Gunnel Broström
Biography: Gunnel Broström (1922–2012) was a Swedish stage, film and television actress. She also directed a number of television films from 1965 onwards.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: October 25, 1922
Deathday: June 28, 2012
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Wild Strawberries
1957-08-28
Wild Strawberries
Overview: Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. Along the way, they encounter a series of hitchhikers, each of whom causes the elderly doctor to muse upon the pleasures and failures of his own life. These include the vivacious young Sara, a dead ringer for the doctor's own first love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-08-28
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Easter
1988-10-16
Easter
Overview: Drama about a family going through a crisis during the Easter weekend.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1988-10-16
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Ett dockhem
1956-01-01
Ett dockhem
Overview: August Strindberg's feedback to Henrik Ibsen's "Doll's House"--a short story from the collection "Giftas" (Getting married), about female emancipation and obsolete marriages.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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Peggy på vift
1946-06-08
Peggy på vift
Overview: Frank Bing is a big artist in the USA and arrives home in his native Sweden with his secretary Ada. The portier at the hotel has great difficulties keeping the adoring fans away from Frank. Among them is Peggy Dalin who has been tasked by her father with getting Frank to sign with his record company using her great charm.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-06-08
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Rider in Blue
1959-10-16
Rider in Blue
Overview: When private eye John Hillman is on assignment in London his wife Kajsa visits the Army's riding school at Strömsholm, Sweden. She gets involved in the strange murder of the Blue Rider. Unknown to everyone at Strömsholm.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1959-10-16
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Gustav Vasa
1965-09-06
Gustav Vasa
Overview: Gustav Vasa struggles to keep power while dealing with the Dacke War in his own country and his foreign debts.
Genres: Drama TV Movie History
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1965-09-06
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Svenske ryttaren
1949-09-26
Svenske ryttaren
Overview: Agneta Gyllencrona is in love with Henrik Lettnoff, a refugee from the Baltic. They have to leave together when her mother, the Countess, wants to tear them apart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-09-26
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Crime in the Sun
1947-12-01
Crime in the Sun
Overview: Harry, returning home after six years in an asylum, has vivid recollections of a party many years ago with six of his friends. The party ended with one of them, Raoul, disappearing. A gardener is digging in Harry's garden when a skeleton and a watch with the name "Raoul" is found. Harry invites his friends to a dinner to solve the mystery of Raoul's disappearance.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-12-01
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Erik XIV
1974-01-02
Erik XIV
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Genres: History
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1974-01-02
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Den bergtagna
1965-01-01
Den bergtagna
Overview: Depicts a woman who commits suicide after being betrayed by a man who, by playing on her low self-esteem, has made herself her superior - and thus deprived her of all right to exist.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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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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The Man from the Other Side
1972-03-26
The Man from the Other Side
Overview: After the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917. A Russian engineer gets the assignment to purchase locomotives from Sweden. Paid in gold. Claimed by the opponents of the revolution.
Genres: History Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1972-03-26
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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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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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The Bells in Old Town
1946-12-30
The Bells in Old Town
Overview: Kalle Magnus Berg is a kind bailiff in Gamla Stan (Old Town) in Stockholm. He helps out "clients" by supporting them with money from his own pocket. His neighbor is a jazz musician who plays at a restaurant for a living.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-12-30
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Rooftree
1967-04-09
Rooftree
Overview: Noomi is a refugee with traumatic memories, a stranger, afraid of contacts. Leo is a bourgeois man who is considering building a villa. Married with two children. Magnus is an artist, dreams of women. He associates with Noomi. Noomi is now meeting Leo.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1967-04-09
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Storm
1960-01-22
Storm
Overview: An elderly gentleman lives alone with his maid Louise. He spends his days chatting with the confectioner who lives and works downstairs, playing chess with his brother Karl Fredrick, and content with his memories. His young wife Gerda ran out on him five years ago, taking their young daughter with her. Now, unbeknownst to the gentleman, she’s back… and living in the upstairs apartment with the child and her new husband. When Gerda finally faces the man, sparks will fly and old wounds will be reopened. Bergman's TV adaptation of August Strindberg's play "Storm" was presented on the 111th anniversary of the author's birth. The production was also shown in Denmark and Norway and received glowing reviews. Bergman was celebrated as an outstanding TV director and was praised for his tact and sympathy in depicting old age, his superior lighting and fine camera work as well as his understanding of the medium in his use of close-ups.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1960-01-22
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Skipper Jansson
1945-10-24
Skipper Jansson
Overview: Jansson returns home after many years sailing the world. His two groups of relatives both want him to stay with them in hopes that he will leave them a large share of his inheritance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-10-24
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En äventyrare
1942-09-11
En äventyrare
Overview: A free fantasy about the Swedish poet and adventurer Lars Wivallius.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-09-11
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Barbacka
1946-11-18
Barbacka
Overview: Connie is growing up on an estate and cling especially to Gunnar. When Connie mention that she has met a man, Gunnar gets angry and repels her. Connie decides to retaliate by taking over Gunnar's sister's husband, Boris, who is the owner of the estate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-11-18
