John Elfström
Biography: John Elfström was a Swedish film and television actor.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: April 20, 1902
Deathday: March 27, 1981
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Tre skojiga skojare
1942-08-31
Tre skojiga skojare
Overview: The author Tom Berger has written a book that is very prejudiced against women. The local chapter of Women's League starts a campaign against him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-08-31
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Hon trodde det var han
1943-08-28
Hon trodde det var han
Overview: The famous author Mark Storm's publisher is unhappy with his books and asks him to write books in a more popular genre, crime for example. When Mark Storm comes to his apartment, he finds a burglar, Kurre. He notices that they have a physical similarity and they change identity, which makes it possible for Storm to make empirical studies in the world of crime.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-08-28
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Dessa fantastiska smålänningar med sina finurliga maskiner
1966-08-19
Dessa fantastiska smålänningar med sina finurliga maskiner
Overview: A collection of classic scenes from the Åsa-Nisse movies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1966-08-19
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Livat på luckan
1951-10-29
Livat på luckan
Overview: Johansson has managed to stay away from the military service for several years. But now his time has come.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1951-10-29
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Lockfågeln
1971-11-24
Lockfågeln
Overview: On his death-bed, Per Henrik Pistolekors must promise his father two things: first of all to kill king Gustav III, which his father hates. Second, to take his half-sister Annarella to Stockholm to find her a rich and noble husband.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1971-11-24
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Hur tokigt som helst
1949-02-28
Hur tokigt som helst
Overview: "How crazy!" A man and a woman watch episodes from Nils Poppe movies outside a cinema Maxim in Stockholm. Poppe represents, among other things, a poor composer who vainly tries to get a tune adopted by a publisher. The failure makes him depressed, but he is living it up by meeting a good friend Calle, who invites him home. Poppe stays for a few days as a male housewife. Calle has a music store and there the two friends can go crazy among all the instruments.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-02-28
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Svarte Rudolf
1928-10-22
Svarte Rudolf
Overview: Rudolf Carlsson, who works at a department store, dreams of making movies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1928-10-22
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Peggy på vift
1946-06-08
Peggy på vift
Overview: Frank Bing is a big artist in the USA and arrives home in his native Sweden with his secretary Ada. The portier at the hotel has great difficulties keeping the adoring fans away from Frank. Among them is Peggy Dalin who has been tasked by her father with getting Frank to sign with his record company using her great charm.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-06-08
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The Yellow Squadron
1954-11-29
The Yellow Squadron
Overview: The year is 1954. The war in Korea has just ended and the superpowers stand by each side of the boarder. The peace in Europe is fragile and the cold war is imminent. At F8 - Air Fore Base, the yellow squadron stand ready with its J29 fighters.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-11-29
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Minns ni?
1993-10-24
Minns ni?
Overview: A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 films.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1993-10-24
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Åsa-Nisse på jaktstigen
1950-09-11
Åsa-Nisse på jaktstigen
Overview: Nils Nilsson from Åsen, better known as Åsa-Nisse and his friend Klabbarparn goes Moose hunting. As a result of a sabotage, staged by their wives, Åsa-Nisse is accused for hunting with illegal weapons.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1950-09-11
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Åsa-Nisse
1949-10-22
Åsa-Nisse
Overview: At a parish meeting Åsa-Nisse suggests that they should hire a common home help, who could give their wives some relief by staying one week at each household. The meeting assents and decides that the order of her rotation should be established by lot. The two bachelors of the village claim their right to the home help as well, arguing that they are also taxpayers. When Elsa Haglund arrives from Gothenburg she starts her first week of work at one of the two bachelors, the village shop-keeper Sjökvist. He is immediately infatuated by her and begins a flirtation. At the end of the week Elsa happens to meet the other bachelor, Eric Broo, called "the singing farmer". She falls in love with him, but doesn't know how to hook him, as he is very shy and unskilled in courting women. In the meantime Åsa-Nisse, the village rogue, carries out some of his pranks.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-10-22
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Åsa-Nisse på nya äventyr
1952-09-19
Åsa-Nisse på nya äventyr
Overview: Åsa-Nisse advertise for Summer guests and from Stockholm arrives Mrs. Niklasson and her atlethic daughter Elsa who is currently training for the olympic games.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1952-09-19
