Sigurd Wallén
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Sigurd Richard Engelbrekt Wallén (1 September 1884 – 20 March 1947) was a Swedish actor, film director, and singer.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tierp, Uppsala län, Sweden
Adult: No
Birthday: September 01, 1884
Age: 140 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 20, 1947
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Adolf i toppform
Overview: A compilation of some of Adolf Jahr's films.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1952-05-12
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Alla tiders Karlsson
Overview: Åke is employed as a singer in a revue tour and his uncle Karlsson becomes the tour bus driver.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1936-07-31
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Livat på luckan
Overview: Johansson has managed to stay away from the military service for several years. But now his time has come.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1951-10-29
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Hur tokigt som helst
Overview: "How crazy!" A man and a woman watch episodes from Nils Poppe movies outside a cinema Maxim in Stockholm. Poppe represents, among other things, a poor composer who vainly tries to get a tune adopted by a publisher. The failure makes him depressed, but he is living it up by meeting a good friend Calle, who invites him home. Poppe stays for a few days as a male housewife. Calle has a music store and there the two friends can go crazy among all the instruments.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-02-28
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Janssons frestelse
Overview: Baron von Werner and Gunnar Jansson are in a dispute over property rights. Inga, the baron's daughter, arrives home from France and is soon interested in Jansson, her father's archival, and tempers flare. Based on the play by Sigurd Wallén.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1928-12-28
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June Night
Overview: A woman flees to avoid rumors of promiscuity, but is trailed by a reporter who wants to expose her dark past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1940-04-03
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Beredskapspojkar
Overview: Two movie actors are conscripted; at the regiments spies are trying to get hold of secret documents.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1940-12-26
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I mörkaste Småland
Overview: Albert Engström's anecdotes of Småland have been put together to make a comedy film about Johannes and Cornelius, two smallholding farmers and best friends.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-10-25
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Karusellen går
Overview: Swedish comedy from 1940. Carnival director Knut Lindberg has ended up in the hands of the usurer Director Aronsson and his shady practices trying to take over Lindberg's funfair. But the two new colleagues, Kalle and Nisse, does everything to stop him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1940-10-05
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Saltstänk och krutgubbar
Overview: The stingy fisherman Ericsson lives on a small island north of Stockholm with his wife Johanna och her father Isak.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-10-28
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A Woman's Face
Overview: A cynical woman with a disfigured face—a hardened criminal—gets an opportunity to change her ways when she meets a sympathetic plastic surgeon. She leaves her old life behind, but soon her old friends catch up with her.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1938-10-31
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Swedenhielms
Overview: The Swedenhielms is an old aristocratic family. The head of the family is professor Rolf Swedenhielm. His three children Bo, Julia and Rolf Jr also live in the house. They also have an excellent house maid, Boman. Because of the family's extravagance, they are heading for bankruptcy. But perhaps their problems would be solved if Rolf was awarded the Nobel Prize?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1935-04-08
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The Count of the Old Town
Overview: A police inspector tracks a notorious jewel thief, 'Diamond-Lasse,' to a hotel filled with eccentrics.
Genres: Crime Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1935-01-21
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Rospiggar
Overview: A lonely fisherman drowns and his elderly brother Efraim is left to do an inventory of the estate. He discovers that his brother had a son, Karl-Erik. Keeping it a secret, he travels to Stockholm to employ the young man as a hired hand. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-09-03
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Life Goes On
Overview: The Swedish officer Mikael Bourg has served with the French army in Africa. When he returns to Sweden after many years abroad to recover from malaria, he meets his son, a student who prefers partying with his frat friends instead of his bank job; a disappointment in his father's eyes. He also meets a young librarian, Ebba Garland, which makes him feel young again and distracts him from the sickness.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1941-02-28
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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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Karl för sin hatt
Overview: Urban girl falls for rugged forest ranger.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1940-08-23
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Hemsöborna
Overview: In the Stockholm archipelago in the 1880s, Carlsson move out to an isolated farmstead to help the widow Flood with the farm. Carlsson has big plans for the island, including having paying guests in the summer but Gusten, the son of the widow, is negative. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-03-13
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Du gamla du fria !
