Mimi Pollak
Biography: Maria Helena "Mimi" Pollak was a Swedish stage and screen actress and director. She attended the Royal Dramatic Theatre school in Stockholm, Sweden, with fellow actress Greta Garbo from 1922 to 1924. It was Mimi that came up with the name Garbo. They became friends for life. Pollak became in 1948 the first contracted female director at the Dramaten with the production of Jean Genet's Jungfruleken (Les Bonnes/The Maids), with Anita Björk and Maj-Britt Nilsson. Mimi Pollak appeared since her 1922 debut in the film "Amatörfilmen" in about 30 feature films and TV productions. She directed and handfull during the 1950's.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: April 09, 1903
Deathday: August 11, 1999
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Amatörfilmen
1922-10-30
Amatörfilmen
Overview: The jeweler Edmond gets a competitor, Mr. Snyder, who specializes in imitations. Snyder challenges him and claims he can make a perfect imitation of a pearl Edmond chooses.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1922-10-30
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Amorosa
1986-03-14
Amorosa
Overview: About the Swedish author Agnes Von Krusenstjerna during the period of her marriage to David Sprengel. In the hallucinatory opening sequence she is brought in a straitjacket by her husband and two psychiatric nurses through the Venice Carnival nocturnal antics to a mental hospital in the city. With her is a manuscript of her autobiography, which she calls "her child". The book is Agnes showdown with her family, and in flashbacks presented, Agnes progress from the author of innocent girls' books to serious and self-consuming novelist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1986-03-14
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Sömnen
1984-03-09
Sömnen
Overview: "The Sleep" - Tired of the touring life the rock star Tommy Cosmo cuts the strings of his guitar, empties his bank account, packs his revolver and takes off to find new values of life .
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1984-03-09
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With You in My Arms
1940-11-09
With You in My Arms
Overview: Millionaire Krister Dahl loses his memory when he is hit in the head by a golf ball. He meets his ex-wife and immediately fall in love with her again. She does not know what to believe, is it true or is it only a joke? He also discovers how he has mismanaged his company in his earlier life.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1940-11-09
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Summer Interlude
1951-10-01
Summer Interlude
Overview: A jaded prima ballerina reminisces about her first love affair after she is unexpectedly sent her lover's old diary.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1951-10-01
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The Flight of the Eagle
1982-08-26
The Flight of the Eagle
Overview: The Swedish 19th century engineer Salomon August Andrée sets out to become the first man on the north pole. His idea is to launch a polar expedition using a hydrogen balloon, together with two friends. The balloon, "The Eagle", takes off from Svalbard in 1897, but the three men are not heard of again.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1982-08-26
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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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Flames in the Dark
1942-03-02
Flames in the Dark
Overview: Latin teacher Birger Sjögren at Ringsala boarding school threatens his possesive and chronically ill mother that he will get married. She gets a stroke and dies. Sjögren is affected by feelings of guilt, envy and hatred towards the surroundings. A series of mysterious fires have taken place around the school the last few months. One of the students has seen Sjögren setting fire to a barn. But can he convince the trusted biology teacher Nordmark, expert of the criminal mind?
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-03-02
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Supper for Two
1947-02-15
Supper for Two
Overview: Louise Mareuil owns a perfume factory on the French Riviera. She is in a traffic accident with a sketch artist, Claude Dubois. She gives him a blank check which he soon use to withdraw 2 000 000 franc as a joke. Visiting her office, he returns the money and in return she hires him as a sketch artist for the company's advertisement. With his charm and wit he turns the factory upside down, to the chagrin of Louise. She is strict and orderly but soon after letting him go she begins to change her mind. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-02-15
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Mord, lilla vän
1955-02-26
Mord, lilla vän
Overview: A member of "Sjöbjörnarna" (a group of executives), asks the newspaper editor Dick Mattson to find Brita Ljungdahl, the former wife of another of the members. The first clue he tries is to ask a certain Maria Vaern, who knows Brita.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-02-26
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Playing Truant
1949-08-15
Playing Truant
Overview: High school student Margareta fall head over heels in love with a young doctor and announce her engagement to him to her parents. She quits school and move in with him in a large house. However, the life of a housewife soon becomes tedious. Her husband does not want her to study but secretly she enrolls in a high school again to be able to graduate. Her husband suspects funny business when she is spotted with her private tutor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-08-15
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The Crown Witness
1989-02-03
The Crown Witness
Overview: Thomas, a scientist, lives in a childless marriage. When his wife travels to Copenhagen he begins an affair with a girl of 19. The girl and large amounts of drugs disappears from Thomas laboratory.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1989-02-03
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The Secret
1990-02-15
The Secret
Overview: Sam and Amanda are friends. One day, they accidentally throw Sam's sister's diaries in the garbage can and have to trace them to the city dump.
