Axel Högel
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
Adult: No
Birthday: March 23, 1884
Age: 141 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: September 20, 1970
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Ett dockhem
Overview: August Strindberg's feedback to Henrik Ibsen's "Doll's House"--a short story from the collection "Giftas" (Getting married), about female emancipation and obsolete marriages.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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When Love Came to the Village
Overview: A new teacher arrives to the small village and he soon stir up some trouble with his modern way of looking at things. He also stir up some amorous feelings among the local women.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1950-10-08
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The Brothers' Woman
Overview: City girl Emma marries the farmer Nicklas but gets involved in a love triangle with his brother Ragnar.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-11-22
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The Emperor of Portugallia
Overview: The poor farmer Jan is getting very old when he becomes father to the girl, Klara Gulla. First, he sees the child as a burden, but when he receives the newborn child in his arms he is overjoyed. He does everything in his power for her during her. But when she as an adult leaves home, Jan can not come over the loss of her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-12-26
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I brist på bevis
Overview: A drama about the manager Håkan Dahlin who has just been discharged from a clinic where he was treated for his alcoholism. In an outbreak of jealousy, Dahlin abuses his wife Inga and after that he is forcibly interned again. Inga is a nurse and she is now moving to a mountain village to work at a district clinic. During an emergency visit, she encounters her childhood sweetheart, the doctor Gunnar, and old feelings between them begin to flare up again.
Genres: Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-01-12
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Vi på Väddö
Overview: Law graduate Ylva Markner spends the summer on the island of Väddö, where she gets involved in a quarrel concerning a last will.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-10-13
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Darling of Mine
Overview: The Swedish/American actor Jack Harris visits the old country for the first time in his life. One of the journalist, Ingrid Billberg, is particularly interested in getting an interview with him. She finds out secret information about his next movie, and to stop her from revealing it, Jack Harris gets her alone with him on an isolated island in the archipelago. Romance blossoms... Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-07-22
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Jungfrun på Jungfrusund
Overview: Spoiled upper class girl must change places with a housemaid.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-10-27
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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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One Summer of Happiness
Overview: The young high school graduate Göran and the 17-year-old Kerstin get to know each other on the estate of Göran's uncle Persson and fall in love. But their relationship is watched suspiciously by the jammed adult world. While Persson has an understanding of the youth, Kerstin's parents and the pastor of the village rant against the alleged immorality of the young people. Despite all the malice, Göran and Kerstin decide for their love. But this love should last only one summer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1951-12-17
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Landstormens lilla argbigga
Overview: Spoiled upper class girl must join a home defense unit to learn military drill and fall in love with a lieutenant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1941-03-22
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Turn of the Century
Overview: Munthe has become a rich farmer through his own work and has gained some influence in the local community. He is strongly opposed to the immigration of east European farm labour from Galicia who, he claims, makes life difficult for the locals. A new school teacher with socialist leanings arrive and Munthe's daughter fall in love with him. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-12-26
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The Happy Tailor
Overview: Sören, a poor tailor with many children, dreams of becoming a miller and buys the windmill of the village with money he does not have.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-12-26
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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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Her Little Majesty
Overview: Spoiled upper class girl Marianne speeds through a small village and crashes her sports car into the house of the local vicar. She will have to stay for a few days while her car is repaired. Opposites attract but what will the locals think of this odd couple who slowly realize that they are fond of each other?
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1939-10-06
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Sir Arne's Treasure
Overview: Three Scottish noblemen escape from Gripsholm Castle and break into the home of Lord Arne. They kill everyone except for Lord Arne's adopted daughter Elsalill.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-12-16
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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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Marie in the Windmill
Overview: Maria is a waitress at a local restaurant when an older man propose to her. She is a bit skeptical but agrees to marry him and become the mistress of his estate Kvarngården. Maria had a son which she was forced to give away for adoption when he was born because she could not take care of him. She has keep contact with the child and posed as a kind aunt. She has not told her new husband about her son and when the years go by and no children of their own comes along the resentment and bitterness grows. When the adoptive mother of Maria's son dies she and the adoptive father agrees that the best thing for the boy is to come and stay with Maria at Kvarngården. She also hope that it will make her husband come out of his bitterness to have a young boy around. The result is unfortunately quite the opposite.
