|
Blå himmel (1955)
Character: Fridolf Rundquist
Teacher Rundqvist who works in a school in a small town in Scania is old fashioned but loved by his pupils. When a younger teacher with new ideas of teaching starts at the school Rundqvist's methods are questioned.
|
|
|
Klockorna i Gamla Stan (1946)
Character: Karl-Magnus Berg
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.
|
|
|
Sol över Klara (1942)
Character: Ararat
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.
|
|
|
Sven Tusan (1949)
Character: N/A
Sven Jönsson is a big man in Havborre fishing village in Skåne. He is usually called Sven Tusan.
|
|
|
Blyge Anton (1940)
Character: Karl Anton Malm
Anton, a very shy bookkeeper, must show his mettle when him and his colleagues at work ask for a raise but instead are laid off.
|
|
|
Den glade skräddaren (1945)
Character: Sören Sörenson
Sören, a poor tailor with many children, dreams of becoming a miller and buys the windmill of the village with money he does not have.
|
|
|
Miljonär för en dag (1926)
Character: Kalle 'Blixten' Svensson
Millionaire for a Day was filmed during the summer of 1925 in Skåne, the southernmost province of Sweden. This Edvard Persson's third film became a flop in Stockholm, but was quite successful in many rural areas all over the country.
|
|
|
Larsson i andra giftet (1935)
Character: N/A
Lasse Larsson works as a baker at the bakery Gyllene Trappen in Stockholm. He loves to sing while he bakes.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soliga Solberg (1941)
Character: N/A
Gunnar Solberg is subjected to a robbery attempt at the cafe he owns. However, he stops the robbery and gets the robber to be honorable again.
|
|
|
Tjocka släkten (1935)
Character: N/A
Lasse Larsson's friend, Johan Jansson, are in trouble because of his wife. She has told her American relatives that her husband is a consul. When the relatives from America announce a visit, Lasse has to help to keep up the lie.
|
|
|
|
|
Än leva de gamla gudar (1937)
Character: N/A
Napolean Pettersson is a placid, contented small town storekeeper transplanted into a fashionable big-city home by his overly-ambitious family. He attempts to adjust himself to his new life, but everything he does is inevitably wrong...and funny. Finally he rebels at the members of his family who forced him into these situations, and leaves to take up where he left off at his store.
|
|
|
Minns ni? (1993)
Character: (archive footage)
A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 films.
|
|
|
Stjärnbilder (1995)
Character: (archive footage)
A tribute to Swedish film, which was made to celebrate the 100th anniversary of film in 1995 and consists of about a hundred clips from Swedish film history with many of its stars.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Flickan från Backafall (1953)
Character: Silla-Sven
Set on the island of Ven in the 1920s, Ellen is engaged with Per the sailor and waits for him while he is away at sea. She works as a maid in a rich family where Robert, the black sheep of the family, tries to seduce her. This leads to a rumour she has been unfaithful to Per. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
|
|
|
Vart hjärta har sin saga (1948)
Character: baron Henrik Löwencrona af Löwstaborg
Baron Henric Löwencrona af Löwstaborg allows his daughter to marry a worker's son.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Kalle på Spången (1939)
Character: Kalle Jeppsson
Kalle Jeppson is the joyful owner of a rural inn, "Spången" (The Footbridge). His only problems are all the bylaws that makes it difficult to have a quiet drink and the shrew of his wife who is always nagging on him. Kalle is afraid to tell her that Karin the maid is really his daughter from the days before their marriage.
|
|
|
När seklet var ungt (1944)
Character: Munthe
Munthe has become a rich farmer through his own work and has gained some influence in the local community. He is strongly opposed to the immigration of east European farm labour from Galicia who, he claims, makes life difficult for the locals. A new school teacher with socialist leanings arrive and Munthe's daughter fall in love with him. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
|
|
|
|
En sjöman till häst (1940)
Character: Lasse Borg
Two sailors, Lasse and Karl Gustav, float ashore after a shipwreck. Visiting a castle a baron ask them to help him lay his hands on an inheritance by Karl Gustav posing as the heir of the castle.
