Tom Alandh Movies

For 35 years, Jan Allan played the same trumpet, a Bach bought in New York in 1965. And he had intended to play it until the very last note. But then...

Sonny was in Hällby Prison in 1990. Kenneth, Sture, Anders, Pertti and Johnny were also in the same ward. Six ordinary prisoners, far from headlines a...

In this documentary we meet five children in Sweden and see what happened in their lives. Robin was nine years old, but he already knew what a prison...

Anita Haglöf was Ingmar Bergman's housekeeper for eight years, in his home at Karlaplan in Stockholm and at Fårö. She constantly accused him of harass...

Despite having made some of television's most popular documentaries, Kåge Jonsson is almost unknown. For 35 years he and Tom Alandh have been workmate...

Bo wanted to become an explorer when he was young, but realized that everything had already been discovered. Instead, he came out into the world as a...

Anna Lindh, the successful and popular, became history and a monument, in Sweden and around the world. But who was she really, the living Anna Lindh?

In the 1980s there was a punk band in Stockholm who put out one single, got torn apart by local music critics and went away. 35 years later they are c...

Stefan Nilsson chose to end his life on May 25, 2023, just months after being diagnosed with ALS. This follow-up documentary by Tom Alandh brings to t...

Ulf Berner is home again - who was faster than the Swedish justice system and so snobbishly disappeared from prosecutors and bailiffs in the mid-80s....

Stefan Fernholm would throw the discus farther than anyone else and win glory and money and Olympic gold, and he was prepared to sacrifice everything...

His real name was Gerard Gbeyo. He had been in Sweden for just over a year when he got off the bus in Skåne's Klippan one night in September last year...

"A small film about a great artist" - The Swedish pianist Jan Johansson (1931-1968),one of the most celebrated jazz/folk music pianist's of Northern...

The fourth film in a long series about Martina Schaub, a woman with Down's Syndrome. Tom Alandh documented part of her life from age 5 to 50. In this...

A journey along the Inlandsbanan, from Mora to Gällivare, in the last summer of 1991 when the passenger traffic is to be shut down. A decision and its...

Meeting with Bengt Lagerkvist

In 1974 documentary film maker Tom Alandh did a TV story about institutions for the mentally retarded. Then he met Martina, who was five and who had D...

Nine years ago Tom Alandh included five year old Martina Schaub as part of a program about how society dealt with people with various handicaps. Marti...

A portrait of Swedish jazz singer Monica Zetterlund.