Naima Wifstrand
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Biography: Naima Wifstrand (pronounced [ˈnâjma ˈvîːfstrand];[check tonemes] 4 September 1890 – 23 October 1968) was a Swedish film actress, operetta singer, troubadour, director and composer. In her later years, she was cast in several supporting roles in Ingmar Bergman films.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
Adult: No
Birthday: September 04, 1890
Age: 134 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: October 23, 1968
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Smiles of a Summer Night
Overview: Early in the 20th century, middle-aged lawyer Fredrik Egerman and his young wife, Anne, have still not consummated their marriage, while Fredrik's son finds himself increasingly attracted to his new stepmother. To make matters worse, Fredrik's old flame Desiree makes a public bet that she can seduce him at a romantic weekend retreat where four couples convene, swapping partners and pairing off in unexpected ways.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-12-26
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The Magician
Overview: When 'Vogler's Magnetic Health Theater' comes to town, there's bound to be a spectacle. Reading reports of a variety of supernatural disturbances at Vogler's prior performances abroad, the leading townspeople (including the police chief and medical examiner) request that their troupe provide them a sample of their act, before allowing them public audiences. The scientific-minded disbelievers try to expose them as charlatans, but Vogler and his crew prove too clever for them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-12-26
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Music in Darkness
Overview: Because of an accident at a military drill the recruit Bengt loses his eyesight and becomes blind. He gets to live with relatives in the countryside and meets the young Ingrid. She falls in love with him but Bengt's bitterness also makes him blind to her attentions.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1948-01-17
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Hour of the Wolf
Overview: While vacationing on a remote German island with his pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1968-02-19
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Night Games
Overview: A man on the verge of marriage is haunted by traumatic memories from his childhood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1966-09-12
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Thirst
Overview: A needy couple in a bad marriage travel back to Stockholm after a trip to Italy. Meanwhile, a widow resists seductions from two different persons - her psychiatrist and a lesbian friend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-10-17
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Waiting Women
Overview: Rakel, Marta, Karin and Annette are married to four brothers. While waiting in a summer cottage for their husbands to come home, they tell each other stories about their marriages. Rakel tells about the time she had an affair and confronted her husband with it. Marta's story is about how she at first refused to marry and had her child by herself. Karin tells about what happened when one time she and her husband got stuck in an elevator together. While the women tell their stories, Marta's younger sister Maj is planning to elope.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1952-11-03
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Dreams
Overview: Susanne is a woman in her mid-30s and the owner of a modeling agency in Stockholm. She accompanies her prize model, Doris, on a trip to Gothenburg so that Doris can be photographed. While traveling, both women seek out romance, Susanne with a married lover and Doris with an older gentleman who sees his deceased wife in the young model. The two women struggle to understand their romantic motivations and in the process form an unlikely friendship.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-08-22
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Säg det med blommor
Overview: Kirre buys a flower for his fiancee Gun on the anniversary of their engagement. Gun's mother, an illusion-free elderly lady, believes that this attention will disappear when they marry.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1952-01-28
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The Wind Is My Lover
Overview: Set in medieval times about the cursed Moonshield family. The young knight Erland Moonshield fall in love with a gypsy enchantress, Singoalla, he meet in the forest.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-12-13
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Playing Truant
Overview: High school student Margareta fall head over heels in love with a young doctor and announce her engagement to him to her parents. She quits school and move in with him in a large house. However, the life of a housewife soon becomes tedious. Her husband does not want her to study but secretly she enrolls in a high school again to be able to graduate. Her husband suspects funny business when she is spotted with her private tutor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-08-15
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Valley of the Eagles
Overview: A Norwegian scientist builds a device that can convert sound waves into electrical energy. However, the machine is stolen by the scientist's wife and assistant, who head across the frozen tundra towards Russia. A police inspector and a local girl team up with the scientist to help recover the device.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-26
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Kungsgatan
Overview: Young woman Marta dreams of a better future and leaves her parent's cabbage patch and move to Stockholm. Waiting tables doesn't pay nearly enough and she soon finds herself working the streets. Her teenage sweetheart Adrian also moves to Stockholm to search for her. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-09-17
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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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How to Love
Overview: Tells a story about a man named Anthony who loses his wife, to an illness and finds it hard to move on. Although Anthony is now single, he struggles with how to build a new relationship with Tiffany. Anthony is uneasy to love again and pushes her away. He finds a letter from his deceased wife, saying that if something happens, to love and marry again. He is ready to let go, let God and move on.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-02-10
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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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Flottans kavaljerer
Overview: Baron Conrad Crusenhielm is hit in the head during a drunken brawl. Suffering from amnesia, he is mistaken for the lost sailor Karlsson and taken to the navy vessel Fylgia.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1948-12-25
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Two Women
Overview: "Two Women" - Cecilia is in hospital after being subjected to an attempt on her life. Her husband is called to the hospital. Cecilia deliriously mentions a mutual friend. The husband seeks out the friend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-11-18
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Madame Visits Oslo
Overview: About two swindlers who try to steal the property of a wealthy banker who has just died.
