Börje Ahlstedt
Also Known As: Бёрье Альстедт
Biography: Nils Börje Ahlstedt (born 21 February 1939) is a Swedish actor who has worked extensively with the world-famous director Ingmar Bergman in films like Fanny and Alexander (1982), The Best Intentions (1992), Sunday's Children (1992) and Saraband (2003). Ahlstedt has also worked with the directors Bo Widerberg and Kay Pollak.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Stockholm, Sweden
Birthday: February 21, 1939
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Ronia, the Robber's Daughter
Overview: Ronia lives happily in her father's castle until she comes across a new playmate, Birk, in the nearby dark forest. The two explore the wilderness, braving dangerous Witchbirds and Rump-Gnomes. But when their families find out Birk and Ronia have been playing together, they forbid them to see each other again. Indeed, their fathers are competing robber chieftains and bitter enemies. Now the two spunky children must try to tear down the barriers that have kept their families apart for so long.
Genres: Adventure Drama Fantasy Family
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1984-12-14
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Lena
Overview: Follows the story of the beloved and internationally acclaimed Swedish actress Lena Nyman, based on 17 paper bags with diaries that she left behind.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2021-09-17
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Fanny and Alexander
Overview: As children in the loving Ekdahl family, Fanny and Alexander enjoy a happy life with their parents, who run a theater company. After their father dies unexpectedly, however, the siblings end up in a joyless home when their mother, Emilie, marries a stern bishop. The bleak situation gradually grows worse as the bishop becomes more controlling, but dedicated relatives make a valiant attempt to aid Emilie, Fanny and Alexander.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Mystery
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1982-12-17
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The Angel
Overview: A drug addict becomes a mother and has to deal with responsibility and self-respect.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2009-10-02
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Exit
Overview: There is a thin line between money and loyalty. Thomas Skepphult runs an investment company, and is arrested for the murder of his business partner when his fingerprint is found on the murder weapon. When he tries to call his lawyer, the phone is answered by someone who he thought had committed suicide years ago.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2006-10-06
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Karlsson on the Roof
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Genres: Family Animation
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2002-09-27
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The Best Intentions
Overview: In this film about Ingmar Bergman's parents, Henrik Bergman is studying for the priesthood and trying to make ends meet when he encounters the lovely, affluent Anna. Despite their social differences, Henrik and Anna fall in love, wed and move to the country. They lead a quiet life as Henrik works as a priest, but it isn't long before the simple people and plain surroundings make Anna long for a more lavish lifestyle, which causes marital stress.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1992-05-24
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Sunday's Children
Overview: Little Pu spends a summer in Norrland with all his relatives. He and his brother get to hear the story about the watchmaker who hung himself, learns to shoot with a bow and follow his father on a bicycle trip.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1992-03-01
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I Am Curious (Yellow)
Overview: Lena, aged twenty, wants to know all she can about life and reality. She collects information on everyone and everything, storing her findings in an enormous archive. She experiments with relationships, political activism, and meditation. Meanwhile, the actors, director and crew are shown in a humorous parallel plot about the making of the film and their reactions to the story and each other. Nudity, explicit sex, and controversial politics kept this film from being shown in the US while its seizure by Customs was appealed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1967-03-10
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Minns ni?
Overview: A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 films.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1993-10-24
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The Rabbit Man
Overview: Hans and Lollo just had their first child. Hans is a gym teacher and is constantly tormented by his pupils. Hans's dad Bengt, is a news reporter on TV9, the channel who shows "such as people want to see". Bengt's latest report series is about a rapist who likes little girls. Bengt begins to suspect Hans...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1990-09-28
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I Am Curious (Blue)
Overview: The same movie with the same characters, cast and crew as I am Curious (Yellow), but with some different scenes and a different political slant. The political focus in Blue is personal relationships, religion, prisons and sex. Blue omits much of the class consciousness and non-violence interviews of the first version. Yellow and Blue are the colors of the Swedish flag.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1968-03-11
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In the Presence of a Clown
Overview: Inventor Carl Åkerblom is a rosy-cheeked 54 year-old admirer of Franz Schubert - and a patient in the psychiatric ward of Akademiska Hospital in Uppsala, after having attempted to beat to death his fiancée, Pauline Thibault. Together with another patient, Professor Osvald Vogler, they set up a film project: the living talkie. Before long, they set off on a frantic tour with their film, "The Joy of the Joyous Girl"... Written by Fredrik Klasson
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1998-10-01
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Marknadsafton
Overview: Magni is a farmer who is planning to marry Teresia who comes from a rich family. When his maid Lovisa finds out she gets furious, she has been working for him without pay for 12 years because of vague allusions to marriage, now she wants her pay! She calculates that her back pay is the same as the fortune Teresia would be bringing to the marriage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1989-12-28
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Children's Island
Overview: Reine is supposed to go to a summer camp called Children's Island but decides to remain in Stockholm over the summer while his mother is working at a hospital. She thinks he is at the camp, and he tells her he is. We then follow him around Stockholm that summer and see what he encounters on the path of life.
