Stig Ossian Ericson
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Biography: Stig Ossian Ericson (7 September 1923 - 30 July 2012) was a Swedish actor, director, and screenwriter. Ericson was born in 1923 in Härnösand, but grew up in Nyköping. Graduating at the University of Uppsala where he had been involved in various theatrical performances at the Södermanlands-Nerikes nation, he began his professional career as a mathematics teacher. He changed into the theater track in the early 1960s when he participated in the Snudd revue at the Casino Theatre in Stockholm. He later worked with Hans Alfredson and Tage Danielsson, Bo Widerberg and Beppe Wolgers. He is probably best known as Sigurd in the Swedish block buster Göta kanal eller Vem drog ur proppen?, lillebror's father in Astrid Lindgren's Karlsson på taket, and in the 1990s as Father Fouras in Fångarna på fortet, the Swedish version of French game show Fort Boyard. Ericson died in 2012, at the age of 88, in Nacka east of Stockholm.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Härnösand, Västernorrlands län, Sweden
Birthday: September 07, 1923
Deathday: July 30, 2012
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Gender: Male
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One-Week Bachelors
Overview: Gary's wife goes away for a week and Gary expects a week of hard work at the office. After having left her at the airport, he misses the bus. But the car mechanic Lasse gives him a ride. Although they are unlike each other, they get to know each other. Gary makes a mess of everything and can't avoid Lasse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1982-12-16
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Karlsson on the Roof
Overview: Svante is a young boy who lives with his family in a Stockholm apartment. One day he meets Karlsson, a chubby little man in the prime of his life, who can fly using a propeller on his back and who lives in his little house on the roof.
Genres: Family
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1974-12-02
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Who Pulled the Plug?
Overview: To secure an order for 1 000 cruise ships from an Arab prince, two companies have to compete by racing each other by canal from Stockholm to Gothenburg. A small family owned company on the brink of bankruptcy is pitted against their major competitor and they both have to resort to dirty tricks in order to reach the goal line first. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1981-12-18
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The Man Who Quit Smoking
Overview: The Plot focuses on Dante Alighieri, a young man who loves smoking. When his father dies Dante inherits $17 million on one special condition: He must give up smoking in 14 days and then stay smoke-free for an entire year. If he fails, his uncle inherits the $17 million instead. Dante has a living hell while trying to quit, and hires a private detective agency called Little Secret Service who he gives free hands to stop him from smoking, While his uncle, who has taken up smoking himself, also does everything he can to make Dante smoke again.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1972-12-16
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The Moon God
Overview: A serial killer who slaughters campers is on the loose in Sweden. The lead detectives make a breakthrough when the killer, a cloaked figure wielding a sword and a strange mask, sends the police a video recording.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Thriller Horror
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1988-09-23
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The Butt
Overview: Six year old Johan, a.k.a. Fimpen, loves football. One day his talents are discovered. It doesn't take long before Fimpen gets to travel around with the national team. Fimpen becomes an idol and media wants a piece of him all the time. It gets hard to catch up in school.
Genres: Drama Comedy Family
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1974-02-16
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Port of Call
Overview: Berit is a young woman with problems. She is suicidal and depressed. Since it has been impossible for her to live with her mother, she has spent many years in institutions. She has now gotten a job in an industry on the condition that she can live together with her mother again. Their relationship is very tense however. One night at a dance she meets stevedore Gösta. Will he be able to give her the support she needs?
