Movies: Tom Alandh

Chronicles the hosting of Euro '92 in Sweden and the journey of the Swedish team in that tournament....

Bo wanted to become an explorer when he was young, but realized that everything had already been discovered. Instead, he came out into the world as a filmmaker. He tells about his travels and about the pioneer days of Swedish television....

The fourth film in a long series about Martina Schaub, a woman with Down's Syndrome. Tom Alandh documented part of her life from age 5 to 50. In this film, she is in her early twenties....

In this documentary we meet five children in Sweden and see what happened in their lives. Robin was nine years old, but he already knew what a prison looked like and the bad a punishment can do. Frida was not yet born when we filmed her mother Angela...

"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....

Michaela had three brothers. Christer died aged 28, Benny at 38:th, and Dag was 43 when the drugs finally took his life. Yes. There was hard times in Rågsved in the 70s. But Göte lives and so do many more. So what happened then?...

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....

Another film about Martina Schaub, now thirty years old....

Approximately half a million Swedes vacationed to Spain in 1972, one of Europe's poorest countries who had then been controlled by Franco since 1939. 120 000 of them chose The Canary Islands as their destination. The documentary highlights and contra...

Documentary which follows Kenneth Lantz, who is addicted to heroin....

Pianist Stefan Nilsson died in his home on May 25. He is best known as a composer of music for popular films and television series. In February 2023, after a period of illness, he received shocking news - he had the incurable disease ALS. Stefan Nils...

A portrait of Swedish troubadour Cornelis Vreeswijk....

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....

"It is not only the school but also the prison that is a mirror of society," says a board member at Hällbyanstalten outside Eskilstuna. Here are the strong and the weak, the stupid - who eventually perish - and the smart who always manage at the expe...

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Monica & Carl-Axel Dominique have been married for over 60 years and have played music for as long as they can remember. They have worked with some of Sweden's biggest names. Tom Alandh finally gets the chance to make his documentary about them, some...

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 photog...

An easy trip a bit criss-cross that goes to Hjo and Gambia, Vimmerby and Ecuador, Greenland and Solvalla and Sarajevo. And on the trip you get to meet Ingemar Johansson and Ingmar Bergman and Gösta Bohman and Olof Palme and General Franco. And then t...

A portrait of the idyllic town of Karlsborg, Sweden, home to 4000 inhabitants, whose economy is dependent on the prominent local manufacturer of the latest technology in ammunition....

Festival of the Midnight Sun, a.k.a. the Mantorp Festival became the biggest fiasco in Swedish pop festival history. The festival was presented the midsummer weekend 19-21 June 1970 at Mantorp Raceway. A local band, Magazine Story, from Linköping, ha...