Emil Fjellström
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Näs socken, Jämtlands län, Sweden
Adult: No
Birthday: October 24, 1884
Age: 140 years old
Gender: Other
Deathday: July 14, 1944
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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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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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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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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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Minns ni?
Overview: A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 films.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1993-10-24
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With You in My Arms
Overview: Millionaire Krister Dahl loses his memory when he is hit in the head by a golf ball. He meets his ex-wife and immediately fall in love with her again. She does not know what to believe, is it true or is it only a joke? He also discovers how he has mismanaged his company in his earlier life.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1940-11-09
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Kan doktorn komma?
Overview: A rural doctor in the north of Sweden must travel for hours to his patients. When a young woman has a serious case of appendicitis the doctor must bring her on a dangerous trek downriver to reach the clinic. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-12-21
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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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En kvinna ombord
Overview: In the beginning of WW II a Swedish ship in a northern French port is exposed to German air raids. The captain take a chance to leave the port without permission. A stranded woman seize the chance to get home to Sweden.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1941-01-10
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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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Örlogsmän
Overview: The trio Erik, Arne and Ingrid have been friends since childhood, the two boys always competing for the affection of Ingrid. At the naval academy Erik gets into a fistfight and is expelled, to instead become a captain of a trading ship. Before he leaves Ingrid and Erik are engaged in secret. Later, when Erik is believed to be lost at sea, Ingrid instead gets engaged with Arne.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-01-25
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Kungen kommer
Overview: A travelling theater-company performs Offenbach's "The Beautiful Helene" when an officer in the audience notices the similarity in appearance between the leading actor Leonard Pettersson and the king Charles XV.With Pettersson dressed as the king and the other actors as the royal suite, they all go to Herrsunda castle where the officer is trying to make an impression on his fiance.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1936-03-23
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Intermezzo
Overview: An intense love affair develops between a married concert violinist (Gösta Ekman) and his daughter's music teacher (Ingrid Bergman).
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-11-16
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Atlantäventyret
Overview: Theatre director Freddy Alsterberg has failed with his latest operetta. He decides to work his way over the Atlantic. His niece Tusse also stows away on the ship disguised as a boy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1934-02-05
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Our Gang
Overview: A gang of friends lose their club house and collect money for a new one by singing in public.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-02-02
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Tre glada tokar
Overview: The wealthy Rudolf Trane helps the unsuccessful vacuum-cleaner salesman Rhuter to find a girl called Marianne. Trane, Rhuter and Trane's manservant John pretend to be waiters when Marianne's family is having a large dinner.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-02-16
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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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Tåg 56
Overview: A triangle drama. Oskar has just been appointed to the train driver, his friend and colleague Gustav turns 60 and must retire. Gustav's son Lasse is interested in Oskar's wife Britta who feels neglected by her husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-12-22
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Fia Jansson från Söder
Overview: Luft-Kalle and Kol-Jocke get into adventures in southern Stockholm around midsummer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-11-27
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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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The Ghost Reporter
Overview: Augustus Blomkvist sells his sausage factory and buys the newspaper Stockholms-Posten where he starts working as a reporter under false name.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1941-08-09
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Storm över skären
Overview: The vessel pilot Alfred and fisherman Sven are both in love with Sonja, the most beautiful girl on the island they live on. Sven and Alfred become quarrel when Alfred one evening finds Sven with Sonja. The fight ends when Sven leaves the island. He freaked out completely when he hit Alfred with a bottle over the head. Now rumor has that Sonja is pregnant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-21
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The Monastery of Sendomir
Overview: Two riders on their way to Warsaw stop at a monastery for the night and ask an old monk there to tell them the story of its founding.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1920-01-01
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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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Halta Lena och vindögde Per
Overview: The film centers on Algot Söderholm's two daughters, beautiful Magda and plain, less desirable Lena. Adapted from the 1910 play by Ernst Fastbom.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1933-01-05
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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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Thomas Graal's Best Film
