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Herr Arnes penningar (1954)
Character: Arne's neighbour
Three Scottish noblemen escape from Gripsholm Castle and break into the home of Lord Arne. They kill everyone except for Lord Arne's adopted daughter Elsalill.
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Hon kom som en vind (1952)
Character: Metal shop worker
"She Came Like a Wind" - Fabian Rosander works at a factory and is close to 50 years old. When a new employee named Lilly, a young beautiful girl, comes to the factory Fabians life takes a new turn.
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På dessa skuldror (1948)
Character: N/A
Kjell Loväng returns to his parent's farm after a few years of work in Stockholm. He discovers that his father Arvid neglects the farm and spends too much time drinking and meeting other women. Kjell has to prove to his father his ability to manage the farm.
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Främmande hamn (1948)
Character: N/A
"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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Resa i natten (1955)
Character: Johansson
Gösta is a lorry driver and has been married to Birgitta for eight years. Their marriage is only held together by their daughter. Gösta picks up girls along the roads and during a drive to Malmö he stumbles on the singing actress Irene. Gösta is captivated by her romantic presence and her joy of life. Besides picking up women, Gösta is sometimes affected by sudden seizures. His wife is unaware of this.
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Lars Hård (1948)
Character: Farm hand reading from a book
Young drifter tells his story in flashback from prison.
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När kärleken kom till byn (1950)
Character: Parish Clerk
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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Lång-Lasse i Delsbo (1949)
Character: Kjellstedt
it's the 1840s and a rural parish plagued by drinking and fighting gets a new vicar who has decided to instill law, order and fear of God into the parishioners.
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Det är hos mig han har varit (1963)
Character: N/A
"It's with me he's been" - Li and Hans are colleagues at an advertising agency. Even though Hans is married, they start a relationship. Li hopes that Hans will tell his wife the truth about them and leave her for Li.
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Bränningar (1935)
Character: Olle
Daniel has been forced by his father to become a priest. After graduating, he comes to a parish in Hälsingland. During one stormy night, he seduces a young girl, Karin, and rapes her. Filled with regret, he runs out into the dark night and is struck by lightning. He loses his memory and is taken to a distant hospital to recover. Meanwhile Karin gets pregnant and has a child. Eventually Daniel comes back and when he meets Karin his memory returns.
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Maria (1947)
Character: Carl Carlbom
Maria has been fired from her job as a householder with a family in a small town in Sweden. She leaves in anger for Stockholm, aiming for a career as an actress.
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Restaurant Intim (1950)
Character: Hajen
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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Bärande hav (1951)
Character: N/A
"Rolling Sea" - After a longer stay at the hospital, the young Martin comes to Gothenburg and notice that his fiancee Sonja has met another man.
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Konflikt (1937)
Character: Shipyard worker
"Conflict" - Shipbuilder Edvard Banck is busy building new ships, but forgets that his wife Birgit wants his attention and tenderness. A new engineer, Reidar Hagen, begins at the shipyard, and Birgit is immediately attracted to him. They fall in love, and Birgit decides to leave her husband. But is it possible and what will Edvard do?
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Stora Hoparegränd och himmelriket (1949)
Character: Wiland's janitor
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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Sången om den eldröda blomman (1934)
Character: N/A
Olof Koskela, the only son is driven from home when he wants to marry the wrong girl. He takes a job as a floater. His reputation as a womanizer goes far and wide. When he meets the proud Kyllikki, he enters into a bet to defeat the mighty rapids standing on a log.
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Väntande vatten (1965)
Character: N/A
A monologue of a woman who tells about her life, mainly about the men she met, while walking.
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Norrlänningar (1930)
Character: N/A
Homeowner Edlund is forced to borrow money from Mauritz Berg, the local sawmill owner, but soon finds it is not an end to his problems or his dealings with Berg.
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Möten i skymningen (1957)
Character: N/A
Olle moves to Stockholm to start a new job as a printer. He rents a room by his colleague-to-be, Victor. He shares the apartment with Roffe who has a serious alcohol problem - and a very flirtatious wife, Irma. He falls in love with Irma's sister, Barbro.
