Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: October 24, 1884
Deathday: July 14, 1944
Popularity:
1952-05-12
Overview: A compilation of some of Adolf Jahr's films.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1952-05-12
Popularity:
1941-02-20
Overview: The young architect Gunnar Bergstrand marries the Norwegian Eva, against his parents' wishes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1941-02-20
Popularity:
1936-07-31
Overview: Åke is employed as a singer in a revue tour and his uncle Karlsson becomes the tour bus driver.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1936-07-31
Popularity:
1949-02-28
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
Popularity:
1993-10-24
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
Popularity:
1940-11-09
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
Popularity:
1942-12-21
Overview: A rural doctor in the north of Sweden must travel for hours to his patients. When a young woman has a serious case of appendicitis the doctor must bring her on a dangerous trek downriver to reach the clinic. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-12-21
Popularity:
1943-10-25
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
Popularity:
1941-01-10
Overview: In the beginning of WW II a Swedish ship in a northern French port is exposed to German air raids. The captain take a chance to leave the port without permission. A stranded woman seize the chance to get home to Sweden.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1941-01-10
Popularity:
1942-09-03
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
Popularity:
1943-01-25
Overview: The trio Erik, Arne and Ingrid have been friends since childhood, the two boys always competing for the affection of Ingrid. At the naval academy Erik gets into a fistfight and is expelled, to instead become a captain of a trading ship. Before he leaves Ingrid and Erik are engaged in secret. Later, when Erik is believed to be lost at sea, Ingrid instead gets engaged with Arne.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-01-25
Popularity:
1936-03-23
Overview: A travelling theater-company performs Offenbach's "The Beautiful Helene" when an officer in the audience notices the similarity in appearance between the leading actor Leonard Pettersson and the king Charles XV.With Pettersson dressed as the king and the other actors as the royal suite, they all go to Herrsunda castle where the officer is trying to make an impression on his fiance.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1936-03-23
Popularity:
1936-11-16
Overview: The world famous violinist Holger Brandt comes back to his family after a tour. He and his wife have been married for many years, but their love has faded. Their young daughter gets a new piano teacher, Anita Hoffman. Mr. Brandt falls in love with her and together they go on a world tour, but he soon discovers that the feelings for his wife that he thought were dead are not.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-11-16
Popularity:
1934-02-05
Overview: Theatre director Freddy Alsterberg has failed with his latest operetta. He decides to work his way over the Atlantic. His niece Tusse also stows away on the ship disguised as a boy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1934-02-05
Popularity:
1942-02-02
Overview: A gang of friends lose their club house and collect money for a new one by singing in public.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-02-02
Popularity:
1942-02-16
Overview: The wealthy Rudolf Trane helps the unsuccessful vacuum-cleaner salesman Rhuter to find a girl called Marianne. Trane, Rhuter and Trane's manservant John pretend to be waiters when Marianne's family is having a large dinner.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-02-16
Popularity:
1940-08-23
Overview: Urban girl falls for rugged forest ranger.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1940-08-23
Popularity:
1943-12-22
Overview: A triangle drama. Oskar has just been appointed to the train driver, his friend and colleague Gustav turns 60 and must retire. Gustav's son Lasse is interested in Oskar's wife Britta who feels neglected by her husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-12-22
Popularity:
1944-11-27
Overview: Luft-Kalle and Kol-Jocke get into adventures in southern Stockholm around midsummer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-11-27
Popularity:
1944-03-13
Overview: In the Stockholm archipelago in the 1880s, Carlsson move out to an isolated farmstead to help the widow Flood with the farm. Carlsson has big plans for the island, including having paying guests in the summer but Gusten, the son of the widow, is negative. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-03-13
Popularity:
1941-08-09
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
Popularity:
1938-03-21
Overview: The vessel pilot Alfred and fisherman Sven are both in love with Sonja, the most beautiful girl on the island they live on. Sven and Alfred become quarrel when Alfred one evening finds Sven with Sonja. The fight ends when Sven leaves the island. He freaked out completely when he hit Alfred with a bottle over the head. Now rumor has that Sonja is pregnant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-21