Overview: Thomas Graal's a screenwriter, is very fond of his secretary Bessie. Overtaken by a kiss by Thomas she runs away. In his misfortune Thomas writes a screenplay inspired by Bessie. But she has not been really honest with him. 31 minutes of runtime are missing and presumed lost.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1917-08-13
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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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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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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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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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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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Bleka greven
Overview: A Swedish comedy from 1937. At castle Gyllenskiöld Holm a lawyer reads the deceased Count's will. Son Rouglas inherits the estate in front of Anne-Marie, Countess's daughter and the woman whom the testator had hoped to Rouglas would marry. But there is a supplement in the will to be read out after six months.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1937-02-22
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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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A Cruise in the Albertina
Overview: John is the skipper of the Albertina which is moored in Mariehamn. Nearby is luxury yacht Sea Star, where Ann-Mari boards. She begins to take an interest in John and makes sure to come aboard the Albertina to meet him.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1938-11-14
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Melodin från Gamla Stan
Overview: Swedish movie from 1939. In summer Stockholm live the unemployed musician Nisse trying to sell the songs to music publishers. One day the treasurer of a prominent publisher is arrested, on suspicion of theft of 10,000 crowns from a cash box. Nisse has, however, seen something suspicious.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1939-11-13
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Karin, Daughter of Ingmar
Overview: Karin Daughter of Ingmar is a 1920 Swedish silent drama film directed by Victor Sjöström. It is the second part in Sjöström's large-scale adaption of Selma Lagerlöf's novel Jerusalem, following Sons of Ingmar from the year before, and depicting chapter three and four from the novel. The critical reception was however unenthusiastic and Sjöström decided to not direct any more parts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1920-02-02
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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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Spöke till salu
Overview: The Creutzerhjelm's are in search of an authentic haunted castle. Therefore, the owner of the castle SkiöldBorg decides to play ghost himself to sell his castle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1939-08-16
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Kvinnan tar befälet
Overview: A story about a gang of youngsters living in a boarding house in Stockholm.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-12-26
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En natt på Smygeholm
Overview: It is rumored that there are ghosts at Smygeholm Castle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1933-08-14
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Anderssonskans Kalle
Overview: Anderssonskans Kalle is the typical 'Söderkis'. It's a boy growing up on Söder in Stockholm and he is very fond of practical jokes. His mother sees him as a good natured boy but his victims, mostly the local policeman and two old crones in the same house, see him as the devil himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1934-01-01
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En man för mycket
Overview: Julius Berge has an advertising firm in Stockholm together with his wife Sonja. The man with the ideas is their colleague Kurt Dal, who used to be engaged to Sonja. Their ménage à trois becomes a crazy mix of jealousy and misunderstanding.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1941-11-10
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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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Kungajakt
Overview: The film takes place in the 1780s. The Russians plan to overthrow Gustav III from the Swedish throne and Lieutenant Rehusen tries to stop them, while fighting for his king, he also fights for his love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-01-21
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Hon eller ingen
Overview: The wholesaler Blomberg is a regular customer of "Parfumerie Marie Danielsson". He often buys perfume for his many girlfriends. Blomberg's driver Bengt Lundgren is in love with the shop assistant Eva Bergström. Bengt deceives his boss by telling him that his car has broken, then he can go out with Eva.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1934-11-10
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Thunder and Lightning
Overview: The aristocratic count Hägerskiöld is very proud of his swine Helen of Troy who wins a prize every year as the best swine in the area. This year his son Claes-Ferdinand needs money to get married with Pyret, a chorus-girl. His father won't give him any so he steals the swine, expecting that his father will give a reward to anyone who can find her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1938-03-21
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Bastard
Overview: Siberian hunter Burtaj learns from his dying father that he originates from German farmers on his mother side. He is thus a "bastard", since the hunters and peasants have been enemies since ancient times.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1940-01-10
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Morgondagens melodi
Overview: The schoolgirl Maj-Lis comes from a wealthy family and is unhappy with her life. Emmy, her friend at school, tells Maj-Lis about her lousy job at the Vidi department store. Maj-Lis then decides to apply for a job at Vidi to learn more.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-03-23
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Inled mig i frestelse
Overview: Lund is home to Qvillander and Schorn. There is also a gentleman who lives entirely in the world of books, Professor Möbius. The latter is dominated by his aunt, Miss Lundén, who manages the finances of the house.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1933-12-02
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Fredlös
