
Birthday:
09-18-1911
Deathday:
05-04-1986 (74 years)
Birthplace:
Helsinki, Finland
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Unga hjärtan
event1934
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16-year-old Marianne will be confirmed. She is reluctant to do this, but her mother is more than happy for her to complete the confirmation. Marianne travels to a rectory in the country where she and a group of other girls will live while they read to the priest. On Midsummer's Eve, she meets by chance one of the other confirmands' fiancés and the feeling arises.
Rider in Blue
Act like Sune Öhrgren
event1959 star_border 5.9
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When private eye John Hillman is on assignment in London his wife Kajsa visits the Army's riding school at Strömsholm, Sweden. She gets involved in the strange murder of the Blue Rider. Unknown to everyone at Strömsholm.
Thomas Graal's Best Child
Act like Brides maid
event1918 star_border 5.4
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Frau Bessie, once a madcap, aristocratic and modern Swedish fraulein, has become now a whimsical and conservative Swedish burgess after her marriage to Herr Thomas Graal. The destabilization of the marriage begins right at the wedding (which contains some hilarious incidents) when Frau Bessie announces the first Graal child must be a girl, creating a terrible conflict with her husband who is hoping for a boy. It takes a scandal to finally end the war between man and wife.
Musik ombord
Act like Samuelsson
event1958 star_border 4
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Ulla Winther has retired from her singing career to a marriage with two children. But her agent wants her to return and she finally agrees to take part in a charity concert
The Lady in Black
Act like Sune Öhrgren
event1958 star_border 5.9
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The married detective couple John and Kajsa Hillman goes on a vacation to Holmfors mill where a friend of Kajsa's lives with her husband. When a young woman is found murdered it is clear that this is another case for the Hillmans.
Mannequin in Red
Act like Sune Öhrgren
event1958 star_border 6.6
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A model is murdered at a famous fashion house and the Hillmans start to investigate. Kajsa Hillman is employed as a model and discovers that several people had motives to kill her.
Landstormens lilla argbigga
Act like Olle Lindquist
event1941 star_border 5.5
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Spoiled upper class girl must join a home defense unit to learn military drill and fall in love with a lieutenant.
Do You Believe in Angels?
Act like First mate
event1961 star_border 6.6
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Jan Froman is a young man with great plans for the future. He gets a job as an assistant janitor at a bank, but with inherited money he starts to buy and sell real estate which eventually increases in value. He falls in love with Margareta, whose father is a naval officer. Margareta is slighted by her fiance and follows Froman on a sailing trip in the archipelago. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
The Yellow Car
Act like Sune Öhrgren
event1963 star_border 5.3
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On a tourist trip abroad the passengers on the coach witness an assassination attempt on the President Hurkas. One of the tourists has evidence against the perpetrators, and is killed when the coach reaches Sweden. Another passenger observes how one of the perpetrators is picked up by a yellow car. She is kidnapped and locked up in a mental hospital.
Fridolf sticker opp!
Act like Skarvik
event1958 star_border 5.6
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A comedy about the shunned office worker Fridolf who gets into trouble when a rationalization expert audits the colonial goods company. It doesn't get any better when Fridolf invites the clerk Lisa, who is newly employed and feels lonely, to his home, a visit that his jealous wife Selma does not appreciate.
A Day Will Dawn
Act like Captain on the train
event1944 star_border 6
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After finding his wife in the arms of another man, an army officer kills his rival and then goes by train to Finland to fight in the Winter war.
Min svärmor - dansösen
event1936
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From Barcelona, the widower Svante Holmenius travel with his daughter Sylvia to visit her close friends in Stockholm.
Ungdom av i dag
Act like Gunnar Björnberg, furir, flygaspirant
event1935
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Lydia is a problem for her husband. She is wasteful and the family have huge debts. To solve the financial problems, Lydia is planning to marry her daughter to a wealthy acquaintance.
Good Friends and Faithful Neighbours
event1938
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At Södermalm in Stockholm there are nice, honest people and so some really unpleasant capitalists. And also a deliverer.
Med folket för fosterlandet
event1938
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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.
Stora famnen
event1940
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In the late 1800's, the old Karolina Koger dictates his will: all her money shall form a family fund.
The Great John Ericsson
event1937
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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.
Familjens hemlighet
event1936
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Arvid and Lilli Ekman is a senior couple with one single adult son, Arne. They find out that the son is secretly engaged with the young Margit Berg - and that they already have a three-year-old son together.
Dollar
Act like Louis Brenner
event1938 star_border 4.5
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Ludvig and Sussi Battwyhl, Louis and Katja Brenner and Julia and Kurt Balzar are upper class millionaires. They don't seem to do any real work but still need a vacation in the mountains. Everybody seems to be romantically involved with everybody. A rich American woman joins them.
Fröken blir piga
event1936
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A school kitchen teacher works on a farm under a fake name.
I prövningens stund
event1915
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Sven Nilsson has a wife and a little child. One day the child gets very sick and Sven has to find a doctor.
Knut Unties the Knot
event1938
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Election film for the Social Democrats.
Fasters millioner
Act like Berger's office janitor (uncredited)
event1934
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The ladies man Georg is finally about to get married, but a misunderstanding lead to his new wife break up the wedding.
Cadets Together
Act like Sten Brenner
event1939
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A story about the Swedish navy and their cadet school.
Bödeln
event1965 star_border 6
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"The Hangman" - The events take place in two periods of time. In the Middle Ages a group of men sit and discuss the evil at the tavern. With the hangman close by. 1930s: a dance hall where many people gathered. A jazz orchestra of colored musicians entertain. When the musicians take a break to eat, they are denied this by a Nazi.
