Elsie Albiin
Also Known As: Elsie Ford
Biography: Elsie Albiin (17 December 1921 – 3 April 2009) was a Swedish actress born in Helsingborg.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Helsingborg, Malmöhus län, Sweden
Adult: No
Birthday: December 17, 1921
Age: 103 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: April 03, 2009
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36 Hours
Overview: When his wife stops writing to him and his letters are returned unanswered, Dan becomes extremely concerned about her welfare. He returns home but is only able to meet with her briefly before she is found murdered. Dan is the obvious suspect but has only 36 hours to find out who murdered her. In so doing he uncovers a shocking catalogue of his wife's past affairs and an identity that he knew nothing about.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-04
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With You in My Arms
Overview: Millionaire Krister Dahl loses his memory when he is hit in the head by a golf ball. He meets his ex-wife and immediately fall in love with her again. She does not know what to believe, is it true or is it only a joke? He also discovers how he has mismanaged his company in his earlier life.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1940-11-09
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A Sailor on Horseback
Overview: Two sailors, Lasse and Karl Gustav, float ashore after a shipwreck. Visiting a castle a baron ask them to help him lay his hands on an inheritance by Karl Gustav posing as the heir of the castle.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1940-12-26
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Crime and Punishment
Overview: A Swedish version of Crime and Punishment. Raskolnikov, a poor student, is planning to assassinate a hated pawnbroker.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-10-16
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Happiness Is on Its Way
Overview: The idle rich have their own particular problems. Case in point, Georg and Monika Hedberg were once poor and happy but since Georg became an established painter family bliss has decreased for every fur coat Monika has bought. Their divorce lawyer suggest that they try to save their marriage by moving to a small apartment and live life frugally but happy. When the trial period is over and they want to return home again, their lawyer has stolen their money and disappeared. The Hedbergs are evicted for unpaid rent and terminal poverty seem to be imminent.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-08-17
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A Day Will Dawn
Overview: After finding his wife in the arms of another man, an army officer kills his rival and then goes by train to Finland to fight in the Winter war.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-01-02
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A Guest Is Coming
Overview: It's Christmas. The owner of an old mansion decides to tell his family he's going to sell it. The following morning he's found murdered.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-11-03
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Rapture
Overview: Artist Pietro Leoni is preoccupied with feminine beauty. While walking near an old castle in Italy, he sees a young woman dive in the water from a rock and becomes determined to sculpt her from memory. He rents a house near the spot and falls in love with the mentally disturbed daughter, Francesca, of the castle's owner, W. C. Hutton, while becoming involved with her sister, Marisa unaware of her identity.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-12-13
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Put Our Märta First or As Luck Will Have It
Overview: An out-of-work musician is desperate for work and when his best friend sees an add requesting a cellist he signs him up. However, the work is for a female, so he creates the character Märta Letterström and joins the trio at a small-town hotel. But being a woman is not as easy as you think.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-09-29
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The Nuthouse
Overview: In Stockholm in the year 2248 an excavation leads to the discovery of 45,000 meters of film from the 1940's master director Hasse Ekman . The material is in a disarray but the Society for Ancient Film Research compiles the material after what is believed to have been the master's artistic intentions
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1951-09-21
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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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Man glömmer ingenting
Overview: When Nora's father unexpectedly dies, she moves to her uncle Berthold and his wife Alice. Berthold is immediately attracted to the 19-year old girl, but his wife, jealous and alcoholic, notices it and becomes hostile to Nora. Nora begins her art studies to become a painter and gets to know the young Johan Manel, who falls in love with her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-12-16
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Women in Captivity
Overview: A priest decides to engage himself socially in prison. In the cells he meets a number of women with different fates. One is Mary, a young honest woman gone wrong.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-03-12
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Livet måste levas
Overview: The seaman Gustaf has just returned to Stockholm, the city where he grew up but has not been in 14 years. He longs to see his apartment in which he grew up and he travels there.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-09-27
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Lärarinna på vift
Overview: Karin Berggren is living a double life. In the daytime she is a strict teacher at a boarding school for girls. In the evenings she becomes the star singer at a popular nightclub.
Genres: Music
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1941-09-28
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Sonja
Overview: Sonja (Birgit Tengroth) is a housewife happily married with the factory worker Kurt (Åke Grönberg). But what he doesn't know is that Sonja has a dark secret of the past; she is a former prostitute. When suddenly Sonja's former, sleazy pimp Nick (Sture Lagerwall) shows up, he blackmails her into giving him money and letting him stay at their home. Otherwise he will tell Kurt about Sonja past. Sonja comply, but when Nick starts a relationship with Kurt's young and innocent sister Maj, Sonja has to act so Maj doesn't make the same mistake she did.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-11-05
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His Excellency
Overview: Celebrated elderly Austrian poet opposes nazism, while his daughter admires and falls in love with leading nazi activist, who eventually becomes concentration camp commander with his father-in-law as prisoner.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-03-03
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En fattig miljonär
Overview: Nisse Holm start marketing coffee made of tree cones.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1941-12-26
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What Every Woman Wants
Overview: Young couple Mark and Jane are forced to thrash out marital problems in a borrowed room in Jane’s parents’ tiny house. Meanwhile, Jane’s cousin, Jim - back from the war in Korea - and Mark’s involvement in left-wing politics place further strain on the relationship. Can grandfather help?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-10
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Intimate Relations
Overview: Yvonne is seething when her devoted son, Michael, declares his intention to marry Madeleine, despite the latter's admitting to having an affair with a mysterious older man. At the same time, George, Michael's father, confides in Yvonne's sister, Leo, that he is in fact Madeleine's other lover. Together, they hatch a plot to end Madeleine's hopes of marriage - by threatening to reveal George's scandalous secret to his son.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-01
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Incorrigible
Overview: Olga Sundbom is divorced and has custody of her spoiled son Krister. The lack of upbringing has made Krister an intolerable petty gangster. He is therefore put in a boarding school in a smaller town, and his getting in is due to a scam he himself is responsible for. Soon he turns the little idyll upside down.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-09-30
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Han glömde henne aldrig
Overview: American businessman Chris Johnson spent WW2 in Sweden and fell in love with a nurse, Karin Engström. He lost contact with her after war and now, seven years later, he returns to Sweden on a business trip, trying to find her again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1952-01-01
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Hidden Fear
Overview: A U.S. lawman busts Copenhagen counterfeiters to help his sister, falsely accused of murder.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-07-01
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Fransson the Terrible
Overview: A young baker moves to the small town of Västerby and becomes successful with a new type of whole wheat bread.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1941-09-22
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Harald Handfaste
Overview: Harald Handfaste is a 15th century Swedish Robin Hood, who fights against foreign oppression. He becomes the leader of a band of highwaymen and they start dealing with the evil bailiff. However, the bailiff will stop at nothing to catch Handfaste and show the people who is in charge. He even attempts to marry Handfaste's beloved Karin, and when she refuses to subdue, the bailiff decides to execute both her, her father and a monk who has been helping them.
Genres: Action Romance Adventure
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-12-26
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