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På liv och död (1943)
Character: Fjälljägare 83, Petter Pettersson
Thriller set in northern Sweden during WWII where a regiment of ski-borne soldiers and guests in a tourist hotel experience and investigate acts of treason.
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Två trappor över gården (1950)
Character: Inga's Father
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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Kvinnohuset (1952)
Character: Håkan Håkansson
An apartment building with apartments for single women is the setting for Faustman's drama about a group of women struggling with life and love, in particular with Eva, mistress to a man whose wife Anna also lives in the building.
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När syrenerna blomma (1952)
Character: Rudolf
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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Sceningång (1956)
Character: Acting teacher
A day in the life of a theater ensemble. The acting students are struggling to get one foot ahead of the others and the regular cast is fighting for the good parts.
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Gatan (1949)
Character: Dr. Linnell
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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Ön (1966)
Character: N/A
In this somber drama, residents of a small island accuse a nobleman of killing a priest when the man of the cloth disappears. The two were seen arguing, and the nobleman is the main suspect. The priest is only away on a sabbatical trying to regain his faith, but the islanders continue to put pressure on the innocent noble.
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Resa i natten (1955)
Character: Doctor
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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En natt (1931)
Character: Armas Beckius
The Beckius family is living near the border to Russia. The youngest son, Armas, is living a wild life that eventually leads to a break with the family after which he joins the Russian Revolution. When he returns to his home country a few years later the family on the enemy's side.
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Emelie Högqvist (1939)
Character: August Blanche
Emelie Högqvist is an actress at the Royal Theatre who gets involved in an intimate relationship with the Crown Prince Oscar.
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Mitt folk är icke ditt (1944)
Character: N/A
The Nazis seize power and occupies a country. A celebrated pianist returns home from abroad during this time of national crisis and reconnects with Major von Ritter who leads the occupation and whom she had a passionate love affair in the past.
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Sol över Klara (1942)
Character: Axel
The film is about a group of artists in the Klara Quarter. Ararat, a poor painter in Stockholm, one day meet his ex-fiance Elisabeth who is now a rich widow.
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En dotter född (1944)
Character: Doctor at RFSU
Inger lives at home with his parents. She suspects that she is pregnant. A doctor notes her pregnancy and urge her to seek the child's father. The doctor offers her an abortion, but she refuses.
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I som här inträden... (1945)
Character: Assistant Doctor Linton
Tomas Eckert, a civil servant, is subjected to a violated woman's revenge. It happens to be his boss's wife, Märta Palm. Tomas is accused of having abused Mrs.Palm. She also reveals that Tomas's wife is morphine addict. He collapses and is forced to accept early retirement, diagnosed "epilepsy with mental changes"
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Vägen genom Skå (1957)
Character: Anders Torstensson
Inga starts working as a trainee at Skå Barnby at Färingsö outside Stockholm. There she gets acquainted with people living nearby. Soon disturbances and conflicts arise between them.
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Kvinnor i väntrum (1946)
Character: Göran
A doctor for females gets a visit from Gun, who wants to get an abortion. But the doctor wants her to reconsider and keep the baby.
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Ödemarksprästen (1946)
Character: Tomas Kosoin
In the early 18th century the priest Martin Ryselius has become widower and stands alone with a one-year-old daughter. He is seeking the meaning of existence by heading north in Sweden for a priesthood service in the mountains.
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Konflikt (1937)
Character: Kalle Karlsson
"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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Tre söner gick till flyget (1945)
Character: Captain Engsell
Drama evolving around three brothers who join the air force to become flight cadets. When Åke's plane goes missing, the other two must find him.
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Skeppsbrutne Max (1936)
Character: Sten Sergius, Pilot
Max Mattsson gets stranded on a remote island in the archipelago together with four other people and a dog.
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Så tuktas kärleken (1955)
Character: Teacher
Per is in love with Kerstin. They are high school classmates. In the distance they see teacher Eva Hallström, ph. d. and the headmaster's wife, return home to her home. She is currently a major topic of conversation because she has just published an acclaimed collection of love poems. Everyone is curious about who the young lover of the poems might be.
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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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Prästen i Uddarbo (1957)
Character: N/A
A devoted but controversial priest comes to a Swedish village. He encounters conflicts with the locals. The priest has some problems within his family as well. One is related to an orphan girl.
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Stanna en stund! (1948)
Character: The Street Singer
"Stay a while!" - Reflections on the short duration of life. A boy suffers from a serious illness, is in hospital and would rather not be alone.
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Johan Ulfstjerna (1936)
Character: N/A
It's the last night of 1899. In Helsingfors they celebrate the new millennium. The students at the university are dancing and among them is Helge Ulfstjerna.
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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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Storm över skären (1938)
Character: Sven Vågman
The vessel pilot Alfred and fisherman Sven are both in love with Sonja, the most beautiful girl on the island they live on. Sven and Alfred become quarrel when Alfred one evening finds Sven with Sonja. The fight ends when Sven leaves the island. He freaked out completely when he hit Alfred with a bottle over the head. Now rumor has that Sonja is pregnant.
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Morgondagens melodi (1942)
Character: N/A
The schoolgirl Maj-Lis comes from a wealthy family and is unhappy with her life. Emmy, her friend at school, tells Maj-Lis about her lousy job at the Vidi department store. Maj-Lis then decides to apply for a job at Vidi to learn more.
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Dumbom (1953)
Character: N/A
Two twins, separated at birth, meet again by chance many years later. One is a progressive but insensitive mayor of a small town, the other a clown at a circus.
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Familjen Andersson (1937)
Character: Pelle Karlsson
A happy-go-lucky husband has a wife bitten with social aspirations and this leads to several social mishaps.
