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Staffan Lamm

Staffan Lamm

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Biography

Staffan Lamm is a Swedish filmmaker, writer, photographer, producer and actor. He is known for documentaries about people of unusual background and life history. Staffan Lamm parents are child psychiatrist Gustav Jonsson and psychoanalyst Esther Lamm.

Known For

Morfars resa
7.0

Shortly after the end of the war Göran is forced to take care of his somewhat delirious grandfather who manages to confuse a couple of letters resulting in a mess of things.

Morfars resa

1993
Hallo Baby
5.0

About a girl growing up in a big city in the seventies. She cultivates her artistic ambitions. After a series of relationships, she gets a small part in a play and becomes pregnant.

Hallo Baby

1976
Strip
1.0

The work of strippers in the Phoenix Club of Old Compton Street, Soho. Includes interviews with the girls, the stage show and backstage scenes.

Strip

1966
Extradition of the Balts
8.0

Latvian soldiers seek political asylum in Sweden after their country falls under Russian control at the end of World War II. They had been forced into military service by the Nazis to fight against the Russians. Fearing reprisals from the Russians for fighting against them, they struggle desperately to stay in Sweden. After a hunger strike, suicides, and political intervention by Sweden fails to keep them from their former enemy, they are ultimately given over to the Russian authorities. The men are sentenced to hard labor in prison camps and later released, and Latvians are plunged into repression by the aftermath of the bloody war. The cycle of political unrest was still apparent more than 50 years after the conflict.

Extradition of the Balts

1970
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6.5

In 1984, ten Swedish directors joined together in the trading company Filmgrupp 10 HB to jointly produce a period document in the form of film.

1985 - Vad hände katten i råttans år?

1985
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1964 - the year when Astrid Lindgren's 'Vi på Saltkråkan' is shown on TV, UN Swedes smuggle weapons, Khrushchev is visiting, car testing starts, the KDS is formed and the long-haired fashion starts trending - for guys.

Året var 1964

2014
We Have Our Own Song - The Music Movie
9.0

The film documents the alternative festival, made to protest against the Eurovision Song Contest held in Stockholm 1975. There are many Swedish and international artists on stage, as well as some clips from speeches, riots, civil wars, and the people at the song contest itself.

We Have Our Own Song - The Music Movie

1976
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In the dark forests of Småland there is a pond called Judagölen [The Jew Pond], named after the murder of a Jewish salesman by a farm-worker in the 1870's. Staffan Lamm retells the story through the people that still remembers. A story about memory, the power of evil and justice.

Judagölen

1982
Sista ringen
9.0

Eric and Clarence are friends from the same class in school - but from different social classes. Eric comes from the working class, Clarence from the upper class. Eric regards his studies as a way of getting somewhere, while Clarence is only interested in the drawing lessons. There are only a few months left until graduation. Clarence behaves very provocatively against the art teacher 'Sjasen'. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

Sista ringen

1955
Mirage
8.0

A young man comes to Stockholm, Sweden and experiences several bizarre and surrealistic situations.

Mirage

1959
Immigrants
N/A

A fascinating, unsettling study of immigration in 1960s English cities.

Immigrants

1965
The Russell Tribunal
N/A

At the height of the Vietnam War, a group of intellectuals begins a series of hearings in the People’s Palace in Stockholm. (Filmform)

The Russell Tribunal

2003
Sabotörernas kung
N/A

"King of Saboteurs" - Ernst Wollweber, German communist, active in Sweden during the Second World War, eventually Stasi commander in the GDR, finally purged and forgotten. Ernst Friedrich Wollweber (1898 - 1967) was State Secretary of State Security from 1953 to 1955 and Minister of State Security of the German Democratic Republic from 1955 to 1957. He rose quickly through the party ranks and by 1921 had become a member of the KPD's Central Committee and Political Secretary of Hesse-Waldeck. When the KPD was outlawed in Germany after the Reichstag fire of February 1933, Wollweber was forced to flee to Copenhagen and later to Leningrad. From 1936 to 1940, Wollweber organized the "Organisation Against Fascism and in Support of the USSR", better known as the Wollweber League. After World War II, Wollweber returned to Germany and joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in 1946.

Sabotörernas kung

1997
Fantasterna
N/A

A personal film essay on some Swedish outsider artists. Staffan Lamm retells how he encountered their work, which happened over a period of more than forty years, and what it meant to him.

Fantasterna

1986
Skiss till filmen om mig själv
N/A

A film about early separation, self-experienced loss and isolation, portrayed through my uncle Göran, who already at the age of seven was diagnosed as mentally ill and sent away. His absence fom my life, my fantasies about our similarities. My father’s disappearance, my absent mother who wholeheartedly worked with others in need.

Skiss till filmen om mig själv

1985
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N/A

A heavy drug addict in his junkie quarter at Österlånggatan, Stockholm.

Ricke Langhammer - en narkoman

1961
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8.0

Sara had been in a concentration camp. Ema was a Jewish girl who married Swedish artist Anders Zorn. Ruben suffered from megalomania and was a patient in a mental hospital.

Sara, Emma, Ruben

1999
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N/A

In June 1931, my grandfather all of a sudden starts photographing everything around him in the Båstad area. Just as suddenly he then stops, around the time his son Göran is sent away.

Fotomanin

2006
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N/A

About the Swedish artist Anders Zorn's unknown passion for photography. Some of them models for later works and others are innovative photo experiments.

Zorn bakom kameran

2017
Chelsea Bridge Boys
N/A

About a group of "Rockers" who belong to a British motorcycle club. Included are interviews with both male and female bikers. The film is largely based on candid interviews where the bikers respond to questions about politics, society, freedom and independence.

Chelsea Bridge Boys

1965