Pia Degermark

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Pia Charlotte Degermark (born August 24, 1949 in Stockholm ) is a Swedish actress .

Life and accomplishments

Degermark grew up with an older brother in Sweden until she was ten, before she emigrated with her family to Switzerland , where she attended a boarding school for girls . At the age of seventeen Degermark was discovered by the well-known film director Bo Widerberg , who saw her dancing together with the then Swedish Crown Prince Karl Gustav in a newspaper photo. Widerberg entrusted her with the female lead in his romantic historical drama The End of a Great Love in 1967 , in which Degermark, who is still inexperienced in the cinema, can be seen alongside Thommy Berggren . Widerberg's first color film tells of the love affair between the well-known Danish tight-rope dancer Elvira Madigan (1867–1889) and the married Swedish officer Sixten Sparre, which tragically ends with the young couple's suicide. The Amour fou , which was processed by the poet Johan Lindström Saxon (1859-1935) in a ballad known in Scandinavia, was a success with international film critics and audiences. The New York Times rated The End of a Great Love as an exquisite and extraordinary film and praised Pia Degermark as "a breathtakingly beautiful blonde who would muster all the adoration and grandeur of the girl" . The drama won the National Board of Review's award for best foreign language film and earned its young lead actress nominations for the Golden Globe and the British Film Awards , where she was left behind against Katharine Ross and Dustin Hoffman (both for The Graduation ). Even at the international premiere of Widerberg's film in the competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 1967 , Degermark was awarded the Actor Award and had competed against such renowned actresses as Geraldine Page (Big Boy - Now You're Becoming a Man) or Delphine Seyrig (Accident - Incident in Oxford) .

After the end of a great love Pia Degermark was traded in Sweden as a possible successor to Ingrid Bergman and took roles in international feature film productions. In 1969 she was seen alongside Anthony Hopkins and Ralph Richardson in Frank Pierson's spy thriller War in the Mirror . In the film adaptation of a novel by John le Carré , she acted as the object of desire of Christopher Jones , who is commissioned by the British secret service to obtain photos of missile bases in the GDR . But neither with her debut in English-language film nor in Renato Castellani's Una breve stagione , again alongside Christopher Jones, was she able to build on the success of her first film role. In 1971 Degermark married the Italian film producer Pier A. Caminneci († 2013) in the presence of Christina Onassis and Prince Karl Gustaf of Sweden , whom she only met at night while filming the sex comedy Gebissen is produced in Germany . Their son, who grew up with his father, comes from their marriage to the Playboy and Siemens heirs, which were divorced in 1973.

After her divorce from Pier A. Caminneci, Pia Degermark ran a conference center in Djurgården and then lived for a while in the USA , where she was unable to establish herself in the film industry and fell ill with anorexia and amphetamine addiction. In 1976 she was in the West German television series Die Buschspringer next to Stefan Behrens and Harald Juhnke for the last time in front of the camera. Three years later she returned to her home country Sweden. There she worked for an organization dedicated to helping anorexic women and as a cultural assistant for an athletics organization. In 1991 Degermark was sentenced to fourteen months in prison for drug possession and fraud. A little later their second son was born, who grew up in a foster family. After a serious car accident that left permanent damage to her right leg, she now lives as an invalid in Stockholm's Hägersten district and does manual labor. Published in 2006 in Sweden Degermark her autobiography Gud räknar Kvinnors tårar ( dt . "God is one woman tears" ).

Filmography

Awards

literature

  • Pia Degermark: Gud räknar kvinnors tårar: memoarer . Prisma, Stockholm 2006, ISBN 91-518-4665-9 (Swedish)

Web links

Commons : Pia Degermark  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Bosley Crowther : The Landscape of Love: 'Elvira Madigan' Tells a Bittersweet Tale . In: New York Times . September 30, 1967
  2. ↑ cf. Claus Jacobi: John le Carré. From the shadow realm of love, lies and betrayal . In: Welt am Sonntag . February 25, 2001
  3. ↑ http://trauer.sueddeutsche.de/Trauerbeispiel/pierandrea-caminneci
personal data
SURNAME Degermark, Pia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Degermark, Pia Charlotte (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish actress
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm , Stockholm County , Sweden