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Starkare än lagen (1951)
Character: Priest
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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Den farliga leken (1930)
Character: N/A
When Ellen Brenton takes a swim too far from the shore she is be saved by the lifeguard Bob. While her husband is away on business Bob gets drunk and try to romance Ellen in her hotel room. There's a scandal in the media.
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Het är min längtan (1956)
Character: N/A
The nurse Nina becomes sterile after an illegal abortion and keep it a secret from her husband.
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Östermans testamente (1954)
Character: N/A
The fishermen Österman and Sjöberg are sued by merchant Wikström. In order to raise capital, they decide to start producing a medicine from a recipe by Österman's father.
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Friarannonsen (1955)
Character: N/A
Algot and Bengt have built a house together. But they can not agree on how ownership should be distributed between them. In addition they don't get any mail since the Post office refuse to hand it out.
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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.
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Smeder på luffen (1949)
Character: N/A
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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Du gamla du fria ! (1938)
Character: N/A
A humorous story concerning the return of a prosperous Swedish native, Charlie Johnson, to his native country after many years in America. The acceptance and acclamation of himself and his American-born daughter provide many situations involving them, their relatives and the townspeople.
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Snöstormen (1944)
Character: N/A
Lave decides to leave his hometown in order to escape murder suspicions. On his way to Killingdal, he gets right in the middle of a snow storm.
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Ådalens poesi (1947)
Character: N/A
The farmers Zackris Månsson and the Kerstorps-farmer lives on each side of the river. The two villages has always been enemies. The Kerstorps-farmer dies after a beating caused by Zachris. The son Olle takes over the farm and becomes a good farmer. He has a reputation of a fancying women, but the only women he has eyes for is Zachris daughter.
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Åsa-Nisse i kronans kläder (1958)
Character: Travelling salesman
Corporal Åsa-Nisse Nilsson is an officer who somehow manages to teach his soldiers both discipline and the art of war.
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Älskling på vågen (1955)
Character: Man in the boat
The Swedish/American actor Jack Harris visits the old country for the first time in his life. One of the journalist, Ingrid Billberg, is particularly interested in getting an interview with him. She finds out secret information about his next movie, and to stop her from revealing it, Jack Harris gets her alone with him on an isolated island in the archipelago. Romance blossoms... Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
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Äktenskapsleken (1935)
Character: Guest at Tora's Party (uncredited)
The sculptress Tora Diidiken is married to the sculptor Gunnar Grahn and they both compete in a contest to design a statue for the public square in Hicksville.
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91:an Karlsson (1946)
Character: N/A
The Squadron leader throws big a party where one of his colleagues is going to demonstrate a new type of explosive substance.
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Robinson i Roslagen (1948)
Character: Customs officer Holmberg
To get away from his nagging wife, a man goes to a desert island to settle down there.
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Kurragömma (1963)
Character: Gold smith (uncredited)
An escaped convict assumes the identity of a professor in order to reveal a criminal syndicate who smuggle diamonds together with Parisian haute couture.
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Sju vackra flickor (1956)
Character: Composer
Unsuccessful composer Stig disguises himself as a woman to play in ex-fiancee Sonja's seven piece women's orchestra, which is temporarily short one member, at a hotel. When Stig's jealous, and unsuccessful actress, wife Eva finds out about it she too disguises herself as the opposite sex by posing as a hotel porter. Additional complications arise and hilarity ensues!
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Familjen Andersson (1937)
Character: Tvätteriarbetare
A happy-go-lucky husband has a wife bitten with social aspirations and this leads to several social mishaps.
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Kronblom (1947)
Character: Tailor
A couple of thieves are terrorizing the village of Vinkelboda, and Kronblom becomes a suspect and must clear his name. Based on the popular Swedish comic strip Kronblom, about the laziest man in town.
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Stampen (1955)
Character: Kar-Fredrik
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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91:an Karlsson slår knockout (1957)
Character: N/A
Privates 91 and 87 are ordered to carry a tube of explosive chemicals to a military depot, while prize fighter Ingemar Johansson tries to teach them how to throw a punch.
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Den store amatören (1958)
Character: N/A
Modern fairy tale about the small town of Fårtuna where the chief of police is also an amateur theater director. The local shop assistant Linda aspires to become an actress and gets discovered by a talent agent from Stockholm.