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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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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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Fridolf i lejonkulan (1933)
Character: N/A
In a sham ceremony at the city hall, the dimwitted Fridolf is married to Margit. It doesn't take long, however, before he is arrested for bigamy. His first wife left him a few years ago, but Fridolf isn't very bright and he thought that she was dead when she wrote a letter to him saying that. She ran off to join a circus. By a coincidence, the circus is visiting Fridolf's home town and Fridolf goes to the circus with a free ticket. But at the circus all he can do is make a fool of himself.
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Poker (1951)
Character: Wilkers
Sven Bergström is charged with murder, alternatively a man slaughter, on an infamous professional poker player called "The Rover". The trial is in progress. In retrospect, we witness Svens life until the time of the crime.
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Pappa Sandrew (1964)
Character: N/A
The story of Anders Andersson becoming the film and theatre producer Anders Sandrew (1885-1957) building a modern empire of cinemas and theaters in Stockholm.
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Luffaren och Rasmus (1955)
Character: Lif
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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Träfracken (1966)
Character: Jonsson
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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Nattbarn (1956)
Character: N/A
A man 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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Lördagskvällar (1933)
Character: Gösta
Nappe and Johan are two friends who gets cheated by the trickster Johnny.
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Baldevins bröllop (1938)
Character: N/A
A comedy in which the noted and rotund Swedish comedian, Edvard Persson, plays the title role (Baldevin), as a waterfront tramp leading his chosen life-style of indolence. A friend urges him to wage a courtship of a rich widow, which he does and manages to get involved in many humorous situations in the process.
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Huset nr 17 (1949)
Character: Lindberg
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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Hemtrevnad i kasern (1941)
Character: N/A
Eva Cullberg (Annalisa Ericson) wants to sing in a cabaret the local military company are arranging. But her mother (Tollie Zellman) and father (Carl-Gunnar Wingård) won't let her, so she pretends to be the nanny of her sister's child. Along the way she falls in love with Lt. Mandell (Björn Berglund).
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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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Aktören (1943)
Character: Gunnar
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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Farlig vår (1949)
Character: kriminalkommissarien
A young prostitute, Gullan Svan, is murdered one night. The police suspects that the murderer is a student, since she had a lot of students as customers. The murderer stole a picture of Gullan after he killed her, a picture which later is found in a rented tuxedo when the tuxedo is returned. Four students decide to solve the case, but it seems that the truth is even closer than they first suspected... Plot by Mattias Thuresson
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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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En kvinna ombord (1941)
Character: Fredlund
In the beginning of WW II a Swedish ship in a northern French port is exposed to German air raids. The captain take a chance to leave the port without permission. A stranded woman seize the chance to get home to Sweden.
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Två år i varje klass (1938)
Character: Dr. Sune Gans
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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Flicka och Hyacinter (1950)
Character: Lövgren
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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Swedenhielms (1935)
Character: Rolf Swedenhielm Jr.
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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Seger i mörker (1954)
Character: Pettersson
The story about Gustaf Dalén, the farm boy who became one of Sweden's greatest inventors.
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Frun tillhanda (1939)
Character: Werner
Ingrid Eriksson, a social worker, decides to find out something about the problems facing housemaids and gets herself a job as one at the home of John Willman's family. John's son, Åke, falls in love with her and numerous complications arise before the course of true love runs smoothly.
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Skattefria Andersson (1954)
Character: Pettersson, grannen
Andersson is always complaining about high taxes and dreams about a world with no taxes.
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Karl Fredrik regerar (1934)
Character: Olof Lindberg
A man goes from the tough life as a hired worker all the way into the Swedish government.
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Var sin väg (1948)
Character: Bengt Carlgren
A drama about a doctor and his wife. She used to be an actress, but became a housewife when she married. When she resumes her acting career the marriage crashes.
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Djurgårdsnätter (1933)
Character: Gunnar, Luddes son
The story revolves around a collective of variety artists. A stolen safety deposit box theft gets all in toruble.
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Jag gifta mig – aldrig (1932)
Character: Helge Malm
Edit Carlson is having trouble courting car mechanic Helge Malm, whose motto is "me mary? - never!", and when he reveals that he's about to receive an inheritance, Edit's sister Tora sets her sight on him as well.
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Himlaspelet (1942)
Character: Josef
"The Heavenly Play" - Mats Ersson is engaged to Marit and they plan to get married in the spring. But when the plague comes, the people accuse Marit of witchcraft. She is sentenced to death. Mats can not understand the divine justice and decides to go to paradise and ask God himself. It becomes a journey where he meets the prophets, king Solomon and finally God himself.
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Pojken i trädet (1961)
Character: Father
Göte is a young teen who seems to be at odds with his family and may not know his own mind that well either. Discontented and rebellious, Göte joins up with two mean-spirited game poachers in spite of the fact that he loves animals and nature. This contradiction between his own feelings and his need to rebel reaches a climax when a forest ranger starts to track down the young men in ever-tightening circles.
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Kan doktorn komma? (1942)
Character: Bengt Hansson
A rural doctor in the north of Sweden must travel for hours to his patients. When a young woman has a serious case of appendicitis the doctor must bring her on a dangerous trek downriver to reach the clinic. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
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Söderkåkar (1932)
Character: Gunnar Jansson
About two neighboring houses on Södermalm in Stockholm and the people living in them.
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Rasmus, Pontus och Toker (1956)
Character: Baron von Rencken
Ten-year-old Rasmus, his friend Pontus and his dog Toker, find out about a silver theft in the small town where they live. Family film from Astrid Lindgren's radio series.
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