Stig Järrel

Stig Järrel

Born: February 8, 1910
Died: July 1, 1998
in Malmberget, Norrbottens län, Sweden
Stig Järrel (8 February 1910 – 1 July 1998) was a Swedish actor, film director and revue artist. Järrel was one of the most popular actors in Sweden during his career, and also one of the most productive, participating in a total of 131 films. He also performed as an actor at various Swedish theatres and was a frequent guest on radio and television.

Movies for Stig Järrel...

Minns ni?
Title: Minns ni?
Character: (archive footage)
Released: October 24, 1993
Type: Movie
A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 films.
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Stig Järrel 80 år
Title: Stig Järrel 80 år
Character: Self
Released: February 8, 1990
Type: Movie
A documentary made to celebrate Stig Järrel's 80th birthday, clips of old performances are mixed with new interviews with Järrel and colleagues.
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Gösta Ekman - En levande legend
Title: Gösta Ekman - En levande legend
Character: Self
Released: January 7, 1987
Type: Movie
Documentary about the Swedish actor Gösta Ekman (1890-1938) with interviews with friends and colleagues.
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Den ynkryggen Valdemar
Title: Den ynkryggen Valdemar
Character: Gunnar Emanuelsson
Released: April 6, 1980
Type: Movie
The consultant at a mental hospital receives a visit from one of the hospital's female doctors after a vacation trip. A client, Valdemar, has made improper advances and she's confused.
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Trolltider
Title: Trolltider
Character: Gorm
Released: December 1, 1979
Type: Movie
Under the stairs to the human beings house lives Vätten. He has a nice view of the forest where the little trolls lives.
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Gustav III
Title: Gustav III
Character: Pechlin
Released: April 8, 1974
Type: Movie
Based on play by famous swedish author/playwright August Strindberg adapted for swedish TV in 70's. It's about the real life assassination on swedish king Gustav III who was killed by a lieutenant Jacob Johan Anckarström who acted on behalf of a group conspirators.
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Living pictures
Title: Living pictures
Character: The priest
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
A film based on Fritiof Nilsson Piraten's short story "Lefvande bilder" - a story about when the movies came to the author's childhood village.
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Title: Röda rummet
Character: bokförläggare
Released: March 22, 1970
Type: TV
Stockholm in the 1870's. The protagonist Arvid Falk, employed as office notary.He dream of becoming a writer and finds work as a journalist. Arvid hang out with his artistic friends at the Red Room.
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Gallows
Title: Gallows
Released: November 17, 1969
Type: Movie
Swedish tv film based on "Galgmannen" play
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Easter
Title: Easter
Character: Lindqvist
Released: April 14, 1968
Type: Movie
A family in crisis during the holiday of Easter
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Henpecked
Title: Henpecked
Released: September 25, 1967
Type: Movie
An engineer and an actor, two extremely similar men, change their identity with each other.
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Sällskapslek
Title: Sällskapslek
Character: Carl Stjernesten
Released: December 16, 1963
Type: Movie
In a magnificent villa a 25-year-old son of Count lives with his family. He falls in love with an elementary school teacher. So does even his father the Count.
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Ticket to Paradise
Title: Ticket to Paradise
Character: Director Lund
Released: March 30, 1962
Type: Movie
A young woman owns a garden center outside Stockholm. Her two employees, a Swede and an Italian, has private dreams and desires to meet. The Italian plan to take revenge on a fellow countryman.
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The Pleasure Garden
Title: The Pleasure Garden
Character: Ludvig Lundberg
Released: December 26, 1961
Type: Movie
A small picturesque town at the turn of the century. The conservative views of the townspeople are shaken when they find out that the school teacher Franzén published his own poetry anonymously many years ago. At the same time he acknowledges his love affair with a waitress at the city hotel, Fanny. What is most upsetting is the fact that Fanny has a grownup daughter, Anna, with no known father. Could their poet teacher be the father although he and Fanny are not married?
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Ljuvlig är sommarnatten
Title: Ljuvlig är sommarnatten
Character: Sebastian Petrén, managing director
Released: August 17, 1961
Type: Movie
Someone is murdered. Who is the killer? Members of all star cast are all suspects...
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The Devil's Eye
Title: The Devil's Eye
Character: Satan
Released: October 17, 1960
Type: Movie
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.
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The Wedding Day
Title: The Wedding Day
Character: Narrator
Released: October 3, 1960
Type: Movie
Anders and Sylvia are set to be married, but Sylvia says 'no' and runs away at the altar.
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Decimals of Love
Title: Decimals of Love
Character: Nils Fähger
Released: September 12, 1960
Type: Movie
Charlie Gedelius has spent the last years abroad as a golf trainer. In Copenhagen, Denmark, he meets young Lena, who happens to be his brother-in-law's mistress. He goes back to Sweden to meet his sister Astrid. Her son Staffan has borrowed money from a money-lender to pay for an abortion for a girl he has met.
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Three Wishes
Title: Three Wishes
Released: January 3, 1960
Type: Movie
Oskar and Mona meet when they come to the Academy of Music to see if they have been accepted, he as a piano student, she a singing student. They become a couple and married but soon there are the frictions. Mona gets hundred crowns from her father, because he thinks she has become so charmless. For it, she buys a perfume called Three Wishes.