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Enslingen i blåsväder (1959)
Character: N/A
The lonesome Johannes gets a phone call from Gösta Bernhard who wants to come over to him for a vacation in the archipelago.
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Kyssen på kryssen (1950)
Character: N/A
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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Regementets ros (1950)
Character: N/A
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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Janne Vängman i farten (1952)
Character: N/A
Erik Ernsson is on his way to Jon-Persgården in Ångermanland to seek employment. He befriends the old man Janne Vängman.
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En kärleksnatt vid Öresund (1931)
Character: N/A
In a southern Swedish city by Öresund, two young ladies, Maud and Viola, are discussing the novel Maud almost finished writing and to be submitted to the World Publishing's competition of $ 50,000 in the first prize.
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Ett kungligt äventyr (1956)
Character: N/A
Princess Caroline travels incognito to Stockholm and meets the Prince Birger, who also uses a fake name.
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Kanske en gentleman (1950)
Character: Benster
After watching Stig Järrel star in a production of Pygmalion Mister Haglund bets him that he can turn anyone into a gentlemen in a few months.
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Förtrollad vandring (1954)
Character: N/A
A traveling theatre company comes to a small town and performs to a packed house. But during the show the theatre director decides to run away with the money.
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Måsen (1959)
Character: N/A
This quintessential Chekhov drama--his first success--is both comic and tragic. A group of friends and relations gather at a country estate to see the first performance of an experimental play written and staged by the young man of the house, Konstantin, an aspiring writer who dreams of bringing new forms to the theatre.
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En sån strålande dag (1967)
Character: Jönsson
A comedy about the young notary Thore, who mistakenly opens a private letter to his boss, lawyer Larsson. The letter says that a certain Eva Larsson will inherit a piece of land in Guatemala, containing large oil deposits. A baby photo of Eva has been included for identification, and when Thore is fired for his mistake he happens to bring the photo with him.
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Försummad av sin fru (1947)
Character: N/A
Pelle (Karl-Arne Holmsten) and Siska (Irma Christenson) Hedberg are both journalists on the same newspaper. Pelle is an editor and Siska writes a relationship advice column. They're also newlyweds. And they love each other and are very happy together. But Siska often works late. Which leaves Pelle home alone. And after a while he starts to feel neglected. So he writes a letter about his problem to Siska’s relationship column. And HILARITY ensues in this ZANY ROM-COM!
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Adolf Armstarke (1937)
Character: N/A
Adolph Turesson is a mild-mannered, meek college professor whose faint-heart isn't impressing the fair-lady he secretly loves, the golden-haired Britta Larsson. Attending a lecture, he witnesses the attention paid to his lady-love by other faculty members, and falls to sleep. He dreams of the olden days and the knights, and the comely ladies of the court over whom they fought. His dream also gives all the cast the change to play a second role. Upon awakening, he proposes to Britta.
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Kulla-Gulla (1956)
Character: N/A
Orphan girl Gunilla (nick named Kulla-Gulla) gets sent from her orphanage to work as an housemaid at sharecropper Karlbergs household. Among her duties is to take care of Karlberg, his wife and their five children.
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Ballongen (1946)
Character: N/A
Sten Stensson Stéen dies when he gets a wooden box in his head, and he enters heaven in a balloon.
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Gustaf Wasa del II (1928)
Character: Tomt-Matts' farm worker
King Christian II rides busy street by Sweden which he now put under him, while he remembers what he did against the Swedes at the Stockholm Bloodbath. In dala heels walk a lonely man, dressed as a peasant. It's the one the Danes would prefer to get hold of - Gustaf Eriksson Vasa . He goes from Rankhyttan to Ornäs , where he is kindly received by the farmer Arendt Persson, but Arendt is a deceitful man who has thought enter Wasa to the Danish bailiff. But Arendt's wife helps Wasa to escape and he continues his long journey.
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Här kommer vi ... (1947)
Character: N/A
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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Ratataa eller The Staffan Stolle Story (1956)
Character: N/A
Staffan Stolle becomes the sole heir to a rich and noble family when he is just a little boy. Early on he is engaged to be married to a girl he finds he does not love. Instead he flees the country only to return under a false name, looking for true love.
