Mimi Pollak
Maria Helena "Mimi" Pollak was a Swedish stage and screen actress and director. She attended the Royal Dramatic Theatre school in Stockholm, Sweden, with fellow actress Greta Garbo from 1922 to 1924. It was Mimi that came up with the name Garbo. They became friends for life. Pollak became in 1948 the first contracted female director at the Dramaten with the production of Jean Genet's Jungfruleken (Les Bonnes/The Maids), with Anita Björk and Maj-Britt Nilsson. Mimi Pollak appeared since her 1922 debut in the film "Amatörfilmen" in about 30 feature films and TV productions. She directed and handfull during the 1950's.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.7307 |
| Birthday | 1903-04-09 |
| Place of Birth | Karlstad, Värmlands län, Sweden |
| Also Known As |
1922
The Amateur Film
10/1
The jeweler Edmond gets a competitor, Mr. Snyder, who specializes in imitations. Snyder challenges him and claims he can make a perfect imitation of a...
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The Amateur Film
1986
Amorosa
5.6/15
About the Swedish author Agnes Von Krusenstjerna during the period of her marriage to David Sprengel. In the hallucinatory opening sequence she is bro...
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Amorosa
1984
Sömnen
6.5/2
"The Sleep" - Tired of the touring life the rock star Tommy Cosmo cuts the strings of his guitar, empties his bank account, packs his revolver and tak...
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Sömnen
1940
With You in My Arms
6.2/5
Millionaire Krister Dahl loses his memory when he is hit in the head by a golf ball. He meets his ex-wife and immediately fall in love with her again....
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With You in My Arms
1951
Summer Interlude
7.4/178
During a brief summer vacation, a lonely woman recalls her first love thirteen years earlier.
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Summer Interlude
1982
The Flight of the Eagle
6.967/30
The Swedish 19th century engineer Salomon August Andrée sets out to become the first man on the north pole. His idea is to launch a polar expedition u...
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The Flight of the Eagle
1943
Kajan går till sjöss
6/2
Kajan, a young boy, spends the summer with his friends working on a barge, earning extra money in the ports with their song and dance number. A young...
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Kajan går till sjöss
1942
Flames in the Dark
6.3/3
Latin teacher Birger Sjögren at Ringsala boarding school threatens his possesive and chronically ill mother that he will get married. She gets a strok...
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Flames in the Dark
1947
Supper for Two
6/4
Louise Mareuil owns a perfume factory on the French Riviera. She is in a traffic accident with a sketch artist, Claude Dubois. She gives him a blank c...
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Supper for Two
1955
Mord, lilla vän
6/3
A member of "Sjöbjörnarna" (a group of executives), asks the newspaper editor Dick Mattson to find Brita Ljungdahl, the former wife of another of the...
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Mord, lilla vän
1949
Playing Truant
5.75/4
High school student Margareta fall head over heels in love with a young doctor and announce her engagement to him to her parents. She quits school and...
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Playing Truant
1989
The Crown Witness
7/4
Thomas, a scientist, lives in a childless marriage. When his wife travels to Copenhagen he begins an affair with a girl of 19. The girl and large amou...
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The Crown Witness
1990
The Secret
9/2
Sam and Amanda are friends. One day, they accidentally throw Sam's sister's diaries in the garbage can and have to trace them to the city dump.
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The Secret
1949
Gatan
6.667/3
Britt Malm gets hit by a car on a Stockholm street and is taken to hospital. She is badly injured and must undergo surgery. While the anesthetic takes...
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Gatan
1991
Agnes Cecilia - En sällsam historia
6.091/11
Nora is 15 years old. Her parents died when she was young and now she lives with Anders and Karin and their son Dag. They move into an old apartment i...
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Agnes Cecilia - En sällsam historia
1986
A Matter of Life and Death
7/1
"Life and Death" - A female reporter intended to go on a reporting trip about childbirth to Japan, declines the offer. Instead, she visits a maternity...
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A Matter of Life and Death
1941
The Ghost Reporter
6/2
Augustus Blomkvist sells his sausage factory and buys the newspaper Stockholms-Posten where he starts working as a reporter under false name.
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The Ghost Reporter
1965
Nightmare
7.333/3
A woman is driving alone one evening, when she almost run over a man lying in the road. She gets out of the car to see. Suddenly the man attacks her....
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Nightmare
1976
Near and Far Away
7/2
Mania is a new employee at a mental hospital, where she meets a young man with mutism. He gets her to realize that it is a fluid boundary between bein...
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Near and Far Away
1964
The Dress
9/2
Edit is pleased that her mother agrees to let her buy a dress she loves, but which in fact is made for an adult woman.
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The Dress
1938
Den stora kärleken
7/1
The maid Agnes lives a rather lonely and boring life.
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Den stora kärleken
1940
One, But a Lion!
9/1
The fashion house boss Harry Martin has invited all his staff to a crayfish party at his home.
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One, But a Lion!
1946
Bröder emellan
7/1
Identical twin brothers Patrik and Peter Brodd haven't seen each other for twelve years until Peter returns from America and goes to Patrik's office a...
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Bröder emellan
1947
Den långa vägen
0/0
Grandmother sits with her grandchildren. She talks about the position of the Swedish woman through the centuries, about her struggle for freedom and j...
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Den långa vägen
1947
The Sixth Commandment
7.5/2
Jane and Karl have been married for many years. Jane feels trapped in their marriage and takes a lover. She is caught by her daughter Kerstin and forc...
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The Sixth Commandment
1979
I frid och värdighet
0/0
Erik Levin leases the farm to his son and retires. In order not to be in the way of the son, he moves to a retirement home, where he looks forward to...
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I frid och värdighet
1942
We Home Toilers
7/3
The stern, but kind-hearted, Kristiana from the country takes place as a maid with the Larsson family in Stockholm, previously (in)famous for its rapi...
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We Home Toilers
1940
Gentleman att hyra
5.667/3
Two friends, a rich landowner and a flight lieutenant, compete for the love of the same woman, singer Claire Wanner.
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Gentleman att hyra
1940
The Man All Wanted to Kill
8/1
A brutal businessman, Vilhelm Gerner, triggers a stock speculation by providing false information. Two of his partners, Smith and Grå, get ruined and...
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The Man All Wanted to Kill
1982
The Farewell
2.375/4
Set between 1930s and 50s, The Farewell the story of Valerie, who lives in a household totally repressed by her stern father. When Valerie has a brief...
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The Farewell
1979
Kristoffers hus
8/1
Kristoffer lives on the verge of poverty, just barely supporting himself on his photographic work and an allowance given him by his ex-wife to support...
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Kristoffers hus
1989
Brenda Brave
6.4/5
Brenda Brave gladly helps her grandmother to sell candy canes at the market square. But one day grandmother suffers from a sore leg. Brenda has to tak...
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Brenda Brave
1971
Emil of Lonneberga
6.678/101
Emil Svensson lives with his mother and father, little sister Ida, farmhand Alfred, and maid Lina on a picturesque farm in Småland. He is an unusually...
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Emil of Lonneberga
1988
Stiller, Garbo & jag
3.667/3
One day when Ruben Stiller is playing in a bath, he gets an alien talking to Nadja, who asks him to find out the fate of Charly's dog. Ruben agrees be...
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Stiller, Garbo & jag
1949
Only a Mother
6.846/13
A poor woman in a Swedish farming community struggles to feed her large family and is torn by her passion for two different men.
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Only a Mother
1978
Autumn Sonata
7.965/729
After a seven-year absence, Charlotte Andergast travels to Sweden to reunite with her daughter Eva. The pair have a troubled relationship: Charlotte s...
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