Agda Helin
Also Known As: Agda Björkman
Biography: Agda Helin (27 October 1894 – 10 February 1984) was a Swedish actress. She appeared in more than 60 films between 1912 and 1968.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Säby, Västmanlands län, Sweden
Birthday: October 27, 1894
Deathday: February 10, 1984
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Hon trodde det var han
Overview: The famous author Mark Storm's publisher is unhappy with his books and asks him to write books in a more popular genre, crime for example. When Mark Storm comes to his apartment, he finds a burglar, Kurre. He notices that they have a physical similarity and they change identity, which makes it possible for Storm to make empirical studies in the world of crime.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-08-28
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Nygifta
Overview: The young architect Gunnar Bergstrand marries the Norwegian Eva, against his parents' wishes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1941-02-20
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Rattens musketörer
Overview: Three cab drivers win a big sum of money and try to adjust to their new lifestyles.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-10-29
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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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The Girl from the Third Row
Overview: A ring passes between a lot of different people, giving the bearer or someone close a new meaning to life. Actors, embezzlers, old ladies and cheated husbands all seem to gain temporary hope from misery and disillusionment.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-08-29
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Åsa-Nisse och tjocka släkten
Overview: Åsa-Nisse's brother Julius returns home from USA, apparently very rich. Also, Åsa-Nisse och Klabbarparen takes care of a little child which leads to all sorts of complications.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1963-08-30
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Flames in the Dark
Overview: Latin teacher Birger Sjögren at Ringsala boarding school threatens his possesive and chronically ill mother that he will get married. She gets a stroke and dies. Sjögren is affected by feelings of guilt, envy and hatred towards the surroundings. A series of mysterious fires have taken place around the school the last few months. One of the students has seen Sjögren setting fire to a barn. But can he convince the trusted biology teacher Nordmark, expert of the criminal mind?
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-03-02
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Örlogsmän
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
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Life Goes On
Overview: The Swedish officer Mikael Bourg has served with the French army in Africa. When he returns to Sweden after many years abroad to recover from malaria, he meets his son, a student who prefers partying with his frat friends instead of his bank job; a disappointment in his father's eyes. He also meets a young librarian, Ebba Garland, which makes him feel young again and distracts him from the sickness.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1941-02-28
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The Sixth Shot
Overview: Georg Winkler meet Marguerite Hoffman at the casino in Monte Carlo. They become an item and travel the world with their act - Winkler is an accomplished marksman. Eventually Winkler's jealousy leads to their separation and he has to resort to work for secondrate circuses with a dwarf. But eventually he meet Margurite once again. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-09-24
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Changing Trains
Overview: Inga, an unemployed actress meets a sweetheart Kim, from days long gone at a train station. Over coffee they reminisce about their romance and how Inga left Kim for a moderately successful acting career and the attractive theater director Leo Waller.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-01-30
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Happiness Is on Its Way
Overview: The idle rich have their own particular problems. Case in point, Georg and Monika Hedberg were once poor and happy but since Georg became an established painter family bliss has decreased for every fur coat Monika has bought. Their divorce lawyer suggest that they try to save their marriage by moving to a small apartment and live life frugally but happy. When the trial period is over and they want to return home again, their lawyer has stolen their money and disappeared. The Hedbergs are evicted for unpaid rent and terminal poverty seem to be imminent.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-08-17
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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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Den blomstertid...
