Erik Hell
Biography: Erik Hell was a Swedish stage and screen actor. He started out as a glass factory workers at Emmaboda, before he decided to become an actor, graduating from the Royal Dramatic Theatre's acting school in 1942. His film debut was in Alf Sjöberg's "Den blomstertid..." (1940). Erik Hell appeared in almost 100 feature films and television productions.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: August 11, 1911
Deathday: March 11, 1973
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Ann and Eve
1970-08-03
Ann and Eve
Overview: The story concerns the Yugoslavian holiday of two toothsome Swedish girls. One of the girls, played by Maria Liljedahl, is (metaphorically speaking) a world-champion in the promiscuity sweepstakes, bedding men (and women) in great profusion. Somehow, the movie also manages to be about film reviewers and film directors. Variety) commented '...the film's inherently good visual and physical qualities are themselves dissipated in [the director's] cynicism, ennui, and involuted intellectual mirror tricks.'
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1970-08-03
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The Rite
1969-03-25
The Rite
Overview: A judge in an unnamed country interviews three actors, together and singly, provoking them while investigating a pornographic performance for which they may face a fine. Their relationships are complicated: Sebastian, volatile, a heavy drinker, in debt, guilty of killing his former partner, is having an affair with that man's widow. She is Thea, high strung, prone to fits, and seemingly fragile, currently married to Sebastian's new partner, Hans. Hans is the troupe leader, wealthy, self-contained, and growing tired. The judge plays on the trio's insecurities, but when they finally, in a private session with him, perform the masque called The Rite, they may have their revenge.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1969-03-25
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Rider in Blue
1959-10-16
Rider in Blue
Overview: When private eye John Hillman is on assignment in London his wife Kajsa visits the Army's riding school at Strömsholm, Sweden. She gets involved in the strange murder of the Blue Rider. Unknown to everyone at Strömsholm.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1959-10-16
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En drömmares vandring
1957-03-25
En drömmares vandring
Overview: Portrait of the Swedish poet Dan Andersson (1888-1920). Brought up during poor conditions he finds work as a temperance preacher and educator. Bored by this he travels to Stockholm to try to get his poems published. On the train he meets a rich, sophisticated art patron who encourages him and grinds his literary and philosophical formation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-03-25
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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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Det var dans bort i vägen
1953-01-21
Det var dans bort i vägen
Overview: Film adaptation of a Gustav Fröding poem.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-01-21
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Dear John
1964-11-23
Dear John
Overview: Divorced skipper John meets Anita, a single mother, at a port and spends the weekend with her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1964-11-23
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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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Mördaren - en helt vanlig person
1967-01-16
Mördaren - en helt vanlig person
Overview: People on a train get murdered. Who is the murderer? Everybody on the train is a suspect. One of them is the homosexual dope fiend played by Heinz Hopf. Things might get out of hand in this exciting thriller in true Hitchcockian style.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1967-01-16
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Den blomstertid...
1940-10-28
Den blomstertid...
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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I, a Woman
1965-09-17
I, a Woman
Overview: Liv is a frankly sexual being. She finds herself in a series of sexual relationships with men who, she says, fall too much in love with her and become opressive. Finally she meets a man who is very much like her, but that brings its own problems.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1965-09-17
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Money: A Tragicomic Saga
1946-01-10
Money: A Tragicomic Saga
Overview: Orvar is a vagabond, walking the country roads and living on sunshine and generosity. One day he decides to find work somewhere to get some money. He becomes a helping hand for seven lumberjack brothers. The big and strong brothers really enjoy themselves, joking with the small and meek Orvar. Orvar does not know that he has inherited a large fortune but the seven brothers do and they begin to treat him with the greatest courtesy. They convince him to write his last will, making them his heirs, and then begin to make plans on how to kill him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-01-10
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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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Ljuvlig är sommarnatten
1961-08-17
Ljuvlig är sommarnatten
Overview: Someone is murdered. Who is the killer? Members of all star cast are all suspects...