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Heaven and Pancakes
Title: Heaven and Pancakes
Character: Sture Turesson
Released: November 2, 1959
Type: Movie
Sequel to Sjunde himlen (1956). Dr. Lovisa Sundelius (Sickan Carlsson) and radio host Willy Lorens (Hasse Ekman) have been happily married for a couple of years, but when Willy becomes a TV host with cutie Suss (Lena Granhagen) by his side, things start to fall apart
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Enslingen i blåsväder
Title: Enslingen i blåsväder
Released: February 9, 1959
Type: Movie
The lonesome Johannes gets a phone call from Gösta Bernhard who wants to come over to him for a vacation in the archipelago.
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Miss Chic
Title: Miss Chic
Character: Urbáhn
Released: January 26, 1959
Type: Movie
Buster Carell, a talent agent is threatened by bankruptcy when his only real talent, a singing lumberjack, runs off with the company funds. Watching a TV quiz show, Carell discovers a prodigal singer, Isabella Linder, and offers her a contract. But she is unwilling and would like to remain a school teacher.
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It Happens Tonight
Title: It Happens Tonight
Character: Fencer
Released: December 20, 1957
Type: Movie
Lars Ekborg and Sven Eric Gamble portray bumbling criminals who get involved in a safe-cracking heist.
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Blonde in Bondage
Title: Blonde in Bondage
Character: Kreuger - Drug Lord
Released: November 8, 1957
Type: Movie
A reporter (Mark Miller) tries to help a drug-addicted cabaret dancer (Anita Thallaug) who has criminal ties to the Swedish underworld.
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Enslingen Johannes
Title: Enslingen Johannes
Character: Enslingen Johannes
Released: October 21, 1957
Type: Movie
Johannes live a lonesome life in the archipelago and use to have on the air phone calls with Gösta Bernhard on the radio.
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Mamma tar semester
Title: Mamma tar semester
Character: Director Sandell
Released: August 2, 1957
Type: Movie
Sylvia returns to Sweden after having lived abroad for six years. She visits her sister Karin, and is shocked to see how her husband and children regard her as a live-in housekeeper. She convinces Karin to take a vacation with her in Stockholm.
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Med glorian på sned
Title: Med glorian på sned
Character: Karl Anton
Released: July 1, 1957
Type: Movie
A secretary at a publishing company, Birgitta, writes a novel, based on her secret love of her boss. She sends it anonymously to her own company, who decides to publish it. The book becomes a success. Birgitta's husband's mistress get hold of the script and confesses that *she* wrote the novel. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
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Rasmus, Pontus and Toker
Title: Rasmus, Pontus and Toker
Character: Sword-swallower Alfredo
Released: December 8, 1956
Type: Movie
Ten-year-old Rasmus, his friend Pontus and his dog Toker, find out about a silver theft in the small town where they live. Family film from Astrid Lindgren's radio series.
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Little Fridolf and Me
Title: Little Fridolf and Me
Character: Ludde
Released: October 29, 1956
Type: Movie
Fridolf and his wife Selma gets a telegram from their daughter Maggan. She is engaged and are her way home to show her little baby.
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Syndare i filmparadiset
Title: Syndare i filmparadiset
Released: September 17, 1956
Type: Movie
Set during 1930's Stockholm, a portrayal about the birth of Europa Films - featuring over thirty segments from other movies, including one color scene from Klockorna i Gamla sta'n (1946).
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The Staffan Stolle Story
Title: The Staffan Stolle Story
Character: Ulf Christer Lefverhielm
Released: September 10, 1956
Type: Movie
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.
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Children of the Night
Title: Children of the Night
Released: August 26, 1956
Type: Movie
A man (Gunnar Hellström) meets prisoner Nils Gustaf Boman and asks him why he strayed from the straight and narrow. The prisoner says: "Put yourself in my position." The man does and sees before him himself as Nils Gustaf Boman.
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Pettersson i Annorlunda
Title: Pettersson i Annorlunda
Character: Gustav Pettersson
Released: August 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Swedish propaganda film for the Social Democrats.
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Seventh Heaven
Title: Seventh Heaven
Character: Sture Tureson
Released: June 11, 1956
Type: Movie
"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.
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The Right to Love
Title: The Right to Love
Character: Bernhard Borg
Released: February 27, 1956
Type: Movie
Priests who call sex education the devil's invention rage against the progressive doctor whose bigoted wife may regret when his teenage daughter comes home and wants an abortion. The subject of Mimi Pollack's only feature film was controversial. The model for Doctor Borg was the well-known Katrineholms lecturer Torsten Wickbom, who advocated modern sexual education in the school and family.
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Litet bo
Title: Litet bo
Released: January 30, 1956
Type: Movie
Hasse has received a scholarship from the insurance company where he works together with his friend Lennart. They both travel to Vienna so that Hasse can take a few days off, while Lennart attends lectures about insurance. While away, Lennart has rented his room to a girl, Alva. When he returns home earlier than expected, they have to share the apartment a few days...
