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Småkakor (1991)
Character: The artist
A film about nature's nature and meaning "cookies" versus "patchwork". This against a serious core: "The anxiety and pressure that the adults live under, with lack of money and unfulfilled dreams lead to behaviors that the children may suffer, but as the children in this movie get an overview and help relieve."
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Västra Hamngatan 2020 (2007)
Character: Narrator
A report from Gothenburg in the future where fashion is retro and the cars are old. A Gothenburg similair to the present.
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Dart 68' (1968)
Character: N/A
A gangster pastiche. The movie was named after the Dodge Dart model -68, used in the hot car chases.
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På spaning efter en prins som flytt (2008)
Character: N/A
Prince Eugen's lesser-known works represent the only good result the monarchy as a system has produced, according to filmmaker Carl Johan De Geer. The film offers a melancholic reflection on this elusive painter prince.
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Mamma, pappa, barn (1978)
Character: The sausage
During an afternoon and evening, we follow a family's everyday life. From the child's perspective, we see how the bizarre the world can seem sometimes.
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Som natt och dag (1969)
Character: Klas
Television hostess Susanne has an affair with Rikard, who is a doctor at a hospital. But after meeting the man who Rikard works for, Professor Erland Roos, she leaves Rikard and eventually marries the professor. Susanne's sister comes to Stockholm, desperately in need of money. Perhaps Susanne, now married to a rich professor, can help her?
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Du gamla, du fria (1972)
Character: N/A
A street theatre group performs anti-capitalist and anti-militarist plays. The inner conflicts, about how to reach and how tight they shall embrace the working class, escalates and the group split up.
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Jag minns Lena Svedberg (2000)
Character: Narrator (Swe)
Carl Johan De Geer remembers his old friend Lena Svedberg. He talks about how they used to make their magazine together, how beautiful but strange she drew and how bad she seemed to feel.
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Stockholmssyndromet (2002)
Character: Narrator
Carl-Johan De Geer talks about his hometown Stockholm, how he will miss it when he's gone.
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Följ kartan (2003)
Character: Narrator (voice)
A man finds a lot of mysterious pieces that lie here and there in the city. Is that information, is it propaganda? The man finds a map and begins to follow the paths of the patches. What will he find at the end? Who is behind everything?
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Mormor, Hitler och jag (2001)
Character: Narrator (voice)
Carl Johan De Geer as a boy spent some happy years with his grandmother who, even after the war, remained a firm believer in Nazism.
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Dom DB 237 Piteå tingsrätt (2012)
Character: Reader (voice)
Carl Johan De Geer reads the 80-page-long sentence. We see pictures from Lake Tjeggelva beach in Arjeplogs municipality. At the scene, four-year-old Michael was murdered on June 28, 1990.
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Buljong (1995)
Character: N/A
A writer is working on a novel about the 1900s. He poses the question if broth (in the sense of concentrate) is an adequate choice of words to describe the century.
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Nej (1969)
Character: N/A
How and why people refused military service in Sweden at the end of the 1960s. This is the reasoning of the Minister of Defense and the friends of non-violence and pacifists.
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Kårhusockupationen (1968)
Character: Student
"The Invasion of the Student Union" - Stockholm, Sweden, May 24th. It all started as a regular student meeting, evolved into a mass-meeting and an invasion of the house, with all ended three days later. The students were primarily upset regarding a draft about a changed curriculum in higher education. They also pursued various political dogmas. The angry students called out for the responsible minister of the government. This happened to be Olof Palme. He arrived at the mass-meeting where he suffered much criticism.
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Året var 1973 (2023)
Character: Self
At the end of August 1973, a robber takes hostages at the Kreditbanken at Norrmalmstorg. A week or so later, on September 15, King Gustaf VI Adolf dies in Helsingborg's hospital and Sweden gets a new king: Carl XVI Gustaf. In Chile, the military takes power and the popularly elected president Salvador Allende is overthrown. That and much more in this column about the year 1973.
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Lycka till och ta hand om varandra (2012)
Character: granne
Alvar is a pensioner who hides his guilt by "constructing" fictitious memoirs. By chance he meets Miriam, a socially tone deaf and obstinate teenager, and they become friends. Their friendship deepens when they begin to inspire downhearted people with public art, and comes to a head when they themselves have to blossom.
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Lyckliga skitar (1970)
Character: N/A
Truckdriver and bachelor Charlie meets homeless and seven months pregnant Pia. They both dream of finding someone to share their lives with. Charlie then faces a dilemma whether to take part in a demonstration in favor of Cuba, and in addition with his employer's truck.
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Simhall (2014)
Character: N/A
Six characters meet in a bath house. The pedant bath house manager, a couple with a strange way of communicating and a gang with shady intentions. Something goes wrong.
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CJDG - En film om Carl Johan De Geer (2014)
Character: Himself
During his five decades as an artist, Carl Johan De Geer has playfully leaped between genres and art forms such as painting, children's television and literature. All of it with a powerful political commitment and a large measure of absurdism. In CJDG, we follow his work on exhibitions in New York as well as Stockholm.
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Palme (2012)
Character: Self
Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was openly shot to death on a February evening 1986 on the streets of Stockholm. In one night, the country of Sweden was transfigured. “Palme” is about his life, his time, and about the Sweden he had created. About a man who altered history.
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Citizen Schein (2017)
Character: Self
Harry Schein was an anomaly in Swedish cultural society. Equal parts playboy, intellectual, and political visionary, his life story could very well be the foundation of a Hollywood film. Citizen Schein is a film about a refugee who refused to look back, a film about powerful men, and the myths that fuel them.
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Avalon (2011)
Character: Leif
Janne, a 60 year old party promoter is arranging a nightclub at the annual tennis week in the small coastal town of Båstad, where he also teams up with his older sister Jackie. But an accident turns his life upside down and forced by the people around him, he desperately seeks a way out.
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