Åke Fridell
Also Known As: Аке Фриделль, Оке Фриделль
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Gävle, Gävleborgs län, Sweden
Birthday: June 23, 1919
Deathday: August 26, 1985
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Known For:
The Seventh Seal
Overview: When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Block sets off on a journey, meeting up with traveling players Jof and his wife, Mia, and becoming determined to evade Death long enough to commit one redemptive act while he still lives.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-02-16
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Wild Strawberries
Overview: Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. Along the way, they encounter a series of hitchhikers, each of whom causes the elderly doctor to muse upon the pleasures and failures of his own life. These include the vivacious young Sara, a dead ringer for the doctor's own first love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-08-28
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Smiles of a Summer Night
Overview: Early in the 20th century, middle-aged lawyer Fredrik Egerman and his young wife, Anne, have still not consummated their marriage, while Fredrik's son finds himself increasingly attracted to his new stepmother. To make matters worse, Fredrik's old flame Desiree makes a public bet that she can seduce him at a romantic weekend retreat where four couples convene, swapping partners and pairing off in unexpected ways.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-12-26
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Here Is Your Life
Overview: A working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving through a series of jobs and romances that gradually shape his future.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1966-12-26
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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 Magician
Overview: When 'Vogler's Magnetic Health Theater' comes to town, there's bound to be a spectacle. Reading reports of a variety of supernatural disturbances at Vogler's prior performances abroad, the leading townspeople (including the police chief and medical examiner) request that their troupe provide them a sample of their act, before allowing them public audiences. The scientific-minded disbelievers try to expose them as charlatans, but Vogler and his crew prove too clever for them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-12-26
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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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En drömmares vandring
Overview: Portrait of the Swedish poet Dan Andersson (1888-1920). Brought up during poor conditions he finds work as a temperance preacher and educator. Bored by this he travels to Stockholm to try to get his poems published. On the train he meets a rich, sophisticated art patron who encourages him and grinds his literary and philosophical formation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-03-25
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The Lustful Vicar
Overview: During a witch trial in the seventeenth century a woman is accused of being a witch and burned at the stake. The witch curse the village priest who pushed through the accusations and promises that her offspring will avenge her. During the Caroline the priest's son take over as vicar of the congregation, and the daughter of the witch bewitches him so that he suffers constant erection. This is off course very embarrassing for the vicar. The local women has to step in and try to set things right
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1970-03-29
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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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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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The Girl and the Devil
Overview: The soul of an evil witch about to be burned is transferred to the child of a pregnant woman in the audience. 19 years later a timid girl arrives at a farm looking for work. The farmer employs her despite his wife's protests. Soon it stands clear that the girl is in fact the evil witch, returned to wreak havoc on the farmer and his family. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-10-30
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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
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Komedi i Hägerskog
Overview: Narcissa and Elina work in a small town social service office and have various erotic encounters with the people who visit it.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1968-11-25
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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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Only a Mother
Overview: A poor woman in a Swedish farming community struggles to feed her large family and is torn by her passion for two different men.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-10-31
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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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Decimals of Love
Overview: Charlie Gedelius has spent the last years abroad as a golf trainer. In Copenhagen, Denmark, he meets young Lena, who happens to be his brother-in-law's mistress. He goes back to Sweden to meet his sister Astrid. Her son Staffan has borrowed money from a money-lender to pay for an abortion for a girl he has met.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1960-09-12
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Haren och vråken
Overview: The dying Swedish King Gustav III sends for the troubadour Carl Michael Bellman for a performance. Bellman is far from capable of appearing at all when a courtier comes to pick him up. But slowly his imagination begins to flow, and he begins to write down a new play. The question is whether it will be ready in time.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1984-04-18
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En stormträta
Overview: Drifter Pickles one day turns up at the upper class home of Skarpneck and gets involved in his life.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-12-05
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Wide Open
Overview: A philandering cab driver decides to help his girlfriend's attractive sister, who is in trouble with drug dealers.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1974-12-18
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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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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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Pärlemor
Overview: Set in th 1930's depression times. A wealthy industrialist suffers a stroke. His wife takes over both family and business. The son worships his mother, but is forced to choose sides when he falls in love with the poor Aina.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1961-10-05
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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
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Cupid on the Phone
Overview: During a train journey, Carolus, master of literature, meets the charming Italian Enrico. The two men discuss eroticism, and it ends with a bet: In a few days in Copenhagen, Enrico will seduce four women. Coincidentally - and unfortunately, Carolus' wife is the first Enrico to date.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1957-12-16
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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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Just Once More
Overview: 16 -year-old Mari has just been released from a juvenile detention school after one year of treatment. To prevent her from making contact with her old gang, she is sent to Skåne in southern Sweden, where she will work in a dairy shop. She doesn't like being there so she decides to run away and hitchhike her way up to Stockholm. She makes contact with her old gang but realizes that she's not welcome anymore and her boyfriend has even hooked up with a new girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1962-08-27
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Krigsmans erinran
Overview: Jocke gets leave from the military to travel home to get married.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-08-15
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Jag är med eder...
