Claes Esphagen
Also Known As: Clas Arvid Esphagen
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lysekil, Sweden
Adult: No
Birthday: October 05, 1923
Age: 101 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: August 15, 2007
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Miss Chic
Overview: Buster Carell, a talent agent is threatened by bankruptcy when his only real talent, a singing lumberjack, runs off with the company funds. Watching a TV quiz show, Carell discovers a prodigal singer, Isabella Linder, and offers her a contract. But she is unwilling and would like to remain a school teacher.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1959-01-26
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A Zero Too Much
Overview: A newspaper misprints Pontus Blom's (Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt) yearly income as being much more than it is; this leads to various comical situations of exceeding hilarity.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1962-09-10
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Svenska Floyd
Overview: The world-famous Swedish boxer Flosse travels to Italy to fight for the world boxing title. In Rome he meets the nightclub singer Lollo.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1961-07-10
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The Yellow Car
Overview: On a tourist trip abroad the passengers on the coach witness an assassination attempt on the President Hurkas. One of the tourists has evidence against the perpetrators, and is killed when the coach reaches Sweden. Another passenger observes how one of the perpetrators is picked up by a yellow car. She is kidnapped and locked up in a mental hospital.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1963-06-29
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The Heist
Overview: Four young criminals are planning a heist against a racecourse and in order to obtain a seed capital they rob a gambling den. They celebrate the successful heist by throwing a party but it turns out to be a lot of disagreement within the group.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1961-09-04
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Just a Waiter
Overview: Fabian Bom is a waiter at a hotel in a small town. But he dreams of doing something else - to dance and sing on a stage. He is madly in love with Matilda Roos, singer and diva. Fabian is too insensitive to notice that Annie, who works in the kitchen, is in love with him. Encouraged by Matilda, Fabian leaves the hotel and goes to Stockholm to become famous. But, as he soon learns, it is more difficult than he first thought.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1959-09-28
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The Marriage Wrestler
Overview: Stockholm 1912. Site for the Olympic Games. Love entanglements and eroticism at hotel Eros.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1964-12-16
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Jazz Boy
Overview: The rich young man Teddy Anker invests his money in the theater at the beginning of the 1920s. Whatever he does becomes a success. He falls in love with a dancer, Karin. He decides to put up a show with Karin as the leading lady, but for the first time one of his shows becomes an economic disaster.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-10-06
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We Three Debutantes
Overview: Three young poets are about to make their debuts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-09-07
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Heaven and Pancakes
Overview: Sequel to Sjunde himlen (1956). Dr. Lovisa Sundelius (Sickan Carlsson) and radio host Willy Lorens (Hasse Ekman) have been happily married for a couple of years, but when Willy becomes a TV host with cutie Suss (Lena Granhagen) by his side, things start to fall apart
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1959-11-02
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Litet bo
Overview: Hasse has received a scholarship from the insurance company where he works together with his friend Lennart. They both travel to Vienna so that Hasse can take a few days off, while Lennart attends lectures about insurance. While away, Lennart has rented his room to a girl, Alva. When he returns home earlier than expected, they have to share the apartment a few days...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-01-30
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Tre dar i buren
Overview: Freddy and Stickan is working at a weapons factory, one day Freddy comes across a key to some secret weapons blueprints. But Freddy and Stickan gets drafted as the crooks trying to get a hold on the keys tries to follow them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1963-12-26
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Kalle Karlsson från Jularbo
Overview: Biographical account of Kalle Jularbo, a famous Swedish accordion-player.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1952-10-13
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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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Waltz of Sex
Overview: When a vagrant family arrives to the village Vindinge one hot summer in the 1920's, the parish is spiced up with sex and alcohol. Based on a novel by Swedish Academy member Artur Lundkvist.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1968-09-22
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Stampen
Overview: Pawnshop assistant Patrick and maid Viveka meet by chance and become fond of each other, but none of them want to reveal his real profession for the other.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-02-28
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City of My Dreams
Overview: Young Henning and his friends are struggling to stay alive in 19th century Stockholm, where he has ended up in search of employment. In the harsh city, he and his friends dream of the good life while struggling for their survival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1976-10-29
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Sten Stensson kommer tillbaka
Overview: Sten Stensson Stéen has been challenged by a professor of law in a TV-game-show. Stensson, always fighting against immorality, comes to Stockholm a few days before the the broadcast to teach the young generation how to behave. A gang of crooks mistakes him for a famous dynamiter that they've been waiting for.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1963-10-07
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White Lies
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1995-01-27
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Sagan om Siv
Overview: About a woman and her boring life, based on haiku poems by Sonja Åkesson.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1974-02-25
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Jerusalem
Overview: Members of a devout Christian congregation try to start a new life in Palestine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1996-09-06
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The Silence
Overview: Traveling through an unnamed European country on the brink of war, sickly, intellectual Ester, her sister Anna and Anna's young son, Johan, check into a near-empty hotel. A basic inability to communicate among the three seems only to worsen during their stay. Anna provokes her sister by enjoying a dalliance with a local man, while the boy, left to himself, has a series of enigmatic encounters that heighten the growing air of isolation.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1963-09-23
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Spöke på semester
Overview: "Ghost on Holiday" - Stockholm 1950 is experiencing a gold rush, after the discovery of gold during the building of the new underground. Assistant Borgkrona (Järrell) owns a plot in the gold area. The lawyer Målbrott informs Borgkrona that he has inherited a haunted castle and must stay there for a fortnight. However, once at the castle he meets his old relative who is a ghost (Järrell) and the two trade places
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1951-09-02
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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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I rök och dans
Overview: Episodic, musical comedy. Povel Ramel company Knäppupp's first film where Martin Ljung plays 16 different roles.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-07-30
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