Isa Quensel
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Biography: Isa Quensel (21 September 1905 – 3 November 1981) was a Swedish actress and operatic soprano who appeared in over 50 films, plays, operas, TV and radio shows.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Göteborg, Göteborg- och Bohus län, Sweden
Adult: No
Birthday: September 21, 1905
Age: 119 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: November 03, 1981
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Two Living, One Dead
Overview: Three Post Office employees are at work when the facility is held up. The robber kills the supervisor and knocks out another employee. The third one offers no resistance and survives unscathed. Afterwards he begins to wonder if his refusal to resist was a prudent move to preserve his family, or an act of cowardice, as many in the town believe. The resulting conflict begins to tear apart his family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-04-03
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Agaton Sax and the Bykoebing Village Festival
Overview: Two villains escape from jail in London. They are planning an attack on Agaton Sax. Inspector Lispington and Sax are chasing the two bad guys, but the hunt is hampered by the villains have lookalikes.
Genres: Animation Crime Family Comedy Mystery
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1976-11-20
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The Lady in Black
Overview: The married detective couple John and Kajsa Hillman goes on a vacation to Holmfors mill where a friend of Kajsa's lives with her husband. When a young woman is found murdered it is clear that this is another case for the Hillmans.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-02-01
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Moon Over Hellesta
Overview: Margareta, newly engaged with count Carl Anckarberg, visits his estate for the first time. During the visit she gets to know that his last fiancee died in a mysterious accident and she sets out to discover what really happened. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-11-24
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Do You Believe in Angels?
Overview: Jan Froman is a young man with great plans for the future. He gets a job as an assistant janitor at a bank, but with inherited money he starts to buy and sell real estate which eventually increases in value. He falls in love with Margareta, whose father is a naval officer. Margareta is slighted by her fiance and follows Froman on a sailing trip in the archipelago. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1961-01-30
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We must have love
Overview: Olivia and Charles Dangerfield are forced to rent their home to the newly rich widow, Mrs Falkner.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1931-01-16
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The Cats
Overview: A group of women are workmates at a laundry. Rike is spreading a rumor about the manager Marta, a rumor that Marta is a lesbian and that she once tried to seduce Rike. This leads to an explosive situation at the workplace.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1965-02-15
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Guest at One's Own Home
Overview: Eva Dahl, a doctor's wife, starts an affair with a younger man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-09-30
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The Unicorn
Overview: Harriet and Frank Allard have been married for many years. Almost twenty years ago, Harriet had a love affair with a colleague of Frank's, Claes von Klitzow, who made her pregnant. She had a son, Christer, whom Frank thinks that he is the father of. One day, Christer reveals that he is going to marry von Klitzow's daughter Louise. Harriet becomes upset but what will she do? Try to stop the marriage by telling the truth - which would endanger her marriage with Frank - or keep silent, which would mean that two half-siblings married?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-10-03
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Gårdarna runt sjön
Overview: A young and spoiled aristocrat is guilty of a hit-and-run accident.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-02-17
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Min svärmor - dansösen
Overview: From Barcelona, the widower Svante Holmenius travel with his daughter Sylvia to visit her close friends in Stockholm.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1936-10-25
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Kostervalsen
Overview: Pelle and Maja are going on a holiday to Italy. The trip is canceled. Maja travels home to her mother. Pelle is persuaded by his friend Kurt to forget Italy and accompany him to Swedish west coast instead.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-03-15
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Raggen - det är jag det
Overview: Maria, who's called Raggen, is one of a total of 9 daughters in the family. For a birthday present, Raggen gets a trip to Paris.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1936-02-27
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Mästerdetektiven Blomkvist på nya äventyr
Overview: The White Rose (Kalle, Eva-Lotta and Anders) and the Red Rose (Sixten, Benka and Jonte) gangs are battling for a magical stone. The rest of the time Kalle is bored. That is why Kalle and his friends play pranks on Kalles aunts Hilda and Hulda. While Hulda is laughing, Hilda is very angry and calls the police, but Kalle is able to escape. Only a few time later Hilda is kidnapped and the kidnappers want a lot of money. The gangs of the White and Red Rose are now working together to find the kidnappers.
