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Natt i hamn (1943)
Character: Canada Eriksson
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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När ängarna blommar (1946)
Character: Hellman
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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Systrarna (1912)
Character: Notarie
In front of the salvation Army headquarters. An old man who is being teased by a flock of children, is almost run over by a car. Out of the headquarters gates march singing and playing female Salvation Army soldiers. One of the women is on her way to a nearby restaurant where the two sisters Ruth and Fanny works as waitresses.
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Katt över vägen (1937)
Character: Sigurd Wallén, film director
An actress is happy when she is finally contacted by a famous director, but the director is more interested in her cat.
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Konflikt (1937)
Character: Gustaf Larsson
"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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Hans livs lopp (1944)
Character: Master tailor Olsson
Social Democratic election film. Young Lasse is unemployed and drawn to the Communists. However, he comes to the Social Democratic fold after heroically capturing a saboteur. He falls in love with young Greta, whose father is a nimble master tailor who knows how to put both communists and citizens in place.
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Janssons frestelse (1928)
Character: N/A
Baron von Werner and Gunnar Jansson are in a dispute over property rights. Inga, the baron's daughter, arrives home from France and is soon interested in Jansson, her father's archival, and tempers flare. Based on the play by Sigurd Wallén.
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Svarta rosor (1932)
Character: N/A
The waitress Inga is pregnant and the father, the sailor Edvin, tells her to find someone who can handle the child instead of him.
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Vi går landsvägen (1937)
Character: N/A
Three drifters walks on a country road. Loffe is about 35 years, Maggan about 50 years and Novisen about 25 years. They arrive to a mansion with a castle ruin by a lake. Loffe says he is the eldest of children born on the estate.
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Du gamla du fria ! (1938)
Character: Karl "Charlie" Johnson
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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Kloka gubben (1938)
Character: N/A
In a small village there are two doctors - one professional and one quack. Dr. Bergman has to see the number of his patients dwindle, as they seem to prefer the traditional medication of the quack doctor, Rasmus Thomsen. Rasmus' son Erik graduates from medical school and returns to the village. While Rasmus and Dr. Bergman become enemies, Erik falls in love with Dr. Bergman's daughter Birgit.
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Stockholmsfrestelser (1911)
Character: N/A
The young sawmill owner Anders Person has won the lottery and goes on pleasure trip to Stockholm with his wife Julia. They are met by aunt Julia and makes plan for a night on the town.
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I mörkaste Småland (1943)
Character: Johannes
Albert Engström's anecdotes of Småland have been put together to make a comedy film about Johannes and Cornelius, two smallholding farmers and best friends.
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Familjen Andersson (1937)
Character: Kalle Andersson
A happy-go-lucky husband has a wife bitten with social aspirations and this leads to several social mishaps.
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Giftasvuxna döttrar (1933)
Character: Fritz Landé
Porter's wife Emma has three daughters, all "marriageable". All three have worries about marriage.
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Det är min musik (1942)
Character: Lars Bergius
Inga and her father, the violin maker Lars, are big music enthusiasts. One day they meet the violinist Jan-Erik.
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Kärlek och kassabrist (1932)
Character: Andersson
Office clerk Margit suspects that the senior accountant is embezzling money from the company. Now the auditors are on their way to check the bookkeeping. It seems that the senior accountant isn't the only embezzler in the town, even the chief of police is a member of the Embezzler's Club. Margit decides to help the senior accountant.
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...som en tjuv om natten (1940)
Character: Grundell
Nisse Ekberg is in San Francisco but wants to get back to Sweden. Not being a completely honest guy, he gets mixed up with another person and assumes his identity.
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Brokiga blad (1931)
Character: N/A
Vera Nilsson is friendly with the poor neighbor boy Håkan, this is not seen kindly by Vera's father Nils.
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Röda dagen (1931)
Character: N/A
Jideon Andersson is the leader of the "Red Day" organization that are planning a communist takeover of the capital of Stockholm on August 1.
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Lyckans gullgossar (1932)
Character: N/A
A story about is stock deals and land speculations in Stockholm. The happiness depends on a horseshoe a couple of gentlemen find in the street.
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Pojkarna på Storholmen (1932)
Character: N/A
The Sjölund family on Lillholmen in the archipelago of Stockholm is quite religious and is considered suitable for dealing with odd specimens of wild youth placed there by one of Stockholm's youth associations for young girls.
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Pettersson - Sverige (1934)
Character: N/A
A safe is blown up and an old soccer hero, now a policeman, get the task of solving the case.
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Ebberöds bank (1935)
Character: N/A
The poor tailor of Ebberöd is visited by his American cousin, John Andrews. He brings a bag, and the local gossip has it that he has brought 20 million with him. The tailor, the miller and a rich widow decides to open a bank. The business is excellent - they lend out money at 4 percent interest rate but gives 8 percent on the savings accounts.