Overview: The Finnish War 1808-1809 is over and Russia has conquered Finland from Sweden. All weapons in the country are meant to be handed over to the new ruler, but in some small places people are preparing for an uprising.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1935-10-11
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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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A Man There Was
Overview: Terje Vigen, a sailor, suffers the loss of his family through the inflexibility of another man. Years later, when his enemy's family finds itself dependent on his benevolence, Terje must decide whether to avenge himself.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1917-01-29
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The Heavenly Play
Overview: "The Heavenly Play" - Mats Ersson is engaged to Marit and they plan to get married in the spring. But when the plague comes, the people accuse Marit of witchcraft. She is sentenced to death. Mats can not understand the divine justice and decides to go to paradise and ask God himself. It becomes a journey where he meets the prophets, king Solomon and finally God himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-12-21
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National match
Overview: Erik Andersson marries Brita Blomstedt. During the wedding party he drinks alcohol which he is not used to. Later that evening Erik is involved in a brawl that end with a policeman getting a knife in the back.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1932-03-29
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Lasse-Maja
Overview: About the Swedish trickster and thief Lars "Lasse-Maja" Molin. He often disguised himself and lived as a woman in 1800s. He takes place as a kitchen boy for a bailiff and manages to prevent him from taking over the cottage where his beloved lives. His true identity will, however, be disclosed and he is forced to become an outlaw.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1941-11-28
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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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Fransson the Terrible
Overview: A young baker moves to the small town of Västerby and becomes successful with a new type of whole wheat bread.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1941-09-22
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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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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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Adolf Armstarke
Overview: Adolph Turesson is a mild-mannered, meek college professor whose faint-heart isn't impressing the fair-lady he secretly loves, the golden-haired Britta Larsson. Attending a lecture, he witnesses the attention paid to his lady-love by other faculty members, and falls to sleep. He dreams of the olden days and the knights, and the comely ladies of the court over whom they fought. His dream also gives all the cast the change to play a second role. Upon awakening, he proposes to Britta.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1937-01-01
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Song of the Scarlet Flower
Overview: The son of a wealthy farmer loves a simple maid, for which he's booted out of the house by his father.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1919-04-14
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The Fairy of Solbakken
Overview: Synnöve lives with her parents at the farm Solbakken on a sunny hill. Thorbjörn, who lives at Granliden in the shadow of a big mountain, often looks wistfully up to Solbakken. As teenagers they meet and fall in love. Another boy, Knud Nordhaug, is also yearning for Synnöve.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1919-10-20
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Love's Crucible
Overview: At the end of the middle ages, Ursula is accused of having poisoned her own husband. She claims she is innocent, but to prove it, she must submit to a ritual: trial by fire, walking on fire along a path leading directly to a crucifix. A film that has been much commended for the visual creativity shown by the director in successive blending in of images involving Ursula, her husband, the Virgin Mary, and Jesus Christ. Much applauded, also: the performance of Jenny Hasselqvist, thus described by French director René Clair: “We shall never forget her flaming eyes, the severity of her spirit, her abrupt and alarmed expressions, like an animal under threat.”
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1922-01-01
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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 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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The Saga of Gösta Berling
Overview: Gösta Berling is a young and attractive minister. Because of his alcoholism and his daring sermons, he is finally defrocked. He becomes a tutor of countess Marta's stepdaughter and they fall in love. But the countess has a plan of her own.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1924-03-09
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Hemliga Svensson
Overview: The little town Västerköping needs a new police man - but the only applicant is the small and tiny Fridolf. He gets the job but has to work with the big and strong police inspector Göransson. The town is visited by a crook who has specialized in stealing from local councils. Can this unusual pair stop him?
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1933-12-26
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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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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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Flickorna från Gamla Sta'n
Overview: About two girls sharing an apartment in the Old Town of Stockholm.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1934-08-20
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Kungliga Johansson
Overview: Famous chef Carl-Ulrik Johansson (Erik 'Bullen' Berglund) comes home to Sweden after twenty years abroad and finds out he never finished his compulsory military service. Consequently he is forced to join the army as a conscript. He has many fights with his sergeant Göran Persson (Thor Modéen).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1934-09-23
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Simon i Backabo
Overview: Simon lives a quiet life on his farm until one day he discovers he is the heir of a great fortune.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1934-10-22
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