News - Archive
2008, February 28
After Rolf has completed the shooting to the ZDF television movie Rooibos mit Milch in South Africa, he has written down some impressions of South Africa and the film work for his fans.
It was the second time for me in South Africa. We shoot the White Lioness there in the middle of the 90ths. And the most diffrent thing was that this time we were filming most of the time
outside of Cape Town. We were filming 200 km west of Cape Town in Citrusdal and a small town called Clanwilliam. This area is what I understand the only place where the red Roobios tea is
growing. Clanwillian is also one of the hotest places so some of the days were hard to film in 40 -42 degress. But the filming was
a great time with beautiful locations and meeting great and new wonderful collegues.
We were Southafricans. Germans and also one actor from the original Bushpeople and a Swede. So you heard a lot of Languages on the set.
When I was in South Africa the first time I was thinking that it was a country with two faces: Very beautiful, western in one way, rich but on the other hand very poor and people living in these big townships and streetchildren.and it was sad to see
as soon I sat in the car on my way from the airport to Cape Town that to little has changed in this period of 10 years since I was there last time. The big townships were still there, the rich are very rich and mostly white and the poor people is the blacks.
Still there is a beautiful country and I would like to go there again and go to areas up to Indian ocean and of course it feels a little strange to have been there two times and never had time to go on safari!
This was a german production with a Southafrican crew but with germans in important functions like camerman, lightdesigner, make up and of course the director Rainer Kaufmann. Who I really enjoyed working with. As a director he really work in a way that I like. You can feel as an actor that he knows what he is after and still he is searching for the way to do it and using the location and the actors suggestions and imaginations to create a good scene. You can also feel his close collabriation to cameraman Klaus Eichhammer and you understand that they done a lot of movies together.
All of my scenes was together with Hannelore Hoger who played the leading role in the film, a great actress to work with full of humor and very experienced. We had a great time on set and also between the shoots. She was acting in german and I in english. I don't understand german.So both of us had to use the ears and really listening to each other!
Last I will say that it makes me very glad to hear that the website has a lot of visitors and I was also proud In South Africa when the producer said one day: Did you know that there is fansite in Germany for you!? Yes I said and sometimes the website know more than me what I am doing! Many thanks to you all !
Rolf Lassgård
2008, January 21
Rolf Lassgård shoots a German TV-movie
The German Filmproduction Company UFA is producing a TV Movie for the German public TV station ZDF. The movie is entitled Rooibos mit Milch. The shooting takes place on a Rooibos tea Farm in the Cedarberg Region close to Cape Town/South Africa. The shooting starts on January 29 and will last until February 29. Rolf Lassgård plays the Farmer Jack, who comes back to South Africa after a long time. As well fares Ella (Hannelore Hoger) as she comes to the burial of her sister Hilde to Clanwillliam. She only wants to deal actually the sale of the family own tea farm during her short stay when she is confronted with her past which she has also spent there as a young woman.
When Ella tries to get over her heavy past which fell in the period of the apartheid, she meets Jack (Rolf Lassgård) a friend from her youth and they begin a love relationship.
2007, October 11
You see photos from the opening night of Den man älskar in Malmö.
Rolf Lassgård looks a little tiredly on this photo what probably will be caused by the shooting of "Angel".
2007, September 8
The commune of Bollnäs - Hälsingland (Sweden) organizes a Fimfestival with the focus Rolf Lassgård and his films in the time of 2007-11-17 to 2007-11-25. Rolf Lassgård is invited as guest of honor and will tell about his rolls in the shown films and about his work as actor.
The link to the official home page of the Filmvestival:
http://www.bollnas.se/Webred/webred.nsf/
69349CD855029D36412563BF0054675A/57DDEF4DB8E34D44C12572D500487FDD?OpenDocument
2007, September 5
The Film Den man älskar - To love someone where Rolf Lassgård plays one of the leading roles, was presented during the film days of the Swedish film institute in Malmö before the official premiere of Sweden.
2007, July 11
Rolf Lassgård reads audiobooks
Three new audiobooks which are read by Rolf Lassgård are available in Sweden in summer.The publishing house "Speakingbooks Europe AB " plans to bring additional audiobooks to the market in fall, also read by Rolf Lassgård.
