Hans Alfredson
Also Known As: Hans Folke Alfredson, Hasse Alfredsson, Hasse Alfredson
Biography: Hans Folke "Hasse" Alfredson (28 June 1931 – 10 September 2017) was a Swedish actor, film director, writer, and comedian. He was born in Malmö, Sweden. He is known for his collaboration with Tage Danielsson as the duo Hasse & Tage and their production company AB Svenska Ord ("Swedish Words Ltd"). His most celebrated contribution to their brand of humorist humanism was his ability to extemporize wildly absurd comic situations, for example in the Lindeman dialogues.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Malmö, Malmöhus län, Sweden [now Skåne län, Sweden]
Birthday: June 28, 1931
Deathday: September 10, 2017
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Spader, Madame!
Overview: Political satire set in the 18th century to Franz Schubert's music.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Konstgjorda Pompe
Overview: Summer revue from 1963
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1963-12-31
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I huvet på n' Gamlin
Overview: Documentary about the Swedish humorist, film maker and artist Yngve Gamlin
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1990-06-23
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The Simple-Minded Murderer
Overview: The feeble-minded Sven's mother dies and he gets work as a farm-hand at the rich, affluent Höglund's farm. He has to work without pay and sleeps together with the cows. He meets the disabled Anna who is the first one to treat him as an adult. One day he has had enough of Höglund's maltreatment and moves in with Anna's family. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1982-02-12
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Pippi on the Run
Overview: Fed up with their strict parents, Tommy and Annika run away from home, with their friend Pippi Longstocking to look after them in their long trek.
Genres: Family
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1970-11-14
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Shame
Overview: In the midst of a civil war, former violinists Jan and Eva Rosenberg, who have a tempestuous marriage, run a farm on a rural island. In spite of their best efforts to escape their homeland, the war impinges on every aspect of their lives.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1968-09-29
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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Overview: After taking a bullet to the head, Salander is under close supervision in a hospital and is set to face trial for attempted murder on her eventual release. With the help of journalist Mikael Blomkvist and his researchers at Millennium magazine, Salander must prove her innocence. In doing this she plays against powerful enemies and her own past.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2009-11-27
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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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Dunderklumpen!
Overview: Dunderklumpen lives all alone in the mountains of Jämtland. One Midsummer's Eve when he feels very lonely he sets off on a journey to find friends.
Genres: Adventure Animation Family Music Fantasy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1974-09-26
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Gnomes and Trolls: The Secret Chamber
Overview: Junior, a teenage gnome, wants nothing more than to invent gizmos and gadgets in his tree-house laboratory. But Junior's old school father, Jalle, the head gnome of the forest, would prefer his son follow in his footsteps and one day be in charge of his own forest. In spite of their differences, on the eve of the first winter storm Junior helps Jalle distribute food rations. Then disaster strikes.
Genres: Animation Family Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-31
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The Best Intentions
Overview: In this film about Ingmar Bergman's parents, Henrik Bergman is studying for the priesthood and trying to make ends meet when he encounters the lovely, affluent Anna. Despite their social differences, Henrik and Anna fall in love, wed and move to the country. They lead a quiet life as Henrik works as a priest, but it isn't long before the simple people and plain surroundings make Anna long for a more lavish lifestyle, which causes marital stress.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1992-05-24
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Sophie's World
Overview: One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you? and "Where does the world come from?
Genres: Fantasy Drama Family Adventure Action
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1999-08-06
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The New Land
Overview: A Swedish immigrant family struggles to adapt to their new life on the American frontier during the second half of the 19th century amidst civil war, native uprising and the lure of gold in California.
Genres: Drama Western History
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1972-02-26
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Private Confessions
Overview: Five conversations frame a flawed marriage in this film written by Ingmar Bergman about his parents. Guilt-ridden wife Anna (Pernilla August) divulges an extramarital affair to a priest, her uncle Jacob (Max von Sydow). He presses her to confess her sins to her husband, Henrik. As the film moves back and forth in time, the notion of truth is tested. Tomas, the lover, and Henrik will find that Anna's confessions do not absolve anyone, and have the power to inflict more pain.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1996-12-25
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The Adventures of Picasso
Overview: A farcical biopic about Pablo Picasso, from his early years, to his middle years, to the years right before his death, and some of the years before and in-between that.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1978-05-20
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The Apple War
Overview: A German businessman wants to buy land in southern Sweden for a gigantic amusement park, his new project called "Deutschneyland" (a wordplay of Deutschland and Disneyland). Some of the locals dislike the idea, including the magically talented Lindberg family, and work to frustrate the development plans.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1971-12-18
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Docking the Boat
Overview: A group of party goers have trouble getting their boat ashore on a small island. The inhabitants of the island try to help, often with the help of an old sailor, and the results are absurd and hilarious.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1965-12-26
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Out of Per Åhlin's Head
Overview: A portrait of Per Åhlin, who has been called the father of Swedish animation.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2019-11-15
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During the Journey to Melonia
Overview: Documentary about the production of Per Åhlin's feature film Resan till Melonia
Genres: Documentary Animation
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Voyage to Melonia
Overview: When a ship sinks during a storm, a slave from the industrial island of Plutonia is washed up on the beaches of paradise island Melonia, where the "all-powerful" wizard Prospero and his strange friends reside.