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A Lesson in Love
1954-10-04
A Lesson in Love
Overview: After 15 years of marriage, David and Marianne have grown apart. David has had an affair with a patient of his and Marianne has got herself involved with her former lover Carl-Adam, who's also David's best friend. When she travels to Copenhagen to meet Carl-Adam, David takes the same train as she does, making it look coincidental. Spending time together remembering their past and talking about their future, they come to understand each other again, which leads to a reconciliation.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-10-04
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The Emperor of Portugallia
1944-12-26
The Emperor of Portugallia
Overview: The poor farmer Jan is getting very old when he becomes father to the girl, Klara Gulla. First, he sees the child as a burden, but when he receives the newborn child in his arms he is overjoyed. He does everything in his power for her during her. But when she as an adult leaves home, Jan can not come over the loss of her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-12-26
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Ordet
1943-12-26
Ordet
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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Music in Darkness
1948-01-17
Music in Darkness
Overview: Because of an accident at a military drill the recruit Bengt loses his eyesight and becomes blind. He gets to live with relatives in the countryside and meets the young Ingrid. She falls in love with him but Bengt's bitterness also makes him blind to her attentions.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1948-01-17
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Åsa-Nisse flyger i luften
1956-09-07
Åsa-Nisse flyger i luften
Overview: Åsa-Nisse has invented a very powerful engine and he sells the patent. However, the grocery store owner Sjökvist has been sneaking around ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-09-07
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Vi på Väddö
1958-10-13
Vi på Väddö
Overview: Law graduate Ylva Markner spends the summer on the island of Väddö, where she gets involved in a quarrel concerning a last will.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-10-13
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I mörkaste Småland
1943-10-25
I mörkaste Småland
Overview: Albert Engström's anecdotes of Småland have been put together to make a comedy film about Johannes and Cornelius, two smallholding farmers and best friends.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-10-25
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Flickorna i Småland
1945-11-28
Flickorna i Småland
Overview: Gunnar Carlman has returned to Sweden after a few years as a cowboy in Canada. He starts to work at a farm owned by vivacious and strongwilled Christina Larsson.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-11-28
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Åsa-Nisse som polis
1960-09-19
Åsa-Nisse som polis
Overview: Country bailiff believes that a man of the people shall exercise police work. Åsa-Nisse appointed to the local police for some time. "Nesses" sometimes odd methods will still work somehow. Åsa-Nisse and Klabbarparn then visit Gothenburg to see the singer Gun from Knohult at Liseberg. There they also take a tour of the roller-coaster.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1960-09-19
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Åsa-Nisse slår till
1965-09-03
Åsa-Nisse slår till
Overview: Åsa-Nisse and Klabbarparn with wives taking part in a jenka-contest from Knohult to Vetlanda where he reports with his homemade walkie-talkie. Then he demonstrates the "Demon-Spritzer", a self-made cement machine which then breaks down and squirts down Klabbarparn with cement. Sjökvist is robbed and bike down with his delivery-bicycle in water at a beach. The robbers then repents and wants to return the money. Features performances from artists Sten & Stanley, The Moonlighters, and Shane.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1965-09-03
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Åsa-Nisse på semester
1953-09-04
Åsa-Nisse på semester
Overview: Åsa-Nisse is visited by cousin Doris from the United States. Nisse, Klabbarparn and Doris will travel to Stockholm, but Nisse and Klabbarparn lose track of Doris, who get into a hands of a Casanova. Nisse and Klabbarparn instead ends up at the Nordic Museum, where Åsa-Nisse turns out to have unexpected qualities in the art of imitating a mannequin. After that they had found each other is Doris robbed and it leads to a wild brawl that it sparkles and sputters on.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-09-04
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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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Dacke
1961-04-28
Dacke
Overview: Nils Dacke, leader of the revolt against Gustav Vasa, is torn between his anger over social injustice and royal oppression, and his doubt in the power of himself and weapons.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1961-04-28
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Kajan går till sjöss
1943-12-26
Kajan går till sjöss
Overview: Kajan, a young boy, spends the summer with his friends working on a barge, earning extra money in the ports with their song and dance number. A young countess runs away from home and joins Kajan and his friends.
