Tom Alandh

Tom Alandh tells both about his soul and the story of the Elite Race. As every year goes off the rails on Mother's Day

Dark as ebony and agile as a panther was Tom Alandh's father. Many said that the darkness and wildness of him made him look like Tarzan, even though...

Tom Alandh found a box that has been standing in his basement for almost 40 years, untouched. When he started to go through the contents, he found...

Documentary about the Swedish television reality show Expedition Robinson (Survivor) and how it got made.

Chronicles the hosting of Euro '92 in Sweden and the journey of the Swedish team in that tournament.

This documentary follows Pia, who is homeless. She is struggling with her drug addiction. During the day she (and many other homeless people) sells...

Pia Sjögren was the subject of three documentaries by director Tom Alandh, beginning in 2001. He first saw her on the street selling newspapers,...

Monica & Carl-Axel Dominique have been married for over 60 years and have played music for as long as they can remember. They have worked with some...

With the refugee influx in 2015, Ronneby gained 3,000 new inhabitants and the schools 1,000 new students. Tom Alandh traveled to Ronneby to find out...

Pianist Stefan Nilsson died in his home on May 25. He is best known as a composer of music for popular films and television series. In February 2023,...

There will be no 2018 World Cup in Russia for the new small nation of Kosovo. Only three goals scored, one point earned and last place in their...

'Martina och jag', from 2008, was intended to be the last film about Martina Schaub, a woman with Down's Syndrome. But now, another ten years later,...

A film about dreams and opportunities, not about problems.

Tord Grip is only 1.72 tall, but still one of the greats in Swedish football. Yes, he is the baker from Ytterhogdal who through football got the...

Lars Nordlander often bases his lyrics on his own life. He has written lyrics to Monica Zetterlund, Lill Lindfors, Lill-Babs, Tommy Körberg and...

A film about Jan Troell who turns 90 this summer. We get to see Jan Troell's own pictures, but also a conversation about childhood happiness and the...

Håkan Juholt came from the reserve bench and became captain of the whole team. A high-stakes bet that hardly anyone had dared to bet on. But...

Balder's premises are located in Norrtull's old hospital in Stockholm, a couple of rooms, a kitchen, some simple furniture, a piano that Lars could...

He was 19 years old and promising gymnast. But one volt went wrong, one in a hundred thousand, and he broke his neck. Never go again, the doctors...

For almost half of his life, Kenneth Viken has been in prison, and he does not know how many times he has been released, only to soon return . In...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

"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...

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...

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....

A portrait of Swedish jazz singer Monica Zetterlund.

For 20 years, Rikard Viking Flinga was in Texas' harshest prisons, convicted of murder. Rikard Viking Flinga is a Swedish citizen but has never been...

Ten years after documentary filmmaker Tom Alandh started filming homeless drug addict Pia Sjögren, he makes his third and final film about her. ...

It has been three years since Tom Alandh made the film "Det svåra livet" about homeless drug addict Pia. This film shows what has happened to...

"Scenes from everyday life" is about a few weeks in the life of actor Erland Josephson. Once constantly out around the world, now 86 years old, the...

Michaela had three brothers. Christer died aged 28, Benny at 38:th, and Dag was 43 when the drugs finally took his life. Yes. There was hard times in...

Documentary about wheel-chair bound stand-up comedian Jesper Odelberg. He was born with cerebral palsy and largely uses this as his material, but...

The stone-mover boy from Göteborg who became world champion in heavyweight boxing, a midsummer night in 1959 that the Swedish people will never...

About the former director Ulf Berner with millions in tax debts during the 1970s.

Bosse Högberg - once a tough European champion in light-middleweight since suffering from aphasia after stroke in 1988. The toughest fighter of...

Documentary about the Swedish soccer legend Nacka Skoglund.

Documentary which follows Kenneth Lantz, who is addicted to heroin.

Christer and Bertram Schmiterlöw were both artists. But Christer could never make a living from his art and only paint early mornings before...

"The good life" is a documentary about Alf, a broker who sells expensive apartments in Stockholm. Alf lives the good life. But even the good life has...

Another film about Martina Schaub, now thirty years old.

In the unemployed Vimmerby there is one who does not need to be afraid of losing the job. On the contrary, he has never had so much to do before. Tom...

A portrait of Swedish troubadour Cornelis Vreeswijk.

The first documentary to portray the Swedish religious group Livets Ord.

The legendary sports journalist Bengt Ahlbom. Who was already at the Olympics in Stockholm in 1912 and who was a gigolo in Cannes and who beat old...