Olof Widgren
Also Known As: Johan Olof Pettersson Widgren, Olov Widgren
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
Adult: No
Birthday: June 09, 1907
Age: 117 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 06, 1999
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Count Only the Happy Moments
Overview: The old Victor Branzell has a grandson, Alf, who is in love with a clerk in a glove shop, Lilian Lind. But Lilian with her simple background doesn't get accepted in the circles where Alf belongs, and they have now reached the conclusion that they can't have a future together. Marriage is impossible. Victor summons Lilian and Alf and starts telling them his life story.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-08-08
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June Night
Overview: A woman flees to avoid rumors of promiscuity, but is trailed by a reporter who wants to expose her dark past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1940-04-03
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Kan doktorn komma?
Overview: A rural doctor in the north of Sweden must travel for hours to his patients. When a young woman has a serious case of appendicitis the doctor must bring her on a dangerous trek downriver to reach the clinic. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-12-21
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Gösta Ekman - En levande legend
Overview: Documentary about the Swedish actor Gösta Ekman (1890-1938) with interviews with friends and colleagues.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1987-01-07
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Walpurgis Night
Overview: Lena Bergström works in an office and is unhappily in love with her boss, Johan Borg. She decides to quit. Borg's wife won't have any children, and when she becomes pregnant she has an illegal abortion. For some reason, Lena's father believes that it is Lena who has had an abortion.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1935-10-23
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The Sixth Shot
Overview: Georg Winkler meet Marguerite Hoffman at the casino in Monte Carlo. They become an item and travel the world with their act - Winkler is an accomplished marksman. Eventually Winkler's jealousy leads to their separation and he has to resort to work for secondrate circuses with a dwarf. But eventually he meet Margurite once again. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-09-24
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Karin Månsdotter
Overview: Karin does not belong to the nobility but nevertheless marries the mentally ill king Erik XIV and becomes queen of Sweden. The king's skilled counsellor Göran Persson wants a royal policy supporting the people and supported by it. But in relation to the nobility the king oscillates between provocative strength and unpredictable weakness. Göran arranges that some very powerful noblemen are killed. Subsequently the king tries to have them convicted of high treason by the parliament. He forgets the manuscript, mixes up all facts, and the noblemen are acquitted. But Göran speedily gathers another parliament and has them convicted. Meanwhile Erik apologises because of the unjust murders. Hence Erik is dethroned and imprisoned. Göran is executed. Karin is restricted to a castle in Finland. In the prison Erik believes that he is still the king and gives the guards presents such as all fishes in the Baltic Sea.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-11-01
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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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En sjöman i frack
Overview: First mate Karlsson is mistaken for famous actor Linde.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-02-22
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The Turnstile
Overview: The small town of Gåtatorp in Småland is entirely dependent on its prominent furniture factory. But the factory is in danger because the weak economy means that the bank wants to shut down the factory.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-12-21
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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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Kanske en diktare
Overview: Gösta Ekman in the role as coat janitor Filip, a dreamer that has failed in life and sees people as the cloths he has in his wardrobe. One-night three guests enter the restaurant, the extensive Viding with his beautiful wife Jane, and the remorseless manager Kurtz. Viding who owes Kurtz money demands his wife to be accommodating toward him. Filip watches her pulling a gun...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1933-02-24
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Pygmalion
Overview: Can Professor Higgins teach a working-class flower girl to speak like a duchess?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1968-06-02
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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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Fadren
Overview: A woman drives her husband into an uncertainty that ends with scorn, confusion and stroke.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1967-01-30
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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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Pengar från skyn
Overview: Car manufacturer Leopold Paseman is old and childless. He becomes sentimental about his situation and has no one to take over the business when he dies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1938-12-26
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Our Building of Home and Community
Overview: Campaign film for the Swedish Folkpartiet (People's Party) in 1936.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1936-11-16
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Pappa Sandrew
Overview: The story of Anders Andersson becoming the film and theatre producer Anders Sandrew (1885-1957) building a modern empire of cinemas and theaters in Stockholm.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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The Serious Game
Overview: Arvid share the love with a young woman named Lydia, but as is customary at the turn of the century, is not love enough for a fairy tale to come true. While Arvid struggling to create the basis for their existence, Lydia's thirst for the good life leads her to marrying an older wealthy man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-11-26
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Trasiga änglar
