Margaretha Krook
Also Known As: Margaretha Knutsdotter Krook, Margareta Krook
Biography: Margaretha Knutsdotter Krook (15 October 1925 – 7 May 2001) was a Swedish stage and film actress. She won the Eugene O'Neill Award in 1974. In 1976, she won the Guldbagge Award for Best Actress for the film Release the Prisoners to Spring.[
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
Birthday: October 15, 1925
Deathday: May 07, 2001
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Gender: Female
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Persona
Overview: A young nurse, Alma, is put in charge of Elisabeth Vogler: an actress who is seemingly healthy in all respects, but will not talk. As they spend time together, Alma speaks to Elisabeth constantly, never receiving any answer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1966-10-18
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Stängda dörrar
Overview: Inès, Estelle, and Garcin are condemned to be together in a single room and soon start arguing and accusing each other.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1981-11-10
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Karlsson on the Roof
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Genres: Family Animation
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2002-09-27
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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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Rika barn leka bäst
Overview: Six women get fired from a bank while the director gets a huge raise.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1997-10-10
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The Jönsson Gang in Mallorca
Overview: Vanheden and Dynamit-Harry, together with Harry's fiancée Doris, are in Mallorca while Sickan is still in Stockholm. However, Wall-Enberg talks him into doing a break-in at Las Palmas cathedral in Mallorca. Once persuaded, he can't resist the temptation and travels to Mallorca as well. However, Wall-Enberg obviously can't be trusted. Sickan is framed, caught and put in jail. While being escorted home to Sweden again, Vanheden and Harry sets up a plan to break him free. Sickan, once free, wants payback. The gang discover that an antiques dealer called Germann has something to do with the whole thing and that she's also collaborating with Wall-Enberg. The gang then decide to take a closer look at her and her antiques and they discover that there's a heist being planned against the cathedral in Palma.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1989-11-03
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The Man Who Quit Smoking
Overview: The Plot focuses on Dante Alighieri, a young man who loves smoking. When his father dies Dante inherits $17 million on one special condition: He must give up smoking in 14 days and then stay smoke-free for an entire year. If he fails, his uncle inherits the $17 million instead. Dante has a living hell while trying to quit, and hires a private detective agency called Little Secret Service who he gives free hands to stop him from smoking, While his uncle, who has taken up smoking himself, also does everything he can to make Dante smoke again.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1972-12-16
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Den beslöjade damen
Overview: Fredrik is a male feminist who has a big fight with his wife one morning. When a widow shows up in their home and starts telling his wife how great it is to be a widow he flees the apartment but finds himself constantly followed by a gang of women.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1977-02-09
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The Adventures of Picasso
Overview: A farcical biopic about Pablo Picasso, from his early years, to his middle years, to the years right before his death, and some of the years before and in-between that.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1978-05-20
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Peas & Whiskers
Overview: Life isn't easy for the indecisive 40-year-old Claes-Henrik. Should he choose his mom or his girlfriend?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1986-02-07
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Sadist
Overview: The plot revolves around a sadistic doctor, a macabre gravedigger, an innocent girl, sabotage, sex and violent death. The beautiful Vivi Sander is living a rough life and is deeply in debt. She tries to force her family to sell the house to make ends meet. Vivi's car crash after a sabotage. She is injured and brought to a medical center where she meets the perverted Dr. Wester.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1966-06-27
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Och ge oss skuggorna
Overview: It is the 61st birthday of the American author Eugene O'Neill. He is sick, old and his name has started to fade from the public consciousness. His wife Carlotta Monterey is far from supporting, in fact she constantly reminds him of his shortcomings and unfulfilled dreams. Their sons, Eugene Jr. and Shane come to congratulate him (and perhaps expecting to get some money). But they are unable to help their father, since they have their own problems: Eugene Jr. is an alcoholic, Shane is doing drugs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1993-01-06
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Talk's cheap
Overview: SG and Acke are two aged photographers dreaming about their big scoop. They no longer get the major assignments and feel that time has passed them by. At a party Acke takes a photo of a company leader getting intimate with one of the guests. Now they get their big chance, or so they think.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1981-09-16
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Lita på mej, älskling!