Genres: Drama Romance Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-01-15
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Gårdarna runt sjön
Overview: A young and spoiled aristocrat is guilty of a hit-and-run accident.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-02-17
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Livet i finnskogarna
Overview: In a rural parish in 1906, young Heikki, one of the Finnish immigrants, lives a wild and free life in the deep forest. After poaching, his furs are confiscated and Heikki vows to have his revenge by seducing the young women of the parish, one by one.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-08-22
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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 Great Amateur
Overview: Modern fairy tale about the small town of Fårtuna where the chief of police is also an amateur theater director. The local shop assistant Linda aspires to become an actress and gets discovered by a talent agent from Stockholm.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-06-22
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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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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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Vagabond Blacksmiths
Overview: Midsummer Eve in Malmfors in the 1880s. The holiday is celebrated with a big party. Three blacksmiths leave the ironworks and become drifters, seeking out jobs elsewhere. During their travels, they come across beautiful girls as well as jobs in different ironworks, where the workers are organizing, monitored by a brutal police force.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-02-07
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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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Son of the Sea
Overview: The priest Hagen comes to a small Norwegian village one stormy evening. He brings the tragic news to wife Sigrid Bakken. Her husband and oldest son has drowned during fishing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-10-12
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Ride Tonight!
Overview: Oppressed by landowners, a peasant uprising ensues as an outlaw farmer refuses to pay taxes in this film adapted from Vilhelm Moberg's novel.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-11-24
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I dag börjar livet
Overview: Choreographer is found murdered and the police investigate. There are several suspects among his lovers, dancers and family members.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1939-08-15
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When Bengt and Anders Changed Wives
Overview: Two neighbours, each with a small plot of land, hate each other. Both are dissatisfied with his wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1950-12-23
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Prince Gustaf
Overview: In the middle of the 1800s Swedish prince Gustaf meets the actress Anna Maria Wastenius and falls in love with her, but it is an impossible love story due to the rules of society.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-11-29
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Karusellen i fjällen
Overview: The porter of the hotel is trying to keep his sanity when two guests who share both looks and name check in. He's also unaware that his new bell boy is actually the owner's daughter in disguise.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-03-15
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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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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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Hotell Kåkbrinken
Overview: Laban Lundström is the porter at Hotell Kåkbrinken. The hotel is threatened by wholesaler Sjökvist, who wants to pull down the house and build a new and modern house instead.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-12-26
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Då länkarna smiddes
Overview: A story about the cooperative trade in Sweden.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1939-09-06
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The Bells in Old Town
Overview: Kalle Magnus Berg is a kind bailiff in Gamla Stan (Old Town) in Stockholm. He helps out "clients" by supporting them with money from his own pocket. His neighbor is a jazz musician who plays at a restaurant for a living.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-12-30
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Storm
Overview: An elderly gentleman lives alone with his maid Louise. He spends his days chatting with the confectioner who lives and works downstairs, playing chess with his brother Karl Fredrick, and content with his memories. His young wife Gerda ran out on him five years ago, taking their young daughter with her. Now, unbeknownst to the gentleman, she’s back… and living in the upstairs apartment with the child and her new husband. When Gerda finally faces the man, sparks will fly and old wounds will be reopened. Bergman's TV adaptation of August Strindberg's play "Storm" was presented on the 111th anniversary of the author's birth. The production was also shown in Denmark and Norway and received glowing reviews. Bergman was celebrated as an outstanding TV director and was praised for his tact and sympathy in depicting old age, his superior lighting and fine camera work as well as his understanding of the medium in his use of close-ups.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1960-01-22
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Sockerskrinet
Overview: A story spanning four generations.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1938-08-26
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Järnets män
Overview: A film about the breakthrough of the labor movement in Sweden depicted by a metal worker's point of view.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1935-09-18
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Kärlek
Overview: A new young priest begins his duty on a small island. He assumes that the service should not be to demanding, so that he will be able to finish his doctoral thesis. But the life at sea is hard with severe accidents. He faces emotionally difficult situations related to both love and death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1952-12-22
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Dollar
Overview: Ludvig and Sussi Battwyhl, Louis and Katja Brenner and Julia and Kurt Balzar are upper class millionaires. They don't seem to do any real work but still need a vacation in the mountains. Everybody seems to be romantically involved with everybody. A rich American woman joins them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1938-09-05
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Vart hjärta har sin saga
Overview: Baron Henric Löwencrona af Löwstaborg allows his daughter to marry a worker's son.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1948-09-13
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Sven Tusan
Overview: Sven Jönsson is a big man in Havborre fishing village in Skåne. He is usually called Sven Tusan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-02-12
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Begär
