Gunnar Björnstrand

Gunnar Björnstrand

Born: November 13, 1909
Died: May 26, 1986
in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
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Gunnar Björnstrand (13 November 1909 – 26 May 1986) was a Swedish actor known for his frequent work with writer/director Ingmar Bergman. He was born in Stockholm. He appeared in over 120 films.

Björnstrand at first had trouble finding work but got an engagement in Helsinki with his wife 1936-1938. Back in Stockholm he met Ingmar Bergman, at that time a mostly unknown theatre director. In the 1940s he got his first major film roles, making a breakthrough with the 1946 movie Kristin kommenderar. He was a versatile actor who could play tough and tender as well as comedy and tragedy. His daughter Veronica Björnstrand is also an actress. One of his most famous roles was as the worldly squire who makes such a contrast to his austere and spiritual master in Bergman's most famous film The Seventh Seal.

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Movies for Gunnar Björnstrand...

Behind the Scenes of Såsom i en spegel (Through a Glass Darkly)
Title: Behind the Scenes of Såsom i en spegel (Through a Glass Darkly)
Released: September 12, 2018
Type: Movie
Ingmar Bergman's silent home film showing behind the scenes of Through a Glass Darkly.
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Bakomfilm Nattvardsgästerna
Title: Bakomfilm Nattvardsgästerna
Released: January 30, 2017
Type: Movie
Ingmar Bergman's silent home film showing behind the scenes of Winter Light
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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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Stjärnbilder
Title: Stjärnbilder
Character: (archive footage)
Released: September 10, 1995
Type: Movie
A tribute to Swedish film, which was made to celebrate the 100th anniversary of film in 1995 and consists of about a hundred clips from Swedish film history with many of its stars.
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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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Title: Fanny and Alexander
Character: Filip Landahl
Released: December 26, 1984
Type: TV
Through the eyes of ten-year-old Alexander, we witness the delights and conflicts of the Ekdahl family, a sprawling bourgeois clan in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Sweden.
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The Making of Fanny and Alexander
Title: The Making of Fanny and Alexander
Character: Self
Released: September 16, 1984
Type: Movie
The Making of Fanny and Alexander is a fascinating look at the creation of a masterpiece. Directed by Ingmar Bergman himself, this feature-length documentary chronicles the methods of one of cinema’s true luminaries as he labors to realize his crowning production.
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Fanny and Alexander
Title: Fanny and Alexander
Character: Filip Landahl
Released: December 17, 1982
Type: Movie
As children in the loving Ekdahl family, Fanny and Alexander enjoy a happy life with their parents, who run a theater company. After their father dies unexpectedly, however, the siblings end up in a joyless home when their mother, Emilie, marries a stern bishop. The bleak situation gradually grows worse as the bishop becomes more controlling, but dedicated relatives make a valiant attempt to aid Emilie, Fanny and Alexander.
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The Farewell
Title: The Farewell
Released: April 8, 1982
Type: Movie
Set between 1930s and 50s, The Farewell the story of Valerie, who lives in a household totally repressed by her stern father. When Valerie has a brief affair with another woman, her father is extremely angry and tries to end the affair with physical force. However Valerie’s determination, independence and lesbian feelings cannot be crushed.
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Title: The Guldbagge Awards
Character: Self - Ingmar Bergman Award winner
Released: October 30, 1981
Type: TV
The Guldbagge Awards is an official and annual Swedish film awards ceremony honoring achievements in the Swedish film industry. Winners are awarded a statuette depicting a rose chafer, better known by the name Guldbaggen. The awards, first presented in 1964 at the Grand Hôtel in Stockholm, are overseen by the Swedish Film Institute. It is described as the Swedish equivalent of the Academy Awards. The awards ceremony was first televised in 1981.
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Title: Charlotte Löwensköld och Anna Svärd
Character: Forsius
Released: March 18, 1981
Type: TV
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Charlotte Löwensköld
Title: Charlotte Löwensköld
Character: Rural dean Forsius
Released: October 30, 1979
Type: Movie
1830 Värmland, Sweden. Master Karl Arthur Ekenstedt comes to aid the Minister at Crosss Church. He falls in love with Charlotte Löwensköld, housekeeper in the rectory. They get engaged. Charlotte is full of life, energetic and practical. Karl Arthur struggle with his faith and God.
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Title: Skeppsredaren
Character: Göran Borg
Released: March 8, 1979
Type: TV
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The Making of 'Autumn Sonata'
Title: The Making of 'Autumn Sonata'
Character: Self
Released: October 18, 1978
Type: Movie
On-set documentary of the making of Ingmar Bergman's 1977 film Autumn Sonata starring Ingrid Bergman and Liv Ullman, examining every aspect of the production. Unusual for this kind of documentary, there is no post-production commentary or interviews.
