Stig Olin
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Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Stig Olin (September 11, 1920 – June 28, 2008) was a Swedish actor, theatre director, songwriter and singer. Father of actress Lena Olin and Swedish singer Mats Olin. He was married to actress Britta Holmberg. Description above from the Wikipedia article Stig Olin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
Birthday: September 11, 1920
Deathday: June 28, 2008
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Gender: Male
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Crisis
Overview: A poor Swedish piano teacher and her foster daughter’s lives are upended when the child’s biological mother arrives in their small town to reclaim her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-02-25
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Hur tokigt som helst
Overview: "How crazy!" A man and a woman watch episodes from Nils Poppe movies outside a cinema Maxim in Stockholm. Poppe represents, among other things, a poor composer who vainly tries to get a tune adopted by a publisher. The failure makes him depressed, but he is living it up by meeting a good friend Calle, who invites him home. Poppe stays for a few days as a male housewife. Calle has a music store and there the two friends can go crazy among all the instruments.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-02-28
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The Yellow Squadron
Overview: The year is 1954. The war in Korea has just ended and the superpowers stand by each side of the boarder. The peace in Europe is fragile and the cold war is imminent. At F8 - Air Fore Base, the yellow squadron stand ready with its J29 fighters.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-11-29
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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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This Can't Happen Here
Overview: Atka Natas is a secret agent from the oppressive regime of Liquidatzia. He visits his estranged wife Vera, a chemist who is involved with a group of exiles trying to smuggle their compatriots out of Liquidatzia. Almkvist, a local policeman and former lover of Vera's, contacts her while investigating the death of one of the refugees. Natas has a list of agents operating in the host country and wants to sell them to the Americans. However before he can do so, Vera tries to kill him, after an argument about getting her parents out of Liquidatzia.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1950-10-23
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Summer Interlude
Overview: A jaded prima ballerina reminisces about her first love affair after she is unexpectedly sent her lover's old diary.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1951-10-01
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To Joy
Overview: After learning that his wife has been killed in an accident, a violinist looks back on their relationship.
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1950-02-20
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Eva
Overview: Marine Bo Fredriksson is travelling home on a leave. He reminisce about an accident he caused as a 12-year old which killed a young girl, an event that has made him feel revulsion for death. Back home he meets Eva, a girl he fancies and they move together to Stockholm to start a life together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1948-12-26
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Stig Järrel 80 år
Overview: A documentary made to celebrate Stig Järrel's 80th birthday, clips of old performances are mixed with new interviews with Järrel and colleagues.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1990-02-08
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Torment
Overview: Jan-Erik Widgren meets the lonely Bertha Olsson, a woman struggling with alcoholism. Though Bertha is already linked to Caligula, Jan-Erik's heartless teacher, she begins a relationship with the boy anyway. When Caligula learns that Jan-Erik is having an affair with Bertha, he begins to torture his student psychologically. He reserves his cruelest behavior for Bertha, however, which results in a tragic turn of events.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-10-02
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Port of Call
Overview: Berit is a young woman with problems. She is suicidal and depressed. Since it has been impossible for her to live with her mother, she has spent many years in institutions. She has now gotten a job in an industry on the condition that she can live together with her mother again. Their relationship is very tense however. One night at a dance she meets stevedore Gösta. Will he be able to give her the support she needs?
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1948-10-11
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The Girl from the Third Row
Overview: A ring passes between a lot of different people, giving the bearer or someone close a new meaning to life. Actors, embezzlers, old ladies and cheated husbands all seem to gain temporary hope from misery and disillusionment.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-08-29
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Klasskamrater
Overview: Newly graduated teacher Anna-Greta is courted by a senior student.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1952-11-17
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Jim and the Pirates Blom
Overview: Jim Olsson, eight years old, lives in a small, boring town. His father has passed away recently, but comes back in Jim's fantasies to tell stories. In his daydreams, Jim has all kinds of adventures.
Genres: Family Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1987-02-12
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The Priest Who Knocked Out
Overview: The boxing promoter Charlie returns from America to Sweden and needs to find a professional Swedish boxer for an upcoming fight. By chance Charlie watches Björn Harring fight off some hoodlums. Charlie sees great potential in Björn and wants to promote him for an upcoming fight, the problem is though that Björn is studying theology and is soon to become a priest. This might not look too good in a prejudiced society of the 40s with a boxing priest, but Charlie is determent to find a way.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-03-06
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Two People
Overview: When the prestigious Dr. Arne Lundell completes the most important work of his life, a colleague from the University of Stockholm, Dr. Sander, complains against him for plagiarism. Marianne, wife of Arne, does everything possible to encourage her anxious husband for not understanding the reasons for this unjust accusation. In these circumstances, Sander is found dead. It seems that it is a suicide, but his soon finds that he has been murdered. Suspicions fall on Dr. Arne. The dramatic situation begins to unravel when Arne discovers, by chance, a letter by which he discovers that his wife was the secret lover of the missing professor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-03-23
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Sceningång
Overview: A day in the life of a theater ensemble. The acting students are struggling to get one foot ahead of the others and the regular cast is fighting for the good parts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-12-03
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Each to His Own Way
Overview: A drama about a doctor and his wife. She used to be an actress, but became a housewife when she married. When she resumes her acting career the marriage crashes.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1948-02-16
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Farlig kurva
Overview: Christer is a teenager who prefers to spend his time on motorcycles instead of his studies which doesn't impress his father. There is also a youth motorcycle gang terrorising the local girls but Christer doesn't dare to stand up to them, leading to his humiliation. One day he comes into contact with a professional speedway racer who takes him under his wing.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1952-12-26
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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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A Profession for Men
Overview: A propaganda film for the Swedish professional military made during the Second World War.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-03-13
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Resan till dej
Overview: The marriage of the newlyweds Gun and Emil is strained when Gun sings in a radio show and makes a breakthrough.