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Landskamp (1932)
Character: Participator at Erik's engagement party (uncredited)
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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Aktören (1943)
Character: N/A
The actor Philip has an accident on the way to his own wedding and the shock makes him lose his voice.
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Springpojkar är vi allihopa (1941)
Character: Berglund på AB Skånedelikatesser (uncredited)
Gugge and Nuffe work at the competing meat wholesalers AB Delikatesser and AB Skånedelikatesser. The two companies compete for a large order and the two will stop at hardly nothing to get the order
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Flicka och Hyacinter (1950)
Character: N/A
A young woman dies by suicide and leaves all her belongings to her next-door neighbour, who becomes determined to investigate her reasons for taking her life.
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Den gula bilen (1963)
Character: Man at the train station
On a tourist trip abroad the passengers on the coach witness an assassination attempt on the President Hurkas. One of the tourists has evidence against the perpetrators, and is killed when the coach reaches Sweden. Another passenger observes how one of the perpetrators is picked up by a yellow car. She is kidnapped and locked up in a mental hospital.
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Storm över Tjurö (1954)
Character: Johansson
Karl Oskar Bohm looks back at his life, his estranged daughter Augusta and his wife Sofia.
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Kyss henne! (1940)
Character: Journalist (uncredited)
Lisa Larsson, dancer at a theater, witnesses a traffic accident and banker Brenner's private driver asks her to be a witness. When her friends see her talk to the driver, they start to believe that she is Brenner's fiancée. The manager of the theater, Gravander, gives her the leading part in his latest show, in order to befriend Brenner. Larsson plays along in this mistake and when Brenner hears about this he asks to see Larsson, pretending to be a news journalist... Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
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Mannekäng i rött (1958)
Character: Cemetary worker
A model is murdered at a famous fashion house and the Hillmans start to investigate. Kajsa Hillman is employed as a model and discovers that several people had motives to kill her.
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Synd (1948)
Character: Hotel Porter
Fredrik seduces the office girl Anna. She becomes helplessly passionately in love. Fredrik cheat Anna of all her savings. He intends to manufacture beauty products. To market the product he forge the signature of a wealthy aunt of Anna.
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Alla tiders Karlsson (1936)
Character: filminspicienten
Åke is employed as a singer in a revue tour and his uncle Karlsson becomes the tour bus driver.
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Excellensen (1944)
Character: N/A
Celebrated elderly Austrian poet opposes nazism, while his daughter admires and falls in love with leading nazi activist, who eventually becomes concentration camp commander with his father-in-law as prisoner.
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Det sjunde inseglet (1957)
Character: Flagellant (uncredited)
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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Bröderna Östermans bravader (1955)
Character: skärgårdsbo
Director Svensson in Stockholm is going on vacation to Koön in the archipelago. The rented cottage is inhabited by the brothers August and Johan Österman. Johan throws out August and tells him to arrange accommodation for the summer guests elsewhere.
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Bara en kypare (1959)
Character: N/A
Fabian Bom is a waiter at a hotel in a small town. But he dreams of doing something else - to dance and sing on a stage. He is madly in love with Matilda Roos, singer and diva. Fabian is too insensitive to notice that Annie, who works in the kitchen, is in love with him. Encouraged by Matilda, Fabian leaves the hotel and goes to Stockholm to become famous. But, as he soon learns, it is more difficult than he first thought.
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Fröken Chic (1959)
Character: Station inspector
Buster Carell, a talent agent is threatened by bankruptcy when his only real talent, a singing lumberjack, runs off with the company funds. Watching a TV quiz show, Carell discovers a prodigal singer, Isabella Linder, and offers her a contract. But she is unwilling and would like to remain a school teacher.
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Det är aldrig för sent (1956)
Character: man commenting on a newspaper
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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Gustav Vasa (1965)
Character: Tiggare
Gustav Vasa struggles to keep power while dealing with the Dacke War in his own country and his foreign debts.
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Sussie (1945)
Character: Speaker at the Dinner (uncredited)
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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Äktenskapsbrottaren (1964)
Character: Herr Prästen
Stockholm 1912. Site for the Olympic Games. Love entanglements and eroticism at hotel Eros.
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På en bänk i en park (1960)
Character: Drunk
Sam Persson is released from a mental hospital. He goes to Stockholm to meet a man he hates, theater manager Stig Brender. In Brender's office they get into a fight...
