Naima Wifstrand

Naima Wifstrand

Born: September 4, 1890
Died: October 23, 1968
in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
Naima Wifstrand (pronounced [ˈnâjma ˈvîːfstrand];[check tonemes] 4 September 1890 – 23 October 1968) was a Swedish film actress, operetta singer, troubadour, director and composer. In her later years, she was cast in several supporting roles in Ingmar Bergman films.

Movies for Naima Wifstrand...

Behind the Scenes of 'Wild Strawberries'
Title: Behind the Scenes of 'Wild Strawberries'
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: June 11, 2013
Type: Movie
A behind the scenes montage from Wild Strawberries on 16mm shot by Bergman himself, narrated by Jon Wengström. First presented in this form on the Criterion Collection's Blu-ray edition of the film.
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Waltz of Sex
Title: Waltz of Sex
Character: The Old Lady
Released: September 22, 1968
Type: Movie
When a vagrant family arrives to the village Vindinge one hot summer in the 1920's, the parish is spiced up with sex and alcohol. Based on a novel by Swedish Academy member Artur Lundkvist.
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Hour of the Wolf
Title: Hour of the Wolf
Character: Old Lady with Hat
Released: February 19, 1968
Type: Movie
While vacationing on a remote German island with his pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.
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Lorden från gränden
Title: Lorden från gränden
Released: March 27, 1967
Type: Movie
Tiburtius "Tibbe" Pettersson is a poor photographer in Stockholm's Old Town. He has a fiancee, Maja Sjöblom, who is a waitress. Tibbe has begun to doubt that they will ever be able to afford to marry.
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Night Games
Title: Night Games
Character: Astrid
Released: September 12, 1966
Type: Movie
A man on the verge of marriage is haunted by traumatic memories from his childhood.
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The D.T.'s
Title: The D.T.'s
Character: Mrs. von Grün
Released: June 27, 1966
Type: Movie
An eccentric, offbeat man performing pranks and peculiarities becomes a major concern for the Stockholm authorities. He mingles with bizarre slum characters and dreams of his ideal girl.
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The Brig Three Lilies
Title: The Brig Three Lilies
Character: Farmor Tuvesson
Released: December 26, 1961
Type: Movie
On the coast of Sweden in 1888, a 12-year-old orphan finds adventure and new hope that his missing father survived a shipwreck years before.
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Fröken Rosita
Title: Fröken Rosita
Released: December 9, 1960
Type: Movie
Play by Federico Garcia Lorca. Swedish interpretation of Hjalmar Gullberg and Karin Alin.
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The Judge
Title: The Judge
Character: Mrs. Wangendorff
Released: October 14, 1960
Type: Movie
Krister and his fiancé Brita return to Stockholm after a stay in Italy. Shortly upon their return Krister learns that all his assets left to him by his father has disappeared. Together with Brita he tries to obtain justice in a aristocratic and corrupt legal system.
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The Magician
Title: The Magician
Character: Granny Vogler
Released: December 26, 1958
Type: Movie
When 'Vogler's Magnetic Health Theater' comes to town, there's bound to be a spectacle. Reading reports of a variety of supernatural disturbances at Vogler's prior performances abroad, the leading townspeople (including the police chief and medical examiner) request that their troupe provide them a sample of their act, before allowing them public audiences. The scientific-minded disbelievers try to expose them as charlatans, but Vogler and his crew prove too clever for them.
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Wild Strawberries
Title: Wild Strawberries
Character: Mrs. Borg
Released: December 26, 1957
Type: Movie
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.
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Sjutton år
Title: Sjutton år
Character: Clara
Released: December 21, 1957
Type: Movie
It's summertime. The students Allan and Erik returns to their home town. 19-year old Allan is in love with 17-year old Anna-Lena. She rejects his clumsy attempts of telling her, but that's because she is uncertain of her own feelings. The Norwegian singer Lydia Hennert has an accident with her car and she is slightly injured. Allan's father is a doctor and Lydia spends a few days with them. Allan falls in love with her instead, she is a "real" woman and not a girl. But this makes Anna-Lena jealous.
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Mr. Sleeman Is Coming
Title: Mr. Sleeman Is Coming
Character: Mrs. Gina
Released: April 18, 1957
Type: Movie
Herr Sleeman kommer is a 1917 one-act play by the Swedish author Hjalmar Bergman. The main character is an orphaned young woman who is about to be married off to an unappealing but rich old man, Mr. Sleeman, at the instigation of her aunts who have taken charge of her. Bergman infuses the situation with overtones of rueful pessimism concerning life in general.