Genres: Animation Family Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1989-12-15
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The Dog Hotel
Overview: On their way to find Paris, Sture the dog (Hasse Alfredsson) and his friend Picasso end up on a hotel in the middle of nowhere. Along with Miss Mops, Sture tries to sniff out who is causing all the strange events of the hotel.
Genres: Animation Comedy Mystery
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2000-10-03
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Macken - Roy's & Roger's Bilservice
Overview: Roy and Roger decide to close their gasstation for the summer, to try to find where, what and how their lost father is. Roger also falls in love and much more.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1990-12-23
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Ultimate Comedy 2
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Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2005-10-12
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Hoffmann's Eyes
Overview: A retelling of E.T.A Hoffmann's gothic story "The Sandman" and the opera "Tales of Hoffmann", ever since childhood, Hoffmann has been haunted by The Sandman and believed that a visitor to his father was really The Sandman, while traveling to Veneice he encounters a strange glass vendor who reappears through out his life. This film was never completed.
Genres: Animation Drama Horror Fantasy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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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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Release the Prisoners to Spring
Overview: Small and short Frida lives with her long, tall friend in a house in the countryside. Frida rejects the idea that people who have committed crimes should be locked up. One day their own house is burgled by Harald. He is sentenced to prison. Acting in accordance with her philosophy, Frida decides to use all means possible to make it possible for Harald to escape.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1975-12-06
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Out of an Old Man's Head
Overview: After being admitted to a residential home starts the retired bricklayer Johan to dream back to his childhood - the safe upbringing with his parents, the first love, and how he with a broken heart ran away from home, and was forced to fend for himself. How he got married, had a son, barely managed to scrape together enough money for food and shelter, the son ran away from home and his wife died.
Genres: Comedy Animation Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1968-12-06
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Ultimate Comedy
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Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2004-10-06
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Pig Hunt
Overview: "Pig Hunt" - Lennart Siljeberg works at the Cattle Inspection Agency. He is the perfect bureaucrat, always careful and pedantic. The agency's latest mission is to extinguish all pigs on the island of Gotland. However, for some unexplainable reason, the local farmers use violence to destroy the agency's work.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1970-03-11
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Egg! Egg! A Hardboiled Story
Overview: A fairy tale and satire about a wealthy industrialist, whose son has been subdued and oppressed and totally uninterested in his father's business.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1975-03-17
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SOPOR
Overview: One Monday morning, a thousand children leave the suburb of Farsta and go to Stockholm to occupy the Royal Castle. The children have formed a group called S.O.P.O.R. as a protest against the way adults treat them and have destroyed their future. They demand that the robots in the industry are replaced by humans to create job opportunities. They take the royal family as hostages.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1981-03-21
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The Ice Dragon
Overview: An adventure about Mick, aged 11, and his quest for a new home. Mick runs away on an ice dragon, owns a cat factory, befriends brothers Bengt and Bertil, falls in love for the first time and eventually finds his way home.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2012-02-04
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Miss Fleggman's Mustache
Overview: A Swedish comedy classic.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1984-09-13
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...och över alltihopa lyser Povel Ramel
Overview: A congratulatory celebration of Povel Ramel's 70th birthday featuring a cavalcade of great Swedish performers.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1992-05-30
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Semestersångarna
Overview: Povel Ramel's 1962 show as filmed for television. This time the usual gang of four is joined by promising young comedian Hasse Alfredsson.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1962-10-20
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The Last Bid
Overview: The working class couple, Roger and Lisette, knows that it is impossible to live an honest life in a society of thieves. When they succeed in scoring the top result on the football pools without earning the top money, they have had enough.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1981-02-26
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Prins Korv under taket
Overview: A pub show that was recorded at Restaurant Prinsen in December 1999.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Stjärnbilder
Overview: A tribute to Swedish film, which was made to celebrate the 100th anniversary of film in 1995 and consists of about a hundred clips from Swedish film history with many of its stars.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1995-09-10
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Cabarét Canalhumorn
Overview: In 1969 Swedish television was split into two channels and to celebrate this satirical revue was made.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1969-11-29
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Medan andra pyntar
Overview: A genuine sit-down evening from 1965.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1965-12-23
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Jim and the Pirates Blom
Overview: Jim Olsson, eight years old, lives in a small, boring town. His father has passed away recently, but comes back in Jim's fantasies to tell stories. In his daydreams, Jim has all kinds of adventures.
