Ragnar Arvedson
Also Known As: Ragnar Arfvedson, Ragnar Arwedson, Рагнар Арведсон
Biography: Ragnar Arved Arvedson, (4 December 1895 – 2 October 1973) was a Swedish actor, director, writer and producer.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Linköping, Östergötlands län, Sweden
Adult: No
Birthday: December 04, 1895
Age: 129 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: October 02, 1973
Popularity:
Known For:
The fleet's little fiancee
Overview: The Swedish Navy is coming to Stockholm and Lieutenant Gunnar and Sailor Kalle are on leave in the archipelago.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1930-10-27
Popularity:
Knights of the Crown
Overview: Conscript Fridolf and his sergeant, Göransson, both try to win the love of sweet Mary. According to an older relative's last will, she will inherit a fortune if she marries the unfortunate Dick Carter. A con man comes to the little town, claiming to be the legitimate Carter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1930-12-01
Popularity:
The Devil's Eye
Overview: The devil has a stye in his eye, caused by the purity of a vicar's daughter. To get rid of it, he sends Don Juan up from hell to seduce the 20 year old Britt-Marie and to rob her of her virginity and her belief in love. She however can resist him and things get even turned around when Don Juan falls in love with her. The fact that he feels love for the first time now, makes him even less attractive to her and Don Juan returns to hell.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1960-10-17
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
The Banquet
Overview: As his 60th birthday approaches, Jacob grows concerned that none of his sons is capable of running his company.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1948-12-18
Popularity:
Lita på mej, älskling!
Overview: Anna and Karl are a young couple in Stockholm, unable to find an apartment of their own. However, they play matchmakers to make their friends Fredrik and Ulla to get together, getting an apartment of their own that way. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1961-12-18
Popularity:
Supper for Two
Overview: Louise Mareuil owns a perfume factory on the French Riviera. She is in a traffic accident with a sketch artist, Claude Dubois. She gives him a blank check which he soon use to withdraw 2 000 000 franc as a joke. Visiting her office, he returns the money and in return she hires him as a sketch artist for the company's advertisement. With his charm and wit he turns the factory upside down, to the chagrin of Louise. She is strict and orderly but soon after letting him go she begins to change her mind. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-02-15
Popularity:
The Delicious Seafood
Overview: After a visit to the opera, Mr. Vinner invites his wife to supper at home. She gets the urge to eat crayfish. Despite it being late at night, Mr. Vinner sets out to try to satisfy her whim.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1920-10-18
Popularity:
Night Games
Overview: A man on the verge of marriage is haunted by traumatic memories from his childhood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1966-09-12
Popularity:
Gatan
Overview: Britt Malm gets hit by a car on a Stockholm street and is taken to hospital. She is badly injured and must undergo surgery. While the anesthetic takes effect she sees hallucinatory images. This turns into a flashback of what happened Britt before the accident.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-02-27
Popularity:
On a Bench in a Park
Overview: Sam Persson is released from a mental hospital. He goes to Stockholm to meet a man he hates, theater manager Stig Brender. In Brender's office they get into a fight...
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1960-12-19
Popularity:
Sin
Overview: A married writer's luck turns when he gets a play produced at Théâtre de Paris. He meets the femme fatale who should play the lead in his play. Passion and conflict occurs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1928-09-16
Popularity:
The Gyurkovics Boys
Overview: Mr. and Mrs. Gyurkovics have a dozen children the oldest of which, the twins Géza and Bandi, just preparing for their matriculation examination. When graduation day has come Géza refuses to set up but taken by force by the principal's henchmen. When dad Gyurkovics later dies, takes over Bandi goods while Géza becoming an officer cadet in the nearby garrison city.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1920-12-26
Popularity:
Resa i natten
Overview: Gösta is a lorry driver and has been married to Birgitta for eight years. Their marriage is only held together by their daughter. Gösta picks up girls along the roads and during a drive to Malmö he stumbles on the singing actress Irene. Gösta is captivated by her romantic presence and her joy of life. Besides picking up women, Gösta is sometimes affected by sudden seizures. His wife is unaware of this.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-01-30
Popularity:
Elvira Madigan
Overview: The tragic love story between a line dancer and an army officer.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-02-19
Popularity:
Under svällande segel
Overview: The student Olle has signed up to sail the Atlantic. But his sensitivity and personal problems make it difficult to be accepted on board. When some of the students belongings disappear the suspicions are aimed at Olle.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1952-03-03
Popularity:
Göingehövdingen
Overview: When the Swedish army occupies the eastern part of Denmark in 1678, the local inhabitants decide to fight back. Under the leadership of Svend Poulsen, a guerrilla is formed. And guerrilla officer Lars Paulinus has to fight the Swedish officer Henrik Wrede to prove his love for Anna Ryding.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-12-26
Popularity:
You Are My Adventure
Overview: Two journalists marry but the husband grows unhappy when he is left to take care of their child and she focuses on her career.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-03-24
Popularity:
Swedish Portraits
Overview: The unemployed Timjan discover Mejram singing and instantly fall in love with her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1964-09-07
Popularity:
Farornas paradis
Overview: A hotel in Surabaya, Java has some features of a brothel. Anita plays in a women's orchestra is exposed to the bandleaders invites. The owner of the hotel wants Anita to attract customers. They two become rivals over Anita.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1931-10-03
Popularity:
His English Wife
