
Birthday:
06-18-1888
Deathday:
11-18-1957 (69 years)
Birthplace:
Härnösand, Västernorrlands län, Sweden
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Adolf i toppform
event1952
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A compilation of some of Adolf Jahr's films.
Uppåt igen
event1941
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The unemployed Loffe meets his old friend Wilhelm and gets some money. A year later it's time for Loffe to help Wilhelm.
The Brothers' Woman
Act like Isaken
event1943 star_border 5
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City girl Emma marries the farmer Nicklas but gets involved in a love triangle with his brother Ragnar.
Livat på luckan
event1951
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Johansson has managed to stay away from the military service for several years. But now his time has come.
Hur tokigt som helst
event1949
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"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.
A Lesson in Love
Act like Uncle Axel
event1954 star_border 6.8
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After 15 years of marriage, David and Marianne have grown apart. David has had an affair with a patient of his and Marianne has got herself involved with her former lover Carl-Adam, who's also David's best friend. When she travels to Copenhagen to meet Carl-Adam, David takes the same train as she does, making it look coincidental. Spending time together remembering their past and talking about their future, they come to understand each other again, which leads to a reconciliation.
June Night
Act like Dr. Berggren
event1940 star_border 5.8
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A woman flees to avoid rumors of promiscuity, but is trailed by a reporter who wants to expose her dark past.
The Emperor of Portugallia
event1944 star_border 6.3
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The poor farmer Jan is getting very old when he becomes father to the girl, Klara Gulla. First, he sees the child as a burden, but when he receives the newborn child in his arms he is overjoyed. He does everything in his power for her during her. But when she as an adult leaves home, Jan can not come over the loss of her.
Sunshine Follows Rain
Act like Forester
event1946 star_border 5.3
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The Farmer Germund is planning a wedding between his daughter Marit and Mats, the son of a neighboring farm. Everything seems to be going according to plan until Marit meets the fiddler Jon, an illegitimate son who enchants the youth with his violin.
Gabrielle
Act like Tor Fagerholm
event1954 star_border 5
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While Bertil Lindström works at the Swedish embassy in Paris, his wife Gabrielle spends the summer alone in Sweden. After a phone call to her, he starts to think of all the things she can possibly be doing separated from him.
Waiting Women
Act like Doctor
event1952 star_border 6.5
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Rakel, Marta, Karin and Annette are married to four brothers. While waiting in a summer cottage for their husbands to come home, they tell each other stories about their marriages. Rakel tells about the time she had an affair and confronted her husband with it. Marta's story is about how she at first refused to marry and had her child by herself. Karin tells about what happened when one time she and her husband got stuck in an elevator together. While the women tell their stories, Marta's younger sister Maj is planning to elope.
Karusellen går
Act like Aronsson
event1940
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Swedish comedy from 1940. Carnival director Knut Lindberg has ended up in the hands of the usurer Director Aronsson and his shady practices trying to take over Lindberg's funfair. But the two new colleagues, Kalle and Nisse, does everything to stop him.
Kalle på Spången
Act like Parish constable Högberg
event1939 star_border 4.8
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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.
Brita i grosshandlarhuset
Act like Brita's father
event1946 star_border 5
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Brita moves from the countryside and her parent's cabbage patch to work as a housemaid in Stockholm. The big city overwhelms her at first and she falls in love with a young man. But one day Arvid, an infatuated young man from the old village also comes to Stockholm to express his love for her.
Rospiggar
Act like Westerman
event1942 star_border 5
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A lonely fisherman drowns and his elderly brother Efraim is left to do an inventory of the estate. He discovers that his brother had a son, Karl-Erik. Keeping it a secret, he travels to Stockholm to employ the young man as a hired hand. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Intermezzo
Act like Captain at S/S Kungsholm
event1936 star_border 5.9
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The world famous violinist Holger Brandt comes back to his family after a tour. He and his wife have been married for many years, but their love has faded. Their young daughter gets a new piano teacher, Anita Hoffman. Mr. Brandt falls in love with her and together they go on a world tour, but he soon discovers that the feelings for his wife that he thought were dead are not.
Atlantäventyret
Act like Captain
event1934 star_border 3.8
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Theatre director Freddy Alsterberg has failed with his latest operetta. He decides to work his way over the Atlantic. His niece Tusse also stows away on the ship disguised as a boy.
Robinson i Roslagen
Act like Sheriff
event1948 star_border 4.2
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To get away from his nagging wife, a man goes to a desert island to settle down there.
Kungsgatan
Act like Shop foreman
event1943 star_border 5.5
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Young woman Marta dreams of a better future and leaves her parent's cabbage patch and move to Stockholm. Waiting tables doesn't pay nearly enough and she soon finds herself working the streets. Her teenage sweetheart Adrian also moves to Stockholm to search for her. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
The Girl and the Devil
Act like Jonas
event1944 star_border 6
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The soul of an evil witch about to be burned is transferred to the child of a pregnant woman in the audience. 19 years later a timid girl arrives at a farm looking for work. The farmer employs her despite his wife's protests. Soon it stands clear that the girl is in fact the evil witch, returned to wreak havoc on the farmer and his family. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Flickan i regnet
Act like Johan
event1955 star_border 5
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Young Anna Rydell comes to a boarding-school for girls. She is very shy and the other girls don't really try to get to know her. The French teacher Martin Andreasson, who Anna falls in love with, lives at the boarding-school with his wheel chair-bound wife. Her handicap has made her depressed and Martin finds it hard to love her like he used to do.
Iron Wills
Act like Priest
event1923 star_border 5
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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.
Snapphanar
Act like Helsing
event1941 star_border 5.2
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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.
Lars Hård
Act like Friendly prison guard
event1948 star_border 4
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Young drifter tells his story in flashback from prison.
One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer
event1947 star_border 5
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When Inga Brantemo goes on a business trip to Italy, her husband Bertil gets romantically involved with Christina Lovén, whose father is a book publisher. When Inga returns, Bertil has a difficult time trying to explain who the woman the neighbors saw in the Brantemo home was. Bertil is an author and it doesn't get easier when he and his wife gets invited to Christina's father to talk business.
Eva
Act like Johansson
event1948 star_border 6
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Marine Bo Fredriksson is travelling home on a leave. He reminisce about an accident he caused as a 12-year old which killed a young girl, an event that has made him feel revulsion for death. Back home he meets Eva, a girl he fancies and they move together to Stockholm to start a life together.
The Turnstile
event1944
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The small town of Gåtatorp in Småland is entirely dependent on its prominent furniture factory. But the factory is in danger because the weak economy means that the bank wants to shut down the factory.
On These Shoulders
event1948
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Kjell Loväng returns to his parent's farm after a few years of work in Stockholm. He discovers that his father Arvid neglects the farm and spends too much time drinking and meeting other women. Kjell has to prove to his father his ability to manage the farm.
Man's Way with Women
event1934
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Olof Koskela, the only son is driven from home when he wants to marry the wrong girl. He takes a job as a floater. His reputation as a womanizer goes far and wide. When he meets the proud Kyllikki, he enters into a bet to defeat the mighty rapids standing on a log.
Ride Tonight!
event1942 star_border 5.4
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Oppressed by landowners, a peasant uprising ensues as an outlaw farmer refuses to pay taxes in this film adapted from Vilhelm Moberg's novel.
Vi behöver varann
event1944
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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.
Flickor i hamn
Act like Older Sailor
event1945
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Shipmate Henrik gets in contact with two women in Gothenburg — the sociable Lisbeth and the shy Astrid.
När ängarna blommar
event1946
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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.
The People from Simlangs Valley
event1947
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Class struggle and love trouble in the woods between Halland and Småland.
Oss tjuvar emellan eller en burk ananas
Act like Blacksmith at the cafe (uncredited)
event1945
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Max Kvarne is an international adventurer who stole 25,000 pounds in 100-pound banknotes at a London coup.
Familjen Andersson
Act like Major
event1937
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A happy-go-lucky husband has a wife bitten with social aspirations and this leads to several social mishaps.
Samvetsömma Adolf
Act like Captain
event1936
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Operetta singer Adolf Berg will be called up for military duty just as he gets assigned a major role in an operetta. On the train he meets Ulla Wern and complications occur.
One Night
Act like The Captain
event1931
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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.
His Grace's Will
Act like Johnsson
event1940 star_border 4
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His grace, the Lord Chamberlain and Colonel Baron Roger Bernhusen de Sars of Rogershus, Klockeberga and Björkenäs, will celebrate his 70th birthday. He decides to write his will and publish it on the birthday.
Folket på Högbogården
event1939
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Mean farmer Ola Berg reigns at Högbogården and endures a loveless relationship with his wife Karin.
...som en tjuv om natten
event1940 star_border 5
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Nisse Ekberg is in San Francisco but wants to get back to Sweden. Not being a completely honest guy, he gets mixed up with another person and assumes his identity.
Romans
event1940
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An engineer with a factory is on the brink of ruin. A greedy director offers to buy his mill. Instead, the engineer opens a hotel. With little success. A rumor has that Greta Garbo is expected at the hotel.
Johan Ulfstjerna
event1936
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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.
Tåget går klockan 9
event1941
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Stockholm Central station. The loudspeaker announces that the train 7.03 is delayed and arrives at 7.30. The troubled brothers Oskar and Fredrik Reyner await attorney Thomas Linder.
The Girl from the Marsh Croft
event1947
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A story about poverty, unrequited love and manslaughter.
Kustens glada kavaljerer
event1938
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The comic misadventures of two young boys and an anti-militaristic grocer who are recruited under protest for naval training.
Jag är med eder...
event1948
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Together with his wife Carin and their little son Lasse, Helge Tellberg is in the position of leaving Sweden to become a missionary in Rhodesia.
Sockerskrinet
event1938
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A story spanning four generations.
33.333
event1936 star_border 2
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A young worker has decided he must get to buy a lottery ticket with the number 33.333. He manage to get the ticket. This leads to a long series of complicated developments.
Dollar
Act like Man at The Royal Yacht Club
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.
Dynamite
event1947
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Young Allan feed on petty crime and theft. He spice his life by scaring people with stolen dynamite.
Janne Vängman på nya äventyr
event1949
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Janne is an old man who is locked up in the church on New Year's Eve 1900 and has to play the organ to make someone to open the door.
Flickan från paradiset
event1924
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Torkel Gudmundson is the owner of the beautiful farm Paradise. But he is worried that his eldest son Ragnar shows no interest in becoming a farmer. In connection with a new well being dug, farmhand Måns discovers that there is iron ore in the ground. Engineer Ruterberg sees a great opportunity and makes an offer on the farm.
Änkeman Jarl
event1945
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Jarl is a retired widower who lives in a small village in Småland, Sweden.
Havets melodi
event1934
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The fisherman Lars Persson on Vinga and his wife Anna has one child, Karin. In the lighthouse lives Anders Bergström with his son Arne.
The Family That Was a Carousel
event1936
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The Björn family is a little odd family.
All jordens fröjd
event1953
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The young girl Lisbet lives on the farm Tolfmansgården together with her mother, her older brother Jerker and their grandparents.
Nattvaktens hustru
event1947
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Ingegerd Lindberg is coming to Stockholm from the countryside. The first person she meets at the Central Station is Curt Brehmer.
A Singing Girl
event1942 star_border 4
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A girl (Alice Babs) from the country moves to Stockholm to become a singer.
Cirkus
event1939
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The story of the circus family Bohlin.
