Olle Hellbom

  • Olle Hellbom – Raggare! (1959)

    Olle Hellbom1951-1960ClassicsDramaSweden
    Raggare! (1959)
    Raggare! (1959)

    Young greasers, known as “raggare” in Sweden, gather at a café outside of Stockholm. Roffe is the toughest greaser. He kidnaps his own girlfriend Bibban, when he discovers that she is out riding with other guys. Bibban falls in love with the sensitive Lasse.Read More »

  • Olle Hellbom – På rymmen med Pippi Långstrump aka Pippi on the Run (1970)

    1961-1970ComedyCultOlle HellbomSweden

    She’s one of those definitively Generation X characters, the original latchkey kid, the first one left Home Alone: Pippi Longstocking, living on her own in the pastel Villa Villekulla without benefit of adult supervision and only a horse, Little Old Man, and a monkey, Mr. Nilsson, for company. Independently wealthy, thanks to her sailor-father’s adventures in the South Seas, she buys toys and candy for the town kids, pigs out on cakes and cookies, and is assuredly a bad influence on her young next-door-neighbors, Tommy and Annika (Päaut;r Sundberg and Maria Persson). Read More »

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