Person
Åke Falck
Directing · 1925–1974 · Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden
Biography
Åke Falck (3 April 1925 – 12 October 1974) was a Swedish film director. He directed 13 films between 1958 and 1972. His 1966 film The Princess was entered into the 5th Moscow International Film Festival. He married in 1949 the singer Brita Nordström (1925–2005) with whom he had a son Peter Emanuel Falck in 1952. In 1960 he remarried to the TV producer Karin Sohlman and had a daughter Carolina Falck in 1961. Åke Falck was buried on 12 November 1974 at Djursholm's cemetery in the municipality of Danderyd. Åke Falcks Gata in the Torp district of Gothenburg was named after him in 2011.
Known for
Herkules Jonssons storverk
Producer
Ett köpmanshus i skärgården
Director
Girl with Hyacinths
Man at Körner's Studio
Swedish Wedding Night
Speaker (voice)
Året var 1974
Self (archive footage)
Alla för en
Director
The Firebird
Spinky
Petter's and Lotta's Christmas
Narrator (voice)
The Die Is Cast
Jerk Domare
Cavalleria rusticana / Pagliacci
Director
Filmography
- 2023Året var 1974Self (archive footage)
- 1974Nattens konungDirector
- 1973Ett köpmanshus i skärgårdenDirector
- 1971Rafael Kubelik A PortraitDirector
- 1970Cavalleria rusticana / PagliacciDirector
- 1969Herkules Jonssons storverkProducer
- 1968Petter's and Lotta's ChristmasNarrator (voice)
- 1968Farbror Blås nya båtSpeaker (voice)
- 1968Waltz of SexDirector
- 1968EasterDirector
- 1967Tchaikovsky: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in B-Flat, Op. 23 (Karajan, Weissenberg, 1967)Director
- 1966PrinsessanDirector
- 1965Alla för enDirector
- 1964Swedish Wedding NightSpeaker (voice)
- 1963Adam och EvaDirector
- 1962Trasiga änglarDirector
- 1960The Die Is CastJerk Domare
- 1960Viking Settlement in the Jet Age: A Film About Östergötland
- 1953Where the Herring and Bathers Flock
- 1952The FirebirdSpinky
- 1950Girl with HyacinthsMan at Körner's Studio
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