Genres: Drama Adventure Crime
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1927-10-17
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Livet i finnskogarna
Overview: In a rural parish in 1906, young Heikki, one of the Finnish immigrants, lives a wild and free life in the deep forest. After poaching, his furs are confiscated and Heikki vows to have his revenge by seducing the young women of the parish, one by one.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-08-22
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Puck heter jag
Overview: Romance blossoms between single seamstress Puck and the art critic, Roger. He is engaged to Elsa, whose wedding dress Puck is involved with designing.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1951-03-05
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A Guest Is Coming
Overview: It's Christmas. The owner of an old mansion decides to tell his family he's going to sell it. The following morning he's found murdered.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-11-03
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Flickor i hamn
Overview: Shipmate Henrik gets in contact with two women in Gothenburg — the sociable Lisbeth and the shy Astrid.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-04-20
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The Road to Klockrike
Overview: Bolle gets tired of working at the cigar factory and because of his desire for freedom he takes to the road. He and the other hobos have only one problem and that is the mounted policemen chasing vagrants.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-07-19
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My Passionate Longing
Overview: The nurse Nina becomes sterile after an illegal abortion and keep it a secret from her husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-11-19
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The Woman Drives Me Crazy
Overview: Managing Director Erik Cassander is in financial strain and his only hope is a wealthy aunt.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1948-12-26
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Girl in Tails
Overview: The beautiful student Katja shocks the conservative and rigid city of Wadköping by appearing in tail-coat on the big prom.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-10-15
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Mr. Sleeman Is Coming
Overview: Herr Sleeman kommer is a 1917 one-act play by the Swedish author Hjalmar Bergman. The main character is an orphaned young woman who is about to be married off to an unappealing but rich old man, Mr. Sleeman, at the instigation of her aunts who have taken charge of her. Bergman infuses the situation with overtones of rueful pessimism concerning life in general.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-04-18
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Stiliga Augusta
Overview: The maid quits at the Sommer family household and because no one in the family can cook they desperately needs a new maid. The son in the family, Åke, is a famous actor at the theater and when the up and coming actress Marianne (who also has a crush on the famous Åke) hears about the Sommers needing a new maid, she seizes the opportunity and goes undercover as a maid to get closer to Åke and the big roles in the theater.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-11-04
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Djurgårdskvällar
Overview: An artist with drinking problems is depressed because his career didn't turn out so good. He puts his faith in his daughter to carry the artistic heritage further.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-11-18
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Hin och smålänningen
Overview: Gunnar works at a rail road in the woods and blasts a large boulder. Out of the ashes comes Satan himself - with cloven hoofs and a big mean grin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-03-14
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Se opp för spioner!
Overview: A bomb attempt is prevented in the last minute but one question remains: who placed the bomb? After some stakeout work the police are on the track and a wild hunt through Stockholm begins.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-09-18
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Med Ingrid Bergman på Berns
Overview: Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini at a gala held in Sweden in 1953.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-11-12
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Den långa vägen
Overview: Grandmother sits with her grandchildren. She talks about the position of the Swedish woman through the centuries, about her struggle for freedom and justice. Grandma's words take shape in moving images.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-01-01
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Nattvaktens hustru
Overview: Ingegerd Lindberg is coming to Stockholm from the countryside. The first person she meets at the Central Station is Curt Brehmer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-10-20
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Ursula - Flickan i Finnskogarna
Overview: Ursula is the only daughter of a rich landowner high in Sweden. At 20 her father dies and she becomes reluctant heiress to huge property. Ursula is emotionally torn between a young handsome forester and farmer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-03-02
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Jag älskar dig, argbigga
Overview: Harriet Rosenberg has traveled with her mother to the mountains to find a suitable victim to marry.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-12-23
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Den underbara lögnen
Overview: The night before her wedding, a nervous bride examines her gifts and picks out a book of romantic short stories. Hoping to while away the evening, she settles on the couch and begins reading "La grande Bretêche" by Honoré de Balzac.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-11-25
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Ådalens poesi
Overview: The farmers Zackris Månsson and the Kerstorps-farmer lives on each side of the river. The two villages has always been enemies. The Kerstorps-farmer dies after a beating caused by Zachris. The son Olle takes over the farm and becomes a good farmer. He has a reputation of a fancying women, but the only women he has eyes for is Zachris daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-12-26
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Hammarforsens brus
Overview: The young Anders is in love with Marit, whose father, the farmer Bjur-Erik opposes their relation. He watches jealously his daughter and becomes furious when he hears that she sneaks off to see Anders.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1948-10-25
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They Fought Their Way to Freedom
Overview: The film shows episodes from the labor movement's breakthrough and reform work.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1948-01-01
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Paradiset
Overview: The two alcoholics Rudolf and Bertil gets fired from their jobs. For Bertil the story ends happily. He quits drinking and takes a job on a ship. For Rudolph it is worse. He can't kick the booze.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-10-16
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Sjutton år