Overview: London socialite Cathleen Paget's adventures in love and misfortune a year after the death of her husband. Ivor Willington and Lionel Jesop play cards for who will be given the shot at flirting with Paget, as to claim her wealth. But when her brother Bruce has lost the family fortune in bad business, Cathleen is suggested to court Nordic giant Birger Holm. The two marry and the families financial problems seem to be at bay, although the life in the northern Sweden is wearing Cathleen down as she misses parties, friends and dancing at the Savoy Hotel.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1927-01-17
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
Young Summer
Overview: Helge Lysvik is a farmers son. He dreams of a future as a musician.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-09-27
Popularity:
Lyckliga Vestköping
Overview: When the mine is closing down in the small community of Vestköping the town bank is also in danger. Sudden news of the return of one of the town's inhabitants who had emigrated to the USA and is said to be very wealthy improves spirits of everyone.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1937-08-20
Popularity:
Hennes lilla majestät
Overview: Catherine defies her strict father and accompanies a traveling theater company. Her father picks up the daughter and as a punishment he sends her to a priest farm in the countryside.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1925-09-07
Popularity:
Bomben
Overview: Ture believes he has killed an elderly man after his birthday party.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1920-02-09
Popularity:
Youth
Overview: Lisa, Pontus and Herman has formed a small artists’ collective in Stockholm. The successes are rare and occasionally this sets off an irritated mood.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1927-08-22
Popularity:
Thomas Graals myndling
Overview: Paul is a student does not devote to much time for studies. He enjoys the pleasures of life. Babette is a girl who dreams about a life in luxury. Paul falls in love with Babette.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1922-10-09
Popularity:
Andersson, Pettersson och Lundström
Overview: Andersson, Pettersson and Lundström goes out for a long walk with Stockholm as a goal. On the way they buy a lottery ticket and wins a lot of money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1923-09-01
Popularity:
The Lady of the Camellias
Overview: Alexandre Dumas' tragic love story between Marguerite Gautier and Armand Duval.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1925-10-12
Popularity:
Skorpan
Overview: Skorpan acts in a pick pocket show at the local amusement park.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-12-19
Popularity:
His Majesty must wait
Overview: New Year's Eve in Stockholm. Carl Johan Stjärna is a poor aristocrat who has to borrow money from his manservant Frans to a be able to enjoy a proper celebration.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1931-03-16
Popularity:
Flicka med melodi
Overview: The sisters Britta and Ellinor live with their grandfather, music professor Libergius, teacher and leader of the city's orchestra association. In the city there is also a youthful jazz band - to the professor's horror.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-08-16
Popularity:
Flicka i kasern
Overview: They are currently developing a new type of mine at Fredrik's workplace. The head of the company is a young woman, Eva Seman.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-12-26
Popularity:
Farmors revolution
Overview: General Consul Kristina Holm has a good relationship with her three grandchildren because they really like her, but also for the annual "traditional" financial contribution they receive.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1933-09-13
Popularity:
Hin och smålänningen
Overview: Gunnar works at a rail road in the woods and blasts a large boulder. Out of the ashes comes Satan himself - with cloven hoofs and a big mean grin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1927-11-14
Popularity:
Den underbara lögnen
Overview: The night before her wedding, a nervous bride examines her gifts and picks out a book of romantic short stories. Hoping to while away the evening, she settles on the couch and begins reading "La grande Bretêche" by Honoré de Balzac.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-11-25
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
Swedish Portraits
Overview: The unemployed Timjan discover Mejram singing and instantly fall in love with her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1964-09-07
Popularity:
Divorced
Overview: Gertrud is being abandoned by her husband after 20 years of marriage. Offended and unhappy she leaves her home and rents a room. The landlady's son is drawn to her and tries to help her out of the loneliness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1951-12-26
Popularity:
Far till sol och vår
Overview: Martin Wide inherits a bus from his dying grandfather. He restores it from being a hen house into a tourist bus. He puts an ad in the newspaper about "travels to the sun" and also advertises for a stewardess at the same time. The female reporter Vera Boman signs up for the job, in order to expose the "tourist travel hoax". The two, together with passengers of various kinds set off from a snowy Sweden towards Paris. During the trip, Vera starts to realize that Martin is not a "tourist cheater" but a kind and thoughtful travel arranger, who tries to tend to all his passengers as best as he can, even when the situations become difficult to handle. In addition, a famous Swedish diamond has just been stolen and it turns out that both the thieves and the private detectives who are after them, are passengers on the bus.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-10-28
Popularity:
Carolina Rediviva
Overview: 'Pojken' (The Boy) has been a student in Uppsala for many, many years. Many years ago he found a baby girl outside the fraternity house during a party. 'Pojken' made sure that the girl could grow up in the countryside and has ever since sent money to the foster mother. However, the girl, Carolina, has moved back to Uppsala. She now lives with her real mother who has married the nutty professor Hambreus. Carolina does not know anything about 'Pojken' or the money he has sent. But now he has decided to reveal the truth for her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1920-12-13
Popularity:
The Master Detective Lives Dangerously
Overview: When Eva-Lotta climbs the roof of moneylender Gren's house. Through a window she overhears a turbulent conversation about an IOU. A few days later she finds Gren dead.