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The Happy Shoemaker
Title: The Happy Shoemaker
Character: Strömbäck, usurer
Released: September 19, 1955
Type: Movie
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 ...?
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Flottans Muntergökar
Title: Flottans Muntergökar
Character: Captain Rickard
Released: January 1, 1955
Type: Movie
Bob and Bernard serve as lieutenants on a cruiser. They intend to enjoy themselves.
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Simon the Sinner
Title: Simon the Sinner
Character: Reverend Rickman
Released: November 15, 1954
Type: Movie
After a fist fight, Simon thinks he has killed a man and seek refuge in a religious sect. Saved he discovers that he can heal the sick and disabled. The knowledge of Simon's gifts spread quickly and the sect's leaders exploit the situation.
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Karin Månsdotter
Title: Karin Månsdotter
Character: Olof Gustavsson Stenbock
Released: November 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Karin does not belong to the nobility but nevertheless marries the mentally ill king Erik XIV and becomes queen of Sweden. The king's skilled counsellor Göran Persson wants a royal policy supporting the people and supported by it. But in relation to the nobility the king oscillates between provocative strength and unpredictable weakness. Göran arranges that some very powerful noblemen are killed. Subsequently the king tries to have them convicted of high treason by the parliament. He forgets the manuscript, mixes up all facts, and the noblemen are acquitted. But Göran speedily gathers another parliament and has them convicted. Meanwhile Erik apologises because of the unjust murders. Hence Erik is dethroned and imprisoned. Göran is executed. Karin is restricted to a castle in Finland. In the prison Erik believes that he is still the king and gives the guards presents such as all fishes in the Baltic Sea.
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Flicka utan namn
Title: Flicka utan namn
Character: The fur trader
Released: September 5, 1954
Type: Movie
A girl has been found murdered in her apartment. But who killed her and why? Through a series of flashbacks, the police investigation unfolds the murder mystery.
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Flicka med melodi
Title: Flicka med melodi
Released: August 16, 1954
Type: Movie
The sisters Britta and Ellinor live with their grandfather, music professor Libergius, teacher and leader of the city's orchestra association. In the city there is also a youthful jazz band - to the professor's horror.
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Skattefria Andersson
Title: Skattefria Andersson
Character: Gustav Andersson, kallad Skattefria Andersson
Released: August 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Andersson is always complaining about high taxes and dreams about a world with no taxes.
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I rök och dans
Title: I rök och dans
Character: Handlarns Per
Released: July 30, 1954
Type: Movie
Episodic, musical comedy. Povel Ramel company Knäppupp's first film where Martin Ljung plays 16 different roles.
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Dirch Passer vælter byen
Title: Dirch Passer vælter byen
Character: Captain Jacob Grönkvist
Released: March 22, 1954
Type: Movie
The scam artist Jens Nielsen is in prison. In exchange for a cigarette, he is told by fellow prisoner, Sture Kaxe, that he has a precious jewel worth SEK 100,000 hidden away.
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The Lunch-break Cafe
Title: The Lunch-break Cafe
Character: Ali Baba
Released: February 15, 1954
Type: Movie
"Lunch- Break Café" - A café in the old Klara district in Stockholm attracts an offbeat clientel. Among those who gather at the café is a prisoner on the run, a prostitute, a journalist and a student who is having an affair with the cafe's waitress. Naturalism.
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Resan till dej
Title: Resan till dej
Character: Bruno Vikström
Released: December 19, 1953
Type: Movie
The marriage of the newlyweds Gun and Emil is strained when Gun sings in a radio show and makes a breakthrough.
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Fartfeber
Title: Fartfeber
Character: Chief Constable
Released: November 27, 1953
Type: Movie
Gunnar and Ulf are neighbors. They are both lured into a life of crime.
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The Road to Klockrike
Title: The Road to Klockrike
Character: Axne, vagabonde
Released: July 19, 1953
Type: Movie
Bolle gets tired of working at the cigar factory and because of his desire for freedom he takes to the road. He and the other hobos have only one problem and that is the mounted policemen chasing vagrants.
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Oppåt med Gröna Hissen
Title: Oppåt med Gröna Hissen
Character: Billy Forsberg
Released: December 26, 1952
Type: Movie
A man and a woman are cheated on by their respective partners and decide to get their revenge.
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Kalle Karlsson från Jularbo
Title: Kalle Karlsson från Jularbo
Released: October 13, 1952
Type: Movie
Biographical account of Kalle Jularbo, a famous Swedish accordion-player.
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Drömsemester
Title: Drömsemester
Character: Porter / Police / Newspaper editor / Landlady / Customs officer / Gipsy / Gentleman
Released: October 3, 1952
Type: Movie
The Danish school teacher Mogens Jensen is on his holiday through Sweden in a rickety T-Ford.
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Defiance
Title: Defiance
Released: September 15, 1952
Type: Movie
A teacher is so hard on his students that he faces a warning by the school principal. In order to at least improve the strained relationship with his own son, he turns to a priest for advice.
