Georg Funkquist
Also Known As: Георг Функвист
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Uppsala, Uppsala län, Sweden
Birthday: March 13, 1900
Deathday: October 23, 1986
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Lockfågeln
Overview: On his death-bed, Per Henrik Pistolekors must promise his father two things: first of all to kill king Gustav III, which his father hates. Second, to take his half-sister Annarella to Stockholm to find her a rich and noble husband.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1971-11-24
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Summer Interlude
Overview: A jaded prima ballerina reminisces about her first love affair after she is unexpectedly sent her lover's old diary.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1951-10-01
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The Devil's Eye
Overview: The devil has a stye in his eye, caused by the purity of a vicar's daughter. To get rid of it, he sends Don Juan up from hell to seduce the 20 year old Britt-Marie and to rob her of her virginity and her belief in love. She however can resist him and things get even turned around when Don Juan falls in love with her. The fact that he feels love for the first time now, makes him even less attractive to her and Don Juan returns to hell.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1960-10-17
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Kajan går till sjöss
Overview: Kajan, a young boy, spends the summer with his friends working on a barge, earning extra money in the ports with their song and dance number. A young countess runs away from home and joins Kajan and his friends.
Genres: Family Adventure Comedy Music
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-12-26
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Kalle på Spången
Overview: Kalle Jeppson is the joyful owner of a rural inn, "Spången" (The Footbridge). His only problems are all the bylaws that makes it difficult to have a quiet drink and the shrew of his wife who is always nagging on him. Kalle is afraid to tell her that Karin the maid is really his daughter from the days before their marriage.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1939-11-04
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Åsa-Nisse på Mallorca
Overview: Åsa-Nisse and Klabbarparn has found an old pirate map that leads them to the island Mallorca in the Mediterranean Sea as they search for the hidden treasure.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1962-08-31
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We must have love
Overview: Olivia and Charles Dangerfield are forced to rent their home to the newly rich widow, Mrs Falkner.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1931-01-16
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All These Women
Overview: Pretentious critic Cornelius is writing a biography on a famous cellist and to do some research he stays in the critic's house for a few days. He doesn't manage to get an interview with the man, but by talking to all the women who live with him, he comes to learn a lot about the musician's private life none the less. Cornelius then decides to use this information to blackmail the cellist into performing a composition that he, Cornelius, has written.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1964-06-15
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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: sv
Release Date: 1949-12-13
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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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Swinging at the Castle
Overview: Love triangle between Svante, his fiancee Inga and Sophie, a girl from a rich family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1959-03-08
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Crime and Punishment
Overview: A Swedish version of Crime and Punishment. Raskolnikov, a poor student, is planning to assassinate a hated pawnbroker.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-10-16
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Happiness Is on Its Way
Overview: The idle rich have their own particular problems. Case in point, Georg and Monika Hedberg were once poor and happy but since Georg became an established painter family bliss has decreased for every fur coat Monika has bought. Their divorce lawyer suggest that they try to save their marriage by moving to a small apartment and live life frugally but happy. When the trial period is over and they want to return home again, their lawyer has stolen their money and disappeared. The Hedbergs are evicted for unpaid rent and terminal poverty seem to be imminent.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-08-17
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Girls Without Rooms
Overview: Fransiska is visited by a social worker when she's in the custody. She tells him her lives story, about her mother who was an alcoholic, her father a night watchman and how she and her five year old little sister was left. Her boyfriend was unemployed and needed money and to help him she stole money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-03-25
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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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En sjöman i frack
Overview: First mate Karlsson is mistaken for famous actor Linde.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-02-22
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Jazz Boy
Overview: The rich young man Teddy Anker invests his money in the theater at the beginning of the 1920s. Whatever he does becomes a success. He falls in love with a dancer, Karin. He decides to put up a show with Karin as the leading lady, but for the first time one of his shows becomes an economic disaster.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-10-06
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Idel ädel adel
Overview: A newly married Baron plans to sell his castle. His wife, who loves to live in a castle, knows nothing about the sale.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-07-16
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Främlingen från skyn
Overview: Young Lo (Marianne Bengtsson) lives in a boring small town. Locally she is known as somewhat of a fabulist. One day an airplane crashes just out of town. And the town goes crazy with excitement. Later, while hoping to catch a peak of the crashed plane, Lo sees a mysterious man (Günther Hüttmann) land out in the woods by parachute. She tries to tell the rest of town. But naturally nobody will believe her. Thus she is going to have to learn more about the stranger from the sky by herself in this immeasurably startling mammoth among thrillers!