Klockan på Rönneberga
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.
Simon the Sinner
event1954 star_border 6
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After a fist fight, Simon thinks he has killed a man and seek refuge in a religious sect. Saved he discovers that he can heal the sick and disabled. The knowledge of Simon's gifts spread quickly and the sect's leaders exploit the situation.
The Country for the People
event1936
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Social democratic election film. The plot revolves around the young love couple Axel and Ulla, whose fates are woven into the larger political context. The film describes how Swedish society has changed and improved since 1932.
Hanna in High Society
event1940 star_border 7
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When the old colonel Hummerborg dies, he leaves his fortune and estate to his trusted housemaid Hanna. But the colonel's relatives try everything to have the last will canceled.
Karl Fredrik Reigns
Act like Eriksson
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.
While the City Sleeps
Act like Hansson, janitor
event1950 star_border 6.2
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Jompa is unemployed - and not keen on getting a job. He still lives with his parents who are tired of his attitude about employment and regular hours. Jompa and his friends spend their time at nightclubs, cafés and doing petty crimes. While playing poker, Jompa becomes indebted to the criminal Kalle Lund. Of course, Jompa is unable to pay, but Kalle gives him a tip: an old fetcher has always a lot of money at home, and if Jompa could get his hands on the money, his troubles would disappear... Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Divorced
event1951 star_border 5
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Gertrud is being abandoned by her husband after 20 years of marriage. Offended and unhappy she leaves her home and rents a room. The landlady's son is drawn to her and tries to help her out of the loneliness.
Vingslag i natten
Act like Kristen
event1953 star_border 6
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Orphan boy and vicar's daughter fall in love but her father is strongly opposed to their relationship.
Stampen
Act like Oskar Oxelblad
event1955 star_border 5.5
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Pawnshop assistant Patrick and maid Viveka meet by chance and become fond of each other, but none of them want to reveal his real profession for the other.
Ljuset från Lund
Act like Dean
event1955 star_border 5.5
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A horse wanders from town to the countryside. Here lives Sten Stensson Steen, a bachelor at law and philosophy. He is writing a social psychological report on the youth problem.
Klart till drabbning
Act like Birke
event1937 star_border 3
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Two marines go AWOL and save a girl from drowning, they then sneak her aboard the ship.
There Burns a Fire
Act like Col. Lanner (uncredited)
event1943
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An allegory of Germany's WWII occupation of Norway. Members of a theater ensemble join the resistance.
Steel
Act like Gouveng Sr.
event1940
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The Forshyttan steel-mill has been owned by the Ancker family for generations. But competition is hard. When the son Bengt Ancker comes back from abroad he has an idea for success: a lighter steel with better quality. But a lot of money is necessary to develop his idea and the only way to raise the necessary capital is to sell the company to their competitor - Manchester Steel Company. But the workers are concerned that this could threaten their job-security
Natt i hamn
Act like Captain
event1943
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Early 1940s, during WW2, pitch black waters except for a moon-shadow over the waves. Surrounded by minefields and the fog slips in the sweeping headlights of the cargo ship S/S Rune. But the ship bows relentlessly forward through the night.
Det är min musik
Act like Prof. Qvist
event1942
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Inga and her father, the violin maker Lars, are big music enthusiasts. One day they meet the violinist Jan-Erik.
Stora skrällen
Act like Foreman
event1943
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A ruthless businessman arrives to a small town. He is prepared to do pretty much anything to win beautiful Vera Odelman's heart.
Striden går vidare
Act like Arnell
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.
Den ljusnande framtid
Act like Police Inspector Borgström
event1941
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Birgit Norén is the new teacher at a small town school and falls in love with the principal.
Rejoice While You're Young, Fellow Cadets
Act like Johan Toring
event1939
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Knut is a farmer's son who wants to get an education and see the world.
