
Ingrid Luterkort
Acting
Biography
Ingrid Luterkort, born Carola Ingrid Margareta Eklundh, was a Swedish stage and screen actress, director, and drama pedagogue. She graduated from the Royal Dramatic Theatre's acting school in 1934, with her fellow classmates Ingrid Bergman, Gunnar Björnstrand and Signe Hasso. Her film debut was in Anders Henrikson's "Annonsera!"(1936) She became the first Swedish female theater director when she stage a production at Dramatikerstudion 1940. Ingrid Luterkort published her experiences of acting and teaching in the book "Skådespelarens utbildning/The Education of the Actor"(1976). In her second publication "Om age, Herr Molander!/ Again, Mr Molander!"(1998), deals with the Royal Dramatic Theatre's acting school and its development from 1784 to 1964.
Known For

16 -year-old Mari has just been released from a juvenile detention school after one year of treatment. To prevent her from making contact with her old gang, she is sent to Skåne in southern Sweden, where she will work in a dairy shop. She doesn't like being there so she decides to run away and hitchhike her way up to Stockholm. She makes contact with her old gang but realizes that she's not welcome anymore and her boyfriend has even hooked up with a new girl.
Just Once More

A 15-year-old Somalian boy meets a 40-year-old Iranian man in a refugee camp in Skåne, in the south of Sweden. With the threat of deportation hanging over them, they decide to take their faiths in their own hands and together they go on a journey in the Swedish summer.
The New Country

After a woman buys a Japanese shunga painting from an auction and later is found murdered in a hotel in Stockholm, the police gets dragged into a murder investigation where they meet the dark side of the art world.
Beck 21 - The Japanese Painting

Anton, a very shy bookkeeper, must show his mettle when him and his colleagues at work ask for a raise but instead are laid off.
Blyge Anton
Bellman and his wife Lovisa live in a loving marriage, but in extreme poverty. They struggle to keep the family together and Lovisa tries to persuade Bellman to perform in order to earn a livelihood.
Lovisa och Carl Michael

Henrik is a young father who lives in Stockholm, constantly plagued by nightmares with his deceased mother. One day, he receives the news that his father, father, who lives in a remote village, it is drowned and died. The circumstances of drowning are mysterious. Henrik travels to the village to investigate the cause of his death. To find out more about the drowning and on his father, the door to the unknown and open. Shadows of the past emerge, returning to this world for one reason only: revenge.
Psalm 21

When the mine is closing down in the small community of Vestköping the town bank is also in danger. Sudden news of the return of one of the town's inhabitants who had emigrated to the USA and is said to be very wealthy improves spirits of everyone.
Lyckliga Vestköping

Based on the classic children’s story, seven orphan siblings and their goat make a difficult journey over the mountains to find new parents.
The Children

Isabella Eklöf is an unemployed actress in her early thirties. Her friends all enjoy stable relationships, children and successful careers. In order to jump-start her life she decides to lie a bit on her next job application with unexpected consequences.
Wonderful and Loved by All

A little girl gets separated from her teddy bear and is inconsolable.
A Little Christmas Story
A mining engineer comes to the quiet village of Nimansberg in Bergslagen and tries to persuade the farmers to invest in mining.
Bergslagsfolk

A travelling theater-company performs Offenbach's "The Beautiful Helene" when an officer in the audience notices the similarity in appearance between the leading actor Leonard Pettersson and the king Charles XV. With Pettersson dressed as the king and the other actors as the royal suite, they all go to Herrsunda castle where the officer is trying to make an impression on his fiance.
Kungen kommer

35-year old Magnus Edkvist hates class reunions as much as anyone and usually skip them. Still he accepts an invitation for a reunion for class he left over twenty years ago. But he has his reasons, as there is a chance that his teen love Hillevi will show up. The girl he wanted to run away with and share the rest of his life. The girl that got away...
The Reunion

Mr. Miller is the CEO of a big soap company whose son Henry like to spend his father's money but isn't interesting in working. Henry's laziness makes Mr. Miller upset and stressed out, so he assigns his young secretary (who the son also is in love with) to figure out a way to make Henry work and she will get 10,000 crowns ($1000). But things doesn't really to turn out the way Mr. Miller imagined.
It Pays to Advertise!

Pelle (Karl-Arne Holmsten) and Siska (Irma Christenson) Hedberg are both journalists on the same newspaper. Pelle is an editor and Siska writes a relationship advice column. They're also newlyweds. And they love each other and are very happy together. But Siska often works late. Which leaves Pelle home alone. And after a while he starts to feel neglected. So he writes a letter about his problem to Siska’s relationship column. And HILARITY ensues in this ZANY ROM-COM!
Försummad av sin fru
The Konsum cooperative strikes a blow for equality in a film directed by one of Sweden's few female film directors: Ingrid Luterkort.
What We Did

93-year-old Greta is carried off on a stretcher from her home. During the trip of five floors down the stairwell, she remembers a moment 50 years ago.
Fem trappor

"With life at stake"- Max is illegal arms dealers and lives with Wanda, a spy for the dictatorship in which they live. She is ordered by her superiors to reveal the actions and members resistance group. The freedom fighter John falls in love with Wanda.
They Staked Their Lives

Henrik Karlsson is accused of having stolen 5,000 SEK, even though he is innocent. But to protect the real thief, who is sick in hospital, Karlsson takes the full responsibility.
The Paymaster

A young medical student falls in love with her professor. To pay for her studies, she works extra nights and performs as a popular singer at a dance restaurant. But she is fired because of an unpleasant guest and takes a job as a maid. The professor appears in the family and a carousel of lies takes off.