Ingrid Backlin
Also Known As: Ingrid Michaelsson
Biography: Ingrid Backlin, née Michaelsson, was a Swedish stage and screen actress.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
Adult: No
Birthday: May 16, 1920
Age: 105 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: February 24, 2013
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Pappa är död
Overview: Jan-Olof has an unresolved relationship with his father, and during the days leading up to the funeral, he tries to find out who the father really was. The practical arrangements for a funeral are often of a tragicomic nature.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1982-09-13
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The Girl from the Third Row
Overview: A ring passes between a lot of different people, giving the bearer or someone close a new meaning to life. Actors, embezzlers, old ladies and cheated husbands all seem to gain temporary hope from misery and disillusionment.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-08-29
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Siska
Overview: A young woman struggles with life, love and career. She is courted by a young man but is unwilling to enter into a relationship if it means limiting her freedom.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1962-12-26
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100 dragspel och en flicka
Overview: Two inventors, Ville and Rulle have developed a revolutionary new accordion; however, they have competition. Twelve-year-old Pelle Borell gets to show off the instrument in front of the Swedish accordion elite in Stockholm.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-01-31
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Fridolfs farliga ålder
Overview: Selma and her friend Agatha are watching a movie on TV. Agatha starts to talk about older men and their dangerous age, but Selma can't image that her husband Fridolf is among those.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1959-09-28
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När syrenerna blomma
Overview: The 1880s. Abandoned by his middle class parents in Stockholm, Johannes grows up in the countryside with a cobbler who regularly beats him up. Also at school he has to face regular beatings because of his Stockholm background, the only one who cares for him is a girl, Lotta, who promises to marry him one day. When he's 20 he moves to Stockholm and joins the Royal guards at the Royal palace. Quite by accident he meets Lotta again and start an affair with her. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1952-02-04
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Flames in the Dark
Overview: Latin teacher Birger Sjögren at Ringsala boarding school threatens his possesive and chronically ill mother that he will get married. She gets a stroke and dies. Sjögren is affected by feelings of guilt, envy and hatred towards the surroundings. A series of mysterious fires have taken place around the school the last few months. One of the students has seen Sjögren setting fire to a barn. But can he convince the trusted biology teacher Nordmark, expert of the criminal mind?
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-03-02
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The Nuthouse
Overview: In Stockholm in the year 2248 an excavation leads to the discovery of 45,000 meters of film from the 1940's master director Hasse Ekman . The material is in a disarray but the Society for Ancient Film Research compiles the material after what is believed to have been the master's artistic intentions
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1951-09-21
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Love Is Not a Game
Overview: When stewardess Lillemor falls in love with her jazz ballet teacher Robert, a black American man, relatives and friends take offense at their relationship.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1971-09-03
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Children of the Night
Overview: A man meets prisoner Nils Gustaf Boman and asks him why he strayed from the straight and narrow. The prisoner says: "Put yourself in my position." The man does and sees before him himself as Nils Gustaf Boman.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-08-26
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Nightmare
Overview: A woman is driving alone one evening, when she almost run over a man lying in the road. She gets out of the car to see. Suddenly the man attacks her. Eva Jansson's dead body is found by a local farmer, who calls the police. Soon after fashion designer Maj Berg comes driving the same road and is stopped by the police. When the road is cleared for traffic Mrs. Berg drives on but happens to get a flat tire. While changing to the spare wheel, she finds a black notebook in the ditch. Back in Stockholm she opens the notebook and finds a strange jotting that concerns her.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1965-12-20
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Livet på landet
Overview: Greve Axel Von Rambow owns the Poppelhagen estate. One day an inspector comes to see him and a big quarrel starts.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-11-29
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Kalle Karlsson från Jularbo
Overview: Biographical account of Kalle Jularbo, a famous Swedish accordion-player.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1952-10-13
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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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Stopp! Tänk på något annat
Overview: Karsten falls in love with Sonja, she rejects him, but not because of lack of interest. She travels to France and he goes after her. They get to know each other and become close.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-10-26
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Änkeman Jarl
Overview: Jarl is a retired widower who lives in a small village in Småland, Sweden.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-08-27