Genres: TV Movie Family Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1966-12-26
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Spökhotellet
Overview: A Swedish TV movie based on the play L'Hôtel du Libre échange from 1894.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1960-04-17
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Lyckliga Vestköping
Overview: When the mine is closing down in the small community of Vestköping the town bank is also in danger. Sudden news of the return of one of the town's inhabitants who had emigrated to the USA and is said to be very wealthy improves spirits of everyone.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1937-08-20
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Kärlek och dynamit
Overview: The engineer Ragge has taken shipowner Gustafsson's daughter Anna-Greta on a sail cruise and they stay on an island overnight. When the shipowner finds out, Ragge gets sacked from the shipyard where he works.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1933-11-25
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En flicka kommer till sta'n
Overview: Ulla takes the train to Stockholm to try her luck in the big city.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1937-02-18
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Muntra musikanter
Overview: It's Walpurgis Night in Uppsala. The students sing the Student Song, put on their white caps, cheer and have drinks.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1932-11-19
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Playing on the Rainbow
Overview: The school counselor Vanja believe neither in love, marriage or a woman's subservient role to the man. One day she meets the student Björn. Their romance is full of problems. Along comes a man from Vanjas past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-08-25
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Hemslavinnor
Overview: The Rosenqvist family needs domestic help.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1933-04-10
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Äventyr på hotell
Overview: At the Carlssons hotel in Stockholm we find unemployed actor Gunnar Berg, whose father owns Sundsvalls Steel mill and wants the son to enter the company. But the son prefers to sit and wait for roles together with his friend Jan Jansson.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1934-02-21
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Tartuffe
Overview: The religious hypocrite Tartuffe parasites on a bourgeois family. He is looking for the daughter's hand and the family's property and is also trying to seduce the young wife.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1966-09-19
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Kärleksexpressen
Overview: Dentist Weber practices in the small town of Vårköping and gets into love trouble.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1932-10-31
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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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Pettersson & Bendel
Overview: The two conmen Bendel and Pettersson starts doing business together. Bendel got the brains and Pettersson the charm.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1933-09-17
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Sjutton år
Overview: It's summertime. The students Allan and Erik returns to their home town. 19-year old Allan is in love with 17-year old Anna-Lena. She rejects his clumsy attempts of telling her, but that's because she is uncertain of her own feelings. The Norwegian singer Lydia Hennert has an accident with her car and she is slightly injured. Allan's father is a doctor and Lydia spends a few days with them. Allan falls in love with her instead, she is a "real" woman and not a girl. But this makes Anna-Lena jealous.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-12-21
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Pärlemor
Overview: Set in th 1930's depression times. A wealthy industrialist suffers a stroke. His wife takes over both family and business. The son worships his mother, but is forced to choose sides when he falls in love with the poor Aina.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1961-10-05
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Sällskapslek
Overview: In a magnificent villa a 25-year-old son of Count lives with his family. He falls in love with an elementary school teacher. So does even his father the Count.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1963-12-16
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Åke and His World
Overview: A melancholic depiction of life in a small Swedish town, seen through the eyes of a six-year-old boy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1959-10-31
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Den yttersta dagen
Overview: Magnus, an old man sleeplessly sneaks around at night in barns and fields at the farm his son Lennart has taken over. Magnus is anxious and impatient facing the next day.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1970-11-15
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To Love
Overview: A widowed woman undergoes a true sexual awakening in this provocative drama. The change comes after her husband of 10 years suddenly dies. During their marriage she never felt a thing during sex. Then she meets a lively Pole and begins an affair. Suddenly she finds herself feeling a great deal, and happiness ensues.
Genres: Drama Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1964-11-20
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Laila
Overview: Winter in Lapland, a settler and his wife just had their newborn daughter baptized. On the way home through the wilderness, they are chased by a pack of wolves. The little baby falls out of the sledge and parents plunges off a cliff.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-11-13
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Woman of Darkness
Overview: Sweden 1889. The young Per Nilsson has a very dominant mother, Anna Månsdotter. His father died many years ago and he and his mother have for a long time been in a incestuous relationship. But Per marries Hanna for the sake of her money and Anna is mean and evil towards her, and Per refuses to have sex with her. She starts to suspect that something is going on between her husband and stepmother.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1966-10-01
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The Phantom Carriage
Overview: The third film adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf's novel of the same name. The drinker David Holm gets killed right on the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve will face the death coachman, which happens to be his old friend Georges. Together, reliving the events of the past, and David becomes aware that he ruined the lives of two women who both loved him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-09-18
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Flickorna på Uppåkra
Overview: The widow Maja Brummell lives in Stockholm with her daughters Elsa, Brita, Ann-Marie, Svea and Ingrid. Mrs. Brummell has a lousy business sense.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1936-12-26
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Wanted
Overview: A woman sitting in a Stockholm cafe hears to her surprise on the radio that she is wanted by the police.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1939-02-13
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Emil of Lonneberga
Overview: Emil Svensson lives with his mother and father, little sister Ida, farmhand Alfred, and maid Lina on a picturesque farm in Småland. He is an unusually lively little boy, who just can't resist trying out every whim that enters into his white-haired head. Always with the best intentions in mind, because he is a good-hearted child, but often with catastrophic results, especially for his short-tempered father. As a result, Emil spends a lot of quality time in the wood shed carving wood figurines and waiting for Anton's temper to cool down. And the father's patience is certainly tried, as Emil gets his head stuck in the family's only soup bowl, hoists little Ida up the flag pole, and arranges a lavish Christmas party for the poor.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1971-12-04
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Emil and the Piglet
Overview: Nursing a piglet back to life because it's the runt of the litter earns Emil a friend for life.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1973-10-06
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Marianne
Overview: Marianne and Jojje are in the last grade of a Stockholm high school. Jojje is very fond of his talented, sensitive classmate. His love is not answered. The students come from different social and economical environments.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-09-24
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Barnet
Overview: Two women and a mentally ill daughter live in an isolated cabin for a couple of summer days.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1982-04-21
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Doktor Knock
Overview: Doctor Knock takes over a medical clinic in a small town and provides a medical revival.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1966-04-11
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Loving Couples
Overview: As three pregnant women wait to have their babies in a hospital in Stockholm at the outbreak of the Great War, they relive their childhood and youthful experiences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1964-12-20
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Falska Greta
Overview: A woman on vacation is mistaken for Greta Garbo.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1934-02-04
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Göingehövdingen
Overview: When the Swedish army occupies the eastern part of Denmark in 1678, the local inhabitants decide to fight back. Under the leadership of Svend Poulsen, a guerrilla is formed. And guerrilla officer Lars Paulinus has to fight the Swedish officer Henrik Wrede to prove his love for Anna Ryding.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-12-26
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