John Norrman
Also Known As: not available
Biography: John Norrman, born John Anders Norrman July 19, 1884 in Kristianstad, died November 11, 1966 in Stockholm Norrman stage debut in 1907, he made his first film role in 1921 in Circus Bimbini and came to be involved in some 70 movies.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kristianstad, Kristianstad län, Sweden
Birthday: July 19, 1884
Deathday: November 11, 1966
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Gender: Male
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Hon trodde det var han
Overview: The famous author Mark Storm's publisher is unhappy with his books and asks him to write books in a more popular genre, crime for example. When Mark Storm comes to his apartment, he finds a burglar, Kurre. He notices that they have a physical similarity and they change identity, which makes it possible for Storm to make empirical studies in the world of crime.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-08-28
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Cirkus Bimbini
Overview: The mayoress of Grönköping is against all immoral entertainment until she one day falls in love with the circus director that arrives in town.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1921-09-26
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Ljuvlig är sommarnatten
Overview: Someone is murdered. Who is the killer? Members of all star cast are all suspects...
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1961-08-17
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En rackarunge
Overview: About a fun and mischievous little girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1923-11-26
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Åsa-Nisse på nya äventyr
Overview: Åsa-Nisse advertise for Summer guests and from Stockholm arrives Mrs. Niklasson and her atlethic daughter Elsa who is currently training for the olympic games.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1952-09-19
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Wild West Story
Overview: Swedish cowboys in the Wild West. Defending their town Small Lands Hills and their mining claims against bandits of all sorts.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1964-02-15
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Hård klang
Overview: A small Swedish village has transformed to an industrial center with exports to Germany. A German opened a quarry some 50 years ago, after realizing the value of granite. Now WW1 begins.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1952-09-15
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I brist på bevis
Overview: A drama about the manager Håkan Dahlin who has just been discharged from a clinic where he was treated for his alcoholism. In an outbreak of jealousy, Dahlin abuses his wife Inga and after that he is forcibly interned again. Inga is a nurse and she is now moving to a mountain village to work at a district clinic. During an emergency visit, she encounters her childhood sweetheart, the doctor Gunnar, and old feelings between them begin to flare up again.
Genres: Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-01-12
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Männen i mörker
Overview: When the men in the small mining community go to work, it is like any other day. They do not yet know that an accident will change everything.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-02-06
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Får jag låna din fru?
Overview: Bertil Lund works at the wholesaling company Everything for the Baby. The supervisor Fredriksson is considering promoting him to vice-president but there is one obstacle: Bertil is yet unmarried and is thus considered unsuitable. But Bertil's friend Torbjörn has an idea: Bertil can borrow Torbjörn's wife Ulla and tell everybody that she is his wife. When his colleagues at work hears that he is married, Bertil has a lot of problems to deal with. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1959-06-22
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En drömmares vandring
Overview: Portrait of the Swedish poet Dan Andersson (1888-1920). Brought up during poor conditions he finds work as a temperance preacher and educator. Bored by this he travels to Stockholm to try to get his poems published. On the train he meets a rich, sophisticated art patron who encourages him and grinds his literary and philosophical formation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-03-25
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Musik ombord
Overview: Ulla Winther has retired from her singing career to a marriage with two children. But her agent wants her to return and she finally agrees to take part in a charity concert
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-10-23
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Åsa-Nisse som polis
Overview: Country bailiff believes that a man of the people shall exercise police work. Åsa-Nisse appointed to the local police for some time. "Nesses" sometimes odd methods will still work somehow. Åsa-Nisse and Klabbarparn then visit Gothenburg to see the singer Gun from Knohult at Liseberg. There they also take a tour of the roller-coaster.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1960-09-19
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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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Mannequin in Red
Overview: A model is murdered at a famous fashion house and the Hillmans start to investigate. Kajsa Hillman is employed as a model and discovers that several people had motives to kill her.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-12-19
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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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Åsa-Nisse ordnar allt
Overview: Åsa-Nisse has a bad back and when he visits the doctor he gets an experimental medicine for horses by mistake. Suddenly Åsa-Nisse has super strengths and becomes an unbeatable athlete.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-09-19
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Brita i grosshandlarhuset
Overview: Brita moves from the countryside and her parent's cabbage patch to work as a housemaid in Stockholm. The big city overwhelms her at first and she falls in love with a young man. But one day Arvid, an infatuated young man from the old village also comes to Stockholm to express his love for her.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-02-04
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Turn of the Century
Overview: Munthe has become a rich farmer through his own work and has gained some influence in the local community. He is strongly opposed to the immigration of east European farm labour from Galicia who, he claims, makes life difficult for the locals. A new school teacher with socialist leanings arrive and Munthe's daughter fall in love with him. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-12-26
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Swinging at the Castle
Overview: Love triangle between Svante, his fiancee Inga and Sophie, a girl from a rich family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1959-03-08
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Sir Arne's Treasure
Overview: Three Scottish noblemen escape from Gripsholm Castle and break into the home of Lord Arne. They kill everyone except for Lord Arne's adopted daughter Elsalill.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-12-16
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Private Number 91-Karlsson
Overview: The Squadron leader throws big a party where one of his colleagues is going to demonstrate a new type of explosive substance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-09-02
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91:an Karlsson rycker in
Overview: Charged by their infatuation of the regiment's maid Elvira, friends and rivals Mandel and Axelsson arrive for military duty, whereupon silly things happen in and around a mansion that is rumored to be haunted.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-10-02
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Alla tiders 91:an Karlsson
Overview: While Stockholm celebrates its 700th anniversary, private 91 is knocked on his head and goes on a fantastical journey through Swedish history.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-07-10
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The Marriage Game
Overview: The sculptress Tora Diidiken is married to the sculptor Gunnar Grahn and they both compete in a contest to design a statue for the public square in Hicksville.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1935-11-25
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Tre glada tokar
Overview: The wealthy Rudolf Trane helps the unsuccessful vacuum-cleaner salesman Rhuter to find a girl called Marianne. Trane, Rhuter and Trane's manservant John pretend to be waiters when Marianne's family is having a large dinner.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-02-16
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On a Bench in a Park
Overview: Sam Persson is released from a mental hospital. He goes to Stockholm to meet a man he hates, theater manager Stig Brender. In Brender's office they get into a fight...
