John Ekman
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Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. John Ekman (15 November 1880 – 22 November 1949) was a Swedish silent film actor. He appeared in 81 films between 1912 and 1949. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Ekman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
Birthday: November 16, 1880
Deathday: November 22, 1949
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Love Wins Out
Overview: The year is 1946. Dr. Bertil Burman works at a Red Cross Hospital in Vienna. One day, a barely teenage girl, Leni Rosner, collapses at his reception.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-12-26
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Count Only the Happy Moments
Overview: The old Victor Branzell has a grandson, Alf, who is in love with a clerk in a glove shop, Lilian Lind. But Lilian with her simple background doesn't get accepted in the circles where Alf belongs, and they have now reached the conclusion that they can't have a future together. Marriage is impossible. Victor summons Lilian and Alf and starts telling them his life story.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-08-08
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Svarte Rudolf
Overview: Rudolf Carlsson, who works at a department store, dreams of making movies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1928-10-22
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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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Försök inte med mej...
Overview: Björn Norell, a bookish assistant to an art dealer, is fired because of his inability to find the third of a trio of Buddha statues. In order to get his job back, Norell, goes on a hunt to find it in order to get his job back. Meanwhile, the art dealer has sent his daughter Ulla after him to retrieve the statue. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-02-02
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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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Atlantäventyret
Overview: Theatre director Freddy Alsterberg has failed with his latest operetta. He decides to work his way over the Atlantic. His niece Tusse also stows away on the ship disguised as a boy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1934-02-05
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General von Döbeln
Overview: 1813. The Swedish army is fighting in the War of the Sixth Coalition. The popular general Von Döbeln is arrested for sending the army against the French in breach of orders by the crown prince. At the court martial he is sentenced to death but is pardoned by the king and sent to prison instead. A group of conspirators are planning to set him free and make him their leader in a coup d'etat.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-10-26
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The Gardener
Overview: A gardener's son has fallen in love with the daughter of one of the workers at the nursery, and the two are married. The gardener then kicks his progeny off the property and begins to act despicably toward his son's wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1912-10-16
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The Last Performance
Overview: A young lieutenant falls in love with a circus rider. He leave the military and take a job at the circus. He quickly becomes the crowds favorite. His interest in another woman drives the rejected circus rider to revenge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1912-08-11
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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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Rosen på tistelön
Overview: A smuggler's daughter falls in love with the son of a customs inspector.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-08-05
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Marknadsafton
Overview: The farmer Magni is planning to marry Teresia, but the maid Lovisa has other plans.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1948-07-31
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Snapphanar
Overview: In an occupied country, the people rise to throw off the occupants. This includes Jens the farmer and his three sons who successfully perform sneak attacks on the invading army.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1941-12-26
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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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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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Bombi Bitt and Me
Overview: A Swedish feature film based on a novel by Fritiof Nilsson Piraten.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1936-11-16
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Sigge Nilsson och jag
Overview: Sigge and Putte has moved to a private school, where they fight and get up to mischief.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1938-09-09
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His Grace's Will
Overview: His grace, the Lord Chamberlain and Colonel Baron Roger Bernhusen de Sars of Rogershus, Klockeberga and Björkenäs, will celebrate his 70th birthday. He decides to write his will and publish it on the birthday.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1940-12-26
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Let No Man Put Asunder
Overview: During the 1200s, the catholic priest Peder has to divorce his wife when the church votes for celibacy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1921-07-18
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Vart hjärta har sin saga
Overview: Baron Henric Löwencrona af Löwstaborg allows his daughter to marry a worker's son.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1948-09-13
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Folket på Högbogården
Overview: Mean farmer Ola Berg reigns at Högbogården and endures a loveless relationship with his wife Karin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1939-10-09
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Det var i maj
Overview: Two men are rivals for the affection of the beautiful Eufrosyne Linde - who is actually toying with one gentleman to make the other jealous.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1915-05-17
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The Unknown Woman
Overview: Mauritz Stiller directed adaptation of Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Das fremde Mädchen.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1913-01-02
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Friaren från landsvägen
Overview: Gösta is a trainee for the brutal Algren. He runs away and get to know a friendly drifter.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1923-10-01
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33.333
Overview: A young worker has decided he must get to buy a lottery ticket with the number 33.333. He manage to get the ticket. This leads to a long series of complicated developments.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1936-03-02
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Hjärtan som mötas
Overview: Hearts That Meet (Swedish: Hjärtan som mötas) is a 1914 Swedish silent drama film directed by Victor Sjöström.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1914-11-30
