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Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: July 19, 1898
Deathday: November 09, 1983
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Gender: Male
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Overview: Iben Holt, a rich bohemian, lives in an occupied country. On his way home from a party he hears an explosion and sees flames rising from a factory. At home awaits another surprise.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-04-03
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Overview: A compilation of some of Adolf Jahr's films.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1952-05-12
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Overview: The actor Robert Berg is just about to get his dream role on the big stage in Stockholm when he gets called to the military service.
Genres: Music Romance Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-10-18
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Overview: Rudolf Carlsson, who works at a department store, dreams of making movies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1928-10-22
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Overview: The burglar Karl Kilian Ledig tries to get his somewhat reluctant son Carl Gustaf interested in his "profession". He bring him along one evening to the sculpture Ulla-Carin von Knaake's house to break in and steal from her safe. Complications arise when Ulla-Carin and some of her friends unexpectedly come home and she imagines that Carl Gustaf is a model she has hired from a model agency.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1959-07-16
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Overview: A movie about the history of the Gustavsberg porcelain company.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-11-13
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Overview: A comedy about the shunned office worker Fridolf who gets into trouble when a rationalization expert audits the colonial goods company. It doesn't get any better when Fridolf invites the clerk Lisa, who is newly employed and feels lonely, to his home, a visit that his jealous wife Selma does not appreciate.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-08-25
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Overview: Selma and her friend Agatha are watching a movie on TV. Agatha starts to talk about older men and their dangerous age, but Selma can't image that her husband Fridolf is among those.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1959-09-28
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Overview: Staffan Stolle becomes the sole heir to a rich and noble family when he is just a little boy. Early on he is engaged to be married to a girl he finds he does not love. Instead he flees the country only to return under a false name, looking for true love.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music Mystery
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-09-10
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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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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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Overview: In a rural parish in 1906, young Heikki, one of the Finnish immigrants, lives a wild and free life in the deep forest. After poaching, his furs are confiscated and Heikki vows to have his revenge by seducing the young women of the parish, one by one.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-08-22
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Overview: From Bjørnson's novels about romance in 19th century Norway. Thorbjörn Granliden is raised severely by his parents who notice that he is drawn to the sinister farmhand Aslak. After a fight with Thorbjörn's father, Aslak leaves the farm. Thorbjörn grows up and falls in love with the beautiful Synnöve.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-11-25
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Overview: Mr Wall needs a wife for a day to get a heritage from his aunt.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1933-02-11
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Overview: Kurre and Inga are engaged to be married. However, as they are very poor, they can't afford it just yet. They live separate, both in small apartments with a friend. Inga works at an office and Kurre at a small factory. Inga has a liability to be late in the mornings and this gets her into some trouble at the office, because of her very strict boss. This, along with the fact that another girl starts to court Kurre puts their relationship to the test, a crisis which is easier said than done to solve.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-09-09
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Overview: A Swedish drama from 1939 about the social and political developments in Sweden from 1885 until the dissolution of the union in 1905. The year is 1885, Christina Nilsson sings "Fourteen years I believe certain that I was" in the Grand Hotel's Great Hall . She also sings from the balcony of the hotel and the panic arising among listeners outside the hotel. In Norway, talks about the dissolution of the Union and the Swedish socialists with Hjalmar Branting (Victor Sjöström) is in the lead for independence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1939-11-06
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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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Overview: A stateless lawyer comes with his son Karel and his two daughters Vanja and Sonja as refugees to Stockholm. No one gets work permit in Sweden and the family's problems grows to not just financially. The idleness and hopelessness towards the future is almost worse and that can lead into dangerous paths.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-01-26
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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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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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Overview: John Berner is a consul and his job has come before his wife for some time. She comforts herself with the thought that it's just John's job, and not another woman, that's taking up his time.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-09-29
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Overview: Albert falls in love with Sara, but she doesn't want a conventional marriage.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1963-10-10
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Overview: The tailor Tosse is ordered to return to his old regiment to practice what he learned many years ago. But he asks his assistant Loffe to go there instead of himself. Everything is fine until Loffe gets the same order - at the same regiment. When Tosse comes to the regiment, it becomes a case of mistaken identity. Due to the confusion, Loffe is now Tosse's platoon commander. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1940-02-16
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Overview: Kajan, a young boy, spends the summer with his friends working on a barge, earning extra money in the ports with their song and dance number. A young countess runs away from home and joins Kajan and his friends.