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-02-27
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Woman Without a Face
Overview: Martin is married to Frida and together they have a son. One day after a quarrel with his wife, he goes to buy flowers to ask for forgiveness. In the flower shop he meets the beautiful Rut and falls instantly in love. They both start a passionate love affair but beneath the beautiful surface hides a completely different woman than he expected ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-09-16
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The Turnstile
Overview: The small town of Gåtatorp in Småland is entirely dependent on its prominent furniture factory. But the factory is in danger because the weak economy means that the bank wants to shut down the factory.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-12-21
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The Staffan Stolle Story
Overview: Staffan Stolle becomes the sole heir to a rich and noble family when he is just a little boy. Early on he is engaged to be married to a girl he finds he does not love. Instead he flees the country only to return under a false name, looking for true love.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music Mystery
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-09-10
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Vi behöver varann
Overview: A female reporter invents a story about a man who threatens to take his life to protest the injustices of society. But the scam is about to be revealed. She is forced to persuade a tramp to play the fictional man.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-09-20
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Hold fingrene fra mor
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1951-03-14
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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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Lyckliga Vestköping
Overview: When the mine is closing down in the small community of Vestköping the town bank is also in danger. Sudden news of the return of one of the town's inhabitants who had emigrated to the USA and is said to be very wealthy improves spirits of everyone.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1937-08-20
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'Swing It' Teacher
Overview: Old fashioned teachers are taught swing dancing by a student.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1940-12-21
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Mamma gifter sig
Overview: A widow wants to sell a hotel that her daughter owns. When the sales plans reach her daughter, she decides to take a look at why the hotel will be sold. She enters the hotel under false name.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1937-10-23
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En flicka kommer till sta'n
Overview: Ulla takes the train to Stockholm to try her luck in the big city.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1937-02-18
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The Red Day
Overview: Jideon Andersson is the leader of the "Red Day" organization that are planning a communist takeover of the capital of Stockholm on August 1.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1931-04-13
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Romans
Overview: An engineer with a factory is on the brink of ruin. A greedy director offers to buy his mill. Instead, the engineer opens a hotel. With little success. A rumor has that Greta Garbo is expected at the hotel.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1940-12-17
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All this - and Iceland too
Overview: 1914. The monarchs of Sweden, Denmark and Norway meet to demonstrate unity. In the crowd is a beautiful noble woman from Finland. She is eagerly courted by the monarch's aides.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1951-09-03
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Åke klarar biffen
Overview: Åke is small and fits everywhere. A film mostly consisting of scenes from older films.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1952-03-24
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Affairs of a Model
Overview: Dora moves in with the artist Erik to become his model. Three men from a Masonic Order pretends to be interested in his art, but Dora is their real focus.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-09-23
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Hennes melodi
Overview: Sonja meet Curt in a taxi cab. By mistake, each believes that the other is a rich member of the upper class. They meet on a date, but since neither wants to reveal the truth about themselves, they both get more and more caught in the web of lies they have produced.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1940-06-02
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Vi på Solgläntan
Overview: The politicians wants to build a factory on the allotment garden Solgläntan, but they encounter resistance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1939-12-26
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Ung dam med tur
Overview: The office worker Eva is told that she has inherited a massive amount of money in the United States.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1941-09-29
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Får jag lov, magistern!