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Autumn Sonata
Title: Autumn Sonata
Character: Paul
Released: October 8, 1978
Type: Movie
After a seven-year absence, Charlotte Andergast travels to Sweden to reunite with her daughter Eva. The pair have a troubled relationship: Charlotte sacrificed the responsibilities of motherhood for a career as a classical pianist. Over an emotional night, the pair reopen the wounds of the past. Charlotte gets another shock when she finds out that her mentally impaired daughter, Helena, is out of the asylum and living with Eva.
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Nationalmonumentet
Title: Nationalmonumentet
Character: Svante Puke
Released: October 19, 1977
Type: Movie
The sculptor Erik Some gets commissioned to create a national monument. His sculpture gets rejected but it's the starting point for a lot of political and light-hearted complications.
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Tabu
Title: Tabu
Character: Rådmanskan
Released: January 28, 1977
Type: Movie
Solidarity with the border people. Equal rights for the sexual deviants. Kristoffer Lohman is a young solicitor who collects stories and knowledge of different perversions. This has affected and changed his own sexual life. Sara, a young well-behaved and adorned woman, becomes interested in Kristoffer's activity.
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Title: Face to Face
Character: Jenny's Grandfather
Released: April 28, 1976
Type: TV
Dr. Jenny Isaksson is a psychiatrist married to another psychiatrist; both are successful in their jobs but slowly, agonizingly, Jenny succumbs to a breakdown. She is haunted by images and emotions from her past and eventually cannot function as a wife, doctor, or individual.
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Face to Face
Title: Face to Face
Character: Jenny's Grandfather
Released: April 5, 1976
Type: Movie
Dr. Jenny Isaksson is a psychiatrist whose temporary position at a mental hospital offers only modest responsibilities. With her husband out of the country for a seminar and her daughter at camp, Jenny moves in with her grandparents, expecting a relaxing few months. But it isn't long before unpleasant memories of her childhood, the sudden appearance of strange apparitions, and a near-rape push this otherwise stable woman to the very edge of sanity.
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Title: Engeln
Character: Bäckman
Released: September 15, 1974
Type: TV
Bertil "Engeln" Engelbrecht is tired of working for his half-brother's detective agency. After being released from prison his girlfriend Maggie begs him to find another job. But leaving his prior work is harder than Bertil thought.
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Gustav III
Title: Gustav III
Character: Fersen
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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Title: Någonstans i Sverige
Character: Svärfadern
Released: December 25, 1973
Type: TV
In the end of 1939, the Soviet Union attacks Finland. In Sweden, 100.000 men are quickly drafted to guard the northeastern border. Men, who have almost no military training, are suddenly expected to behave as full-fledged soldiers. In one of the units we find 107 Andersson, 111 Loffe and a bunch of men with nicknames as Morsgrisen and Stora Norrland. After some months, the war in Finland is over, but World War II continues and the unit moves to the western border of Sweden, where the men have to stay for many years to come. Sweden is not at war, but some of the men are frightened that the Nazis will one day attack this country.
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The Ghost Sonata
Title: The Ghost Sonata
Character: Översten
Released: October 30, 1972
Type: Movie
The Ghost Sonata relates the adventures of a young student, who idealizes the lives of the inhabitants of a stylish apartment building in Stockholm. He makes the acquaintance of the mysterious Jacob Hummel, who helps him to find his way into the apartment, only to find that it is a nest of betrayal and sickness. The world, the student learns, is hell and human beings must suffer to achieve salvation. The play centers on a family of strangers who meet for the sake of meeting. They exchange no dialogue, nor gestures, they simply sit and bask in their own misfortune.
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Barna Hedenhös
Title: Barna Hedenhös
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: Movie
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Lockfågeln
Title: Lockfågeln
Character: The major
Released: November 24, 1971
Type: Movie
On his death-bed, Per Henrik Pistolekors must promise his father two things: first of all to kill king Gustav III, which his father hates. Second, to take his half-sister Annarella to Stockholm to find her a rich and noble husband.
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Blow Hot, Blow Cold
Title: Blow Hot, Blow Cold
Character: Prof. Gunnar Lindmark
Released: August 29, 1969
Type: Movie
A quirky, but happily in love young Italian couple fall in with an older, but distinctly reserved Swedish couple whilst on vacation on islands off the coast of Southern Italy. Eventually the couples seem to warm to each other as the infectious youths bring the standoffish couple out of their shells. But there is a sinister reason for the Swedish couple's cold behavior and it may spell doom for them all.