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Stora famnen (1940)
Character: N/A
In the late 1800's, the old Karolina Koger dictates his will: all her money shall form a family fund.
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Livat på luckan (1951)
Character: N/A
Johansson has managed to stay away from the military service for several years. But now his time has come.
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Flickan är ett fynd (1943)
Character: N/A
Brothers Fredrik and Pontus own a family company. Fredrik is the manager of the old school and Pontus is a professor of psychology, which theorizes that men is more intelligent than women. Astrid, a young woman, opposes these theories and Pontus decides to hires her, which Fredrik doesn't like. Astrid gets installed as in charge of advertising, and soon she begins her modernizations.
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Änkeman Jarl (1945)
Character: N/A
Jarl is a retired widower who lives in a small village in Småland, Sweden.
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Skeppar Jansson (1945)
Character: N/A
Jansson returns home after many years sailing the world. His two groups of relatives both want him to stay with them in hopes that he will leave them a large share of his inheritance.
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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.
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Livet går vidare (1941)
Character: Dr. Bolivar Garland
The Swedish officer Mikael Bourg has served with the French army in Africa. When he returns to Sweden after many years abroad to recover from malaria, he meets his son, a student who prefers partying with his frat friends instead of his bank job; a disappointment in his father's eyes. He also meets a young librarian, Ebba Garland, which makes him feel young again and distracts him from the sickness.
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Kärlek efter noter (1935)
Character: N/A
The Karlsson family has a grocery store, but the son Bertil wants to set up an operetta on stage.
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Halta Lena och vindögda Per (1924)
Character: Erik Österman
The film centers on Algot Söderholm's two daughters, beautiful Magda and plain, less desirable Lena. Adapted from the 1910 play by Ernst Fastbom.
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Fridas visor (1930)
Character: Gyllberg
Frida lives in a small idyllic town called Little Paris.
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John Ericsson – segraren vid Hampton Roads (1937)
Character: N/A
In 1803 the Swedish inventor John Ericsson is born. After a military career he went to England and became one of the first builders of locomotives. Despite large debts, he invents the propeller. In 1839 he crosses the Atlantic and builds ships for the US Navy. When the US civil war breaks out, the Federation needs a ship to match the Confederate 'Merrimac' and preventing the Confederation from exporting cotton to Europe. Ericsson builds the 'Monitor', a ship the Federation needs to win the war.
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Med folket för fosterlandet (1938)
Character: N/A
This film depicts every noteworthy event (in the eyes of the film-makers) in Sweden from the death of King Oscar II, in 1907, to the celebration of the 80th birthday of King Gustave V in Stockholm in June of 1938. This film is comprised largely of newsreel clips intermixed with the fictional story of the family lives of a working man and a well-to-do newspaper editor through two generations, with a special significance in the showing of the development of the social-democratic form of government in Sweden.
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Ett brott (1940)
Character: Hugo von Degerfelt
A murder is committed in an apartment building in Stockholm. And afterward all clues point toward the Justice of the Supreme Court and his sons. But who did it? And why? And will they be able to live with the guilt?
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Kronans käcka gossar (1940)
Character: Sergeant Major
New explosives will be demonstrated for the military authorities, but some shady characters looking to steal it to sell it to a foreign power.
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Saltstänk och krutgubbar (1946)
Character: Ericsson
The stingy fisherman Ericsson lives on a small island north of Stockholm with his wife Johanna och her father Isak.
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Två år i varje klass (1938)
Character: Dr. Wahlberg
The boys will get a new class teacher who has discipline, they get in a lot of mischief, so much complaints that they have to read extra during the summer holidays to get started in class 4.
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Hans livs match (1932)
Character: N/A
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.
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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.
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Berg-Ejvind och hans hustru (1918)
Character: Halla's Farm Worker Who Denounces the Outlaw
A stranger comes to work at widow Halla's farm. Halla and the stranger fall in love, but when he is revealed as Eyvind, an escaped thief forced into crime by his family's starvation, they flee and become two of the many outlaws of Iceland's mountains.
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Swedenhielms (1935)
Character: Erik Erikson
The Swedenhielms is an old aristocratic family. The head of the family is professor Rolf Swedenhielm. His three children Bo, Julia and Rolf Jr also live in the house. They also have an excellent house maid, Boman. Because of the family's extravagance, they are heading for bankruptcy. But perhaps their problems would be solved if Rolf was awarded the Nobel Prize?
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Munkbrogreven (1935)
Character: Gurkan
A police inspector tracks a notorious jewel thief, 'Diamond-Lasse,' to a hotel filled with eccentrics.
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Sjöcharmörer (1939)
Character: Viktor Johansson
A bus company wants to acquire traffic rights on an island in the Stockholm archipelago. The steam boats will be replaced by buses, but Captain Johansson and his daughter Eva are at the forefront of the protests.
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Karusellen går (1940)
Character: Knut Lindberg
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.
