
Birthday:
06-13-1873
Deathday:
07-05-1942 (69 years)
Birthplace:
Norrköping, Östergötlands län, Sweden
Biography
Karin Sofia Swanström was a Swedish actress, director, producer and theatre director. She was artistic leader and production director at the Swedish Film Industry (SF) between 1933 and 1941. Her film debut was in filmed in Mauritz Stillers "De landsflyktige/The fugitives" (1921), this role was followed by almost another 50 films. Karin Swanström directed 4 productions 1923-1926.
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The Saga of Gösta Berling
Act like Gustafva Sinclaire
event1924 star_border 6.6
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Gösta Berling is a young and attractive minister. Because of his alcoholism and his daring sermons, he is finally defrocked. He becomes a tutor of countess Marta's stepdaughter and they fall in love. But the countess has a plan of her own.
June Night
Act like Mrs. Cronsiöö
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.
Swedenhielms
Act like Marta Boman
event1935 star_border 5.4
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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?
The General
event1931
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Maria, a young Russian student, is loved by Viktor Sabline, a Russian scientist. They marry and immediately afterwards, the World War breaks out and Viktor is drafted as lieutenant.
Halfway to heaven
Act like Madame Jenny
event1931
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Love triangle in an acrobatic trapeze act results in a missed catch and a death, but was it on purpose?
On the Sunny Side
Act like Margareta Ribe
event1936 star_border 4.2
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Eva Bergh works as a bank clerk, but dreams of becoming an artist. At a party she meets the rich Harald Ribe and he instantly falls in love with her. When he proposes to marry her she has no work or place to live and she accepts. At Harald's estate she can live comfortably, but she misses her old friends.
The Marriage Game
Act like Carolina Berg
event1935
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The sculptress Tora Diidiken is married to the sculptor Gunnar Grahn and they both compete in a contest to design a statue for the public square in Hicksville.
A Perfect Gentleman
Act like Charlotte Ponson
event1927 star_border 6
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Social comedy-drama. Aristocrat's boredom in marriage of convenience and sacrif ice of self on behalf of wife's lover.
Servant's Entrance
Act like Laura Persson, cook
event1932
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Helga Breder is a young, spoiled girl. To her beloved Jörgen she says that she, as a modern young woman, is multi-talented and can do whatever she likes. Jörgen bets that she can't work as a house-maid but, if she manages it, he will buy her a diamond ring. Helga becomes a house-maid at Vinger Mansion and falls in love with an inventor, Bertil Frigård, who lives there.
Do You Remember?
Act like (archive footage)
event1935
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Compilation film with scenes from different Swedish silent films, many of the films have since been lost and the only surviving fragments can be found in this film.
Television: Swedish Version
event1931
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A young inventor has constructed a television set. His landlady has become very skeptical of both him and his invention, perhaps mainly due to the fact that he is constantly broke and hasn't paid the rent in months. Adding to the irritation is that the hostess's daughter loves the young man and is trying to convince her employer, the director, to finance the whole thing. The director wants both her and the television set, but his evil investment doesn't come to fruition thanks to the latter.
Manslaughter
event1931
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Sonja is a spoiled young lady who thinks she can get anything for money. She is living a life in luxury. One day she meets a lawyer who is a public prosecutor. They fall in love.
His Majesty the Barber
event1928 star_border 6.5
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A handsome barber in Sweden doesn't know he's actually the Crown Prince of a Balkan kingdom in this charming Swedish-German comedy that effortlessly weaves together multiple Ruritanian tropes.
Sealed Lips
event1927
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The film is based on a story by Guy de Maupausant. The story details several years in the life of convent-bred Angela (Mona Mårtenson) who leaves her convent in Italy to go live with her aunt Peppina (K. Swanstrom), whose husband Giambastista wants to take advantage of her. She flees and takes refuge with the painter Frank Wood ( handsome Louis Lerch) and winds up in a romance with Wood. Alas, Wood is already married, and when Martenson finds out, she returns to the convent in disgrace. On the verge of shutting herself off from the world and taking her vows as a nun, the heroine once again crosses the path of Wood, who is now free to marry her. Sandra Milowanoff has a big scene where she commits suicide on discovering that her husband no longer loves her.
The Girl in Tails
Act like Hyltenius
event1926 star_border 6.5
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Katja is about to graduate, but she has nothing to wear for the graduation ball. Her father, the eccentric inventor Carl Axel Kock does not spend much of his income on Katja while her brother Curry gets everything he wants. So on the day of the ball, Katja simply dresses up in her brother’s brand new evening attire and attends the dance, smokes cigars, drinks brandy–and causes a scandal.
One Night
Act like Minka
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.
Longing for the Sea
Act like Honorine
event1931
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Marius is torn between the love for Fanny on land and the desire to go out to sea.
Giftasvuxna döttrar
Act like Mrs Emma Lindberg
event1933
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Porter's wife Emma has three daughters, all "marriageable". All three have worries about marriage.
Svarta rosor
event1932 star_border 6
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The waitress Inga is pregnant and the father, the sailor Edvin, tells her to find someone who can handle the child instead of him.
Styrman Karlssons flammor
event1925
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Karl Alfred Karlsson goes on an adventure on the seven seas.
Only a Dancing Girl
event1926
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Heinrich Zentler is a successful man, both on football and in his legal career.