Genres: Family Adventure Comedy Music
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-12-26
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Overview: Dan, aged 19, leaves his home after a quarrel with his father. At the side of the country road he meets a traveling theater company who has run out of money. He falls in love with the young actress Pia and together they leave, meeting a string of peculiar characters: a vagabond, a friendly vicar and a cynical adventurer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-08-07
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Overview: Swedish film of the Kaj Munk play that was made into a far more famous film by Carl Dreyer in Denmark twelve years later.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-12-26
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Overview: The shy Anne-Marie wants to marry the mayor's son despite his parents' opposition.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1941-12-26
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Overview: Erik Andersson marries Brita Blomstedt. During the wedding party he drinks alcohol which he is not used to. Later that evening Erik is involved in a brawl that end with a policeman getting a knife in the back.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1932-03-29
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Overview: "The Shadow" - Erik Vender is a librarian and married to Vivianne. Vivianne was previously married to a well-known lawyer who died when their daughter was very small. One evening, Vivianne asks Erik to read a novel draft "Skuggan/The Shadow". The content strongly touches Erik. Vivianne reveals that it is her ex-husband that wrote the script.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-04-25
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Overview: "The Man Who Lived his Life Over" - A drama about a person who gets the opportunity many dream of, to relive his life. In his past he committed a crime. It must not happen again. Now everything will surely be different.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1961-05-23
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Overview: Mania is a new employee at a mental hospital, where she meets a young man with mutism. He gets her to realize that it is a fluid boundary between being healthy and being regarded as sick.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1976-11-08
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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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Overview: Marianne and Jojje are in the last grade of a Stockholm high school. Jojje is very fond of his talented, sensitive classmate. His love is not answered. The students come from different social and economical environments.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-09-24
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Overview: Fredrik seduces the office girl Anna. She becomes helplessly passionately in love. Fredrik cheat Anna of all her savings. He intends to manufacture beauty products. To market the product he forge the signature of a wealthy aunt of Anna.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1948-12-22
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Overview: The General's daughter, Helene, grows up in a safe world. She doesn't want to get married or have kids. She meets a man who talks about platonic love which seems to fit her nice. They get married but when he wants to get more intimate with her she rejects him. August Strindberg's short story "Mot betalning" from the collection "Giftas 2".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-09-19
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Overview: The story about Gustaf Dalén, the farm boy who became one of Sweden's greatest inventors.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-09-16
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Overview: At the end of the middle ages, Ursula is accused of having poisoned her own husband. She claims she is innocent, but to prove it, she must submit to a ritual: trial by fire, walking on fire along a path leading directly to a crucifix. A film that has been much commended for the visual creativity shown by the director in successive blending in of images involving Ursula, her husband, the Virgin Mary, and Jesus Christ. Much applauded, also: the performance of Jenny Hasselqvist, thus described by French director René Clair: “We shall never forget her flaming eyes, the severity of her spirit, her abrupt and alarmed expressions, like an animal under threat.”
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1922-01-01
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Overview: The story of a man who makes a great sacrifice for his country and for his son. Based on the play of the same title by Tor Hedberg.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1923-12-02
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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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Overview: Based on the poems by finnish poet Johan Ludvig Runeberg, the movie centers on the Finnish War between Russia and Sweden in 1808.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1926-11-01
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Overview: When silly inventor Svensson gets mistaken for Swedish/American aviator Smith, he is accidentally enlisted in the military and drawn into unexpected romantic affairs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1929-10-14
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Overview: "A dream play" - This made-for-television film constituted Bergman’s first production of Strindberg’s A Dream Play – a play he would revisit three times more. Gunnar Ollén’s Malmö crew was behind this, for its time, prestigious and costly theatre production, involving more than 40 actors and no less than 75 extras.
Genres: Drama Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1963-05-02
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Overview: The elderly Arnolphe has decided to marry a young woman, Agnes, whom he has fallen in love with. She is too young and innocent to realize what plans he has for her. But Agnes and Arnolphe's young friend, the dandy Horace, have fallen in love with each other. Their love is a threat to Arnolphe's attempt at getting married. Can the cunning Arnolphe stop them?
Genres: Drama TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1983-12-25
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Overview: Adolph Turesson is a mild-mannered, meek college professor whose faint-heart isn't impressing the fair-lady he secretly loves, the golden-haired Britta Larsson. Attending a lecture, he witnesses the attention paid to his lady-love by other faculty members, and falls to sleep. He dreams of the olden days and the knights, and the comely ladies of the court over whom they fought. His dream also gives all the cast the change to play a second role. Upon awakening, he proposes to Britta.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1937-01-01
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Overview: Imber has a child with the dubious fiancé Erland. He is destructive and his unhealthy lifestyle subjects his family to starvation and the death of their child. Imber falls in love with Arne and a settlement between Arne and Erland unfolds.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-11-09
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