
Acting
Aug 1, 1937
Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sverige
Margaretha Byström
Acting
Biography
Margaretha Byström is a Swedish stage and screen actress, writer and stage director.
Feature Films (18)

Lunardo is an old fashioned patriarch who strictly forbids his wife and daughter to leave his house. When he decides to marry off his daugther Lucietta without allowing her to meet the man first the women around him conspire to allow the young couple to meet against his wishes.
Karlar är karlar om sanningen ska fram

The story of the popular Swedish singer Ulla Billquist. The WW2's most famous voice in Sweden. The fate of a female that has never been told before.
När molnen skingras

Conventions of civility among family members are severely strained by the very real breakup of the bonds between them. During a few days at a vacation home, Katha, a woman in late middle age, tries to cope with an influx of discontented, disconnected relatives. Her divorced daughter brings all sorts of people to the house, including a woman-friend accompanied by her psychotic son; the grandfather of the house is convinced he is dying and is satisfied by nothing; and some friends drop off their angry teenage son to stay with her, while they go on a long trip abroad. Her friend Emma doesn't help much with keeping a lid on things, as she is a social worker who is fascinated by the awfulness of these situations.
Summer Paradise

Jan and Gertrud have a sexual relationship, even though they are half siblings. Jan is an air traffic controller, while Gertrude is writing a dissertation on ferns. Jan falls in love with another woman, Jenny.
Luftburen

This television production captures Ingmar Bergman’s stage adaptation of Yukio Mishima’s Madame de Sade, set in France from 1772 to the aftermath of the French Revolution. While the Marquis de Sade remains imprisoned, six women—including his wife Renée—debate his actions, reputation, and meaning, revealing conflicting views on devotion, morality, and power.
Madame de Sade

Gunnel Lindblom twists every plot and family conflict to the breaking point in her intense infidelity drama about a family on the verge of a nervous breakdown
Summer Nights on Planet Earth

Tore Andersson is a depressed 43 year old sport journalist living in Stockholm. His girlfriend has left him so he decides to take a vacation in Cyprus.
A Walk in the Sun

A bunch of homeless people becomes interested in a rehab facility for alcoholics, run by a religious foundation. They think it will be an easy and comfortable stay/cure to sober up and get fat. But they don't know what they are getting themselves into. The staff at the foundation are very eager to treat the newcomers.
Fläskfarmen

A Swedish housewife begins an adulterous affair with an American archaeologist, unaware of his emotional scars as a Holocaust survivor; consequently, their relationship will be painfully difficult.
The Touch

A Swedish couple are trapped in their marriage and way of life. Locked up in their bourgeois inferno.
The Lie

The working class girl from Landala, Gothenburg, through the fine art of theatre and all the way to Hollywood.
Gunnel Lindblom: Ut ur tystnaden

The drama about the Bark family and their daughter Berta, who will fight against the house patriarchal order. Berta remains in the house and becomes a daily threat against those who seek to oppress her. Written by Anne Charlotte Leffler (1883), one of the preeminent authors of modernism’s breakthrough
True Women
Television & Series (5)

This Swedish soap opera follows the lives of the captain and crew of the MS Freja, a cruiseferry that travels on the Baltic Sea between between Stockholm, Sweden and Turku, Finland.
Rederiet

Morsarvet is a 1993 Swedish mini series directed by Staffan Roos written by, and starring, Solveig Ternström. The series was televised on Sveriges television in late 1993.
Morsarvet

Aided by his dog Tubbe, private detective Anders Grip solve mysteries in Stockholm from a house boat.
Snoken

This television adaptation retells the story of Dom Juan, an aristocratic libertine whose serial seductions culminate in a fatal confrontation with a supernatural avenger. The production presents the classic Don Juan legend in a comic tone for television.

