Hampe Faustman
Biography: Born as Erik Stellan Chatham. His parents was the artists Gösta Chatham and Mollie Faustman. Hampe Faustman was a Swedish director, writer and actor. He appeared in 23 feature films and directed 20 films between during the 1940s and 50s. Faustman is best known for his socially engaged films. Producer Lorens Marmstedt contracted Faustman to Terrafilm which gave him artistic freedom. He died of pneumonia at 42.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: July 03, 1919
Deathday: August 22, 1961
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Crime and Punishment
1945-10-16
Crime and Punishment
Overview: A Swedish version of Crime and Punishment. Raskolnikov, a poor student, is planning to assassinate a hated pawnbroker.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-10-16
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Lars Hård
1948-08-30
Lars Hård
Overview: Young drifter tells his story in flashback from prison.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1948-08-30
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Vagabond Blacksmiths
1949-02-07
Vagabond Blacksmiths
Overview: Midsummer Eve in Malmfors in the 1880s. The holiday is celebrated with a big party. Three blacksmiths leave the ironworks and become drifters, seeking out jobs elsewhere. During their travels, they come across beautiful girls as well as jobs in different ironworks, where the workers are organizing, monitored by a brutal police force.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-02-07
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Vi behöver varann
1944-09-20
Vi behöver varann
Overview: A female reporter invents a story about a man who threatens to take his life to protest the injustices of society. But the scam is about to be revealed. She is forced to persuade a tramp to play the fictional man.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-09-20
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Hon kom som en vind
1952-11-26
Hon kom som en vind
Overview: "She Came Like a Wind" - Fabian Rosander works at a factory and is close to 50 years old. When a new employee named Lilly, a young beautiful girl, comes to the factory Fabians life takes a new turn.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1952-11-26
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Vi mötte stormen
1943-01-09
Vi mötte stormen
Overview: Documentary footage mixed with acted scenes portray events of the Second World War from a Swedish perspective.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-01-09
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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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A Matter of Morals
1961-05-31
A Matter of Morals
Overview: Alan Kennebeck is unable to accept a brief, realistic romance for what it is. Eventually it leads to his complete moral downfall. Triggered by the factory official Eric Walderman, being a sadistically suave conniver and villain, who babbles a Nietzschean creed of ruthlessness and brings the picture to its grim, melodramatic conclusion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-31
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Mitt folk är icke ditt
1944-06-19
Mitt folk är icke ditt
Overview: The Nazis seize power and occupies a country. A celebrated pianist returns home from abroad during this time of national crisis and reconnects with Major von Ritter who leads the occupation and whom she had a passionate love affair in the past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-06-19
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Women in Captivity
1943-03-12
Women in Captivity
Overview: A priest decides to engage himself socially in prison. In the cells he meets a number of women with different fates. One is Mary, a young honest woman gone wrong.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-03-12
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It Happens Tonight
1957-12-20
It Happens Tonight
Overview: Lars Ekborg and Sven Eric Gamble portray bumbling criminals who get involved in a safe-cracking heist.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-20
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Harald Handfaste
1946-12-26
Harald Handfaste
Overview: Harald Handfaste is a 15th century Swedish Robin Hood, who fights against foreign oppression. He becomes the leader of a band of highwaymen and they start dealing with the evil bailiff. However, the bailiff will stop at nothing to catch Handfaste and show the people who is in charge. He even attempts to marry Handfaste's beloved Karin, and when she refuses to subdue, the bailiff decides to execute both her, her father and a monk who has been helping them.
Genres: Action Romance Adventure
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-12-26
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While the Door Was Locked
1946-12-26
While the Door Was Locked
Overview: The film follows a number of people in an apartment building during a night full of dramatic events and entanglements.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-12-26
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En kvinna ombord
1941-01-10
En kvinna ombord
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
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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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Katrina
1943-03-22
Katrina
Overview: Proud Katrina falls in love with Johan, who's a sailor, and follows him home to the island of Åland. She has been promised a paradise with blooming apple trees but are greeted by poverty and hard work.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-03-22
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Älskling, jag ger mig
1943-11-30
Älskling, jag ger mig
Overview: Marianne is not very interested in love, but still has company with Bertil. It's only when he decides to try his luck over in America that she realizes how much she likes him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-11-30
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His Excellency
1944-03-03
His Excellency
Overview: Celebrated elderly Austrian poet opposes nazism, while his daughter admires and falls in love with leading nazi activist, who eventually becomes concentration camp commander with his father-in-law as prisoner.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-03-03
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They Staked Their Lives
1940-01-01
They Staked Their Lives
Overview: "With life at stake"- Max is illegal arms dealers and lives with Wanda, a spy for the dictatorship in which they live. She is ordered by her superiors to reveal the actions and members resistance group. The freedom fighter John falls in love with Wanda.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1940-01-01
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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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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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Kärlek på turné
1955-11-28
Kärlek på turné
Overview: "Love on Tour" - A traveling theatre company has arrived at an outdoor stage. They are ready for the rehearsal. But one of the actors is missing.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-11-28
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En vår i vapen
1943-01-04
En vår i vapen
Overview: During the spring of 1940 two young men gets drafted and deployed close to the Norwegian border, where they fall in love with the same woman.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-01-04
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