Genres: Family Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-12-07
Popularity:
In the Arms of Roslagen
Overview: Based on Evert Taube songs about the sailor and womanizer Fritiof Andersson. Midsummer in the archipelago of Roslagen. Andersson has returned home to settle down with his fiancee Linnea. On the dance floor he meets Rosa.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-08-20
Popularity:
A Maid among Maids
Overview: Alice is engaged with Sven. She is interested in having fun and dancing, preferably with Faustino della Novarro. Sven gets upset by her behavior. They break the engagement. Alice finds work as a maid on a farm.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1924-03-31
Popularity:
Stora Hoparegränd och himmelriket
Overview: Erik, a poor inventor meets the clerk Lillemor and fall in love. Erik's becomes invention is ready for the market. He contacts a director who might be interested. Erik is attracted almost immediately by the director's wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-12-26
Popularity:
For Her Sake
Overview: The young married couple Sigvard and Isabella Löfgren are constantly being sought by different companies where they are trading on the bill. Sigvard is a traveling salesman and Isabella works as a secretary at a theatre agency seeking artists for a revue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1930-08-11
Popularity:
Bröllopsresan
Overview: Director Björkman travels to Copenhagen with his daughter Astrid, who is together with a certain Count Erik Lejonsköld. They will take their father-in-law's car and go on a honeymoon to the Riviera. But "Count" gets a telegram from London calling him to a business meeting. Dad Björkman and the daughter decide to go to the Riviera while the suitor must come later. The real Count Erik Lejonsköld comes home to his office in Stockholm and is congratulated on the wedding by his staff. But he did not get married at all, it was a scammer instead of Henry. Erik searches the newspaper notice his wedding announced in Copenhagen and sees a chance to expose the imposter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1936-04-23
Popularity:
Live Your Life Smiling
Overview: Sitcom for 1920s cinemas about the Winter family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1921-02-21
Popularity:
Hon, den enda
Overview: Love entanglements among the upper class of Paris. The young upper-class Parisian Valentin van Zanten has a luxurious lunch-density dinner with the flirtatious Inez Maria, when the "friend" shows up and interferes with his own and successful pre-man manners.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1926-11-08
Popularity:
His English Wife
Overview: London socialite Cathleen Paget's adventures in love and misfortune a year after the death of her husband. Ivor Willington and Lionel Jesop play cards for who will be given the shot at flirting with Paget, as to claim her wealth. But when her brother Bruce has lost the family fortune in bad business, Cathleen is suggested to court Nordic giant Birger Holm. The two marry and the families financial problems seem to be at bay, although the life in the northern Sweden is wearing Cathleen down as she misses parties, friends and dancing at the Savoy Hotel.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1927-01-17
Popularity:
Giftas
Overview: The General's daughter, Helene, grows up in a safe world. She doesn't want to get married or have kids. She meets a man who talks about platonic love which seems to fit her nice. They get married but when he wants to get more intimate with her she rejects him. August Strindberg's short story "Mot betalning" from the collection "Giftas 2".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-09-19
Popularity:
A Perfect Gentleman
Overview: Social comedy-drama. Aristocrat's boredom in marriage of convenience and sacrif ice of self on behalf of wife's lover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1927-12-27
Popularity:
Parisiennes
Overview: A house in Paris happens to have two families living there with the same last name. In one apartment lives opera singer Gambetta Duval with his two daughters, Jeanne and Nita. In the second apartment lives old lady Duval with her grandchild Philippa and an her lodger, the physician Leon Monnier. Jeanne is secretly in love with Dr. Monnier who is secretly in love with Nita, who is secretly having an affair with the great playwright Armand de Marny.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1928-01-23
Popularity:
A Dream Play
Overview: "A dream play" - This made-for-television film constituted Bergman’s first production of Strindberg’s A Dream Play – a play he would revisit three times more. Gunnar Ollén’s Malmö crew was behind this, for its time, prestigious and costly theatre production, involving more than 40 actors and no less than 75 extras.
Genres: Drama Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1963-05-02
Popularity:
The Secret of Hotel Paradise
Overview: The innkeeper Schultze and his wife are broke and don't know how to pay their rent when a shipwrecked sailor shows up with a chest full of money. In despair the Schultze couple murders the sailor.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1931-10-20
Popularity:
Mr. Ernest
Overview: Mr. Worthing and Mr. Moncrieff both use the pseudonym Ernest, leading to a lot of misunderstandings.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1961-09-01
Popularity: