Adolf Jahr
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Biography: John Adolf Reinhold Jahr, born Johansson, was a Swedish stage and screen actor, singer and director. He made his film debut in Edvard Persson's "Den gamla herrgården" (1925). Adolf Jahr appeared in some 65 feature films.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Sundsvall, Västernorrlands län, Sweden
Birthday: June 24, 1893
Deathday: April 19, 1964
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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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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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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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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Oss baroner emellan
Overview: Baron Leijoncloo comes back to Sweden after many years in Argentina. On his way to his good friend Victor Sällberg's home, he loses his luggage. A con artist, Jönsson, finds it, and uses the baron's title to get invited to the manor of Mr. and Mrs. Blomqvist. By a coincidence, the baron also comes to the manor using a fake name. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1939-12-26
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When Darkness Falls
Overview: Young Elisabeth comes to Västlinge to meet her old relative, the vicar and and his young daughter. She is going to spend the Christmas there in peace and quiet but on Christmas Eve, the grocer is brutally murdered with an axe. Police inspector Christer Wijk comes to the small village to find the murderer. He soon discovers the puzzle of evidence that makes almost everybody a suspect.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1960-12-26
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Just a Trumpeter
Overview: An army musician is mistaken for a company manager and fall in love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1938-08-26
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Rannstensungar
Overview: Ninni is a girl who is paralyzed from the waist down. Her mother dies and she is taken care of by a friend of the family. She is trapped in the heart of Stockholm and can't get out of the city because the lack of money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-12-18
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The Ghost at Bragehus
Overview: Bragehus manor receives a new farm bailiff with new ideas on how to run a modern farm. The manor is haunted by a ghost.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1936-11-25
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Robinson i Roslagen
Overview: To get away from his nagging wife, a man goes to a desert island to settle down there.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1948-09-25
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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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Den gamla herrgården
Overview: A 40-minute fragment survives.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1925-02-10
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Marknadsafton
Overview: The farmer Magni is planning to marry Teresia, but the maid Lovisa has other plans.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1948-07-31
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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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Lars Hård
Overview: Young drifter tells his story in flashback from prison.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1948-08-30
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The People of Värmland
Overview: Erik, the son of a wealthy farmer, and Anna, the daughter of a poor crofter, have known each other since they were children. Now, that they are grown up, they love each other, but their parents won't let them have each other, since their families are enemies. Erik's father wants him to marry a rich girl instead and when Anna hears about this, she falls ill and even starts to show signs of insanity. Will the two have each other or will everything go wrong?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-12-26
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Storm over Tjurö
Overview: Karl Oskar Bohm looks back at his life, his estranged daughter Augusta and his wife Sofia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-07-19
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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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Janne Vängmans bravader
Overview: Janne Vängman is heavy drinker who always stands up for the poor and oppressed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1948-09-20
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Janne Vängman på nya äventyr
Overview: Janne is an old man who is locked up in the church on New Year's Eve 1900 and has to play the organ to make someone to open the door.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-09-16
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Bröderna Östermans huskors
Overview: The Österman brothers have come to realize that they need a housekeeper. Oldest brother Kalle travel to town and return with the young and modern Anna.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-09-20
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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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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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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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Bröllopet på Solö
Overview: Kalle Österman lives on the small island Solö together with his wife, Agneta.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-01-01
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Ebberöds Bank
Overview: Tailor Ågren in Ebberöd lives with his dominant wife Karolina and their two children. His everyday life would have been problem free if it weren't for his debts.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-09-09
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While the City Sleeps
Overview: Jompa is unemployed - and not keen on getting a job. He still lives with his parents who are tired of his attitude about employment and regular hours. Jompa and his friends spend their time at nightclubs, cafés and doing petty crimes. While playing poker, Jompa becomes indebted to the criminal Kalle Lund. Of course, Jompa is unable to pay, but Kalle gives him a tip: an old fetcher has always a lot of money at home, and if Jompa could get his hands on the money, his troubles would disappear... Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1950-09-08
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Miljonär för en dag
Overview: Millionaire for a Day was filmed during the summer of 1925 in Skåne, the southernmost province of Sweden. This Edvard Persson's third film became a flop in Stockholm, but was quite successful in many rural areas all over the country.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1926-01-23
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Samvetsömma Adolf
Overview: Operetta singer Adolf Berg will be called up for military duty just as he gets assigned a major role in an operetta. On the train he meets Ulla Wern and complications occur.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1936-01-13
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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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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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En bröllopsnatt på Stjärnehov
Overview: To save the family estate Stjärnehov, one of the twins Stiernhielm, Bertil, marries the rich sausage maker Magnusson's daughter Britta.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1934-12-26
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Östermans testamente
Overview: The fishermen Österman and Sjöberg are sued by merchant Wikström. In order to raise capital, they decide to start producing a medicine from a recipe by Österman's father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-10-04
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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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Friarannonsen