Overview: Carsten Berg returns home after 15 years abroad. He gets into a fight with his father, who dies of a heart attack. Carsten must take over his fathers business. He is informed that he is suffering from an incurable disease.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-09-02
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The Family That Was a Carousel
Overview: The Björn family is a little odd family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1936-09-18
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Towards the Future
Overview: A politically motivated dramatic short film from Social Democrats ahead of the 1952 elections.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1952-08-01
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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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Our Building of Home and Community
Overview: Campaign film for the Swedish Folkpartiet (People's Party) in 1936.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1936-11-16
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Jagad
Overview: A smalltime businessman gets himself into finance problems. His bank requires tangible proof of ability to pay. The businessman makes a drastic decision.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-08-27
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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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Kulla-Gulla
Overview: Orphan girl Gunilla (nick named Kulla-Gulla) gets sent from her orphanage to work as an housemaid at sharecropper Karlbergs household. Among her duties is to take care of Karlberg, his wife and their five children.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-08-27
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My Sister and I
Overview: The rich, aristocratic Katarina Hassel have an architect renovate her mansion. Katarina fall in love with the young architect, Gunnar Stenwall. Alas, he doesn't fall in love with her. But perhaps if Gunnar would meet her identical sister, who works in Stockholm as a waitress, he would fall in love with her instead? So Katarina travels to Stockholm to act as her non-existing sister.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1950-01-26
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For the Sake of My Intemperate Youth
Overview: For the Sake of My Intemperate Youth (Swedish: För min heta ungdoms skull) is a 1952 Swedish drama film directed by Arne Mattsson. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-17
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Lång-Lasse i Delsbo
Overview: it's the 1840s and a rural parish plagued by drinking and fighting gets a new vicar who has decided to instill law, order and fear of God into the parishioners.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-10-29
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Oppåt med Gröna Hissen
Overview: A man and a woman are cheated on by their respective partners and decide to get their revenge.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1952-12-26
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If I Could Marry the Minister
Overview: Eva Örn is a newly graduated teacher, who becomes a school teacher in rural Vikarlunda. She is a beautiful young woman with firm opinions and she does not live up to the locals' picture of the ideal female teacher. She has an affair with the pastor, Ingvar Hagson, but they have to keep their love a secret.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1941-12-13
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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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Guldgrävarna
Overview: After a series of bad card game experiences Carl Gustafsson and Arne Arnesson are forced to run away. A while later they are on a boat to America.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1959-01-26
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The Tyranny of Hate
Overview: It's the beginning of the 1800s. A feud between the people of Ödemo and Rävgården has been going on since the dawn of time and now it's worse than ever.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1920-11-01
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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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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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Hård klang
Overview: A small Swedish village has transformed to an industrial center with exports to Germany. A German opened a quarry some 50 years ago, after realizing the value of granite. Now WW1 begins.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1952-09-15
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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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Johan Ulfstjerna
Overview: The story of a man who makes a great sacrifice for his country and for his son. Based on the play of the same title by Tor Hedberg.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1923-12-02
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The Ingmar Inheritance
Overview: When his ancestors seem to appear in the clouds during a storm of biblical proportions, young Ingmar decides to give up his career as the village teacher and to reclaim the land and farm of his fathers. The same stormy night, the charismatic preacher Helgum arrives in the village to spread the word about the promises of the Holy Land, which turns parents and children, men and wives, brothers and sisters, against one another. Ingmar is torn between his love for the headmaster’s daughter Gertrud who is under the preacher’s spell, and the prospects of marrying the judge’s daughter Barbro in order to keep the farm.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1925-12-26
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We Two
Overview: Architect Sture Ahrengren walks out of his job with an architecture firm with the support of his wife Kristina. He gets a position with an old friend, Balstar Ekberg, who has a big engineering job going. But Sture gets entangled in a romance with Ekberg's wife, Helena.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1939-03-16
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Railroad Workers
Overview: The north of Sweden in 1902. A team of railroad men are building a rail road from Luleå at the Bay of Bothnia to Narvik at the Norwegian Sea. One of the newest workers, Valfrid from the south of Sweden, is not accepted by neither Stora Ballong, the informal leader of the workers, nor the others. They refuse to talk to him but instead Valfrid gets help from the sworn enemy of the railroad workers: the greedy drugstore owner Blom.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-12-26
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The Children
Overview: Based on the classic children’s story, seven orphan siblings and their goat make a difficult journey over the mountains to find new parents.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-09-18
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Ingen mans kvinna
Overview: Imber has a child with the dubious fiancé Erland. He is destructive and his unhealthy lifestyle subjects his family to starvation and the death of their child. Imber falls in love with Arne and a settlement between Arne and Erland unfolds.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-11-09
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