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The Rite
Title: The Rite
Character: Hans Winkelmann
Released: March 25, 1969
Type: Movie
A judge in an unnamed country interviews three actors, together and singly, provoking them while investigating a pornographic performance for which they may face a fine. Their relationships are complicated: Sebastian, volatile, a heavy drinker, in debt, guilty of killing his former partner, is having an affair with that man's widow. She is Thea, high strung, prone to fits, and seemingly fragile, currently married to Sebastian's new partner, Hans. Hans is the troupe leader, wealthy, self-contained, and growing tired. The judge plays on the trio's insecurities, but when they finally, in a private session with him, perform the masque called The Rite, they may have their revenge.
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The lift that went down into hell
Title: The lift that went down into hell
Character: The husband
Released: February 9, 1969
Type: Movie
A loving couple on an escapade, ending in a hotel room in the underworld. When the floor waiter shows up, the woman feel she has seen him before. And suddenly she discovers who he is.
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Tunneln
Title: Tunneln
Released: February 9, 1969
Type: Movie
"The Tunnel" - an expressionistic scene in the presence of personal tragedy and an accident. Two men reconnect. The fine gentleman all dressed up, hurt and somewhat dizzy. The other man responding, laughing sinister. They converse about a mutual acquaintance. A woman.
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Pappa varför är du arg? Du gjorde likadant själv när du var ung
Title: Pappa varför är du arg? Du gjorde likadant själv när du var ung
Character: Admiral Carl
Released: October 28, 1968
Type: Movie
"Dad, why are you angry? You did the same yourself when you were young." - The Swedish army is too expensive. The cost has to be reduced by downsizing. The army chiefs begins to recreated the country's defense system.
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Shame
Title: Shame
Character: Mr. Jacobi
Released: September 29, 1968
Type: Movie
In the midst of a civil war, former violinists Jan and Eva Rosenberg, who have a tempestuous marriage, run a farm on a rural island. In spite of their best efforts to escape their homeland, the war impinges on every aspect of their lives.
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The Girls
Title: The Girls
Character: Hugo
Released: September 16, 1968
Type: Movie
A theater company rehearses Aristophanes play "Lysistrata" in which the Athenian women revolt to force the men to suspend the war and make peace. The three leading female actresses, Liz, Marianne and Gunilla, all live in humiliating circumstances to their men.
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Pygmalion
Title: Pygmalion
Character: Prof. Henry Higgins
Released: June 2, 1968
Type: Movie
Can Professor Higgins teach a working-class flower girl to speak like a duchess?
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An Introduction to Ingmar Bergman
Title: An Introduction to Ingmar Bergman
Character: Self
Released: April 14, 1968
Type: Movie
Produced in 1968 for New York's WNET public television station and filmed by Gunnar Fischer, host Lewis Freedman visits director Ingmar Bergman during the production of SHAME. They discuss some of Bergman's major works leading up to SHAME as well as the just-released HOUR OF THE WOLF.
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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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Stimulantia
Title: Stimulantia
Character: Paul Hartman
Released: March 28, 1967
Type: Movie
Stimulantia is a 1967 Swedish anthology film comprising eight episodes by eight different directors including Ingmar Bergman, Jörn Donner, Gustaf Molander and Vilgot Sjöman and starring among others Ingrid Bergman, Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Björnstrand, Lars Ekborg and Inga Landgré.
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Hagbard and Signe
Title: Hagbard and Signe
Character: King Sigvor
Released: January 16, 1967
Type: Movie
Seeking revenge against the rival clan responsible for the killing, Hagbard, the son of a slain Norse king, calms down long enough to establish a truce. He also falls in love with Signe, the daughter of his one-time enemy. Signe's former beau, sizzling with jealousy, breaks the truce and makes it appear that Hagbard was responsible.
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Here Is Your Life
Title: Here Is Your Life
Character: Lundgren
Released: December 26, 1966
Type: Movie
A working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving through a series of jobs and romances that gradually shape his future.
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Pälsen
Title: Pälsen
Character: Fondmäklare Rickardt
Released: December 26, 1966
Type: Movie
Doctor Henck is having bad day, and borrows a fur from a friend. It gives him new confidence, and his day immediately gets better. Hjalmar Söderberg's rejected 1911 movie script, filmed in 1966 for TV as a silent film with a piano soundtrack, to match the time in which it was written for.
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Persona
Title: Persona
Character: Herr Vogler
Released: October 18, 1966
Type: Movie
A young nurse, Alma, is put in charge of Elisabeth Vogler: an actress who is seemingly healthy in all respects, but will not talk. As they spend time together, Alma speaks to Elisabeth constantly, never receiving any answer. The time they spend together only strengthens the crushing realization that one does not exist.