The Talk of the Town
Act like Dr.Grip
event1941 star_border 5.5
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In a small town anonymous letters are delivered to five different families. The letters are signed "Veritas" (Truth). They tell of a series of events and conditions that the recipients thought was forgotten and buried long ago.
Ocean Breakers
Act like Lars Ingman
event1935 star_border 6
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Daniel has been forced by his father to become a priest. After graduating, he comes to a parish in Hälsingland. During one stormy night, he seduces a young girl, Karin, and rapes her. Filled with regret, he runs out into the dark night and is struck by lightning. He loses his memory and is taken to a distant hospital to recover. Meanwhile Karin gets pregnant and has a child. Eventually Daniel comes back and when he meets Karin his memory returns.
His Excellency
Act like Josef, servant
event1944 star_border 5
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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.
Summer Interlude
Act like Sandell
event1951 star_border 7.4
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A jaded prima ballerina reminisces about her first love affair after she is unexpectedly sent her lover's old diary.
Ödemarksprästen
Act like Vicar Tarvolander
event1946
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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.
Strange Harbor
Act like Engine officer
event1948 star_border 7
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"Strange Harbor " - A Swedish cargo ship is in the winter of 1938 at the dock in Gdynia in Poland, waiting to depart with coal to Sweden. In a tavern in the port a Polish dockworkers tries to tell something to the Swedish sailors, but is rudely turned away by the tavern owner. Later in the evening the port worker is found dead. That same evening one of the Swedish sailors, meets a Jewish woman who has fled Nazi Germany.
Den osynliga muren
Act like Brandt Sr.
event1944 star_border 5.3
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"The Invisble Wall" - In an unnamed country under occupation, a senior officer is killed in an attack by a member of the resistance.
Stora Hoparegränd och himmelriket
Act like Elofsson
event1949
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Erik, a poor inventor meets the clerk Lillemor and fall in love. Erik's becomes invention is ready for the market. He contacts a director who might be interested. Erik is attracted almost immediately by the director's wife.
Björn Mörk
event1924
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The relationship between Björn Mörk and his father the forest guard is very bad. The son is more interested in reading than learning the job.
Göranssons pojke
Act like Fängelseprästen
event1941
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Unemployed season worker Göransson sits on the Stockholm Central Station and waits for something to happen.
En dotter född
Act like Ström
event1944
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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.
Seger i mörker
Act like Höjer
event1954 star_border 5
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The story about Gustaf Dalén, the farm boy who became one of Sweden's greatest inventors.
Gustaf Wasa, Part Two
event1928 star_border 6
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King Christian II rides busy street by Sweden which he now put under him, while he remembers what he did against the Swedes at the Stockholm Bloodbath. In dala heels walk a lonely man, dressed as a peasant. It's the one the Danes would prefer to get hold of - Gustaf Eriksson Vasa . He goes from Rankhyttan to Ornäs , where he is kindly received by the farmer Arendt Persson, but Arendt is a deceitful man who has thought enter Wasa to the Danish bailiff. But Arendt's wife helps Wasa to escape and he continues his long journey.
Gustaf Wasa, Part One
Act like Joakim Brahe
event1928
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The story takes its beginning in 1518 , the Danish King Christian II has taken Sweden. Sten Sture the younger appeal to all loyal subjects to resist. The offer reaches the farmer Mats Waltersson in Dalarna , Sweden's heart and he gathers his men. Dalmas were going from house to house, they do not want a Dane on the throne. At Brännkyrka outside Stockholm is a battle between the Danes and Swedes. Swedes win and the Swedish riksbaneret out during the Battle of Gustav Eriksson Vasa.
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.
Sara Learns Manners
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.
Kungliga Johansson
event1934
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Famous chef Carl-Ulrik Johansson (Erik 'Bullen' Berglund) comes home to Sweden after twenty years abroad and finds out he never finished his compulsory military service. Consequently he is forced to join the army as a conscript. He has many fights with his sergeant Göran Persson (Thor Modéen).
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