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Vi behöver varann (1944)
Character: N/A
A female reporter invents a story about a man who threatens to take his life to protest the injustices of society. But the scam is about to be revealed. She is forced to persuade a tramp to play the fictional man.
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En vår i vapen (1943)
Character: Furir Åke Berglund
During the spring of 1940 two young men gets drafted and deployed close to the Norwegian border, where they fall in love with the same woman.
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Hon kom som en vind (1952)
Character: Funfair visitor
"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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Lars Hård (1948)
Character: Priest at prison
Young drifter tells his story in flashback from prison.
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Kvinnor i fångenskap (1943)
Character: Roland
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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Katrina (1943)
Character: Einar
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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Med livet som insats (1940)
Character: Freedom fighter
"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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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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När ängarna blommar (1946)
Character: N/A
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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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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A Matter of Morals (1961)
Character: Kronstad
Alan Kennebeck is unable to accept a brief, realistic romance for what it is. Eventually it leads to his complete moral downfall. Triggered by the factory official Eric Walderman, being a sadistically suave conniver and villain, who babbles a Nietzschean creed of ruthlessness and brings the picture to its grim, melodramatic conclusion.
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Kärlek på turné (1955)
Character: N/A
"Love on Tour" - A traveling theatre company has arrived at an outdoor stage. They are ready for the rehearsal. But one of the actors is missing.
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Vi mötte stormen (1943)
Character: N/A
Documentary footage mixed with acted scenes portray events of the Second World War from a Swedish perspective.
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Den osynliga muren (1944)
Character: Patrol Commander
"The Invisble Wall" - 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 brinner en eld (1943)
Character: Georg Brandt (as Erik Faustman)
An allegory of Germany's WWII occupation of Norway. Members of a theater ensemble join the resistance.
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En kvinna ombord (1941)
Character: Martin Frost
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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Älskling, jag ger mig (1943)
Character: Bertil Hellman
Marianne is not very interested in love, but still has company with Bertil. It's only when he decides to try his luck over in America that she realizes how much she likes him.
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Excellensen (1944)
Character: Prison guard
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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Brott och straff (1945)
Character: Rodja Raskolnikov
A Swedish version of Crime and Punishment. Raskolnikov, a poor student, is planning to assassinate a hated pawnbroker.
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Aldrig i livet (1957)
Character: N/A
Lars Ekborg and Sven Eric Gamble portray bumbling criminals who get involved in a safe-cracking heist.
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Medan porten var stängd (1946)
Character: Tomas Ekberg
The film follows a number of people in an apartment building during a night full of dramatic events and entanglements.
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Harald Handfaste (1946)
Character: Farmer at feast (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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Rid i natt! (1942)
Character: Bo Eriksson
Oppressed by landowners, a peasant uprising ensues as an outlaw farmer refuses to pay taxes in this film adapted from Vilhelm Moberg's novel.
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