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My Passionate Longing
Title: My Passionate Longing
Released: November 19, 1956
Type: Movie
The nurse Nina becomes sterile after an illegal abortion and keep it a secret from her husband.
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Girl in Tails
Title: Girl in Tails
Character: Widow Hyltenius
Released: October 15, 1956
Type: Movie
The beautiful student Katja shocks the conservative and rigid city of Wadköping by appearing in tail-coat on the big prom.
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The Blonde Witch
Title: The Blonde Witch
Character: Maila
Released: June 6, 1956
Type: Movie
Brulard, a French civil engineer on assignment in a remote Swedish village, meets Ina, who has been raised in forested isolation by her haggish mother and believes herself to be a witch. He falls in love with her and tries to convert her to civilization; but in the meantime, his female boss, Kristina, has fallen in love with him, while the villagers turn against him for consorting with someone they believe is cursed by the Devil.
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Smiles of a Summer Night
Title: Smiles of a Summer Night
Character: Desirée's Mother
Released: December 26, 1955
Type: Movie
Early in the 20th century, middle-aged lawyer Fredrik Egerman and his young wife, Anne, have still not consummated their marriage, while Fredrik's son finds himself increasingly attracted to his new stepmother. To make matters worse, Fredrik's old flame Desiree makes a public bet that she can seduce him at a romantic weekend retreat where four couples convene, swapping partners and pairing off in unexpected ways.
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Den underbara lögnen
Title: Den underbara lögnen
Released: November 25, 1955
Type: Movie
The night before her wedding, a nervous bride examines her gifts and picks out a book of romantic short stories. Hoping to while away the evening, she settles on the couch and begins reading "La grande Bretêche" by Honoré de Balzac.
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Paradiset
Title: Paradiset
Character: Mrs. Ekström
Released: October 16, 1955
Type: Movie
The two alcoholics Rudolf and Bertil gets fired from their jobs. For Bertil the story ends happily. He quits drinking and takes a job on a ship. For Rudolph it is worse. He can't kick the booze.
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Dreams
Title: Dreams
Character: Fru Arén
Released: August 22, 1955
Type: Movie
Susanne is a woman in her mid-30s and the owner of a modeling agency in Stockholm. She accompanies her prize model, Doris, on a trip to Gothenburg so that Doris can be photographed. While traveling, both women seek out romance, Susanne with a married lover and Doris with an older gentleman who sees his deceased wife in the young model. The two women struggle to understand their romantic motivations and in the process form an unlikely friendship.
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Danssalongen
Title: Danssalongen
Character: 'Madame'
Released: July 29, 1955
Type: Movie
Love, jealousy, music and drugs in violent wild youth thriller. Takes place at the legendary dance-hall Nalen in Stockholm.
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Med Ingrid Bergman på Berns
Title: Med Ingrid Bergman på Berns
Released: November 12, 1953
Type: Movie
Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini at a gala held in Sweden in 1953.
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Malin Goes Home
Title: Malin Goes Home
Character: Malin
Released: October 14, 1953
Type: Movie
Old lady Malin Klintbom is being promised a cosy and comfortably life at the residential home she is invited to visit. However, she finds the home impossible to live at and flies in panic to her cabin.
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Vingslag i natten
Title: Vingslag i natten
Character: Ane
Released: October 5, 1953
Type: Movie
Orphan boy and vicar's daughter fall in love but her father is strongly opposed to their relationship.
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The Road to Klockrike
Title: The Road to Klockrike
Character: Waterhead's Mother
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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Ursula - Flickan i Finnskogarna
Title: Ursula - Flickan i Finnskogarna
Released: March 2, 1953
Type: Movie
Ursula is the only daughter of a rich landowner high in Sweden. At 20 her father dies and she becomes reluctant heiress to huge property. Ursula is emotionally torn between a young handsome forester and farmer.
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For the Sake of My Intemperate Youth
Title: For the Sake of My Intemperate Youth
Character: Vendela Påhlman
Released: December 17, 1952
Type: Movie
For the Sake of My Intemperate Youth (Swedish: För min heta ungdoms skull) is a 1952 Swedish drama film directed by Arne Mattsson. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.
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Waiting Women
Title: Waiting Women
Character: Mrs. Lobelius
Released: November 3, 1952
Type: Movie
Rakel, Marta, Karin and Annette are married to four brothers. While waiting in a summer cottage for their husbands to come home, they tell each other stories about their marriages. Rakel tells about the time she had an affair and confronted her husband with it. Marta's story is about how she at first refused to marry and had her child by herself. Karin tells about what happened when one time she and her husband got stuck in an elevator together. While the women tell their stories, Marta's younger sister Maj is planning to elope.
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Hård klang
Title: Hård klang
Character: Narrator / Clothes Saleswoman
Released: September 15, 1952
Type: Movie
A small Swedish village has transformed to an industrial center with exports to Germany. A German opened a quarry some 50 years ago, after realizing the value of granite. Now WW1 begins.
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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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Valley of the Eagles
Title: Valley of the Eagles
Character: Baroness Erland
Released: September 26, 1951
Type: Movie
A Norwegian scientist builds a device that can convert sound waves into electrical energy. However, the machine is stolen by the scientist's wife and assistant, who head across the frozen tundra towards Russia. A police inspector and a local girl team up with the scientist to help recover the device.
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Puck heter jag
Title: Puck heter jag
Character: Agneta Lindman
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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Södrans Revy
Title: Södrans Revy
Character: The primadonna
Released: November 6, 1950
Type: Movie
Naima Wifstrand, leading old lady, dressed as a Primadonna presents the variety revue "The Old, Happy 40's", a dark time of angst, depression and derailed, wild happiness. Those were the days. Music, dance, songs and hillarious sketches follow.
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Fianceé for Hire
Title: Fianceé for Hire
Character: En gammal dam
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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The Wind Is My Lover
Title: The Wind Is My Lover
Character: Cioara
Released: December 13, 1949
Type: Movie
Set in medieval times about the cursed Moonshield family. The young knight Erland Moonshield fall in love with a gypsy enchantress, Singoalla, he meet in the forest.
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Thirst
Title: Thirst
Character: Miss Henriksson
Released: October 17, 1949
Type: Movie
A needy couple in a bad marriage travel back to Stockholm after a trip to Italy. Meanwhile, a widow resists seductions from two different persons - her psychiatrist and a lesbian friend.
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Playing Truant
Title: Playing Truant
Character: Dehlin, principal
Released: August 15, 1949
Type: Movie
High school student Margareta fall head over heels in love with a young doctor and announce her engagement to him to her parents. She quits school and move in with him in a large house. However, the life of a housewife soon becomes tedious. Her husband does not want her to study but secretly she enrolls in a high school again to be able to graduate. Her husband suspects funny business when she is spotted with her private tutor.
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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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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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Flottans kavaljerer
Title: Flottans kavaljerer
Character: Mamma Carotti
Released: December 25, 1948
Type: Movie
Baron Conrad Crusenhielm is hit in the head during a drunken brawl. Suffering from amnesia, he is mistaken for the lost sailor Karlsson and taken to the navy vessel Fylgia.
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Private Bom
Title: Private Bom
Character: Head Nurse
Released: December 10, 1948
Type: Movie
The station-master Fabian Bom is a very meticulous person, and he makes sure that the trains leaves exactly - on the second. To him, nothing could be more important than duty, efficiency and punctuality, in fact, his sense of duty is clearly perverted. His beloved Plum-Plum, the major's daughter, is infatuated with army officers. To regain her attention, he joins the infantry. Bom becomes a soldier who loves the military training, long marches as well as hard labour as punishment. He meets Agnes, who falls madly in love with him.
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Solkatten
Title: Solkatten
Character: Helena
Released: November 27, 1948
Type: Movie
The waitress Monica goes to Västerköping to find out who actually was her father. By aunt Margareta, she has been told that her mother, who died at birth, had four admirers.
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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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Lappblod
Title: Lappblod
Character: Mina
Released: June 26, 1948
Type: Movie
Lapland, Sweden. The Sami Arvi wants to marry young Aino but her mother will not give her permission as long as Arvi does not have a herd of 400 reindeer. The only one who has reindeer to sell is the rich Oula, but he wants to marry Aino as well. The only way for Arvi to get the animals is buying them from Norway - but this is highly illegal.
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Music in Darkness
Title: Music in Darkness
Character: Beatrice Schröder
Released: January 17, 1948
Type: Movie
Because of an accident at a military drill the recruit Bengt loses his eyesight and becomes blind. He gets to live with relatives in the countryside and meets the young Ingrid. She falls in love with him but Bengt's bitterness also makes him blind to her attentions.
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Ådalens poesi
Title: Ådalens poesi
Released: December 26, 1947
Type: Movie
The farmers Zackris Månsson and the Kerstorps-farmer lives on each side of the river. The two villages has always been enemies. The Kerstorps-farmer dies after a beating caused by Zachris. The son Olle takes over the farm and becomes a good farmer. He has a reputation of a fancying women, but the only women he has eyes for is Zachris daughter.