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Vara eller inte vara
Title: Vara eller inte vara
Released: June 18, 1952
Type: Movie
"Be Or Not To Be" - The devil and his grandmother pose a problem for humanity by making it forget the word "wholesale". Chaos arises until a newspaper editor remembers the word.
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Adolf i toppform
Title: Adolf i toppform
Released: May 12, 1952
Type: Movie
A compilation of some of Adolf Jahr's films.
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One Fiancé at a Time
Title: One Fiancé at a Time
Character: Adolf Lundkvist, handelsresande i damunderkläder
Released: May 4, 1952
Type: Movie
Lilian is engaged to engineer Arne. To make him more interested in her, she meets a few other men.
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Åke klarar biffen
Title: Åke klarar biffen
Released: March 24, 1952
Type: Movie
Åke is small and fits everywhere. A film mostly consisting of scenes from older films.
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Säg det med blommor
Title: Säg det med blommor
Released: January 28, 1952
Type: Movie
Kirre buys a flower for his fiancee Gun on the anniversary of their engagement. Gun's mother, an illusion-free elderly lady, believes that this attention will disappear when they marry.
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Helen of Troy
Title: Helen of Troy
Character: Hector
Released: December 26, 1951
Type: Movie
Intrigues and entanglements before Prince Paris wins the heart of beautiful Helena. It all happens in the small kingdom of Arcadia at the time of the Trojan War. Swedish version of Jacques Offenbach's operetta of the classic Greek myth.
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Poker
Title: Poker
Character: Mr. Alkeryd a.k.a. The Spider
Released: November 12, 1951
Type: Movie
Sven Bergström is charged with murder, alternatively a man slaughter, on an infamous professional poker player called "The Rover". The trial is in progress. In retrospect, we witness Svens life until the time of the crime.
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Livat på luckan
Title: Livat på luckan
Released: October 29, 1951
Type: Movie
Johansson has managed to stay away from the military service for several years. But now his time has come.
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The Nuthouse
Title: The Nuthouse
Character: Birger Sjögren
Released: September 21, 1951
Type: Movie
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
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Spöke på semester
Title: Spöke på semester
Character: Borgkrona
Released: September 2, 1951
Type: Movie
"Ghost on Holiday" - Stockholm 1950 is experiencing a gold rush, after the discovery of gold during the building of the new underground. Assistant Borgkrona (Järrell) owns a plot in the gold area. The lawyer Målbrott informs Borgkrona that he has inherited a haunted castle and must stay there for a fortnight. However, once at the castle he meets his old relative who is a ghost (Järrell) and the two trade places
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Perhaps a Gentleman
Title: Perhaps a Gentleman
Character: Stig Järrel
Released: December 26, 1950
Type: Movie
After watching Stig Järrel star in a production of Pygmalion Mister Haglund bets him that he can turn anyone into a gentlemen in a few months.
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The White Cat
Title: The White Cat
Character: Algot
Released: December 25, 1950
Type: Movie
A man comes to Stockholm's central station. He does not know who he is or where he has been. He has some keys and a phone number. Perhaps he is the escaped sex maniac the police are searching for. A waitress at a café tries to help him.
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When Love Came to the Village
Title: When Love Came to the Village
Character: Teacher Axel Brunell
Released: October 8, 1950
Type: Movie
A new teacher arrives to the small village and he soon stir up some trouble with his modern way of looking at things. He also stir up some amorous feelings among the local women.
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Fianceé for Hire
Title: Fianceé for Hire
Character: Major Pålman
Released: August 28, 1950
Type: Movie
A secretary transforms their defunct legal agency into a service where you can get anything, from childcare to gardening to even a fiancée.
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Motorkavaljerer
Title: Motorkavaljerer
Character: Major Eggert
Released: March 13, 1950
Type: Movie
An inventive store assistant becomes a major motorcycle racing star.
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Två trappor över gården
Title: Två trappor över gården
Character: Art collector
Released: February 6, 1950
Type: Movie
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.
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Stora Hoparegränd och himmelriket
Title: Stora Hoparegränd och himmelriket
Character: Director Wiland
Released: December 26, 1949
Type: Movie
Erik, a poor inventor meets the clerk Lillemor and fall in love. Erik's becomes invention is ready for the market. He contacts a director who might be interested. Erik is attracted almost immediately by the director's wife.
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Pippi Longstocking
Title: Pippi Longstocking
Character: Albin Rosén
Released: December 9, 1949
Type: Movie
In a small town lies Villa Villerkulla, and in that villa a small girl, Pippi Longstocking, has moved in with her horse and monkey.
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Swing it, Boccaccio
Title: Swing it, Boccaccio
Character: Sten Rampe / Dioneo / Selabeatto / Stig Järrel
Released: November 27, 1949
Type: Movie
The theater director Sten Rampe, Svend Blom and Ulrik Blad are on their way to Sten's summer house and suddenly get a flat tire. The fate brings them together with seven young women whose car has fallen out for the same accident.