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1961-08-17
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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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Storm over Tjurö
1954-07-19
Storm over Tjurö
Overview: Karl Oskar Bohm looks back at his life, his estranged daughter Augusta and his wife Sofia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-07-19
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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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Pärlemor
1961-10-05
Pärlemor
Overview: Set in th 1930's depression times. A wealthy industrialist suffers a stroke. His wife takes over both family and business. The son worships his mother, but is forced to choose sides when he falls in love with the poor Aina.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1961-10-05
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Nattcafé
1965-01-18
Nattcafé
Overview: Shows the people who visit a café that is open late at night
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1965-01-18
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När ängarna blommar
1946-11-11
När ängarna blommar
Overview: The farm workers at Näs Farm, lead by Hellman, go on strike, demanding that their employer recognize their labor union. But he calls on strike-breakers to perform the farm work. Hellman's son Gunnar is a hothead who easily gets in trouble.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-11-11
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Henpecked
1967-09-25
Henpecked
Overview: An engineer and an actor, two extremely similar men, change their identity with each other.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1967-09-25
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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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Kungajakt
1944-01-21
Kungajakt
Overview: The film takes place in the 1780s. The Russians plan to overthrow Gustav III from the Swedish throne and Lieutenant Rehusen tries to stop them, while fighting for his king, he also fights for his love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-01-21
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The Island
1966-01-31
The Island
Overview: In this somber drama, residents of a small island accuse a nobleman of killing a priest when the man of the cloth disappears. The two were seen arguing, and the nobleman is the main suspect. The priest is only away on a sabbatical trying to regain his faith, but the islanders continue to put pressure on the innocent noble.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1966-01-31
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Fadren
1967-01-30
Fadren
Overview: A woman drives her husband into an uncertainty that ends with scorn, confusion and stroke.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1967-01-30
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Det vackraste på jorden
1947-09-15
Det vackraste på jorden
Overview: Bengt, a ship mechanic , and his wife Karin has been relocated to a modern apartment house in Stockholm. On the ground floor is a tobacconist, whose owner Frithiof is also the deputy landlord of the house.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-09-15
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Barbacka
1946-11-18
Barbacka
Overview: Connie is growing up on an estate and cling especially to Gunnar. When Connie mention that she has met a man, Gunnar gets angry and repels her. Connie decides to retaliate by taking over Gunnar's sister's husband, Boris, who is the owner of the estate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-11-18
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Den bergtagna
1965-01-01
Den bergtagna
Overview: Depicts a woman who commits suicide after being betrayed by a man who, by playing on her low self-esteem, has made herself her superior - and thus deprived her of all right to exist.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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491
1964-03-16
491
Overview: A study in forgiveness as oppression and goodness as provocation. Six youth criminals are chosen to participate in a social experiment where they are assigned to live together in a rundown apartment in the heart of Stockholm, Sweden. The six boys are being supervised by two forgiving and uneasy social workers. Their need to continue to commit petty crimes escalates out of boredom with the situation. One night they run into a young girl in trouble.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1964-03-16
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The Balloon
1946-10-07
The Balloon
Overview: Sten Stensson Stéen dies when he gets a wooden box in his head, and he enters heaven in a balloon.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-10-07
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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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The Bread of Love
1953-10-23
The Bread of Love
Overview: Four Swedish volunteer soldiers are trapped in Russia. In front of them lies the front with enemy outposts and patrols, behind them the enemy minefields. Hope to return to their own lines decreases each day. Corpses of fallen, "dead of cold and hard as iron", forms the macabre landmarks in the winter landscape. Nearby is a burnt Russian village.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-10-23
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For the Sake of My Intemperate Youth
1952-12-17
For the Sake of My Intemperate Youth
Overview: For the Sake of My Intemperate Youth (Swedish: För min heta ungdoms skull) is a 1952 Swedish drama film directed by Arne Mattsson. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-17
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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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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 Vicious Circle
1967-10-04
The Vicious Circle
Overview: Maria, a young woman is processing her life trauma. She travels head-first to a small village and finds shelter at an inn, inhabited by a dysfunctional family. Marias arrival stirs a lot of emotion.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1967-10-04
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A Guest Is Coming
1947-11-03
A Guest Is Coming
Overview: It's Christmas. The owner of an old mansion decides to tell his family he's going to sell it. The following morning he's found murdered.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-11-03
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Ann and Eve
1970-08-03
Ann and Eve
Overview: The story concerns the Yugoslavian holiday of two toothsome Swedish girls. One of the girls, played by Maria Liljedahl, is (metaphorically speaking) a world-champion in the promiscuity sweepstakes, bedding men (and women) in great profusion. Somehow, the movie also manages to be about film reviewers and film directors. Variety) commented '...the film's inherently good visual and physical qualities are themselves dissipated in [the director's] cynicism, ennui, and involuted intellectual mirror tricks.'
