Göthe Grefbo
Also Known As: Gothe Grefbo
Biography: Bror Göthe Ingvar Grefbo, born Englund, was a Swedish stage and screen actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Föllinge, Jämtlands län, Sweden
Adult: No
Birthday: October 30, 1921
Age: 103 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: May 17, 1991
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Mr. Sleeman Is Coming
Overview: A young girl is torn between marrying the old man herr Sleeman for money or the young hunter out of love.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1983-02-28
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Lockfågeln
Overview: On his death-bed, Per Henrik Pistolekors must promise his father two things: first of all to kill king Gustav III, which his father hates. Second, to take his half-sister Annarella to Stockholm to find her a rich and noble husband.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1971-11-24
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One Way Ticket
Overview: Johannes, an ex-con now working as a antiques dealer, is faced with a huge debt. He is put under pressure to pay and agrees to steal the Russian crown jewels on exhibition onboard a cruise ship.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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The Lady in Black
Overview: The married detective couple John and Kajsa Hillman goes on a vacation to Holmfors mill where a friend of Kajsa's lives with her husband. When a young woman is found murdered it is clear that this is another case for the Hillmans.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-02-01
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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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En enkel melodi
Overview: Young Felix is a trainee at a fire station, but he is afraid of heights and can not stand the sight of blood. His future as a fireman is doubtful and when he is suspended he steals an ambulance to prove his mettle.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1974-08-26
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Musik ombord
Overview: Ulla Winther has retired from her singing career to a marriage with two children. But her agent wants her to return and she finally agrees to take part in a charity concert
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-10-23
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The Heist
Overview: Four young criminals are planning a heist against a racecourse and in order to obtain a seed capital they rob a gambling den. They celebrate the successful heist by throwing a party but it turns out to be a lot of disagreement within the group.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1961-09-04
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Lysistrate
Overview: The women of Athens plotting to end the war with Sparta by refusing to have sex until there is peace.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1981-03-15
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The Bookseller Who Gave Up Bathing
Overview: A sleepy village around 1910. Jacob, the owner of a book store in a small town is a member of a club who baths together every Sunday. He is uninterested in women until Amelie Arbel moves into the town. She is both rich and seductive and he marries her. After the marriage he discovers that she can be very troublesome.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1969-04-06
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Kalabaliken i Bender
Overview: The famous Swedish Karoliner army has suffered its biggest defeat ever at Poltava in 1709. The Swedish king Karl XII is waiting in the small village of Bender for the Turkish sulton to help him defeat his arch enemy, the czar of Russia, Peter the Great. But the Turks think he's an expensive guest and want him out of Turkey. However, he refuses. The sultan then decides to send Karl XII a princess to marry him, to get him out of the country (a bride for a bribe). The two Swedish soldiers Lagercrona and Kruus are to escort the princess. They experience many different adventures on their way to Bender, namely because other Swedish soldiers and agents try to stop them from ever reaching the village, because they don't want Karl XII to leave Turkey. After their long adventure to get there and a few misunderstandings, the famous "kalabalik" of Bender, where the Turks decide to drive Karl XII out of Turkey by force, begins.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1983-08-26
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Dumbom
Overview: Two twins, separated at birth, meet again by chance many years later. One is a progressive but insensitive mayor of a small town, the other a clown at a circus.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-12-26
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Swinging at the Castle
Overview: Love triangle between Svante, his fiancee Inga and Sophie, a girl from a rich family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1959-03-08
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The Staffan Stolle Story
Overview: Staffan Stolle becomes the sole heir to a rich and noble family when he is just a little boy. Early on he is engaged to be married to a girl he finds he does not love. Instead he flees the country only to return under a false name, looking for true love.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music Mystery
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-09-10
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The Office Party
Overview: Office executive Knut Levin decides to arrange a party at work. Things don't go exactly according to plan with hilarious results.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1972-10-04
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Farlig kurva
Overview: Christer is a teenager who prefers to spend his time on motorcycles instead of his studies which doesn't impress his father. There is also a youth motorcycle gang terrorising the local girls but Christer doesn't dare to stand up to them, leading to his humiliation. One day he comes into contact with a professional speedway racer who takes him under his wing.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1952-12-26
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Miss Chic
Overview: Buster Carell, a talent agent is threatened by bankruptcy when his only real talent, a singing lumberjack, runs off with the company funds. Watching a TV quiz show, Carell discovers a prodigal singer, Isabella Linder, and offers her a contract. But she is unwilling and would like to remain a school teacher.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1959-01-26
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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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In the Name of the Law
Overview: A group of four policemen is known for cruising the streets of Stockholm in their van, looking for drunks or criminals they can beat up with their batons. Lately witnesses saw them pick up a drunk who later was found dead. The four policemen deny any knowledge. Police inspector Jarnebring gets the case and finds out that these four policemen have been reported for 22 cases of police brutality. Shortly after, another criminal dies in their van...