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Sadist
Title: Sadist
Character: Dr. Rune Wester
Released: June 27, 1966
Type: Movie
The plot revolves around a sadistic doctor, a macabre gravedigger, an innocent girl, sabotage, sex and violent death. The beautiful Vivi Sander is living a rough life and is deeply in debt. She tries to force her family to sell the house to make ends meet. Vivi's car crash after a sabotage. She is injured and brought to a medical center where she meets the perverted Dr. Wester.
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My Sister My Love
Title: My Sister My Love
Character: Count Schwartz
Released: February 28, 1966
Type: Movie
Sweden, 1782. Jacob, a young noble, somewhat wild and vehement, returns from his studies in France. After his absence, he returns home happy, but is even happier of meeting his beloved sister Charlotte again. However, she has been promised to the Baron Alsmeden, a man of great influence at court, and this fact will awake a feeling like jealousy in Jacob.
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Loving Couples
Title: Loving Couples
Character: Dr. Jacob Lewin
Released: December 20, 1964
Type: Movie
As three pregnant women wait to have their babies in a hospital in Stockholm at the outbreak of the Great War, they relive their childhood and youthful experiences.
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The Marriage Wrestler
Title: The Marriage Wrestler
Character: Herr Fotograf Fäger
Released: December 16, 1964
Type: Movie
Stockholm 1912. Site for the Olympic Games. Love entanglements and eroticism at hotel Eros.
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The Dress
Title: The Dress
Character: Helmer Berg
Released: October 5, 1964
Type: Movie
Edit is pleased that her mother agrees to let her buy a dress she loves, but which in fact is made for an adult woman.
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Dance Around the Guldbaggen
Title: Dance Around the Guldbaggen
Character: Self
Released: September 25, 1964
Type: Movie
Filmed during the first ever Guldbaggen (golden scarab) awards, it was edited and developed that night and shown for the first time to the guests at the after party.
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My Love Is Like a Rose
Title: My Love Is Like a Rose
Character: Georg Ehnström
Released: December 26, 1963
Type: Movie
A middle aged doctor begins a relationship with a teenage girl. His best friend is dating the girls mother. A group of boys plan to blackmail the doctor or expose him as a pedophile.
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Lyckodrömmen
Title: Lyckodrömmen
Character: Sebastian
Released: July 8, 1963
Type: Movie
The Karlsson family moves from a small village to a suburb outside Stockholm. The change from a country life to the big city is not easy.
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Winter Light
Title: Winter Light
Character: Tomas Ericsson
Released: February 11, 1963
Type: Movie
A Swedish pastor fails a loving woman, a suicidal fisherman and God.
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Ingmar Bergman Makes a Movie
Title: Ingmar Bergman Makes a Movie
Character: Self
Released: January 27, 1963
Type: Movie
The year is 1961 and Ingmar Bergman is making a movie. While planted on the scene as apprentice to Bergman, Vilgot Sjöman (director, I Am Curious–Yellow, 1967), suggests to Swedish Television that they take the opportunity to record with the acclaimed director. In August, Sjöman and the television crew begin to capture what would become a comprehensive five-part documentary on the making of Winter Light, offering views of script development, set construction and lighting, rehearsals and editing, as well as intimate conversations with Bergman and members of his cast and crew. Footage from the film’s Swedish premiere delivers immediate audience reactions and the critics’ reviews the following day.
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The Pleasure Garden
Title: The Pleasure Garden
Character: David Franzén
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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Through a Glass Darkly
Title: Through a Glass Darkly
Character: David
Released: October 16, 1961
Type: Movie
Karin hopes to recover from her recent stay at a mental hospital by spending the summer at her family's cottage on a tiny island. Her husband, Martin, cares for her but is frustrated by her physical withdrawal. Her younger brother, Minus, is confused by Karin's vulnerability and his own budding sexuality. Their father, David, cannot overcome his haughty remoteness. Beset by visions, Karin descends further into madness.
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The Devil's Eye
Title: The Devil's Eye
Character: The Actor
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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Mälarpirater
Title: Mälarpirater
Released: December 26, 1959
Type: Movie
Three boys "borrow" a sailboat and sail away for a summer adventure on Lake Mälaren.
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Heaven and Pancakes
Title: Heaven and Pancakes
Character: Ernst C:son Kruuse
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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Crime in Paradise
Title: Crime in Paradise
Character: Adam Palmquist
Released: September 7, 1959
Type: Movie
While four men blow up a safe, a night watchman is accidentally killed. They get away with the loot. Ten years later, the stepson of the dead night watchman receives vital information.