Overview: Together with his wife Carin and their little son Lasse, Helge Tellberg is in the position of leaving Sweden to become a missionary in Rhodesia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1948-01-05
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Skorpan
Overview: Skorpan acts in a pick pocket show at the local amusement park.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-12-19
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Ursula - Flickan i Finnskogarna
Overview: Ursula is the only daughter of a rich landowner high in Sweden. At 20 her father dies and she becomes reluctant heiress to huge property. Ursula is emotionally torn between a young handsome forester and farmer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-03-02
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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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Klockan på Rönneberga
Overview: Rönneberga is an old family manor. When Lennart Heijken is born, his proud father buys his newborn a grandfather's clock that will follow him through his life and see him become a student, an officer, a married man, and eventually an old man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-03-13
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Rabies
Overview: A relay race of "scenes from human life". Depicts the human characters inferior traits are spreading like a disease: the person who gets rejected / humiliated / oppressed takes it out on someone else.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-11-07
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Miss Julie
Overview: Based on the play by August Strindberg, Miss Julie vividly depicts the battle of the sexes and classes that ensues when Julie, a wealthy businessman's daughter, falls for Jean, her father's bitter servant.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1951-06-28
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The Talking Thread
Overview: A film sketch about sound recording.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1951-01-01
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Jack of Hearts
Overview: Lieutenant Anders Canitz is a womanizer and gambler from the upper class. He has spent all of heritage and tries to get to his sister's money by engaging her to invest in a shady business project he is involved in.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1950-09-18
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Rasmus and the Vagabond
Overview: Rasmus escapes from the orphanage to find parents for himself. He teams up with a hobo and together they experience a series of adventures while looking for a home for Rasmus .
Genres: Family
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-12-03
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Pang i bygget
Overview: Merchant Valentin Skog runs the small town's grocery shop and folk park with little revenue but a lot of heart. But the no-good profiteers brothers Grym has their eyes on his business, and will use any means. The dirtier the better! But they haven't counted on "The Doll"- a fresh breeze from the big city - or rather storm wind - who blows life in the struggle against the crooks.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1965-12-13
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Sadist
Overview: The plot revolves around a sadistic doctor, a macabre gravedigger, an innocent girl, sabotage, sex and violent death. The beautiful Vivi Sander is living a rough life and is deeply in debt. She tries to force her family to sell the house to make ends meet. Vivi's car crash after a sabotage. She is injured and brought to a medical center where she meets the perverted Dr. Wester.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1966-06-27
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Badjävlar
Overview: Holidays on the swedish east coast. Invading summer guests collide with the locals, all without inhibitions. The formerly so radical Social Democratic municipal councilor has completely lost his visions and fully accepts that the area is transformed into a tourist resort for the rich.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1971-04-28
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The lift that went down into hell
Overview: A loving couple on an escapade, ending in a hotel room in the underworld. When the floor waiter shows up, the woman feel she has seen him before. And suddenly she discovers who he is.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1969-02-09
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Det är nu livet börjar
Overview: A TV drama about an old man who doesn't want to retire.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1976-01-26
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När ängarna blommar
Overview: The farm workers at Näs Farm, lead by Hellman, go on strike, demanding that their employer recognize their labor union. But he calls on strike-breakers to perform the farm work. Hellman's son Gunnar is a hothead who easily gets in trouble.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-11-11
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Två trappor över gården
Overview: The rootless, misfit artist Bengt Hallberg escapes from a mental hospital. The head doctor believes him to be a hopeless case and dangerous for the environment. Bengt looks up Inga Larsson, the only person that matters to him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1950-02-06
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Malin Goes Home
Overview: Old lady Malin Klintbom is being promised a cosy and comfortably life at the residential home she is invited to visit. However, she finds the home impossible to live at and flies in panic to her cabin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-10-14
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Den tragiska historien om Hamlet - Prins av Danmark
Overview: Prince Hamlet is the son of the late king. He hears from a ghost that the current king, Claudius, has murdered his father. Hamlet is unsure if this is true. He test the king by pretending to be insane and put on a show where the murder is reconstructed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1985-01-07
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Kvinnan som försvann
Overview: In England, a famous jewel collection is stolen. The police suspect that the jewels have been smuggled to Sweden, and in Stockholm, the young insurance detective Peter Holmer is commissioned to trace the stolen jewels. The tracks first lead Peter to a certain ballet master Lando, but when he comes to Lando's flat, he finds him murdered. Before the police were summoned, Peter saw a young lady smearing from the floor. He tries to catch her, but when he gets down the street she disappears in a taxi..
