Ingemo Engström

Ingemo Engström

83 (1941-10-15)
Jakobstad, Finland

Ingemo Engström is a Finnish writer, director and producer. She studied psychology, medicine and literature in Helsinki, Hamburg and Munich and wrote a study about the use of imagery in the writings of Ingeborg Bachmann. From 1967 to 1970 she studied at the Academy of Film and Television (HFF) in Munich.

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Flight North 1986 (3.5)

Johanna has fled Nazi Germany to visit a friend in Finland, and from there she continues on to her friend's family's estate. Once at the estate, Johanna passionately argues with her friend's pro-Nazi brother and at the same time, falls for the second, good-looking brother who shares her own anti-fascist feelings. The two are soon engaged in an active sexual relationship that continues as they travel north to an Arctic port.
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Ginevra 1992 (2)

Like the wife of King Arthur in the legend, the main character in Ginevra, actress Cecilia Linné, is a figure of inspiration torn between two worlds and two men. She gives up her “contract” with society and its entanglement of love, work and money.
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Kampf um ein Kind 1975

A West Berlin doctor, married with a two-year-old child, leaves her husband to go to Munich to work in the birth clinic of a hospital. Her husband doesn’t know that she’s pregnant with their second child. Will she have to choose between motherhood and her career?