Hasse Ekman is probably Sweden 's most successful and critically acclaimed film director from the period after Sjöström and Stiller and prior to Ingmar Bergman , peaking between the mid-1940s and 1950 . He was greatly influenced by filmmaker Orson Welles and also by episodic-films . His most successful film as a director is often said to be the 1950 film '' Flicka och hyacinter '' ( Girl with Hyacinths ) , a crime/mystery drama about a young woman committing suicide by hanging herself in her apartment . His 1957 film '' Summer Place Wanted '' was entered into the 1st Moscow International Film Festival
1st Moscow International Film Festival
1st Moscow International Film Festival
Hasse Ekman