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Swinging at the Castle
Title: Swinging at the Castle
Character: Agne C:son Stressberg
Released: March 8, 1959
Type: Movie
Love triangle between Svante, his fiancee Inga and Sophie, a girl from a rich family.
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The Magician
Title: The Magician
Character: Dr. Vergerus / Minister of Health
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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Miss April
Title: Miss April
Character: Marcus Arwidson
Released: June 8, 1958
Type: Movie
The banker Marcus falls in love with the young ballet-dancer Maj who works at the opera. To meet her he takes a job there but Maj is in love with Osvald Berg, the big star of the opera. To wake Osvald's interest for her she asks Marcus if he could play deeply in love with her. Plot summary by nL.
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You Are My Adventure
Title: You Are My Adventure
Character: Tore Hall
Released: March 24, 1958
Type: Movie
Two journalists marry each other but Tore is unhappy that his wife is ambitious in her career instead of their household.
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Wild Strawberries
Title: Wild Strawberries
Character: Evald 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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Summer Place Wanted
Title: Summer Place Wanted
Character: Gustaf Dahlström
Released: December 20, 1957
Type: Movie
Married couple have romantic interludes in the summer, she at their summer cottage, him in the apartment in town.
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Night Light
Title: Night Light
Character: Purman
Released: October 14, 1957
Type: Movie
Sixteen year old Maria arrives in Stockholm. She is going to stay with her aunt. Already at the Central station events occur that change her route.
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The Seventh Seal
Title: The Seventh Seal
Character: Jöns
Released: February 16, 1957
Type: Movie
When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Block sets off on a journey, meeting up with traveling players Jof and his wife, Mia, and becoming determined to evade Death long enough to commit one redemptive act while he still lives.
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Skorpan
Title: Skorpan
Released: December 19, 1956
Type: Movie
Skorpan acts in a pick pocket show at the local amusement park.
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Seventh Heaven
Title: Seventh Heaven
Character: Maj. Ernst C:son Kruuse
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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It Is Never Too Late
Title: It Is Never Too Late
Character: Arne's father
Released: March 17, 1956
Type: Movie
Görel and Arne are about to get a divorce. Görel thinks back on how history has repeated itself within her family.
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Smiles of a Summer Night
Title: Smiles of a Summer Night
Character: Fredrik Egerman
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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Dreams
Title: Dreams
Character: Otto Sönderby, konsul
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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Stampen
Title: Stampen
Character: Acke Kullerstedt
Released: February 28, 1955
Type: Movie
Pawnshop assistant Patrick and maid Viveka meet by chance and become fond of each other, but none of them want to reveal his real profession for the other.
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Gabrielle
Title: Gabrielle
Character: Robert Holmén
Released: December 26, 1954
Type: Movie
While Bertil Lindström works at the Swedish embassy in Paris, his wife Gabrielle spends the summer alone in Sweden. After a phone call to her, he starts to think of all the things she can possibly be doing separated from him.
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A Lesson in Love
Title: A Lesson in Love
Character: David Erneman
Released: October 4, 1954
Type: Movie
After 15 years of marriage, David and Marianne have grown apart. David has had an affair with a patient of his and Marianne has got herself involved with her former lover Carl-Adam, who's also David's best friend. When she travels to Copenhagen to meet Carl-Adam, David takes the same train as she does, making it look coincidental. Spending time together remembering their past and talking about their future, they come to understand each other again, which leads to a reconciliation.
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Seger i mörker
Title: Seger i mörker
Character: Henrik Kugelström
Released: September 16, 1954
Type: Movie
The story about Gustaf Dalén, the farm boy who became one of Sweden's greatest inventors.
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Flottans glada gossar
Title: Flottans glada gossar
Character: Ludvig "Ludde" Ekman
Released: February 16, 1954
Type: Movie
When Ludvig Ekman is ordered to do his military rehearsals course, he sends one of his employees, Lasse Alm, to do it for him. Everything is fine until Alm also is ordered to do the same thing - on the same boat! There is only one thing to do: Ekman goes as Alm. When Ekman goes aboard, he discovers that it is his wife's ex-husband who is captain and Ekman really is punished for marrying his wife.
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The Glass Mountain
Title: The Glass Mountain
Character: Dr. Dalander
Released: December 26, 1953
Type: Movie
The successful glass artist Stellan Sylvester ends up in the hospital after a car accident. He looks back at his life and finds it empty and meaningless. He falls in love with the nurse Marta but when he finds out that she engaged life turns out to be even more meaningless.
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Sawdust and Tinsel
Title: Sawdust and Tinsel
Character: Mr. Sjuberg
Released: September 14, 1953
Type: Movie
The complicated relationships between a circus ringmaster, his estranged wife and his lover.