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1970-08-03
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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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Det är hos mig han har varit
1963-02-04
Det är hos mig han har varit
Overview: "It's with me he's been" - Li and Hans are colleagues at an advertising agency. Even though Hans is married, they start a relationship. Li hopes that Hans will tell his wife the truth about them and leave her for Li.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1963-02-04
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Morianna
1965-08-15
Morianna
Overview: The family of an old, loathed millionaire named Verner Vade are sick of his dictatorship, and are just waiting for him to fall over and die. When he is attacked one night and disappears, a nosey cops start to investigate. A few days later Verner comes home again, wounded, and is back to his old, angry routines. And the family have had enough.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1965-08-15
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Carmilla
1968-12-02
Carmilla
Overview: Carmilla falls for her stepfather and seduces him. When he is killed in a car accident, she decides to take revenge against the driver, but this only leads to a deeper tragedy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1968-12-02
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The Lie
1970-10-28
The Lie
Overview: A Swedish couple are trapped in their marriage and way of life. Locked up in their bourgeois inferno.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1970-10-28
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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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A Ship to India
1947-09-22
A Ship to India
Overview: Sailor Johannes Blom returns to his home port, after seven years at sea, to find that Sally, the girl he has been thinking of while away, is completely despondent. Seven years earlier, obstreperous Alexander Blom, brings his mistress Sally to live with him, his wife Alice, son Johannes, and crew, aboard the salvage boat he captains. Amidst all the tensions on the small boat, Johannes and Sally fall in love with each other.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-09-22
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Ubåt 39
1952-08-25
Ubåt 39
Overview: About U-Boat 39 the first U-Boat sunk in WW2 by the UK Carrier Ark Royal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1952-08-25
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Wonderful Adventures of Nils
1962-09-12
Wonderful Adventures of Nils
Overview: Nils lives with his parents in the south of Sweden. He is a naughty boy and teases like the animals on the farm. They should not have him and be happy if he is bewitched one day with his hamster Crumb for punishment by a gnome.
Genres: Adventure Family Animation
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1962-09-12
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Enchanted Journey
1954-04-19
Enchanted Journey
Overview: A traveling theatre company comes to a small town and performs to a packed house. But during the show the theatre director decides to run away with the money.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-04-19
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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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Helen of Troy
1951-12-26
Helen of Troy
Overview: Intrigues and entanglements before Prince Paris wins the heart of beautiful Helena. It all happens in the small kingdom of Arcadia at the time of the Trojan War. Swedish version of Jacques Offenbach's operetta of the classic Greek myth.
Genres: Drama Music Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1951-12-26
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Stora Hoparegränd och himmelriket
1949-12-26
Stora Hoparegränd och himmelriket
Overview: Erik, a poor inventor meets the clerk Lillemor and fall in love. Erik's becomes invention is ready for the market. He contacts a director who might be interested. Erik is attracted almost immediately by the director's wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-12-26
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Yellow Ward
1942-01-10
Yellow Ward
Overview: A chief physician at a women's clinic is against abortion. He strongly influence the patients not to abort. But there are doctors who think differently.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-01-10
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The Blonde Witch
1956-06-06
The Blonde Witch
Overview: Brulard, a French civil engineer on assignment in a remote Swedish village, meets Ina, who has been raised in forested isolation by her haggish mother and believes herself to be a witch. He falls in love with her and tries to convert her to civilization; but in the meantime, his female boss, Kristina, has fallen in love with him, while the villagers turn against him for consorting with someone they believe is cursed by the Devil.
Genres: Drama Romance Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-06-06
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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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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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Lev farligt
1944-04-03
Lev farligt
Overview: Iben Holt, a rich bohemian, lives in an occupied country. On his way home from a party he hears an explosion and sees flames rising from a factory. At home awaits another surprise.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-04-03
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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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Krane's Confectionery
1951-11-07
Krane's Confectionery
Overview: A woman who has sacrificed everything for her family meets a man who makes her reassess her life
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1951-11-07
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Salka Valka
1954-11-16
Salka Valka
Overview: A coming of age story about young Salka Valka who lives in the small fishing village of Íseyri. She is doing well for herself as a partner in a small fishing boat, but people believe she is financed by her deceased mother's former fiance, Steinthór, who disappeared on their wedding day many years ago. Salka becomes infatuated with the idealistic Arnaldur who wants to start a workers union, much to the opposition of local entrepreneur Bogesen. The past comes to haunt her in the return of Steinthór but Salka fends off his advances only to lose the restless Arnaldur away. http://www.icelandicfilmcentre.is
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-11-16
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Port of Call
1948-10-11
Port of Call
Overview: Berit is a young woman with problems. She is suicidal and depressed. Since it has been impossible for her to live with her mother, she has spent many years in institutions. She has now gotten a job in an industry on the condition that she can live together with her mother again. Their relationship is very tense however. One night at a dance she meets stevedore Gösta. Will he be able to give her the support she needs?
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1948-10-11
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The Passion of Anna
1969-11-10
The Passion of Anna
Overview: Andreas, a man struggling with the recent demise of his marriage and his own emotional isolation, befriends a married couple also in the midst of psychological turmoil. In turn he meets Anna, who is grieving the recent deaths of her husband and son. She appears zealous in her faith and steadfast in her search for truth, but gradually her delusions surface. Andreas and Anna pursue a love affair, but he is unable to overcome his feelings of deep humiliation and remains disconnected. Meanwhile, the island community is victimized by an unknown person committing acts of animal cruelty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1969-11-10
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Göingehövdingen
1953-12-26
Göingehövdingen
Overview: When the Swedish army occupies the eastern part of Denmark in 1678, the local inhabitants decide to fight back. Under the leadership of Svend Poulsen, a guerrilla is formed. And guerrilla officer Lars Paulinus has to fight the Swedish officer Henrik Wrede to prove his love for Anna Ryding.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-12-26
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