Gunnar Sjöberg
Also Known As: Гуннар Шёберг
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
Birthday: March 25, 1909
Deathday: June 08, 1977
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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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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Pälsen
Overview: Doctor Henck is having bad day, and borrows a fur from a friend. It gives him new confidence, and his day immediately gets better. Hjalmar Söderberg's rejected 1911 movie script, filmed in 1966 for TV as a silent film with a piano soundtrack, to match the time in which it was written for.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1966-12-26
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The Brothers' Woman
Overview: City girl Emma marries the farmer Nicklas but gets involved in a love triangle with his brother Ragnar.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-11-22
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I brist på bevis
Overview: A drama about the manager Håkan Dahlin who has just been discharged from a clinic where he was treated for his alcoholism. In an outbreak of jealousy, Dahlin abuses his wife Inga and after that he is forcibly interned again. Inga is a nurse and she is now moving to a mountain village to work at a district clinic. During an emergency visit, she encounters her childhood sweetheart, the doctor Gunnar, and old feelings between them begin to flare up again.
Genres: Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-01-12
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June Night
Overview: A woman flees to avoid rumors of promiscuity, but is trailed by a reporter who wants to expose her dark past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1940-04-03
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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
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En kvinna ombord
Overview: In the beginning of WW II a Swedish ship in a northern French port is exposed to German air raids. The captain take a chance to leave the port without permission. A stranded woman seize the chance to get home to Sweden.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1941-01-10
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Landstormens lilla argbigga
Overview: Spoiled upper class girl must join a home defense unit to learn military drill and fall in love with a lieutenant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1941-03-22
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Do You Believe in Angels?
Overview: Jan Froman is a young man with great plans for the future. He gets a job as an assistant janitor at a bank, but with inherited money he starts to buy and sell real estate which eventually increases in value. He falls in love with Margareta, whose father is a naval officer. Margareta is slighted by her fiance and follows Froman on a sailing trip in the archipelago. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1961-01-30
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A Woman's Face
Overview: A cynical woman with a disfigured face—a hardened criminal—gets an opportunity to change her ways when she meets a sympathetic plastic surgeon. She leaves her old life behind, but soon her old friends catch up with her.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1938-10-31
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Örlogsmän
Overview: The trio Erik, Arne and Ingrid have been friends since childhood, the two boys always competing for the affection of Ingrid. At the naval academy Erik gets into a fistfight and is expelled, to instead become a captain of a trading ship. Before he leaves Ingrid and Erik are engaged in secret. Later, when Erik is believed to be lost at sea, Ingrid instead gets engaged with Arne.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-01-25
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The First Squadron
Overview: The year is 1941 and Nazi Germany is at its peak. Hitler's army is storming into Russia. Sweden stands lonely and isolated while the air force is training intensely due to a coming attack. The squadron leader pushes his men at its hardest. It's a constant game with death where death unfortunately often wins.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1941-09-23
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Sir Arne's Treasure
Overview: Three Scottish noblemen escape from Gripsholm Castle and break into the home of Lord Arne. They kill everyone except for Lord Arne's adopted daughter Elsalill.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-12-16
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The Staffan Stolle Story
Overview: Staffan Stolle becomes the sole heir to a rich and noble family when he is just a little boy. Early on he is engaged to be married to a girl he finds he does not love. Instead he flees the country only to return under a false name, looking for true love.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music Mystery
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-09-10
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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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Jag dräpte
Overview: "I Slew" - Hospital drama of a doctor who thinks that he killed a patient on the operating table.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-10-26
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Rosen på tistelön
Overview: A smuggler's daughter falls in love with the son of a customs inspector.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-08-05
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Kurragömma
Overview: An escaped convict assumes the identity of a professor in order to reveal a criminal syndicate who smuggle diamonds together with Parisian haute couture.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1963-02-05
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Snapphanar
Overview: In an occupied country, the people rise to throw off the occupants. This includes Jens the farmer and his three sons who successfully perform sneak attacks on the invading army.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1941-12-26
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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
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The Butterfly and the Candle Flame
Overview: Episodes about life and death.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-08-27
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Seventh Heaven
Overview: "Seventh Heaven" - Famous radio personality Willy Lorens has a big success with the radio series "Seventh Heaven." The amount of fan mail and attention eventually becomes too much for Willy, who suffers a minor collapse. Taken to a hospital where he meets Dr. Lovisa Sundelius, virtually the only woman in Sweden who do not admire the radio idol.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-06-11
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Travel in Sweden
Overview: Images from places around Sweden, among them Gothenburg, Gotland, Mårbacka mansion and Norrland.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-07-05
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Salka Valka
Overview: A coming of age story about young Salka Valka who lives in the small fishing village of Íseyri. She is doing well for herself as a partner in a small fishing boat, but people believe she is financed by her deceased mother's former fiance, Steinthór, who disappeared on their wedding day many years ago. Salka becomes infatuated with the idealistic Arnaldur who wants to start a workers union, much to the opposition of local entrepreneur Bogesen. The past comes to haunt her in the return of Steinthór but Salka fends off his advances only to lose the restless Arnaldur away. http://www.icelandicfilmcentre.is
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-11-16
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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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Responsibility
Overview: About the importance of personal responsibility and the advantages of sobriety.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-02-26
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A Girl of Solbakken
Overview: From Bjørnson's novels about romance in 19th century Norway. Thorbjörn Granliden is raised severely by his parents who notice that he is drawn to the sinister farmhand Aslak. After a fight with Thorbjörn's father, Aslak leaves the farm. Thorbjörn grows up and falls in love with the beautiful Synnöve.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-11-25
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Ride Tonight!
