
John Elfström
John Elfström was a Swedish film and television actor.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 0.896 |
Birthday | 1902-04-20 |
Place of Birth | Ovansjö, Gävleborgs län, Sweden |
Also Known As | Per Johan Hilding Elfström, |

1942

Tre skojiga skojare
0/0
The author Tom Berger has written a book that is very prejudiced against women. The local chapter of Women's League starts a campaign against him.
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Tre skojiga skojare

1943

Hon trodde det var han
5/1
The famous author Mark Storm's publisher is unhappy with his books and asks him to write books in a more popular genre, crime for example. When Mark S...
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Hon trodde det var han

1966

Dessa fantastiska smålänningar med sina finurliga maskiner
1/1
A collection of classic scenes from the Åsa-Nisse movies.
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Dessa fantastiska smålänningar med sina finurliga maskiner

1951

Livat på luckan
0/0
Johansson has managed to stay away from the military service for several years. But now his time has come.
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Livat på luckan

1971

Lockfågeln
2/1
On his death-bed, Per Henrik Pistolekors must promise his father two things: first of all to kill king Gustav III, which his father hates. Second, to...
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Lockfågeln

1949

Hur tokigt som helst
0/0
"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...
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Hur tokigt som helst

1928

Svarte Rudolf
0/0
Rudolf Carlsson, who works at a department store, dreams of making movies.
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Svarte Rudolf

1946

Peggy på vift
0/0
Frank Bing is a big artist in the USA and arrives home in his native Sweden with his secretary Ada. The portier at the hotel has great difficulties ke...
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Peggy på vift

1954

The Yellow Squadron
5.5/8
The year is 1954. The war in Korea has just ended and the superpowers stand by each side of the boarder. The peace in Europe is fragile and the cold w...
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The Yellow Squadron

1993

Minns ni?
0/0
A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 films.
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Minns ni?

1950

Åsa-Nisse på jaktstigen
3.3/3
Nils Nilsson from Åsen, better known as Åsa-Nisse and his friend Klabbarparn goes Moose hunting. As a result of a sabotage, staged by their wives, Åsa...
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Åsa-Nisse på jaktstigen

1949

Åsa-Nisse
3.7/6
At a parish meeting Åsa-Nisse suggests that they should hire a common home help, who could give their wives some relief by staying one week at each ho...
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Åsa-Nisse

1952

Åsa-Nisse på nya äventyr
3.3/3
Åsa-Nisse advertise for Summer guests and from Stockholm arrives Mrs. Niklasson and her atlethic daughter Elsa who is currently training for the olymp...
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Åsa-Nisse på nya äventyr

1954

A Lesson in Love
6.8/62
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 w...
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A Lesson in Love

1944

The Emperor of Portugallia
6.3/3
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 th...
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The Emperor of Portugallia

1943

Ordet
6.9/12
Swedish film of the Kaj Munk play that was made into a far more famous film by Carl Dreyer in Denmark twelve years later.
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Ordet

1948

Music in Darkness
6.1/43
Because of an accident at a military drill the recruit Bengt loses his eyesight and becomes blind. He gets to live with relatives in the countryside a...
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Music in Darkness

1956

Åsa-Nisse flyger i luften
2.5/4
Åsa-Nisse has invented a very powerful engine and he sells the patent. However, the grocery store owner Sjökvist has been sneaking around ...
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Åsa-Nisse flyger i luften

1958

Vi på Väddö
4/1
Law graduate Ylva Markner spends the summer on the island of Väddö, where she gets involved in a quarrel concerning a last will.
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Vi på Väddö

1943

I mörkaste Småland
5/1
Albert Engström's anecdotes of Småland have been put together to make a comedy film about Johannes and Cornelius, two smallholding farmers and best fr...
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I mörkaste Småland

1945

Flickorna i Småland
6/1
Gunnar Carlman has returned to Sweden after a few years as a cowboy in Canada. He starts to work at a farm owned by vivacious and strongwilled Christi...
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Flickorna i Småland