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1948-10-11
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En enkel melodi
Overview: Young Felix is a trainee at a fire station, but he is afraid of heights and can not stand the sight of blood. His future as a fireman is doubtful and when he is suspended he steals an ambulance to prove his mettle.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1974-08-26
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Have a Wonderful Life
Overview: Per is doing his military service when he finds out that his girlfriend back home in Stockholm is having an affair. He goes AWOL and tries to find a way back home. On the way he meets Hanna, the daughter of a travelling salesman who joins him on his journey.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1992-02-07
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Father to Be
Overview: Bosse works at an advertising agency while working on the novel of the century. At a burger restaurant he meets Lena, and before he knows it, she is pregnant. Bosse starts thinking that his life is all over, he won't get any more career opportunities, and never again will he have time for late night parties.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1979-12-01
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Tabu
Overview: Solidarity with the border people. Equal rights for the sexual deviants. Kristoffer Lohman is a young solicitor who collects stories and knowledge of different perversions. This has affected and changed his own sexual life. Sara, a young well-behaved and adorned woman, becomes interested in Kristoffer's activity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1977-01-28
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The Women on the Roof
Overview: An innocent and beautiful girl, Linnea rents an apartment in Stockholm just before WWI. As she works for an old man who owns a photography studio she meets Anna, a photographer with whom she develops a complex friendship. Anna’s circus-performer boyfriend and European politics complicate Linnea’s routine.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1989-09-15
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Egg! Egg! A Hardboiled Story
Overview: A fairy tale and satire about a wealthy industrialist, whose son has been subdued and oppressed and totally uninterested in his father's business.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1975-03-17
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Private Bom
Overview: The station-master Fabian Bom is a very meticulous person, and he makes sure that the trains leaves exactly - on the second. To him, nothing could be more important than duty, efficiency and punctuality, in fact, his sense of duty is clearly perverted. His beloved Plum-Plum, the major's daughter, is infatuated with army officers. To regain her attention, he joins the infantry. Bom becomes a soldier who loves the military training, long marches as well as hard labour as punishment. He meets Agnes, who falls madly in love with him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1948-12-10
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Om 7 flickor
Overview: The film portrays one day in an home for adolescent care on the Swedish countryside, where the faith of seven girls have been drawn together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-17
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To Be a Millionaire
Overview: The terrorist Fors arrested after an attack on a OPEC meeting. Shortly afterwards town minister's daughter gets kidnapped by two men who require Fors be released and that he will flight phase to Albania. SÄPO agent Olsson will handle the case.
Genres: Thriller Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1980-05-17
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The American Dream
Overview: The film depicts the events surrounding the last public executions in Sweden.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1976-11-19
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A Summer of Love
Overview: David, a middle-aged researcher, lives happily with his wife Ingrid and their kids. By a coincident he meets and falls in love with a young woman named Eva. Their relationship will only last a few months.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1979-02-21
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The Banquet Room
Overview: A young girl is a confidante to four men who regularly visit her in her apartment.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1965-07-26
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Games of Love and Loneliness
Overview: This co-production between Norway and Sweden is the first film that Anja Breien has made since Wives. She has adapted a novel by Hjalmar Soderberg. who also wrote 'Gertrud' from which Carl Dreyer's last film was made, and Doctor Glas' (made into a film by Mai Zetterhng) Games of Love and Loneliness, concerns the manners and mores of Scandinavian society between the years 1897 and 1912. A young journalist, Arvid, falls in love with a girl but won't commit himself to marrying her. She marries an older and richer man and he's pushed into marrying the girl he's been sleeping with. He meets his first love again, and she leaves her husband to have an affair with him, but he still cannot bring himself to leave his wife. Although Anja Breien has changed the character of the girl to make her less of a femme fatale and more of an emancipated woman, the film's central concern is the young man who cannot make up his mind what to do with his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1977-08-29
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System 84
Overview: A power struggle floats in the judiciary. A dead body in a dust-bin. More death. Superintendent Sven Thorén is fed up with dead bodies. His partner Olle Lyck is tired of most of it. Not to mention System 84.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1978-12-06
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Hans Christian and the Geographic Society
Overview: Hans-Christian is a middle-aged priest who in the shadow of World War II decides to form a geographic association aiming at increased understanding between countries and people.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1981-09-13
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Adagio
Overview: A couple and their strong love to each other.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Min älskade
Overview: "My Love" - A drama rich in symbols about an unsuccessful Norwegian bookseller. With a bag filled with quirky literature he wanders through Stockholm, trying to find book buyers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1979-03-12
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Kristoffers hus
Overview: Kristoffer lives on the verge of poverty, just barely supporting himself on his photographic work and an allowance given him by his ex-wife to support their child. He is staying in his absentee mother's large old house, which she is preparing to sell. When he takes a photograph of a man who died by his own hand, the image fascinates him. He grows obsessed with the dead man's story and pushes his research as far as it will go.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1979-09-19
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Yrkesmän emellan
Overview: Short based on Stig 'Slas' Claesson's three Stockholm stories.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1976-12-19
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En flicka på halsen
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1982-08-13
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Nattvägen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1982-03-31
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Facklorna
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Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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