Genres: Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-03-24
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Mig og dig
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1969-02-17
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Kameleonterna
Overview: Set in the world of the Swedish culture establishment, this is a psychotic thriller where morbid visions, depraved sexuality, and violence come together in perfect proportions.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1969-12-13
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Mordvapen till salu
Overview: A man witness an automobile accident. He takes care of one of the survivors. They suspect that something was wrong with the car and track it to a dubious salesman.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1963-10-28
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A Ship to India
Overview: Sailor Johannes Blom returns to his home port, after seven years at sea, to find that Sally, the girl he has been thinking of while away, is completely despondent. Seven years earlier, obstreperous Alexander Blom, brings his mistress Sally to live with him, his wife Alice, son Johannes, and crew, aboard the salvage boat he captains. Amidst all the tensions on the small boat, Johannes and Sally fall in love with each other.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-09-22
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Number 17
Overview: The sailor Calle Svensson gets a tip on a cheap hotel from a stranger. But Calle walks to the wrong house. And finds a dead man in the bed, stolen passports and signs of trafficking in a cupboard.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-12-26
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Christopher's Christmas Mission
Overview: "Christopher's Christmas Mission"- A tale about a boy who steals Christmas gifts from the wealthy to give to the poor people of Stockholm, while working in a post office on Christmas Eve.
Genres: Animation Family TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1975-12-24
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Wonderful Adventures of Nils
Overview: A film adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf's classic book about Nils Holgersson, who is a real rascal. As punishment for his mischief, a house elf shrinks him to his size. The farm animals are out for revenge and so Nils must escape on the back of a goose from Skåne in the south to Lapland in the north. During his flight over Sweden, Nils gets to take part in many adventures.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1962-09-12
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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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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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The Emigrants
Overview: Karl and Kristina Nilsson work on a farm in a cold and desolate area of 19th century rural Sweden. Growing privations, combined with increasing social and religious persecution, motivate the Nilssons and many of their neighbors to strike out for the United States. Following a treacherous ocean crossing and an equally grueling land passage, the emigrants find themselves in seemingly idyllic Minnesota.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1971-03-08
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Av hjärtans lust
Overview: The Baron of Qvinnevad Castle has financial problems and is forced to show the estate to tourists. The baron finds out that an unknown person is trying to acquire the castle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1960-08-29
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It Rains on Our Love
Overview: Maggi meets David after having missed her train, and they spend the night together. Penniless, the young lovers break into a summer cottage. The owner, Håkansson, offers to rent it to them, but he has an ulterior motive. By living together, they have to face their pasts and deal with the meddling neighbors and authorities.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-11-09
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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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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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Sjösalavår
Overview: The Troubadour sits at a rock beside his summerhouse Sjösala in the Stockholm archipelago. He is composing a new ballad, when his son Sven Bertil interrupts him, telling him that an angry man is knocking at their door. It is the creditor Andersson, coming with a new unpaid bill to be put on the top of all the other. The Troubadour is tired of all economical problems. It disturbs the peace he needs to be able to write new songs, and without new songs he cannot earn the money he needs to pay the bills. To get peace and inspiration for his writing, he makes a quick decision to go to Buenos Aires. By phone he persuades his publisher to prepay 7000 kronor for some future book. On the little ferry from the islands in the sea to Stockholm city the Troubadour is carried away by his imagination into the fictitious world of his main character Fritiof Andersson. Colorful scenes from various songs are enacted before his dreaming eyes. In Stockholm he spends the night at the inn Gyldene Freden. ...
Genres: Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-09-05
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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
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Starkare än lagen
Overview: About the farming mountain settlers in 1870s Sweden. The young Helge has been accused of manslaughter and has to fight for his life to survive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1951-10-15
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Barabbas
Overview: The story about the thief who didn't get crucified because Jesus was choosen to take his place.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-05-05
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Dreamboy
Overview: Ante Nordlund is on his way to Stockholm and gets a ride with a diplomat in his car. He leaves Ante at the entrance of Grand Hôtel where he gets treated like a millionaire.
Genres: Family
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1964-10-12
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A Goat in the Garden
Overview: The wild Jon Esping bets that he will become a churchwarden. He, the upstart and the illiterate who can only write his name, a fox in business, a stud among women and a brute in general, wins the bet.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-02-17
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Prison
Overview: A movie director is approached by his old math teacher with a great movie idea: the Devil declares that the Earth is hell. The director rejects the idea, but subsequent events in the life of a writer, a friend of the director's, and a young prostitute he loves seem to prove the math teacher's idea.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-03-19
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Sawdust and Tinsel
Overview: The complicated relationships between a circus ringmaster, his estranged wife and his lover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-09-14
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