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Vi tre debutera
Title: Vi tre debutera
Character: Director Brummer
Released: September 7, 1953
Type: Movie
Three young poets are about to make their debuts.
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Dance, My Doll
Title: Dance, My Doll
Character: Zdenko Zapatil
Released: July 20, 1953
Type: Movie
In a small town called Skrabbarp in Southern Sweden lives the school teacher Sebastian Pettersson, an amateur detective and one of the most diligent correspondents of the Stockholm police.
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Oppåt med Gröna Hissen
Title: Oppåt med Gröna Hissen
Character: Malte Lövman
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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Flyg-Bom
Title: Flyg-Bom
Character: Niklas Slevbrink
Released: December 22, 1952
Type: Movie
The meticulous Fabin Bom is called up for military service in the airforce.
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Waiting Women
Title: Waiting Women
Character: Fredrik 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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Klackarna i taket
Title: Klackarna i taket
Released: June 9, 1952
Type: Movie
A collection of funny scenes from Swedish comedies.
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One Fiancé at a Time
Title: One Fiancé at a Time
Character: Valentin Fredriksson-Frisk, alias ''Dynamit-Valle'', dynamitard
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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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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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
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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Tull-Bom
Title: Tull-Bom
Character: Frans Melin, aka Hamn-Casanova
Released: June 25, 1951
Type: Movie
Bureacratic customs officer searching for a missing girl.
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Kvartetten som sprängdes
Title: Kvartetten som sprängdes
Character: Engineer Planertz
Released: December 26, 1950
Type: Movie
A small Swedish town just after WW1. An accountant and his two journalist friends have entered the stock market. The result is not as good as expected.
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The White Cat
Title: The White Cat
Character: Jarl Eksell
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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Kyssen på kryssen
Title: Kyssen på kryssen
Character: Lars Brenner, film director
Released: December 16, 1950
Type: Movie
Lasse Brenner is a serious filmmaker (spoof on Ingmar Bergman) who is forced to direct a lighthearted comedy. The filming takes place in different cities across Europe and North Africa so Brenner and the crew have to sail on a cruse ship. Brenner's wife suspects he has an affair with the lead actress, so she also boards the ship undercover to keep an eye on him.
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Fianceé for Hire
Title: Fianceé for Hire
Character: Julius Brumse
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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My Sister and I
Title: My Sister and I
Character: Gunnar Stenwall
Released: January 26, 1950
Type: Movie
The rich, aristocratic Katarina Hassel have an architect renovate her mansion. Katarina fall in love with the young architect, Gunnar Stenwall. Alas, he doesn't fall in love with her. But perhaps if Gunnar would meet her identical sister, who works in Stockholm as a waitress, he would fall in love with her instead? So Katarina travels to Stockholm to act as her non-existing sister.
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Father Bom
Title: Father Bom
Character: Fritjoff Krafft
Released: December 19, 1949
Type: Movie
Fabian Bom, auctionist in a small town, one day finds a baby boy in a small crib that is for sale at an auction. He places the boy at an orphanage but returns the next day since he realizes that he misses the boy. Since a single man is not permitted to adopt a baby he arranges a marriage with a young woman, who really is the baby's mother.
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The Girl from the Third Row
Title: The Girl from the Third Row
Character: Edvin Burelius
Released: August 29, 1949
Type: Movie
A ring passes between a lot of different people, giving the bearer or someone close a new meaning to life. Actors, embezzlers, old ladies and cheated husbands all seem to gain temporary hope from misery and disillusionment.
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Playing Truant
Title: Playing Truant
Character: Bertil Kronberg
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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Private Bom
Title: Private Bom
Character: Berglund
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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Little Martin Returns
Title: Little Martin Returns
Character: The Captain
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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En svensk tiger
Title: En svensk tiger
Character: Hans Wolff
Released: May 18, 1948
Type: Movie
Johan Tiger is an actor in Stockholm during World War II. A British agent in Sweden discovers that Johan is a dead ringer for General Lucky and manages to lure him over to London with a role as Othello as bait.
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Var sin väg
Title: Var sin väg
Character: Sture Widman
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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Music in Darkness
Title: Music in Darkness
Character: Klasson
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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Two Women
Title: Two Women
Character: Bengt Larsson
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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Här kommer vi ...
Title: Här kommer vi ...
Character: Skådespelare
Released: October 18, 1947
Type: Movie
The actor Robert Berg is just about to get his dream role on the big stage in Stockholm when he gets called to the military service.