Popularity:
1920-01-01
Overview: Two riders on their way to Warsaw stop at a monastery for the night and ask an old monk there to tell them the story of its founding.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1920-01-01
Popularity:
1919-11-03
Overview: A series of family entanglements develop around the changing will of Roger Bernhuses de Sars (Karl Mantzius), who wants his heritage to go to his illegitimate daughter Blenda (Greta Almroth). But love and fate also plays their cards. One of the most surprising films of Sjöström, close to Stroheim and some of the silent comedies of Lubitsch. Belonging to the golden age of Swedish film, this comedy offers one of the earliest explorations of the relationship between masters and servants on the screen, later developed by French masters like Renoir and Guitry. After acting in the diptych of Thomas Graal, Sjöström shows that he also dominates the “light genre” as director.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1919-11-03
Popularity:
1933-01-05
Overview: The film centers on Algot Söderholm's two daughters, beautiful Magda and plain, less desirable Lena. Adapted from the 1910 play by Ernst Fastbom.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1933-01-05
Popularity:
1939-01-01
Overview: Swedish comedy from 1939. Adolf Berglund is a reporter at the newspaper Morgonbladet and is sent on one action-packed mission after the other. But it's not always that he uses honest working methods to produce his scoops.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1939-01-01
Popularity:
1917-08-13
Overview: Thomas Graal's a screenwriter, is very fond of his secretary Bessie. Overtaken by a kiss by Thomas she runs away. In his misfortune Thomas writes a screenplay inspired by Bessie. But she has not been really honest with him. 31 minutes of runtime are missing and presumed lost.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1917-08-13
Popularity:
1935-01-21
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
Popularity:
1945-04-20
Overview: Shipmate Henrik gets in contact with two women in Gothenburg — the sociable Lisbeth and the shy Astrid.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-04-20
Popularity:
1936-02-10
Overview: John Smith is an accountant at a stockbroking firm, where the firm ends up in the liquidity crisis because of his managerial speculation with the firm's money. The bank wants John to take over leadership of the company.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1936-02-10
Popularity:
1936-11-16
Overview: A Swedish feature film based on a novel by Fritiof Nilsson Piraten.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1936-11-16
Popularity:
1937-10-10
Overview: A happy-go-lucky husband has a wife bitten with social aspirations and this leads to several social mishaps.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1937-10-10
Popularity:
1937-02-22
Overview: A Swedish comedy from 1937. At castle Gyllenskiöld Holm a lawyer reads the deceased Count's will. Son Rouglas inherits the estate in front of Anne-Marie, Countess's daughter and the woman whom the testator had hoped to Rouglas would marry. But there is a supplement in the will to be read out after six months.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1937-02-22
Popularity:
1938-09-09
Overview: Sigge and Putte has moved to a private school, where they fight and get up to mischief.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1938-09-09
Popularity:
1938-11-14
Overview: John is the skipper of the Albertina which is moored in Mariehamn. Nearby is luxury yacht Sea Star, where Ann-Mari boards. She begins to take an interest in John and makes sure to come aboard the Albertina to meet him.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1938-11-14
Popularity:
1939-11-13
Overview: Swedish movie from 1939. In summer Stockholm live the unemployed musician Nisse trying to sell the songs to music publishers. One day the treasurer of a prominent publisher is arrested, on suspicion of theft of 10,000 crowns from a cash box. Nisse has, however, seen something suspicious.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1939-11-13
Popularity:
1920-02-02
Overview: Karin Daughter of Ingmar is a 1920 Swedish silent drama film directed by Victor Sjöström. It is the second part in Sjöström's large-scale adaption of Selma Lagerlöf's novel Jerusalem, following Sons of Ingmar from the year before, and depicting chapter three and four from the novel. The critical reception was however unenthusiastic and Sjöström decided to not direct any more parts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1920-02-02
Popularity:
1919-01-01
Overview: Part one of an ambitious screen adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf's book Jerusalem.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1919-01-01
Popularity:
1939-08-16