First two children's books have appeared by the author Elsie Petrén. We can follow the saxophone playing inspector Tax when solving several tricky secrets in the books "Konstkuppen" and "På spåret".
One can listen to Rolf Lassgård when he is reading the crime thriller "Man med Kapuschong" by Peter Gizzy furthermore.
Tension and surprising turns in the plot are an essential ingredient in the books of Peter Gizzy.
Movies premiere in 2007, September 28 - only in Sweden
Den man älskar - To love someone
Lena has escaped from the violent marriage with Hannes. She is happy again; she has a new job and lives with her new husband Alf. During Lena has built up itself a new life, Hannes has gone to the therapy in the prison and has learned to understand his violent behavior. He was released on probation now and is firmly determined to not meet Lena any more. But a coincidental meeting leads to a feeling chaos with Lena and Hannes. Lena sees that he has changed himself but neither her best friend nor the woman emergency service, these have helped within the hard years - believe that Hannes has become a new, better man. Alf whom the hands are tied, can only watch how Hannes causes Lena much pain.
Director: Åke Sandgren
Actors: Rolf Lassgård, Jonas Karlsson, Sofia Ledarp
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Movies premiere in 2007, October 5 - only in Schweden
Järnets änglar
The film tells of three women, who are working in the large train office in Luleå and her confused private life. The three are friends and play in a local band. "Black Island Sisters" is a film about the heroes of the working classes into and outside of the job.
Director: Agneta Fagerström-Olsson
Actors: Rolf Lassgård, Jakob Eklund, Kajsa Ernst, Elisabeth Carlsson, Anna Ulrika Eriksson
23rd international film festival in Setúbal (Portugal) 1 - 10 June 2007
Award for Rolf Lassgård
Rolf Lassgård has got the silver dolphin for his role in "Efter brylluppet" as best actor.
The film "Efter brylluppet" got also a silver dolphin as special price of the jury.
2007, May 31 Rolf Lassgård's summer film project
Rolf Lassgård start the shooting to Colin Nutley's thirteenth movie together with Helena Bergström, Rikard Wolff, Elisabet Carlsson in the middle of July. The working title is "Angel".
The film plays in the show business. The rock singer Angel (played by Helena Bergström) was an international known star in the 1990s and fell in oblivion in the meantime.
She longs to return to limelight and money now. The way there pulls across the media after opinion of her husband and earlier manager (Rolf Lassgård). And it is said now to sell a sensational history to the media, that's Angel also has.
So Angel's husband starts up a campaign for her comeback with help of a journalist (Johan Rabaeus) ...........
Rikard Wolff plays a musician of Angel's earlier band and Elisabet Carlsson, her long-standing and extremely loyal personal assistant.
The shooting shall extend over ten weeks and want to take place in the proximity of Stockholm. On the schedule are also a couple of shooting-weeks in Thailand.
2007, April 29
Since today there is a new photogallery on the Fanpage with photos of the performance "Bröderna Karamasov", by the novel of Fjodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski. In that play Rolf Lassgård played the role of Dimitri. The play "Bröderna Karamasov" was performed in fall 2006 in Gävle (Sweden) at the Folkteatern.
Here you get directly the Photogallery 1 Fotogalerie 1
12.03.2007
Rolf Lassgård has his latest Wallander-Film behind himself and at least two new movies in front of himself.
- I will make a film with Colin Nutley and Helena Bergström now, he says.
The movie together with Colin Nutley and Helena Bergström is the great summer project for Rolf Lassgård. Colin Nutley has written the film script and directs management. The working title is "Angel", more doesn't want to betray Rolf Lassgård. - I haven't read the definite film script yet but we move in the conversation and medium field, he says.
Jaja, journalists can irritate
- No, no, under no circumstances, he laughs . Still is nobody involved in the project apart from the threes.
A love drama
Rolf Lassgård will join in also in a film after a film script of Jens Jonsson which has made the TV series "God morgon alla barn" . This time won't direct Jens Jonsson management but the film will become Jörgen Bergmarks management debut after a film script of Jens Jonsson.
- This is a quartet among others with Pernilla August. De rationella it is named, says Rolf Lassgård. This is a loving drama around us in the middle older, with much humor. This is very special.
The film is about two couples. One couple operates a marriage guidance counselling under the direction of the Pentecost church.The man falls in love with the wife of his best friend and pulls together the couples and solves the situation so efficiently.