Genres: Family Adventure Comedy Music
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-12-26
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The Priest Who Knocked Out
1943-03-06
The Priest Who Knocked Out
Overview: The boxing promoter Charlie returns from America to Sweden and needs to find a professional Swedish boxer for an upcoming fight. By chance Charlie watches Björn Harring fight off some hoodlums. Charlie sees great potential in Björn and wants to promote him for an upcoming fight, the problem is though that Björn is studying theology and is soon to become a priest. This might not look too good in a prejudiced society of the 40s with a boxing priest, but Charlie is determent to find a way.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-03-06
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One Summer of Happiness
1951-12-17
One Summer of Happiness
Overview: The young high school graduate Göran and the 17-year-old Kerstin get to know each other on the estate of Göran's uncle Persson and fall in love. But their relationship is watched suspiciously by the jammed adult world. While Persson has an understanding of the youth, Kerstin's parents and the pastor of the village rant against the alleged immorality of the young people. Despite all the malice, Göran and Kerstin decide for their love. But this love should last only one summer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1951-12-17
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Åsa-Nisse bland grevar och baroner
1961-09-08
Åsa-Nisse bland grevar och baroner
Overview: Åsa-Nisse has found a new job as forest ranger at count Malcolms estate Segerstad.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1961-09-08
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Åsa-Nisse i agentform
1967-08-25
Åsa-Nisse i agentform
Overview: Åsa-Nisse and Klabbarparn teach Sjökvisten how to be a secret agent.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1967-08-25
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Åsa-Nisse i full fart
1957-09-27
Åsa-Nisse i full fart
Overview: Åsa-Nisse gets a chance to win 10.000 SEK in the biggest game show on Swedish TV.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-09-27
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Åsa-Nisse i kronans kläder
1958-09-26
Åsa-Nisse i kronans kläder
Overview: Corporal Åsa-Nisse Nilsson is an officer who somehow manages to teach his soldiers both discipline and the art of war.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-09-26
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Åsa-Nisse i popform
1964-08-28
Åsa-Nisse i popform
Overview: Pop music comes to Knohult and Åsa-Nisse has a new invention that makes his hens lay their eggs to the beat of the music.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1964-08-28
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Åsa-Nisse in Rocket Form
1966-08-26
Åsa-Nisse in Rocket Form
Overview: Inspired by the space-race, Åsa-Nisse and his friends build a top-secret moon rocket. They have big trouble hiding their secret from prying newspaper reporters, and spies disguised as cows...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1966-08-26
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Åsa-Nisse ordnar allt
1955-09-19
Åsa-Nisse ordnar allt
Overview: Åsa-Nisse has a bad back and when he visits the doctor he gets an experimental medicine for horses by mistake. Suddenly Åsa-Nisse has super strengths and becomes an unbeatable athlete.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-09-19
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Åsa-Nisse på hal is
1954-09-10
Åsa-Nisse på hal is
Overview: Åsa-Nisse and Klabbarparn are winter fishing.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-09-10
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Åsa-Nisse jubilerar
1959-09-04
Åsa-Nisse jubilerar
Overview: The local newspaper celebrates 50 years and are now looking for a citizen who has lived as long in the neighborhood. Our hero Åsa-Nisse seems to fit the profile.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1959-09-04
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Åsa-Nisse på Mallorca
1962-08-31
Åsa-Nisse på Mallorca
Overview: Åsa-Nisse and Klabbarparn has found an old pirate map that leads them to the island Mallorca in the Mediterranean Sea as they search for the hidden treasure.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1962-08-31
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Åsa-Nisse och tjocka släkten
1963-08-30
Åsa-Nisse och tjocka släkten
Overview: Åsa-Nisse's brother Julius returns home from USA, apparently very rich. Also, Åsa-Nisse och Klabbarparen takes care of a little child which leads to all sorts of complications.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1963-08-30
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Åsa-Nisse och den stora kalabaliken
