Birger Malmsten
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Biography: Birger Malmsten was born on December 23, 1920 in Gräsö, Uppsala län, Sweden. He was an actor, known for A Ship to India (1947), It Rains on Our Love (1946) and Eva (1948). He was previously married to Haide Göransson. He died on February 15, 1991 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Gräsö, Uppsala län, Sweden
Birthday: December 24, 1920
Deathday: February 15, 1991
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Count Only the Happy Moments
Overview: The old Victor Branzell has a grandson, Alf, who is in love with a clerk in a glove shop, Lilian Lind. But Lilian with her simple background doesn't get accepted in the circles where Alf belongs, and they have now reached the conclusion that they can't have a future together. Marriage is impossible. Victor summons Lilian and Alf and starts telling them his life story.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-08-08
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The Silence
Overview: Traveling through an unnamed European country on the brink of war, sickly, intellectual Ester, her sister Anna and Anna's young son, Johan, check into a near-empty hotel. A basic inability to communicate among the three seems only to worsen during their stay. Anna provokes her sister by enjoying a dalliance with a local man, while the boy, left to himself, has a series of enigmatic encounters that heighten the growing air of isolation.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1963-09-23
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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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Face to Face
Overview: Dr. Jenny Isaksson is a psychiatrist whose temporary position at a mental hospital offers only modest responsibilities. With her husband out of the country for a seminar and her daughter at camp, Jenny moves in with her grandparents, expecting a relaxing few months. But it isn't long before unpleasant memories of her childhood, the sudden appearance of strange apparitions, and a near-rape push this otherwise stable woman to the very edge of sanity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1976-04-05
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The Jönsson Gang Gets Gold Fever
Overview: Sickan has a new plan. This time, the gang are going to steal a small computer micro chip which contains a top secret plan of what the government intends to do with Sweden in the future. But, Wall-Enberg is also planning to steal the chip. The payment will be 55 million Swedish crowns in gold and diamonds to whoever can deliver the chip to the foreign investors. Who will grab hold of the chip, the Jönsson gang or Wall-Enberg?
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1984-10-19
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Ann and Eve
Overview: The story concerns the Yugoslavian holiday of two toothsome Swedish girls. One of the girls, played by Maria Liljedahl, is (metaphorically speaking) a world-champion in the promiscuity sweepstakes, bedding men (and women) in great profusion. Somehow, the movie also manages to be about film reviewers and film directors. Variety) commented '...the film's inherently good visual and physical qualities are themselves dissipated in [the director's] cynicism, ennui, and involuted intellectual mirror tricks.'
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1970-08-03
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Summer Interlude
Overview: A jaded prima ballerina reminisces about her first love affair after she is unexpectedly sent her lover's old diary.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1951-10-01
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To Joy
Overview: After learning that his wife has been killed in an accident, a violinist looks back on their relationship.
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1950-02-20
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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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Music in Darkness
Overview: Because of an accident at a military drill the recruit Bengt loses his eyesight and becomes blind. He gets to live with relatives in the countryside and meets the young Ingrid. She falls in love with him but Bengt's bitterness also makes him blind to her attentions.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1948-01-17
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Torment
Overview: Jan-Erik Widgren meets the lonely Bertha Olsson, a woman struggling with alcoholism. Though Bertha is already linked to Caligula, Jan-Erik's heartless teacher, she begins a relationship with the boy anyway. When Caligula learns that Jan-Erik is having an affair with Bertha, he begins to torture his student psychologically. He reserves his cruelest behavior for Bertha, however, which results in a tragic turn of events.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-10-02
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Thirst
Overview: A needy couple in a bad marriage travel back to Stockholm after a trip to Italy. Meanwhile, a widow resists seductions from two different persons - her psychiatrist and a lesbian friend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-10-17
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Gabrielle
Overview: While Bertil Lindström works at the Swedish embassy in Paris, his wife Gabrielle spends the summer alone in Sweden. After a phone call to her, he starts to think of all the things she can possibly be doing separated from him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-12-26
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Waiting Women
Overview: Rakel, Marta, Karin and Annette are married to four brothers. While waiting in a summer cottage for their husbands to come home, they tell each other stories about their marriages. Rakel tells about the time she had an affair and confronted her husband with it. Marta's story is about how she at first refused to marry and had her child by herself. Karin tells about what happened when one time she and her husband got stuck in an elevator together. While the women tell their stories, Marta's younger sister Maj is planning to elope.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1952-11-03
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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
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Moon Over Hellesta
Overview: Margareta, newly engaged with count Carl Anckarberg, visits his estate for the first time. During the visit she gets to know that his last fiancee died in a mysterious accident and she sets out to discover what really happened. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-11-24
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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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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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Changing Trains
Overview: Inga, an unemployed actress meets a sweetheart Kim, from days long gone at a train station. Over coffee they reminisce about their romance and how Inga left Kim for a moderately successful acting career and the attractive theater director Leo Waller.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-01-30
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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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Crime in the Sun
Overview: Harry, returning home after six years in an asylum, has vivid recollections of a party many years ago with six of his friends. The party ended with one of them, Raoul, disappearing. A gardener is digging in Harry's garden when a skeleton and a watch with the name "Raoul" is found. Harry invites his friends to a dinner to solve the mystery of Raoul's disappearance.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-12-01
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General von Döbeln
