Ernst Günther
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Biography: Ernst Harry Ingemar Günther, born June 3, 1933 at Karlskrona BB, died December 8, 1999 in Ingelstorp, Skåne county, was a Swedish actor and director.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Karlskrona, Blekinge län, Sweden
Adult: No
Birthday: June 03, 1933
Age: 91 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: December 08, 1999
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House of Angels
Overview: In a small village in Västergötland, everything is turned upside-down when the local loner dies and his cottage is inherited by his unknown relative Fanny. She rides into town on a big black motorcycle with her androgynous boyfriend Zack, wearing black leather and spikes. When they decide to stay, Flogfält's plans to buy the cottage are upset.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1992-02-21
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The Slingshot
Overview: Stockholm in the 1920s. Young Roland lives with his socialist father, Jewish mother and a boxing brother. His mother sells condoms illegally, and from them, Roland makes slingshots which he sells. His rebellious ways has gotten him the special attention of his school teacher, who always makes sure that Roland is punished. Roland also tries to make extra money by repairing bicycles, a successful business that in the end lands him in hot water.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1993-09-24
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The Best Intentions
Overview: In this film about Ingmar Bergman's parents, Henrik Bergman is studying for the priesthood and trying to make ends meet when he encounters the lovely, affluent Anna. Despite their social differences, Henrik and Anna fall in love, wed and move to the country. They lead a quiet life as Henrik works as a priest, but it isn't long before the simple people and plain surroundings make Anna long for a more lavish lifestyle, which causes marital stress.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1992-05-24
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We Have Many Names
Overview: A sacrificial passive woman spends her life breeding happiness into her family. What happens when her world of security cracks, shatters completely and her identity dissolves?
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1976-03-19
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House of Angels: The Second Summer
Overview: Fanny and Zack is back, after she inherited Änglagård last year. Everytone looks forward to their new stay. Axel has told Fanny he is her father, but who else? Ivar also thinks he is her father. Be ready for expectations and confusions.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1994-12-25
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The Dogs of Riga
Overview: A lifeboat floats ashore at the coast of Skåne. Inside are two dead men who who've been murdered. Policeman Kurt Wallander is assigned to the case. The men are identified with the help of the police in Latvia. One of their officers travel to Sweden to to help but when he returns to his home country he is mysteriously murdered. Kurt flies to Riga to find out why and is drawn into complex conspiracy.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1995-11-09
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During the Journey to Melonia
Overview: Documentary about the production of Per Åhlin's feature film Resan till Melonia
Genres: Documentary Animation
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Out of Per Åhlin's Head
Overview: A portrait of Per Åhlin, who has been called the father of Swedish animation.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2019-11-15
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The Journey to Melonia
Overview: When a ship sinks during a storm, a slave from the industrial island of Plutonia is washed up on the beaches of paradise island Melonia, where the "all-powerful" wizard Prospero and his strange friends reside.
Genres: Animation Family Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1989-12-15
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The Man from Majorca
Overview: In the aftermath of a daring post office robbery on Saint Lucy's Day, two Stockholm vice cops venture into a world of corruption, cover-ups and murder that takes them from the dirty streets to government officials.
Genres: Thriller Crime Action
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1984-10-12
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In the Name of the Law
Overview: A group of four policemen is known for cruising the streets of Stockholm in their van, looking for drunks or criminals they can beat up with their batons. Lately witnesses saw them pick up a drunk who later was found dead. The four policemen deny any knowledge. Police inspector Jarnebring gets the case and finds out that these four policemen have been reported for 22 cases of police brutality. Shortly after, another criminal dies in their van...