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One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer
Title: One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer
Character: 40-talisten
Released: September 17, 1947
Type: Movie
When Inga Brantemo goes on a business trip to Italy, her husband Bertil gets romantically involved with Christina Lovén, whose father is a book publisher. When Inga returns, Bertil has a difficult time trying to explain who the woman the neighbors saw in the Brantemo home was. Bertil is an author and it doesn't get easier when he and his wife gets invited to Christina's father to talk business.
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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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Daddy Wanted
Title: Daddy Wanted
Character: Shoe-shiner Tom, 'Plutten'
Released: June 1, 1947
Type: Movie
Holger Hallman, CEO of a weapons factory try to prevent his son Tom from dating a manucurist, Lydia. By mistake he try to pay off the wrong manicurist, Mary, who by coincidence has a fiancé named Tom.
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The Bride Came Through the Ceiling
Title: The Bride Came Through the Ceiling
Character: Sune Eriksson
Released: March 24, 1947
Type: Movie
The police is looking for a female burglar all dressed in white.
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While the Door Was Locked
Title: While the Door Was Locked
Character: Erik Sahlén
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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It Rains on Our Love
Title: It Rains on Our Love
Character: Mr. Purman
Released: November 9, 1946
Type: Movie
Maggi meets David after having missed her train, and they spend the night together. Penniless, the young lovers break into a summer cottage. The owner, Håkansson, offers to rent it to them, but he has an ulterior motive. By living together, they have to face their pasts and deal with the meddling neighbors and authorities.
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Incorrigible
Title: Incorrigible
Character: Dr. Bertil Langenfeldt
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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Kristin Commands
Title: Kristin Commands
Character: Dr. Westman Senior / Vilhelm Westman
Released: September 2, 1946
Type: Movie
Translator Vilhelm and his young wife have a child, as well as a grumpy housemaid who doesn't hesitate to give her opinion on how they behave as parents. In secret Kristin arranges a scholarship for Vilhelm so he can go back to his medical studies.
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Peggy på vift
Title: Peggy på vift
Character: Harald Haraldsson
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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Midwinter Sacrifice
Title: Midwinter Sacrifice
Character: Hövdingen
Released: May 25, 1946
Type: Movie
A mythic depiction of a pagan sacrifice in prehistoric Sweden.
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You Who Are About to Enter
Title: You Who Are About to Enter
Character: Hagman
Released: November 2, 1945
Type: Movie
Tomas Eckert, a civil servant, is subjected to a violated woman's revenge. It happens to be his boss's wife, Märta Palm. Tomas is accused of having abused Mrs.Palm. She also reveals that Tomas's wife is morphine addict. He collapses and is forced to accept early retirement, diagnosed "epilepsy with mental changes"
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Sussie
Title: Sussie
Character: Harry Hellberg
Released: August 13, 1945
Type: Movie
A self centered author are having a word feud in a news paper column with a journalist called Sussie. The author has just divorced and now need a new house keeper. Sussie sees her chance to go undercover and takes the job with the intent to dig up some dirt. However, love intervenes.
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New Order at Sjogarda
Title: New Order at Sjogarda
Character: Felix Palmer
Released: October 21, 1944
Type: Movie
Major Grasser lives on his estate with his twin daughters Britta and Stina. Stina is studying at the university and Britta wants to work with farming. The major wants to put Britta in a school of commerce and hires a tutor to prepare her for higher education. This she dislikes and things doesn't gets better when her father thinking of selling the estate.
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Torment
Title: Torment
Character: Teacher
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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Mitt folk är icke ditt
Title: Mitt folk är icke ditt
Released: June 19, 1944
Type: Movie
The Nazis seize power and occupies a country. A celebrated pianist returns home from abroad during this time of national crisis and reconnects with Major von Ritter who leads the occupation and whom she had a passionate love affair in the past.
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Lev farligt
Title: Lev farligt
Character: Hahn
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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Appassionata
Title: Appassionata
Character: Svensson, Editor of Vecko-Bilden
Released: February 2, 1944
Type: Movie
A classic melodrama about the famous pianist Thomas Dahlhoff.
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Jag dräpte
Title: Jag dräpte
Character: Lindén
Released: October 26, 1943
Type: Movie
"I Slew" - Hospital drama of a doctor who thinks that he killed a patient on the operating table.
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Natt i hamn
Title: Natt i hamn
Character: Sven Eriksson
Released: September 27, 1943
Type: Movie
Early 1940s, during WW2, pitch black waters except for a moon-shadow over the waves. Surrounded by minefields and the fog slips in the sweeping headlights of the cargo ship S/S Rune. But the ship bows relentlessly forward through the night.