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Kärlek starkare än hat eller Skogsdotterns hemlighet
Overview: A beautiful woman is torn between her loyalty to her unscrupulous brother and feelings for her lover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1914-01-01
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Svarta rosor
Overview: A young woman is predestined to marry her fathers companion. During the summer she falls in love with an artist. The intended husband detects the love affair and confronts the couple.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-08-27
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Baldevins bröllop
Overview: A comedy in which the noted and rotund Swedish comedian, Edvard Persson, plays the title role (Baldevin), as a waterfront tramp leading his chosen life-style of indolence. A friend urges him to wage a courtship of a rich widow, which he does and manages to get involved in many humorous situations in the process.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1938-09-24
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Stormfågeln
Overview: Olga is a young student and a revolutionary agitator in Russian ruled Poland.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1914-09-22
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Mästertjuven
Overview: Engineer Gordon has made a new invention for the military and a master thief get the mission to steal the blueprints.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1915-09-27
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De lefvande dödas klubb
Overview: The suicidal gambler Tom Haget receives an invitation to the D.L.D.C. (The Living Dead Club), whose members apparently see it as their task to help each other to "end this empty earthly existence" according to a lottery system. At the same time, an acquaintance of Tom Haget, Lieutenant Dick Huntley, receives an assignment from his superiors to go to a distant destination with a large sum of money. However, Huntley is hit by a car, unconscious and without ID documents he ends up in a hospital, is reported missing, and it is widely suspected that he ran away with the money. Confused and desperate Huntley meets Haget and gets an invitation to the Living Dead Club.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1914-01-30
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The Phantom Carriage
Overview: An alcoholic, abusive ne'er-do-well is shown the error of his ways through a legend that dooms the last person to die on New Year's Eve before the clock strikes twelve to take the reins of Death's chariot and work tirelessly collecting fresh souls for the next year.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Horror
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1921-01-01
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Madame de Thèbes
Overview: The story is wacky – a gypsy is cursed by her father, so that she has to deny her illegitimate son in order for him to have a successful life. She gives him to a well-to-do lady who has lost her own child. Later, he has grown up to be a politician who wants to become the foreign minister. He doesn’t know that his real mother is the famous Madame de Thebes, the fortuneteller who all politicians make sure to visit! This information falls into the hands of a rival, who tries to use it to ruin his career. Meanwhile, the rival’s attractive daughter is attacked by a ruffian and needs to be rescued… There are a lot of striking images in this film. You can see the beauty of them even if the state of the print is far from perfect. The Norwegian actress Ragna Wettergreen gives a haunting performance as Madame de Thebes, with wisdom and regret – and quite a few melodramatic gestures. Understatement was not the norm in those days.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1915-08-06
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The Outlaw and His Wife
Overview: A stranger comes to work at widow Halla's farm. Halla and the stranger fall in love, but when he is revealed as Eyvind, an escaped thief forced into crime by his family's starvation, they flee and become two of the many outlaws of Iceland's mountains.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1918-01-01
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The Serious Game
Overview: Arvid share the love with a young woman named Lydia, but as is customary at the turn of the century, is not love enough for a fairy tale to come true. While Arvid struggling to create the basis for their existence, Lydia's thirst for the good life leads her to marrying an older wealthy man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-11-26
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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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Fredlös
Overview: The Finnish War 1808-1809 is over and Russia has conquered Finland from Sweden. All weapons in the country are meant to be handed over to the new ruler, but in some small places people are preparing for an uprising.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1935-10-11
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Gentlemannagangstern
Overview: Patrik Bergman returns to Stockholm after a couple of years. He had to leave the capital when he was the suspect of a bank robbery.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1941-02-01
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Lång-Lasse i Delsbo
Overview: it's the 1840s and a rural parish plagued by drinking and fighting gets a new vicar who has decided to instill law, order and fear of God into the parishioners.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-10-29
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Brother Against Brother
Overview: Two brothers compete for the love of a woman while the impending war threatens to separate them from both sides of the border. Based on the novel "La Débâcle" by Émile Zola.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1913-11-21
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A Man There Was
Overview: Terje Vigen, a sailor, suffers the loss of his family through the inflexibility of another man. Years later, when his enemy's family finds itself dependent on his benevolence, Terje must decide whether to avenge himself.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1917-01-29
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Synnöve Solbakken
Overview: Swedish version of Norwegian National Author Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson's novel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1934-10-21
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Familjens traditioner
Overview: "Family Traditions" - The young Baron Robert falls in love with his distant relative Helga.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1920-12-06
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Lasse-Maja
Overview: About the Swedish trickster and thief Lars "Lasse-Maja" Molin. He often disguised himself and lived as a woman in 1800s. He takes place as a kitchen boy for a bailiff and manages to prevent him from taking over the cottage where his beloved lives. His true identity will, however, be disclosed and he is forced to become an outlaw.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1941-11-28
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Stiller-fragment