1968-08-30
Åsa-Nisse och den stora kalabaliken
Overview: Sjökvist needs a woman to tidy up his general store and Åsa-Nisse helps him out to put an ad in the local newspaper.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1968-08-30
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Saltstänk och krutgubbar
1946-10-28
Saltstänk och krutgubbar
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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The Lustful Vicar
1970-03-29
The Lustful Vicar
Overview: During a witch trial in the seventeenth century a woman is accused of being a witch and burned at the stake. The witch curse the village priest who pushed through the accusations and promises that her offspring will avenge her. During the Caroline the priest's son take over as vicar of the congregation, and the daughter of the witch bewitches him so that he suffers constant erection. This is off course very embarrassing for the vicar. The local women has to step in and try to set things right
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1970-03-29
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The Wind Is My Lover
1949-12-13
The Wind Is My Lover
Overview: Set in medieval times about the cursed Moonshield family. The young knight Erland Moonshield fall in love with a gypsy enchantress, Singoalla, he meet in the forest.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-12-13
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Put Our Märta First or As Luck Will Have It
1945-09-29
Put Our Märta First or As Luck Will Have It
Overview: An out-of-work musician is desperate for work and when his best friend sees an add requesting a cellist he signs him up. However, the work is for a female, so he creates the character Märta Letterström and joins the trio at a small-town hotel. But being a woman is not as easy as you think.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-09-29
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När syrenerna blomma
1952-02-04
När syrenerna blomma
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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Aktören
1943-01-01
Aktören
Overview: The actor Philip has an accident on the way to his own wedding and the shock makes him lose his voice.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-01-01
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Komedi i Hägerskog
1968-11-25
Komedi i Hägerskog
Overview: Narcissa and Elina work in a small town social service office and have various erotic encounters with the people who visit it.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1968-11-25
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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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Kristin Commands
1946-09-02
Kristin Commands
Overview: Translator Vilhelm and his young wife have a child, as well as a grumpy housemaid who doesn't hesitate to give her opinion on how they behave as parents. In secret Kristin arranges a scholarship for Vilhelm so he can go back to his medical studies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-09-02
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Livet i finnskogarna
1947-08-22
Livet i finnskogarna
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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Under svällande segel
1952-03-03
Under svällande segel
Overview: The student Olle has signed up to sail the Atlantic. But his sensitivity and personal problems make it difficult to be accepted on board. When some of the students belongings disappear the suspicions are aimed at Olle.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1952-03-03
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Vagabond Blacksmiths
1949-02-07
Vagabond Blacksmiths
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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Skogen är vår arvedel
1944-08-12
Skogen är vår arvedel
Overview: The farmer Per Jonsson doesn't think too well about the factory in the neighborhood, since he thinks that it destroys the fishing and makes the young people leave the countryside. When the workers at the factory go on strike, they ask him to sell milk to them and let them work in his forest. But Jonsson is stubborn and refuses to give them any help at all. At least until he is in an accident and also need help.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-08-12
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A Dream Play
1963-05-02
A Dream Play
Overview: "A dream play" - This made-for-television film constituted Bergman’s first production of Strindberg’s A Dream Play – a play he would revisit three times more. Gunnar Ollén’s Malmö crew was behind this, for its time, prestigious and costly theatre production, involving more than 40 actors and no less than 75 extras.
