Gustaf Molander

Gustaf MOLANDER (1888, Sweden) was a Swedish actor and film director. He was born into a family of artists, with his father and brother being film directors themselves and his mother the singer and actress Lydia Molander. He studied at the Royal Dramatic Theatre Academy in Stockholm, acted at the Swedish Theatre in Helsinki and then at the Royal Dramatic Theatre. Molander wrote several screenplays for Victor Sjöström and Mauritz Stiller and was helped by the latter to get employment as a director for Svensk Filmindustri, where he worked between 1923 and 1956. He directed 62 films, including Intermezzo (1963), which became Ingrid Bergman’s breakthrough and paved her way to America. In 1948, Molander made what should have been his last film, Eva. Still, almost twenty years later, in 1967, he agreed to participate as a director of an episode in the collective film Stimulantia, only to return to work with Ingrid Bergman 30 years later.

Filmography

(selection) Thomas Graal’s War (1922), Ingmar’s Inheritance (1925), To the Orient (1926), She Is the Only One (1926), His English Wife (1927), Parisiennes (1928), The Triumph of the Heart (1929) Frida’s Songs (1930), Black Roses (1932), Dear Relatives (1933), Under False Flag (1935), Intermezzo (1936), Sara Learns Manners (1937), Dollar (1938), Variety Is the Spice of Life (1939), Only One Night (1939), One, But a Lion! (1940), Bright Prospects (1941), Ride Tonight! (1942), There’s a Fire Burning (1943), Ordet (1943), The Emperor of Portugallia (1944), The Gallows Man (1945), Affairs of a Model (1946), Woman Without a Face (1947), Eva (1948), Love Wins Out (1949), The Quartet That Split Up (1950), Fiancée for Hire (1950), Defiance (1952), Love (1952), The Glass Mountain(1953), Sir Arne’s Treasure (1954), The Unicorn (1955), The Song of the Scarlet Flower (1956), Stimulantia (1967)

More info: Wikipedia, Gustaf Molander