Overview: The Creutzerhjelm's are in search of an authentic haunted castle. Therefore, the owner of the castle SkiöldBorg decides to play ghost himself to sell his castle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1939-08-16
Popularity:
1942-12-26
Overview: A story about a gang of youngsters living in a boarding house in Stockholm.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-12-26
Popularity:
1933-08-14
Overview: It is rumored that there are ghosts at Smygeholm Castle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1933-08-14
Popularity:
1934-01-01
Overview: Anderssonskans Kalle is the typical 'Söderkis'. It's a boy growing up on Söder in Stockholm and he is very fond of practical jokes. His mother sees him as a good natured boy but his victims, mostly the local policeman and two old crones in the same house, see him as the devil himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1934-01-01
Popularity:
1941-11-10
Overview: Julius Berge has an advertising firm in Stockholm together with his wife Sonja. The man with the ideas is their colleague Kurt Dal, who used to be engaged to Sonja. Their ménage à trois becomes a crazy mix of jealousy and misunderstanding.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1941-11-10
Popularity:
1944-09-18
Overview: A bomb attempt is prevented in the last minute but one question remains: who placed the bomb? After some stakeout work the police are on the track and a wild hunt through Stockholm begins.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-09-18
Popularity:
1944-01-21
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
Popularity:
1934-11-10
Overview: The wholesaler Blomberg is a regular customer of "Parfumerie Marie Danielsson". He often buys perfume for his many girlfriends. Blomberg's driver Bengt Lundgren is in love with the shop assistant Eva Bergström. Bengt deceives his boss by telling him that his car has broken, then he can go out with Eva.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1934-11-10
Popularity:
1938-03-21
Overview: The aristocratic count Hägerskiöld is very proud of his swine Helen of Troy who wins a prize every year as the best swine in the area. This year his son Claes-Ferdinand needs money to get married with Pyret, a chorus-girl. His father won't give him any so he steals the swine, expecting that his father will give a reward to anyone who can find her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1938-03-21
Popularity:
1940-01-10
Overview: Siberian hunter Burtaj learns from his dying father that he originates from German farmers on his mother side. He is thus a "bastard", since the hunters and peasants have been enemies since ancient times.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1940-01-10
Popularity:
1942-03-23
Overview: The schoolgirl Maj-Lis comes from a wealthy family and is unhappy with her life. Emmy, her friend at school, tells Maj-Lis about her lousy job at the Vidi department store. Maj-Lis then decides to apply for a job at Vidi to learn more.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-03-23
Popularity:
1933-12-02
Overview: Lund is home to Qvillander and Schorn. There is also a gentleman who lives entirely in the world of books, Professor Möbius. The latter is dominated by his aunt, Miss Lundén, who manages the finances of the house.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1933-12-02
Popularity:
1935-10-11
Overview: The Finnish War 1808-1809 is over and Russia has conquered Finland from Sweden. All weapons in the country are meant to be handed over to the new ruler, but in some small places people are preparing for an uprising.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1935-10-11
Popularity:
1935-10-28
Overview: Gustav lives in Värnamo. He constructs a new boat engine, but needs time to complete it. The work has been financed by factory director "Hatt-Johan" Johansson who would like to sell the invention. Gustav's father returns from the United States and everyone thinks he's become a millionaire.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1935-10-28
Popularity:
1917-01-29
Overview: Terje Vigen, a sailor, suffers the loss of his family through the inflexibility of another man. Years later, when his enemy's family finds itself dependent on his benevolence, Terje must decide whether to avenge himself.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1917-01-29
Popularity:
1942-12-21
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
Popularity:
1932-03-29
Overview: Erik Andersson marries Brita Blomstedt. During the wedding party he drinks alcohol which he is not used to. Later that evening Erik is involved in a brawl that end with a policeman getting a knife in the back.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1932-03-29
Popularity:
1941-11-28
Overview: About the Swedish trickster and thief Lars "Lasse-Maja" Molin. He often disguised himself and lived as a woman in 1800s. He takes place as a kitchen boy for a bailiff and manages to prevent him from taking over the cottage where his beloved lives. His true identity will, however, be disclosed and he is forced to become an outlaw.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1941-11-28
Popularity:
1941-09-23
