Åke Fridell

Åke Fridell

Born: June 23, 1919
Died: August 26, 1985
in Gävle, Gävleborgs län, Sweden

Movies for Åke Fridell...

Den tragiska historien om Hamlet - Prins av Danmark
Title: Den tragiska historien om Hamlet - Prins av Danmark
Character: Gravedigger
Released: January 7, 1985
Type: Movie
Prince Hamlet is the son of the late king. He hears from a ghost that the current king, Claudius, has murdered his father. Hamlet is unsure if this is true. He test the king by pretending to be insane and put on a show where the murder is reconstructed.
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Haren och vråken
Title: Haren och vråken
Character: Fredman
Released: April 18, 1984
Type: Movie
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Det är nu livet börjar
Title: Det är nu livet börjar
Character: Kula
Released: January 26, 1976
Type: Movie
A TV drama about an old man who doesn't want to retire.
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Christopher's Christmas Mission
Title: Christopher's Christmas Mission
Character: Bergdahl (voice)
Released: December 24, 1975
Type: Movie
"Christopher's Christmas Mission"- A tale about a boy who steals Christmas gifts from the wealthy to give to the poor people of Stockholm, while working in a post office on Christmas Eve.
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Wide Open
Title: Wide Open
Character: Ollie, Paul's alcoholic father
Released: December 18, 1974
Type: Movie
A philandering cab driver decides to help his girlfriend's attractive sister, who is in trouble with drug dealers.
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Badjävlar
Title: Badjävlar
Character: The Artist
Released: April 28, 1971
Type: Movie
Holidays on the swedish east coast. Invading summer guests collide with the locals, all without inhibitions. The formerly so radical Social Democratic municipal councilor has completely lost his visions and fully accepts that the area is transformed into a tourist resort for the rich.
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The Emigrants
Title: The Emigrants
Character: Aron på Nybacken
Released: March 8, 1971
Type: Movie
A Swedish peasant family, ravaged by poverty, privation and misery in mid-19th century Sweden, set out on a perilous journey to America in hope of a better life.
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The Lustful Vicar
Title: The Lustful Vicar
Character: Mr. Paular
Released: March 29, 1970
Type: Movie
During a witch trial in the seventeenth century a woman is accused of being a witch and burned at the stake. The witch curse the village priest who pushed through the accusations and promises that her offspring will avenge her. During the Caroline the priest's son take over as vicar of the congregation, and the daughter of the witch bewitches him so that he suffers constant erection. This is off course very embarrassing for the vicar. The local women has to step in and try to set things right
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Kameleonterna
Title: Kameleonterna
Character: Superintendent
Released: December 13, 1969
Type: Movie
Set in the world of the Swedish culture establishment, this is a psychotic thriller where morbid visions, depraved sexuality, and violence come together in perfect proportions.
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Mig og dig
Title: Mig og dig
Released: February 17, 1969
Type: Movie
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The lift that went down into hell
Title: The lift that went down into hell
Character: The devil
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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Komedi i Hägerskog
Title: Komedi i Hägerskog
Character: Gunnarsson
Released: November 25, 1968
Type: Movie
Narcissa and Elina work in a small town social service office and have various erotic encounters with the people who visit it.
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Title: Bombi Bitt och jag
Character: Vricklund
Released: January 27, 1968
Type: TV
Bombi Bitt is a wild rascal in the 1930's in Southern Sweden. Eli, the proper son of the station master, becomes his admiring partner.
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Here Is Your Life
Title: Here Is Your Life
Character: Nicke Larsson
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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Sadist
Title: Sadist
Character: Bertil Durell
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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Pang i bygget
Title: Pang i bygget
Character: Teobald Grym
Released: December 13, 1965
Type: Movie
Merchant Valentin Skog runs the small town's grocery shop and folk park with little revenue but a lot of heart. But the no-good profiteers brothers Grym has their eyes on his business, and will use any means. The dirtier the better! But they haven't counted on "The Doll"- a fresh breeze from the big city - or rather storm wind - who blows life in the struggle against the crooks.
