Christina Lindberg
Encyclopedia
Britt Christina Marinette Lindberg (born 6 December 1950, in Gothenburg
, Sweden
) is a Swedish journalist
known internationally for her work as an actress and glamour model in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
(UK), Playboy
(U.S.), Lui
(France) and Mayfair
(UK). She was a Penthouse Pet in the June 1970 issue of Penthouse.
's comedy Rötmånad which was released in 1970. The film was seen by over 250,000 Swedes and went on to become a commercial success. Her third film, Exponerad
, was released with a lot of hype at the Cannes festival in 1971 and turned her into an international celebrity.
A long string of exploitation films followed, many of which were filmed in Germany and Japan. As part of the marketing campaign for Exponerad she also went on a publicity trip to Japan, which later resulted in an invitation to appear in Japanese exploitation films. In Japan she played a major supporting role in Norifumi Suzuki
's Pink film classic Sex & Fury
. In 1972 she starred as Madeleine in Bo A. Vibenius's controversial film Thriller – en grym film. Director Quentin Tarantino
expressed his admiration for both the film and Lindberg's performance, and Madeleine later served as an inspiration for Uma Thurman
's character in Tarantino's Kill Bill
films. In Kill Bill he also borrowed elements from Sex & Fury. In the action-comedy spoof Sex, lögner & videovåld Lindberg made a brief cameo as Madeleine.
Lindberg did not like that nude pictures were getting more and more explicit and during the filming of Gerard Damiano
's Flossie (AKA Natalie--not to be confused with a 1974 film of the same name, which was directed by Mac Ahlberg
and starred Marie Forså
) in West Germany—she left the set and returned home to Sweden. Damiano (who also directed the infamous Deep Throat
) persuaded Lindberg to leave because he knew that it was going to be a hardcore film. For several years the German producer tried to bring her back in an attempt to complete the film. According to Videooze (No. 8, 1996), about 1,000 meters of film had been shot by Damiano. Production stopped and never resumed.
, Christina Lindberg explains that after leaving exploitation films behind, she has been busy with numerous other projects. In 1972 she met future fiancé Bo Sehlberg and later started to work for his aviation
magazine Flygrevyn. When Sehlberg died in 2004, Lindberg took over ownership and the position as editor-in-chief of the magazine—which is the largest aviation magazine in Scandinavia. She has also produced an instructional video on how to pick and prepare mushrooms, Christinas Svampskola, and is very passionate about preserving the Swedish wolf. She made an attempt to enter the theater school Scenskolan in 1975 after having taken private lessons from Öllegård Wellton, but failed after having passed two out of three tests. She continued posing and writing for men's magazines while studying journalism at Poppius, and she eventually established herself as a journalist. In 2007 she announced that she would start an acting school.
and Exposed
. Following the screening of Anita there was a Q&A with Christina Lindberg, she then introduced the second part of the double bill Exposed.
released a DVD set called Christina Lindberg's Swedish Erotica Collection. This was an art house collection containing two of her films.
Gothenburg
Gothenburg is the second-largest city in Sweden and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated on the west coast of Sweden, the city proper has a population of 519,399, with 549,839 in the urban area and total of 937,015 inhabitants in the metropolitan area...
, Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
) is a Swedish journalist
Journalist
A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
known internationally for her work as an actress and glamour model in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Biography
Lindberg grew up in a working class home in Annedal, Gothenburg, together with her sister and three brothers. She studied Latin at school and planned to continue her studies in archeology.Modeling career
During her high school years (she was around 18 years old) she started posing nude for men's magazines, such as FIB aktuellt and Lektyr, after having garnered some attention posing in bathing suits for newspapers. She later appeared in men's magazines such as PenthousePenthouse (magazine)
Penthouse, a men's magazine founded by Bob Guccione, combines urban lifestyle articles and softcore pornographic pictorials that, in the 1990s, evolved into hardcore. Penthouse is owned by FriendFinder Network. formerly known as General Media, Inc. whose parent company was Penthouse International...
(UK), Playboy
Playboy
Playboy is an American men's magazine that features photographs of nude women as well as journalism and fiction. It was founded in Chicago in 1953 by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother. The magazine has grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc., with...
(U.S.), Lui
Lui
Lui is a French adult entertainment magazine created in November 1963 by Daniel Filipacchi, a fashion photographer turned publisher, Jacques Lanzmann, a jack of all trades turned novelist, and Frank Ténot, a press agent, pataphysician and jazz critic..The objective was to bring some charm "à la...
(France) and Mayfair
Mayfair
Mayfair is an area of central London, within the City of Westminster.-History:Mayfair is named after the annual fortnight-long May Fair that took place on the site that is Shepherd Market today...
(UK). She was a Penthouse Pet in the June 1970 issue of Penthouse.
Film career
Lindberg has appeared or starred in 23 feature films, most of which are erotica, exploitation or softcore pictures. Her first movie was an American production (Maid in Sweden), filmed in Sweden with a Swedish cast. She got her second role in Jan HalldoffJan Halldoff
Jan Harry Halldoff was a Swedish film director and screenwriter. He directed 17 films between 1966 and 1982. His 1967 film Life's Just Great was entered into the 17th Berlin International Film Festival....