Overview: A humorous story concerning the return of a prosperous Swedish native, Charlie Johnson, to his native country after many years in America. The acceptance and acclamation of himself and his American-born daughter provide many situations involving them, their relatives and the townspeople.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1938-12-26
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His Lord's Will
Overview: A series of family entanglements develop around the changing will of Roger Bernhuses de Sars (Karl Mantzius), who wants his heritage to go to his illegitimate daughter Blenda (Greta Almroth). But love and fate also plays their cards. One of the most surprising films of Sjöström, close to Stroheim and some of the silent comedies of Lubitsch. Belonging to the golden age of Swedish film, this comedy offers one of the earliest explorations of the relationship between masters and servants on the screen, later developed by French masters like Renoir and Guitry. After acting in the diptych of Thomas Graal, Sjöström shows that he also dominates the “light genre” as director.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1919-11-03
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A Crime
Overview: "A Crime" - A murder is committed in an apartment building in Stockholm. And afterward all clues point toward the Justice of the Supreme Court and his sons. But who did it? And why? And will they be able to live with the guilt?
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1940-08-22
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Servant's Entrance
Overview: Helga Breder is a young, spoiled girl. To her beloved Jörgen she says that she, as a modern young woman, is multi-talented and can do whatever she likes. Jörgen bets that she can't work as a house-maid but, if she manages it, he will buy her a diamond ring. Helga becomes a house-maid at Vinger Mansion and falls in love with an inventor, Bertil Frigård, who lives there.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1932-12-12
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Kal Napoleon Kalsson's Farm Ride
Overview: Uncle Kalsson has won the lottery and decides to visit the family for a spending spree.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1915-12-13
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Adolf i eld och lågor
Overview: Swedish comedy from 1939. Adolf Berglund is a reporter at the newspaper Morgonbladet and is sent on one action-packed mission after the other. But it's not always that he uses honest working methods to produce his scoops.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1939-01-01
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Familjen Andersson
Overview: A happy-go-lucky husband has a wife bitten with social aspirations and this leads to several social mishaps.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1937-10-10
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Bombi Bitt and Me
Overview: A Swedish feature film based on a novel by Fritiof Nilsson Piraten.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1936-11-16
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Janssons frestelse
Overview: John Smith is an accountant at a stockbroking firm, where the firm ends up in the liquidity crisis because of his managerial speculation with the firm's money. The bank wants John to take over leadership of the company.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1936-02-10
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Två år i varje klass
Overview: The boys will get a new class teacher who has discipline, they get in a lot of mischief, so much complaints that they have to read extra during the summer holidays to get started in class 4.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1938-01-24
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Sigge Nilsson och jag
Overview: Sigge and Putte has moved to a private school, where they fight and get up to mischief.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1938-09-09
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Mot nya tider
Overview: A Swedish drama from 1939 about the social and political developments in Sweden from 1885 until the dissolution of the union in 1905. The year is 1885, Christina Nilsson sings "Fourteen years I believe certain that I was" in the Grand Hotel's Great Hall . She also sings from the balcony of the hotel and the panic arising among listeners outside the hotel. In Norway, talks about the dissolution of the Union and the Swedish socialists with Hjalmar Branting (Victor Sjöström) is in the lead for independence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1939-11-06
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Kronans käcka gossar
Overview: New explosives will be demonstrated for the military authorities, but some shady characters looking to steal it to sell it to a foreign power.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1940-01-15
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Giftasvuxna döttrar
Overview: Porter's wife Emma has three daughters, all "marriageable". All three have worries about marriage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1933-04-09
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Sons of Ingmar
Overview: Part one of an ambitious screen adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf's book Jerusalem.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1919-01-01
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Scattered Pages
Overview: Vera Nilsson is friendly with the poor neighbor boy Håkan, this is not seen kindly by Vera's father Nils.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1931-01-01
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Stora famnen
Overview: In the late 1800's, the old Karolina Koger dictates his will: all her money shall form a family fund.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1940-08-13
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The Great John Ericsson
Overview: In 1803 the Swedish inventor John Ericsson is born. After a military career he went to England and became one of the first builders of locomotives. Despite large debts, he invents the propeller. In 1839 he crosses the Atlantic and builds ships for the US Navy. When the US civil war breaks out, the Federation needs a ship to match the Confederate 'Merrimac' and preventing the Confederation from exporting cotton to Europe. Ericsson builds the 'Monitor', a ship the Federation needs to win the war.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1937-12-13
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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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The boys at Storholmen
Overview: The Sjölund family on Lillholmen in the archipelago of Stockholm is quite religious and is considered suitable for dealing with odd specimens of wild youth placed there by one of Stockholm's youth associations for young girls.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1932-10-31
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Med folket för fosterlandet
Overview: This film depicts every noteworthy event (in the eyes of the film-makers) in Sweden from the death of King Oscar II, in 1907, to the celebration of the 80th birthday of King Gustave V in Stockholm in June of 1938. This film is comprised largely of newsreel clips intermixed with the fictional story of the family lives of a working man and a well-to-do newspaper editor through two generations, with a special significance in the showing of the development of the social-democratic form of government in Sweden.