Overview: On an island in the Stockholm archipelago lives a man named Albin who has fallen in love with the new school teacher named Eva. Because of the Winter War the island is isolated and smuggling is rampant, the leader of this operation is named Fritjof and he is also interested in Eva.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1940-10-28
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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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Aktören
Overview: The actor Philip has an accident on the way to his own wedding and the shock makes him lose his voice.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-01-01
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Fartfeber
Overview: Gunnar and Ulf are neighbors. They are both lured into a life of crime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-11-27
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Miss Chic
Overview: Buster Carell, a talent agent is threatened by bankruptcy when his only real talent, a singing lumberjack, runs off with the company funds. Watching a TV quiz show, Carell discovers a prodigal singer, Isabella Linder, and offers her a contract. But she is unwilling and would like to remain a school teacher.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1959-01-26
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The Girl from the Third Row
Overview: A ring passes between a lot of different people, giving the bearer or someone close a new meaning to life. Actors, embezzlers, old ladies and cheated husbands all seem to gain temporary hope from misery and disillusionment.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-08-29
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The First Squadron
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
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En sjöman i frack
Overview: First mate Karlsson is mistaken for famous actor Linde.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-02-22
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Jazz Boy
Overview: The rich young man Teddy Anker invests his money in the theater at the beginning of the 1920s. Whatever he does becomes a success. He falls in love with a dancer, Karin. He decides to put up a show with Karin as the leading lady, but for the first time one of his shows becomes an economic disaster.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-10-06
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Puck heter jag
Overview: Romance blossoms between single seamstress Puck and the art critic, Roger. He is engaged to Elsa, whose wedding dress Puck is involved with designing.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1951-03-05
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Åsa-Nisse i full fart
Overview: Åsa-Nisse gets a chance to win 10.000 SEK in the biggest game show on Swedish TV.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-09-27
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Seventh Heaven
Overview: "Seventh Heaven" - Famous radio personality Willy Lorens has a big success with the radio series "Seventh Heaven." The amount of fan mail and attention eventually becomes too much for Willy, who suffers a minor collapse. Taken to a hospital where he meets Dr. Lovisa Sundelius, virtually the only woman in Sweden who do not admire the radio idol.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-06-11
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The Turnstile
Overview: The small town of Gåtatorp in Småland is entirely dependent on its prominent furniture factory. But the factory is in danger because the weak economy means that the bank wants to shut down the factory.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-12-21
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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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I gult och blått
Overview: Erik Brenner is crazy about football and his girlfriend Britta. She tries to make him concentrate on his studies, but that's easier said than done.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-11-11
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Bröderna Östermans huskors
Overview: The Österman brothers have come to realize that they need a housekeeper. Oldest brother Kalle travel to town and return with the young and modern Anna.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-09-20
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Stora Hoparegränd och himmelriket
Overview: Erik, a poor inventor meets the clerk Lillemor and fall in love. Erik's becomes invention is ready for the market. He contacts a director who might be interested. Erik is attracted almost immediately by the director's wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-12-26
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Melodin från Gamla Stan
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
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Adolf i eld och lågor
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
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Brother Against Brother
Overview: Two brothers compete for the love of a woman while the impending war threatens to separate them from both sides of the border. Based on the novel "La Débâcle" by Émile Zola.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1913-11-21
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Kolingens galoscher
Overview: A man buys a pair of galoshes at an auction and discovers they are magic, and can take the wearer wherever he wishes. He travels with a friend on an adventurous trip around the world.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1912-03-18
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På livets ödesvägar
Overview: The son of a poor fisherman and the daughter of a wealthy landlord fall in love, but meet with obstacles to being together. Their happiness meets with objection by her father, who intends to permanently separate them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1913-10-06
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The Island
Overview: In this somber drama, residents of a small island accuse a nobleman of killing a priest when the man of the cloth disappears. The two were seen arguing, and the nobleman is the main suspect. The priest is only away on a sabbatical trying to regain his faith, but the islanders continue to put pressure on the innocent noble.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1966-01-31
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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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Den långa vägen
Overview: Grandmother sits with her grandchildren. She talks about the position of the Swedish woman through the centuries, about her struggle for freedom and justice. Grandma's words take shape in moving images.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-01-01
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'Swing It' Teacher