Genres: Comedy Family Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1990-02-15
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Gatan
1949-02-27
Gatan
Overview: Britt Malm gets hit by a car on a Stockholm street and is taken to hospital. She is badly injured and must undergo surgery. While the anesthetic takes effect she sees hallucinatory images. This turns into a flashback of what happened Britt before the accident.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-02-27
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Agnes Cecilia - En sällsam historia
1991-08-28
Agnes Cecilia - En sällsam historia
Overview: Nora is 15 years old. Her parents died when she was young and now she lives with Anders and Karin and their son Dag. They move into an old apartment in an old house in Enköping. Behind a wall they find some old items from people who lived there a long time ago. They also discover that their apartment is haunted by a ghost. Together with Dag, Nora tries to find out more about the people who lived there.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1991-08-28
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A Matter of Life and Death
1986-11-20
A Matter of Life and Death
Overview: "Life and Death" - A female reporter intended to go on a reporting trip about childbirth to Japan, declines the offer. Instead, she visits a maternity hospital in Sweden. She meets a doctor, who she has been in love for 15 years.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1986-11-20
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The Ghost Reporter
1941-08-09
The Ghost Reporter
Overview: Augustus Blomkvist sells his sausage factory and buys the newspaper Stockholms-Posten where he starts working as a reporter under false name.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1941-08-09
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Nightmare
1965-12-20
Nightmare
Overview: A woman is driving alone one evening, when she almost run over a man lying in the road. She gets out of the car to see. Suddenly the man attacks her. Eva Jansson's dead body is found by a local farmer, who calls the police. Soon after fashion designer Maj Berg comes driving the same road and is stopped by the police. When the road is cleared for traffic Mrs. Berg drives on but happens to get a flat tire. While changing to the spare wheel, she finds a black notebook in the ditch. Back in Stockholm she opens the notebook and finds a strange jotting that concerns her.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1965-12-20
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Near and Far Away
1976-11-08
Near and Far Away
Overview: Mania is a new employee at a mental hospital, where she meets a young man with mutism. He gets her to realize that it is a fluid boundary between being healthy and being regarded as sick.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1976-11-08
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The Dress
1964-10-05
The Dress
Overview: Edit is pleased that her mother agrees to let her buy a dress she loves, but which in fact is made for an adult woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1964-10-05
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Den stora kärleken
1938-03-07
Den stora kärleken
Overview: The maid Agnes lives a rather lonely and boring life.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1938-03-07
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En, men ett lejon
1940-11-01
En, men ett lejon
Overview: The fashion house boss Harry Martin has invited all his staff to a crayfish party at his home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1940-11-01
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Bröder emellan
1946-11-18
Bröder emellan
Overview: Identical twin brothers Patrik and Peter Brodd haven't seen each other for twelve years until Peter returns from America and goes to Patrik's office and demands that he gives him more money. Patrik becomes so upset that he faints. Peter quickly sends the unconscious Patrik to the hospital and takes over his brother's identity. He soon discovers that Peter is having an affair with his secretary. Peter's wife discovers that her husband has become very charming, not at all the usual boor. Meanwhile, Patrik tries to leave the hospital and stop his brother.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-11-18
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Den långa vägen
1947-01-01
Den långa vägen
Overview: Grandmother sits with her grandchildren. She talks about the position of the Swedish woman through the centuries, about her struggle for freedom and justice. Grandma's words take shape in moving images.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-01-01
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The Sixth Commandment
1947-09-27
The Sixth Commandment
Overview: Jane and Karl have been married for many years. Jane feels trapped in their marriage and takes a lover. She is caught by her daughter Kerstin and forced to leave family and home.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-09-27
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I frid och värdighet
1979-03-28