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General von Döbeln
Title: General von Döbeln
Character: Lieutenant Bäckström
Released: October 26, 1942
Type: Movie
1813. The Swedish army is fighting in the War of the Sixth Coalition. The popular general Von Döbeln is arrested for sending the army against the French in breach of orders by the crown prince. At the court martial he is sentenced to death but is pardoned by the king and sent to prison instead. A group of conspirators are planning to set him free and make him their leader in a coup d'etat.
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En äventyrare
Title: En äventyrare
Released: September 11, 1942
Type: Movie
A free fantasy about the Swedish poet and adventurer Lars Wivallius.
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Snapphanar
Title: Snapphanar
Character: Soldier
Released: December 26, 1941
Type: Movie
In an occupied country, the people rise to throw off the occupants. This includes Jens the farmer and his three sons who successfully perform sneak attacks on the invading army.
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The Ghost Reporter
Title: The Ghost Reporter
Released: August 9, 1941
Type: Movie
Augustus Blomkvist sells his sausage factory and buys the newspaper Stockholms-Posten where he starts working as a reporter under false name.
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Everybody at His Station
Title: Everybody at His Station
Character: Military Doctor
Released: November 6, 1940
Type: Movie
Swedish comedy from 1940. Kurre Karlsson, a simple man of the people, will be called up for military training given by an anti-aircraft units at sea. He does not like the military and will do anything to get away. One day he steals a wallet and in it finds his paper suggesting that a spy is on the move who think stealing trade secrets about the weapons factory in Granefors.
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Karl för sin hatt
Title: Karl för sin hatt
Character: Clerk
Released: August 23, 1940
Type: Movie
Urban girl falls for rugged forest ranger.
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June Night
Title: June Night
Character: Journalist
Released: April 3, 1940
Type: Movie
A woman flees to avoid rumors of promiscuity, but is trailed by a reporter who wants to expose her dark past.
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Hjältar i gult och blått
Title: Hjältar i gult och blått
Character: Sergeant Frisk
Released: February 16, 1940
Type: Movie
The tailor Tosse is ordered to return to his old regiment to practice what he learned many years ago. But he asks his assistant Loffe to go there instead of himself. Everything is fine until Loffe gets the same order - at the same regiment. When Tosse comes to the regiment, it becomes a case of mistaken identity. Due to the confusion, Loffe is now Tosse's platoon commander. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
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Mot nya tider
Title: Mot nya tider
Character: August Palm's Associate
Released: November 6, 1939
Type: Movie
A Swedish drama from 1939 about the social and political developments in Sweden from 1885 until the dissolution of the union in 1905. The year is 1885, Christina Nilsson sings "Fourteen years I believe certain that I was" in the Grand Hotel's Great Hall . She also sings from the balcony of the hotel and the panic arising among listeners outside the hotel. In Norway, talks about the dissolution of the Union and the Swedish socialists with Hjalmar Branting (Victor Sjöström) is in the lead for independence.
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We Two
Title: We Two
Character: Doctor
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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Panik
Title: Panik
Character: Ryder, Banker
Released: March 6, 1939
Type: Movie
About the conspiracy against the Swedish entrepeneur Ivar Kreuger. Presented through his secretary as a strictly busy, very wealthy man, involved in important international transactions. Ministers from all over the world stand in line to visit him. The Kreuger shares are in high demand. Germany needs a $ 125 million loan. Bank director Ryder suggests that secret forces want to stop this loan. Ted Harris, an American rogue, wants to sell secret papers from Wall Street on plots against Kreuger. The French minister and an international Soviet agent, Brody, also visit Kreuger regarding the loans. Kreuger shares are dropping around the world. The firm Nathan and Kohn contributes to dumping Kreuger shares after a bribe of SEK 25,000. Ordinary savers are ruined.
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Bergslagsfolk
Title: Bergslagsfolk
Released: October 25, 1937
Type: Movie
A mining engineer comes to the quiet village of Nimansberg in Bergslagen and tries to persuade the farmers to invest in mining.
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Uppsagd
Title: Uppsagd
Released: March 19, 1934
Type: Movie
Björn Kraft is an office clerk and one day his boss installs a new accounting machine that can do three mans job. A couple of days later Björn gets the termination letter.
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National match
Title: National match
Character: Young student watching competition (uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1932
Type: Movie
Erik Andersson marries Brita Blomstedt. During the wedding party he drinks alcohol which he is not used to. Later that evening Erik is involved in a brawl that end with a policeman getting a knife in the back.
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His Life's Match
Title: His Life's Match
Released: January 18, 1932
Type: Movie
Gunnar Gawell is mason on a building but also a very good football player. He gets a chance to play for the the national team against Denmark. Gunnar is offered a bribe if he allows the Danish team to win the match.