Overview: The teacher Clemens is instructed to learn to dance so that he can teach the subject.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-12-26
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Stackars Ferdinand
Overview: Wholesaler Ferdinand wants his son to marry his firm partner's daughter, but the problem is they don't want to get married. The son turns to a friend for advice. It turns out that Ferdinand had a daughter from a previous marriage he didn't know nothing about, which leads to further confusion
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1941-12-27
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H.C. Andersens sagor
Overview: It's evening and mother Alice read bedtime stories for her three children.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1952-12-13
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Familjen Björck
Overview: The Björcks are an ordinary middle-class family in a large Stockholm apartment with with two children, Greta and Ville. But the family's happiness is threatened in two ways: Greta prefers Börje Schack instead of the well-behaving Bertil. And the flirtatious Mrs. Holten tries to snare Mr. Björck.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1940-01-20
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Hem från Babylon
Overview: An engineer and a businessman is on the run from Manchuria, where revolution and civil war erupted. Both suffer from typhoid and the businessman dies. Before he dies, he changes identity with the engineer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1941-12-23
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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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Stora skrällen
Overview: A ruthless businessman arrives to a small town. He is prepared to do pretty much anything to win beautiful Vera Odelman's heart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-02-03
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Flickan i fönstret mitt emot
Overview: The bricklayer Loffe often sees sculptress Ingrid in a window a cross the building. They get to now each other and soon fall in love. Loffe works for the master-builder Swahne who is Ingrid's uncle. Swahne comes up with a plan to see if Loffe's feelings for her are true or if he is just out for her money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-03-03
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Woman in a Fur Coat
Overview: Marianne is unhappily married with the rich Arvid Croneman. Arvid has been ill for some time and Marianne has been looking forward to his passing away. However, Arvid recovers. Marianne has had an affair with Lennart Hägg, her husband's doctor. She steals poison from his office and makes sure that her husband gets a poisonous injection that swiftly kills him. After his burial, Arvid's relatives, who lives in the house, treats her with suspicion. Has she really gotten rid of all the evidence?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-09-08
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The Sin of Anna Lans
Overview: At a meeting at the Salvation Army a female soldier tells the story of her life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-08-20
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Stackars miljonärer
Overview: Jan Eriksson wins a vacation trip to a hotel in the mountains.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1936-08-20
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Appassionata
Overview: A classic melodrama about the famous pianist Thomas Dahlhoff.
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-02-02
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Monismanien 1995
Overview: In a fictional future totalitarian society ruled as a one-party state. A teacher commits the crime to teach their students to think independently and is therefore being stalked. The fictional Monismania also appeared in Astrid Lindgren's saga about the witch Pomperipossa in the Monismanian 1976.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-05
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You Who Are About to Enter
Overview: Tomas Eckert, a civil servant, is subjected to a violated woman's revenge. It happens to be his boss's wife, Märta Palm. Tomas is accused of having abused Mrs.Palm. She also reveals that Tomas's wife is morphine addict. He collapses and is forced to accept early retirement, diagnosed "epilepsy with mental changes"
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-11-02
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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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Hej du glada sommar!!!
Overview: "Hello Happy Summer!!!" - Valle and Bror are two fishermen brothers who lives in the remote archipelago. One day Valles wife receives a big inheritance from a distant relative and their lives takes a new turn.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1965-08-25
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Adolf klarar skivan
Overview: Adolf Jansson makes a living doing odd jobs until one day he gets a job working as a butler in the Pettersson residence. Adolf is instantly liked by everyone in the family except the daughter Susette, whom Adolf has fallen in love with.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1938-02-14
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Women in Captivity
Overview: A priest decides to engage himself socially in prison. In the cells he meets a number of women with different fates. One is Mary, a young honest woman gone wrong.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-03-12
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A Singing Girl
Overview: A girl (Alice Babs) from the country moves to Stockholm to become a singer.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-03-09
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En vår i vapen
Overview: During the spring of 1940 two young men gets drafted and deployed close to the Norwegian border, where they fall in love with the same woman.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-01-04
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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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Lille Napoleon
Overview: Office worker Napoleon Larsson is an unnoticed existence. One day when he arrives late for work, he gets fired, but through his wife's actions he gets alerted by the boss and advances within the company.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-05-31
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Till the Doors of Hell
Overview: Professor Barring is awarded the Nobel Prize in physics. According to Barring the scientist's sole duty is to seek the truth, even if this leads to the "gates of hell".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1948-11-08
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Lyckodrömmen
Overview: The Karlsson family moves from a small village to a suburb outside Stockholm. The change from a country life to the big city is not easy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1963-07-08
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The First Squadron
Overview: The year is 1941 and Nazi Germany is at its peak. Hitler's army is storming into Russia. Sweden stands lonely and isolated while the air force is training intensely due to a coming attack. The squadron leader pushes his men at its hardest. It's a constant game with death where death unfortunately often wins.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1941-09-23
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