Overview: Available episodes of missing movies by Mauritz Stiller.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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The Voice of Passion
Overview: A man undergoing a mid-life crises suddenly becomes irresponsible and behaves in reckless manner. His self-destructive habits not only creates havoc in his home life, it leads to other problems.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1913-09-22
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Johan Ulfstjerna
Overview: The story of a man who makes a great sacrifice for his country and for his son. Based on the play of the same title by Tor Hedberg.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1923-12-02
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Man's Way with Women
Overview: Olof Koskela, the only son is driven from home when he wants to marry the wrong girl. He takes a job as a floater. His reputation as a womanizer goes far and wide. When he meets the proud Kyllikki, he enters into a bet to defeat the mighty rapids standing on a log.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1934-11-12
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Judge Not
Overview: Helder is a happy family man, but one day his wife receives a letter from her brother Albert, who managed to escape from prison.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1914-08-31
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The Miracle
Overview: Based on the novel Lourdes by Émile Zola.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1913-12-01
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Children of the Streets
Overview: Karl Sterner falls for Jenny, a beautiful young woman from an impoverished background, and soon discovers that he cannot control her willful personality - which proves to cause many conflicts in their marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1914-10-19
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Jungeldrottningens smycke
Overview: Despite her youth, Princess Lara Rispala has managed to get her kingdom Leskapur to move towards a new heyday. But one day, a catastrophe occurs in her life. She loses the "Sun Mirror", the symbol of the dignity and security of the old royal family. Lara confides in the young European and engineer Rudolf Corvin, who has long been her confidant. Together they go to the fakir Rahu. The fakir has the ability to read out all the secrets of the universe in his well. He sees that the Sun Mirror has been stolen by the prince in the neighboring kingdom of Valpur.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1917-03-26
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The Governor's Daughters
Overview: An important man's death brings forth a secret, revealing a daughter from another woman, previously unknown to his wife - and bringing about the meeting of the two sisters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1915-08-25
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Paradisfågeln
Overview: Ayo Vindico is known in the capital Stockholm as the Bird of paradise.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1917-09-24
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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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Guilt Redeemed
Overview: The widower Stensson lives a happy life on his farm with his two children.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1915-02-15
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The Price of Betrayal
Overview: An unemployed man encounters trouble when he tries to find a way to help his sick wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1915-12-13
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Strejken
Overview: An old poor man steals some wood and gets sentenced to 1 1/2 years of hard labor.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1915-01-04
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The Avenger
Overview: Hämnaren (The Avenger) was made in 1915, and was rediscovered in Berlin in 2001. It begins with a woman named Ester, who is reading a letter and crying. The letter says that a man named George won't marry her, because he knows his father would never allow him to marry a Jewish woman. Ester dies of childbirth, and possibly a broken heart. Her suitor Jakob takes care of her son, who is named Josef, and sends George a note, accusing him of causing her death
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1915-09-05
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Hans hustrus förflutna
Overview: The international criminal Helene Voigt, who calls herself Countess Montigno, is on the run from the law.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1915-08-30
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The Young Nobleman
Overview: A young Countess meets a young Count and they share a common interest in fast cars.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1924-11-11
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Flickorna på Solvik
Overview: In the Skåne manor house Cronoholm, the rich Baron Rutger Cronsköld live with his two children Börje and Martha.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1926-10-25
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The Black Masks
Overview: "The Black Masks", a secret political society, involves the beautiful agent Lydia to apprehend an important official document. Lieutenant von Muehlen is a trusted member of another secret society. He is on the same mission.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1912-10-21
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Säterjäntan
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Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1912-01-01
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The Norrtull Gang
Overview: A collective of office girls and their tribulations in the male world, female solidarity, the place of women in the labor and civil rights struggles and the conflict between love and work.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1923-12-23
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Högfjällets dotter
Overview: A young doctor is found unconscious in the mountains and is brought to a Sami village.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1914-11-16
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Kalle Utter
Overview: Kalle Utter is theologian student at Uppsala University sometime during the latter half of the 19th century.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1925-02-02
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Lyckonålen
Overview: A sea captain travels to the foreign port of San Lucas and collects a large sum of money, where he meets with a beautiful woman...and trouble.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1916-01-31
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A Lover in Pawn
Overview: About loaner Master Samuel, based on a writings by Hjalmar Bergman
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1920-10-11
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The Secret of Hotel Paradise
Overview: The innkeeper Schultze and his wife are broke and don't know how to pay their rent when a shipwrecked sailor shows up with a chest full of money. In despair the Schultze couple murders the sailor.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1931-10-20
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