Oscar Ljung
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Birthday: September 06, 1909
Deathday: April 29, 1999
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The Virgin Spring
1960-02-08
The Virgin Spring
Overview: Devout Christians Töre and Märeta send their only daughter, the virginal Karin, and their foster daughter, the unrepentant Ingeri, to deliver candles to a distant church. On their way through the woods, the girls encounter a group of savage goat herders who brutally rape and murder Karin as Ingeri remains hidden. When the killers unwittingly seek refuge in the farmhouse of Töre and Märeta, Töre plots a fitting revenge.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1960-02-08
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Gustav Vasa
1965-09-06
Gustav Vasa
Overview: Gustav Vasa struggles to keep power while dealing with the Dacke War in his own country and his foreign debts.
Genres: Drama TV Movie History
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1965-09-06
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Fanny Hill
1968-11-11
Fanny Hill
Overview: The classic tale of a young woman's erotic awakening is transplanted to swinging '60s Stockholm...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1968-11-11
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The Magician
1958-12-26
The Magician
Overview: When 'Vogler's Magnetic Health Theater' comes to town, there's bound to be a spectacle. Reading reports of a variety of supernatural disturbances at Vogler's prior performances abroad, the leading townspeople (including the police chief and medical examiner) request that their troupe provide them a sample of their act, before allowing them public audiences. The scientific-minded disbelievers try to expose them as charlatans, but Vogler and his crew prove too clever for them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-12-26
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Rosen på tistelön
1945-08-05
Rosen på tistelön
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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Snapphanar
1941-12-26
Snapphanar
Overview: In an occupied country, the people rise to throw off the occupants. This includes Jens the farmer and his three sons who successfully perform sneak attacks on the invading army.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1941-12-26
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On These Shoulders
1948-10-04
On These Shoulders
Overview: Kjell Loväng returns to his parent's farm after a few years of work in Stockholm. He discovers that his father Arvid neglects the farm and spends too much time drinking and meeting other women. Kjell has to prove to his father his ability to manage the farm.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1948-10-04
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A Girl of Solbakken
1957-11-25
A Girl of Solbakken
Overview: From Bjørnson's novels about romance in 19th century Norway. Thorbjörn Granliden is raised severely by his parents who notice that he is drawn to the sinister farmhand Aslak. After a fight with Thorbjörn's father, Aslak leaves the farm. Thorbjörn grows up and falls in love with the beautiful Synnöve.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-11-25
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Den store gav-tyv
1956-03-05
Den store gav-tyv
Overview: Crime writer Rodian moves into a hotel which used to be the hideout for the thief Mathisen and his gang. However, when Rodian has gone to bed and fallen asleep, Mathisen reads the writer's manuscripts and copies the fictional crimes. This gets Rodian in trouble...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1956-03-05
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The Musketeers
1961-12-09
The Musketeers
Overview: Vi er i krigsåret 1658 og vinteren i februar er så hård, at bælterne er frosset til. Den svenske Kong Karl den 10. Gustav, der er ankommet Tyskland opholder sig nu i Jylland. Han kan, sammen med sin hær gå over bælterne og videre mod København. Svend Gønge får en særdeles vanskelig opgave af Frederik den 3.: 50.000 rigsdaler, der tilhører kongen, skal bringes fra Vordingborg Kirke til København.
Genres: Action Adventure Family
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1961-12-09
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Folket på Högbogården
1939-10-09
Folket på Högbogården
Overview: Mean farmer Ola Berg reigns at Högbogården and endures a loveless relationship with his wife Karin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1939-10-09
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The Girl from the Marsh Croft
1947-08-18
The Girl from the Marsh Croft
Overview: A story about poverty, unrequited love and manslaughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-08-18
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Sockerskrinet
1938-08-26
Sockerskrinet
Overview: A story spanning four generations.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1938-08-26
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Järnets män
1935-09-18
Järnets män
Overview: A film about the breakthrough of the labor movement in Sweden depicted by a metal worker's point of view.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1935-09-18
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Skeppare i blåsväder
1951-08-28
Skeppare i blåsväder
Overview: The story of the aging fisherman Alex who refuses to realize that his boat needs to be replaced.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1951-08-28
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Towards the Future
1952-08-01
Towards the Future
Overview: A politically motivated dramatic short film from Social Democrats ahead of the 1952 elections.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1952-08-01
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Livet måste levas
1943-09-27
Livet måste levas
Overview: The seaman Gustaf has just returned to Stockholm, the city where he grew up but has not been in 14 years. He longs to see his apartment in which he grew up and he travels there.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-09-27
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Waltz of Sex
1968-09-22
Waltz of Sex
Overview: When a vagrant family arrives to the village Vindinge one hot summer in the 1920's, the parish is spiced up with sex and alcohol. Based on a novel by Swedish Academy member Artur Lundkvist.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1968-09-22
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Summer Paradise
1977-04-27
Summer Paradise
Overview: Conventions of civility among family members are severely strained by the very real breakup of the bonds between them. During a few days at a vacation home, Katha, a woman in late middle age, tries to cope with an influx of discontented, disconnected relatives. Her divorced daughter brings all sorts of people to the house, including a woman-friend accompanied by her psychotic son; the grandfather of the house is convinced he is dying and is satisfied by nothing; and some friends drop off their angry teenage son to stay with her, while they go on a long trip abroad. Her friend Emma doesn't help much with keeping a lid on things, as she is a social worker who is fascinated by the awfulness of these situations.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1977-04-27
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Ride Tonight!