I frid och värdighet
Overview: Erik Levin leases the farm to his son and retires. In order not to be in the way of the son, he moves to a retirement home, where he looks forward to meeting people of his own age.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-03-28
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We Home Toilers
1942-04-04
We Home Toilers
Overview: The stern, but kind-hearted, Kristiana from the country takes place as a maid with the Larsson family in Stockholm, previously (in)famous for its rapid turnover of housemaids.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-04-04
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Gentleman att hyra
1940-11-18
Gentleman att hyra
Overview: Two friends, a rich landowner and a flight lieutenant, compete for the love of the same woman, singer Claire Wanner.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1940-11-18
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Mannen som alla ville mörda
1940-03-01
Mannen som alla ville mörda
Overview: "The man all wanted to kill" - A brutal businessman, Vilhelm Gerner, triggers a stock speculation by providing false information. Two of his partners, Smith and Grå, get ruined and therefore Smith commit suicide. Later, Gerner is found shot by his own gun. The police suspects at least seven persons. Most of them admits murdering Gerner. A reconstruction is staged in the presence of all the suspects.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1940-03-01
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The Farewell
1982-04-08
The Farewell
Overview: Set between 1930s and 50s, The Farewell the story of Valerie, who lives in a household totally repressed by her stern father. When Valerie has a brief affair with another woman, her father is extremely angry and tries to end the affair with physical force. However Valerie’s determination, independence and lesbian feelings cannot be crushed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1982-04-08
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Kristoffers hus
1979-09-19
Kristoffers hus
Overview: Kristoffer lives on the verge of poverty, just barely supporting himself on his photographic work and an allowance given him by his ex-wife to support their child. He is staying in his absentee mother's large old house, which she is preparing to sell. When he takes a photograph of a man who died by his own hand, the image fascinates him. He grows obsessed with the dead man's story and pushes his research as far as it will go.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1979-09-19
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Brenda Brave
1989-02-25
Brenda Brave
Overview: Brenda Brave gladly helps her grandmother to sell candy canes at the market square. But one day grandmother suffers from a sore leg. Brenda has to take care of the candy cane sales all by herself.
Genres: Family
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1989-02-25
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Emil of Lonneberga
1971-12-04
Emil of Lonneberga
Overview: Emil Svensson lives with his mother and father, little sister Ida, farmhand Alfred, and maid Lina on a picturesque farm in Småland. He is an unusually lively little boy, who just can't resist trying out every whim that enters into his white-haired head. Always with the best intentions in mind, because he is a good-hearted child, but often with catastrophic results, especially for his short-tempered father. As a result, Emil spends a lot of quality time in the wood shed carving wood figurines and waiting for Anton's temper to cool down. And the father's patience is certainly tried, as Emil gets his head stuck in the family's only soup bowl, hoists little Ida up the flag pole, and arranges a lavish Christmas party for the poor.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1971-12-04
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Stiller, Garbo & jag
1988-03-08
Stiller, Garbo & jag
Overview: One day when Ruben Stiller is playing in a bath, he gets an alien talking to Nadja, who asks him to find out the fate of Charly's dog. Ruben agrees because Charly's host was Mauritz Stiller, and Ruben is the grandson of Mauritz's brother.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1988-03-08
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Only a Mother
1949-10-31
Only a Mother
Overview: A poor woman in a Swedish farming community struggles to feed her large family and is torn by her passion for two different men.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-10-31
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Autumn Sonata
1978-10-08
Autumn Sonata
Overview: After a seven-year absence, Charlotte Andergast travels to Sweden to reunite with her daughter Eva. The pair have a troubled relationship: Charlotte sacrificed the responsibilities of motherhood for a career as a classical pianist. Over an emotional night, the pair reopen the wounds of the past. Charlotte gets another shock when she finds out that her mentally impaired daughter, Helena, is out of the asylum and living with Eva.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1978-10-08
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