FrameThrower · Actors · Hasse Ekman
Hasse Ekman
3 films · 180 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1949–1953
Born 10 September 1915 · Stockholm, Sweden · died 15 February 2004
Hasse Ekman was a Swedish director, actor, writer and producer for film, stage and television.
Hasse Ekman is probably Sweden's most successful and critically acclaimed film director pre Ingmar Bergman (and aside from him) and post Sjöström and Stiller, with his peak in mid-1940s to the year 1950. Much influenced by filmmaker Orson Welles and also by episodic-films.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 180 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1949–1953
- Guldbagge Awards
How their films are shot
Measured across 180 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Hasse takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 60% of their frames are night, 48% low key — the look of the work Hasse takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 180 frames from Hasse Ekman's 3 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.