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1960-12-19
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Lars Hård
Overview: Young drifter tells his story in flashback from prison.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1948-08-30
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The Great Amateur
Overview: Modern fairy tale about the small town of Fårtuna where the chief of police is also an amateur theater director. The local shop assistant Linda aspires to become an actress and gets discovered by a talent agent from Stockholm.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-06-22
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Storm over Tjurö
Overview: Karl Oskar Bohm looks back at his life, his estranged daughter Augusta and his wife Sofia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-07-19
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Enchanted Journey
Overview: A traveling theatre company comes to a small town and performs to a packed house. But during the show the theatre director decides to run away with the money.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-04-19
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Sista ringen
Overview: Eric and Clarence are friends from the same class in school - but from different social classes. Eric comes from the working class, Clarence from the upper class. Eric regards his studies as a way of getting somewhere, while Clarence is only interested in the drawing lessons. There are only a few months left until graduation. Clarence behaves very provocatively against the art teacher 'Sjasen'. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-10-10
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On These Shoulders
Overview: Kjell Loväng returns to his parent's farm after a few years of work in Stockholm. He discovers that his father Arvid neglects the farm and spends too much time drinking and meeting other women. Kjell has to prove to his father his ability to manage the farm.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1948-10-04
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Åsa-Nisse jubilerar
Overview: The local newspaper celebrates 50 years and are now looking for a citizen who has lived as long in the neighborhood. Our hero Åsa-Nisse seems to fit the profile.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1959-09-04
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I dag börjar livet
Overview: Choreographer is found murdered and the police investigate. There are several suspects among his lovers, dancers and family members.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1939-08-15
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Perhaps a Gentleman
Overview: After watching Stig Järrel star in a production of Pygmalion Mister Haglund bets him that he can turn anyone into a gentlemen in a few months.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1950-12-26
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The People from Simlangs Valley
Overview: Class struggle and love trouble in the woods between Halland and Småland.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-12-26
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The Blockhead of the Block
Overview: The young kid Kalle is always unlucky.
Genres: Family
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-12-26
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Young Summer
Overview: Helge Lysvik is a farmers son. He dreams of a future as a musician.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-09-27
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The Minister of Uddarbo
Overview: A devoted but controversial priest comes to a Swedish village. He encounters conflicts with the locals. The priest has some problems within his family as well. One is related to an orphan girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-12-26
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Tarp's Elin
Overview: Elin Tarp is an unmarried mother with three children who lives a hard life in the countryside.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-11-12
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The Hell Ship
Overview: A naval adventure that focuses on the rivalry among the crew, particularly the indignation wrought by the behavior of inplacable Captain Steen. Dick, one of the sailors, is one of the most rebellious and draws up plans to exact vengeance. The opportunity arises, but an incident that may sink the ship changes the focus of attention. The lighting for the film and the composition of the scenes are regarded as the highlights of the movie.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1923-02-05
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Stora famnen
Overview: In the late 1800's, the old Karolina Koger dictates his will: all her money shall form a family fund.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1940-08-13
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The Bells in Old Town
Overview: Kalle Magnus Berg is a kind bailiff in Gamla Stan (Old Town) in Stockholm. He helps out "clients" by supporting them with money from his own pocket. His neighbor is a jazz musician who plays at a restaurant for a living.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-12-30
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Dirch Passer vælter byen
Overview: The scam artist Jens Nielsen is in prison. In exchange for a cigarette, he is told by fellow prisoner, Sture Kaxe, that he has a precious jewel worth SEK 100,000 hidden away.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1954-03-22
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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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The Family That Was a Carousel
Overview: The Björn family is a little odd family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1936-09-18
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Girl in Tails
Overview: The beautiful student Katja shocks the conservative and rigid city of Wadköping by appearing in tail-coat on the big prom.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-10-15
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Barbacka
Overview: Connie is growing up on an estate and cling especially to Gunnar. When Connie mention that she has met a man, Gunnar gets angry and repels her. Connie decides to retaliate by taking over Gunnar's sister's husband, Boris, who is the owner of the estate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-11-18
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Den stora kärleken
Overview: The maid Agnes lives a rather lonely and boring life.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1938-03-07
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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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Hällebäcks gård
Overview: Farm girl Kerstin is the most popular girl in the village and the men are swarming around her. This results in jealousy, and the electrician Tage causes a fire on the farm, resulting in economic trouble for Kerstin's father. Suddenly grandfather's rich brother Arvid appears from America. Will he be able to solve the family's problems?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1961-09-17