Genres: Drama Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1963-05-02
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Stjärnbilder
1995-09-10
Stjärnbilder
Overview: A tribute to Swedish film, which was made to celebrate the 100th anniversary of film in 1995 and consists of about a hundred clips from Swedish film history with many of its stars.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1995-09-10
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Bröderna Östermans huskors
1945-09-20
Bröderna Östermans huskors
Overview: The Österman brothers have come to realize that they need a housekeeper. Oldest brother Kalle travel to town and return with the young and modern Anna.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-09-20
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Son of the Sea
1949-10-12
Son of the Sea
Overview: The priest Hagen comes to a small Norwegian village one stormy evening. He brings the tragic news to wife Sigrid Bakken. Her husband and oldest son has drowned during fishing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-10-12
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Bröllopet på Solö
1946-01-01
Bröllopet på Solö
Overview: Kalle Österman lives on the small island Solö together with his wife, Agneta.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-01-01
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You Who Are About to Enter
1945-11-02
You Who Are About to Enter
Overview: Tomas Eckert, a civil servant, is subjected to a violated woman's revenge. It happens to be his boss's wife, Märta Palm. Tomas is accused of having abused Mrs.Palm. She also reveals that Tomas's wife is morphine addict. He collapses and is forced to accept early retirement, diagnosed "epilepsy with mental changes"
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-11-02
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When Bengt and Anders Changed Wives
1950-12-23
When Bengt and Anders Changed Wives
Overview: Two neighbours, each with a small plot of land, hate each other. Both are dissatisfied with his wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1950-12-23
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Prince Gustaf
1944-11-29
Prince Gustaf
Overview: In the middle of the 1800s Swedish prince Gustaf meets the actress Anna Maria Wastenius and falls in love with her, but it is an impossible love story due to the rules of society.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-11-29
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Oss tjuvar emellan eller en burk ananas
1945-01-22
Oss tjuvar emellan eller en burk ananas
Overview: Max Kvarne is an international adventurer who stole 25,000 pounds in 100-pound banknotes at a London coup.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-01-22
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Spökhotellet
1960-04-17
Spökhotellet
Overview: A Swedish TV movie based on the play L'Hôtel du Libre échange from 1894.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1960-04-17
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Hälsingar
1933-11-13
Hälsingar
Overview: Jonas goes with a tremendous speed with his horse over a country road in Hälsingland. Because of this speed Birgit Ljusnar, who is along the road picking blueberries, falls. Jonas stops and helps her up. He gives Birgit two Swedish crowns for the pain and the suffering. Furthermore, he promises her a job on the farm.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1933-11-13
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Samvetsömma Adolf
1936-01-13
Samvetsömma Adolf
Overview: Operetta singer Adolf Berg will be called up for military duty just as he gets assigned a major role in an operetta. On the train he meets Ulla Wern and complications occur.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1936-01-13
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Östermans testamente
1954-10-04
Östermans testamente
Overview: The fishermen Österman and Sjöberg are sued by merchant Wikström. In order to raise capital, they decide to start producing a medicine from a recipe by Österman's father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-10-04
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Den Hårda Leken
1956-09-10
Den Hårda Leken
Overview: Conny Persson is an up-and-coming boxer. He wins the Junior Championships and is able to write a contract with boxing manager Andy Ekström. He falls in love with Margit. She doesn't like that he is boxing, but together they open a flower shop. When Conny still won't give up boxing, Margit tells him that he has to chose between her and the boxing.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-09-10
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Defiance
1952-09-15
Defiance
Overview: A teacher is so hard on his students that he faces a warning by the school principal. In order to at least improve the strained relationship with his own son, he turns to a priest for advice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1952-09-15
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Storm
1960-01-22
Storm
Overview: An elderly gentleman lives alone with his maid Louise. He spends his days chatting with the confectioner who lives and works downstairs, playing chess with his brother Karl Fredrick, and content with his memories. His young wife Gerda ran out on him five years ago, taking their young daughter with her. Now, unbeknownst to the gentleman, she’s back… and living in the upstairs apartment with the child and her new husband. When Gerda finally faces the man, sparks will fly and old wounds will be reopened. Bergman's TV adaptation of August Strindberg's play "Storm" was presented on the 111th anniversary of the author's birth. The production was also shown in Denmark and Norway and received glowing reviews. Bergman was celebrated as an outstanding TV director and was praised for his tact and sympathy in depicting old age, his superior lighting and fine camera work as well as his understanding of the medium in his use of close-ups.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1960-01-22
