John W. Björling
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
Adult: No
Birthday: February 15, 1878
Age: 147 years old
Gender: Other
Deathday: May 18, 1953
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Åsa-Nisse på jaktstigen
Overview: Nils Nilsson from Åsen, better known as Åsa-Nisse and his friend Klabbarparn goes Moose hunting. As a result of a sabotage, staged by their wives, Åsa-Nisse is accused for hunting with illegal weapons.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1950-09-11
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The Girl and the Devil
Overview: The soul of an evil witch about to be burned is transferred to the child of a pregnant woman in the audience. 19 years later a timid girl arrives at a farm looking for work. The farmer employs her despite his wife's protests. Soon it stands clear that the girl is in fact the evil witch, returned to wreak havoc on the farmer and his family. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-10-30
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Money: A Tragicomic Saga
Overview: Orvar is a vagabond, walking the country roads and living on sunshine and generosity. One day he decides to find work somewhere to get some money. He becomes a helping hand for seven lumberjack brothers. The big and strong brothers really enjoy themselves, joking with the small and meek Orvar. Orvar does not know that he has inherited a large fortune but the seven brothers do and they begin to treat him with the greatest courtesy. They convince him to write his last will, making them his heirs, and then begin to make plans on how to kill him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-01-10
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Each to His Own Way
Overview: A drama about a doctor and his wife. She used to be an actress, but became a housewife when she married. When she resumes her acting career the marriage crashes.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1948-02-16
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Marie in the Windmill
Overview: Maria is a waitress at a local restaurant when an older man propose to her. She is a bit skeptical but agrees to marry him and become the mistress of his estate Kvarngården. Maria had a son which she was forced to give away for adoption when he was born because she could not take care of him. She has keep contact with the child and posed as a kind aunt. She has not told her new husband about her son and when the years go by and no children of their own comes along the resentment and bitterness grows. When the adoptive mother of Maria's son dies she and the adoptive father agrees that the best thing for the boy is to come and stay with Maria at Kvarngården. She also hope that it will make her husband come out of his bitterness to have a young boy around. The result is unfortunately quite the opposite.
Genres: Drama Romance Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-01-15
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Han glömde henne aldrig
Overview: American businessman Chris Johnson spent WW2 in Sweden and fell in love with a nurse, Karin Engström. He lost contact with her after war and now, seven years later, he returns to Sweden on a business trip, trying to find her again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1952-01-01
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Realm of Man
Overview: A man is forced to leave his family estate and start again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-11-19
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The People from Simlangs Valley
Overview: Class struggle and love trouble in the woods between Halland and Småland.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-12-26
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Hotell Kåkbrinken
Overview: Laban Lundström is the porter at Hotell Kåkbrinken. The hotel is threatened by wholesaler Sjökvist, who wants to pull down the house and build a new and modern house instead.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-12-26
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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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It Rains on Our Love
Overview: Maggi meets David after having missed her train, and they spend the night together. Penniless, the young lovers break into a summer cottage. The owner, Håkansson, offers to rent it to them, but he has an ulterior motive. By living together, they have to face their pasts and deal with the meddling neighbors and authorities.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-11-09
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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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Port of Call
Overview: Berit is a young woman with problems. She is suicidal and depressed. Since it has been impossible for her to live with her mother, she has spent many years in institutions. She has now gotten a job in an industry on the condition that she can live together with her mother again. Their relationship is very tense however. One night at a dance she meets stevedore Gösta. Will he be able to give her the support she needs?
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1948-10-11
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Prison
Overview: A movie director is approached by his old math teacher with a great movie idea: the Devil declares that the Earth is hell. The director rejects the idea, but subsequent events in the life of a writer, a friend of the director's, and a young prostitute he loves seem to prove the math teacher's idea.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-03-19
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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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