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Dreamboy
Title: Dreamboy
Character: Pettersson
Released: October 12, 1964
Type: Movie
Ante Nordlund is on his way to Stockholm and gets a ride with a diplomat in his car. He leaves Ante at the entrance of Grand Hôtel where he gets treated like a millionaire.
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Swedish Portraits
Title: Swedish Portraits
Character: disponent Kronback
Released: September 7, 1964
Type: Movie
The unemployed Timjan discover Mejram singing and instantly fall in love with her.
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Mordvapen till salu
Title: Mordvapen till salu
Released: October 28, 1963
Type: Movie
A man witness an automobile accident. He takes care of one of the survivors. They suspect that something was wrong with the car and track it to a dubious salesman.
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Wonderful Adventures of Nils
Title: Wonderful Adventures of Nils
Character: Bandhunden (voice)
Released: September 12, 1962
Type: Movie
Nils lives with his parents in the south of Sweden. He is a naughty boy and teases like the animals on the farm. They should not have him and be happy if he is bewitched one day with his hamster Crumb for punishment by a gnome.
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Just Once More
Title: Just Once More
Character: Uncle
Released: August 27, 1962
Type: Movie
16 -year-old Mari has just been released from a juvenile detention school after one year of treatment. To prevent her from making contact with her old gang, she is sent to Skåne in southern Sweden, where she will work in a dairy shop. She doesn't like being there so she decides to run away and hitchhike her way up to Stockholm. She makes contact with her old gang but realizes that she's not welcome anymore and her boyfriend has even hooked up with a new girl.
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Pärlemor
Title: Pärlemor
Released: October 5, 1961
Type: Movie
Set in th 1930's depression times. A wealthy industrialist suffers a stroke. His wife takes over both family and business. The son worships his mother, but is forced to choose sides when he falls in love with the poor Aina.
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Title: Julkalendern
Character: Bergdahl (voice)
Released: November 27, 1960
Type: TV
An annual Swedish Christmas calendar television series.
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Decimals of Love
Title: Decimals of Love
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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Av hjärtans lust
Title: Av hjärtans lust
Character: Sjöberg
Released: August 29, 1960
Type: Movie
The Baron of Qvinnevad Castle has financial problems and is forced to show the estate to tourists. The baron finds out that an unknown person is trying to acquire the castle.
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The Magician
Title: The Magician
Character: Tubal
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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En stormträta
Title: En stormträta
Character: Skarpneck
Released: December 5, 1958
Type: Movie
Drifter Pickles one day turns up at the upper class home of Skarpneck and gets involved in his life.
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Rabies
Title: Rabies
Character: Sixten Garberg
Released: November 7, 1958
Type: Movie
A relay race of "scenes from human life". Depicts the human characters inferior traits are spreading like a disease: the person who gets rejected / humiliated / oppressed takes it out on someone else.
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A Goat in the Garden
Title: A Goat in the Garden
Character: David Jespersson
Released: February 17, 1958
Type: Movie
The wild Jon Esping bets that he will become a churchwarden. He, the upstart and the illiterate who can only write his name, a fox in business, a stud among women and a brute in general, wins the bet.
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Wild Strawberries
Title: Wild Strawberries
Character: Karin's Lover
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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Cupid on the Phone
Title: Cupid on the Phone
Character: Direktør Svensson
Released: December 16, 1957
Type: Movie
During a train journey, Carolus, master of literature, meets the charming Italian Enrico. The two men discuss eroticism, and it ends with a bet: In a few days in Copenhagen, Enrico will seduce four women. Coincidentally - and unfortunately, Carolus' wife is the first Enrico to date.
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En drömmares vandring
Title: En drömmares vandring
Character: Terje
Released: March 25, 1957
Type: Movie
Portrait of the Swedish poet Dan Andersson (1888-1920). Brought up during poor conditions he finds work as a temperance preacher and educator. Bored by this he travels to Stockholm to try to get his poems published. On the train he meets a rich, sophisticated art patron who encourages him and grinds his literary and philosophical formation.
