Svea Holst
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: April 20, 1901
Deathday: April 28, 1996
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Rasmus and the Vagabond
1981-12-12
Rasmus and the Vagabond
Overview: 9-year old orphan called Rasmus runs away from the orphanage. He meets a vagabond they call Paradise Oskar who likes to sing and play his accordion. Oskar makes the Rasmus world seem like a better place.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1981-12-12
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Crisis
1946-02-25
Crisis
Overview: A poor Swedish piano teacher and her foster daughter’s lives are upended when the child’s biological mother arrives in their small town to reclaim her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-02-25
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Smiles of a Summer Night
1955-12-26
Smiles of a Summer Night
Overview: Early in the 20th century, middle-aged lawyer Fredrik Egerman and his young wife, Anne, have still not consummated their marriage, while Fredrik's son finds himself increasingly attracted to his new stepmother. To make matters worse, Fredrik's old flame Desiree makes a public bet that she can seduce him at a romantic weekend retreat where four couples convene, swapping partners and pairing off in unexpected ways.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-12-26
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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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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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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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To Joy
1950-02-20
To Joy
Overview: After learning that his wife has been killed in an accident, a violinist looks back on their relationship.
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1950-02-20
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Girl with Hyacinths
1950-03-06
Girl with Hyacinths
Overview: A young woman dies by suicide and leaves all her belongings to her next-door neighbour, who becomes determined to investigate her reasons for taking her life.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1950-03-06
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The Heist
1961-09-04
The Heist
Overview: Four young criminals are planning a heist against a racecourse and in order to obtain a seed capital they rob a gambling den. They celebrate the successful heist by throwing a party but it turns out to be a lot of disagreement within the group.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1961-09-04
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Försök inte med mej...
1946-02-02
Försök inte med mej...
Overview: Björn Norell, a bookish assistant to an art dealer, is fired because of his inability to find the third of a trio of Buddha statues. In order to get his job back, Norell, goes on a hunt to find it in order to get his job back. Meanwhile, the art dealer has sent his daughter Ulla after him to retrieve the statue. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-02-02
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Dumbom
1953-12-26
Dumbom
Overview: Two twins, separated at birth, meet again by chance many years later. One is a progressive but insensitive mayor of a small town, the other a clown at a circus.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-12-26
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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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The Unicorn
1955-10-03
The Unicorn
Overview: Harriet and Frank Allard have been married for many years. Almost twenty years ago, Harriet had a love affair with a colleague of Frank's, Claes von Klitzow, who made her pregnant. She had a son, Christer, whom Frank thinks that he is the father of. One day, Christer reveals that he is going to marry von Klitzow's daughter Louise. Harriet becomes upset but what will she do? Try to stop the marriage by telling the truth - which would endanger her marriage with Frank - or keep silent, which would mean that two half-siblings married?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-10-03
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Tre glada tokar
1942-02-16
Tre glada tokar
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
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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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On a Bench in a Park
1960-12-19
On a Bench in a Park
Overview: Sam Persson is released from a mental hospital. He goes to Stockholm to meet a man he hates, theater manager Stig Brender. In Brender's office they get into a fight...
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1960-12-19
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På palmblad och rosor
1976-04-14
På palmblad och rosor
Overview: Real estate broker Oskarsson visits a cabin deep in the woods. There he finds a bedridden and mute old woman who seems well cared for. There has recently been a fire in the stove, there is food in the fridge, but no trace of who cares for her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1976-04-14
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Sten Stensson kommer tillbaka
1963-10-07
Sten Stensson kommer tillbaka
Overview: Sten Stensson Stéen has been challenged by a professor of law in a TV-game-show. Stensson, always fighting against immorality, comes to Stockholm a few days before the the broadcast to teach the young generation how to behave. A gang of crooks mistakes him for a famous dynamiter that they've been waiting for.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1963-10-07
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Just a Waiter
1959-09-28
Just a Waiter
Overview: Fabian Bom is a waiter at a hotel in a small town. But he dreams of doing something else - to dance and sing on a stage. He is madly in love with Matilda Roos, singer and diva. Fabian is too insensitive to notice that Annie, who works in the kitchen, is in love with him. Encouraged by Matilda, Fabian leaves the hotel and goes to Stockholm to become famous. But, as he soon learns, it is more difficult than he first thought.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1959-09-28
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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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Flottans överman
1958-09-15
Flottans överman
Overview: Fabian Bom has been sent by the Export Association to promote Swedish export to Spain. He travels with the navy's cruiser to Barcelona, but his jealous fiancée Gullan has followed him in secret to keep an eye on him. In Barcelona the usually strict and virtuous Bom is surrounded by the local women and has a ball. He meets the young and zestful Linnea from Sweden. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-09-15
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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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Janne Vängman på nya äventyr
1949-09-16
Janne Vängman på nya äventyr
Overview: Janne is an old man who is locked up in the church on New Year's Eve 1900 and has to play the organ to make someone to open the door.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-09-16