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1986-10-31
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The Smuggler King
Overview: It's the early 20s, just after World War I. In Sweden, restrictions on alcohol are harder than most people like and so, smuggling is abundant. In this particular little town, smuggling is ruled by one man, who is the king of smugglers. The smugglers who work for him don't get to keep much of the profit themselves, but if they don't work for him, they get in trouble, which his henchmen make sure. However, Albert Jansson arrives in town and starts taking up the competition with the smuggler king. Meanwhile, the police, together the customs office, try to catch the smugglers.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1985-02-08
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Pelikanen
Overview: It has just been a funeral when the daughter and son-in-law return from their honeymoon. Now the house is haunted. The empty rocking chair rocks, the doors slam, the paintings fall down and papers fly through the room. In the chiffonier's maple compartment is found a letter from the dead father. This letter is hidden again, rediscovered and finally torn up. The despairing, frozen and coughing son does not give up. He drills his way to the truth. It hits hard right up until the final catastrophe, awakening and liberation.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1982-03-17
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Åke and His World
Overview: Åke and his world is a long, lyrical study of a Swedish country doctor of the 1930s. Åke is the doctor's six-year-old son, from whose point of view the film is told. His best friend is Kalle Nubb. Åke is very frightened of the janitor Bergström as well as the lunatic Anne-Marie.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1984-10-26
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Badjävlar
Overview: Holidays on the swedish east coast. Invading summer guests collide with the locals, all without inhibitions. The formerly so radical Social Democratic municipal councilor has completely lost his visions and fully accepts that the area is transformed into a tourist resort for the rich.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1971-04-28
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Out of an Old Man's Head
Overview: After being admitted to a residential home starts the retired bricklayer Johan to dream back to his childhood - the safe upbringing with his parents, the first love, and how he with a broken heart ran away from home, and was forced to fend for himself. How he got married, had a son, barely managed to scrape together enough money for food and shelter, the son ran away from home and his wife died.
Genres: Comedy Animation Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1968-12-06
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The Serpent's Way
Overview: A salesman and his son sexually abuse the generations of women of a poor family as payment for debt. Janni must see his mother, sister, niece and wife all being exploited, and the family grow bigger with the abuser's kids.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1986-12-25
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Exit
Overview: Åke is trapped in a theme park with no chance to escape, unless he's having a great time.
Genres: Animation Comedy Horror
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1990-11-16
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The Last Dance
Overview: Blackpool, a dancing contest, a dead woman. This is the opening scene of this movie, which then continues by telling us the story preceding this sad accident - or is it a murder? We will get to know the tensed relationship of the dancing contestant couple Tove and Claes, and see how there lives are affected by Liselott and Lennart, their opponents and friends.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1993-12-25
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A Handful of Love
Overview: Set against the backdrop of the 1909 general strike, Hjördis is employed as a housemaid in a wealthy Stockholm family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1974-02-22
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Sverige åt svenskarna
Overview: This farce cocerns Sweden's King Gustav (Per Oscarsson who plays all the lead roles). The royal monarchs of three major European countries are patiently or not-so-patiently hovering on the sidelines while watching the future King Gustav closely. No single king appears to possess the brains he was born with, so history seems to be made by default, as it were. Gustav does blunder around, but not enough to miss being crowned king. As a result, France, England, and Germany invade Sweden hoping to take by force what they could not gain by incompetence.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1980-07-31
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The White Lioness
Overview: In Cape Town, a police inspector named September color discovers that the dreaded Mabasha, hired murderer, is in talks with a right-wing organization. In Skåne, southwest of Sweden, is given to the real estate agent Louise Åkerblom by missing and the case is assigned to Inspector Wallander. Just start research supposedly empty building explodes. An unusual weapon, a transmitter Russian and index finger of a man of color are found in the wreckage of the building ...
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1996-11-01
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Den svarta cirkeln
Overview: A tabloid journalist investigates a series of bomb attacks in Stockholm.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1989-12-31
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Sköna juveler
Overview: In a dystopian future two private detectives try to find a stolen bracelet.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1984-09-21
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Som natt och dag
Overview: Television hostess Susanne has an affair with Rikard, who is a doctor at a hospital. But after meeting the man who Rikard works for, Professor Erland Roos, she leaves Rikard and eventually marries the professor. Susanne's sister comes to Stockholm, desperately in need of money. Perhaps Susanne, now married to a rich professor, can help her?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1969-02-13
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Dog Days
Overview: Somewhere in the archipelago outside Sandhamn lives the barber Assar Gustafsson and his 17-year old daughter Anna-Bella. Out of the blue his wife comes back after five years of absence. She starts up a brothel in their bath house with Anna-Bella as the main attraction, a brothel that attracts various men from all over. The browbeaten Assar starts to make arrangements for his wife's permanent absence.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1970-11-30
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Sova Räv
Overview: About four young individuals that has been let down by their parents. They live an extroverted life together, searching for their identity, in constant defiance of the adult world.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Games of Love and Loneliness