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1986-10-31
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Jazz Boy
Overview: The rich young man Teddy Anker invests his money in the theater at the beginning of the 1920s. Whatever he does becomes a success. He falls in love with a dancer, Karin. He decides to put up a show with Karin as the leading lady, but for the first time one of his shows becomes an economic disaster.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-10-06
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Flottans överman
Overview: Fabian Bom has been sent by the Export Association to promote Swedish export to Spain. He travels with the navy's cruiser to Barcelona, but his jealous fiancée Gullan has followed him in secret to keep an eye on him. In Barcelona the usually strict and virtuous Bom is surrounded by the local women and has a ball. He meets the young and zestful Linnea from Sweden. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-09-15
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My Love Is Like a Rose
Overview: A middle aged doctor begins a relationship with a teenage girl. His best friend is dating the girls mother. A group of boys plan to blackmail the doctor or expose him as a pedophile.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1963-12-26
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Raskenstam
Overview: The story of the charlatan Gustaf Raskenstam life and times during World War II, who for financial gain seduced a large number of women.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1983-08-19
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The Happy Shoemaker
Overview: Sture and Birgit are secretly engaged. One day when they are kissing, they are discovered by Sture's father Dana. However, he promises not to reveal anything, as Sture would probably lose his job on Birgit's father Hjalle's shipyard. When Hjalle is forced by a usurer to pay back 23,000 on a loan, he gets problem. Dana promises to solve the problem, the question is just how. There is only one person that could help him, his childhood friend Gösta Hägg that nowadays is the director of a big company. But time passes quickly, and where is Mr. Hägg ...?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-09-19
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Regementets ros
Overview: To save intoxicated friend Boman from getting caught, two conscripts lock him up in the local jail and release a prisoner, Ivan Jansson, so that he can pretend to be Boman for a few hours. But when the real Boman is transported to the county jail, switching them back could be difficult.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1950-12-26
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The Brothers Lionheart
Overview: After brothers Jonathan and Crusty pass away, they reunite in Nangijala, the land of eternal spring. Casting a long shadow over their world is the tyrant Tengil, ruler of the country Karmanjaka, where he’s building his new fortress up in the Ancient Mountains.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Family
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1977-09-23
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You're Lying!
Overview: About an alcohol-damaged young man, his life in and out of prison, his friend the art teacher and his difficulties reintegrating into society.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1969-10-26
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Bel Ami
Overview: A young journalist is given the chance to become the publisher of a hardcore sex magazine. To prove himself worthy, he goes out in pursuit of sexy, erotic stories all over the world, and winds up getting involved in sexual misadventures everywhere he goes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-25
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Midvinterduell
Overview: The film depicts a stubborn farmer who refuses to adapt to new rules that require him to leave his milk on the village common milk stool instead of his own.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1983-01-06
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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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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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Trummor i natten
Overview: After the first world war Andreas returns to Berlin to find it in chaos after the fall of the empire. The main battle is between the Spartacists and the Freikorps and Andreas needs to find a place for himself in the conflict for the future of Germany.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1972-05-07
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Pippi Longstocking
Overview: Pippi Longstocking, a super-strong redheaded little girl, moves into her father's cottage Villa Villekulla, and has adventures with her next-door neighbors Tommy and Annika in this compilation film of the classic Swedish TV series. This was followed by Pippi Goes on Board.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1969-05-09
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Swedish and Underage
Overview: A girl of 14 is embarrassing her foster parents. She exposes herself to a homeless and police. It turns out that the girl has had sex with various men in exchange for a little kindness and chocolate. At fornication trial she has to face the city's municipal chief, who also has abused the girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1969-09-07
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A Man with a Maid
Overview: A Victorian aristocrat buys a former madhouse and converts it into a "love nest" to woo and bed Alice, the lovely blonde Minister's daughter he meets in an art gallery.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1975-02-17
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I rök och dans
Overview: Episodic, musical comedy. Povel Ramel company Knäppupp's first film where Martin Ljung plays 16 different roles.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-07-30
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Den yttersta dagen
Overview: Magnus, an old man sleeplessly sneaks around at night in barns and fields at the farm his son Lennart has taken over. Magnus is anxious and impatient facing the next day.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1970-11-15
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Barna från Blåsjöfjället
Overview: A mother is taken to a hospital and the town council wants to split up her children and put them in foster homes, but the children have a diffrent plan. They set out on a epic journey down thru Sweden, from Lappland down to Stockholm in search of their father. They encounter many people on their journey and make new friends while trying too elude the police.
Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1980-11-15
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Living pictures
Overview: A film based on Fritiof Nilsson Piraten's short story "Lefvande bilder" - a story about when the movies came to the author's childhood village.
Genres: History Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Restaurant Intim
Overview: A new realism depiction of life and work in an old restaurant. A social portrayal of exhausted staff and dubious guests.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1950-03-03
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Oidentifierad Porrfilm
Overview: "Unidentified Porn Movie" - Elderly gentleman gets acquainted with a young girl outside a restaurant. She is lost in the city. They take a short walk around the block to an adult movie theatre. The old gentleman buys tickets and brings the girl inside. While they watch the program other men enter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1970-10-21
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Badarna
Overview: It's a hot summer day in Näsviken, a small northern community on the verge of extinction, in structural change Sweden. The summer tourists gives some extra income but ironmonger Berglund can not keep the range of temporary guests require. Bud, whose wife Minni sunk into alcoholism due to her man's lack of interest. Bud consoles himself with a strong, viable woman with uncomplicated erotic habits.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1968-04-05
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We Three Debutantes
Overview: Three young poets are about to make their debuts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-09-07
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Emil and the Piglet
Overview: Nursing a piglet back to life because it's the runt of the litter earns Emil a friend for life.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1973-10-06
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Eva
Overview: Marine Bo Fredriksson is travelling home on a leave. He reminisce about an accident he caused as a 12-year old which killed a young girl, an event that has made him feel revulsion for death. Back home he meets Eva, a girl he fancies and they move together to Stockholm to start a life together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1948-12-26
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Pippi Goes on Board
Overview: Pippi Longstocking lives alone in Villekulla because her mother is an angel in heaven and her father is a pirate king in the Southern Seas. She befriends her next door neighbors, siblings Tommy and Annika, who are swept into Pippi's wild adventures.
Genres: Family
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1969-10-31
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Peas & Whiskers
Overview: Life isn't easy for the indecisive 40-year-old Claes-Henrik. Should he choose his mom or his girlfriend?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1986-02-07
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Summer with Monika
Overview: Monika from Stockholm falls in love with Harry, a young man on holiday. When she becomes pregnant they are forced into a marriage, which begins to fall apart soon after they take up residence in a cramped little flat.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-02-09
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Sverige åt svenskarna
Overview: This farce cocerns Sweden's King Gustav (Per Oscarsson who plays all the lead roles). The royal monarchs of three major European countries are patiently or not-so-patiently hovering on the sidelines while watching the future King Gustav closely. No single king appears to possess the brains he was born with, so history seems to be made by default, as it were. Gustav does blunder around, but not enough to miss being crowned king. As a result, France, England, and Germany invade Sweden hoping to take by force what they could not gain by incompetence.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1980-07-31
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Funny Boy
Overview: Ad man Jonathan Blake gets tired of his work and runs away to a time travel agency for the first flight out.
Genres: Music Romance Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1961-09-23
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Pippi's Christmas
Overview: Pippi prepares for Christmas. She bakes a huge number of gingerbread biscuits. In the big tree outside her house she has hung lots of Christmas presents. At Christmas Eve she sits at her window, looking out in the darkness at all the presents hanging in the tree. She feels lonely and thinks with sadness about having no one to give the presents to.
Genres: Family
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1969-03-29
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The Wedding
Overview: "The Marriage" - Eva and Kent are planning to get married. Their bridal stag parties causes some problems. The wedding reception will serve moonshine since the regular booze is capsized at sea.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1973-10-31
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Idag Röd
Overview: Harry Friberg photographs a mysterious lightning in the water outside the Blockhusudden. The light turns out to flow over a murder.
Genres: Crime Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1987-10-12
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