Overview: Oppressed by landowners, a peasant uprising ensues as an outlaw farmer refuses to pay taxes in this film adapted from Vilhelm Moberg's novel.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-11-24
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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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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
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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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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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Rejoice While You're Young, Fellow Cadets
Overview: Knut is a farmer's son who wants to get an education and see the world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1939-08-14
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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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Women in Captivity
Overview: A priest decides to engage himself socially in prison. In the cells he meets a number of women with different fates. One is Mary, a young honest woman gone wrong.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-03-12
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Nattvaktens hustru
Overview: Ingegerd Lindberg is coming to Stockholm from the countryside. The first person she meets at the Central Station is Curt Brehmer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1947-10-20
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Svarta rosor
Overview: A young woman is predestined to marry her fathers companion. During the summer she falls in love with an artist. The intended husband detects the love affair and confronts the couple.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-08-27
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Nattens lekar
Overview: A boy lies and dreams in his bed in the kitchen, wakes up and takes a kitchen knife with him to bed and falls asleep. He dreams that he kills everyone at a game table, except for his father, whom he takes out on a tram ride. The boy wakes up again and waits for the father to come home and when he does, the mother and the father quarrel about something. The morning comes and the boy goes out, finally ends up at the beer café where the father and his beer friends are sitting.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-08-01
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Sabotage
Overview: With the support of dramatic staging, a narrative teaches about sabotage and espionage directed at Sweden.
Genres: War
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1952-02-07
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They Fought Their Way to Freedom
Overview: The film shows episodes from the labor movement's breakthrough and reform work.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1948-01-01
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His Excellency
Overview: Celebrated elderly Austrian poet opposes nazism, while his daughter admires and falls in love with leading nazi activist, who eventually becomes concentration camp commander with his father-in-law as prisoner.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-03-03
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Refugees Find a Port
Overview: Journal film about refugees in Sweden, Denmark and Norway in 1944.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-01-05
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Hällebäcks gård
Overview: Farm girl Kerstin is the most popular girl in the village and the men are swarming around her. This results in jealousy, and the electrician Tage causes a fire on the farm, resulting in economic trouble for Kerstin's father. Suddenly grandfather's rich brother Arvid appears from America. Will he be able to solve the family's problems?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1961-09-17
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Steel
Overview: The Forshyttan steel-mill has been owned by the Ancker family for generations. But competition is hard. When the son Bengt Ancker comes back from abroad he has an idea for success: a lighter steel with better quality. But a lot of money is necessary to develop his idea and the only way to raise the necessary capital is to sell the company to their competitor - Manchester Steel Company. But the workers are concerned that this could threaten their job-security
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1940-02-18
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Emelie Högqvist
Overview: Emelie Högqvist is an actress at the Royal Theatre who gets involved in an intimate relationship with the Crown Prince Oscar.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1939-12-26
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The Die Is Cast
Overview: A member of a highly successful crime drama series is found murdered in a television studio. The screenwriter of the TV-series is found as prime suspect but claims his innocence and tries to clear his name. But who is the murderer and what is his motive?