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Tartuffe
1966-09-19
Tartuffe
Overview: The religious hypocrite Tartuffe parasites on a bourgeois family. He is looking for the daughter's hand and the family's property and is also trying to seduce the young wife.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1966-09-19
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Hamlet
1955-12-04
Hamlet
Overview: Prince Hamlet returns home from the university of Wittenberg to attend his father's funeral. His uncle Claudius, the new King, has announced his brother's widow queen. Claudius asks Hamlet to stop mourn his father.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-12-04
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Finnskogens folk
1955-10-18
Finnskogens folk
Overview: The year is 1906. Somewhere on the long lake of Fryken, pastor David Amberg appears. He is not satisfied with the religious life of the countryside. He wants to bring real revival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-10-18
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Sjöcharmörer
1939-10-21
Sjöcharmörer
Overview: A bus company wants to acquire traffic rights on an island in the Stockholm archipelago. The steam boats will be replaced by buses, but Captain Johansson and his daughter Eva are at the forefront of the protests.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1939-10-21
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Vår ofödde son
1959-11-13
Vår ofödde son
Overview: If I give birth, I will certainly be punished and lose my reputation. If I don't, then I may be punished, too. And also lose my reputation.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1959-11-13
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The bravado of the Österman brothers
1955-10-12
The bravado of the Österman brothers
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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Lata Lena och blåögde Per
1947-08-30
Lata Lena och blåögde Per
Overview: Mattsson is a fisherman and widower in the Stockholm archipelago. He has two adult daughters that help run the household, Magda and Lena. Lena prefers to shirk her duties and read romance novels. She is being courted by the neighbour boy Per who covers for her whenever he can.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-08-30
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While the City Sleeps
1950-09-08
While the City Sleeps
Overview: Jompa is unemployed - and not keen on getting a job. He still lives with his parents who are tired of his attitude about employment and regular hours. Jompa and his friends spend their time at nightclubs, cafés and doing petty crimes. While playing poker, Jompa becomes indebted to the criminal Kalle Lund. Of course, Jompa is unable to pay, but Kalle gives him a tip: an old fetcher has always a lot of money at home, and if Jompa could get his hands on the money, his troubles would disappear... Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1950-09-08
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Everybody at His Station
1940-11-06
Everybody at His Station
Overview: Swedish comedy from 1940. Kurre Karlsson, a simple man of the people, will be called up for military training given by an anti-aircraft units at sea. He does not like the military and will do anything to get away. One day he steals a wallet and in it finds his paper suggesting that a spy is on the move who think stealing trade secrets about the weapons factory in Granefors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1940-11-06
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Sköna Susanna och gubbarna
1959-10-19
Sköna Susanna och gubbarna
Overview: In the legend of Susanna in Babylon she was highly desired by the old men. In this movie, Susanna the beautiful lives in a Swedish town in the 19th century.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1959-10-19
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Idel ädel adel
1945-07-16
Idel ädel adel
Overview: A newly married Baron plans to sell his castle. His wife, who loves to live in a castle, knows nothing about the sale.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-07-16
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Uppdrag Åsa-Nisse
2010-01-08
Uppdrag Åsa-Nisse
Overview: In "Mission Åsa-Nisse" filmmaker Anders Nordqvist explores the 60th anniversary film classic series Åsa-Nisse. Through old film clips, meetings with actors and artists and visits to filming locations - which are mostly located in a Stockholm suburb - we get a new perspective on Swedish film's quantitatively largest character.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2010-01-08
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Pettersson & Bendels nya affärer
1945-02-26
Pettersson & Bendels nya affärer
Overview: After some time abroad, Bendel returns to Sweden and seeks up his old friend and business accomplice Pettersson to commit some new frauds.Follow-up to Pettersson & Bendel from 1933.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-02-26
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Wandering with the Moon
1945-08-07
Wandering with the Moon
Overview: Dan, aged 19, leaves his home after a quarrel with his father. At the side of the country road he meets a traveling theater company who has run out of money. He falls in love with the young actress Pia and together they leave, meeting a string of peculiar characters: a vagabond, a friendly vicar and a cynical adventurer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-08-07
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Flickan i fönstret mitt emot
1942-03-03
Flickan i fönstret mitt emot
Overview: The bricklayer Loffe often sees sculptress Ingrid in a window a cross the building. They get to now each other and soon fall in love. Loffe works for the master-builder Swahne who is Ingrid's uncle. Swahne comes up with a plan to see if Loffe's feelings for her are true or if he is just out for her money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-03-03