's comedy Rötmånad which was released in 1970. The film was seen by over 250,000 Swedes and went on to become a commercial success. Her third film, Exponerad
Exponerad
Exponerad is a 1971 Swedish sexploitation film directed by Gustav Wiklund and starring Christina Lindberg. It was marketed in the U.S...
, was released with a lot of hype at the Cannes festival in 1971 and turned her into an international celebrity.
A long string of exploitation films followed, many of which were filmed in Germany and Japan. As part of the marketing campaign for Exponerad she also went on a publicity trip to Japan, which later resulted in an invitation to appear in Japanese exploitation films. In Japan she played a major supporting role in Norifumi Suzuki
Norifumi Suzuki
', also known as Norifumi Suzuki, is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He is best known for his works for studio Toei , especially the Red Peony Gambler and Truck Yarō series.Suzuki was born November 26, 1933 in Shizuoka...
's Pink film classic Sex & Fury
Sex & Fury
Sex & Fury, translated , is a 1973 violent revenge soft-core pornographic Japanese film directed by Norifumi Suzuki.It was followed by Female Yakuza Tale: Inquisition and Torture in the same year.-Synopsis:...
. In 1972 she starred as Madeleine in Bo A. Vibenius's controversial film Thriller – en grym film. Director Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Jerome Tarantino is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and actor. In the early 1990s, he began his career as an independent filmmaker with films employing nonlinear storylines and the aestheticization of violence...
expressed his admiration for both the film and Lindberg's performance, and Madeleine later served as an inspiration for Uma Thurman
Uma Thurman
Uma Karuna Thurman is an American actress and model. She has performed in leading roles in a variety of films, ranging from romantic comedies and dramas to science fiction and action movies. Among her best-known roles are those in the Quentin Tarantino films Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill...
's character in Tarantino's Kill Bill
Kill Bill
Kill Bill Volume 1 is a 2003 action thriller film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. It is the first of two volumes that were theatrically released several months apart, the second volume being Kill Bill Volume 2....
films. In Kill Bill he also borrowed elements from Sex & Fury. In the action-comedy spoof Sex, lögner & videovåld Lindberg made a brief cameo as Madeleine.
Lindberg did not like that nude pictures were getting more and more explicit and during the filming of Gerard Damiano
Gerard Damiano
Gerard Damiano was an American director of adult films and producer, writer and director of the 1972 cult classic Deep Throat .-Biography:...
's Flossie (AKA Natalie--not to be confused with a 1974 film of the same name, which was directed by Mac Ahlberg
Mac Ahlberg
Mac Ahlberg is a Swedish film director and cinematographer.The first feature Ahlberg directed was the Danish erotic classic I, a Woman which went on to international success, especially in the United States...
and starred Marie Forså
Marie Forså
Marie Forså is a Swedish actress active in Europe the mid-1970s.-Partial filmography:* 47:an Löken blåser på * Der Fluch der Schwarzen Schwestern...
) in West Germany—she left the set and returned home to Sweden. Damiano (who also directed the infamous Deep Throat
Deep Throat (film)
Deep Throat is a 1972 American pornographic film written and directed by Gerard Damiano and produced by Louis Peraino and starring Linda Lovelace ....
) persuaded Lindberg to leave because he knew that it was going to be a hardcore film. For several years the German producer tried to bring her back in an attempt to complete the film. According to Videooze (No. 8, 1996), about 1,000 meters of film had been shot by Damiano. Production stopped and never resumed.
Post film career
In her introduction to Daniel Ekeroth's book Swedish Sensationsfilms: A Clandestine History of Sex, Thrillers, and Kicker CinemaSwedish Sensationsfilms: A Clandestine History of Sex, Thrillers, and Kicker Cinema
Swedish Sensationsfilms: A Clandestine History of Sex, Thrillers, and Kicker Cinema is a book by Daniel Ekeroth. The book details the history of alternative Swedish cinema, the so called sensationsfilm...
, Christina Lindberg explains that after leaving exploitation films behind, she has been busy with numerous other projects. In 1972 she met future fiancé Bo Sehlberg and later started to work for his aviation
Aviation
Aviation is the design, development, production, operation, and use of aircraft, especially heavier-than-air aircraft. Aviation is derived from avis, the Latin word for bird.-History:...
magazine Flygrevyn. When Sehlberg died in 2004, Lindberg took over ownership and the position as editor-in-chief of the magazine—which is the largest aviation magazine in Scandinavia. She has also produced an instructional video on how to pick and prepare mushrooms, Christinas Svampskola, and is very passionate about preserving the Swedish wolf. She made an attempt to enter the theater school Scenskolan in 1975 after having taken private lessons from Öllegård Wellton, but failed after having passed two out of three tests. She continued posing and writing for men's magazines while studying journalism at Poppius, and she eventually established herself as a journalist. In 2007 she announced that she would start an acting school.