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1960-02-15
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The Happy Shoemaker
Overview: Sture and Birgit are secretly engaged. One day when they are kissing, they are discovered by Sture's father Dana. However, he promises not to reveal anything, as Sture would probably lose his job on Birgit's father Hjalle's shipyard. When Hjalle is forced by a usurer to pay back 23,000 on a loan, he gets problem. Dana promises to solve the problem, the question is just how. There is only one person that could help him, his childhood friend Gösta Hägg that nowadays is the director of a big company. But time passes quickly, and where is Mr. Hägg ...?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1955-09-19
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The Heavenly Play
Overview: "The Heavenly Play" - Mats Ersson is engaged to Marit and they plan to get married in the spring. But when the plague comes, the people accuse Marit of witchcraft. She is sentenced to death. Mats can not understand the divine justice and decides to go to paradise and ask God himself. It becomes a journey where he meets the prophets, king Solomon and finally God himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1942-12-21
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Ungdom i fara
Overview: A young man with a messy background stands trial for car theft. He gets away with a suspended sentence. With the help of a social worker, he gets on the right side of life — until a criminal friend shows up.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-11-11
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Han glömde henne aldrig
Overview: American businessman Chris Johnson spent WW2 in Sweden and fell in love with a nurse, Karin Engström. He lost contact with her after war and now, seven years later, he returns to Sweden on a business trip, trying to find her again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1952-01-01
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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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Skuggan
Overview: "The Shadow" - Erik Vender is a librarian and married to Vivianne. Vivianne was previously married to a well-known lawyer who died when their daughter was very small. One evening, Vivianne asks Erik to read a novel draft "Skuggan/The Shadow". The content strongly touches Erik. Vivianne reveals that it is her ex-husband that wrote the script.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-04-25
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Den heliga lögnen
Overview: Helen Wahlman is the hostess of a luxury hotel in the mountains. Her husband fled to Chile 15 years ago, after being guilty of fraud, and was killed there. Helen's image of marriage is just dark memories. A few days before Christmas, Helen gets a shock as her husband appears from the dead at the hotel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1944-10-23
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Life and Death
Overview: Thriller set in northern Sweden during WWII where a regiment of ski-borne soldiers and guests in a tourist hotel experience and investigate acts of treason.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-07-16
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Sin
Overview: Fredrik seduces the office girl Anna. She becomes helplessly passionately in love. Fredrik cheat Anna of all her savings. He intends to manufacture beauty products. To market the product he forge the signature of a wealthy aunt of Anna.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1948-12-22
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Anaconda
Overview: Documentary by Torgny Anderberg
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-09-04
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Seger i mörker
Overview: The story about Gustaf Dalén, the farm boy who became one of Sweden's greatest inventors.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1954-09-16
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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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Brink of Life
Overview: Three women in a maternity ward reveal their lives and intimate thoughts to each other.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-03-31
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The Priest Who Knocked Out
Overview: The boxing promoter Charlie returns from America to Sweden and needs to find a professional Swedish boxer for an upcoming fight. By chance Charlie watches Björn Harring fight off some hoodlums. Charlie sees great potential in Björn and wants to promote him for an upcoming fight, the problem is though that Björn is studying theology and is soon to become a priest. This might not look too good in a prejudiced society of the 40s with a boxing priest, but Charlie is determent to find a way.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1943-03-06
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Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates
Overview: Set in 1860s Holland along the famed Zeider Zee — young Hans Brinker finds himself responsible for supporting his family after his father becomes injured in an accident. He and his sister, Gretel, travel to Amsterdam in search of funds to help pay for their father's operation. Their only hope lies in the city's annual ice skating race in which Hans must face off against his arch-rival, Ludwig Schimmel, in hopes of winning the prize money.
Genres: Drama Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-01-07
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The Children
Overview: Based on the classic children’s story, seven orphan siblings and their goat make a difficult journey over the mountains to find new parents.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1945-09-18
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To Kill a Child
Overview: In a Swedish village, situated in a rural idyll, a father, mother and little daughter are preparing breakfast on a Sunday morning. The family is looking forward to the boat trip that is to follow. The little girl's thoughts are already completely on the water. But there is no sugar in the house, so the mother sends her little daughter to the neighbor across the street to quickly get some. Two villages further on, a young man is filling up his car with gas so that he can drive to the Baltic Sea with his girlfriend. In their convertible, the young people feel blithe and free on the country road and race towards the village where the little girl is just crossing the street with the sugar to return home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1953-08-27
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The Great Adventure
Overview: A vixen mother invades a chicken coop to provide food for her cubs. She continues to raid the coop until she is shot by a farmer. The cubs are attacked by the farmer and only one survives. An otter trapped in a burrow is rescued by 10-year-old Anders and his six-year-old brother, Kjell. In secret, the boys cage the animal and finally domesticate it. They obtain food for the Otter by fishing through the ice on a frozen lake. The boys manage to keep their secret from their family. On the eve of the May Day festival, Kjell reveals to family and friends the otter's presence. Anders is so distressed that he runs into the woods with the otter. The otter breaks away and returns to its life of natural freedom. The film was a prize winner at the 1954 Cannes Film Festival.
Genres: Adventure Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-28
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