John Ericsson
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: April 20, 1883
Deathday: September 10, 1945
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I brist på bevis
1943-01-12
I brist på bevis
Overview: A drama about the manager Håkan Dahlin who has just been discharged from a clinic where he was treated for his alcoholism. In an outbreak of jealousy, Dahlin abuses his wife Inga and after that he is forcibly interned again. Inga is a nurse and she is now moving to a mountain village to work at a district clinic. During an emergency visit, she encounters her childhood sweetheart, the doctor Gunnar, and old feelings between them begin to flare up again.
Genres: Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-01-12
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The Ghost at Bragehus
1936-11-25
The Ghost at Bragehus
Overview: Bragehus manor receives a new farm bailiff with new ideas on how to run a modern farm. The manor is haunted by a ghost.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1936-11-25
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Gustaf Wasa, Part One
1928-03-04
Gustaf Wasa, Part One
Overview: The story takes its beginning in 1518 , the Danish King Christian II has taken Sweden. Sten Sture the younger appeal to all loyal subjects to resist. The offer reaches the farmer Mats Waltersson in Dalarna , Sweden's heart and he gathers his men. Dalmas were going from house to house, they do not want a Dane on the throne. At Brännkyrka outside Stockholm is a battle between the Danes and Swedes. Swedes win and the Swedish riksbaneret out during the Battle of Gustav Eriksson Vasa.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1928-03-04
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Gustaf Wasa, Part Two
1928-03-18
Gustaf Wasa, Part Two
Overview: King Christian II rides busy street by Sweden which he now put under him, while he remembers what he did against the Swedes at the Stockholm Bloodbath. In dala heels walk a lonely man, dressed as a peasant. It's the one the Danes would prefer to get hold of - Gustaf Eriksson Vasa . He goes from Rankhyttan to Ornäs , where he is kindly received by the farmer Arendt Persson, but Arendt is a deceitful man who has thought enter Wasa to the Danish bailiff. But Arendt's wife helps Wasa to escape and he continues his long journey.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1928-03-18
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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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The Count of the Old Town
1935-01-21
The Count of the Old Town
Overview: A police inspector tracks a notorious jewel thief, 'Diamond-Lasse,' to a hotel filled with eccentrics.
Genres: Crime Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1935-01-21
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The Girls' Alfred
1935-08-23
The Girls' Alfred
Overview: The orphan Alfred lives with two ladies in an idyllic cottage near a private golf course.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1935-08-23
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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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Bergslagsfolk
1937-10-25
Bergslagsfolk
Overview: A mining engineer comes to the quiet village of Nimansberg in Bergslagen and tries to persuade the farmers to invest in mining.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1937-10-25
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Our Building of Home and Community
1936-11-16
Our Building of Home and Community
Overview: Campaign film for the Swedish Folkpartiet (People's Party) in 1936.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1936-11-16
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Knut Unties the Knot
1938-01-01
Knut Unties the Knot
Overview: Election film for the Social Democrats.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1938-01-01
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Livet på landet
1943-11-29
Livet på landet
Overview: Greve Axel Von Rambow owns the Poppelhagen estate. One day an inspector comes to see him and a big quarrel starts.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-11-29
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Rospiggar
1942-09-03
Rospiggar
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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There Burns a Fire
1943-08-23
There Burns a Fire
Overview: An allegory of Germany's WWII occupation of Norway. Members of a theater ensemble join the resistance.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-08-23
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Steel
1940-02-18
Steel
Overview: The Forshyttan steel-mill has been owned by the Ancker family for generations. But competition is hard. When the son Bengt Ancker comes back from abroad he has an idea for success: a lighter steel with better quality. But a lot of money is necessary to develop his idea and the only way to raise the necessary capital is to sell the company to their competitor - Manchester Steel Company. But the workers are concerned that this could threaten their job-security
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1940-02-18
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Dunungen
1941-12-26
Dunungen
Overview: The shy Anne-Marie wants to marry the mayor's son despite his parents' opposition.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1941-12-26
