Alexander von Baumgarten
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Alexander von Baumgarten was a Swedish stage and screen character actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Stockholm, Sweden
Birthday: August 12, 1884
Deathday: February 03, 1959
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Known For:
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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Loffe blir polis
Overview: The singing vagabond Loffe suddenly becomes a man of the law.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1950-02-18
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Motorkavaljerer
Overview: An inventive store assistant becomes a major motorcycle racing star.
Genres: Drama Comedy Adventure
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1950-03-13
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Regementets ros
Overview: To save intoxicated friend Boman from getting caught, two conscripts lock him up in the local jail and release a prisoner, Ivan Jansson, so that he can pretend to be Boman for a few hours. But when the real Boman is transported to the county jail, switching them back could be difficult.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1950-12-26
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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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Kyssen på kryssen
Overview: Lasse Brenner is a serious filmmaker (spoof on Ingmar Bergman) who is forced to direct a lighthearted comedy. The filming takes place in different cities across Europe and North Africa so Brenner and the crew have to sail on a cruse ship. Brenner's wife suspects he has an affair with the lead actress, so she also boards the ship undercover to keep an eye on him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1950-12-16
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Strange Harbor
Overview: "Strange Harbor " - A Swedish cargo ship is in the winter of 1938 at the dock in Gdynia in Poland, waiting to depart with coal to Sweden. In a tavern in the port a Polish dockworkers tries to tell something to the Swedish sailors, but is rudely turned away by the tavern owner. Later in the evening the port worker is found dead. That same evening one of the Swedish sailors, meets a Jewish woman who has fled Nazi Germany.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1948-10-02
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Flottans överman
Overview: Fabian Bom has been sent by the Export Association to promote Swedish export to Spain. He travels with the navy's cruiser to Barcelona, but his jealous fiancée Gullan has followed him in secret to keep an eye on him. In Barcelona the usually strict and virtuous Bom is surrounded by the local women and has a ball. He meets the young and zestful Linnea from Sweden. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-09-15
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Far till sol och vår
Overview: Martin Wide inherits a bus from his dying grandfather. He restores it from being a hen house into a tourist bus. He puts an ad in the newspaper about "travels to the sun" and also advertises for a stewardess at the same time. The female reporter Vera Boman signs up for the job, in order to expose the "tourist travel hoax". The two, together with passengers of various kinds set off from a snowy Sweden towards Paris. During the trip, Vera starts to realize that Martin is not a "tourist cheater" but a kind and thoughtful travel arranger, who tries to tend to all his passengers as best as he can, even when the situations become difficult to handle. In addition, a famous Swedish diamond has just been stolen and it turns out that both the thieves and the private detectives who are after them, are passengers on the bus.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-10-28
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Flottans glada gossar
Overview: When Ludvig Ekman is ordered to do his military rehearsals course, he sends one of his employees, Lasse Alm, to do it for him. Everything is fine until Alm also is ordered to do the same thing - on the same boat! There is only one thing to do: Ekman goes as Alm. When Ekman goes aboard, he discovers that it is his wife's ex-husband who is captain and Ekman really is punished for marrying his wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-02-16
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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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I dur och skur
Overview: "In rain and shine" - Sid och Filibert are identical twins. Sid is a theater manager and composer and when his brother arrives to Stockholm for a position at the Museum of Natural History, Filibert is mistaken for Sid.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-05-22
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Seventh Heaven
Overview: "Seventh Heaven" - Famous radio personality Willy Lorens has a big success with the radio series "Seventh Heaven." The amount of fan mail and attention eventually becomes too much for Willy, who suffers a minor collapse. Taken to a hospital where he meets Dr. Lovisa Sundelius, virtually the only woman in Sweden who do not admire the radio idol.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-06-11
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Blonde in Bondage
Overview: A reporter (Mark Miller) tries to help a drug-addicted cabaret dancer (Anita Thallaug) who has criminal ties to the Swedish underworld.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-11-08
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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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Tull-Bom
Overview: Bureacratic customs officer searching for a missing girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1951-06-25
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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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Daddy Wanted
Overview: Holger Hallman, CEO of a weapons factory try to prevent his son Tom from dating a manucurist, Lydia. By mistake he try to pay off the wrong manicurist, Mary, who by coincidence has a fiancé named Tom.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-06-01
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Galgmannen
Overview: The man of the gallows is a little sinister wooden figure that the proprietor must sell before his death. If not he will be doomed and unsaved.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-10-08
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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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The Lunch-break Cafe
Overview: "Lunch- Break Café" - A café in the old Klara district in Stockholm attracts an offbeat clientel. Among those who gather at the café is a prisoner on the run, a prostitute, a journalist and a student who is having an affair with the cafe's waitress. Naturalism.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-02-15
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Blåjackor
Overview: "Sailors" - A musical comedy about Kalle Svensson, a sergeant in the navy, and his loved one Nanette Raquette who works as a gymnastics teacher.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-10-23
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Stora Hoparegränd och himmelriket
Overview: Erik, a poor inventor meets the clerk Lillemor and fall in love. Erik's becomes invention is ready for the market. He contacts a director who might be interested. Erik is attracted almost immediately by the director's wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-12-26
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Money: A Tragicomic Saga
Overview: Orvar is a vagabond, walking the country roads and living on sunshine and generosity. One day he decides to find work somewhere to get some money. He becomes a helping hand for seven lumberjack brothers. The big and strong brothers really enjoy themselves, joking with the small and meek Orvar. Orvar does not know that he has inherited a large fortune but the seven brothers do and they begin to treat him with the greatest courtesy. They convince him to write his last will, making them his heirs, and then begin to make plans on how to kill him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-01-10
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Tappa inte sugen
Overview: In a movie studio, a fight scene is underway. The hero, played by Allan Bergner, will make an impression on the heroine, played by Ylva Vendel. But Allan is not prepared to give more than one pale hint of fight; he wants to be presentable in later scenes as well. The director wears his hair.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-12-22
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Loffe som miljonär
Overview: The vagabond Loffe is drifting along the Swedish summer landscape.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1948-11-15
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