Josua Bengtson

Josua Bengtson

Born: January 11, 1882
Died: December 15, 1958
in Göteborg, Göteborg- och Bohus län, Sweden

Movies for Josua Bengtson...

Dessa fantastiska smålänningar med sina finurliga maskiner
Title: Dessa fantastiska smålänningar med sina finurliga maskiner
Released: August 19, 1966
Type: Movie
A collection of classic scenes from the Åsa-Nisse movies.
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Våld
Title: Våld
Character: Klas' grandfather (non-credited)
Released: September 26, 1955
Type: Movie
It is 1940. A young man is facing court martial on charges of conscientious objection. He admits the crime. The prosecutor demands a most severe punishment. While waiting for the verdict, the young man think back of his past. How could this happen?
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Åsa-Nisse på hal is
Title: Åsa-Nisse på hal is
Character: Jönsson, smed
Released: September 10, 1954
Type: Movie
Åsa-Nisse and Klabbarparn are winter fishing.
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Tattarblod
Title: Tattarblod
Character: Berg
Released: February 8, 1954
Type: Movie
David, a young woodsman with a family, is leasing a farm. The family are welcomed by the locals until it becomes known that David is the son of a notorious drifter.
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Åsa-Nisse på semester
Title: Åsa-Nisse på semester
Released: September 4, 1953
Type: Movie
Åsa-Nisse is visited by cousin Doris from the United States. Nisse, Klabbarparn and Doris will travel to Stockholm, but Nisse and Klabbarparn lose track of Doris, who get into a hands of a Casanova. Nisse and Klabbarparn instead ends up at the Nordic Museum, where Åsa-Nisse turns out to have unexpected qualities in the art of imitating a mannequin. After that they had found each other is Doris robbed and it leads to a wild brawl that it sparkles and sputters on.
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Flottare med färg
Title: Flottare med färg
Character: Framhand
Released: December 26, 1952
Type: Movie
"Colorful Raftsmen" - The three brothers Nils, Lars and Ivar are members of a raftsmen team. Ivar feels that he does not really belong there, he prefers a little poaching andante a lot of flirting with women.
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Flyg-Bom
Title: Flyg-Bom
Released: December 22, 1952
Type: Movie
The meticulous Fabin Bom is called up for military service in the airforce.
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Kärlek
Title: Kärlek
Released: December 22, 1952
Type: Movie
A new young priest begins his duty on a small island. He assumes that the service should not be to demanding, so that he will be able to finish his doctoral thesis. But the life at sea is hard with severe accidents. He faces emotionally difficult situations related to both love and death.
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Åsa-Nisse på nya äventyr
Title: Åsa-Nisse på nya äventyr
Released: September 19, 1952
Type: Movie
Åsa-Nisse advertise for Summer guests and from Stockholm arrives Mrs. Niklasson and her atlethic daughter Elsa who is currently training for the olympic games.
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Puck heter jag
Title: Puck heter jag
Character: Uncle Orvar
Released: March 5, 1951
Type: Movie
Romance blossoms between single seamstress Puck and the art critic, Roger. He is engaged to Elsa, whose wedding dress Puck is involved with designing.
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Åsa-Nisse på jaktstigen
Title: Åsa-Nisse på jaktstigen
Character: Jönsson
Released: September 11, 1950
Type: Movie
Nils Nilsson from Åsen, better known as Åsa-Nisse and his friend Klabbarparn goes Moose hunting. As a result of a sabotage, staged by their wives, Åsa-Nisse is accused for hunting with illegal weapons.
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Lång-Lasse i Delsbo
Title: Lång-Lasse i Delsbo
Character: Tjyv-Pelle
Released: October 29, 1949
Type: Movie
it's the 1840s and a rural parish plagued by drinking and fighting gets a new vicar who has decided to instill law, order and fear of God into the parishioners.
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Åsa-Nisse
Title: Åsa-Nisse
Released: October 22, 1949
Type: Movie
At a parish meeting Åsa-Nisse suggests that they should hire a common home help, who could give their wives some relief by staying one week at each household. The meeting assents and decides that the order of her rotation should be established by lot. The two bachelors of the village claim their right to the home help as well, arguing that they are also taxpayers. When Elsa Haglund arrives from Gothenburg she starts her first week of work at one of the two bachelors, the village shop-keeper Sjökvist. He is immediately infatuated by her and begins a flirtation. At the end of the week Elsa happens to meet the other bachelor, Eric Broo, called "the singing farmer". She falls in love with him, but doesn't know how to hook him, as he is very shy and unskilled in courting women. In the meantime Åsa-Nisse, the village rogue, carries out some of his pranks.