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Mot nya tider (1939)
Character: Secretary
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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Sommaren med Monika (1953)
Character: Harry's Father
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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Sextetten Karlsson (1945)
Character: mannen med vattenslangen
The story about Karlsson's six boys, who makes mischief in the fictional town of Östköping.
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Den vita katten (1950)
Character: Tenant
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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Ljuset från Lund (1955)
Character: Sigurdsson
A horse wanders from town to the countryside. Here lives Sten Stensson Steen, a bachelor at law and philosophy. He is writing a social psychological report on the youth problem.
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Skammen (1968)
Character: Man in the Refugee Boat
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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Till glädje (1950)
Character: Anker, Flute Player (uncredited)
After learning that his wife has been killed in an accident, a violinist looks back on their relationship.
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Musik i mörker (1948)
Character: N/A
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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Sånt händer inte här (1950)
Character: Worker
Atka Natas is a secret agent from the oppressive regime of Liquidatzia. He visits his estranged wife Vera, a chemist who is involved with a group of exiles trying to smuggle their compatriots out of Liquidatzia. Almkvist, a local policeman and former lover of Vera's, contacts her while investigating the death of one of the refugees. Natas has a list of agents operating in the host country and wants to sell them to the Americans. However before he can do so, Vera tries to kill him, after an argument about getting her parents out of Liquidatzia.
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En lektion i kärlek (1954)
Character: N/A
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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Simon i Backabo (1934)
Character: bensinförsäljaren
Simon lives a quiet life on his farm until one day he discovers he is the heir of a great fortune.
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Livet i finnskogarna (1947)
Character: Kolare
In a rural parish in 1906, young Heikki, one of the Finnish immigrants, lives a wild and free life in the deep forest. After poaching, his furs are confiscated and Heikki vows to have his revenge by seducing the young women of the parish, one by one.
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Fröken April (1958)
Character: Stage manager
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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Rospiggar (1942)
Character: Broder Johansson
A lonely fisherman drowns and his elderly brother Efraim is left to do an inventory of the estate. He discovers that his brother had a son, Karl-Erik. Keeping it a secret, he travels to Stockholm to employ the young man as a hired hand. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
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91:an Karlsson rycker in (1955)
Character: N/A
Charged by their infatuation of the regiment's maid Elvira, friends and rivals Mandel and Axelsson arrive for military duty, whereupon silly things happen in and around a mansion that is rumored to be haunted.
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Flottans överman (1958)
Character: Maitre d' at Los Caracoles
Fabian Bom has been sent by the Export Association to promote Swedish export to Spain. He travels with the navy's cruiser to Barcelona, but his jealous fiancée Gullan has followed him in secret to keep an eye on him. In Barcelona the usually strict and virtuous Bom is surrounded by the local women and has a ball. He meets the young and zestful Linnea from Sweden. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
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Harald Handfaste (1946)
Character: Poor farmer (uncredited)
Harald Handfaste is a 15th century Swedish Robin Hood, who fights against foreign oppression. He becomes the leader of a band of highwaymen and they start dealing with the evil bailiff. However, the bailiff will stop at nothing to catch Handfaste and show the people who is in charge. He even attempts to marry Handfaste's beloved Karin, and when she refuses to subdue, the bailiff decides to execute both her, her father and a monk who has been helping them.
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Salka Valka (1954)
Character: N/A
A coming of age story about young Salka Valka who lives in the small fishing village of Íseyri. She is doing well for herself as a partner in a small fishing boat, but people believe she is financed by her deceased mother's former fiance, Steinthór, who disappeared on their wedding day many years ago. Salka becomes infatuated with the idealistic Arnaldur who wants to start a workers union, much to the opposition of local entrepreneur Bogesen. The past comes to haunt her in the return of Steinthór but Salka fends off his advances only to lose the restless Arnaldur away. http://www.icelandicfilmcentre.is
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Bokhandlaren som slutade bada (1969)
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A sleepy village around 1910. Jacob, the owner of a book store in a small town is a member of a club who baths together every Sunday. He is uninterested in women until Amelie Arbel moves into the town. She is both rich and seductive and he marries her. After the marriage he discovers that she can be very troublesome.
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