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The Seventh Seal
Title: The Seventh Seal
Character: Plog
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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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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Smiles of a Summer Night
Title: Smiles of a Summer Night
Character: Frid
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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Rasmus and the Vagabond
Title: Rasmus and the Vagabond
Character: Policeman
Released: December 3, 1955
Type: Movie
Rasmus escapes from the orphanage to find parents for himself. He teams up with a hobo and together they experience a series of adventures while looking for a home for Rasmus .
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Malin Goes Home
Title: Malin Goes Home
Character: Jakob
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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Sawdust and Tinsel
Title: Sawdust and Tinsel
Released: September 14, 1953
Type: Movie
The complicated relationships between a circus ringmaster, his estranged wife and his lover.
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Barabbas
Title: Barabbas
Character: Eliahu, Robber, Barabbas' Father
Released: May 5, 1953
Type: Movie
The story about the thief who didn't get crucified because Jesus was choosen to take his place.
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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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Summer with Monika
Title: Summer with Monika
Character: Ludwig Eriksson
Released: February 9, 1953
Type: Movie
Monika from Stockholm falls in love with Harry, a young man on holiday. When she becomes pregnant they are forced into a marriage, which begins to fall apart soon after they take up residence in a cramped little flat.
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Farlig Kurva
Title: Farlig Kurva
Character: Starnberg
Released: December 26, 1952
Type: Movie
Christer is a teenager who prefers to spend his time on motorcycles instead of his studies which doesn't impress his father. There is also a youth motorcycle gang terrorising the local girls but Christer doesn't dare to stand up to them, leading to his humiliation. One day he comes into contact with a professional speedway racer who takes him under his wing.
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När syrenerna blomma
Title: När syrenerna blomma
Character: Doctor
Released: February 4, 1952
Type: Movie
The 1880s. Abandoned by his middle class parents in Stockholm, Johannes grows up in the countryside with a cobbler who regularly beats him up. Also at school he has to face regular beatings because of his Stockholm background, the only one who cares for him is a girl, Lotta, who promises to marry him one day. When he's 20 he moves to Stockholm and joins the Royal guards at the Royal palace. Quite by accident he meets Lotta again and start an affair with her. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
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Starkare än lagen
Title: Starkare än lagen
Character: Mattias
Released: October 15, 1951
Type: Movie
About the farming mountain settlers in 1870s Sweden. The young Helge has been accused of manslaughter and has to fight for his life to survive.
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The Nuthouse
Title: The Nuthouse
Character: Chairman of The Research Group for Ancient Films
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: Bovén
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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Miss Julie
Title: Miss Julie
Character: Robert
Released: June 28, 1951
Type: Movie
Based on the play by August Strindberg, Miss Julie vividly depicts the battle of the sexes and classes that ensues when Julie, a wealthy businessman's daughter, falls for Jean, her father's bitter servant.
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Regementets ros
Title: Regementets ros
Released: December 26, 1950
Type: Movie
To save intoxicated friend Boman from getting caught, two conscripts lock him up in the local jail and release a prisoner, Ivan Jansson, so that he can pretend to be Boman for a few hours. But when the real Boman is transported to the county jail, switching them back could be difficult.
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When Love Came to the Village
Title: When Love Came to the Village
Character: Johan
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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Jack of Hearts
Title: Jack of Hearts
Character: Berra
Released: September 18, 1950
Type: Movie
Lieutenant Anders Canitz is a womanizer and gambler from the upper class. He has spent all of heritage and tries to get to his sister's money by engaging her to invest in a shady business project he is involved in.
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Restaurant Intim
Title: Restaurant Intim
Released: March 3, 1950
Type: Movie
A new realism depiction of life and work in an old restaurant. A social portrayal of exhausted staff and dubious guests.
