|
Skogen är vår arvedel (1944)
Character: N/A
The farmer Per Jonsson doesn't think too well about the factory in the neighborhood, since he thinks that it destroys the fishing and makes the young people leave the countryside. When the workers at the factory go on strike, they ask him to sell milk to them and let them work in his forest. But Jonsson is stubborn and refuses to give them any help at all. At least until he is in an accident and also need help.
|
|
|
Familjen Andersson (1937)
Character: N/A
A happy-go-lucky husband has a wife bitten with social aspirations and this leads to several social mishaps.
|
|
|
|
|
Landet för folket (1936)
Character: N/A
Social democratic election film. The plot revolves around the young love couple Axel and Ulla, whose fates are woven into the larger political context. The film describes how Swedish society has changed and improved since 1932.
|
|
|
Anna Lans (1943)
Character: Anna's father
At a meeting at the Salvation Army a female soldier tells the story of her life.
|
|
|
Som folk är mest (1944)
Character: N/A
Kurre and Inga are engaged to be married. However, as they are very poor, they can't afford it just yet. They live separate, both in small apartments with a friend. Inga works at an office and Kurre at a small factory. Inga has a liability to be late in the mornings and this gets her into some trouble at the office, because of her very strict boss. This, along with the fact that another girl starts to court Kurre puts their relationship to the test, a crisis which is easier said than done to solve.
|
|
|
Kungliga Johansson (1934)
Character: N/A
Famous chef Carl-Ulrik Johansson (Erik 'Bullen' Berglund) comes home to Sweden after twenty years abroad and finds out he never finished his compulsory military service. Consequently he is forced to join the army as a conscript. He has many fights with his sergeant Göran Persson (Thor Modéen).
|
|
|
Fänrik Ståls sägner (1926)
Character: N/A
Based on the poems by finnish poet Johan Ludvig Runeberg, the movie centers on the Finnish War between Russia and Sweden in 1808.
|
|
|
Åsa-Nisse på semester (1953)
Character: N/A
Åsa-Nisse is visited by cousin Doris from the United States. Nisse, Klabbarparn and Doris will travel to Stockholm, but Nisse and Klabbarparn lose track of Doris, who get into a hands of a Casanova. Nisse and Klabbarparn instead ends up at the Nordic Museum, where Åsa-Nisse turns out to have unexpected qualities in the art of imitating a mannequin. After that they had found each other is Doris robbed and it leads to a wild brawl that it sparkles and sputters on.
|
|
|
Melodin från Gamla Stan (1939)
Character: Officer on the boat
Swedish movie from 1939. In summer Stockholm live the unemployed musician Nisse trying to sell the songs to music publishers. One day the treasurer of a prominent publisher is arrested, on suspicion of theft of 10,000 crowns from a cash box. Nisse has, however, seen something suspicious.
|
|
|
Räkna de lyckliga stunderna blott (1944)
Character: N/A
The old Victor Branzell has a grandson, Alf, who is in love with a clerk in a glove shop, Lilian Lind. But Lilian with her simple background doesn't get accepted in the circles where Alf belongs, and they have now reached the conclusion that they can't have a future together. Marriage is impossible. Victor summons Lilian and Alf and starts telling them his life story.
|
|
|
Thora van Deken (1920)
Character: N/A
A divorced woman takes matters into her own hands and destroys her late ex-husband's will, to ensure that their daughter receives her rightful inheritance. Will her efforts be for naught? Based on "Lille Rødhætte" by Henrik Pontoppidan.
|
|
|
I brist på bevis (1943)
Character: Man in Trade Stall (uncredited)
A drama about the manager Håkan Dahlin who has just been discharged from a clinic where he was treated for his alcoholism. In an outbreak of jealousy, Dahlin abuses his wife Inga and after that he is forcibly interned again. Inga is a nurse and she is now moving to a mountain village to work at a district clinic. During an emergency visit, she encounters her childhood sweetheart, the doctor Gunnar, and old feelings between them begin to flare up again.
|
|
|
Karusellen går (1940)
Character: Police at the railway station
Swedish comedy from 1940. Carnival director Knut Lindberg has ended up in the hands of the usurer Director Aronsson and his shady practices trying to take over Lindberg's funfair. But the two new colleagues, Kalle and Nisse, does everything to stop him.