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Alla tiders Karlsson (1936)
Character: Karl Alfred "Kalle" Karlsson
Åke is employed as a singer in a revue tour and his uncle Karlsson becomes the tour bus driver.
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Janssons frestelse (1936)
Character: John Jansson
John Smith is an accountant at a stockbroking firm, where the firm ends up in the liquidity crisis because of his managerial speculation with the firm's money. The bank wants John to take over leadership of the company.
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Beredskapspojkar (1940)
Character: Movie director
Two movie actors are conscripted; at the regiments spies are trying to get hold of secret documents.
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Sigge Nilsson och jag (1938)
Character: Johan Hugo Wahlberg
Sigge and Putte has moved to a private school, where they fight and get up to mischief.
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Nygifta (1941)
Character: Bergstrand Sr.
The young architect Gunnar Bergstrand marries the Norwegian Eva, against his parents' wishes.
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Karl Fredrik regerar (1934)
Character: Karl-Fredrik Pettersson
A man goes from the tough life as a hired worker all the way into the Swedish government.
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Hans nåds testamente (1919)
Character: School Inspector
A series of family entanglements develop around the changing will of Roger Bernhuses de Sars (Karl Mantzius), who wants his heritage to go to his illegitimate daughter Blenda (Greta Almroth). But love and fate also plays their cards. One of the most surprising films of Sjöström, close to Stroheim and some of the silent comedies of Lubitsch. Belonging to the golden age of Swedish film, this comedy offers one of the earliest explorations of the relationship between masters and servants on the screen, later developed by French masters like Renoir and Guitry. After acting in the diptych of Thomas Graal, Sjöström shows that he also dominates the “light genre” as director.
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Smålänningar (1935)
Character: Gustav Adolf Söderlund
Gustav lives in Värnamo. He constructs a new boat engine, but needs time to complete it. The work has been financed by factory director "Hatt-Johan" Johansson who would like to sell the invention. Gustav's father returns from the United States and everyone thinks he's become a millionaire.
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Pettersson & Bendel (1933)
Character: Nilsson
The two conmen Bendel and Pettersson starts doing business together. Bendel got the brains and Pettersson the charm.
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Mot nya tider (1939)
Character: Kalle Lundgren
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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Adolf i eld och lågor (1939)
Character: Olsson
Swedish comedy from 1939. Adolf Berglund is a reporter at the newspaper Morgonbladet and is sent on one action-packed mission after the other. But it's not always that he uses honest working methods to produce his scoops.
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Brott och straff (1945)
Character: Samjotov
Former student Raskolnikov is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police, Raskolnikov struggles between trying to hide his guilt and the pressure to confess.
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Hur tokigt som helst (1949)
Character: N/A
"How crazy!" A man and a woman watch episodes from Nils Poppe movies outside a cinema Maxim in Stockholm. Poppe represents, among other things, a poor composer who vainly tries to get a tune adopted by a publisher. The failure makes him depressed, but he is living it up by meeting a good friend Calle, who invites him home. Poppe stays for a few days as a male housewife. Calle has a music store and there the two friends can go crazy among all the instruments.
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Alexander den Store (1917)
Character: Waiter at Hotel Palad and Thea-hotel
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.
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En kvinnas ansikte (1938)
Character: Miller
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.
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Hemsöborna (1944)
Character: Rundqvist
In the Stockholm archipelago in the 1880s, Carlsson move out to an isolated farmstead to help the widow Flood with the farm. Carlsson has big plans for the island, including having paying guests in the summer but Gusten, the son of the widow, is negative. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
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Bombi Bitt och jag (1936)
Character: Eli's father - Station-master
Bombi Bitt is the mischievous boy in 1930s Skåne whom no one can control – and the stationmaster's strict son Eli becomes his admiring companion. Together they experience a series of thrilling and cheerful adventures among characters such as Jöns Pumpare, the painter Vricklund, the sugar whore Franskan and the horse thief Nils Gallilé. The highlight is the grand visit to Kivik Market. Based on Fritiof Nilsson Piraten's autobiographical debut book.
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Ingmarssönerna (1919)
Character: Man
Part one of an ambitious screen adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf's book Jerusalem.
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Tösen från Stormyrtorpet (1917)
Character: Man at courthouse yard
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.
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Vi som går köksvägen (1932)
Character: Pontus
Helga Breder is a young, spoiled girl. To her beloved Jörgen she says that she, as a modern young woman, is multi-talented and can do whatever she likes. Jörgen bets that she can't work as a house-maid but, if she manages it, he will buy her a diamond ring. Helga becomes a house-maid at Vinger Mansion and falls in love with an inventor, Bertil Frigård, who lives there.
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Kvinnor i fångenskap (1943)
Character: Prison Doctor
A priest decides to engage himself socially in prison. In the cells he meets a number of women with different fates. One is Mary, a young honest woman gone wrong.
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Rospiggar (1942)
Character: Efraim Österman
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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Juninatten (1940)
Character: Editor in Chief Johansson-Eldh
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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