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Sjösalavår
Title: Sjösalavår
Character: Carmencita's father
Released: September 5, 1949
Type: Movie
The Troubadour sits at a rock beside his summerhouse Sjösala in the Stockholm archipelago. He is composing a new ballad, when his son Sven Bertil interrupts him, telling him that an angry man is knocking at their door. It is the creditor Andersson, coming with a new unpaid bill to be put on the top of all the other. The Troubadour is tired of all economical problems. It disturbs the peace he needs to be able to write new songs, and without new songs he cannot earn the money he needs to pay the bills. To get peace and inspiration for his writing, he makes a quick decision to go to Buenos Aires. By phone he persuades his publisher to prepay 7000 kronor for some future book. On the little ferry from the islands in the sea to Stockholm city the Troubadour is carried away by his imagination into the fictitious world of his main character Fritiof Andersson. Colorful scenes from various songs are enacted before his dreaming eyes. In Stockholm he spends the night at the inn Gyldene Freden. ...
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Hin och smålänningen
Title: Hin och smålänningen
Released: March 14, 1949
Type: Movie
Gunnar works at a rail road in the woods and blasts a large boulder. Out of the ashes comes Satan himself - with cloven hoofs and a big mean grin.
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Gatan
Title: Gatan
Character: Sven Andreasson
Released: February 27, 1949
Type: Movie
Britt Malm gets hit by a car on a Stockholm street and is taken to hospital. She is badly injured and must undergo surgery. While the anesthetic takes effect she sees hallucinatory images. This turns into a flashback of what happened Britt before the accident.
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The Woman Drives Me Crazy
Title: The Woman Drives Me Crazy
Released: December 26, 1948
Type: Movie
Managing Director Erik Cassander is in financial strain and his only hope is a wealthy aunt.
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Sin
Title: Sin
Character: Brust
Released: December 22, 1948
Type: Movie
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.
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Strange Harbor
Title: Strange Harbor
Character: The man in the fur coat
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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Little Martin Returns
Title: Little Martin Returns
Character: Sture Lagerström
Released: August 14, 1948
Type: Movie
Sture Letterström and Kurre Svensson take on the task of rescuing a secret document during World War II from a group of Swedish Nazis. Since both of them are known by the local Nazis, Sture takes on the role of Miss Märta Letterström, and Kurre also has to make use of his feminine side as well as a dress.
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Love, Sunshine and Songs
Title: Love, Sunshine and Songs
Character: Narrator / Man in Bathrobe
Released: February 28, 1948
Type: Movie
Two photographers from Stockholm go to the west coast on behalf of their employer, who is a swimwear manufacturer. They will look for the season's most beautiful bathing girl, but it will be harder than they think to find the ideal model.
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Var sin väg
Title: Var sin väg
Character: Nils Brenner
Released: February 16, 1948
Type: Movie
A drama about a doctor and his wife. She used to be an actress, but became a housewife when she married. When she resumes her acting career the marriage crashes.
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Får jag lov, magistern!
Title: Får jag lov, magistern!
Released: December 26, 1947
Type: Movie
The teacher Clemens is instructed to learn to dance so that he can teach the subject.
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Tappa inte sugen
Title: Tappa inte sugen
Character: Valle, author
Released: December 22, 1947
Type: Movie
In a movie studio, a fight scene is underway. The hero, played by Allan Bergner, will make an impression on the heroine, played by Ylva Vendel. But Allan is not prepared to give more than one pale hint of fight; he wants to be presentable in later scenes as well. The director wears his hair.
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The Sixth Commandment
Title: The Sixth Commandment
Character: Krister Ekberg
Released: September 27, 1947
Type: Movie
Jane and Karl have been married for many years. Jane feels trapped in their marriage and takes a lover. She is caught by her daughter Kerstin and forced to leave family and home.
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Det vackraste på jorden
Title: Det vackraste på jorden
Released: September 15, 1947
Type: Movie
Bengt, a ship mechanic , and his wife Karin has been relocated to a modern apartment house in Stockholm. On the ground floor is a tobacconist, whose owner Frithiof is also the deputy landlord of the house.
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Maria
Title: Maria
Character: Movie director Harry Sörbom
Released: August 1, 1947
Type: Movie
Maria has been fired from her job as a householder with a family in a small town in Sweden. She leaves in anger for Stockholm, aiming for a career as an actress.
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The Bride Came Through the Ceiling
Title: The Bride Came Through the Ceiling
Character: Sigvard Lejoncrona
Released: March 24, 1947
Type: Movie
The police is looking for a female burglar all dressed in white.
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Onda ögon
Title: Onda ögon
Released: February 3, 1947
Type: Movie
Per Jonas wife Hedvig is ill and Barbro has been employed to care for her. Per Jonas falls in love with Barbro and in order to live with her, he kills Hedvig.
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While the Door Was Locked
Title: While the Door Was Locked
Character: En kund hos Bojan
Released: December 26, 1946
Type: Movie
The film follows a number of people in an apartment building during a night full of dramatic events and entanglements.
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Iris and the Lieutenant
Title: Iris and the Lieutenant
Character: Harald
Released: December 16, 1946
Type: Movie
Robert, an upper-class officer, meets and falls in love with Iris, a house maid. His family will do anything to stop her from marrying him.