Overview: Old fashioned teachers are taught swing dancing by a student.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1940-12-21
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Hemslavinnor
Overview: Grethe decides to go the big city to find a job as a domestic help.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-24
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Moderskapets kval och lycka
Overview: Eva-Maria Dahl gets the news from a doctor that she's having a baby.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-09-19
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Den tyranniske fästmannen
Overview: A woman in an abusive relationship is made to realize that she can no longer tolerate her fiance's ill treatment toward her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1912-12-30
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På heder och skoj
Overview: The brothers Kalle and Pär, each without the other's knowledge, win money on state bonds. Per opens a small shop in Stockholm and Kalle helps him. The wholesaler Ivar Olsson tries to swindle them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-03-19
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Sjutton år
Overview: It's summertime. The students Allan and Erik returns to their home town. 19-year old Allan is in love with 17-year old Anna-Lena. She rejects his clumsy attempts of telling her, but that's because she is uncertain of her own feelings. The Norwegian singer Lydia Hennert has an accident with her car and she is slightly injured. Allan's father is a doctor and Lydia spends a few days with them. Allan falls in love with her instead, she is a "real" woman and not a girl. But this makes Anna-Lena jealous.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-12-21
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Swedish Wedding Night
Overview: A wealthy butcher, fond of liquor and women is about to marry a much younger woman. The woman's father has locked himself in the attic and refuses to come to the wedding.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1964-08-23
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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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Vampire
Overview: A lieutenant in love with a woman cheat on his money and forces him to forge a bill of exchange. He kills the creditor and flees abroad. A few years later he gets a job as a stagehand. By chance he run into the woman.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1913-02-17
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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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Reveille
Overview: Countess Hedvig von Wärnfelt (born Wärnfelt), receives her orphan's granddaughter Marianne to educate her in tukt and her reverence. Marianne is an iron and vibrant young girl, who also carries theater grills. The Countess is staggered over her uneducated facials and treats her severely, hard and joyless.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1917-07-14
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Odygdens belöning
Overview: Bicycle factory director Wallensjö regularly fires his bookkeeper Gunnar, who has taken a liking to Wallensjös daughter Maj, and uses a baby left on hos brother's doorstep to trick Wallensjö into believing they've become parents.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1937-07-29
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Hour of the Wolf
Overview: While vacationing on a remote German island with his pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1968-02-19
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Storstadsfaror
Overview: "Big City Dangers" - About two orphanages children's upbringing in the countryside. Brynolf travels to his father in America. Inga moves to Stockholm for work. In the city lurks many dangers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1918-03-04
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Shame
Overview: In the midst of a civil war, former violinists Jan and Eva Rosenberg, who have a tempestuous marriage, run a farm on a rural island. In spite of their best efforts to escape their homeland, the war impinges on every aspect of their lives.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1968-09-29
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Samhällets dom
Overview: Harald steals money in order to pay a personal guarantee. The crime is discovered and he is sentenced to imprisonment. After the penalty is served he travels to America to begin a new life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-02-05
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Ungdom i bojor
Overview: A waitress finds out that her fourteen year old brother is a member of a youth gang doing burglaries in kiosks. Valdemar Jansson escapes prison and seeks out his fiancee Karin, but she does not want to know about him. She studies at the Social Institute and provides herself as a waitress in a cafe. She lives with her grandmother and her younger brother Benke. One day she discovers that Benke belongs to a boy, who makes minor burglaries in newspaper kiosks.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-11-16
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Night Music
Overview: The rich Baron Von Meislingen dreams of being a poet-- Unfortunately, he has no talent what so ever. In one of his apartments lives the talented but poor poet Peter Långhår. Von Meislingen steals his latest work from him and publishes it under his own name. 'His' poems becomes a success and Von Meislingen becomes regarded as one of the greatest living poets.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1918-04-01
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Sawdust and Tinsel
Overview: The complicated relationships between a circus ringmaster, his estranged wife and his lover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-09-14
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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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South of the Highway
Overview: The plot revolves around Edvar Månsson, a farmer living in Skåne, Sweden.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1936-12-26
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Two Women
Overview: "Two Women" - Cecilia is in hospital after being subjected to an attempt on her life. Her husband is called to the hospital. Cecilia deliriously mentions a mutual friend. The husband seeks out the friend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-11-18
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The Corridor
Overview: A newly graduated doctor finds trauma too heavy in everyday work of the hospital. He is constantly facing new demands which ultimately threatens to overpower him. He is about to give up his career.idoren
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1968-12-11
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