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The People from Simlangs Valley
Title: The People from Simlangs Valley
Character: Skoga-Börta
Released: December 26, 1947
Type: Movie
Class struggle and love trouble in the woods between Halland and Småland.
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Two Women
Title: Two Women
Character: Mrs Jonsson
Released: November 18, 1947
Type: Movie
"Two Women" - Cecilia is in hospital after being subjected to an attempt on her life. Her husband is called to the hospital. Cecilia deliriously mentions a mutual friend. The husband seeks out the friend.
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A Guest Is Coming
Title: A Guest Is Coming
Character: Doris af Ernstam
Released: November 3, 1947
Type: Movie
It's Christmas. The owner of an old mansion decides to tell his family he's going to sell it. The following morning he's found murdered.
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Nattvaktens hustru
Title: Nattvaktens hustru
Released: October 20, 1947
Type: Movie
Ingegerd Lindberg is coming to Stockholm from the countryside. The first person she meets at the Central Station is Curt Brehmer.
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Livet i finnskogarna
Title: Livet i finnskogarna
Character: Sigrid Malm
Released: August 22, 1947
Type: Movie
In a rural parish in 1906, young Heikki, one of the Finnish immigrants, lives a wild and free life in the deep forest. After poaching, his furs are confiscated and Heikki vows to have his revenge by seducing the young women of the parish, one by one.
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How to Love
Title: How to Love
Character: Vera Stätt
Released: February 10, 1947
Type: Movie
Tells a story about a man named Anthony who loses his wife, to an illness and finds it hard to move on. Although Anthony is now single, he struggles with how to build a new relationship with Tiffany. Anthony is uneasy to love again and pushes her away. He finds a letter from his deceased wife, saying that if something happens, to love and marry again. He is ready to let go, let God and move on.
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Den långa vägen
Title: Den långa vägen
Character: Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht
Released: January 1, 1947
Type: Movie
Grandmother sits with her grandchildren. She talks about the position of the Swedish woman through the centuries, about her struggle for freedom and justice. Grandma's words take shape in moving images.
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Hotell Kåkbrinken
Title: Hotell Kåkbrinken
Character: Mia Boman
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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Jag älskar dig, argbigga
Title: Jag älskar dig, argbigga
Released: December 23, 1946
Type: Movie
Harriet Rosenberg has traveled with her mother to the mountains to find a suitable victim to marry.
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Djurgårdskvällar
Title: Djurgårdskvällar
Released: November 18, 1946
Type: Movie
An artist with drinking problems is depressed because his career didn't turn out so good. He puts his faith in his daughter to carry the artistic heritage further.
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Stiliga Augusta
Title: Stiliga Augusta
Released: November 4, 1946
Type: Movie
The maid quits at the Sommer family household and because no one in the family can cook they desperately needs a new maid. The son in the family, Åke, is a famous actor at the theater and when the up and coming actress Marianne (who also has a crush on the famous Åke) hears about the Sommers needing a new maid, she seizes the opportunity and goes undercover as a maid to get closer to Åke and the big roles in the theater.
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Flickor i hamn
Title: Flickor i hamn
Character: Mrs. Holst
Released: April 20, 1945
Type: Movie
Shipmate Henrik gets in contact with two women in Gothenburg — the sociable Lisbeth and the shy Astrid.
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Sten Stensson kommer till stan
Title: Sten Stensson kommer till stan
Character: Emma Bohrn
Released: February 12, 1945
Type: Movie
Sten Stensson from Eslöv has just got his law-degree from the University of Stockholm.
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Se opp för spioner!
Title: Se opp för spioner!
Released: September 18, 1944
Type: Movie
A bomb attempt is prevented in the last minute but one question remains: who placed the bomb? After some stakeout work the police are on the track and a wild hunt through Stockholm begins.
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En dotter född
Title: En dotter född
Character: Miss Edit
Released: March 6, 1944
Type: Movie
Inger lives at home with his parents. She suspects that she is pregnant. A doctor notes her pregnancy and urge her to seek the child's father. The doctor offers her an abortion, but she refuses.
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Kungsgatan
Title: Kungsgatan
Character: Porter
Released: September 17, 1943
Type: Movie
Young woman Marta dreams of a better future and leaves her parent's cabbage patch and move to Stockholm. Waiting tables doesn't pay nearly enough and she soon finds herself working the streets. Her teenage sweetheart Adrian also moves to Stockholm to search for her. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
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Madame Visits Oslo
Title: Madame Visits Oslo
Character: Madam Vera
Released: October 17, 1927
Type: Movie
About two swindlers who try to steal the property of a wealthy banker who has just died.