Elsa Prawitz
Biography: Elsa Prawitz was a Swedish stage and screen actress, writer, theatre executive and radio presenter. She made her screen debut in "Frånskild/Divorced" (1951) and graduated from The Royal Dramatic Theatre's acting school in 1954. Elsa Prawits often took on roles as sensually challenging women, not least in a series of films directed by Arne Mattsson.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: February 22, 1932
Deathday: May 01, 2001
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Dance Around the Guldbaggen
1964-09-25
Dance Around the Guldbaggen
Overview: Filmed during the first ever Guldbaggen (golden scarab) awards, it was edited and developed that night and shown for the first time to the guests at the after party.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1964-09-25
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Männen i mörker
1955-02-06
Männen i mörker
Overview: When the men in the small mining community go to work, it is like any other day. They do not yet know that an accident will change everything.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-02-06
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When Darkness Falls
1960-12-26
When Darkness Falls
Overview: Young Elisabeth comes to Västlinge to meet her old relative, the vicar and and his young daughter. She is going to spend the Christmas there in peace and quiet but on Christmas Eve, the grocer is brutally murdered with an axe. Police inspector Christer Wijk comes to the small village to find the murderer. He soon discovers the puzzle of evidence that makes almost everybody a suspect.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1960-12-26
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Får jag låna din fru?
1959-06-22
Får jag låna din fru?
Overview: Bertil Lund works at the wholesaling company Everything for the Baby. The supervisor Fredriksson is considering promoting him to vice-president but there is one obstacle: Bertil is yet unmarried and is thus considered unsuitable. But Bertil's friend Torbjörn has an idea: Bertil can borrow Torbjörn's wife Ulla and tell everybody that she is his wife. When his colleagues at work hears that he is married, Bertil has a lot of problems to deal with. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1959-06-22
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Mannequin in Red
1958-12-19
Mannequin in Red
Overview: A model is murdered at a famous fashion house and the Hillmans start to investigate. Kajsa Hillman is employed as a model and discovers that several people had motives to kill her.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-12-19
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Sadist
1966-06-27
Sadist
Overview: The plot revolves around a sadistic doctor, a macabre gravedigger, an innocent girl, sabotage, sex and violent death. The beautiful Vivi Sander is living a rough life and is deeply in debt. She tries to force her family to sell the house to make ends meet. Vivi's car crash after a sabotage. She is injured and brought to a medical center where she meets the perverted Dr. Wester.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1966-06-27
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Dirty Fingers
1973-01-02
Dirty Fingers
Overview: A young woman dies from a drug overdose, and her brother and his friend try to find out who supplied her with the narcotics. Soon, they're chased all over Stockholm by the cruel but suave ring leader Harry and his thugs. Among the wildness is a fight in a brothel filled with naked girls, and when Servus, one of the thugs, fails to kill our heroes, Harry has his men kill Servus with a razor blade equipped glove. Oh, and the heroine is raped by a guy sucking on a comforter
Genres: Thriller Horror Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1973-01-02
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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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The Doll
1962-07-30
The Doll
Overview: A lonely nightwatchman at a department store develops a fixation on one of the store's mannequins. He soon steals her and takes her to his home, where he can be with her all the time. One day, she comes to life...
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1962-07-30
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Whoops!
1955-09-03
Whoops!
Overview: A comedy mystery involving the composer and cartoonist Hubert Yrhage, the journalist Gary Lundberg, anticartoon campaigner Lena Lett, the mysterious Jens Myskovich and music publisher Darling Karlsson. Yrhage receives his manuscripts from an 11 year-old whose inspiration comes from the mysterious events at a boarding house where several of the characters stay.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-09-03
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Kurragömma
1963-02-05
Kurragömma
Overview: An escaped convict assumes the identity of a professor in order to reveal a criminal syndicate who smuggle diamonds together with Parisian haute couture.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1963-02-05
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The Lion and the Virgin
1975-02-14
The Lion and the Virgin
Overview: After young film writer Leo has his latest screenplay rejected he retreats to his summer home on an island, on his way he meets the flight attendant Virgo and a romance soon blossoms.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1975-02-14
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Sju vackra flickor
1956-07-22
Sju vackra flickor
Overview: Unsuccessful composer Stig disguises himself as a woman to play in ex-fiancee Sonja's seven piece women's orchestra, which is temporarily short one member, at a hotel. When Stig's jealous, and unsuccessful actress, wife Eva finds out about it she too disguises herself as the opposite sex by posing as a hotel porter. Additional complications arise and hilarity ensues!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-07-22
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Tre dar på luffen
1964-12-26
Tre dar på luffen
Overview: A vagabond comes walking on a small Swedish country road in the middle of summer. Suddenly he finds himself employed at a nearby farm.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1964-12-26
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Children of the Night
1956-08-26
Children of the Night
Overview: A man meets prisoner Nils Gustaf Boman and asks him why he strayed from the straight and narrow. The prisoner says: "Put yourself in my position." The man does and sees before him himself as Nils Gustaf Boman.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-08-26
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The Reluctant Sadist
1967-03-27
The Reluctant Sadist
Overview: A poor dandy embezzled large sums of money and buys the title Marquis De Sade to impress the upper class. The film premiered as "I am a Marquis."
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1967-03-27
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Girl in Tails
1956-10-15
Girl in Tails
Overview: The beautiful student Katja shocks the conservative and rigid city of Wadköping by appearing in tail-coat on the big prom.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-10-15
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Piano Lesson
1966-01-01
Piano Lesson
Overview: A young man fantasizes about his female piano teacher during a lesson.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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The Road to Klockrike
1953-07-19
The Road to Klockrike
Overview: Bolle gets tired of working at the cigar factory and because of his desire for freedom he takes to the road. He and the other hobos have only one problem and that is the mounted policemen chasing vagrants.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-07-19
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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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Den tappre soldaten Jönsson
1956-10-21
Den tappre soldaten Jönsson
Overview: About a love triangle between the soldiers 32 Svensson and 58 Jönsson and the girl Blenda. Both men ends up in jail, for different reasons. Further adventures and incidents occur.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-10-21
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Sommar och syndare
1960-09-25
Sommar och syndare
Overview: Emil and Ove are two happily married men. Both are currently bachelorssince their wives are on holiday in Denmark. One day Emil almost run over a beautiful woman at Nybroplan in Stockholm. She is a outstanding redhead.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1960-09-25
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Gustav III
1974-04-08
Gustav III
Overview: Based on play by famous swedish author/playwright August Strindberg adapted for swedish TV in 70's. It's about the real life assassination on swedish king Gustav III who was killed by a lieutenant Jacob Johan Anckarström who acted on behalf of a group conspirators.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1974-04-08
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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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Woman of Darkness
1966-10-01
Woman of Darkness
Overview: Sweden 1889. The young Per Nilsson has a very dominant mother, Anna Månsdotter. His father died many years ago and he and his mother have for a long time been in a incestuous relationship. But Per marries Hanna for the sake of her money and Anna is mean and evil towards her, and Per refuses to have sex with her. She starts to suspect that something is going on between her husband and stepmother.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1966-10-01
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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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Divorced
1951-12-26
Divorced
Overview: Gertrud is being abandoned by her husband after 20 years of marriage. Offended and unhappy she leaves her home and rents a room. The landlady's son is drawn to her and tries to help her out of the loneliness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1951-12-26
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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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