Åke Falck

Biography

Åke Falck (3 April 1925 – 12 October 1974) was a Swedish film director. He directed 13 films between 1958 and 1972. His 1966 film The Princess was entered into the 5th Moscow International Film Festival. He married in 1949 the singer Brita Nordström (1925–2005) with whom he had a son Peter Emanuel Falck in 1952. In 1960 he remarried to the TV producer Karin Sohlman and had a daughter Carolina Falck in 1961. Åke Falck was buried on 12 November 1974 at Djursholm's cemetery in the municipality of Danderyd. Åke Falcks Gata in the Torp district of Gothenburg was named after him in 2011.

Directed

1. Swedish Wedding Night (1964) — Director
2. Cavalleria rusticana / Pagliacci (1970) — Director
3. Waltz of Sex (1968) — Director
4. Trasiga änglar (1962) — Director
5. Prinsessan (1966) — Director
6. Adam och Eva (1963) — Director
7. Easter (1968) — Director
8. Ett köpmanshus i skärgården (1973) — Director
9. Nattens konung (1974) — Director
10. Where the Herring and Bathers Flock (1953) — Director
11. Rafael Kubelik A Portrait (1971) — Director
12. Tchaikovsky: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in B-Flat, Op. 23 (Karajan, Weissenberg, 1967) (1967) — Director
13. Alla för en (1965) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Girl with Hyacinths (1950) — Man at Körner's Studio
2. The Die Is Cast (1960) — Jerk Domare
3. Swedish Wedding Night (1964) — Speaker (voice)
4. The Firebird (1952) — Spinky
5. Året var 1974 (2023) — Self (archive footage)
6. Petter's and Lotta's Christmas (1968) — Narrator (voice)
7. Farbror Blås nya båt (1968) — Speaker (voice)
8. Viking Settlement in the Jet Age: A Film About Östergötland (1960)
9. Where the Herring and Bathers Flock (1953)