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Hammarforsens brus
Title: Hammarforsens brus
Released: October 25, 1948
Type: Movie
The young Anders is in love with Marit, whose father, the farmer Bjur-Erik opposes their relation. He watches jealously his daughter and becomes furious when he hears that she sneaks off to see Anders.
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Strange Harbor
Title: Strange Harbor
Character: Masthugget
Released: October 2, 1948
Type: Movie
"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.
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Lars Hård
Title: Lars Hård
Character: Åhs, prisoner no. 27
Released: August 30, 1948
Type: Movie
Young drifter tells his story in flashback from prison.
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The People from Simlangs Valley
Title: The People from Simlangs Valley
Released: December 26, 1947
Type: Movie
Class struggle and love trouble in the woods between Halland and Småland.
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Maj på Malö
Title: Maj på Malö
Character: Holmberg
Released: October 22, 1947
Type: Movie
A con artist arrives to a small island to swingle money from the fishermen.
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Krigsmans erinran
Title: Krigsmans erinran
Released: August 15, 1947
Type: Movie
Jocke gets leave from the military to travel home to get married.
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Supper for Two
Title: Supper for Two
Character: Janitor
Released: February 15, 1947
Type: Movie
Louise Mareuil owns a perfume factory on the French Riviera. She is in a traffic accident with a sketch artist, Claude Dubois. She gives him a blank check which he soon use to withdraw 2 000 000 franc as a joke. Visiting her office, he returns the money and in return she hires him as a sketch artist for the company's advertisement. With his charm and wit he turns the factory upside down, to the chagrin of Louise. She is strict and orderly but soon after letting him go she begins to change her mind. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
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Hotell Kåkbrinken
Title: Hotell Kåkbrinken
Character: Jonsson, mäklare
Released: December 26, 1946
Type: Movie
Laban Lundström is the porter at Hotell Kåkbrinken. The hotel is threatened by wholesaler Sjökvist, who wants to pull down the house and build a new and modern house instead.
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Saltstänk och krutgubbar
Title: Saltstänk och krutgubbar
Character: Manuel the postman
Released: October 28, 1946
Type: Movie
The stingy fisherman Ericsson lives on a small island north of Stockholm with his wife Johanna och her father Isak.
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The Balloon
Title: The Balloon
Released: October 7, 1946
Type: Movie
Sten Stensson Stéen dies when he gets a wooden box in his head, and he enters heaven in a balloon.
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Meeting in the Night
Title: Meeting in the Night
Character: Eskil
Released: September 30, 1946
Type: Movie
A journalist is writing a critical article about the prison service in Sweden. The magazine's editor in chief does not agree with him and removes the article. The journalist then plans to fake a crime to gain knowledge about life in prison.
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The Happy Tailor
Title: The Happy Tailor
Character: Vicar
Released: December 26, 1945
Type: Movie
Sören, a poor tailor with many children, dreams of becoming a miller and buys the windmill of the village with money he does not have.
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The Serious Game
Title: The Serious Game
Character: Grosshandlar Randel
Released: November 26, 1945
Type: Movie
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.
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Crime and Punishment
Title: Crime and Punishment
Released: October 16, 1945
Type: Movie
A Swedish version of Crime and Punishment. Raskolnikov, a poor student, is planning to assassinate a hated pawnbroker.
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Oss tjuvar emellan eller en burk ananas
Title: Oss tjuvar emellan eller en burk ananas
Character: Plumber (uncredited)
Released: January 22, 1945
Type: Movie
Max Kvarne is an international adventurer who stole 25,000 pounds in 100-pound banknotes at a London coup.
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The Emperor of Portugallia
Title: The Emperor of Portugallia
Released: December 26, 1944
Type: Movie
The poor farmer Jan is getting very old when he becomes father to the girl, Klara Gulla. First, he sees the child as a burden, but when he receives the newborn child in his arms he is overjoyed. He does everything in his power for her during her. But when she as an adult leaves home, Jan can not come over the loss of her.