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Två trappor över gården
Title: Två trappor över gården
Character: Caretaker
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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Number 17
Title: Number 17
Character: Brandt
Released: December 26, 1949
Type: Movie
The sailor Calle Svensson gets a tip on a cheap hotel from a stranger. But Calle walks to the wrong house. And finds a dead man in the bed, stolen passports and signs of trafficking in a cupboard.
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Stora Hoparegränd och himmelriket
Title: Stora Hoparegränd och himmelriket
Character: Bister
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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Only a Mother
Title: Only a Mother
Character: Inspector
Released: October 31, 1949
Type: Movie
A poor woman in a Swedish farming community struggles to feed her large family and is torn by her passion for two different men.
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Sjösalavår
Title: Sjösalavår
Character: Karl-Oscar
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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Kvinnan som försvann
Title: Kvinnan som försvann
Character: Detective Lövdahl
Released: March 24, 1949
Type: Movie
In England, a famous jewel collection is stolen. The police suspect that the jewels have been smuggled to Sweden, and in Stockholm, the young insurance detective Peter Holmer is commissioned to trace the stolen jewels. The tracks first lead Peter to a certain ballet master Lando, but when he comes to Lando's flat, he finds him murdered. Before the police were summoned, Peter saw a young lady smearing from the floor. He tries to catch her, but when he gets down the street she disappears in a taxi..
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Prison
Title: Prison
Released: March 19, 1949
Type: Movie
A movie director is approached by his old math teacher with a great movie idea: the Devil declares that the Earth is hell. The director rejects the idea, but subsequent events in the life of a writer, a friend of the director's, and a young prostitute he loves seem to prove the math teacher's idea.
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Gatan
Title: Gatan
Character: Gustaf Persson
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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Vagabond Blacksmiths
Title: Vagabond Blacksmiths
Released: February 7, 1949
Type: Movie
Midsummer Eve in Malmfors in the 1880s. The holiday is celebrated with a big party. Three blacksmiths leave the ironworks and become drifters, seeking out jobs elsewhere. During their travels, they come across beautiful girls as well as jobs in different ironworks, where the workers are organizing, monitored by a brutal police force.
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Strange Harbor
Title: Strange Harbor
Character: Steward
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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Robinson i Roslagen
Title: Robinson i Roslagen
Character: Parish constable
Released: September 25, 1948
Type: Movie
To get away from his nagging wife, a man goes to a desert island to settle down there.
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Lars Hård
Title: Lars Hård
Character: Cruel prison guard
Released: August 30, 1948
Type: Movie
Young drifter tells his story in flashback from prison.
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Jag är med eder...
Title: Jag är med eder...
Released: January 5, 1948
Type: Movie
Together with his wife Carin and their little son Lasse, Helge Tellberg is in the position of leaving Sweden to become a missionary in Rhodesia.
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A Ship to India
Title: A Ship to India
Character: Variety Hall Manager
Released: September 22, 1947
Type: Movie
Sailor Johannes Blom returns to his home port, after seven years at sea, to find that Sally, the girl he has been thinking of while away, is completely despondent. Seven years earlier, obstreperous Alexander Blom, brings his mistress Sally to live with him, his wife Alice, son Johannes, and crew, aboard the salvage boat he captains. Amidst all the tensions on the small boat, Johannes and Sally fall in love with each other.
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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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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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När ängarna blommar
Title: När ängarna blommar
Character: Emil Nicklasson
Released: November 11, 1946
Type: Movie
The farm workers at Näs Farm, lead by Hellman, go on strike, demanding that their employer recognize their labor union. But he calls on strike-breakers to perform the farm work. Hellman's son Gunnar is a hothead who easily gets in trouble.
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It Rains on Our Love
Title: It Rains on Our Love
Character: Reverend Berg
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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The Girl and the Devil
Title: The Girl and the Devil
Character: Young man
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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Klockan på Rönneberga
Title: Klockan på Rönneberga
Released: March 13, 1944
Type: Movie
Rönneberga is an old family manor. When Lennart Heijken is born, his proud father buys his newborn a grandfather's clock that will follow him through his life and see him become a student, an officer, a married man, and eventually an old man.