Genres: Crime Drama History War
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1938-06-13
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Black Roses
Overview: The waitress Inga is pregnant and the father, the sailor Edvin, tells her to find someone who can handle the child instead of him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1932-02-29
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The Golden Boys of Happiness
Overview: A story about is stock deals and land speculations in Stockholm. The happiness depends on a horseshoe a couple of gentlemen find in the street.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1932-12-26
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Bomans pojke
Overview: Gösta is unemployed and joins a gang of smugglers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1933-03-13
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Skipper's Love
Overview: Erik, Harald and Borell are fighting for Majkens heart.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1931-11-23
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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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Vi går landsvägen
Overview: Three drifters walks on a country road. Loffe is about 35 years, Maggan about 50 years and Novisen about 25 years. They arrive to a mansion with a castle ruin by a lake. Loffe says he is the eldest of children born on the estate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1937-11-01
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Kärlek efter noter
Overview: The Karlsson family has a grocery store, but the son Bertil wants to set up an operetta on stage.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1935-09-02
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Ebberöds bank
Overview: The poor tailor of Ebberöd is visited by his American cousin, John Andrews. He brings a bag, and the local gossip has it that he has brought 20 million with him. The tailor, the miller and a rich widow decides to open a bank. The business is excellent - they lend out money at 4 percent interest rate but gives 8 percent on the savings accounts.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1935-12-26
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Pettersson - Sverige
Overview: A safe is blown up and an old soccer hero, now a policeman, get the task of solving the case.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1934-11-19
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Flickan är ett fynd
Overview: Brothers Fredrik and Pontus own a family company. Fredrik is the manager of the old school and Pontus is a professor of psychology, which theorizes that men is more intelligent than women. Astrid, a young woman, opposes these theories and Pontus decides to hires her, which Fredrik doesn't like. Astrid gets installed as in charge of advertising, and soon she begins her modernizations.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-03-20
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Änkeman Jarl
Overview: Jarl is a retired widower who lives in a small village in Småland, Sweden.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-08-27
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Skipper Jansson
Overview: Jansson returns home after many years sailing the world. His two groups of relatives both want him to stay with them in hopes that he will leave them a large share of his inheritance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-10-24
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Vår herre luggar Johansson
Overview: Johansson has a small mechanical workshop, which provides for him and his family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-09-29
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En fattig miljonär
Overview: Nisse Holm start marketing coffee made of tree cones.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1941-12-26
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Kloka gubben
Overview: In a small village there are two doctors - one professional and one quack. Dr. Bergman has to see the number of his patients dwindle, as they seem to prefer the traditional medication of the quack doctor, Rasmus Thomsen. Rasmus' son Erik graduates from medical school and returns to the village. While Rasmus and Dr. Bergman become enemies, Erik falls in love with Dr. Bergman's daughter Birgit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1938-10-30
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Stockholmsfrestelser
Overview: The young sawmill owner Anders Person has won the lottery and goes on pleasure trip to Stockholm with his wife Julia. They are met by aunt Julia and makes plan for a night on the town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1911-04-27
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The Country for the People
Overview: Social democratic election film. The plot revolves around the young love couple Axel and Ulla, whose fates are woven into the larger political context. The film describes how Swedish society has changed and improved since 1932.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1936-01-01
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Pettersson & Bendel
Overview: The two conmen Bendel and Pettersson starts doing business together. Bendel got the brains and Pettersson the charm.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1933-09-17
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Karl Fredrik Reigns
Overview: A man goes from the tough life as a hired worker all the way into the Swedish government.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1934-03-03
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The Outlaw and His Wife
Overview: A stranger comes to work at widow Halla's farm. Halla and the stranger fall in love, but when he is revealed as Eyvind, an escaped thief forced into crime by his family's starvation, they flee and become two of the many outlaws of Iceland's mountains.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1918-01-01
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Alexander the Great
Overview: In a small provincial town there is a hotel run by one of those eccentric cooks of long ago who made generous meals that have nothing in common with the extravagant restaurateurs of nowadays and their meagre menus. The manager is named after Alexander the Great and in his restaurant the town bourgeoisie meet and discuss various issues, especially matters of the heart. Morals are part of the conversations and prove to be complicated issues even for strict and serious Nordics. 28 minutes of runtime are missing and presumed lost.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1917-11-12