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Incorrigible
Title: Incorrigible
Character: Björn "Mankan" Mander
Released: September 30, 1946
Type: Movie
Olga Sundbom is divorced and has custody of her spoiled son Krister. The lack of upbringing has made Krister an intolerable petty gangster. He is therefore put in a boarding school in a smaller town, and his getting in is due to a scam he himself is responsible for. Soon he turns the little idyll upside down.
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Affairs of a Model
Title: Affairs of a Model
Released: September 23, 1946
Type: Movie
Dora moves in with the artist Erik to become his model. Three men from a Masonic Order pretends to be interested in his art, but Dora is their real focus.
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Peggy på vift
Title: Peggy på vift
Character: Frank Bing
Released: June 8, 1946
Type: Movie
Frank Bing is a big artist in the USA and arrives home in his native Sweden with his secretary Ada. The portier at the hotel has great difficulties keeping the adoring fans away from Frank. Among them is Peggy Dalin who has been tasked by her father with getting Frank to sign with his record company using her great charm.
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Interlude
Title: Interlude
Character: Martin Dahlberg
Released: February 11, 1946
Type: Movie
The Swedish doctor of literature Vilhelm Canitz arrive to Lugano in Italy for a few weeks stay at a medical clinic. Canitz considers himself to be quite healthy and the stay as an extended vacation. He meets a number of patients at the clinic suffering of terminal illnesses, including Vellamo Toivonen (Lindfors). The patients deal with the fact that they will not leave the clinic alive in different ways; with self-destruction, denial or imprudence. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
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13 Chairs
Title: 13 Chairs
Character: Strand
Released: December 26, 1945
Type: Movie
Filip Palm works as a clerk. His hobby is creating inventions of different sorts. He has just received a big inheritance and has fallen in love with Gun Svärdsjö.
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Gomorron Bill!
Title: Gomorron Bill!
Character: Julle Spant
Released: November 14, 1945
Type: Movie
Land owner Bill Bärnfelt sees a beautiful woman when he is out riding and immediately falls in love. But then his former fiancee turns up and makes a fuss.
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Put Our Märta First or As Luck Will Have It
Title: Put Our Märta First or As Luck Will Have It
Character: Sture / Märta
Released: September 29, 1945
Type: Movie
An out-of-work musician is desperate for work and when his best friend sees an add requesting a cellist he signs him up. However, the work is for a female, so he creates the character Märta Letterström and joins the trio at a small-town hotel. But being a woman is not as easy as you think.
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Wandering with the Moon
Title: Wandering with the Moon
Character: The Vagabonde
Released: August 7, 1945
Type: Movie
Dan, aged 19, leaves his home after a quarrel with his father. At the side of the country road he meets a traveling theater company who has run out of money. He falls in love with the young actress Pia and together they leave, meeting a string of peculiar characters: a vagabond, a friendly vicar and a cynical adventurer.
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Skådetennis
Title: Skådetennis
Character: Himself
Released: January 22, 1945
Type: Movie
Tennis competitions between Swedish actors at Saltsjöbaden.
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Oss tjuvar emellan eller en burk ananas
Title: Oss tjuvar emellan eller en burk ananas
Character: lawyer Barman
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 Royal Rabble
Title: The Royal Rabble
Character: Stridström
Released: January 19, 1945
Type: Movie
The ups and downs of three generations in an acting family.
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...och alla dessa kvinnor
Title: ...och alla dessa kvinnor
Character: Gunnar Skönman
Released: November 13, 1944
Type: Movie
Axel is courting women in large quantities. He increasingly conscious and excessively uses his innate and viable charm, evolving into a pure Don Juan.
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The Girl and the Devil
Title: The Girl and the Devil
Character: "Guffar", travelling salesman
Released: October 30, 1944
Type: Movie
The soul of an evil witch about to be burned is transferred to the child of a pregnant woman in the audience. 19 years later a timid girl arrives at a farm looking for work. The farmer employs her despite his wife's protests. Soon it stands clear that the girl is in fact the evil witch, returned to wreak havoc on the farmer and his family. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
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Torment
Title: Torment
Character: Caligula
Released: October 2, 1944
Type: Movie
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.
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Like Everyone Else
Title: Like Everyone Else
Character: Enander
Released: September 9, 1944
Type: Movie
Kurre and Inga are engaged to be married. However, as they are very poor, they can't afford it just yet. They live separate, both in small apartments with a friend. Inga works at an office and Kurre at a small factory. Inga has a liability to be late in the mornings and this gets her into some trouble at the office, because of her very strict boss. This, along with the fact that another girl starts to court Kurre puts their relationship to the test, a crisis which is easier said than done to solve.
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Jag är eld och luft
Title: Jag är eld och luft
Character: Pharmacist Edvind Franzen, Jenny's first husband
Released: September 7, 1944
Type: Movie
Vicar Ahrman's young daughter Jenny has left the home to start a new life with her beloved Stefan. But Jenny's dreams for the future is shattered when Stefan doesn't turn up to their meeting. Heartbroken, she returns home.
