Lars Hanson
Also Known As: Lars Mauritz Hanson
Biography: Lars Hanson was a Swedish film and stage actor, internationally most remembered for his starring motion picture roles during the Silent film era. In major Hollywood movies 1926-1928.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Göteborg, Sweden
Adult: No
Birthday: July 25, 1886
Age: 138 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: April 08, 1965
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The Wind
Overview: When Letty Mason relocates to West Texas, she finds herself unsettled by the ever-present wind and sand. Arriving at her new home at the ranch of her cousin, Beverly, she receives a surprisingly cold welcome from his wife, Cora. Soon tensions in the family and unwanted attention from a trio of suitors leave Letty increasingly disturbed.
Genres: Drama Western Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-15
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Minns ni?
Overview: A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 films.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1993-10-24
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Flesh and the Devil
Overview: When lifelong best friends Leo and Ulrich return home after completing their military training, Leo meets the stunning Felicitas at a railway station and is mesmerized by her beauty. A scandal follows, for which Leo is sent away. Returning home three years later, he discovers that much has changed.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-25
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The Saga of Gösta Berling
Overview: Gösta Berling is a young and attractive minister. Because of his alcoholism and his daring sermons, he is finally defrocked. He becomes a tutor of countess Marta's stepdaughter and they fall in love. But the countess has a plan of her own.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1924-03-09
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Walpurgis Night
Overview: Lena Bergström works in an office and is unhappily in love with her boss, Johan Borg. She decides to quit. Borg's wife won't have any children, and when she becomes pregnant she has an illegal abortion. For some reason, Lena's father believes that it is Lena who has had an abortion.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1935-10-23
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The Scarlet Letter
Overview: In Puritan Boston, seamstress Hester Prynne and kindly Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale fall in love. After Dimmesdale must go away for a time to England, he returns to discover that Hester has given birth to their child and is the focus of local censure.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-08
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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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On the Sunny Side
Overview: Eva Bergh works as a bank clerk, but dreams of becoming an artist. At a party she meets the rich Harald Ribe and he instantly falls in love with her. When he proposes to marry her she has no work or place to live and she accepts. At Harald's estate she can live comfortably, but she misses her old friends.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1936-02-03
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A Dangerous Proposal
Overview: The farmer Knut Husaby has a daughter, Aslaug, who is the most beautiful girl in the village. Many boys are after her, but Knut and his two sons drive them away, if they come too close to the farm. Aslaug is secretly in love with Tore Naesset. But he is only a smallholder's son, and when he asks for Aslaug's hand, her father just laughs at him. Instead her father wants Aslaug to marry Ola Thormundson, a gawky boy, who is the son of the wealthiest farmer in the village. Aslaug brings her family's cattle to the Husaby summer farm up in the mountain. Only one road leads to the summer farm, and it passes right by the main farm. When Tore returns from a visit to Aslaug in the mountains, Knut and his sons beat him black and blue. As it's impossible for him to use the road anymore, Tore has to figure out another way to go to Aslaug. Next Saturday he crosses the fiord in a rowing-boat. He stops at a fifty meter high wall of rock, and starts climbing it, hoping to reach Aslaug at the top.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1919-12-26
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The Informer
Overview: A man betrays his best friend, a member of a terrorist organisation, to the authorities and is then pursued by the other members of the organisation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-10-16
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The Girl from the Marsh Croft
Overview: A 1917 Swedish drama film directed by Victor Sjöström, based on a 1913 novel by Selma Lagerlöf. It was the first in a series of successful Lagerlöf adaptions by Sjöström, made possible by a deal between Lagerlöf and A-B Svenska Biografteatern (later AB Svensk Filmindustri) to adapt at least one Lagerlöf novel each year. Lagerlöf had for many years denied any proposal to let her novels be adapted for film, but after seeing Sjöström's Terje Vigen she finally decided to give her allowance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1917-09-09
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The Ingmar Inheritance
Overview: When his ancestors seem to appear in the clouds during a storm of biblical proportions, young Ingmar decides to give up his career as the village teacher and to reclaim the land and farm of his fathers. The same stormy night, the charismatic preacher Helgum arrives in the village to spread the word about the promises of the Holy Land, which turns parents and children, men and wives, brothers and sisters, against one another. Ingmar is torn between his love for the headmaster’s daughter Gertrud who is under the preacher’s spell, and the prospects of marrying the judge’s daughter Barbro in order to keep the farm.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1925-12-26
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Sin
Overview: A married writer's luck turns when he gets a play produced at Théâtre de Paris. He meets the femme fatale who should play the lead in his play. Passion and conflict occurs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1928-09-16
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The Divine Woman
Overview: [For 9 minute surviving fragment] Lucian, a soldier in Paris, is to ship out for Algiers at 9 that evening. He stops by for a last meal with his love, Marianne. He may be worried that when he leaves she will find another soldier to love. They argue then embrace and, when the clock strikes midnight, he is still in her arms. Is desertion in the cards? Can the relationship survive the military demands and a soldier's obligations? A lost film.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-13
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The Wings
Overview: The story is that of a conniving countess coming between a gay sculptor, Claude Zoret, and his bisexual model and lover, Mikaël, ultimately leading to Zoret's death in a raging storm at the base of a statue of Mikaël as the mythological Icarus. The film is missing 19 minutes of run time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1916-09-04
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Our Daily Bread
Overview: In another early advertisement of her's, Greta and a group of friends have tea on the rooftop terrace of the Strand Hôtel and later have a picnic in the park.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1921-10-07
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Erotikon
Overview: Erotikon is a 1920 Swedish romantic comedy film directed by Mauritz Stiller, starring Tora Teje, Karin Molander, Anders de Wahl and Lars Hanson. It is based on the 1917 play A kék róka by Ferenc Herczeg. The story revolves around an entomology professor obsessed with the sexual life of bugs, and his easygoing wife who is courted by two suitors.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1920-11-08
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Homecoming
Overview: Following World War I, after a long imprisonment, two German prisoner-of-war soldiers escape from a Siberian lead-mine. Karl manages to reach Germany before Richard, and is sheltered by Anna, wife of Richard. While Richard is still on his homeward trek, Karl and Anna fall in love. And then Richard comes home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-08-28
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Captain Salvation
Overview: A young divinity student helps and protects a down and out prostitute, at the cost of his own standing in the community.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-05-14
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Do You Remember?
