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Mats Helge

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Mats Helge Olsson is a Swedish producer, screenwriter and director. He started out as a filmmaker creating lingonberry westerns, a paraphrase on the concept of spaghetti westerns. Several well known and respected Swedish actors participated in the film projects. Together with the Swedish actor Per Oscarsson, he made "Sverige åt svenskarna/Sweden to the Swedes" (1980) that resulted in a debt of SEK 16 million and the film project went bankrupt after a few months. Further on in the 1980s, Mats Helge started a film factory where he produced several English-language low budget action films. 15 feature films in all came out of Mats Helge's initiative.

10-05-1953

Birthday

Taurus

Zodiac Sign

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Genres

6

Total Films

Also known as (male)

Lidköping, Sweden

Place of Birth

Popular works

Creative career

actor

6 Works

producer

10 Works

director

34 Works

writer

8 Works

other

1 Works

The Director Who Disappeared: The Story of The Ninja Mission

The Director Who Disappeared: The Story of The Ninja Mission

Documentary about Swedish director, Mats Helge Olsson, an illiterate Swedish director most noted in his home country for debuting with the first "Lingonberry Western", DEAD MAN'S TRAIL, landing himself in debtors prison after producing Per Oscarsson's financial fiasco SWEDEN FOR THE SWEDES, creating the cheesy, low-budget, unlikely U.S. hit, NINJA MISSION, and then - before fading away into near total obscurity - following up on NINJA MISSION by simultaneously making three films (SILENT CHASE; FATAL SECRET; MAD BUNCH) with then-fading U.S. actor, David Carradine... who may not have known he was making more than one.
7.0

Year:

2013

Animal Protector

Animal Protector

Swedish animal rights action film. Also known as "Born to Kill".
5.5

Year:

1988

Ghost Hunters

Ghost Hunters

The teen Gullan and her friends like to hang out in an old film studio at night and tell ghost stories. One night something mystical happens and the kids run away in fear but they return later to find out what really happens in the big old building.
7.0

Year:

1987

Eagle Island

Eagle Island

An island with a secret military base is attacked by terrorists. It's up to two female photographers and a gang of Ninjas to stop it.
6.5

Year:

1986

Blood Tracks

Blood Tracks

A film crew producing a rock music video decides to shoot at an abandoned factory above the snow line. When an avalanche strands them, a murderous family living in the factory attacks and kills many of them.
4.1

Year:

1985

The Ninja Mission

The Ninja Mission

CIA, KGB and the amazing ninja masters are all in the center of Russia where the Swedish nuclear professor Karl Markov have invented a new kind of nuclear technology. Markov's invention can change the balance of power in the world. All want this information and will use any force necessary to obtain it first.
4.8

Year:

1984