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Den osynliga muren
Title: Den osynliga muren
Character: Street vendor
Released: August 21, 1944
Type: Movie
"The Invisble Wall" - In an unnamed country under occupation, a senior officer is killed in an attack by a member of the resistance.
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Kungajakt
Title: Kungajakt
Released: January 21, 1944
Type: Movie
The film takes place in the 1780s. The Russians plan to overthrow Gustav III from the Swedish throne and Lieutenant Rehusen tries to stop them, while fighting for his king, he also fights for his love.
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Elvira Madigan
Title: Elvira Madigan
Character: källarmästaren på Stora Hotellet
Released: February 19, 1943
Type: Movie
The tragic love story between a line dancer and an army officer.
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The Heavenly Play
Title: The Heavenly Play
Character: Member of the Court
Released: December 21, 1942
Type: Movie
"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.
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Ride Tonight!
Title: Ride Tonight!
Character: Danjel - the inn-keeper
Released: November 24, 1942
Type: Movie
Oppressed by landowners, a peasant uprising ensues as an outlaw farmer refuses to pay taxes in this film adapted from Vilhelm Moberg's novel.
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Farliga vägar
Title: Farliga vägar
Released: January 26, 1942
Type: Movie
A stateless lawyer comes with his son Karel and his two daughters Vanja and Sonja as refugees to Stockholm. No one gets work permit in Sweden and the family's problems grows to not just financially. The idleness and hopelessness towards the future is almost worse and that can lead into dangerous paths.
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Min svärmor - dansösen
Title: Min svärmor - dansösen
Released: October 25, 1936
Type: Movie
From Barcelona, the widower Svante Holmenius travel with his daughter Sylvia to visit her close friends in Stockholm.
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Youth
Title: Youth
Released: August 22, 1927
Type: Movie
Lisa, Pontus and Herman has formed a small artists’ collective in Stockholm. The successes are rare and occasionally this sets off an irritated mood.
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His English Wife
Title: His English Wife
Character: Train Announcer
Released: January 17, 1927
Type: Movie
London socialite Cathleen Paget's adventures in love and misfortune a year after the death of her husband. Ivor Willington and Lionel Jesop play cards for who will be given the shot at flirting with Paget, as to claim her wealth. But when her brother Bruce has lost the family fortune in bad business, Cathleen is suggested to court Nordic giant Birger Holm. The two marry and the families financial problems seem to be at bay, although the life in the northern Sweden is wearing Cathleen down as she misses parties, friends and dancing at the Savoy Hotel.
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His English Wife
Title: His English Wife
Released: January 17, 1927
Type: Movie
London socialite Cathleen Paget's adventures in love and misfortune a year after the death of her husband. Ivor Willington and Lionel Jesop play cards for who will be given the shot at flirting with Paget, as to claim her wealth. But when her brother Bruce has lost the family fortune in bad business, Cathleen is suggested to court Nordic giant Birger Holm. The two marry and the families financial problems seem to be at bay, although the life in the northern Sweden is wearing Cathleen down as she misses parties, friends and dancing at the Savoy Hotel.
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The Ingmar Inheritance
Title: The Ingmar Inheritance
Character: Auction speculator
Released: December 26, 1925
Type: Movie
"The Ingmar Inheritance". The story of a group of farmers who choose to leave their homes and follow the preacher Helgum to the Holy Land.
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The Smugglers
Title: The Smugglers
Released: April 6, 1925
Type: Movie
Anne Marie (Lili Lani) gets invited by her aunt to a hotel to to meet her admirers. Not to fulfill her aunt's wishes, but to verify who works at the hotel.
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Mälar Pirates
Title: Mälar Pirates
Character: Fisherman
Released: October 21, 1923
Type: Movie
Three boys steal a sailboat and sail away for a summer adventure on Lake Mälaren. Based on Sigfrid Siwertz's novel.
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Hemslavinnor
Title: Hemslavinnor
Released: September 24, 1923
Type: Movie
Grethe decides to go the big city to find a job as a domestic help.
