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Valfångare (1939)
Character: Captain
The Whalers (original title: Valfangare) is a filmed record of the final whaling expedition in the Arctic before the outbreak of WW2. Only partly a documentary, the film is able to accommodate a dramatic throughline, concerning the redemption of wastrelly millionaire's son Allan Blom (Allan Bohlin). Pressed into service on the expedition, Allan shows he's a true son of Scandanavia through his courageous actions on the high seas, and even wins the hand of heroine Sonja (Tutta Rolf) in the bargain. While the whaling scenes are both exciting and exhillarating, the sequence in which a whale carcass is stripped and gutted may not appeal to everyone in the audience. Originally filmed in 1939 in Swedish and Norwegian, The Whalers was helpfully fitted out with English subtitles for its 1942 American run.
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Jacobs stege (1942)
Character: N/A
A young fisherman starts a business and climbs on the social ladder to avenge the man who plagued his parents.
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Kungajakt (1944)
Character: N/A
The film takes place in the 1780s. The Russians plan to overthrow Gustav III from the Swedish throne and Lieutenant Rehusen tries to stop them, while fighting for his king, he also fights for his love.
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Hans livs lopp (1944)
Character: N/A
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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Häxnatten (1937)
Character: N/A
The teacher Arne Markell, who is also a well-known poet, leaves his class of students. He will marry Lena and work for a new school. One of the students, Majken, misses him sincerely.
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Snöstormen (1944)
Character: Police Commissioner Holm
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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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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Jagad (1945)
Character: N/A
A smalltime businessman gets himself into finance problems. His bank requires tangible proof of ability to pay. The businessman makes a drastic decision.
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Hårda viljor (1923)
Character: Fredrik Mack Jr.
Fredrik Mack (Gustav Ranft) owns a glue factory in northern Norway and Ove Rolandsen (Eugen Skjønberg), a great womanizer, works for him. When Mack's beautiful daughter Elise (Lilla Bye) returns from studies, Ove immediately flirts with her.
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Stackars Ferdinand (1941)
Character: N/A
Wholesaler Ferdinand wants his son to marry his firm partner's daughter, but the problem is they don't want to get married. The son turns to a friend for advice. It turns out that Ferdinand had a daughter from a previous marriage he didn't know nothing about, which leads to further confusion
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Sexlingar (1942)
Character: N/A
A local newspaper editor in northern Sweden starts to spread a rumor that sextuplets has been born. In reality it turns out that it's only two sets of twins.
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Lille Napoleon (1943)
Character: Mellberg
Office worker Napoleon Larsson is an unnoticed existence. One day when he arrives late for work, he gets fired, but through his wife's actions he gets alerted by the boss and advances within the company.
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Flygande holländaren (1925)
Character: N/A
Pelle Frisk is second-in-command on the S/S Hispania. He is a fighter and a ladies man and known as "The Flying Dutchman".
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Vi på Solgläntan (1939)
Character: N/A
The politicians wants to build a factory on the allotment garden Solgläntan, but they encounter resistance.
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Örlogsmän (1943)
Character: Ahlqvist
The trio Erik, Arne and Ingrid have been friends since childhood, the two boys always competing for the affection of Ingrid. At the naval academy Erik gets into a fistfight and is expelled, to instead become a captain of a trading ship. Before he leaves Ingrid and Erik are engaged in secret. Later, when Erik is believed to be lost at sea, Ingrid instead gets engaged with Arne.
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Mans kvinna (1945)
Character: Constable
An agrarian community sometime in the 1700s. The farmer Påvel is married with his young wife Märit and very proud to have married such a young and sweet girl. Märit however, is disappointed about her marriage. Their neighbor Håkan lives alone on his farm and he falls in love with Märit. He tells her of his feelings and Märit is torn between the security of her marriage and the feelings she has for Håkan.
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Johan Ulfstjerna (1923)
Character: Conspirator
The story of a man who makes a great sacrifice for his country and for his son. Based on the play of the same title by Tor Hedberg.
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En melodi om våren (1943)
Character: N/A
Sten meets Nina on a train ride. He feels attracted to her but he is already engaged to his fiancee Marie-Louise.
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En flicka för mej (1943)
Character: N/A
The story about Klas Ekengren, the mayor of a small Swedish town, and his mother Alma.
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Se opp för spioner! (1944)
Character: N/A
A bomb attempt is prevented in the last minute but one question remains: who placed the bomb? After some stakeout work the police are on the track and a wild hunt through Stockholm begins.
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Klockorna i Gamla Stan (1946)
Character: Stadsfogden
Kalle Magnus Berg is a kind bailiff in Gamla Stan (Old Town) in Stockholm. He helps out "clients" by supporting them with money from his own pocket. His neighbor is a jazz musician who plays at a restaurant for a living.
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Karriär (1938)
Character: Man
One day, a theater company to Iron Creek. In the city's steel mills meet the young actress Monika young Erik. The love between them is from the very clear but complicated by the fact both have careers.
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Med livet som insats (1940)
Character: översten på staben
"With life at stake"- Max is illegal arms dealers and lives with Wanda, a spy for the dictatorship in which they live. She is ordered by her superiors to reveal the actions and members resistance group. The freedom fighter John falls in love with Wanda.
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Spöket på Bragehus (1936)
Character: Rich farmer
Bragehus manor receives a new farm bailiff with new ideas on how to run a modern farm. The manor is haunted by a ghost.
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Vi två (1939)
Character: Odelgren
Architect Sture Ahrengren walks out of his job with an architecture firm with the support of his wife Kristina. He gets a position with an old friend, Balstar Ekberg, who has a big engineering job going. But Sture gets entangled in a romance with Ekberg's wife, Helena.
