Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: April 14, 1886
Deathday: January 07, 1967
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1943-12-26
Overview: Swedish film of the Kaj Munk play that was made into a far more famous film by Carl Dreyer in Denmark twelve years later.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-12-26
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1942-09-03
Overview: A lonely fisherman drowns and his elderly brother Efraim is left to do an inventory of the estate. He discovers that his brother had a son, Karl-Erik. Keeping it a secret, he travels to Stockholm to employ the young man as a hired hand. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-09-03
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1948-09-25
Overview: To get away from his nagging wife, a man goes to a desert island to settle down there.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1948-09-25
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1952-02-04
Overview: The 1880s. Abandoned by his middle class parents in Stockholm, Johannes grows up in the countryside with a cobbler who regularly beats him up. Also at school he has to face regular beatings because of his Stockholm background, the only one who cares for him is a girl, Lotta, who promises to marry him one day. When he's 20 he moves to Stockholm and joins the Royal guards at the Royal palace. Quite by accident he meets Lotta again and start an affair with her. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1952-02-04
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1940-10-28
Overview: On an island in the Stockholm archipelago lives a man named Albin who has fallen in love with the new school teacher named Eva. Because of the Winter War the island is isolated and smuggling is rampant, the leader of this operation is named Fritjof and he is also interested in Eva.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1940-10-28
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1947-10-22
Overview: A con artist arrives to a small island to swingle money from the fishermen.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-10-22
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1944-10-30
Overview: The soul of an evil witch about to be burned is transferred to the child of a pregnant woman in the audience. 19 years later a timid girl arrives at a farm looking for work. The farmer employs her despite his wife's protests. Soon it stands clear that the girl is in fact the evil witch, returned to wreak havoc on the farmer and his family. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-10-30
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1945-08-05
Overview: A smuggler's daughter falls in love with the son of a customs inspector.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-08-05
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1949-12-19
Overview: Fabian Bom, auctionist in a small town, one day finds a baby boy in a small crib that is for sale at an auction. He places the boy at an orphanage but returns the next day since he realizes that he misses the boy. Since a single man is not permitted to adopt a baby he arranges a marriage with a young woman, who really is the baby's mother.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-12-19
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1947-08-22
Overview: In a rural parish in 1906, young Heikki, one of the Finnish immigrants, lives a wild and free life in the deep forest. After poaching, his furs are confiscated and Heikki vows to have his revenge by seducing the young women of the parish, one by one.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-08-22
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1958-06-22
Overview: Modern fairy tale about the small town of Fårtuna where the chief of police is also an amateur theater director. The local shop assistant Linda aspires to become an actress and gets discovered by a talent agent from Stockholm.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-06-22
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1949-02-07
Overview: Midsummer Eve in Malmfors in the 1880s. The holiday is celebrated with a big party. Three blacksmiths leave the ironworks and become drifters, seeking out jobs elsewhere. During their travels, they come across beautiful girls as well as jobs in different ironworks, where the workers are organizing, monitored by a brutal police force.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-02-07
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1950-03-13
Overview: An inventive store assistant becomes a major motorcycle racing star.
Genres: Drama Comedy Adventure
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1950-03-13
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1946-10-28
Overview: The stingy fisherman Ericsson lives on a small island north of Stockholm with his wife Johanna och her father Isak.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-10-28
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1942-11-24
Overview: Oppressed by landowners, a peasant uprising ensues as an outlaw farmer refuses to pay taxes in this film adapted from Vilhelm Moberg's novel.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-11-24
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1940-10-05
Overview: Swedish comedy from 1940. Carnival director Knut Lindberg has ended up in the hands of the usurer Director Aronsson and his shady practices trying to take over Lindberg's funfair. But the two new colleagues, Kalle and Nisse, does everything to stop him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1940-10-05
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1945-11-14
Overview: Land owner Bill Bärnfelt sees a beautiful woman when he is out riding and immediately falls in love. But then his former fiancee turns up and makes a fuss.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-11-14
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1953-09-21
Overview: The young girl Lisbet lives on the farm Tolfmansgården together with her mother, her older brother Jerker and their grandparents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-09-21
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1957-12-21
Overview: It's summertime. The students Allan and Erik returns to their home town. 19-year old Allan is in love with 17-year old Anna-Lena. She rejects his clumsy attempts of telling her, but that's because she is uncertain of her own feelings. The Norwegian singer Lydia Hennert has an accident with her car and she is slightly injured. Allan's father is a doctor and Lydia spends a few days with them. Allan falls in love with her instead, she is a "real" woman and not a girl. But this makes Anna-Lena jealous.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-12-21
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1955-10-12
Overview: Director Svensson in Stockholm is going on vacation to Koön in the archipelago. The rented cottage is inhabited by the brothers August and Johan Österman. Johan throws out August and tells him to arrange accommodation for the summer guests elsewhere.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-10-12
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1949-10-29
Overview: it's the 1840s and a rural parish plagued by drinking and fighting gets a new vicar who has decided to instill law, order and fear of God into the parishioners.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-10-29
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1919-09-18
Overview: Three Scottish officers, including Sir Archi, murder Sir Arne and his household for a coffin filled with gold. The only survivor is Elsalill, who moves to relatives in Marstrand. There she meets a charming young officer- Sir Archi- and she soon understands that he was one of the murderers.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1919-09-18
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1917-09-09
Overview: A 1917 Swedish drama film directed by Victor Sjöström, based on a 1913 novel by Selma Lagerlöf. It was the first in a series of successful Lagerlöf adaptions by Sjöström, made possible by a deal between Lagerlöf and A-B Svenska Biografteatern (later AB Svensk Filmindustri) to adapt at least one Lagerlöf novel each year. Lagerlöf had for many years denied any proposal to let her novels be adapted for film, but after seeing Sjöström's Terje Vigen she finally decided to give her allowance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1917-09-09
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1933-12-26
Overview: The little town Västerköping needs a new police man - but the only applicant is the small and tiny Fridolf. He gets the job but has to work with the big and strong police inspector Göransson. The town is visited by a crook who has specialized in stealing from local councils. Can this unusual pair stop him?
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1933-12-26
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