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Rum för ensam dam
1959-03-13
Rum för ensam dam
Overview: Magda Nilsson is a very talented young woman, but she has had a difficult upbringing and lost her self-confidence. She is also a singe-parent mother with her fragile son Arne. Magda is also difficult, antisocial and hard to get to know, but beneath the surface she seeps from suppressed love needs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1959-03-13
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Paradiset
1955-10-16
Paradiset
Overview: The two alcoholics Rudolf and Bertil gets fired from their jobs. For Bertil the story ends happily. He quits drinking and takes a job on a ship. For Rudolph it is worse. He can't kick the booze.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-10-16
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Skandalskolan
1958-10-09
Skandalskolan
Overview: TV play.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-10-09
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Charlotte Löwensköld
1979-10-30
Charlotte Löwensköld
Overview: 1830 Värmland, Sweden. Master Karl Arthur Ekenstedt comes to aid the Minister at Crosss Church. He falls in love with Charlotte Löwensköld, housekeeper in the rectory. They get engaged. Charlotte is full of life, energetic and practical. Karl Arthur struggle with his faith and God.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1979-10-30
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Prins hatt under jorden
1963-09-29
Prins hatt under jorden
Overview: A young man,Erik, breaks into a photo store. But he is discovered by the night watchman and has to fly. During the flight he is picked up by cabaret singer Margot, who offers him protection. Erik, now wanted by the police, stays for a longer time with Margot and becomes her lover. Margot, however, is not alone in recruiting Erik: even the young Li is interested in him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1963-09-29
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Måsen
1959-11-20
Måsen
Overview: This quintessential Chekhov drama--his first success--is both comic and tragic. A group of friends and relations gather at a country estate to see the first performance of an experimental play written and staged by the young man of the house, Konstantin, an aspiring writer who dreams of bringing new forms to the theatre.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1959-11-20
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Ubåt 39
1952-08-25
Ubåt 39
Overview: About U-Boat 39 the first U-Boat sunk in WW2 by the UK Carrier Ark Royal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1952-08-25
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Galgmannen
1945-10-08
Galgmannen
Overview: The man of the gallows is a little sinister wooden figure that the proprietor must sell before his death. If not he will be doomed and unsaved.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-10-08
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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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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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Hans majestäts rival
1943-11-02
Hans majestäts rival
Overview: "His Majesty's Rival" - A young man, Lars Hjelm, returns home after being in Italy on a scholarship from the Swedish king, Gustaf III. On his way home he meets with opera singer Antoinette and fall in love with her. His fiancee Eva expects him home any day.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-11-02
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Släkten är bäst
1944-02-26
Släkten är bäst
Overview: The hypocritical wholesaler Johan Ekberg is taught a lesson.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-02-26
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Swedenhielms
1961-01-01
Swedenhielms
Overview: Tv play based on Hjalmar Bergmans play Swedenhielms from 1923.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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The Devil's Messenger
1961-01-01
The Devil's Messenger
Overview: In this feature version of the Swedish TV series "13 Demon Street," a 50,000-year-old woman is found frozen in an ice field, and a man's death is foretold in dreams.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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We Three Debutantes
1953-09-07
We Three Debutantes
Overview: Three young poets are about to make their debuts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-09-07
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Den ynkryggen Valdemar
1980-04-06
Den ynkryggen Valdemar
Overview: The consultant at a mental hospital receives a visit from one of the hospital's female doctors after a vacation trip. A client, Valdemar, has made improper advances and she's confused.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1980-04-06
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Till the Doors of Hell
1948-11-08
Till the Doors of Hell
Overview: Professor Barring is awarded the Nobel Prize in physics. According to Barring the scientist's sole duty is to seek the truth, even if this leads to the "gates of hell".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1948-11-08
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Midsommardröm i fattighuset
1959-01-06
Midsommardröm i fattighuset
Overview: A Swedish TV play about a workhouse in Småland, Sweden. Midsummer's Dream in the Workhouse is written by Pär Lagerkvist.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1959-01-06
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A Goat in the Garden
1958-02-17
A Goat in the Garden
Overview: The wild Jon Esping bets that he will become a churchwarden. He, the upstart and the illiterate who can only write his name, a fox in business, a stud among women and a brute in general, wins the bet.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-02-17
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Stimulantia
1967-03-28
Stimulantia
Overview: Stimulantia is a 1967 Swedish anthology film comprising eight episodes by eight different directors including Ingmar Bergman, Jörn Donner, Gustaf Molander and Vilgot Sjöman and starring among others Ingrid Bergman, Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Björnstrand, Lars Ekborg and Inga Landgré.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1967-03-28
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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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I Am Curious (Blue)
1968-03-11
I Am Curious (Blue)
Overview: The same movie with the same characters, cast and crew as I am Curious (Yellow), but with some different scenes and a different political slant. The political focus in Blue is personal relationships, religion, prisons and sex. Blue omits much of the class consciousness and non-violence interviews of the first version. Yellow and Blue are the colors of the Swedish flag.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1968-03-11
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