Genres: Romance Music Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-12-19
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Farlig vår
Overview: A young prostitute, Gullan Svan, is murdered one night. The police suspects that the murderer is a student, since she had a lot of students as customers. The murderer stole a picture of Gullan after he killed her, a picture which later is found in a rented tuxedo when the tuxedo is returned. Four students decide to solve the case, but it seems that the truth is even closer than they first suspected... Plot by Mattias Thuresson
Genres: Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-02-28
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Woman Without a Face
Overview: Martin is married to Frida and together they have a son. One day after a quarrel with his wife, he goes to buy flowers to ask for forgiveness. In the flower shop he meets the beautiful Rut and falls instantly in love. They both start a passionate love affair but beneath the beautiful surface hides a completely different woman than he expected ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-09-16
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Rasmus, Pontus and Toker
Overview: Ten-year-old Rasmus, his friend Pontus and his dog Toker, find out about a silver theft in the small town where they live. Family film from Astrid Lindgren's radio series.
Genres: Family
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-12-08
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Mord, lilla vän
Overview: A member of "Sjöbjörnarna" (a group of executives), asks the newspaper editor Dick Mattson to find Brita Ljungdahl, the former wife of another of the members. The first clue he tries is to ask a certain Maria Vaern, who knows Brita.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-02-26
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Oss tjuvar emellan eller en burk ananas
Overview: Max Kvarne is an international adventurer who stole 25,000 pounds in 100-pound banknotes at a London coup.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-01-22
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Kronans käcka gossar
Overview: New explosives will be demonstrated for the military authorities, but some shady characters looking to steal it to sell it to a foreign power.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1940-01-15
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Incorrigible
Overview: Olga Sundbom is divorced and has custody of her spoiled son Krister. The lack of upbringing has made Krister an intolerable petty gangster. He is therefore put in a boarding school in a smaller town, and his getting in is due to a scam he himself is responsible for. Soon he turns the little idyll upside down.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-09-30
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One Fiancé at a Time
Overview: Lilian is engaged to engineer Arne. To make him more interested in her, she meets a few other men.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1952-05-04
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Johansson och Vestman
Overview: Olga Hallman is waiting outside Långholmens prison. Out comes Adolf Johansson. Released after eight years for manslaughter. Olga takes him to a cafe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-09-03
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Den underbara lögnen
Overview: The night before her wedding, a nervous bride examines her gifts and picks out a book of romantic short stories. Hoping to while away the evening, she settles on the couch and begins reading "La grande Bretêche" by Honoré de Balzac.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-11-25
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Swing it, fröken
Overview: There is a new English teacher in school, Miss Lind. She moves in with the Nilssons, whose son Sigge prefers playing with his trumpet than to study German. Miss Lind convinces him how important his studies are. But Sanna, a girl in Sigge's class becomes jealous and angry when Sigge prefers his homework instead of her. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-10-20
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The Balloon
Overview: Sten Stensson Stéen dies when he gets a wooden box in his head, and he enters heaven in a balloon.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-10-07
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Jens Mons in America
Overview: Jens Månsson has big financial problems and realizes that he probably has to leave his dear Skåne farm Gåsabo. But suddenly, he inherits a fortune from his brother John in America.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-03-24
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Prison
Overview: A movie director is approached by his old math teacher with a great movie idea: the Devil declares that the Earth is hell. The director rejects the idea, but subsequent events in the life of a writer, a friend of the director's, and a young prostitute he loves seem to prove the math teacher's idea.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-03-19
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Ordet
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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The Sin of Anna Lans
Overview: At a meeting at the Salvation Army a female soldier tells the story of her life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-08-20
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Den osynliga muren
Overview: "The Invisble Wall" - In an unnamed country under occupation, a senior officer is killed in an attack by a member of the resistance.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-08-21
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Kvartetten som sprängdes
Overview: A small Swedish town just after WW1. An accountant and his two journalist friends have entered the stock market. The result is not as good as expected.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1950-12-26
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Young Blood
Overview: Eva is a very talented and able college girl. In the summer she is going to work at a farm. There she meets a different world of unwanted children, desires and temporary relationships.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-10-12
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Divorced
Overview: Gertrud is being abandoned by her husband after 20 years of marriage. Offended and unhappy she leaves her home and rents a room. The landlady's son is drawn to her and tries to help her out of the loneliness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1951-12-26
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Three Sons
Overview: Drama evolving around three brothers who join the air force to become flight cadets. When Åke's plane goes missing, the other two must find him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-03-03
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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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Lev farligt
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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Time of the Wolf
Overview: The young nobleman Inge is riding through Sweden, looking for his twin brother, Arild. He meets a group of gypsies who welcome him. They met Arild earlier and believe that the brother is Arild. Inge falls in love with the mysterious girl Isis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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