Gabriel Alw
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Eskilstuna, Södermanlands län, Sweden
Birthday: December 25, 1889
Deathday: November 09, 1946
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Elisabet
Overview: Even though Elisabet's mother has remarried with the friendly dr Bärn it's impossible to cure Elisabet of her depression because she had to give away a child she gave birth to out of wedlock. Her mother and step father are the only people who know about the circumstances and they are keen to keep it secret so there is no scandal against the family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1921-03-07
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Ett konstnärsöde
Overview: Musician Gaston Brenner gets accepted to study under piano virtuoso Jean Krause. Through this he becomes acquainted with the painter and professor Mac Steep who is working on a painting of Christ at the last supper. He thinks Gaston's face would be perfect as a model for Christ's.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1917-11-26
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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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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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The Price of Betrayal
Overview: An unemployed man encounters trouble when he tries to find a way to help his sick wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1915-12-13
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Unga hjärtan
Overview: 16-year-old Marianne will be confirmed. She is reluctant to do this, but her mother is more than happy for her to complete the confirmation. Marianne travels to a rectory in the country where she and a group of other girls will live while they read to the priest. On Midsummer's Eve, she meets by chance one of the other confirmands' fiancés and the feeling arises.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1934-10-22
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Ordet
Overview: Swedish film of the Kaj Munk play that was made into a far more famous film by Carl Dreyer in Denmark twelve years later.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-12-26
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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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Two People
Overview: When the prestigious Dr. Arne Lundell completes the most important work of his life, a colleague from the University of Stockholm, Dr. Sander, complains against him for plagiarism. Marianne, wife of Arne, does everything possible to encourage her anxious husband for not understanding the reasons for this unjust accusation. In these circumstances, Sander is found dead. It seems that it is a suicide, but his soon finds that he has been murdered. Suspicions fall on Dr. Arne. The dramatic situation begins to unravel when Arne discovers, by chance, a letter by which he discovers that his wife was the secret lover of the missing professor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-03-23
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Changing Trains
Overview: Inga, an unemployed actress meets a sweetheart Kim, from days long gone at a train station. Over coffee they reminisce about their romance and how Inga left Kim for a moderately successful acting career and the attractive theater director Leo Waller.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-01-30
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Doktor Glas
Overview: Dr. Glas is visited by Mrs. Gregorius who lives in an unhappy marriage and decides to help her, by any means necessary.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-11-30
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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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The Suburban Vicar
Overview: "Suburban Priest". The film premiered on September 3 1917 at cinema Sture and Brunkeberg Theatre in Stockholm . The film was shot at the Hasselblad studio on Otterhällan in Gothenburg with exteriors from Gothenburg by Carl Gustaf Florin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1917-07-09
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Sin
Overview: A married writer's luck turns when he gets a play produced at Théâtre de Paris. He meets the femme fatale who should play the lead in his play. Passion and conflict occurs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1928-09-16
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Jag dräpte
Overview: "I Slew" - Hospital drama of a doctor who thinks that he killed a patient on the operating table.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-10-26
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Kristin Commands
Overview: Translator Vilhelm and his young wife have a child, as well as a grumpy housemaid who doesn't hesitate to give her opinion on how they behave as parents. In secret Kristin arranges a scholarship for Vilhelm so he can go back to his medical studies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-09-02
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Aktiebolaget Hälsans gåva
Overview: A travelling circus experience bad times and starts to produce a miracle cure based on cake flour and sugar.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1915-12-05
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The Prisoner of Karlsten's Fortress
Overview: Count de Faber is working on a new type of explosive, but finds out that Professor Plussman has beat him to it. After an unsuccessful attempt to acquire the formula from Plussman, he breaks into the professor's house, steals the formula, and kidnaps his daughter, Mary. He takes her to Carlsten Fortress.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1916-11-14
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To the Orient
Overview: When Ingmar Ingmarsson marries Barbro Svensdotter there's a big party with many guests. But the bride and groom are unhappy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1926-02-01
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Bastard
Overview: Siberian hunter Burtaj learns from his dying father that he originates from German farmers on his mother side. He is thus a "bastard", since the hunters and peasants have been enemies since ancient times.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1940-01-10
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Löjtnant Galenpanna
Overview: At a restaurant visit happens to the distracted professor and flea animal expert Loris get his overcoat replaced by Lieutenant Juncker. Lt. discovers the mistake at a night grog with two joke hungry friends. In the professor's coat he finds the professor's notes for the next day, and Lieutenant Juncker bet with his cronies that he should be able to carry out the professor's daily program without being exposed.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1917-09-10
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There Burns a Fire
Overview: An allegory of Germany's WWII occupation of Norway. Members of a theater ensemble join the resistance.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-08-23
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Between Life and Death
Overview: "Between life and death" - Dr Brinck and his assistant Inger Holm spend days and nights in his laboratory to experiment with a revolutionary medical cure for poisoning. Inger Holm is deeply in love with his boss. When the two scientists one day go to bed and visit an outdoor server, Brinck's manufacturer will meet Warren and his daughter Elsa and get an opportunity to help Elsa with a damaged foot. Thanks to him, he is invited to a party in the manufacturer's luxurious home...
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1917-02-19
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If I Could Marry the Minister
Overview: Eva Örn is a newly graduated teacher, who becomes a school teacher in rural Vikarlunda. She is a beautiful young woman with firm opinions and she does not live up to the locals' picture of the ideal female teacher. She has an affair with the pastor, Ingvar Hagson, but they have to keep their love a secret.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1941-12-13
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Night Music
Overview: The rich Baron Von Meislingen dreams of being a poet-- Unfortunately, he has no talent what so ever. In one of his apartments lives the talented but poor poet Peter Långhår. Von Meislingen steals his latest work from him and publishes it under his own name. 'His' poems becomes a success and Von Meislingen becomes regarded as one of the greatest living poets.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1918-04-01
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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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Two Kings
Overview: The young adventurer Signature Hjelm meets one day a runaway carriage, and succeeds by a resourceful and daring intervention to avert an accident. The rig belongs to Gustav III's favorite, Baron Armfelt, and as a reward for his feat will Ture service of the king's guard. Conspirators trying maple certainly entice him over to the king's enemies, but Ture reports Gustaf receiving a grim and determined expression on his face: "Spies even here!" His confidence Signature increases.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1925-11-09
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The Ingmar Inheritance
Overview: When his ancestors seem to appear in the clouds during a storm of biblical proportions, young Ingmar decides to give up his career as the village teacher and to reclaim the land and farm of his fathers. The same stormy night, the charismatic preacher Helgum arrives in the village to spread the word about the promises of the Holy Land, which turns parents and children, men and wives, brothers and sisters, against one another. Ingmar is torn between his love for the headmaster’s daughter Gertrud who is under the preacher’s spell, and the prospects of marrying the judge’s daughter Barbro in order to keep the farm.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1925-12-26
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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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