Genres: Family Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1987-02-12
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P & B
Overview: Pettersson and Bendel are both worn, run-down and broke. Despite this they decide to start a business and become rich. Unexperienced they are open to any deal. They tamper, scam and exploit loopholes that exist.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1983-12-10
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Hasse & Tage - Samlade revyer
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Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2007-04-25
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Gula Hund
Overview: Gula Hund (English title: Yellow Dog) is a Swedish variety show that was the second of "three dog-revues" (so called because they all have "dog" in their name). The first one being Gröna Hund (Green Dog) and the third and last one was Svea Hund.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1966-01-06
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The Art of Flying a Flag
Overview: An old man decides to enjoy the last days of his life by really indulging himself. There are still things he's never tried and he must have a go while there's still time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2001-02-13
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Games of Love and Loneliness
Overview: This co-production between Norway and Sweden is the first film that Anja Breien has made since Wives. She has adapted a novel by Hjalmar Soderberg. who also wrote 'Gertrud' from which Carl Dreyer's last film was made, and Doctor Glas' (made into a film by Mai Zetterhng) Games of Love and Loneliness, concerns the manners and mores of Scandinavian society between the years 1897 and 1912. A young journalist, Arvid, falls in love with a girl but won't commit himself to marrying her. She marries an older and richer man and he's pushed into marrying the girl he's been sleeping with. He meets his first love again, and she leaves her husband to have an affair with him, but he still cannot bring himself to leave his wife. Although Anja Breien has changed the character of the girl to make her less of a femme fatale and more of an emancipated woman, the film's central concern is the young man who cannot make up his mind what to do with his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1977-08-29
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Skrallan, Ruskprick and Gurnard
Overview: The children of Seacrow Island take a public ferry to visit a relative only to find that she has went to hospital. When they try to row back home they lose the oars and must take refuge on a desolate island. 4-year-old Skrallan is the first to discover that two colorful smugglers are hiding on the island.
Genres: Family
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1967-12-02
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"Without doubt, you are mad" - Tage Danielsson
Overview: A Documentary about the Swedish Comedian Tage Danielsson. He was one member of the "Hasse & Tage" duo, the other beeing Hasse Alfredsson. He was also a writer and an Actor.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1995-10-13
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A Stranger Came by Train
Overview: An American gangster of Swedish origins returns to his homeland to set up shop as a morality crusader, much in the manner of the later phenomenon of televangelists. While indulging in behind-the-scene shenanigans including rape and murder, the gangster (played by American Clu Gulagher) preaches to large audiences, using mass hypnotism and show-biz razzmatazz to get his message across. The film also features a brief performance by Per Oscarsson, following his highly publicized "retirement" from screen acting.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1974-10-28
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88-öresrevyn
Overview: Dinner revue that features both satire and other sketches and music numbers.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1971-11-05
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The glass in the ear
Overview: Glaset i örat is a revue by Hans Alfredson and Tage Danielsson. It was recorded at Berns in Stockholm 1973 and on tour during the spring of 1974.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1974-07-31
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Svea hund på Göta Lejon
Overview: Svea hund, complete title Svea Hund på Göta Lejon (Svea Dog at Göta Lejon), was a Swedish variety show produced by AB Svenska Ord. It was written by Hans Alfredsson and Tage Danielsson, commonly known as Hasseåtage and directed by Tage. The show premièred on 15 February (although it had a sneak première on 9 February) 1976 on the theater Göta Lejon in Stockholm. It was the last of the three "Dog-revues"; the first was Gröna hund (Green Dog) the second being Gula Hund (Yellow Dog). Both Hasse and Tage starred in various roles. Other cast members were Gösta Ekman, Monica Zetterlund, Lena Nyman, and Tommy Körberg. The song quartet EBBA (Lena Eriksson, Lars Bagge, Kersint Bagge and Bo Andersson) and Gunnar Svenssons Bandhundband.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1976-07-31
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The Box
Overview: A Swedish revue for a quartet of players. The name "Lådan" comes from the box on the stage from which the co-workers entered.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1968-02-24
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Ett svårskött pastorat
Overview: Revolves around how the overlong academic Calle Kula inherits the Asatorp estate and in his new role as landowner comes into conflict with the very picky young priest of the neighborhood.Calle reverses the subordination of the estate to the Asa faith. To disturb and bother the priest. But things take an unexpected turn
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-11-24
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Gröna Hund
Overview: The first variety show produced by AB Svenska Ord. It was the first of the three "Dog-revues", the second being "Gula Hund" and the third one "Svea hund".
Genres: Music Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1962-11-23
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Sista varningen!