Genres: Drama Family Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1980-12-25
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Saraband
Overview: In this sequel to Scenes from a Marriage (1973), we revisit the characters of Johan and Marianne, then a married couple. After their divorce, Johan and Marianne haven't seen each other for 32 years. Marianne is still working, as a divorce lawyer. Johan is quite well off and has retired to a house in the Orsa finnmark district of Sweden. On a whim, Marianne decides to visit him. Johan's son from a previous marriage, Henrik, lives nearby in a cottage with his daughter Karin, a gifted cello player. The relationship between father and son is strained.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2003-12-01
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Pippi's Adventures on the South Seas
Overview: A mysterious ship has sailed into Pippi's hometown and the Captain turns out to be her father...
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1999-09-04
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A Guy and a Gal
Overview: Hypochondriac Lasse has finished his education but has trouble finding a job, instead he goes out trying to pick up girls. One morning he meets Lena in the stairwell.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1975-06-25
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Emma's Shadow
Overview: Emma (Line Kruse) is an eleven year-old only child from a wealthy Danish family. Emma's parents seem more interested in their own interests than in her. One evening when Emma overhears her mother talking about how tragic it must be to have your child kidnapped, Emma decides to stage her own kidnapping. She soon meets Malthe, a kind-hearted, child-like, naïve sewer cleaner who literally stumbles on to her. She convinces Malthe that she is a Russian princess whose family is being chased by Bolsheviks, so Malthe lets Emma stay with him in his very modest abode. After being "kidnapped" for a few days, Emma decides to return home. But, just as she is about to return, she overhears a couple of servants talking about how her parents don't seem to be very upset over her dilemma....
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Savannen
Overview: A couple have installed a new high tech television system in their children's room and become more and more vary of it.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1983-11-16
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The Making of Fanny and Alexander
Overview: The Making of Fanny and Alexander is a fascinating look at the creation of a masterpiece. Directed by Ingmar Bergman himself, this feature-length documentary chronicles the methods of one of cinema’s true luminaries as he labors to realize his crowning production.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1984-09-16
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Bang Bang Orangutang
Overview: An overworked and stressed out man in the middle of his career causes the worst tragedy that can happen to a family...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2005-10-14
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Percy, Buffalo Bill and I
Overview: Ulf think this is going to be an ordinary summer. Going to his grand parents and swim in the lake and tease his brother. But that's not the case, because this summer he will fall in love with Pia.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2005-09-30
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Höst i paradiset
Overview: Ragnar Persson, a 68-year-old widower, is living at his summer cottage with his son, Mikael, and his son's pregnant girlfriend, Catti. Ragnar falls in love with his neighbour, Vendela, who runs an apple orchard. Mikael is carrying on an affair with Susanne, a childhood friend who is married to Henning, the owner of the local apple juice plant. A great rift in the family opens up when Mikael, who is always broke, accuses Vendela of just trying to get his father's money.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1995-09-22
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Björnen
Overview: Widow Jelena has let it be known she does not want to meet any men and is upset when Grigorij shows up and wants to speak to her about something.