Overview: It's summertime. The students Allan and Erik returns to their home town. 19-year old Allan is in love with 17-year old Anna-Lena. She rejects his clumsy attempts of telling her, but that's because she is uncertain of her own feelings. The Norwegian singer Lydia Hennert has an accident with her car and she is slightly injured. Allan's father is a doctor and Lydia spends a few days with them. Allan falls in love with her instead, she is a "real" woman and not a girl. But this makes Anna-Lena jealous.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-12-21
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Wild Strawberries
Overview: Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. Along the way, they encounter a series of hitchhikers, each of whom causes the elderly doctor to muse upon the pleasures and failures of his own life. These include the vivacious young Sara, a dead ringer for the doctor's own first love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-08-28
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Vingslag i natten
Overview: Orphan boy and vicar's daughter fall in love but her father is strongly opposed to their relationship.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-10-05
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Danssalongen
Overview: Love, jealousy, music and drugs in violent wild youth thriller. Takes place at the legendary dance-hall Nalen in Stockholm.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-07-29
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Fianceé for Hire
Overview: A secretary transforms their defunct legal agency into a service where you can get anything, from childcare to gardening to even a fiancée.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1950-08-28
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Waltz of Sex
Overview: When a vagrant family arrives to the village Vindinge one hot summer in the 1920's, the parish is spiced up with sex and alcohol. Based on a novel by Swedish Academy member Artur Lundkvist.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1968-09-22
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For the Sake of My Intemperate Youth
Overview: For the Sake of My Intemperate Youth (Swedish: För min heta ungdoms skull) is a 1952 Swedish drama film directed by Arne Mattsson. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-17
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Lappblod
Overview: Lapland, Sweden. The Sami Arvi wants to marry young Aino but her mother will not give her permission as long as Arvi does not have a herd of 400 reindeer. The only one who has reindeer to sell is the rich Oula, but he wants to marry Aino as well. The only way for Arvi to get the animals is buying them from Norway - but this is highly illegal.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1948-06-26
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Malin Goes Home
Overview: Old lady Malin Klintbom is being promised a cosy and comfortably life at the residential home she is invited to visit. However, she finds the home impossible to live at and flies in panic to her cabin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-10-14
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Södrans Revy
Overview: Naima Wifstrand, leading old lady, dressed as a Primadonna presents the variety revue "The Old, Happy 40's", a dark time of angst, depression and derailed, wild happiness. Those were the days. Music, dance, songs and hillarious sketches follow.
Genres: Music
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1950-11-06
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En dotter född
Overview: Inger lives at home with his parents. She suspects that she is pregnant. A doctor notes her pregnancy and urge her to seek the child's father. The doctor offers her an abortion, but she refuses.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-03-06
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Fröken Rosita
Overview: Play by Federico Garcia Lorca. Swedish interpretation of Hjalmar Gullberg and Karin Alin.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1960-12-09
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Sten Stensson kommer till stan
Overview: Sten Stensson from Eslöv has just got his law-degree from the University of Stockholm.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-02-12
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The Blonde Witch
Overview: Brulard, a French civil engineer on assignment in a remote Swedish village, meets Ina, who has been raised in forested isolation by her haggish mother and believes herself to be a witch. He falls in love with her and tries to convert her to civilization; but in the meantime, his female boss, Kristina, has fallen in love with him, while the villagers turn against him for consorting with someone they believe is cursed by the Devil.
Genres: Drama Romance Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-06-06
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The D.T.'s
Overview: An eccentric, offbeat man performing pranks and peculiarities becomes a major concern for the Stockholm authorities. He mingles with bizarre slum characters and dreams of his ideal girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1966-06-27
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Hotell Kåkbrinken
Overview: Laban Lundström is the porter at Hotell Kåkbrinken. The hotel is threatened by wholesaler Sjökvist, who wants to pull down the house and build a new and modern house instead.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-12-26
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The People from Simlangs Valley
Overview: Class struggle and love trouble in the woods between Halland and Småland.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-12-26
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Solkatten
Overview: The waitress Monica goes to Västerköping to find out who actually was her father. By aunt Margareta, she has been told that her mother, who died at birth, had four admirers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1948-11-27
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Hård klang
Overview: A small Swedish village has transformed to an industrial center with exports to Germany. A German opened a quarry some 50 years ago, after realizing the value of granite. Now WW1 begins.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1952-09-15
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Lorden från gränden
Overview: Tiburtius "Tibbe" Pettersson is a poor photographer in Stockholm's Old Town. He has a fiancee, Maja Sjöblom, who is a waitress. Tibbe has begun to doubt that they will ever be able to afford to marry.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1967-03-27
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The Brig Three Lilies
Overview: On the coast of Sweden in 1888, a 12-year-old orphan finds adventure and new hope that his missing father survived a shipwreck years before.
Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1961-12-26
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Fianceé for Hire
Overview: A secretary transforms their defunct legal agency into a service where you can get anything, from childcare to gardening to even a fiancée.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1950-08-28
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Wonderful Adventures of Nils
Overview: A film adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf's classic book about Nils Holgersson, who is a real rascal. As punishment for his mischief, a house elf shrinks him to his size. The farm animals are out for revenge and so Nils must escape on the back of a goose from Skåne in the south to Lapland in the north. During his flight over Sweden, Nils gets to take part in many adventures.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1962-09-12
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