For the other leading roles Stina Ekblad and Claes Ljungmark are scheduled.
"I haven't seen the film script yet"
Beyond this Rolf Lassgård was asked whether he would like to play a part in a film "Jägarna 2" which Kjell Sundvall wants to make.
- I only know that there are serious ideas but I don't know more, he says . I haven't seen any film script.
The last scenes for the SVT film "Pyramids" were taken last week and Rolf Lassgård has therefore played to the last time Henning Mankells police inspector.
Rolf Lassgård
Age: 51 Years
Profession: Actor, Gävle
He has made this last:
Film spring 2006:"Den man älskar" with Jonas Karlsson,
Theater fall 2006: "Bröderna Karamazov" in the Gasklockorna of Gävle.
Film winter 2007: "Pyramids"
At present seeing: "Fire wall " on SVT and "After the wedding" in the cinema.
Interests: Many finals just now (sticks by Brynäs).
06.03.2007
Last film as Wallander
GÖTEBORG The adventure is over. Now Rolf Lassgård has played the police inspector Kurt Wallander for the last time.
- I reckon that is the end now, he says. All the books are filmed now.
Today the shooting of Pyramiden, that could also be named Wallanders last case, will be finished. In any case Rolf Lassgård will play no more Henning Mankell's worn out police inspector.
Kvp was on-site at the shooting in the last days. Rolf Lassgård tells, for this he is deeply afraid of the definite separation from his roll.
Lived with the roll
- Yes, it really heavy. It is like the last day in school, a little bit like "The flower time which comes now", he says.
He has lived almost 15 years with the roll. He has played his Wallander with various directors, various scriptwriters and in various formats (movie, TV series, small series and television movie).
- I have played a part in the arranging of my roll , he says. The different directors and scriptwriters have formed my picture of Wallander with her ideas.
The young Wallander
"Pyramids" moves in the presence and past. We will meet the young Wallander (Gustaf Skarsgård) as a policeman on his patrol. Simultaneous will the past and presence be like a review for Kurt Wallander.
The director of "Pyramids" is Daniel Lind Lagerlöf.
- He was repeatedly at Wallander. I am really glad that he may make the end.
The last case
"Pyramids", 90 minutes TV-film for SVT.
Script: Michael Hjort and Hans Rosenfeldt after two novelles of Henning Mankel from the novella collection "Pyramiden".
Cast: Rolf Lassgård, Marie Richardsson, Lars Melin, Kerstin Andersson, Johan Rabaeus, Dag Malmberg, Gustaf Skarsgård, Lia Boysen, Harald Lönnbro, Pia Örjansdotter, Anders Palm and other.
Arbetarbladet (Gävle) 27.02.2007
Hello, there is Rolf Lassgård
who has joined in in the Oscar nominated film "Efter bröllopet" which however unfortunately
didn't get any Oscar.
How you take you?
-I am quite glum it anyway, however it was more pleasant when they called and asked me, how it is to be nominated. I am happier that the film was nominated as this I am disappointed, that he hasn't won . I am not depressed, that we haven't got the prize . I live positively.
Why you think hasn't the film won?
-I don't have any idea actually. 5 was nominated of 60 films in a foreign language and it were 5 unbelievably good and strong films. Only one could win the prize. I haven't seen the film which has won but I have heard, it shall be unbelievably good.
You haven't been at the Oscar awarding. Were you sure that you wouldn't win?
-No, this wasn't it why I wasn't there.
I am shooting just now. We had a great chance to win, 20 per cent.
What are you doing just now?
I am shooting just now a film after the last Wallander-Book.
Do we see you at the Oscar awarding in the next year?
- I don't know this. It isn't so simple. This was now the second time and it is quite clearly a fantastic honor. I think this is something which all actors would like.
Gefle Dagblad - 26.02.2007
No Oscar for Lassgård film
It didn't give any Oscar for the Danish film "Efter bröllopet" in the Gala night, Rolf Lassgård plays one the leading roles in the film. The price for the "best foreign film" went to the German film "The life of the others"
Florian Henckel of Donnersmarck which made his movie debut shows a Stasi informer in Eastern Germany who bugs the apartment of a married couple and seizes unexpectedly liking for them.