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The Hell Ship
Title: The Hell Ship
Character: Roff
Released: February 5, 1923
Type: Movie
A naval adventure that focuses on the rivalry among the crew, particularly the indignation wrought by the behavior of inplacable Captain Steen. Dick, one of the sailors, is one of the most rebellious and draws up plans to exact vengeance. The opportunity arises, but an incident that may sink the ship changes the focus of attention. The lighting for the film and the composition of the scenes are regarded as the highlights of the movie.
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Thomas Graals myndling
Title: Thomas Graals myndling
Released: October 9, 1922
Type: Movie
Paul is a student does not devote to much time for studies. He enjoys the pleasures of life. Babette is a girl who dreams about a life in luxury. Paul falls in love with Babette.
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Fru Mariannes friare
Title: Fru Mariannes friare
Character: Prost
Released: April 25, 1921
Type: Movie
The young widow Marianne Renfelt, ruler of Svaleholm estate, is celebrating her 25th birthday with a big party. At the party three of her suitors appear: landowner Wadenhjelm, Major Crusenschöld, and priest Neander. One person that the hostess is missing at the party is the person she likes most, her childhood friend, the disgraced lieutenant Bernt Boo.
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The Phantom Carriage
Title: The Phantom Carriage
Character: Gambler (uncredited)
Released: January 1, 1921
Type: Movie
An alcoholic, abusive ne'er-do-well is shown the error of his ways through a legend that dooms the last person to die on New Year's Eve before the clock strikes twelve to take the reins of Death's chariot and work tirelessly collecting fresh souls for the next year.
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Bomben
Title: Bomben
Released: February 9, 1920
Type: Movie
Ture believes he has killed an elderly man after his birthday party.
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Karin, Daughter of Ingmar
Title: Karin, Daughter of Ingmar
Character: Eljas' friend
Released: February 2, 1920
Type: Movie
Karin Daughter of Ingmar is a 1920 Swedish silent drama film directed by Victor Sjöström. It is the second part in Sjöström's large-scale adaption of Selma Lagerlöf's novel Jerusalem, following Sons of Ingmar from the year before, and depicting chapter three and four from the novel. The critical reception was however unenthusiastic and Sjöström decided to not direct any more parts.
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His Lord's Will
Title: His Lord's Will
Character: Jonsson
Released: November 3, 1919
Type: Movie
A series of family entanglements develop around the changing will of Roger Bernhuses de Sars (Karl Mantzius), who wants his heritage to go to his illegitimate daughter Blenda (Greta Almroth). But love and fate also plays their cards. One of the most surprising films of Sjöström, close to Stroheim and some of the silent comedies of Lubitsch. Belonging to the golden age of Swedish film, this comedy offers one of the earliest explorations of the relationship between masters and servants on the screen, later developed by French masters like Renoir and Guitry. After acting in the diptych of Thomas Graal, Sjöström shows that he also dominates the “light genre” as director.
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Sir Arne's Treasure
Title: Sir Arne's Treasure
Character: Jailer
Released: September 18, 1919
Type: Movie
Three Scottish officers, including Sir Archi, murder Sir Arne and his household for a coffin filled with gold. The only survivor is Elsalill, who moves to relatives in Marstrand. There she meets a charming young officer- Sir Archi- and she soon understands that he was one of the murderers.
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The Girl from the Marsh Croft
Title: The Girl from the Marsh Croft
Character: Constable
Released: September 9, 1917
Type: Movie
A 1917 Swedish drama film directed by Victor Sjöström, based on a 1913 novel by Selma Lagerlöf. It was the first in a series of successful Lagerlöf adaptions by Sjöström, made possible by a deal between Lagerlöf and A-B Svenska Biografteatern (later AB Svensk Filmindustri) to adapt at least one Lagerlöf novel each year. Lagerlöf had for many years denied any proposal to let her novels be adapted for film, but after seeing Sjöström's Terje Vigen she finally decided to give her allowance.
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Allt hämnar sig
Title: Allt hämnar sig
Character: Daniels
Released: July 9, 1917
Type: Movie
"Everyone Avenges Themselves". At the instigation of Louis Berger, Henry Rogers is falsely accused of having embezzled a large sum of money and sentenced to prison. As a convict in the prison quarry, he becomes good friends with the warden's son, Allan. Lille Allan believes in Henry's innocence and help him escape.
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Therèse
Title: Therèse
Released: October 2, 1916
Type: Movie
Therèse is a young woman who has married an older man to be able to live a wealthier life.