Overview: 1813. The Swedish army is fighting in the War of the Sixth Coalition. The popular general Von Döbeln is arrested for sending the army against the French in breach of orders by the crown prince. At the court martial he is sentenced to death but is pardoned by the king and sent to prison instead. A group of conspirators are planning to set him free and make him their leader in a coup d'etat.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-10-26
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Tabu
Overview: Solidarity with the border people. Equal rights for the sexual deviants. Kristoffer Lohman is a young solicitor who collects stories and knowledge of different perversions. This has affected and changed his own sexual life. Sara, a young well-behaved and adorned woman, becomes interested in Kristoffer's activity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1977-01-28
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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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Farlig vår
Overview: A young prostitute, Gullan Svan, is murdered one night. The police suspects that the murderer is a student, since she had a lot of students as customers. The murderer stole a picture of Gullan after he killed her, a picture which later is found in a rented tuxedo when the tuxedo is returned. Four students decide to solve the case, but it seems that the truth is even closer than they first suspected... Plot by Mattias Thuresson
Genres: Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1949-02-28
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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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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 Unicorn
Overview: Harriet and Frank Allard have been married for many years. Almost twenty years ago, Harriet had a love affair with a colleague of Frank's, Claes von Klitzow, who made her pregnant. She had a son, Christer, whom Frank thinks that he is the father of. One day, Christer reveals that he is going to marry von Klitzow's daughter Louise. Harriet becomes upset but what will she do? Try to stop the marriage by telling the truth - which would endanger her marriage with Frank - or keep silent, which would mean that two half-siblings married?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-10-03
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The Serious Game
Overview: Arvid share the love with a young woman named Lydia, but as is customary at the turn of the century, is not love enough for a fairy tale to come true. While Arvid struggling to create the basis for their existence, Lydia's thirst for the good life leads her to marrying an older wealthy man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-11-26
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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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Night Light
Overview: Sixteen year old Maria arrives in Stockholm. She is going to stay with her aunt. Already at the Central station events occur that change her route.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-10-14
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Playing on the Rainbow
Overview: The school counselor Vanja believe neither in love, marriage or a woman's subservient role to the man. One day she meets the student Björn. Their romance is full of problems. Along comes a man from Vanjas past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-08-25
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Möten i skymningen
Overview: Olle moves to Stockholm to start a new job as a printer. He rents a room by his colleague-to-be, Victor. He shares the apartment with Roffe who has a serious alcohol problem - and a very flirtatious wife, Irma. He falls in love with Irma's sister, Barbro.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-09-02
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Som man bäddar...
Overview: Peter Kallander and Johannes Nord are childhood friends and close to each other's opposites. Peter is an energetic business man and a woman shaker, John's shy and introverted scientist who dares to admire a woman only from a distance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-05-31
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All jordens fröjd
Overview: The young girl Lisbet lives on the farm Tolfmansgården together with her mother, her older brother Jerker and their grandparents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-09-21
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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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Finnskogens folk
Overview: The year is 1906. Somewhere on the long lake of Fryken, pastor David Amberg appears. He is not satisfied with the religious life of the countryside. He wants to bring real revival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-10-18
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What We Did
Overview: The Konsum cooperative strikes a blow for equality in a film directed by one of Sweden's few female film directors: Ingrid Luterkort.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-01-01
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Laila
Overview: Winter in Lapland, a settler and his wife just had their newborn daughter baptized. On the way home through the wilderness, they are chased by a pack of wolves. The little baby falls out of the sledge and parents plunges off a cliff.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-11-13
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Carmilla
Overview: Carmilla falls for her stepfather and seduces him. When he is killed in a car accident, she decides to take revenge against the driver, but this only leads to a deeper tragedy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1968-12-02
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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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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
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Fröken Rosita
Overview: Play by Federico Garcia Lorca. Swedish interpretation of Hjalmar Gullberg and Karin Alin.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1960-12-09
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48 Hours to Live
Overview: A New York newspaper reporter is sent to the Swedish island of Gotland to interview a nuclear scientist. He gets involved with foreign agents who have kidnapped the scientist’s daughter.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-19
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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 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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Masculin Féminin
Overview: Paul, a young idealist trying to figure out what he wants to do with his life, takes a job interviewing people for a marketing research firm. He moves in with aspiring pop singer Madeleine. Paul, however, is disillusioned by the growing commercialism in society, while Madeleine just wants to be successful. The story is told in a series of 15 unrelated vignettes.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-03-22
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One Swedish Summer
Overview: A young, shy and inexperienced man travels back to Sweden, to spend the summer at his mother's house. He meets a number of women with whom he has sexual relations.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1968-11-08
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Time of Desire
Overview: The young beautiful sisters Lilly and Ragni are motherless. They live with their father, a horse dealer. During a horseback ride, Lilly and Ragni come to a pond of water lilies. They undress and swim naked. A local watches them play.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-10-20
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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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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
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1987-10-12
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