Hans majestäts rival
Act like von Essen
event1943
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"His Majesty's Rival" - A young man, Lars Hjelm, returns home after being in Italy on a scholarship from the Swedish king, Gustaf III. On his way home he meets with opera singer Antoinette and fall in love with her. His fiancee Eva expects him home any day.
The Phantom Carriage
Act like Cab master
event1958 star_border 5.7
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The third film adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf's novel of the same name. The drinker David Holm gets killed right on the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve will face the death coachman, which happens to be his old friend Georges. Together, reliving the events of the past, and David becomes aware that he ruined the lives of two women who both loved him.
The First Squadron
Act like Lieutenant Billman
event1941 star_border 6.2
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The year is 1941 and Nazi Germany is at its peak. Hitler's army is storming into Russia. Sweden stands lonely and isolated while the air force is training intensely due to a coming attack. The squadron leader pushes his men at its hardest. It's a constant game with death where death unfortunately often wins.
Kärlek och monopol
Act like Ordförande i Unghögern
event1936 star_border 9
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Campaign film for the Swedish Högern party in 1936.
Sagan om Siv
event1974
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About a woman and her boring life, based on haiku poems by Sonja Åkesson.
The Wrong Millionaire
Act like Båtpassagerare i mörk kostym på däck
event1931 star_border 5
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The American boat is on its way to Gothenburg. On board are the Swedish-American millionaire Fridolf F. Johnson from Detroit (Håkan Westergren) and his male secretary of the same name (Fridolf Rhudin). The millionaire stays hidden in his cabin with the secretary and does not appear on deck. A journalist arrives out at sea by airplane and asks for an interview, which the millionaire refuses to agree to. The journalist disguises himself as a steward, puts on a hidden camera (a spy camera) in the buttonhole, enters with a tea tray and photographs the wrong person - the secretary.
The Silence
Act like Officer in the Train Compartment
event1963 star_border 7.5
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Traveling through an unnamed European country on the brink of war, sickly, intellectual Ester, her sister Anna and Anna's young son, Johan, check into a near-empty hotel. A basic inability to communicate among the three seems only to worsen during their stay. Anna provokes her sister by enjoying a dalliance with a local man, while the boy, left to himself, has a series of enigmatic encounters that heighten the growing air of isolation.
A Zero Too Much
Act like Konsul Tärnström
event1962 star_border 6.1
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A newspaper misprints Pontus Blom's (Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt) yearly income as being much more than it is; this leads to various comical situations of exceeding hilarity.
Just Once More
Act like Polis
event1962 star_border 7
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16 -year-old Mari has just been released from a juvenile detention school after one year of treatment. To prevent her from making contact with her old gang, she is sent to Skåne in southern Sweden, where she will work in a dairy shop. She doesn't like being there so she decides to run away and hitchhike her way up to Stockholm. She makes contact with her old gang but realizes that she's not welcome anymore and her boyfriend has even hooked up with a new girl.
Good Friends and Faithful Neighbors
Act like Werner, konstnär
event1960 star_border 1
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Hugo Frejer terrorizes his family and surroundings with his unhappy mood.
Blue Sea
Act like Flykting
event1956
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Lieutenants Johnny Waller and Ingvar Lund have been appointed captains of two torpedo boats.
Galgmannen
Act like Gardesofficer
event1945
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The man of the gallows is a little sinister wooden figure that the proprietor must sell before his death. If not he will be doomed and unsaved.
Klockan på Rönneberga
Act like Löjtnant Bergencrona
event1944
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Rönneberga is an old family manor. When Lennart Heijken is born, his proud father buys his newborn a grandfather's clock that will follow him through his life and see him become a student, an officer, a married man, and eventually an old man.
En vår i vapen
Act like Gustav Lind
event1943
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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.
Katrina
Act like Einars vän
event1943
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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.
Life and Death
Act like Lasse Persson, skidlärare
event1943 star_border 5.5
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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.
Sextuplets
Act like Åström, redaktör på Stockholms Postens notisavdelning
event1942
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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.
Livet på en pinne
Act like Allan Carlberg, Bettys bror
event1942
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Aldor Johnsson is an old but unsuccessful criminal.
Striden går vidare
Act like Doktor Ström
event1941
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Georg Hammar works at the General Hospital and is engaged to the famous professor Berg's daughter Inga. But he is also drawn to the nurse Maria.
Gentlemannagangstern
Act like Axel, Bergmans chaufför
event1941
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Patrik Bergman returns to Stockholm after a couple of years. He had to leave the capital when he was the suspect of a bank robbery.
Göranssons pojke
Act like "Balalajka"
event1941
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Unemployed season worker Göransson sits on the Stockholm Central Station and waits for something to happen.
Lillebror och jag
Act like Francesco
event1940
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Manager Björkman is going bankrupt and has to take desperate measures to try to sort his life together.
Children of the Streets
Act like Liten pojke
event1914
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Karl Sterner falls for Jenny, a beautiful young woman from an impoverished background, and soon discovers that he cannot control her willful personality - which proves to cause many conflicts in their marriage.
Sara Learns Manners
Act like Georg Haller
event1937 star_border 5
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Day to day life for an aristocratic family is upended when they lose their fortune and their housekeeper suddenly receives a large inheritance.
His Life's Match
event1932
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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.
Karl Fredrik Reigns
event1934 star_border 6.5
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A man goes from the tough life as a hired worker all the way into the Swedish government.
The Red Room
Act like Överkonstapeln (9 ep.)
event1970 star_border 7
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A young idealistic civil servant, Arvid Falk, leaves the drudgery of bureaucracy to become a journalist and author. As he explores various social activities—politics, publishing, theatre, philanthropy, and business—he finds more hypocrisy and political corruption than he thought possible. He takes refuge with a group of "bohemians", who meet in a red dining room in Berns Salonger to discuss these matters.
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