1942-11-24
Ride Tonight!
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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Badjävlar
1971-04-28
Badjävlar
Overview: Holidays on the swedish east coast. Invading summer guests collide with the locals, all without inhibitions. The formerly so radical Social Democratic municipal councilor has completely lost his visions and fully accepts that the area is transformed into a tourist resort for the rich.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1971-04-28
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Det är nu livet börjar
1976-01-26
Det är nu livet börjar
Overview: A TV drama about an old man who doesn't want to retire.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1976-01-26
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Bödeln
1965-09-19
Bödeln
Overview: "The Hangman" - The events take place in two periods of time. In the Middle Ages a group of men sit and discuss the evil at the tavern. With the hangman close by. 1930s: a dance hall where many people gathered. A jazz orchestra of colored musicians entertain. When the musicians take a break to eat, they are denied this by a Nazi.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1965-09-19
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The Talk of the Town
1941-09-29
The Talk of the Town
Overview: In a small town anonymous letters are delivered to five different families. The letters are signed "Veritas" (Truth). They tell of a series of events and conditions that the recipients thought was forgotten and buried long ago.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1941-09-29
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Wood Painting
1963-04-21
Wood Painting
Overview: A knight returning home with his squire Jons after a ten-year crusade to the Holy Land finds a country paralyzed by the Black Death, a newly burned witch, a blacksmith and his runaway wife, an actress, a Virgin Mary with her child and the knight's faithful wife. All approaches the realm of the dead in a single "tragicomic long dance of death". The narrator begins with: "In a church in southern Småland is our spectacle painted on the wall just to the right of the entrance to the porch. The unknown painter has on the church wall depicted a number of people in formal long dance toward death."
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1963-04-21
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The New Land
1972-02-26
The New Land
Overview: A Swedish immigrant family struggles to adapt to their new life on the American frontier during the second half of the 19th century amidst civil war, native uprising and the lure of gold in California.
Genres: Drama Western History
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1972-02-26
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Sjösalavår
1949-09-05
Sjösalavår
Overview: The Troubadour sits at a rock beside his summerhouse Sjösala in the Stockholm archipelago. He is composing a new ballad, when his son Sven Bertil interrupts him, telling him that an angry man is knocking at their door. It is the creditor Andersson, coming with a new unpaid bill to be put on the top of all the other. The Troubadour is tired of all economical problems. It disturbs the peace he needs to be able to write new songs, and without new songs he cannot earn the money he needs to pay the bills. To get peace and inspiration for his writing, he makes a quick decision to go to Buenos Aires. By phone he persuades his publisher to prepay 7000 kronor for some future book. On the little ferry from the islands in the sea to Stockholm city the Troubadour is carried away by his imagination into the fictitious world of his main character Fritiof Andersson. Colorful scenes from various songs are enacted before his dreaming eyes. In Stockholm he spends the night at the inn Gyldene Freden. ...
Genres: Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-09-05
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En fånge har rymt
1943-12-26
En fånge har rymt
Overview: "A Prisoner Has Escaped" - Franz is imprisoned for blowing up a factory. He escapes in order to prove his innocence.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-12-26
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Klockan på Rönneberga
1944-03-13
Klockan på Rönneberga
Overview: Rönneberga is an old family manor. When Lennart Heijken is born, his proud father buys his newborn a grandfather's clock that will follow him through his life and see him become a student, an officer, a married man, and eventually an old man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-03-13
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Realm of Man
1949-11-19
Realm of Man
Overview: A man is forced to leave his family estate and start again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-11-19
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Sally and Freedom
1981-02-27
Sally and Freedom
Overview: About choices in life and responsibilities. Sally has decided to have an abortion. It seriously affects her relationship with her partner Jonas, and their daughter Mia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1981-02-27
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Walpurgis Night
1935-10-23
Walpurgis Night
Overview: Lena Bergström works in an office and is unhappily in love with her boss, Johan Borg. She decides to quit. Borg's wife won't have any children, and when she becomes pregnant she has an illegal abortion. For some reason, Lena's father believes that it is Lena who has had an abortion.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1935-10-23
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The School of Wives
1983-12-25
The School of Wives
Overview: The elderly Arnolphe has decided to marry a young woman, Agnes, whom he has fallen in love with. She is too young and innocent to realize what plans he has for her. But Agnes and Arnolphe's young friend, the dandy Horace, have fallen in love with each other. Their love is a threat to Arnolphe's attempt at getting married. Can the cunning Arnolphe stop them?
Genres: Drama TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1983-12-25
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Gamen
1973-04-09
Gamen
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Genres: Comedy History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1973-04-09
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