Genres: TV Movie Romance Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1984-12-11
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Fallgropen
Overview: Larry Pedersen, professor of psychology of religion, has just divorced when a student named Elisabeth student must take the exam before him. Later in the evening the same day, she is beaten by her boyfriend and then Pedersen offers her a bed for the night.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-13
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Limpan
Overview: Limpan is an alcoholic who has been put into a caretaking home for alcoholics. He's promised a job on the 'outside', but he's not released from the home, so he runs away. He misses the job and gets caught and is brought back, but they won't accept him, since it's after closing time. During a couple of days, he wanders back and forth between the home and the world, meeting several different people who all have their different problems, which Limpan confronts and all the time, there's the question of alcohol; to drink or not to drink.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1983-02-04
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The Hour of the Lynx
Overview: Helen, a priest, is approached by scientist Lisbeth with a desperate plea for help. A young man, who has been sent to a high security psychiatric ward after having killed an old couple, has attempted suicide while rambling about God. Having been part of an experiment attempting to humanize inmates by assigning them pets, the young man has suddenly gone ballistic. Fearing that he will attempt suicide again priest and scientist must now confront their mutual animosities while trying to grasp the truth. In a race against time the two women begin a shocking journey deeper and deeper into the sick mind of a young man's soul.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2013-09-26
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Höjdhoppar'n
Overview: 35-year old Erik Engman, aka Pinnen, is the local fool. He picks up garbage and eats at the old people's home. One day he is asked to try the high-jump at the sport's field. He becomes fascinated and starts to train every day. Being fool-hardy, it doesn't take long before he is one of the best in the country and is asked to compete at the Stockholm Stadion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1981-02-13
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The Birthday
Overview: Michael has a secret that he intends to announce during his birthday party. He has finally decided to propose to Catti, his girlfriend of many years. But Catti has other plans ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2000-03-23
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You're Lying!
Overview: About an alcohol-damaged young man, his life in and out of prison, his friend the art teacher and his difficulties reintegrating into society.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1969-10-26
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The Magnetist’s Fifth Winter
Overview: A mysterious stranger, Meisner, arrives in a northern Swedish town in 1820, calling himself a magnetist - an amalgam of hypnotist and healer - and claiming he can cure diseases un-treatable by doctors. Ignoring the objections of his colleagues, Dr. Selander allows Meisner to cure his blind daughter, Maria, who not only regains her sight, but also falls in love with the charismatic magnetist. Dark secrets and repressed memories start to emerge, amidst the love between father and daughter, man and woman.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1999-03-04
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The Last Yankee
Overview: "All people with a tiny bit of sense get depressed in this country", says Patricia in "The Last Yankee". Two men - a carpenter and a successful self-employed business owner - visit their wives, who both are patients in a mental hospital. Why has life become so unbearable for them?
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1997-01-02
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Death of a Salesman
Overview: Willy Loman is an over-the-hill salesman who faces a personal turning point when he loses his job and attempts to make peace with his family: Willy's long-suffering wife Linda, and Biff and Happy, his troubled sons and his life.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1979-11-28
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Nationalmonumentet
Overview: The sculptor Erik Some gets commissioned to create a national monument. His sculpture gets rejected but it's the starting point for a lot of political and light-hearted complications.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1977-10-19
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Amorosa
Overview: About the Swedish author Agnes Von Krusenstjerna during the period of her marriage to David Sprengel. In the hallucinatory opening sequence she is brought in a straitjacket by her husband and two psychiatric nurses through the Venice Carnival nocturnal antics to a mental hospital in the city. With her is a manuscript of her autobiography, which she calls "her child". The book is Agnes showdown with her family, and in flashbacks presented, Agnes progress from the author of innocent girls' books to serious and self-consuming novelist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1986-03-14
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Pippi Långstrump - Resan till Nordpolen
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Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2001-09-19
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En Galnings Dagbok
Overview: The story of a minor civil servant and his descent into madness.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1983-01-12
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Håll alla dörrar öppna
Overview: Steve works as a locksmith and one day he meets Lotta in his work. After helping her get back into her apartment they decide to see each other again. Though they are dating Steve still goes out with other girls, and in situations like this a big city quickly becomes a small town.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1973-11-05
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Swedenhielms
Overview: Swedish TV movie based on the Hjalmar Bergman play.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1980-11-16
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Nallars väntan
Overview: Short film.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Exercis
Overview: Drama about the everyday lives of Swedish soldiers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1968-04-22
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Sova Räv
Overview: About four young individuals that has been let down by their parents. They live an extroverted life together, searching for their identity, in constant defiance of the adult world.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Belma
Overview: The war in former Yugoslavia is suddenly on the doorstep of 16-year-old computer freak Rasmus when he meets and falls in love with refugee girl Belma. Belma lives with her father and other refugees on Flotel Europe in Copenhagen. One day Belma’s father recognizes one of his torturers from prison camp among the refugees on the boat. The executioner is attacked and Belmas father gets arrested. Rasmus and Belma must prove his innocence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1996-01-19
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Nallar och människor
Overview: A group of teddybears awaken in the attic after years of storage. Store-Nalle (Big Teddy) explains the history of the species, from the very first teddybears manufactured in Germany. Other segments include dramatizations of the directors' childhood memories, as well as interviews with several stuffed animal owners.
Genres: Documentary Animation Family History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-03-17
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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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Directed by Bergman (The Making of Saraband)
Overview: A documentary about the production of Ingmar Bergman's TV film "Saraband."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2003-12-03
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The Lie
Overview: A Swedish couple are trapped in their marriage and way of life. Locked up in their bourgeois inferno.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1970-10-28
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Flygplan saknas
Overview: Two pilots must fly together in spite of the strong dislike of each other. At a training mission the aircraft wrecks over open water and they have to save themselves by parachute.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1965-02-15
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Made in Sweden
Overview: Joergen (Per Myberg) is the Swedish journalist who uncovers a gun-running operation on the borders of Vietnam. The trail leads to a financial group of wealthy industrialists lead by Magnus Rud (Max von Sydow). He refuses to bury the story, leading to trouble for the idealistic reporter and his girlfriend Christine (Lena Granhagen) in this political drama about the war machine and freedom of the press.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1969-03-17
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I sällskap med en clown
Overview: One hour making-of of Bergman's In The Presence of A Clown.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1997-11-07
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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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The Father
Overview: A charged power struggle between spouses. A tug of war to the death of an only child as ends and means. From an August Strindberg play.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1988-10-02
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A Dream Play
Overview: "A Dream Play" - Agnes, a daughter of the Vedic god Indra, descends to Earth to bear witness to problems of human beings. She meets about 40 symbolical characters.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1980-11-30
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The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow'
Overview: A documentary about the film, I am Curious-Yellow (1967), and how it made it into the USA and changed film in USA forever by breaking the USA Obscenity Codes.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Men and Bergman
Overview: Ingmar Bergman himself has often stressed how important the actors are to his work, and that they constitute his greatest source of inspiration. From this perspective it is therefore interesting to look at Bergman through their eyes. ”The Men and Bergman” is dedicated to the late Ingmar Bergman where several prominent Swedish actors; Thommy Berggren, Börje Ahlstedt, Thorsten Flinck and Erland Josephson discuss their work with Bergman in film and theater. We are given a unique portrait of Ingmar Bergman as a personal instructor and coach, as a human being, spanning from the earlier years in the 1950’s to his last theater productions fifty years later. We are treated to stories about Bergman the director as well as personal anecdotes about Bergman the man. Renowned Swedish film critic Nils Petter Sundgren, who has followed Ingmar Bergman throughout his career, hosts the program.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2008-07-14
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Birth of a Salesman
Overview: Films the process of making Bo Widerberg's film "Death of a Salesman'.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1979-12-23
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Dante: Beware of the Shark!
Overview: When Dante's parents go on vacation, Dante and his buddy Tvärsan get the chance to play detectives.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1978-08-26
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Chefen fru Ingeborg
Overview: The Boss Mrs Ingeborg
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Marmalade Revolution
Overview: A Professor comes home carrying a paper bag with food. Among the goods in the bag is apricot jam. His wife reacts strongly, since they always have eaten orange marmalade. The Professor leaves his house and checks into a hotel.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1980-02-11
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Till Sex Do Us Part
Overview: This Swedish sex-comedy/drama explores the complications in the relationship of a couple who believe that if they make love to each other, they will die. They neck and are physically affectionate in public as well as in private, but have a big taboo against sexual consummation. Their situation drives them to distraction, and they unsuccessfully seek various extramarital outlets for their frustrations.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1971-10-25
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