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Den osynliga muren
Title: Den osynliga muren
Character: Victor Reis
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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Hans officiella fästmö
Title: Hans officiella fästmö
Released: June 12, 1944
Type: Movie
Business manager Ludvig Berndtson desperately needs a fiancée to get rid of an ex-girlfriend. He asks one of his employees, secretary Monica Brandt, to pretend to be his fiancée for a while. She is at first unwilling but desperately needs the money and accepts.
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Hans officiella fästmö
Title: Hans officiella fästmö
Character: Otto, Ludvig's uncle
Released: June 12, 1944
Type: Movie
Business manager Ludvig Berndtson desperately needs a fiancée to get rid of an ex-girlfriend. He asks one of his employees, secretary Monica Brandt, to pretend to be his fiancée for a while. She is at first unwilling but desperately needs the money and accepts.
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Lev farligt
Title: Lev farligt
Character: Otto Frank
Released: April 3, 1944
Type: Movie
Iben Holt, a rich bohemian, lives in an occupied country. On his way home from a party he hears an explosion and sees flames rising from a factory. At home awaits another surprise.
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His Excellency
Title: His Excellency
Character: Major Monk
Released: March 3, 1944
Type: Movie
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.
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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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Herre med portfölj
Title: Herre med portfölj
Character: Manager Bexell
Released: November 30, 1943
Type: Movie
Rolf Berger, a hard working and dutiful deputy judge at the court of appeal, has been married for many years with Eva. She has long ago accepted that he spends his evenings with his legal work. Rolf Berger has been invited to the 25th anniversary of his graduation and starts to reconsider the kind of life he lives. When he meets the 19-year old Inger he falls in love with her and decide to leave his wife.
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I dag gifter sig min man
Title: I dag gifter sig min man
Released: October 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Mette divorced from her husband, the architect Sven, a year ago. But her feelings for him are still strong. When she hears about Sven getting married to Vera she can't avoid to interfer.
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Herr Collins äventyr
Title: Herr Collins äventyr
Released: August 27, 1943
Type: Movie
Filip Collin, the elegant small town patron, has suffered from money market concerns due to bankruptcy on foreign exchanges.
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There Burns a Fire
Title: There Burns a Fire
Character: Paul Winter
Released: August 23, 1943
Type: Movie
An allegory of Germany's WWII occupation of Norway. Members of a theater ensemble join the resistance.
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Som du vill ha mej
Title: Som du vill ha mej
Character: Dr. Holm
Released: March 22, 1943
Type: Movie
The architect Gösta complains to Dr. Holm about his wife Gunilla's introverted character. Holm proposes a drug that will make her more outgoing.
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Vi mötte stormen
Title: Vi mötte stormen
Released: January 9, 1943
Type: Movie
Documentary footage mixed with acted scenes portray events of the Second World War from a Swedish perspective.
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Lyckan kommer
Title: Lyckan kommer
Character: Georg Hedberg
Released: August 17, 1942
Type: Movie
The idle rich have their own particular problems. Case in point, Georg and Monika Hedberg were once poor and happy but since Georg became an established painter family bliss has decreased for every fur coat Monika has bought. Their divorce lawyer suggest that they try to save their marriage by moving to a small apartment and live life frugally but happy. When the trial period is over and they want to return home again, their lawyer has stolen their money and disappeared. The Hedbergs are evicted for unpaid rent and terminal poverty seem to be imminent. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
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Flames in the Dark
Title: Flames in the Dark
Character: Birger Sjögren
Released: March 2, 1942
Type: Movie
Latin teacher Birger Sjögren at Ringsala boarding school threatens his possesive and chronically ill mother that he will get married. She gets a stroke and dies. Sjögren is affected by feelings of guilt, envy and hatred towards the surroundings. A series of mysterious fires have taken place around the school the last few months. One of the students has seen Sjögren setting fire to a barn. But can he convince the trusted biology teacher Nordmark, expert of the criminal mind?
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En sjöman i frack
Title: En sjöman i frack
Character: Professor Petréus
Released: February 22, 1942
Type: Movie
First mate Karlsson is mistaken for famous actor Linde.
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En fattig miljonär
Title: En fattig miljonär
Released: December 26, 1941
Type: Movie
Nisse Holm start marketing coffee made of tree cones.
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Fröken Vildkatt
Title: Fröken Vildkatt
Character: Jimmy Cronklinga
Released: December 15, 1941
Type: Movie
Thomas Palm (Åke Söderblom) has recently been promoted at work at The Royal Canal Office. He celebrates with his friends on a night out and on the way home he saves a woman from drowning. The woman's name is Dolly (Marguerite Viby), an out of work actress, who won't leave his side and this gets him into trouble when he is about to get married in a couple of days.
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The First Squadron
Title: The First Squadron
Character: Lieutenant Sperling
Released: September 23, 1941
Type: Movie
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.
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Så tuktas en äkta man
Title: Så tuktas en äkta man
Character: Baltzar Hassler, bankir
Released: April 10, 1941
Type: Movie
Göran Brehmer lives in Stockholm and can't resist flirting with women.