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Natt i hamn
Overview: Early 1940s, during WW2, pitch black waters except for a moon-shadow over the waves. Surrounded by minefields and the fog slips in the sweeping headlights of the cargo ship S/S Rune. But the ship bows relentlessly forward through the night.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-09-27
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Det är min musik
Overview: Inga and her father, the violin maker Lars, are big music enthusiasts. One day they meet the violinist Jan-Erik.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-09-14
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Smålänningar
Overview: Gustav lives in Värnamo. He constructs a new boat engine, but needs time to complete it. The work has been financed by factory director "Hatt-Johan" Johansson who would like to sell the invention. Gustav's father returns from the United States and everyone thinks he's become a millionaire.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1935-10-28
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När ängarna blommar
Overview: The farm workers at Näs Farm, lead by Hellman, go on strike, demanding that their employer recognize their labor union. But he calls on strike-breakers to perform the farm work. Hellman's son Gunnar is a hothead who easily gets in trouble.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-11-11
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The Sisters
Overview: In front of the salvation Army headquarters. An old man who is being teased by a flock of children, is almost run over by a car. Out of the headquarters gates march singing and playing female Salvation Army soldiers. One of the women is on her way to a nearby restaurant where the two sisters Ruth and Fanny works as waitresses.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1912-01-12
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Cat Across the Road
Overview: An actress is happy when she is finally contacted by a famous director, but the director is more interested in her cat.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1937-08-30
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Konflikt
Overview: "Conflict" - Shipbuilder Edvard Banck is busy building new ships, but forgets that his wife Birgit wants his attention and tenderness. A new engineer, Reidar Hagen, begins at the shipyard, and Birgit is immediately attracted to him. They fall in love, and Birgit decides to leave her husband. But is it possible and what will Edvard do?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1937-01-15
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Nygifta
Overview: The young architect Gunnar Bergstrand marries the Norwegian Eva, against his parents' wishes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1941-02-20
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Friaren från landsvägen
Overview: Gösta is a trainee for the brutal Algren. He runs away and get to know a friendly drifter.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1923-10-01
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Släkten är bäst
Overview: The hypocritical wholesaler Johan Ekberg is taught a lesson.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-02-26
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Love and Cash Shortages
Overview: Office clerk Margit suspects that the senior accountant is embezzling money from the company. Now the auditors are on their way to check the bookkeeping. It seems that the senior accountant isn't the only embezzler in the town, even the chief of police is a member of the Embezzler's Club. Margit decides to help the senior accountant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1932-08-01
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Sjöcharmörer
Overview: A bus company wants to acquire traffic rights on an island in the Stockholm archipelago. The steam boats will be replaced by buses, but Captain Johansson and his daughter Eva are at the forefront of the protests.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1939-10-21
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Frida's Songs
Overview: Frida lives in a small idyllic town called Little Paris.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1930-09-15
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His Life's Match
Overview: Gunnar Gawell is mason on a building but also a very good football player. He gets a chance to play for the the national team against Denmark. Gunnar is offered a bribe if he allows the Danish team to win the match.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1932-01-18
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...som en tjuv om natten
Overview: Nisse Ekberg is in San Francisco but wants to get back to Sweden. Not being a completely honest guy, he gets mixed up with another person and assumes his identity.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1940-03-18
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The Girl from the Marsh Croft
Overview: A 1917 Swedish drama film directed by Victor Sjöström, based on a 1913 novel by Selma Lagerlöf. It was the first in a series of successful Lagerlöf adaptions by Sjöström, made possible by a deal between Lagerlöf and A-B Svenska Biografteatern (later AB Svensk Filmindustri) to adapt at least one Lagerlöf novel each year. Lagerlöf had for many years denied any proposal to let her novels be adapted for film, but after seeing Sjöström's Terje Vigen she finally decided to give her allowance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1917-09-09
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The Race of His Life
Overview: Social Democratic election film. Young Lasse is unemployed and drawn to the Communists. However, he comes to the Social Democratic fold after heroically capturing a saboteur. He falls in love with young Greta, whose father is a nimble master tailor who knows how to put both communists and citizens in place.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-08-01
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Thora van Deken
Overview: Film based on danish author Henrik Pontoppidan's novel Lille Rødhaette.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1920-03-15
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