2008) of the plays of Henrik Ibsen.
From 1982 to 1989, Klas Östergren was married to Swedish actress, Pernilla Wallgren, who subsequently continued her career using the name, Pernilla Östergren. They became the parents of a daughter, Agnes, and following their divorce and her marriage to director Bille August, she appeared, using her new professional name, Pernilla August, in two films for which Östergren wrote the screenplays. The first, 1996's Jerusalem, adapted from the novel by Selma Lagerlöf, was directed by her husband, Bille August, and the other, Offer och gärningsmän, was a 1999 miniseries directed for Sweden's national television broadcaster, SVT, by Tomas Alfredson.
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Call Girl (2012)
, 2h20Directed by Mikael Marcimain
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Sexploitation films, Films about prostitution
Actors Pernilla August, Josefin Asplund, David Dencik, Ruth Vega Fernandez, Magnus Krepper, Kristoffer Joner
Roles Sten Jenkert
Rating64%
Set against the backdrop of the 1976 election, the story is centred on delinquent teenager Iris (Sofia Karemyr), who is sent to live in a juvenile home. She meets Sonja (Josefin Asplund) there and the two regularly slip away for adventures in the city. Together they are recruited to the prostitution ring operated by Dagmar Glans (Pernilla August), a madam well-known to the authorities. Dagmar's clients are mostly rich and powerful men, including senior politicians of the day. She becomes the subject of a police investigation led by a young vice officer, John Sandberg (Simon J. Berger). Sandberg soon discovers Glans has powerful clients but also finds his investigation hampered by his superiors and his life threatened by sinister figures. Police break up the prostitution ring but the powerful clients avoid being named in the scandal and Dagmar's trial concludes with her receiving a suspended sentence before Iris can testify about being an underage prostitute. In the aftermath of the trial, Sandberg is killed in a hit and run incident and his report into the affair is classified by the newly elected government. The film ends with Iris running away from the juvenile home, her ultimate fate ambiguous.
False as Water (1985)
, 1h42Directed by Hans Alfredson
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Malin Ek, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Marie Göranzon, Stellan Skarsgård, Philip Zandén, Povel Ramel
Roles Party Guest (uncredited)
Rating60%
L'histoire d'amour interdite entre un éditeur marié et une poétesse tourne mal lorsque d'étranges événements dans son appartement la conduisent au bord de la folie.
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Gentlemen (2014)
, 2h21Directed by Mikael Marcimain
Origin Suede
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Actors David Dencik, Ruth Vega Fernandez, Sverrir Gudnason, Pernilla August, Peter Carlberg, Magnus Krepper
Roles Novel
Rating62%
Evil (2003)
, 1h53Directed by Mikael Håfström
Origin Suede
Genres Drama
Themes Films about education, Films about school violence
Actors Andreas Wilson, Gustaf Skarsgård, Henrik Lundström, Filip Berg, Marie Richardson, Johan Rabaeus
Rating76%
Erik Ponti, a 15-year-old boy, lives with his mother and sadistic stepfather in Stockholm. At home, his stepfather beats him every day after dinner. His docile mother ignores her husband's sadistic nature and allows the violence to proceed. At school, Erik is violent and frequently engages in fights, as a result of his violent upbringing. After a particularly vicious fight, Erik is expelled. The headmaster labels him vicious and accuses him of being pure evil. In an attempt to provide her son with a fresh start he sorely needs, his mother sells of some of her possessions and sends Erik to a boarding school.
Jerusalem (1996)
, 2h48Directed by Bille August
Genres Drama
Actors Ulf Friberg, Maria Bonnevie, Pernilla August, Reine Brynolfsson, Lena Endre, Olympia Dukakis
Roles Writer
Rating68%