Overview: About the question of whether we should proceed in developing and using nuclear power and the breakdown at Three Mile Island, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in March 28, 1979.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1980-03-10
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Hasse Alfredson - Ett porträtt
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2017-09-14
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The Great Day on the Beach
Overview: It is the adult Gustav Adolf, who tells the story of the momentous day when he as a little boy with his father and mother and the whole staircase, went to the beach to enjoy the pleasures of bathing. We are in 1930s working-class neighborhood in Copenhagen. In a backyard apartment, we meet the little working-up of small Gustav Adolf (Benjamin Rothenborg Vibe) who has great respect for his father, Axel (Erik Clausen). Father has a very lively gab and is always ready to tell a story from her exciting life - often from the time he was on the big Argentine pampas.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1991-09-27
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Blommig falukorv
Overview: A film based on book and record by Hans Alfredson.
Genres: Animation TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1984-01-06
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Under dubbelgöken
Overview: Under dubbelgöken was a lunchtime revue performed by Hasse Alfredson and Tage Danielsson in the winter of 1979-1980. In the revue they poked fun at the leading political figures of the day.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1979-12-31
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Everlasting Moments
Overview: In a time of social change and unrest, war and poverty, a young working class woman, Maria, wins a camera in a lottery. The decision to keep it alters her whole life.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2008-09-24
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Elsa får piano
Overview: Philip is a grass widower who suddenly wants to buy a piano to his wife before she's back home, but it's Saturday and the time is short.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1973-02-17
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Tre blommiga falukorvar
Overview: This animated film in three acts is based on songs by Hans Alfredson. All are featured in the children's album "Blommig falukorv".
Genres: Animation
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1988-10-30
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Tingel Tangel på Tyrol
Overview: A show/happening recorded at restaurant Tyrol in Stockholm.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1990-09-22
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Fusket
Overview: Two people with completely different lifestyles and social backgrounds have found each other in the decision to leave life together.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1978-04-09
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Mosebacke monarki
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Genres: Comedy Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1967-02-23
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Hasse & Tage - En kärlekshistoria
Overview: Hasse and Tage were best friends for over 30 years. Their films, shows, songs and books influenced an entire nation and were the glue that held people's home together. As a comedic duo, they united right-wing ghosts and anarchists in laughter. When Tage dies prematurely, his children lose a father, Hasse a father figure and all of Sweden a country father. And when Palme dies just months after Tage, the Swedish stable society begins to crumble. For the first time, the Alfredson and Danielsson families open up the archives and give us exclusive access to their stories, photographs and recordings.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2019-09-06
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Svenska ord i bild och tal
Overview: Ronny Svensson and Markus Strömqvist have produced a documentary "Svenska Ord i bild och tal", which gives us background stories and facts about the movies included in the box set "Svenska Ord".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2006-11-26
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False as Water
Overview: John is the owner of a small publishing company. One day John meets the poet Clara and falls in love with her. A movie about jealousy and death.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1985-11-08
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Jerusalem
Overview: Members of a devout Christian congregation try to start a new life in Palestine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1996-09-06
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Barnkalaset
Overview: A girl in a schoolyard discovers the asphalt tastes like liquorice, and soon the kids start eating anything around them.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2006-01-27
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The Dream House
Overview: Göran buys a house in a suburb. It is in need of some repairs, but Göran believes himself capable of repairing it himself with the help of some cheap craftsmen. However, the house is much worse than he thought. At the same time, a gang of crooks is searching for the dynamite they hid in the basement some time ago. Göran has to rescue both his wallet from greedy craftsmen as well as his marriage with Tina.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1993-10-28
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Day and Night
Overview: Thomas has decided to die, and spends his last day driving around to say good-bye to everybody, his son, wife, mistress and all others. Nobody understands that this good-bye is definite, and still he says things they will never forget.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2004-08-06
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Stimulantia
Overview: Stimulantia is a 1967 Swedish anthology film comprising eight episodes by eight different directors including Ingmar Bergman, Jörn Donner, Gustaf Molander and Vilgot Sjöman and starring among others Ingrid Bergman, Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Björnstrand, Lars Ekborg and Inga Landgré.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1967-03-28
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Året var 1965
Overview: 1965 - The Rolling Stones is coming to Sweden - a little rougher and tougher than The Beatles who were here a few years earlier. And the fashion trend is spreading across Sweden - to the horror of many. The medium-strong beer will start to be sold in Sweden - in regular grocery stores. And at the end of the year Hasse och Tage's new feature film with Gösta Ekman in one of the main roles premieres. Tragedies strike: 10 Swedish youths die in an avalanche, a tunnel collapse in Stockholm causes suspense. American astronaut Ed White spacewalks after the Soviet Union's Aleksey Leonov. Hep Stars led by Svenne Hedlund dominate with three top-ten songs, including "Cadillac."
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2015-02-06
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