Documentary about wheel-chair bound stand-up comedian Jesper Odelberg. He was born with cerebral palsy and largely uses this as his material, but mixes his comedy with an overall serious message about inclusion and understanding.
Dark as ebony and agile as a panther was Tom Alandh's father. Many said that the darkness and wildness of him made him look like Tarzan, even though he only came from Åmål.
Ten years after documentary filmmaker Tom Alandh started filming homeless drug addict Pia Sjögren, he makes his third and final film about her. Pia was 14 years old when she started smoking cannabis and using drugs. Then it all happened really fast. The heavier drugs, the men who beat, and years...
"Scenes from everyday life" is about a few weeks in the life of actor Erland Josephson. Once constantly out around the world, now 86 years old, the world comes to visit his home. A film about art and aging, life, love and death.
It has been three years since Tom Alandh made the film "Det svåra livet" about homeless drug addict Pia. This film shows what has happened to her since.
Bosse Högberg - en film om kärlek, sjukdom och feta smällar
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Bosse Högberg - once a tough European champion in light-middleweight since suffering from aphasia after stroke in 1988. The toughest fighter of Sweden ever. Against a Frenchman, he boxed fifteen rounds with the rejected jawbone.
"The good life" is a documentary about Alf, a broker who sells expensive apartments in Stockholm. Alf lives the good life. But even the good life has several sides.
For 35 years, Jan Allan played the same trumpet, a Bach bought in New York in 1965. And he had intended to play it until the very last note. But then Jan Allan's beloved trumpet was stolen, and what happened to his airy lyrical tone?
In 1974 documentary film maker Tom Alandh did a TV story about institutions for the mentally retarded. Then he met Martina, who was five and who had Down syndrome. For 35 years, which is unique in the Swedish television history, Tom Alandh and photographer Björn Henriksson has followed Martina's...
For almost half of his life, Kenneth Viken has been in prison, and he does not know how many times he has been released, only to soon return . In January 2016 he is released again.
Balder's premises are located in Norrtull's old hospital in Stockholm, a couple of rooms, a kitchen, some simple furniture, a piano that Lars could play on, if he only dared.
Stefan Nilsson chose to end his life on May 25, 2023, just months after being diagnosed with ALS. This follow-up documentary by Tom Alandh brings to the surface the issues revolving euthanasia when there seems to be nothing left to do.
Christer and Bertram Schmiterlöw were both artists. But Christer could never make a living from his art and only paint early mornings before going to his job as a janitor at SVT.
"A small film about a great artist" - The Swedish pianist Jan Johansson (1931-1968), one of the most celebrated jazz/folk music pianist's of Northern Europe. The film tracks the pianist's coming greatness through the great masters Schubert, Mozart, and Hayden, to jazz music and Jan Johansson's...
For 20 years, Rikard Viking Flinga was in Texas' harshest prisons, convicted of murder. Rikard Viking Flinga is a Swedish citizen but has never been to Sweden. But in early March 2000, he was transferred there to start a new life.
He was 19 years old and promising gymnast. But one volt went wrong, one in a hundred thousand, and he broke his neck. Never go again, the doctors thought. And never again breathe on your own, without a respirator.
A film about Jan Troell who turns 90 this summer. We get to see Jan Troell's own pictures, but also a conversation about childhood happiness and the joy of creation.
