Date of birth: 1934-01-11
Place of birth: Gothenburg, Sweden
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Sven Wolter, Sven Justus Fredrik Wollter

Sven Justus Fredrik Wollter (11 January 1934 – 10 November 2020) was a Swedish actor, writer, and political activist. Wollter is one of the most renowned Swedish actors, he was awarded Best Swedish actor twice. In his native country, he became widely known through his role as Madame Flod's son Gusten in Swedish Television's adaption of The People of Hemsö by August Strindberg in 1966. Later he had several notable roles, including in 1976 when he played Detective Sergeant Lennart Kollberg in Bo Widerberg's film The Man on the Roof. For international viewers, he is best known for his role Victor in the dramatic film The Sacrifice by Andrei Tarkovsky, and for a wider television audience as the retired Detective Chief Inspector Van Veeteren in the cinematic adaptations of Håkan Nesser's police novels.

2006-08-11
A warm, dramatic story about eleven-year-old Alise's encounter with a wild horse on the run.

1976-10-01
Detective Martin Beck investigates the grisly murder of a police Lieutenant in his hospital room, he

1992-02-21
In a small village in Västergötland, everything is turned upside-down when the local loner dies and

1967-03-10
Lena, aged twenty, wants to know all she can about life and reality. She collects information on eve

1994-12-25
Fanny and Zack is back, after she inherited Änglagård last year. Everytone looks forward to their ne

2001-10-26
Kira and Mads try to work out their marriage, after Kira has been two years in a mental institution,

2001-03-16
Martin, conductor of a symphonic orchestra, meet Barbara, violine player and they start a relationsh

1995-01-01
The life of the Swedish engineer Alfred Nobel. How he invented dynamite and later in his life founde

1998-03-10
Ester is the perfect grandmother everyone expects her to be. But she unexpectedly inherits an old au

1959-10-16
When private eye John Hillman is on assignment in London his wife Kajsa visits the Army's riding sch

1996-12-24
Documentary drama about Sweden's biggest natural disaster, which destroyed one of the biggest whitew

2022-01-14
Across different eras, a poor family, an anxious developer and a fed-up landlady become tied to the

2006-06-14
Münster stumbles upon the body of a young woman who has been strangled in her home and surprises the

1984-10-12
In the aftermath of a daring post office robbery on Saint Lucy's Day, two Stockholm vice cops ventur

1998-10-02
Fredrik is a director for a company that has developed a camera that can be operated from a distance
1974-09-02

1986-10-31
A group of four policemen is known for cruising the streets of Stockholm in their van, looking for d

2010-12-25
A lot happens in a small village in 15 years. People fall in love, get married, have kids and divorc

1984-03-18
In this somber, psychological drama about the conflict between a man's innermost feelings and a soci

2022-02-05
Five people embark on a motorhome road trip through Europe to fulfill an elderly man's last wish. "D

2006-05-03
When a girl is murdered soon after leaving a closed religious community, Moreno faces a difficult in

2005-05-15
Molly in the World (Molly i världen) is a small film about the great frustrations and questions in l

2006-07-12
The daughter of a murdered private detective comes to Van Veeteren for help with a case that might b

2005-08-19
Carambole is the story of a doctor, in love and happy, who one rainy night accidentally hits a young

2005-12-14
When the body of a wealthy wine merchant washes up on a beach with multiple stab wounds, police fear

2006-05-03
A young female journalist suddenly finds out that who she believed was her father is not that at all

2000-01-02

2001-01-01

2005-12-14
Van Veeteren finds retiring from the police force is easier said than done when two decapitated bodi
1991-01-01
Exciting miniseries about some dramatic events in a small Swedish town in the 1950s. Kråkan, 17, liv

2012-09-20
There is something going on in the small town of Backberga. The towns proud telecom company Unicom i
2005-02-25
Artist Marianne Lindberg De Geer thinks about her old friends from the 70s, where did they all go?
2004-01-01
A documentary by Ronny Svensson and Markus Stromqvist on the making of Bo Widerberg's 1976 movie Man

1996-09-06
Members of a devout Christian congregation try to start a new life in Palestine.

1991-02-23
Talking head documentary about the early 20th century Swedish comedian and singer Karl Gerhard made

1972-06-21
What will happen to the kids in the sandbox? The ones digging in the same sand, how will they live w

1987-11-20
John is a legal assistant who is looking forward to marriage to his fiancee Sally, but his daydream
1983-02-10
Jacob Andersson’s alcoholism leads to his wife leaving him together with their daughter.