Den stora kärleken
event1938
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The maid Agnes lives a rather lonely and boring life.
The Flying Dutchman
event1925
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Pelle Frisk is second-in-command on the S/S Hispania. He is a fighter and a ladies man and known as "The Flying Dutchman".
Sten Stensson Stéen från Eslöv på nya äventyr
event1932
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A traveling theatre company comes to Lund and one of the smallest hotels in town. A female actress gets a key by mistake to a room where Sten Stensson Stéen lives.
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.
Skeppargatan 40
event1925
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Erhard Malm is studying to become an engineer, but support himself as a tutor at Consul Frendin. The consul's daughter Ruth and Erhard get interested in each other.
Tired Theodore
event1931
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Teodor is afraid to tell his rich wife that he works extra nightly at the sinful hotel Babylon.
Kärlek efter noter
event1935
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The Karlsson family has a grocery store, but the son Bertil wants to set up an operetta on stage.
Äventyret
event1936
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At the home of the famous scientist Count Knut Lagercrona the wedding preparations has begun. The Counts daughter Heléne Von Bohren is about to marry the young lawyer Sebastian Lavenius.
Svärmor kommer
event1932
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John and Ulla are happily married and live in the villa Fridhem. Via telegram, John gets the news that his dreaded mother-in-law will come to visit.
Morgondagens melodi
event1942
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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.
Anna-Clara och hennes bröder
event1923
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A series of events during a summer in Anna-Clara's life.
Hemslavinnor
event1923
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Grethe decides to go the big city to find a job as a domestic help.
Fasters millioner
Act like Aunt Héléne
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.
Styrman Karlssons flammor
Act like Mrs. Ragna Doring
event1938
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Kalle and his girlfriend Blenda is on his way home from Tivoli, when he says that he will be away for two years as mate on a sailing ship, but swears her eternal fidelity. During the trip takes on board Bessie that has wrecked his vessel, the Donald withstand the temptation of a beautiful woman on board while Blenda waiting at home?
Steel
Act like Mrs. Gouveng
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
A Sister of Six
Act like Countess Emilie Hohenstein
event1926
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A silent romantic comedy
Bröllopsresan
Act like Countess Julia Lejonsköld
event1936
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Director Björkman travels to Copenhagen with his daughter Astrid, who is together with a certain Count Erik Lejonsköld. They will take their father-in-law's car and go on a honeymoon to the Riviera. But "Count" gets a telegram from London calling him to a business meeting. Dad Björkman and the daughter decide to go to the Riviera while the suitor must come later. The real Count Erik Lejonsköld comes home to his office in Stockholm and is congratulated on the wedding by his staff. But he did not get married at all, it was a scammer instead of Henry. Erik searches the newspaper notice his wedding announced in Copenhagen and sees a chance to expose the imposter.
Stiller-fragment
Act like (archive footage)
event1969 star_border 6
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Available episodes of missing movies by Mauritz Stiller.
Ryska snuvan
Act like Mrs. Brodin
event1937
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"The Russian Cold" - Kalle Brodin, the leader of the Swedish communists, just released from a short prison term, don't know what to do with the directives that comes from Moscow.
His English Wife
Act like Mrs. Brock, Cathleen's mother
event1927
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London socialite Cathleen Paget's adventures in love and misfortune a year after the death of her husband. Ivor Willington and Lionel Jesop play cards for who will be given the shot at flirting with Paget, as to claim her wealth. But when her brother Bruce has lost the family fortune in bad business, Cathleen is suggested to court Nordic giant Birger Holm. The two marry and the families financial problems seem to be at bay, although the life in the northern Sweden is wearing Cathleen down as she misses parties, friends and dancing at the Savoy Hotel.
In Self Defence
event1921
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A wealthy Russian family is faced with change and challenges as events unfold during the First World War.
The Young Nobleman
event1924
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A young Countess meets a young Count and they share a common interest in fast cars.
Släkten är värst
Act like Anna
event1936 star_border 5
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A bachelor in Stockholm must invent a family to be able to get financial support from his aunt Anna. Everything is going well until she arrives on an unexpected visit.
Parisiennes
Act like Rose Duval
event1928 star_border 5.6
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A house in Paris happens to have two families living there with the same last name. In one apartment lives opera singer Gambetta Duval with his two daughters, Jeanne and Nita. In the second apartment lives old lady Duval with her grandchild Philippa and an her lodger, the physician Leon Monnier. Jeanne is secretly in love with Dr. Monnier who is secretly in love with Nita, who is secretly having an affair with the great playwright Armand de Marny.
Kalle Utter
event1925
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Kalle Utter is theologian student at Uppsala University sometime during the latter half of the 19th century.
Spökbaronen
event1927
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Baron Conrad Wirvelpihl get hit in the head and lose his memory.
When Roses Bloom
Act like Grevinnan Charlotte
event1930
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André is a young attorney who has opened his own office in Paris without any success. One day he finds a will in an old book in an antique shop that reveals a hidden treasure at the castle Brignolles. The first 100% talkie film in Swedish film history.
Sjöcharmörer
Act like Mrs. Ebba Österman
event1939 star_border 5
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A bus company wants to acquire traffic rights on an island in the Stockholm archipelago. The steam boats will be replaced by buses, but Captain Johansson and his daughter Eva are at the forefront of the protests.
Gustaf Wasa, Part Two
Act like Sigbrit
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 Sigbrit
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.
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