Overview: Anna and Karl are a young couple in Stockholm, unable to find an apartment of their own. However, they play matchmakers to make their friends Fredrik and Ulla to get together, getting an apartment of their own that way. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1961-12-18
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Duo jag
Overview: Gösta Ekman and Kent Andersson play two men, living together for a long time. One a small, skinny and unknown poet - the other a large, famous and celebrated actor.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1991-09-09
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The Secret Friend
Overview: A woman humiliates and shouts at her husband, before she ties him up and disappears. He frees himself and calls a friend who comes over. He tries to tell the friend how his wife treats him but the friend does not seem to understand or accept what he is saying. The man then puts on his wife’s negligee and suggest a role-play in order for the friend to understand better. The man plays his wife while the friend plays the man. After a while they switch roles. Later the wife returns with a male friend, a psychologist, to find her husband and his friend in female attire.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1990-03-30
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Release the Prisoners to Spring
Overview: Small and short Frida lives with her long, tall friend in a house in the countryside. Frida rejects the idea that people who have committed crimes should be locked up. One day their own house is burgled by Harald. He is sentenced to prison. Acting in accordance with her philosophy, Frida decides to use all means possible to make it possible for Harald to escape.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1975-12-06
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Karin Månsdotter
Overview: Karin does not belong to the nobility but nevertheless marries the mentally ill king Erik XIV and becomes queen of Sweden. The king's skilled counsellor Göran Persson wants a royal policy supporting the people and supported by it. But in relation to the nobility the king oscillates between provocative strength and unpredictable weakness. Göran arranges that some very powerful noblemen are killed. Subsequently the king tries to have them convicted of high treason by the parliament. He forgets the manuscript, mixes up all facts, and the noblemen are acquitted. But Göran speedily gathers another parliament and has them convicted. Meanwhile Erik apologises because of the unjust murders. Hence Erik is dethroned and imprisoned. Göran is executed. Karin is restricted to a castle in Finland. In the prison Erik believes that he is still the king and gives the guards presents such as all fishes in the Baltic Sea.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-11-01
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The Bookseller Who Gave Up Bathing
Overview: A sleepy village around 1910. Jacob, the owner of a book store in a small town is a member of a club who baths together every Sunday. He is uninterested in women until Amelie Arbel moves into the town. She is both rich and seductive and he marries her. After the marriage he discovers that she can be very troublesome.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1969-04-06
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Medea
Overview: Medea is a powerful witch who gets revenge on her cheating husband Jason by killing their children.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1963-03-25
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SOPOR
Overview: One Monday morning, a thousand children leave the suburb of Farsta and go to Stockholm to occupy the Royal Castle. The children have formed a group called S.O.P.O.R. as a protest against the way adults treat them and have destroyed their future. They demand that the robots in the industry are replaced by humans to create job opportunities. They take the royal family as hostages.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1981-03-21
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Söndagspromenaden
Overview: A tale about the Coriander family at the turn of the century.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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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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Gossip
Overview: A Hollywood producer auditions ten Swedish actresses for the title role in a big-budget remake of Greta Garbo's classic Queen Christina.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2000-12-24
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Mother, Father, Child
Overview: During an afternoon and evening, we follow a family's everyday life. From the child's perspective, we see how the bizarre the world can seem sometimes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1978-03-19
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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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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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Nationalmonumentet
Overview: The sculptor Erik Some gets commissioned to create a national monument. His sculpture gets rejected but it's the starting point for a lot of political and light-hearted complications.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1977-10-19
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Körsbärsträdgården
Overview: Television adaptation of Chekhov's story about the spoiled widow Madame Ranevskaya.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1970-08-23
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Swedish Portraits
Overview: The unemployed Timjan discover Mejram singing and instantly fall in love with her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1964-09-07
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Brink of Life
Overview: Three women in a maternity ward reveal their lives and intimate thoughts to each other.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-03-31
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I
Overview: A young man is seeking an identity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1966-05-15
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The Magic Circle
Overview: Loosely based on the Sala gang, a group of five people that committed murders and thefts in Sweden in the 1930s.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1970-12-25
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Änkan
Overview: Farce about an out of work actor that one day gets the chance to play the role he never got to play before.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1969-03-09
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Flying Devils
Overview: A family of aerialists decides to go after the $250,000 prize being offered to any group that can execute a complicated trapeze maneuver. However, personal dramas and financial difficulties soon threaten to overtake the flyers' pursuit of the elusive quadruple somersault. The film received a Robert Award as the best Danish film of 1985.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1985-08-16
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Alf Sjöberg - mästaren
Overview: Alf Sjöberg (1903-1980) was Swedens greatest theater director of the 20th century and as a film director the first of international importance since the silent film era. He won the Grand Prix du Festival at the Cannes Film Festival twice.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1983-12-22
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Kvinnofest 1981
Overview: A gala performance at Cirkus in Stockholm ahead of the International Women's Day on March 8, 1981.
Genres: Music
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1981-03-07
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Hon kräver upprättelse
Overview: It's New Year's Eve and she sits alone on her floor accompanied by the glamour and bustle of her neighbors and her own bitterness .