1979-10-30
1830 Värmland, Sweden. Master Karl Arthur Ekenstedt comes to aid the Minister at Crosss Church. He f
1968-06-25
Helena and Sten are a couple but the relationship is falling apart.

1981-02-26
The working class couple, Roger and Lisette, knows that it is impossible to live an honest life in a

2002-10-10
A Swedish IT-company gets a new boss, who turns out to be a soulless hatchet man in Schildt's dark s

2008-01-31
Junior, a teenage gnome, wants nothing more than to invent gizmos and gadgets in his tree-house labo

1995-09-10
A tribute to Swedish film, which was made to celebrate the 100th anniversary of film in 1995 and con

1988-01-01
Johannes, an ex-con now working as a antiques dealer, is faced with a huge debt. He is put under pre

1991-11-08
Kerem goes to a village to start a new life for his family. It will not be easy for Kerem's wife Ner

2015-10-22
Lily (76) is sure there’s nothing wrong with her. The only reason she lives in a care home is becaus

2006-04-21

2001-08-17
Inga Tidblad started acting in 1921 and became one of Sweden's greatest and most successful actresse

1975-03-24
A day in the life of Monika, an ordinary, modern (ca.1975) Swedish woman. Her surroundings are a lot
Stall-Erik och snapphanarna is a Swedish film project that began filming in 1996 with a preliminary

1969-05-08
How and why people refused military service in Sweden at the end of the 1960s. This is the reasoning

2012-08-22
Lennart lives a very lonely life. He collects things and when he tests the limits of how far he can

1993-02-26
A psychological drama where the son escapes his father's brutality in the isolated far north of Swed

1986-05-09
Alexander, a journalist, philosopher and retired actor, celebrates a birthday with friends and famil

1985-09-26
This is a tale that has an epic scope in scenery "the northern snow-covered lands of coastal Norway"

1990-08-30
Jan Strøm has always been popular with women and is used to getting what he wants. But one day he is

2004-01-30
A dazzling musical about a young Arab woman facing deportation just as she is about to receive a hea

2017-03-10
About Swedish actress Kim Anderzon. Loved and acclaimed for her roles in theatre and on film. A femi

1996-03-08
The trio of actresses have ostensibly gathered to pay tribute to Mai Zetterling, but also reminisce

1999-08-13
A Muslim ambassador exiled from his homeland joins a group of Vikings, initially offended by their b

1987-01-26
At a prom ball, Peter and Helen catch each other's eyes over the children's heads. Peter is desperat

1968-03-31
A television drama about a trial against a merchant who killed one of his employees.

2018-08-24
A VHS collector with a drinking problem finds a valuable movie that could save his terrible economic

1968-01-28
"The Rehearsal or The Patchwork of Love" - At the Ferbroques castle, the Count, Countess and their g
1968-04-08
A Swedish TV theatre about X, Y and Z.
1974-11-17
Two inmates escape from prison. The escape affects not only the two runaways but also their relative

2015-08-17
Documentary about the making of Bo Widerberg's last film 'Lust och fägring stor' ('All Things Fair')

2019-08-08
For over 20 years, film enthusiast and amateur filmmaker Anders Olofsson has worked on what quickly

2010-01-01
Georg (age 70) and Lydia (age 30) are in two completely different stages in life when they meet.

1989-09-26
Young Charlie becomes a farmhand on a remote Swedish island during the early 19th century. His maste

1977-01-01
Documentary which follows Bo Widerberg during the making of 'Man on the Roof', 'The Butt' and a fail

1967-01-01
About the "aware, free and unrestrained modern woman" Anna Susanna.

1968-04-22
Drama about the everyday lives of Swedish soldiers.

2013-02-02
Jack Hamrin is a young journalist doing his best to keep his job at the local paper. In his desperat

2017-12-01
We join the three couples in a comedy about divorces, love, child longing, weird parents and unwritt

1965-01-01
Chase and stress in the big city of Stockholm. Lines of cars, buses and trams, exhaust fumes, parkin

1988-09-14
Allan and Lisa flee the war-torn city of Sweetwater with their young son for the safety of the munic

1973-03-28
Follows the consequences of a car accident and the events leading up to it.