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Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1962-09-23
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Hem från Babylon
Overview: An engineer and a businessman is on the run from Manchuria, where revolution and civil war erupted. Both suffer from typhoid and the businessman dies. Before he dies, he changes identity with the engineer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1941-12-23
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Steel
Overview: The Forshyttan steel-mill has been owned by the Ancker family for generations. But competition is hard. When the son Bengt Ancker comes back from abroad he has an idea for success: a lighter steel with better quality. But a lot of money is necessary to develop his idea and the only way to raise the necessary capital is to sell the company to their competitor - Manchester Steel Company. But the workers are concerned that this could threaten their job-security
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1940-02-18
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Patrasket
Overview: A poor Jewish family, called the Riffraff by the author, puts the great Joe Meng at the heart of high-flying plans and imaginative flair.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1966-11-13
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Det är nu livet börjar
Overview: A TV drama about an old man who doesn't want to retire.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1976-01-26
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Ingen morgondag
Overview: It is in a battlefield in Karelia, Finland during the Continuation war (1941-1944). Intensive shooting between Finnish and Soviet troops takes place. The Soviet occupation is strong, and on the Finnish side it is ordered to withdraw. But Captain Viktor Aaltonen does not listen to the order but wants to shorten a wounded companion's suffering. Aaltonen is taken to the Soviet prison camp, Vorkuta, where he will spend a decade.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-10-16
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Young Blood
Overview: Eva is a very talented and able college girl. In the summer she is going to work at a farm. There she meets a different world of unwanted children, desires and temporary relationships.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-10-12
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Svartskallen
Overview: About a Turkish boy who is trying to adapt to life in Sweden. A difficult task as it turns out.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1981-10-20
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Midwinter Sacrifice
Overview: A mythic depiction of a pagan sacrifice in prehistoric Sweden.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-05-25
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Last Pair Out
Overview: About the life of the student, Bo Dahlin. Bo's parents are divorced. Both have been unfaithful. Bo is engaged to Kerstin, but only has eyes for Anita. Anita is filled with self-disgust.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-11-12
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Han som fick leva om sitt liv
Overview: "The Man Who Lived his Life Over" - A drama about a person who gets the opportunity many dream of, to relive his life. In his past he committed a crime. It must not happen again. Now everything will surely be different.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1961-05-23
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Ödemarksprästen
Overview: In the early 18th century the priest Martin Ryselius has become widower and stands alone with a one-year-old daughter. He is seeking the meaning of existence by heading north in Sweden for a priesthood service in the mountains.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-03-30
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The Judge
Overview: Krister and his fiancé Brita return to Stockholm after a stay in Italy. Shortly upon their return Krister learns that all his assets left to him by his father has disappeared. Together with Brita he tries to obtain justice in a aristocratic and corrupt legal system.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1960-10-14
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Career
Overview: One day, a theater company to Iron Creek. In the city's steel mills meet the young actress Monika young Erik. The love between them is from the very clear but complicated by the fact both have careers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1938-10-11
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Life and Death
Overview: Thriller set in northern Sweden during WWII where a regiment of ski-borne soldiers and guests in a tourist hotel experience and investigate acts of treason.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-07-16
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Only a Mother
Overview: A poor woman in a Swedish farming community struggles to feed her large family and is torn by her passion for two different men.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-10-31
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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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Så tuktas kärleken
Overview: Per is in love with Kerstin. They are high school classmates. In the distance they see teacher Eva Hallström, ph. d. and the headmaster's wife, return home to her home. She is currently a major topic of conversation because she has just published an acclaimed collection of love poems. Everyone is curious about who the young lover of the poems might be.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-10-26
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Jag är eld och luft
Overview: Vicar Ahrman's young daughter Jenny has left the home to start a new life with her beloved Stefan. But Jenny's dreams for the future is shattered when Stefan doesn't turn up to their meeting. Heartbroken, she returns home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-09-07
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Herre med portfölj
Overview: Rolf Berger, a hard working and dutiful deputy judge at the court of appeal, has been married for many years with Eva. She has long ago accepted that he spends his evenings with his legal work. Rolf Berger has been invited to the 25th anniversary of his graduation and starts to reconsider the kind of life he lives. When he meets the 19-year old Inger he falls in love with her and decide to leave his wife.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-11-30
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