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1978-01-04
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Det går an
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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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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Barabbas
Overview: The story about the thief who didn't get crucified because Jesus was choosen to take his place.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-05-05
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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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Kattresan
Overview: Based on the classic swedish children's book from 1909. Kattresan is the story of a little girl that sets out on a great adventure with a strange cat.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1982-10-14
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Trasiga änglar
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Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1962-09-23
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Adam in Sweden
Overview: Rikard Adamsson, a young man dreaming of becoming a writer, lives a wild and dissolute bohemian life. A ferocious fighter with a heart of gold and a great taste for women. In the military service he gets in trouble, runs away, returns and is sentenced to prison. Inside he finishes his first novel. However, no publisher is interested.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1966-12-19
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Patrasket
Overview: A poor Jewish family, called the Riffraff by the author, puts the great Joe Meng at the heart of high-flying plans and imaginative flair.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1966-11-13
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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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Monismanien 1995
Overview: In a fictional future totalitarian society ruled as a one-party state. A teacher commits the crime to teach their students to think independently and is therefore being stalked. The fictional Monismania also appeared in Astrid Lindgren's saga about the witch Pomperipossa in the Monismanian 1976.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-05
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A Dream Play
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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Ringlek
Overview: Scrutinizes the sexual morals and class ideology of its day through a series of encounters between pairs of characters, shown before or after a sexual encounter. A prostitute is cheated out of her money by a drug-dealer, in the next scene the dealer seduces a maid, who in turn is hit by the son of her employer, and so on, until an actress engages in a little hanky-panky with the count, who - and this is where the circle joins - in a final scene ends up at the prostitute's apartment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1982-01-05
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Topaze
Overview: A shy but righteous teacher - Topaze - with no social skills what so ever, gradually becomes aware of the realities of human societies and finally learns to master the rules at level far superior to his former mentor, Laurent Castel-Benac.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1963-02-18
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Skuggan av Mart
Overview: About the foolish and lost Gabriel who lives entirely in the shadow of his brother, the brave soldier Mart who died in the war and is continuously immortalized by the dominant mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1983-02-14
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Fröken Rosita
Overview: Play by Federico Garcia Lorca. Swedish interpretation of Hjalmar Gullberg and Karin Alin.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1960-12-09
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Onkel Vanja
Overview: A retired professor has returned to his estate to live with his beautiful young wife, Yelena. The estate originally belonged to his first wife, now deceased; her mother and brother still live there and manage the farm.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1994-12-26
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Good-Bye Nana
Overview: A film that questions the right of parents to force their children into the adult world's rational behavior. A 6-year-old revolt by going to a lawyer and ask for a divorce from their parents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1970-12-18
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Adam och Eva
Overview: Eva discovers a contest of an altarpiece. Her husband Adam makes a simple sketch. Adam wins the competition. The success makes Adam famous.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1963-09-02
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A Walk in the Sun
Overview: Tore Andersson is a depressed 43 year old sport journalist living in Stockholm. His girlfriend has left him so he decides to take a vacation in Cyprus.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1978-12-25
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Tingel Tangel på Tyrol
Overview: A show/happening recorded at restaurant Tyrol in Stockholm.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1990-09-22
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The Wedding
Overview: "The Marriage" - Eva and Kent are planning to get married. Their bridal stag parties causes some problems. The wedding reception will serve moonshine since the regular booze is capsized at sea.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1973-10-31
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The White Carnation
Overview: An absent-minded University teacher lives a double life as an impostor. His butler helps him find victims.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1974-08-30
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Tre långa kvinnor
Overview: Three women in different ages. Based on the theatre play Three Tall Women by Edward Albee.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1997-10-01
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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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Only a Mother
Overview: A poor woman in a Swedish farming community struggles to feed her large family and is torn by her passion for two different men.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-10-31
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Mother's Revolution
Overview: Ester is a housewife and struggles for the family but is oppressed by both her husband and her oldest children. When Ester's sister comes to visit for a week, she sees what is going on in the family and she tries to convince Ester to come with her to the city and live with her. Just as a small test.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1950-11-17
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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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Mr. Ernest
Overview: Mr. Worthing and Mr. Moncrieff both use the pseudonym Ernest, leading to a lot of misunderstandings.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1961-09-01
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Dödsdansen
Overview: Edgar and Alice have been married 25 years. Now their marriage is falling apart as all the pent up bitterness is starting to break through.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1980-09-10
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Stockholmania
Overview: Documentary depicting a group of different people and their lives in Stockholm under different conditions and through all seasons.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1998-08-15
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Lek ej med kärleken
Overview: The baron wants his niece and her cousin to get married but their own intrigues challenge his plans.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1961-11-17
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Misantropen
Overview: Alceste has a very low opinion about humanity and is always brutally honest. This gets him into a lot of trouble.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1963-01-14
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