Overview: The year is 1941 and Nazi Germany is at its peak. Hitler's army is storming into Russia. Sweden stands lonely and isolated while the air force is training intensely due to a coming attack. The squadron leader pushes his men at its hardest. It's a constant game with death where death unfortunately often wins.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1941-09-23
Popularity:
1941-09-22
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
Popularity:
1944-02-26
Overview: The hypocritical wholesaler Johan Ekberg is taught a lesson.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-02-26
Popularity:
1939-10-21
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
Popularity:
1937-01-01
Overview: Adolph Turesson is a mild-mannered, meek college professor whose faint-heart isn't impressing the fair-lady he secretly loves, the golden-haired Britta Larsson. Attending a lecture, he witnesses the attention paid to his lady-love by other faculty members, and falls to sleep. He dreams of the olden days and the knights, and the comely ladies of the court over whom they fought. His dream also gives all the cast the change to play a second role. Upon awakening, he proposes to Britta.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1937-01-01
Popularity:
1919-04-14
Overview: The son of a wealthy farmer loves a simple maid, for which he's booted out of the house by his father.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1919-04-14
Popularity:
1919-10-20
Overview: Synnöve lives with her parents at the farm Solbakken on a sunny hill. Thorbjörn, who lives at Granliden in the shadow of a big mountain, often looks wistfully up to Solbakken. As teenagers they meet and fall in love. Another boy, Knud Nordhaug, is also yearning for Synnöve.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1919-10-20
Popularity:
1922-01-01
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
Popularity:
1917-09-09
Overview: A 1917 Swedish drama film directed by Victor Sjöström, based on a 1913 novel by Selma Lagerlöf. It was the first in a series of successful Lagerlöf adaptions by Sjöström, made possible by a deal between Lagerlöf and A-B Svenska Biografteatern (later AB Svensk Filmindustri) to adapt at least one Lagerlöf novel each year. Lagerlöf had for many years denied any proposal to let her novels be adapted for film, but after seeing Sjöström's Terje Vigen she finally decided to give her allowance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1917-09-09
Popularity:
1918-01-01
Overview: A stranger comes to work at widow Halla's farm. Halla and the stranger fall in love, but when he is revealed as Eyvind, an escaped thief forced into crime by his family's starvation, they flee and become two of the many outlaws of Iceland's mountains.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1918-01-01
Popularity:
1924-03-09
Overview: Gösta Berling is a young and attractive minister. Because of his alcoholism and his daring sermons, he is finally defrocked. He becomes a tutor of countess Marta's stepdaughter and they fall in love. But the countess has a plan of her own.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1924-03-09
Popularity:
1933-12-26
Overview: The little town Västerköping needs a new police man - but the only applicant is the small and tiny Fridolf. He gets the job but has to work with the big and strong police inspector Göransson. The town is visited by a crook who has specialized in stealing from local councils. Can this unusual pair stop him?
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1933-12-26
Popularity:
1934-03-03
Overview: A man goes from the tough life as a hired worker all the way into the Swedish government.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1934-03-03
Popularity:
1917-11-12
Overview: In a small provincial town there is a hotel run by one of those eccentric cooks of long ago who made generous meals that have nothing in common with the extravagant restaurateurs of nowadays and their meagre menus. The manager is named after Alexander the Great and in his restaurant the town bourgeoisie meet and discuss various issues, especially matters of the heart. Morals are part of the conversations and prove to be complicated issues even for strict and serious Nordics. 28 minutes of runtime are missing and presumed lost.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1917-11-12
Popularity:
1934-08-20
Overview: About two girls sharing an apartment in the Old Town of Stockholm.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1934-08-20
Popularity:
1934-09-23
Overview: Famous chef Carl-Ulrik Johansson (Erik 'Bullen' Berglund) comes home to Sweden after twenty years abroad and finds out he never finished his compulsory military service. Consequently he is forced to join the army as a conscript. He has many fights with his sergeant Göran Persson (Thor Modéen).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1934-09-23
Popularity:
1934-10-22
Overview: Simon lives a quiet life on his farm until one day he discovers he is the heir of a great fortune.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1934-10-22
Popularity: