Lena Nyman
Also Known As: Anna Lena Elisabet Nyman
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Anna Lena Elisabet Nyman (23 May 1944 – 4 February 2011) was a Swedish film and stage actress. Having had her first film roles in 1955, Nyman had a role in Vilgot Sjöman's 491 (1964) and got her breakthrough in his I Am Curious (Yellow) (1967), where she, in pseudo-documentary fashion, played a character of the same name as herself, and its sequel I Am Curious (Blue) (1968). She later participated in many of the films and stage productions of Hans Alfredson and Tage Danielsson, such as Release the Prisoners to Spring (1975) and The Adventures of Picasso (1978). Nyman co-starred with Ingrid Bergman and Liv Ullmann in Ingmar Bergman's Autumn Sonata (1978). In 2004, Nyman received the royal medal Litteris et Artibus, and in 2006 she was the recipient of the Eugene O'Neill Award. Nyman died on 4 February 2011, aged 66, after a long battle with several illnesses including cancer, COPD and Guillain–Barré syndrome.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sverige
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Birthday: May 23, 1944
Age: 80 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: February 04, 2011
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Ronja 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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Rasmus and the Vagabond
Overview: 9-year old orphan called Rasmus runs away from the orphanage. He meets a vagabond they call Paradise Oskar who likes to sing and play his accordion. Oskar makes the Rasmus world seem like a better place.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1981-12-12
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Stängda dörrar
Overview: Inès, Estelle, and Garcin are condemned to be together in a single room and soon start arguing and accusing each other.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1981-11-10
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The Simple-Minded Murderer
Overview: The feeble-minded Sven's mother dies and he gets work as a farm-hand at the rich, affluent Höglund's farm. He has to work without pay and sleeps together with the cows. He meets the disabled Anna who is the first one to treat him as an adult. One day he has had enough of Höglund's maltreatment and moves in with Anna's family. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1982-02-12
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The Father
Overview: The Cavalry Captain and his brother, the Chaplain, discusses whether an adjutant is the father or not of the child one of the maids is expecting.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1969-10-10
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Illusive Tracks
Overview: Christmas 1945. In a train from Stockholm to Berlin are a motley collection. It is the failure of the author Gunnar who wants to leave his old life and make a contribution in Berlin; physician Henry who plan to marry Marie and likewise Henry's current wife Karin, who he plans to kill during the journey, the middle-aged gay couple Pompe and Sixten, a soldier going to Uppsala but is on the wrong train: the cheerful and cynical old Margaret, and a dressed elf and a surly conductor. With the train are also a number of Baltic refugees accompanied by two nuns to be sent to Germany.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2003-12-25
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Autumn Sonata
Overview: After a seven-year absence, Charlotte Andergast travels to Sweden to reunite with her daughter Eva. The pair have a troubled relationship: Charlotte sacrificed the responsibilities of motherhood for a career as a classical pianist. Over an emotional night, the pair reopen the wounds of the past. Charlotte gets another shock when she finds out that her mentally impaired daughter, Helena, is out of the asylum and living with Eva.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1978-10-08
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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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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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The Adventures of Picasso
Overview: A farcical biopic about Pablo Picasso, from his early years, to his middle years, to the years right before his death, and some of the years before and in-between that.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1978-05-20
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The Dream House
Overview: Göran buys a house in a suburb. It is in need of some repairs, but Göran believes himself capable of repairing it himself with the help of some cheap craftsmen. However, the house is much worse than he thought. At the same time, a gang of crooks is searching for the dynamite they hid in the basement some time ago. Göran has to rescue both his wallet from greedy craftsmen as well as his marriage with Tina.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1993-10-28
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T. Sventon och fallet Isabella
Overview: The horse Isabella is the circus director Gustavsson's pride. But the master criminal Ville Vessla has an evil plan for Isabella.
Genres: Family Mystery
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1991-02-07
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Peas & Whiskers
Overview: Life isn't easy for the indecisive 40-year-old Claes-Henrik. Should he choose his mom or his girlfriend?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1986-02-07
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White Trash
Overview: A single dog hairdresser meets romance when spending a weekend at a health resort.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2006-02-03
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Musik ombord
Overview: Ulla Winther has retired from her singing career to a marriage with two children. But her agent wants her to return and she finally agrees to take part in a charity concert
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-10-23
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491
Overview: A study in forgiveness as oppression and goodness as provocation. Six youth criminals are chosen to participate in a social experiment where they are assigned to live together in a rundown apartment in the heart of Stockholm, Sweden. The six boys are being supervised by two forgiving and uneasy social workers. Their need to continue to commit petty crimes escalates out of boredom with the situation. One night they run into a young girl in trouble.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1964-03-16
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P & B
Overview: Pettersson and Bendel are both worn, run-down and broke. Despite this they decide to start a business and become rich. Unexperienced they are open to any deal. They tamper, scam and exploit loopholes that exist.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1983-12-10
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Lysistrate
Overview: The women of Athens plotting to end the war with Sparta by refusing to have sex until there is peace.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1981-03-15
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Tribadernas natt
Overview: Depicts the explosive relationship between August Strindberg and Siri von Essen in 1889 while Siri is rehearsing a lead role in a play written by Strindberg.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1978-03-24
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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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Release the Prisoners to Spring
Overview: Small and short Frida lives with her long, tall friend in a house in the countryside. Frida rejects the idea that people who have committed crimes should be locked up. One day their own house is burgled by Harald. He is sentenced to prison. Acting in accordance with her philosophy, Frida decides to use all means possible to make it possible for Harald to escape.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1975-12-06
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Such Is Life
Overview: Tin-Tin is a bar pianist, living with the radio talk show host Paul in a relationship gone stale. Still, her parents are expecting grandchildren. Then a self-assured Norwegian business man turns up giving her the eye.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1996-10-25
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SOPOR
Overview: One Monday morning, a thousand children leave the suburb of Farsta and go to Stockholm to occupy the Royal Castle. The children have formed a group called S.O.P.O.R. as a protest against the way adults treat them and have destroyed their future. They demand that the robots in the industry are replaced by humans to create job opportunities. They take the royal family as hostages.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1981-03-21
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Miss Fleggman's Mustache
Overview: A Swedish comedy classic.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1984-09-13
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Sverige åt svenskarna
Overview: This farce cocerns Sweden's King Gustav (Per Oscarsson who plays all the lead roles). The royal monarchs of three major European countries are patiently or not-so-patiently hovering on the sidelines while watching the future King Gustav closely. No single king appears to possess the brains he was born with, so history seems to be made by default, as it were. Gustav does blunder around, but not enough to miss being crowned king. As a result, France, England, and Germany invade Sweden hoping to take by force what they could not gain by incompetence.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1980-07-31
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Powder
Overview: A tiny theatrical company turns into a war zone of egos as a new play goes into rehearsal in this broad comedy from Sweden. A camera crew from a television outlet is on hand to shoot a commercial as a harried director tries to put her cast through their paces. Not everyone, however, feels like cooperating; her two leading men seem to be competing over who gets most of the spotlight, much to the annoyance of the female star, while the troupe's makeup artist has a plan of his own.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2001-02-08
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Farligt löfte
Overview: A woman is murdered and a little girl is the only one who can reveal the perpetrator.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-10-24
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Sköna juveler
Overview: In a dystopian future two private detectives try to find a stolen bracelet.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1984-09-21
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Räkan från Maxim
Overview: A comedy by Hans Alfredson.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Örjan – Den höjdrädde örnen
Overview: Regal is an eagle who is afraid to fly. A little bird offers to help him, but Regal does not believe he can. Will the eagle finally learn to fly?
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1999-02-01
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Haren och vråken
Overview: The dying Swedish King Gustav III sends for the troubadour Carl Michael Bellman for a performance. Bellman is far from capable of appearing at all when a courtier comes to pick him up. But slowly his imagination begins to flow, and he begins to write down a new play. The question is whether it will be ready in time.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1984-04-18
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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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Stjärnbilder
Overview: A tribute to Swedish film, which was made to celebrate the 100th anniversary of film in 1995 and consists of about a hundred clips from Swedish film history with many of its stars.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1995-09-10
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The White Wall
Overview: A day in the life of Monika, an ordinary, modern (ca.1975) Swedish woman. Her surroundings are a lot sleeker than her daily existence, though; she's unemployed, her husband is gone, and she's alone in the midst of what ought to be the good life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1975-03-24
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Nallars väntan
Overview: Short film.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Alf Sjöberg - mästaren
Overview: Alf Sjöberg (1903-1980) was Swedens greatest theater director of the 20th century and as a film director the first of international importance since the silent film era. He won the Grand Prix du Festival at the Cannes Film Festival twice.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1983-12-22
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The School of Wives
Overview: The elderly Arnolphe has decided to marry a young woman, Agnes, whom he has fallen in love with. She is too young and innocent to realize what plans he has for her. But Agnes and Arnolphe's young friend, the dandy Horace, have fallen in love with each other. Their love is a threat to Arnolphe's attempt at getting married. Can the cunning Arnolphe stop them?
Genres: Drama TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1983-12-25
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The Porridge Faggot
Overview: Asker is always aftemoney and everybody knows he doesn't have any scruples. He gets accused of stealing a lottery ticket from the mentally-handicapped Musse. Simultaneously he meets a man at a café named Claes Douglas who promises to pay Asker if he does a favour for him.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1997-12-17
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Det hender ikke meg
Overview: Interviews with Kjell who is a cancer patient, children who smoke and various celebrities on their views and experiences on smoking.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1979-01-17
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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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The glass in the ear
Overview: Glaset i örat is a revue by Hans Alfredson and Tage Danielsson. It was recorded at Berns in Stockholm 1973 and on tour during the spring of 1974.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1974-07-31
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Guest of Reality
Overview: A story about a boy named Anders, who lives in an ordinary Swedish family in an apartment at the train station. Through his childhood, he experiences life's glorious scents of beautiful flowers and green forest, close and warm relationships with his grandparents and joyful play with his siblings. He has a strong friendship with his father and a great love for his mother. Still he lives in fear of death. He is afraid of losing all of this that is so valuable to him. In his thoughts and fears, he often turns often God, just as his sister, mother and grandparents, and ask Him for help and protection.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1961-11-05
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Svea hund på Göta Lejon
Overview: Svea hund, complete title Svea Hund på Göta Lejon (Svea Dog at Göta Lejon), was a Swedish variety show produced by AB Svenska Ord. It was written by Hans Alfredsson and Tage Danielsson, commonly known as Hasseåtage and directed by Tage. The show premièred on 15 February (although it had a sneak première on 9 February) 1976 on the theater Göta Lejon in Stockholm. It was the last of the three "Dog-revues"; the first was Gröna hund (Green Dog) the second being Gula Hund (Yellow Dog). Both Hasse and Tage starred in various roles. Other cast members were Gösta Ekman, Monica Zetterlund, Lena Nyman, and Tommy Körberg. The song quartet EBBA (Lena Eriksson, Lars Bagge, Kersint Bagge and Bo Andersson) and Gunnar Svenssons Bandhundband.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1976-07-31
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Bobby Fischer bor i Pasadena
Overview: During one evening, night and morning we follow the decay of an upperclass family's last convulsive attempt to reconcile and reach mutual respect.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1990-10-21
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I Am Curious, Film
Overview: The Scandinavian entry in the BFI's Century of Cinema series of documentaries
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1995-10-28
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Bella och Gustav - om en liten vecka
Overview: Gustav invites Bella to his birthday party. But it's a whole week left and the impatient Bella will not wait.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1985-08-30
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Cheek to Cheek
Overview: The faded dragshow entertainer Ragnar Rönn is both broke and lonely. He is becoming extremely unpopular. Noone comes to his shows. Perhaps it might have to do with the fact that he is completely unruly and bitter. One day he runs into the middle-aged funeral entrepreneur Margaretha.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1997-12-03
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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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Det är hos mig han har varit
Overview: "It's with me he's been" - Li and Hans are colleagues at an advertising agency. Even though Hans is married, they start a relationship. Li hopes that Hans will tell his wife the truth about them and leave her for Li.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1963-02-04
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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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Uppfinnaren
Overview: "The Inventor" - About "Arbman Development" an inventory company initiated by PR-guru Leon Nordin. AD produced a total of 173 inventions, including a banknote counter that made confetti out of money.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1991-10-10
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Raskenstam
Overview: The story of the charlatan Gustaf Raskenstam life and times during World War II, who for financial gain seduced a large number of women.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1983-08-19
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Pettson & Findus - Kattonauten
Overview: Eccentric old farmer Pettersson and his cat, Findus, have hilarious adventures camping in the woods while waiting for a letter from the king.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2000-10-27
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Walk On Water If You Can
Overview: Literature graduate Orlando begins a love affair with the Foreign Ministry official Anders. She follows him to Argentina. There she learns that he is already married.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1979-09-17
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Those Who Whisper
Overview: Anna a teacher with alcohol related problems wakes up one morning in her house and finds a dead 16-year old boy on her bedroom floor. She have no clue how he got there but soon convinces herself she caused his death and is imprisoned for the murder. Her brother Tommy refuses to believe she is guilty and starts to investigate the case.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2007-03-21
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Året var 1964
Overview: 1964 - the year when Astrid Lindgren's 'Vi på Saltkråkan' is shown on TV, UN Swedes smuggle weapons, Khrushchev is visiting, car testing starts, the KDS is formed and the long-haired fashion starts trending - for guys.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2014-01-29
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