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The Heavenly Play
1942-12-21
The Heavenly Play
Overview: "The Heavenly Play" - Mats Ersson is engaged to Marit and they plan to get married in the spring. But when the plague comes, the people accuse Marit of witchcraft. She is sentenced to death. Mats can not understand the divine justice and decides to go to paradise and ask God himself. It becomes a journey where he meets the prophets, king Solomon and finally God himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-12-21
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Stackars miljonärer
1936-08-20
Stackars miljonärer
Overview: Jan Eriksson wins a vacation trip to a hotel in the mountains.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1936-08-20
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Galgmannen
1945-10-08
Galgmannen
Overview: The man of the gallows is a little sinister wooden figure that the proprietor must sell before his death. If not he will be doomed and unsaved.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-10-08
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Farliga vägar
1942-01-26
Farliga vägar
Overview: A stateless lawyer comes with his son Karel and his two daughters Vanja and Sonja as refugees to Stockholm. No one gets work permit in Sweden and the family's problems grows to not just financially. The idleness and hopelessness towards the future is almost worse and that can lead into dangerous paths.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-01-26
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Love's Crucible
1922-01-01
Love's Crucible
Overview: At the end of the middle ages, Ursula is accused of having poisoned her own husband. She claims she is innocent, but to prove it, she must submit to a ritual: trial by fire, walking on fire along a path leading directly to a crucifix. A film that has been much commended for the visual creativity shown by the director in successive blending in of images involving Ursula, her husband, the Virgin Mary, and Jesus Christ. Much applauded, also: the performance of Jenny Hasselqvist, thus described by French director René Clair: “We shall never forget her flaming eyes, the severity of her spirit, her abrupt and alarmed expressions, like an animal under threat.”
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1922-01-01
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The Tales of Ensign Stål
1926-11-01
The Tales of Ensign Stål
Overview: Based on the poems by finnish poet Johan Ludvig Runeberg, the movie centers on the Finnish War between Russia and Sweden in 1808.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1926-11-01
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Pettersson & Bendel
1933-09-17
Pettersson & Bendel
Overview: The two conmen Bendel and Pettersson starts doing business together. Bendel got the brains and Pettersson the charm.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1933-09-17
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Servant's Entrance
1932-12-12
Servant's Entrance
Overview: Helga Breder is a young, spoiled girl. To her beloved Jörgen she says that she, as a modern young woman, is multi-talented and can do whatever she likes. Jörgen bets that she can't work as a house-maid but, if she manages it, he will buy her a diamond ring. Helga becomes a house-maid at Vinger Mansion and falls in love with an inventor, Bertil Frigård, who lives there.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1932-12-12
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We Two
1939-03-16
We Two
Overview: Architect Sture Ahrengren walks out of his job with an architecture firm with the support of his wife Kristina. He gets a position with an old friend, Balstar Ekberg, who has a big engineering job going. But Sture gets entangled in a romance with Ekberg's wife, Helena.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1939-03-16
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A Woman's Face
1938-10-31
A Woman's Face
Overview: A cynical woman with a disfigured face—a hardened criminal—gets an opportunity to change her ways when she meets a sympathetic plastic surgeon. She leaves her old life behind, but soon her old friends catch up with her.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1938-10-31
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Son of the Midnight Sun
1939-11-29
Son of the Midnight Sun
Overview: The young Nila has been in love with Marja for a long time. She say yes to his proposal and they decide to marry at Easter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1939-11-29
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General von Döbeln
1942-10-26
General von Döbeln
Overview: 1813. The Swedish army is fighting in the War of the Sixth Coalition. The popular general Von Döbeln is arrested for sending the army against the French in breach of orders by the crown prince. At the court martial he is sentenced to death but is pardoned by the king and sent to prison instead. A group of conspirators are planning to set him free and make him their leader in a coup d'etat.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-10-26
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The Children
1945-09-18
The Children
Overview: Based on the classic children’s story, seven orphan siblings and their goat make a difficult journey over the mountains to find new parents.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-09-18
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