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Ombyte av tåg (1943)
Character: Mr Lundell (uncredited)
Inga, an unemployed actress meets a sweetheart Kim, from days long gone at a train station. Over coffee they reminisce about their romance and how Inga left Kim for a moderately successful acting career and the attractive theater director Leo Waller.
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Ordet (1943)
Character: Dr. Bergman
Swedish film of the Kaj Munk play that was made into a far more famous film by Carl Dreyer in Denmark twelve years later.
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Tänk, om jag gifter mig med prästen (1941)
Character: Alarik, vicar
Eva Örn is a newly graduated teacher, who becomes a school teacher in rural Vikarlunda. She is a beautiful young woman with firm opinions and she does not live up to the locals' picture of the ideal female teacher. She has an affair with the pastor, Ingvar Hagson, but they have to keep their love a secret.
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Den osynliga muren (1944)
Character: Officer (uncredited)
In an unnamed country under occupation, a senior officer is killed in an attack by a member of the resistance.
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Det kom en gäst... (1947)
Character: Landsfiskalen
It's Christmas. The owner of an old mansion decides to tell his family he's going to sell it. The following morning he's found murdered.
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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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Norrtullsligan (1923)
Character: N/A
A collective of office girls and their tribulations in the male world, female solidarity, the place of women in the labor and civil rights struggles and the conflict between love and work.
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Vårat gäng (1942)
Character: Erik Bergendahl
A gang of friends lose their club house and collect money for a new one by singing in public.
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Mästerman (1920)
Character: Sailor
About loaner Master Samuel, based on a writings by Hjalmar Bergman
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Kvinna utan ansikte (1947)
Character: N/A
Martin is married to Frida and together they have a son. One day after a quarrel with his wife, he goes to buy flowers to ask for forgiveness. In the flower shop he meets the beautiful Rut and falls instantly in love. They both start a passionate love affair but beneath the beautiful surface hides a completely different woman than he expected ...
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Nygifta (1941)
Character: N/A
The young architect Gunnar Bergstrand marries the Norwegian Eva, against his parents' wishes.
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Löjtnantshjärtan (1942)
Character: Viktor Samuelsson
"Bleeding Hearts" - Comedy with charming hussar lieutenants, indulgent landlord daughters, wild rides and romantic mansion balls.
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Hjältar i gult och blått (1940)
Character: Captain
The tailor Tosse is ordered to return to his old regiment to practice what he learned many years ago. But he asks his assistant Loffe to go there instead of himself. Everything is fine until Loffe gets the same order - at the same regiment. When Tosse comes to the regiment, it becomes a case of mistaken identity. Due to the confusion, Loffe is now Tosse's platoon commander. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
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Hemsöborna (1944)
Character: N/A
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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Valborgsmässoafton (1935)
Character: Detective constable
Lena Bergström works in an office and is unhappily in love with her boss, Johan Borg. She decides to quit. Borg's wife won't have any children, and when she becomes pregnant she has an illegal abortion. For some reason, Lena's father believes that it is Lena who has had an abortion.
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Katrina (1943)
Character: bankiren
Proud Katrina falls in love with Johan, who's a sailor, and follows him home to the island of Åland. She has been promised a paradise with blooming apple trees but are greeted by poverty and hard work.
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På farliga vägar (1944)
Character: Törnblad
Martin and Märta live in a seemingly happy marriage, but Märta feels neglected. One evening she meets Martine's colleague, the Frenchman Barthou, famous for his success with the Stockholm ladies. He starts to flirt with Märta.
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Det brinner en eld (1943)
Character: Captain (uncredited)
An allegory of Germany's WWII occupation of Norway. Members of a theater ensemble join the resistance.
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Gröna hissen (1944)
Character: Direktör Hammar
Ulla thinks her husband Billy is boring and starts dating other men. Lillans husband Peter is having important meetings, including girls. Billy and Lillan decides to pretend to be in love, to rouse jealousy of Ulla and Peter.
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Farliga vägar (1942)
Character: C.G. Ceder
A stateless lawyer comes with his son Karel and his two daughters Vanja and Sonja as refugees to Stockholm. No one gets work permit in Sweden and the family's problems grows to not just financially. The idleness and hopelessness towards the future is almost worse and that can lead into dangerous paths.
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Hets (1944)
Character: N/A
Jan-Erik Widgren meets the lonely Bertha Olsson, a woman struggling with alcoholism. Though Bertha is already linked to Caligula, Jan-Erik's heartless teacher, she begins a relationship with the boy anyway. When Caligula learns that Jan-Erik is having an affair with Bertha, he begins to torture his student psychologically. He reserves his cruelest behavior for Bertha, however, which results in a tragic turn of events.
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Det regnar på vår kärlek (1946)
Character: Priest (uncredited)
A young couple, penniless, break into a summer cottage; the owner offers to rent to them but he has ulterior motives. By living together, the lovers must face their pasts and contend with the meddling neighbors and authorities.
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Rid i natt! (1942)
Character: Parish Constable Chasing Svedje (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.
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2 kvinnor (1947)
Character: Head of police
Cecilia is in hospital after being subjected to an attempt on her life. Her husband is called to the hospital. Cecilia deliriously mentions a mutual friend. The husband seeks out the friend.
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Uppåt igen (1941)
Character: Wilhelm Svensson
The unemployed Loffe meets his old friend Wilhelm and gets some money. A year later it's time for Loffe to help Wilhelm.
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