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En äventyrare
Overview: A free fantasy about the Swedish poet and adventurer Lars Wivallius.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-09-11
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A Singing Girl
Overview: A girl (Alice Babs) from the country moves to Stockholm to become a singer.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-03-09
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Onda ögon
Overview: Per Jonas wife Hedvig is ill and Barbro has been employed to care for her. Per Jonas falls in love with Barbro and in order to live with her, he kills Hedvig.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-02-03
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The Sixth Commandment
Overview: Jane and Karl have been married for many years. Jane feels trapped in their marriage and takes a lover. She is caught by her daughter Kerstin and forced to leave family and home.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-09-27
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Gno mindre, hinn mer
Overview: Propaganda for more rational domestic work.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1950-01-01
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Snapphanar
Overview: In an occupied country, the people rise to throw off the occupants. This includes Jens the farmer and his three sons who successfully perform sneak attacks on the invading army.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1941-12-26
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Stiliga Augusta
Overview: The maid quits at the Sommer family household and because no one in the family can cook they desperately needs a new maid. The son in the family, Åke, is a famous actor at the theater and when the up and coming actress Marianne (who also has a crush on the famous Åke) hears about the Sommers needing a new maid, she seizes the opportunity and goes undercover as a maid to get closer to Åke and the big roles in the theater.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-11-04
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Eviga länkar
Overview: Hilda Granström runs a ladies' tailoring shop. Her husband Richard is a cellist in the Opera Orchestra. Their three daughters help out in Hilda's shop. Richard's 80-year-old mother, who once was a dancer, also lives with the family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-12-04
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You Who Are About to Enter
Overview: Tomas Eckert, a civil servant, is subjected to a violated woman's revenge. It happens to be his boss's wife, Märta Palm. Tomas is accused of having abused Mrs.Palm. She also reveals that Tomas's wife is morphine addict. He collapses and is forced to accept early retirement, diagnosed "epilepsy with mental changes"
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-11-02
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Fallet Ingegerd Bremssen
Overview: "The Ingegerd Bremssen Case" - The young nurse Ingegerd Bremssen walks on a lonely road in the woods and gets attacked by a man. He rapes her and disappears. A passing car picks up Ingegerd and drives her to a mental hospital, where she is taken care of. But she has suffered a severe shock and considers her life completely ruined.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-03-11
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Det sista äventyret
Overview: An officers kadett is dismissed because of his strange behavior. At work he is considered deranged. At home he is dominated by his mother and fiancee. He manages to get a temporary job as a biology teacher, leave home and rent a room. He begins to flirt with a student.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1974-10-24
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Spöke på semester
Overview: "Ghost on Holiday" - Stockholm 1950 is experiencing a gold rush, after the discovery of gold during the building of the new underground. Assistant Borgkrona (Järrell) owns a plot in the gold area. The lawyer Målbrott informs Borgkrona that he has inherited a haunted castle and must stay there for a fortnight. However, once at the castle he meets his old relative who is a ghost (Järrell) and the two trade places
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1951-09-02
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Snurriga familjen
Overview: Manager Blom and his family stop at a mountain hotel. Once there, all family members are insolent and even cruel to both guests and staff. When the hotel manager tries to get rid of the family Manager Blom buys the hotel. But all of the staff resigns while a telegram to the family Blom tells them they are ruined! To raise money the family begins to work on and operate the hotel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1940-08-18
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One-Week Bachelors
Overview: Gary's wife goes away for a week and Gary expects a week of hard work at the office. After having left her at the airport, he misses the bus. But the car mechanic Lasse gives him a ride. Although they are unlike each other, they get to know each other. Gary makes a mess of everything and can't avoid Lasse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1982-12-16
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Incorrigible
Overview: Olga Sundbom is divorced and has custody of her spoiled son Krister. The lack of upbringing has made Krister an intolerable petty gangster. He is therefore put in a boarding school in a smaller town, and his getting in is due to a scam he himself is responsible for. Soon he turns the little idyll upside down.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-09-30
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Poker
Overview: Sven Bergström is charged with murder, alternatively a man slaughter, on an infamous professional poker player called "The Rover". The trial is in progress. In retrospect, we witness Svens life until the time of the crime.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1951-11-12
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