|
|
|
Snapphanar (1941)
Character: Grimme-Jens
In an occupied country, the people rise to throw off the occupants. This includes Jens the farmer and his three sons who successfully perform sneak attacks on the invading army.
|
|
|
Studenterna på Tröstehult (1924)
Character: Tobias Bruce, tutor
Baron Brusenhielm at castle Tröstehult in Skåne dislikes how his young son Karl Oscar is playing “mother and father” with the tenant’s daughter Ann-Marie, as he anticipates the beginning of a future misalliance. Years pass, and Karl Oscar is about to graduate high school. He pretends to study church history but reads in fact “The Seducer’s Diary” and thinks of Ann-Marie, who is now grown up into a woman.
|
|
|
Lördagskvällar (1933)
Character: Napoleon "Nappe" Johansson
Nappe and Johan are two friends who gets cheated by the trickster Johnny.
|
|
|
Stinsen på Lyckås (1942)
Character: Carl Malm
Carl Malm is a goodhearted man who runs a railway station. He lives together with his maid and her seven kids.
|
|
|
En natt på Glimmingehus (1954)
Character: Nils ''Gammel-Nils'' Jeppsson
Gammel-Nils works as a guide at Glimmingehus and guides us through this movie about love and ghosts.
|
|
|
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.
|
|
|
Huset nr 17 (1949)
Character: Calle Svensson
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.
|
|
|
|
Hemliga Svensson (1933)
Character: August Olsson
The little town Västerköping needs a new police man - but the only applicant is the small and tiny Fridolf. He gets the job but has to work with the big and strong police inspector Göransson. The town is visited by a crook who has specialized in stealing from local councils. Can this unusual pair stop him?
|
|
|
Augustas lilla felsteg (1933)
Character: Smulle
Augusta (Dagmar Ebbesen) and her man receives a letter from the countryside one day therein her come-by-chance daughter Lisa announces her arrival to Stockholm. During the travel Lisa befriends Holger (Thor Modéen) whom makes her company to her mother and step father.
|
|
|
Hattmakarens bal (1928)
Character: August Cederström
The wealthy hat maker Cederström has two daughters, Marianne and Lotte. He has decided that Marianne should marry Melander even though she loves the poet Malm. Lotte on the other hand loves Melander.
|
|
|
|
|
Den farliga leken (1933)
Character: August Vredberg, Accountant
Lola Brio has a large number of professions. She is partly a revue primadonna and gramophone singer, but the nameplate on her door also reads "Lessons in French and Grace", which of the film's act to judge apparently means that she is partly a luxury prostitute and partly takes care of country girls to give them some posture of polish.
|
|
|
Skanör-Falsterbo (1939)
Character: Henrik Karlsson
Henrik Karlsson is accused of having stolen 5,000 SEK, even though he is innocent. But to protect the real thief, who is sick in hospital, Karlsson takes the full responsibility.
|
|
|
Våran pojke (1936)
Character: Lars Blomquis, Florist
A rampant musical comedy drama about petty crimes, a seven year old boy and lots of rumble. A Swedish version of the play "Bouleboule gewinnt".
|
|
|
Livet på landet (1943)
Character: Zakarias Bräsig
Greve Axel Von Rambow owns the Poppelhagen estate. One day an inspector comes to see him and a big quarrel starts.
|
|
|
Söderkåkar (1932)
Character: Lasse Larsson
About two neighboring houses on Södermalm in Stockholm and the people living in them.
|
|
|
Jens Månsson i Amerika (1947)
Character: Jens Månsson
Jens Månsson has big financial problems and realizes that he probably has to leave his dear Skåne farm Gåsabo. But suddenly, he inherits a fortune from his brother John in America.
|
|