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Livet går vidare
Title: Livet går vidare
Character: Kristensson
Released: February 28, 1941
Type: Movie
The Swedish officer Mikael Bourg has served with the French army in Africa. When he returns to Sweden after many years abroad to recover from malaria, he meets his son, a student who prefers partying with his frat friends instead of his bank job; a disappointment in his father's eyes. He also meets a young librarian, Ebba Garland, which makes him feel young again and distracts him from the sickness.
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Nygifta
Title: Nygifta
Character: Dr. Albert Lundberg
Released: February 20, 1941
Type: Movie
The young architect Gunnar Bergstrand marries the Norwegian Eva, against his parents' wishes.
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Romans
Title: Romans
Released: December 17, 1940
Type: Movie
An engineer with a factory is on the brink of ruin. A greedy director offers to buy his mill. Instead, the engineer opens a hotel. With little success. A rumor has that Greta Garbo is expected at the hotel.
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With You in My Arms
Title: With You in My Arms
Character: Felix Tallgren
Released: November 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Millionaire Krister Dahl loses his memory when he is hit in the head by a golf ball. He meets his ex-wife and immediately fall in love with her again. She does not know what to believe, is it true or is it only a joke? He also discovers how he has mismanaged his company in his earlier life.
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Hanna in High Society
Title: Hanna in High Society
Released: November 4, 1940
Type: Movie
When the old colonel Hummerborg dies, he leaves his fortune and estate to his trusted housemaid Hanna. But the colonel's relatives try everything to have the last will canceled.
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Vi tre
Title: Vi tre
Character: Baltsar Ekberg
Released: October 19, 1940
Type: Movie
Kristina and Sture is married and has a little baby boy, Olle. Sture is an architect and while he is struggling with his business, his wife Kristina gets lonesome and starts to get take an interest in Sture's Norwegian architect colleague, Arne Ranck.
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Karl för sin hatt
Title: Karl för sin hatt
Character: Jimmy
Released: August 23, 1940
Type: Movie
Urban girl falls for rugged forest ranger.
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Hennes melodi
Title: Hennes melodi
Released: June 2, 1940
Type: Movie
Sonja meet Curt in a taxi cab. By mistake, each believes that the other is a rich member of the upper class. They meet on a date, but since neither wants to reveal the truth about themselves, they both get more and more caught in the web of lies they have produced.
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...som en tjuv om natten
Title: ...som en tjuv om natten
Released: March 18, 1940
Type: Movie
Nisse Ekberg is in San Francisco but wants to get back to Sweden. Not being a completely honest guy, he gets mixed up with another person and assumes his identity.
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We Two
Title: We Two
Character: Baltzar Ekberg
Released: March 16, 1939
Type: Movie
Architect Sture Ahrengren walks out of his job with an architecture firm with the support of his wife Kristina. He gets a position with an old friend, Balstar Ekberg, who has a big engineering job going. But Sture gets entangled in a romance with Ekberg's wife, Helena.
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Herr Husassistenten
Title: Herr Husassistenten
Released: December 26, 1938
Type: Movie
Vicke Lundin is a car mechanic in a garage where the owner is a brutal and selfish. With him, Vicke argues about the bills the customers have to pay.
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Vi som går scenvägen
Title: Vi som går scenvägen
Released: February 12, 1938
Type: Movie
Tage breaks up with his girlfriend Dora when he falls in love with the ballet dancer Maud.
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Lyckliga Vestköping
Title: Lyckliga Vestköping
Character: Rolf Gånge
Released: August 20, 1937
Type: Movie
When the mine is closing down in the small community of Vestköping the town bank is also in danger. Sudden news of the return of one of the town's inhabitants who had emigrated to the USA and is said to be very wealthy improves spirits of everyone.
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En flicka kommer till sta'n
Title: En flicka kommer till sta'n
Released: February 18, 1937
Type: Movie
Ulla takes the train to Stockholm to try her luck in the big city.
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Ä' vi gifta?
Title: Ä' vi gifta?
Character: Maestro O. Toni, fiolinist og komponist
Released: March 9, 1936
Type: Movie
The well-known musician and composer Åke Kjellberg wakes up in a nice Stockholm apartment. He lives in Count Sparvhök's empty home until it gets rented out.
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Raggen - det är jag det
Title: Raggen - det är jag det
Released: February 27, 1936
Type: Movie
Maria, who's called Raggen, is one of a total of 9 daughters in the family. For a birthday present, Raggen gets a trip to Paris.
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Samvetsömma Adolf
Title: Samvetsömma Adolf
Character: Anton
Released: January 13, 1936
Type: Movie
Operetta singer Adolf Berg will be called up for military duty just as he gets assigned a major role in an operetta. On the train he meets Ulla Wern and complications occur.
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Walpurgis Night
Title: Walpurgis Night
Character: Grane
Released: October 23, 1935
Type: Movie
Lena Bergström works in an office and is unhappily in love with her boss, Johan Borg. She decides to quit. Borg's wife won't have any children, and when she becomes pregnant she has an illegal abortion. For some reason, Lena's father believes that it is Lena who has had an abortion.
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Larsson i andra giftet
Title: Larsson i andra giftet
Released: August 30, 1935
Type: Movie
Lasse Larsson works as a baker at the bakery Gyllene Trappen in Stockholm. He loves to sing while he bakes.