Overview: Compilation film with scenes from different Swedish silent films, many of the films have since been lost and the only surviving fragments can be found in this film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1935-01-01
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Stjärnbilder
Overview: A tribute to Swedish film, which was made to celebrate the 100th anniversary of film in 1995 and consists of about a hundred clips from Swedish film history with many of its stars.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1995-09-10
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Ride Tonight!
Overview: Oppressed by landowners, a peasant uprising ensues as an outlaw farmer refuses to pay taxes in this film adapted from Vilhelm Moberg's novel.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-11-24
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The Nuthouse
Overview: In Stockholm in the year 2248 an excavation leads to the discovery of 45,000 meters of film from the 1940's master director Hasse Ekman . The material is in a disarray but the Society for Ancient Film Research compiles the material after what is believed to have been the master's artistic intentions
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1951-09-21
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Med Ingrid Bergman på Berns
Overview: Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini at a gala held in Sweden in 1953.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-11-12
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Fröken, Ni liknar Greta Garbo!
Overview: Snippets of Greta Garbo movies interspersed with provincial gigs of girls resembling Garbo. The film begins with one of the aspirants reading an issue of the newspaper Stockholms-Tidningen.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1931-09-18
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His Excellency
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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The Ballerina
Overview: Lovers are torn apart by a noble's desire for the female half of the couple.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1916-11-20
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Song of the Scarlet Flower
Overview: The son of a wealthy farmer loves a simple maid, for which he's booted out of the house by his father.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1919-04-14
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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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Vingar kring fyren
Overview: Just before the young Anna is getting married to the lighthouse keeper Holmstrand, she meets the Norwegian sailor John. He falls in love with her, but leaves her when he is told she is engaged.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1938-10-10
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Konflikt
Overview: "Conflict" - Shipbuilder Edvard Banck is busy building new ships, but forgets that his wife Birgit wants his attention and tenderness. A new engineer, Reidar Hagen, begins at the shipyard, and Birgit is immediately attracted to him. They fall in love, and Birgit decides to leave her husband. But is it possible and what will Edvard do?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1937-01-15
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Fiskebyn
Overview: The widower Jakob Vindås lives with his daughter and his mother in a small west coast fishing community.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1920-03-15
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In Self Defence
Overview: A wealthy Russian family is faced with change and challenges as events unfold during the First World War.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1921-11-07
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Therèse
Overview: Therèse is a young woman who has married an older man to be able to live a wealthier life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1916-10-02
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Dolken
Overview: Mr Bernhard has financial difficulties. He has fallen into the hands of broker Mr Pouzer. In desperation, Bernhard's daughter Julia visit Pouzer to ask for mercy for her father. Yes, Pouzer replies, if I get you in return.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1915-01-02
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The Fairy of Solbakken
Overview: Synnöve lives with her parents at the farm Solbakken on a sunny hill. Thorbjörn, who lives at Granliden in the shadow of a big mountain, often looks wistfully up to Solbakken. As teenagers they meet and fall in love. Another boy, Knud Nordhaug, is also yearning for Synnöve.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1919-10-20
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To the Orient
Overview: When Ingmar Ingmarsson marries Barbro Svensdotter there's a big party with many guests. But the bride and groom are unhappy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1926-02-01
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Stiller, Garbo & jag
Overview: One day when Ruben Stiller is playing in a bath, he gets an alien talking to Nadja, who asks him to find out the fate of Charly's dog. Ruben agrees because Charly's host was Mauritz Stiller, and Ruben is the grandson of Mauritz's brother.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1988-03-08
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Till the Doors of Hell
Overview: Professor Barring is awarded the Nobel Prize in physics. According to Barring the scientist's sole duty is to seek the truth, even if this leads to the "gates of hell".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1948-11-08
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Buttons
Overview: Working as a pageboy on an ocean liner, a street orphan and his friend Slugger end up on the wrong side of the ship's captain when they try to tell him that his wife is cheating on him with other members of the crew. The boys end up in deeper trouble, after they are thrown in the brig and the ship starts sinking...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1927-12-24
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