Overview: This co-production between Norway and Sweden is the first film that Anja Breien has made since Wives. She has adapted a novel by Hjalmar Soderberg. who also wrote 'Gertrud' from which Carl Dreyer's last film was made, and Doctor Glas' (made into a film by Mai Zetterhng) Games of Love and Loneliness, concerns the manners and mores of Scandinavian society between the years 1897 and 1912. A young journalist, Arvid, falls in love with a girl but won't commit himself to marrying her. She marries an older and richer man and he's pushed into marrying the girl he's been sleeping with. He meets his first love again, and she leaves her husband to have an affair with him, but he still cannot bring himself to leave his wife. Although Anja Breien has changed the character of the girl to make her less of a femme fatale and more of an emancipated woman, the film's central concern is the young man who cannot make up his mind what to do with his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1977-08-29
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A Stranger Came by Train
Overview: An American gangster of Swedish origins returns to his homeland to set up shop as a morality crusader, much in the manner of the later phenomenon of televangelists. While indulging in behind-the-scene shenanigans including rape and murder, the gangster (played by American Clu Gulagher) preaches to large audiences, using mass hypnotism and show-biz razzmatazz to get his message across. The film also features a brief performance by Per Oscarsson, following his highly publicized "retirement" from screen acting.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1974-10-28
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Broken Sky
Overview: Erika is 13 years and lives with her parents and her grandmother in the far north of Sweden in the 1940's. The family is depressed and disappointed in life. Erika dreams of a separate being in another world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1982-09-03
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Chez Nous
Overview: A stripper from Club Chez Nous is murdered. The killer contacts a newspaper to whitewash himself. Two journalists start to investigate the case and stumble on other crimes along the way.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1978-08-28
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The Metamorphosis
Overview: A Swedish adaptation of the Franz Kafka novella. Gregor Samsa, wakes one morning to find himself transformed into a large, monstrous beetle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-12
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Macklean
Overview: Sweden in the 1780s. At the court the nobility lords and ladies dance, love, intrigue and compete for the King's favor. To this Stockholm arrives Rutger Macklean, nobleman and an officer. With a notion of an extensive re-organisation of the agricultural lands and the farm properties.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1993-04-08
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Good People
Overview: A father and his son move to small village in the south of Sweden. One day, the boy finds an injured bird. He skips the school and spend more time in the woods with the bird.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1990-07-13
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Mondays with Fanny
Overview: Robert works at a warehouse and as a cinema usher and lives in a strained marriage. Every monday, he visits his ill father at the hospital. There he meets the orderly Fanny.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1977-08-31
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Hans Christian and the Geographic Society
Overview: Hans-Christian is a middle-aged priest who in the shadow of World War II decides to form a geographic association aiming at increased understanding between countries and people.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1981-09-13
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Ängslans boningar
Overview: A sick man asks his friend to help him dig a pit.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1987-03-02
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Hjälten
Overview: Seventeen year old Rita grows up in an upper-class Swedish seaside society in 1965, and is very close to her father, Gerhard. Rita rejects the boys from the tennis club, and prefers to go out with Jimmi in his laundry delivery van.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1990-02-02
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Living pictures
Overview: A film based on Fritiof Nilsson Piraten's short story "Lefvande bilder" - a story about when the movies came to the author's childhood village.
Genres: History Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Svidande affärer eller Historien om de fuktskadade gitarrerna
Overview: A young man has big dreams and hurry to realize them. Obviously, he is willing to take risks in both business and love to reach where he wants.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1991-02-14
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The Father
Overview: A charged power struggle between spouses. A tug of war to the death of an only child as ends and means. From an August Strindberg play.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1988-10-02
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Audiens
Overview: After imprisonment, Vanék can only take the worst work on a small village brewery.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1981-11-08
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Fanny and Alexander
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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Love Me!
Overview: Sussie is 15, raised with her alcoholic mother and an absent father. She has lived in several foster homes. Now she gets one last chance with a new family, the Lindgren's who live in a large house by the sea.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1986-02-28
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Maskeraden
Overview: On March 16, 1792, the king of Sweden Gustav III was shot at the Royal Opera in Stockholm. The play portrays the king's last hours before the attack.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1992-03-16
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Rikedom
Overview: Johan enjoys the autumn work in the small park in his hometown, but he is worried ...
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1978-03-27
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Walk On Water If You Can
Overview: Literature graduate Orlando begins a love affair with the Foreign Ministry official Anders. She follows him to Argentina. There she learns that he is already married.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1979-09-17
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En ros av kött
Overview: Daniel, a visual artist, mourns the loss of his daughter Johanna. The intense emotions lead him into a crisis and an estrangement from his wife Sonja.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1985-03-26
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Det var en mörk och stormig natt
Overview: When darkness and bad weather seals around the house, it's nice to just sit and huddle in front of the television.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Ungkarlshotellet
Overview: Göte is an alcoholic dockworker who wants to turn his life around to get his son back.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1975-01-22
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