Erland Colliander
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Biography: Carl Erland Colliander was a Swedish stage and screen actor. He made his film debut in Victor Sjöström's "Ett hemligt giftermål /A Ruined Life" (1912).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Stockholm, Sweden
Adult: No
Birthday: October 09, 1878
Age: 146 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: February 28, 1949
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New Order at Sjogarda
Overview: Major Grasser lives on his estate with his twin daughters Britta and Stina. Stina is studying at the university and Britta wants to work with farming. The major wants to put Britta in a school of commerce and hires a tutor to prepare her for higher education. This she dislikes and things doesn't gets better when her father thinking of selling the estate.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-10-21
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The Emperor of Portugallia
Overview: The poor farmer Jan is getting very old when he becomes father to the girl, Klara Gulla. First, he sees the child as a burden, but when he receives the newborn child in his arms he is overjoyed. He does everything in his power for her during her. But when she as an adult leaves home, Jan can not come over the loss of her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-12-26
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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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Gustaf Wasa, Part Two
Overview: King Christian II rides busy street by Sweden which he now put under him, while he remembers what he did against the Swedes at the Stockholm Bloodbath. In dala heels walk a lonely man, dressed as a peasant. It's the one the Danes would prefer to get hold of - Gustaf Eriksson Vasa . He goes from Rankhyttan to Ornäs , where he is kindly received by the farmer Arendt Persson, but Arendt is a deceitful man who has thought enter Wasa to the Danish bailiff. But Arendt's wife helps Wasa to escape and he continues his long journey.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1928-03-18
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I dag börjar livet
Overview: Choreographer is found murdered and the police investigate. There are several suspects among his lovers, dancers and family members.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1939-08-15
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Sjösalavår
Overview: The Troubadour sits at a rock beside his summerhouse Sjösala in the Stockholm archipelago. He is composing a new ballad, when his son Sven Bertil interrupts him, telling him that an angry man is knocking at their door. It is the creditor Andersson, coming with a new unpaid bill to be put on the top of all the other. The Troubadour is tired of all economical problems. It disturbs the peace he needs to be able to write new songs, and without new songs he cannot earn the money he needs to pay the bills. To get peace and inspiration for his writing, he makes a quick decision to go to Buenos Aires. By phone he persuades his publisher to prepay 7000 kronor for some future book. On the little ferry from the islands in the sea to Stockholm city the Troubadour is carried away by his imagination into the fictitious world of his main character Fritiof Andersson. Colorful scenes from various songs are enacted before his dreaming eyes. In Stockholm he spends the night at the inn Gyldene Freden. ...
Genres: Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-09-05
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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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The Sea Vultures
Overview: Two smugglers meet two customs officers at sea, and happen to kill them. The story continues fifteen years later when a son of one of the officers and a smuggler's daughter fall in love with each other.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1916-01-31
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Mitt folk är icke ditt
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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Dollar
Overview: Ludvig and Sussi Battwyhl, Louis and Katja Brenner and Julia and Kurt Balzar are upper class millionaires. They don't seem to do any real work but still need a vacation in the mountains. Everybody seems to be romantically involved with everybody. A rich American woman joins them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1938-09-05
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A Secret Marriage
Overview: A film about family secrets...and deathbed confessions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1912-10-14
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Begär
Overview: Carsten Berg returns home after 15 years abroad. He gets into a fight with his father, who dies of a heart attack. Carsten must take over his fathers business. He is informed that he is suffering from an incurable disease.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-09-02
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Onda ögon
Overview: Per Jonas wife Hedvig is ill and Barbro has been employed to care for her. Per Jonas falls in love with Barbro and in order to live with her, he kills Hedvig.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-02-03
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Kiss Her!
Overview: Lisa Larsson, dancer at a theater, witnesses a traffic accident and banker Brenner's private driver asks her to be a witness. When her friends see her talk to the driver, they start to believe that she is Brenner's fiancée. The manager of the theater, Gravander, gives her the leading part in his latest show, in order to befriend Brenner. Larsson plays along in this mistake and when Brenner hears about this he asks to see Larsson, pretending to be a news journalist... Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1940-05-17
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Panik
Overview: About the conspiracy against the Swedish entrepeneur Ivar Kreuger. Presented through his secretary as a strictly busy, very wealthy man, involved in important international transactions. Ministers from all over the world stand in line to visit him. The Kreuger shares are in high demand. Germany needs a $ 125 million loan. Bank director Ryder suggests that secret forces want to stop this loan. Ted Harris, an American rogue, wants to sell secret papers from Wall Street on plots against Kreuger. The French minister and an international Soviet agent, Brody, also visit Kreuger regarding the loans. Kreuger shares are dropping around the world. The firm Nathan and Kohn contributes to dumping Kreuger shares after a bribe of SEK 25,000. Ordinary savers are ruined.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1939-03-06
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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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The Springtime of Life
Overview: A motherless child has a tumultuous existence, but she eventually becomes a famous international opera singer. Past and present meet when she performs in her original home town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1912-12-16
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Ingeborg Holm
Overview: After Ingeborg Holm's husband becomes sick and dies, the family's small grocery store fails, Ingeborg becomes bankrupt, and she is forced to move to the workhouse. Her three children go to foster homes. Ingeborg simply must see them again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1913-10-27
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Symphony of a City
Overview: A short film about Stockholm. Sweden's first Oscar, 1949 Best Short Subject, One-Reel.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-08-15
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Gustaf Wasa, Part One
Overview: The story takes its beginning in 1518 , the Danish King Christian II has taken Sweden. Sten Sture the younger appeal to all loyal subjects to resist. The offer reaches the farmer Mats Waltersson in Dalarna , Sweden's heart and he gathers his men. Dalmas were going from house to house, they do not want a Dane on the throne. At Brännkyrka outside Stockholm is a battle between the Danes and Swedes. Swedes win and the Swedish riksbaneret out during the Battle of Gustav Eriksson Vasa.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1928-03-04
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A Woman's Face
Overview: A cynical woman with a disfigured face—a hardened criminal—gets an opportunity to change her ways when she meets a sympathetic plastic surgeon. She leaves her old life behind, but soon her old friends catch up with her.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1938-10-31
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65, 66, and Me
Overview: Wholesaler Pettersson ends up in the military after being mixed up with a soldier on the run, who has stolen his identity.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1936-11-23
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Kungen kommer
Overview: A travelling theater-company performs Offenbach's "The Beautiful Helene" when an officer in the audience notices the similarity in appearance between the leading actor Leonard Pettersson and the king Charles XV.With Pettersson dressed as the king and the other actors as the royal suite, they all go to Herrsunda castle where the officer is trying to make an impression on his fiance.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1936-03-23
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Kungliga Johansson
Overview: Famous chef Carl-Ulrik Johansson (Erik 'Bullen' Berglund) comes home to Sweden after twenty years abroad and finds out he never finished his compulsory military service. Consequently he is forced to join the army as a conscript. He has many fights with his sergeant Göran Persson (Thor Modéen).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1934-09-23
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