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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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Tarp's Elin
1956-11-12
Tarp's Elin
Overview: Elin Tarp is an unmarried mother with three children who lives a hard life in the countryside.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-11-12
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Tre dar i buren
1963-12-26
Tre dar i buren
Overview: Freddy and Stickan is working at a weapons factory, one day Freddy comes across a key to some secret weapons blueprints. But Freddy and Stickan gets drafted as the crooks trying to get a hold on the keys tries to follow them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1963-12-26
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Janne Vängmans bravader
1948-09-20
Janne Vängmans bravader
Overview: Janne Vängman is heavy drinker who always stands up for the poor and oppressed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1948-09-20
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Vår herre luggar Johansson
1944-09-29
Vår herre luggar Johansson
Overview: Johansson has a small mechanical workshop, which provides for him and his family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-09-29
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Janne Vängman i farten
1952-09-29
Janne Vängman i farten
Overview: Erik Ernsson is on his way to Jon-Persgården in Ångermanland to seek employment. He befriends the old man Janne Vängman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1952-09-29
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Little Fridolf and Me
1956-10-29
Little Fridolf and Me
Overview: Fridolf and his wife Selma gets a telegram from their daughter Maggan. She is engaged and are her way home to show her little baby.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-10-29
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The White Cat
1950-12-25
The White Cat
Overview: A man comes to Stockholm's central station. He does not know who he is or where he has been. He has some keys and a phone number. Perhaps he is the escaped sex maniac the police are searching for. A waitress at a café tries to help him.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1950-12-25
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Ljuset från Lund
1955-12-26
Ljuset från Lund
Overview: A horse wanders from town to the countryside. Here lives Sten Stensson Steen, a bachelor at law and philosophy. He is writing a social psychological report on the youth problem.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-12-26
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Broken Sky
1982-09-03
Broken Sky
Overview: Erika is 13 years and lives with her parents and her grandmother in the far north of Sweden in the 1940's. The family is depressed and disappointed in life. Erika dreams of a separate being in another world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1982-09-03
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Rena rama sanningen
1939-05-22
Rena rama sanningen
Overview: Bertil Dahl deals with bonds at a bank. He dislikes that his colleagues are lying to customers to sell more bonds and pledges to tell the truth for 24 hours. But the social life is smoothed by using white lies and Bertil's truth-telling is making everybody upset. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1939-05-22
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Taxi 13
1954-08-01
Taxi 13
Overview: A collection of human stories from the streets of Stockholm. Taxi 13 becomes the link between them. One night a taxi driver disappears.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-08-01
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Little Martin Returns
1948-08-14
Little Martin Returns
Overview: Sture Letterström and Kurre Svensson take on the task of rescuing a secret document during World War II from a group of Swedish Nazis. Since both of them are known by the local Nazis, Sture takes on the role of Miss Märta Letterström, and Kurre also has to make use of his feminine side as well as a dress.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1948-08-14
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Fanny and Alexander
1982-12-17
Fanny and Alexander
Overview: As children in the loving Ekdahl family, Fanny and Alexander enjoy a happy life with their parents, who run a theater company. After their father dies unexpectedly, however, the siblings end up in a joyless home when their mother, Emilie, marries a stern bishop. The bleak situation gradually grows worse as the bishop becomes more controlling, but dedicated relatives make a valiant attempt to aid Emilie, Fanny and Alexander.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Mystery
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1982-12-17
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Happy We
1983-03-25
Happy We
Overview: Three friends who haven't seen each other for seventeen years reunite and have a lot to tell about what has happened in the meantime. The film follows the friends for some time afterwards and then moves another twenty years in the future...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1983-03-25
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The Norrtull Gang
1923-12-23
The Norrtull Gang
Overview: A collective of office girls and their tribulations in the male world, female solidarity, the place of women in the labor and civil rights struggles and the conflict between love and work.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1923-12-23
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Elvis! Elvis!
1976-11-20
Elvis! Elvis!
Overview: The adventures of a small boy (Elvis), his mother and a male friend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1976-11-20
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Sally and Freedom
1981-02-27
Sally and Freedom
Overview: About choices in life and responsibilities. Sally has decided to have an abortion. It seriously affects her relationship with her partner Jonas, and their daughter Mia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1981-02-27
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Pettersson i Annorlunda
1956-08-01
Pettersson i Annorlunda
Overview: Swedish propaganda film for the Social Democrats.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-08-01
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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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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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Miss Julie
1951-06-28
Miss Julie
Overview: Based on the play by August Strindberg, Miss Julie vividly depicts the battle of the sexes and classes that ensues when Julie, a wealthy businessman's daughter, falls for Jean, her father's bitter servant.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1951-06-28
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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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To Help the Lady of the House
1939-09-24
To Help the Lady of the House
Overview: Ingrid Eriksson, a social worker, decides to find out something about the problems facing housemaids and gets herself a job as one at the home of John Willman's family. John's son, Åke, falls in love with her and numerous complications arise before the course of true love runs smoothly.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1939-09-24
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