Theatrical releases
On 6 October 2007 The Institute of Contemporary Arts in London screened a double bill of AnitaAnita: Swedish Nymphet
Anita: Swedish Nymphet is a 1973 erotic drama film directed by Torgny Wickman, starring Christina Lindberg and Stellan Skarsgård.-Plot:This erotic tale centers on the alluring Anita , whose search for love leads to an...
and Exposed
Exponerad
Exponerad is a 1971 Swedish sexploitation film directed by Gustav Wiklund and starring Christina Lindberg. It was marketed in the U.S...
. Following the screening of Anita there was a Q&A with Christina Lindberg, she then introduced the second part of the double bill Exposed.
DVD releases
In March 2008 Revelation FilmsRevelation Films
Revelation Films is a British distributor of entertainment programmes on DVD.It was perhaps most well known as the company through which as of November 2006, the American anime company FUNimation Entertainment has launched its titles in the United Kingdom on region 2 DVD...
released a DVD set called Christina Lindberg's Swedish Erotica Collection. This was an art house collection containing two of her films.
Filmography
Note: The films have been listed in order of production, based on Lindberg's diary.| Year | Movie | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | Rötmånad (What Are You Doing After the Orgy?) | Anna Bella Gustafsson | Major supporting role |
| 1971 | Yusra | It's unclear whether Lindberg actually appears in this film (her scenes may have been cut) | |
| 1971 | Maid in Sweden (Jena) | Inga | Starring role (credited as Kristina Lindberg) |
| 1971 | Smoke(film) | Annie | Minor supporting role. Annie was based on the US comic strip character Little Orphan Annie Little Orphan Annie Little Orphan Annie was a daily American comic strip created by Harold Gray and syndicated by Tribune Media Services. The strip took its name from the 1885 poem "Little Orphant Annie" by James Whitcomb Riley, and made its debut on August 5, 1924 in the New York Daily News... . |
| 1971 | Exponerad Exponerad Exponerad is a 1971 Swedish sexploitation film directed by Gustav Wiklund and starring Christina Lindberg. It was marketed in the U.S... (Exposed) |
Lena Svensson | Starring role (credited as Cristina Lindberg) |
| 1972 | Every Afternoon (Swedish Wildcats) | Helga | Brief appearances |
| 1972 | Young Playthings | Gunilla | Starring role |
| 1972 | Mädchen, die nach München kommen (Sex At The Olympics) | Anja | Minor supporting role |
| 1972 | Schulmädchen-Report 4. Teil – Was Eltern oft verzweifeln lässt (Campus Swingers) | Barbara Heinbach | Minor supporting role. The American version is 20 mins. shorter, and many of Lindberg's scenes have been cut |
| 1973 | Liebe in drei Dimensionen (Love in 3-D) | Inge | Minor supporting role |
| 1973 | Was Schulmädchen verschweigen (What Schoolgirls Don't Tell) | Minor supporting role | |
| 1973 | Jorden runt med Fanny Hill (Around The World With Fanny Hill) | Meatball Model | Brief appearances |
| 1973 | Furyô anego den: Inoshika Ochô (Sex & Fury) | Christina | Major supporting role |
| 1973 | Poruno no joô: Nippon sex ryokô (Journey to Japan) | Ingrid Jacobsen | Major supporting role |
| 1973 | Wide Open (Sängkamrater) | Eva | Minor supporting role |
| 1973 | Anita – ur en tonårsflickas dagbok Anita: Swedish Nymphet Anita: Swedish Nymphet is a 1973 erotic drama film directed by Torgny Wickman, starring Christina Lindberg and Stellan Skarsgård.-Plot:This erotic tale centers on the alluring Anita , whose search for love leads to an... (Anita: Swedish Nymphet) |
Anita | Starring role. There are several versions of the film, including a US version with hardcore inserts which were shot later (Lindberg didn't participate in these scenes). The hardcore version has not been released on DVD. |
| 1974 | Thriller – en grym film (They Call Her One Eye) | Frigga/Madeleine/One Eye | Starring role |
| 1977 | 91:an och Generalernas Fnatt | Bloodsample Nurse | Brief appearances |
| 1979 | There Is a Sunrise Every Morning | Cavegirl | Eco-drama/documentary |
| 1980 | Attentatet (Outrage) | Brief appearances | |
| 1980 | Sverige åt svenskarna (Battle of Sweden) | French Mistress | Brief appearances |
| 1982 | Gräsänklingar | Stripper (Uncredited) | Brief appearances |
| 1993 | Christinas Svampskola | (Herself) | 20 min. instructional video about mushrooms |
| 2000 | Sex, lögner & videovåld (Sex, Lies & Videoviolence) | Frigga/Madeleine/One Eye (Cameo) | A non-commercial video parody of a variety of wellknown movies. Made by Swedish film fans working themselves in movie and entertainment business, shot in 1990-1993 |
External links
- Biography at the Swedish Film InstituteSwedish Film InstituteThe Swedish Film Institute was founded in 1963 to support and develop the Swedish film industry. The institute is housed in the Filmhuset building located in Gärdet, Östermalm in Stockholm...
(Note: In Swedish only) - Biography (revised version) on (re)Search my Trash
- Interview on dvdtimes.co.uk (March 2006) Biography Psychovision.net