Overview: Algot and Bengt have built a house together. But they can not agree on how ownership should be distributed between them. In addition they don't get any mail since the Post office refuse to hand it out.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-09-05
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Kungen av Dalarna
Overview: Malm is the editor at a Stockholm newspaper who gets the assignment to cover the big ski race Vasaloppet.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-05-20
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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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Sten Stensson Stéen från Eslöv på nya äventyr
Overview: A traveling theatre company comes to Lund and one of the smallest hotels in town. A female actress gets a key by mistake to a room where Sten Stensson Stéen lives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1932-09-19
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Svärmor kommer
Overview: John and Ulla are happily married and live in the villa Fridhem. Via telegram, John gets the news that his dreaded mother-in-law will come to visit.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1932-04-18
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Skeppare i blåsväder
Overview: The story of the aging fisherman Alex who refuses to realize that his boat needs to be replaced.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1951-08-28
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Janne Vängman i farten
Overview: Erik Ernsson is on his way to Jon-Persgården in Ångermanland to seek employment. He befriends the old man Janne Vängman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1952-09-29
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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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Finnskogens folk
Overview: The year is 1906. Somewhere on the long lake of Fryken, pastor David Amberg appears. He is not satisfied with the religious life of the countryside. He wants to bring real revival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-10-18
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Laughing in the Sunshine
Overview: Princess Caroline travels incognito to Stockholm and meets the Prince Birger, who also uses a fake name.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-01-02
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Janne Vängman och den stora kometen
Overview: Janne Vängman is having dreams of meeting aliens from outer space.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-10-10
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Kronans glada gossar
Overview: Pelle Frisk is serving in the Swedish armed forces.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1952-01-14
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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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Fasters millioner
Overview: The ladies man Georg is finally about to get married, but a misunderstanding lead to his new wife break up the wedding.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1934-08-06
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Sköna Susanna och gubbarna
Overview: In the legend of Susanna in Babylon she was highly desired by the old men. In this movie, Susanna the beautiful lives in a Swedish town in the 19th century.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1959-10-19
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Dunungen
Overview: The shy Anne-Marie wants to marry the mayor's son despite his parents' opposition.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1941-12-26
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Perhaps a Gentleman
Overview: Director Hugo Berner and Doctor Olof Mellgren have come out of the theater where they have just shown the classic play Pygmalion. Director Mellgren claims that, like Higgins in the play, he can turn a harbor worker into the gentleman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1935-08-24
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Ä' vi gifta?
Overview: The well-known musician and composer Åke Kjellberg wakes up in a nice Stockholm apartment. He lives in Count Sparvhök's empty home until it gets rented out.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1936-03-09
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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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Strange Harbor
Overview: "Strange Harbor " - A Swedish cargo ship is in the winter of 1938 at the dock in Gdynia in Poland, waiting to depart with coal to Sweden. In a tavern in the port a Polish dockworkers tries to tell something to the Swedish sailors, but is rudely turned away by the tavern owner. Later in the evening the port worker is found dead. That same evening one of the Swedish sailors, meets a Jewish woman who has fled Nazi Germany.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1948-10-02
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Tattarblod
Overview: David, a young woodsman with a family, is leasing a farm. The family are welcomed by the locals until it becomes known that David is the son of a notorious drifter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-02-08
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Kvartetten som sprängdes
Overview: A small Swedish town just after WW1. An accountant and his two journalist friends have entered the stock market. The result is not as good as expected.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1950-12-26
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Just a Waiter
Overview: Fabian Bom is a waiter at a hotel in a small town. But he dreams of doing something else - to dance and sing on a stage. He is madly in love with Matilda Roos, singer and diva. Fabian is too insensitive to notice that Annie, who works in the kitchen, is in love with him. Encouraged by Matilda, Fabian leaves the hotel and goes to Stockholm to become famous. But, as he soon learns, it is more difficult than he first thought.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1959-09-28
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Johan på Snippen
Overview: In the village of Stubbhult lives many motorcycle interested young people. However, their rampage interfere with the local population.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-11-12
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Johan på Snippen tar hem spelet
Overview: There is a barn dance in the village Stubbhult. Johan Snippen and his friend the stationmaster Mandus plays happily, when a fight is about to break out.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-09-08
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På kryss med Blixten
Overview: Another adventure with Kalle "Blixten" Svensson.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1927-12-26
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Hattmakarens bal
Overview: The wealthy hat maker Cederström has two daughters, Marianne and Lotte. He has decided that Marianne should marry Melander even though she loves the poet Malm. Lotte on the other hand loves Melander.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1928-11-17
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Ung och kär
Overview: The two young attachées Freddie Rundhult and Rutger af Utterfeldt at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are rivals for the beautiful operetta singer Alice.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1950-11-11
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En sjöman går iland
Overview: The sailor Axel Nord is asked by his captain to do him a favor before his leave begins. Captain Rundholm wants him to give a letter to his niece in Stockholm. As Nord discovers, it isn't easy to find somebody you never have met, and it isn't made easier by the fact that some crooks believe that the letter contains evidence proving embezzlement in the shipping company.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1937-11-15
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Dance, My Doll
Overview: In a small town called Skrabbarp in Southern Sweden lives the school teacher Sebastian Pettersson, an amateur detective and one of the most diligent correspondents of the Stockholm police.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-07-20
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Falska Greta
Overview: A woman on vacation is mistaken for Greta Garbo.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1934-02-04
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