|
|
|
|
|
Midnattssolens son (1939)
Character: Parish constable in Kiruna
The young Nila has been in love with Marja for a long time. She say yes to his proposal and they decide to marry at Easter.
|
|
|
Skanör-Falsterbo (1939)
Character: N/A
Henrik Karlsson is accused of having stolen 5,000 SEK, even though he is innocent. But to protect the real thief, who is sick in hospital, Karlsson takes the full responsibility.
|
|
|
Vi masthuggspojkar (1940)
Character: en man vid skjutståndet
Karl and Ada are engaged, Gustaf is a sailor and in love with Elsa. For her sake he's willing to stay ashore.
|
|
|
Herr Arnes pengar (1919)
Character: City dweller
Three Scottish officers, including Sir Archi, murder Sir Arne and his household for a coffin filled with gold. The only survivor is Elsalill, who moves to relatives in Marstrand. There she meets a charming young officer- Sir Archi- and she soon understands that he was one of the murderers.
|
|
|
Mot nya tider (1939)
Character: N/A
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.
|
|
|
|
Alexander den Store (1917)
Character: N/A
In a small provincial town there is a hotel run by one of those eccentric cooks of long ago who made generous meals that have nothing in common with the extravagant restaurateurs of nowadays and their meagre menus. The manager is named after Alexander the Great and in his restaurant the town bourgeoisie meet and discuss various issues, especially matters of the heart. Morals are part of the conversations and prove to be complicated issues even for strict and serious Nordics. 28 minutes of runtime are missing and presumed lost.
|
|
|
En kvinnas ansikte (1938)
Character: N/A
A cynical woman with a disfigured face—a hardened criminal—gets an opportunity to change her ways when she meets a sympathetic plastic surgeon. She leaves her old life behind, but soon her old friends catch up with her.
|
|
|
Kärlek och journalistik (1916)
Character: Stadsbudet
A woman journalist employed as a maid by a great explorer is overcome with remorse at revealing his private life to the public. He shares her feelings and marries her
|
|
|
Flickornas Alfred (1935)
Character: nämndeman
The orphan Alfred lives with two ladies in an idyllic cottage near a private golf course.
|
|
|
Iris och löjtnantshjärta (1946)
Character: N/A
Robert, an upper-class officer, meets and falls in love with Iris, a house maid. His family will do anything to stop her from marrying him.
|
|
|
Fransson den förskräcklige (1941)
Character: man från stadspolisen
A young baker moves to the small town of Västerby and becomes successful with a new type of whole wheat bread.
|
|
|
Stiliga Augusta (1946)
Character: kund i speceriaffären som försöker anställa Hanna
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.
|
|
|
Tösen från Stormyrtorpet (1917)
Character: Courtroom audience
Helga is a young single lady who has a baby by a much older married man. After the older man tells Helga's father that he refuses to pay child support because he isn't the child's father, her father insists that Helga take him to court. On court day, just as the older married man is about to swear on the Bible that he is not the father of Helga's child, Helga suddenly tells the court that she's dropping the case because although the man did father her child, she doesn't want him to commit perjury, which is not only a serious crime but a mortal sin as well. Based on a 1913 novel by Selma Lagerlöf.
It was the first in a series of successful Lagerlöf adaptions by Sjöström, made possible by a deal between Lagerlöf and A-B Svenska Biografteatern (later AB Svensk Filmindustri) to adapt at least one Lagerlöf novel each year. Lagerlöf had for many years denied any proposal to let her novels be adapted for film, but after seeing Sjöström's Terje Vigen she finally decided to give her allowance.
|
|
|
Tappa inte sugen (1947)
Character: N/A
In a movie studio, a fight scene is underway. The hero, played by Allan Bergner, will make an impression on the heroine, played by Ylva Vendel. But Allan is not prepared to give more than one pale hint of fight; he wants to be presentable in later scenes as well. The director wears his hair.
|
|
|
Rid i natt! (1942)
Character: Peasant in Brändebol (uncredited)
In the south of Sweden, some farmers get into trouble when the German Count is forcing them to perform day labor for him. But a man refuses to bow to the German Count.
|
|
|
Hamnstad (1948)
Character: Johan - Gunnar's Father (uncredited)
A suicidal factory girl, just out of reformatory school and anxious to escape her overbearing mother, falls in love with a sailor who can't forgive her past.
|
|