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Ljuset från Lund
Overview: A horse wanders from town to the countryside. Here lives Sten Stensson Steen, a bachelor at law and philosophy. He is writing a social psychological report on the youth problem.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-12-26
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Livet på landet
Overview: Greve Axel Von Rambow owns the Poppelhagen estate. One day an inspector comes to see him and a big quarrel starts.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-11-29
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Flickan i fönstret mitt emot
Overview: The bricklayer Loffe often sees sculptress Ingrid in a window a cross the building. They get to now each other and soon fall in love. Loffe works for the master-builder Swahne who is Ingrid's uncle. Swahne comes up with a plan to see if Loffe's feelings for her are true or if he is just out for her money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-03-03
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91:an Karlsson slår knockout
Overview: Privates 91 and 87 are ordered to carry a tube of explosive chemicals to a military depot, while prize fighter Ingemar Johansson tries to teach them how to throw a punch.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-08-11
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91:an Karlsson muckar (tror han)
Overview: In the last film of the original 91 film series two letters - one written in spite and another in love - end up in the wrong hands, while 91 and 87 as usual try to avoid ending up in military arrest.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1959-08-30
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Wonderful Adventures of Nils
Overview: A film adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf's classic book about Nils Holgersson, who is a real rascal. As punishment for his mischief, a house elf shrinks him to his size. The farm animals are out for revenge and so Nils must escape on the back of a goose from Skåne in the south to Lapland in the north. During his flight over Sweden, Nils gets to take part in many adventures.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1962-09-12
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91:an Karlssons bravader
Overview: Privates 91 and 87 once again end up in goofy predicaments when an important map belonging to the regiment goes missing.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1951-12-26
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91:an Karlssons permis
Overview: Private number 91 gets into more hijinks in this hilarious sequel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-12-22
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En fånge har rymt
Overview: "A Prisoner Has Escaped" - Franz is imprisoned for blowing up a factory. He escapes in order to prove his innocence.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-12-26
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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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Johan på Snippen
Overview: In the village of Stubbhult lives many motorcycle interested young people. However, their rampage interfere with the local population.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-11-12
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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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Hemsöborna
Overview: The widow Anna Eva Flod at Hemsö needs help on the farm and hire the new boy Carlsson, who quickly wins the heart of Anna Eva.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-12-17
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Skeppsbrutne Max
Overview: Max Mattsson gets stranded on a remote island in the archipelago together with four other people and a dog.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1936-11-09
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Lyckodrömmen
Overview: The Karlsson family moves from a small village to a suburb outside Stockholm. The change from a country life to the big city is not easy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1963-07-08
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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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Salka Valka
Overview: A coming of age story about young Salka Valka who lives in the small fishing village of Íseyri. She is doing well for herself as a partner in a small fishing boat, but people believe she is financed by her deceased mother's former fiance, Steinthór, who disappeared on their wedding day many years ago. Salka becomes infatuated with the idealistic Arnaldur who wants to start a workers union, much to the opposition of local entrepreneur Bogesen. The past comes to haunt her in the return of Steinthór but Salka fends off his advances only to lose the restless Arnaldur away. http://www.icelandicfilmcentre.is
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-11-16
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A Dream Play
Overview: "A dream play" - This made-for-television film constituted Bergman’s first production of Strindberg’s A Dream Play – a play he would revisit three times more. Gunnar Ollén’s Malmö crew was behind this, for its time, prestigious and costly theatre production, involving more than 40 actors and no less than 75 extras.
Genres: Drama Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1963-05-02
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Miss Julie
Overview: Based on the play by August Strindberg, Miss Julie vividly depicts the battle of the sexes and classes that ensues when Julie, a wealthy businessman's daughter, falls for Jean, her father's bitter servant.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1951-06-28
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South of the Highway
Overview: The plot revolves around Edvar Månsson, a farmer living in Skåne, Sweden.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1936-12-26
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Kronblom
Overview: A couple of thieves are terrorizing the village of Vinkelboda, and Kronblom becomes a suspect and must clear his name. Based on the popular Swedish comic strip Kronblom, about the laziest man in town.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-08-18
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Kronblom kommer till stan
Overview: Kronblom wins a little pig in a lottery and starts to build a sty for his new friend.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-08-29
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Skattefria Andersson
Overview: Andersson is always complaining about high taxes and dreams about a world with no taxes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-08-01
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