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Patrasket
1966-11-13
Patrasket
Overview: A poor Jewish family, called the Riffraff by the author, puts the great Joe Meng at the heart of high-flying plans and imaginative flair.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1966-11-13
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Guest of Reality
1961-11-05
Guest of Reality
Overview: A story about a boy named Anders, who lives in an ordinary Swedish family in an apartment at the train station. Through his childhood, he experiences life's glorious scents of beautiful flowers and green forest, close and warm relationships with his grandparents and joyful play with his siblings. He has a strong friendship with his father and a great love for his mother. Still he lives in fear of death. He is afraid of losing all of this that is so valuable to him. In his thoughts and fears, he often turns often God, just as his sister, mother and grandparents, and ask Him for help and protection.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1961-11-05
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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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Åke and His World
1959-10-31
Åke and His World
Overview: A melancholic depiction of life in a small Swedish town, seen through the eyes of a six-year-old boy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1959-10-31
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Fröken Rosita
1960-12-09
Fröken Rosita
Overview: Play by Federico Garcia Lorca. Swedish interpretation of Hjalmar Gullberg and Karin Alin.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1960-12-09
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Wonderful Adventures of Nils
1962-09-12
Wonderful Adventures of Nils
Overview: A film adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf's classic book about Nils Holgersson, who is a real rascal. As punishment for his mischief, a house elf shrinks him to his size. The farm animals are out for revenge and so Nils must escape on the back of a goose from Skåne in the south to Lapland in the north. During his flight over Sweden, Nils gets to take part in many adventures.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1962-09-12
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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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Tattarblod
1954-02-08
Tattarblod
Overview: David, a young woodsman with a family, is leasing a farm. The family are welcomed by the locals until it becomes known that David is the son of a notorious drifter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-02-08
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Den osynliga muren
1944-08-21
Den osynliga muren
Overview: "The Invisble Wall" - In an unnamed country under occupation, a senior officer is killed in an attack by a member of the resistance.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-08-21
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Fransson the Terrible
1941-09-22
Fransson the Terrible
Overview: A young baker moves to the small town of Västerby and becomes successful with a new type of whole wheat bread.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1941-09-22
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Swedenhielms
1961-01-01
Swedenhielms
Overview: Tv play based on Hjalmar Bergmans play Swedenhielms from 1923.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Hotell Kåkbrinken
1946-12-26
Hotell Kåkbrinken
Overview: Laban Lundström is the porter at Hotell Kåkbrinken. The hotel is threatened by wholesaler Sjökvist, who wants to pull down the house and build a new and modern house instead.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-12-26
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Sarons ros och gubbarna i Knohult
1968-04-16
Sarons ros och gubbarna i Knohult
Overview: Åsa Nisse compilation from other movies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1968-04-16
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Hård klang
1952-09-15
Hård klang
Overview: A small Swedish village has transformed to an industrial center with exports to Germany. A German opened a quarry some 50 years ago, after realizing the value of granite. Now WW1 begins.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1952-09-15
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Doktor Knock
1966-04-11
Doktor Knock
Overview: Doctor Knock takes over a medical clinic in a small town and provides a medical revival.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1966-04-11
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Midsommardröm i fattighuset
1959-01-06
Midsommardröm i fattighuset
Overview: A Swedish TV play about a workhouse in Småland, Sweden. Midsummer's Dream in the Workhouse is written by Pär Lagerkvist.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1959-01-06
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Perhaps a Gentleman
1950-12-26
Perhaps a Gentleman
Overview: After watching Stig Järrel star in a production of Pygmalion Mister Haglund bets him that he can turn anyone into a gentlemen in a few months.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1950-12-26
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Railroad Workers
1947-12-26
Railroad Workers
Overview: The north of Sweden in 1902. A team of railroad men are building a rail road from Luleå at the Bay of Bothnia to Narvik at the Norwegian Sea. One of the newest workers, Valfrid from the south of Sweden, is not accepted by neither Stora Ballong, the informal leader of the workers, nor the others. They refuse to talk to him but instead Valfrid gets help from the sworn enemy of the railroad workers: the greedy drugstore owner Blom.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-12-26
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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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