1953

Åsa-Nisse på semester
2.3/3
Åsa-Nisse is visited by cousin Doris from the United States. Nisse, Klabbarparn and Doris will travel to Stockholm, but Nisse and Klabbarparn lose tra...
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Åsa-Nisse på semester

1965

Åsa-Nisse slår till
1.8/5
Åsa-Nisse and Klabbarparn with wives taking part in a jenka-contest from Knohult to Vetlanda where he reports with his homemade walkie-talkie. Then he...
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Åsa-Nisse slår till

1960

Åsa-Nisse som polis
3/3
Country bailiff believes that a man of the people shall exercise police work. Åsa-Nisse appointed to the local police for some time. "Nesses" sometime...
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Åsa-Nisse som polis

1965

Gustav Vasa
0/0
Gustav Vasa struggles to keep power while dealing with the Dacke War in his own country and his foreign debts.
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Gustav Vasa

1961

Dacke
6/1
Nils Dacke, leader of the revolt against Gustav Vasa, is torn between his anger over social injustice and royal oppression, and his doubt in the power...
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Dacke

1943

Kajan går till sjöss
4/1
Kajan, a young boy, spends the summer with his friends working on a barge, earning extra money in the ports with their song and dance number. A young...
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Kajan går till sjöss

1943

The Priest Who Knocked Out
4.2/5
The boxing promoter Charlie returns from America to Sweden and needs to find a professional Swedish boxer for an upcoming fight. By chance Charlie wat...
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The Priest Who Knocked Out

1951

One Summer of Happiness
6.5/25
The young high school graduate Göran and the 17-year-old Kerstin get to know each other on the estate of Göran's uncle Persson and fall in love. But t...
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One Summer of Happiness

1961

Åsa-Nisse bland grevar och baroner
2.3/3
Åsa-Nisse has found a new job as forest ranger at count Malcolms estate Segerstad.
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Åsa-Nisse bland grevar och baroner

1967

Åsa-Nisse i agentform
1.7/3
Åsa-Nisse and Klabbarparn teach Sjökvisten how to be a secret agent.
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Åsa-Nisse i agentform

1958

Åsa-Nisse i kronans kläder
2.8/2
Corporal Åsa-Nisse Nilsson is an officer who somehow manages to teach his soldiers both discipline and the art of war.
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Åsa-Nisse i kronans kläder

1957

Åsa-Nisse i full fart
1.5/2
Åsa-Nisse gets a chance to win 10.000 SEK in the biggest game show on Swedish TV.
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Åsa-Nisse i full fart

1964

Åsa-Nisse i popform
2/3
Pop music comes to Knohult and Åsa-Nisse has a new invention that makes his hens lay their eggs to the beat of the music.
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Åsa-Nisse i popform

1959

Åsa-Nisse jubilerar
2.5/4
The local newspaper celebrates 50 years and are now looking for a citizen who has lived as long in the neighborhood. Our hero Åsa-Nisse seems to fit t...
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Åsa-Nisse jubilerar

1954

Åsa-Nisse på hal is
2.167/3
Åsa-Nisse and Klabbarparn are winter fishing.
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Åsa-Nisse på hal is

1966

Åsa-Nisse in Rocket Form
3.5/4
Inspired by the space-race, Åsa-Nisse and his friends build a top-secret moon rocket. They have big trouble hiding their secret from prying newspaper...
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Åsa-Nisse in Rocket Form

1955

Åsa-Nisse ordnar allt
3.3/3
Åsa-Nisse has a bad back and when he visits the doctor he gets an experimental medicine for horses by mistake. Suddenly Åsa-Nisse has super strengths...
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Åsa-Nisse ordnar allt

1968

Åsa-Nisse och den stora kalabaliken
2.2/5
Sjökvist needs a woman to tidy up his general store and Åsa-Nisse helps him out to put an ad in the local newspaper.
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Åsa-Nisse och den stora kalabaliken

1962

Åsa-Nisse på Mallorca
2.8/5
Åsa-Nisse and Klabbarparn has found an old pirate map that leads them to the island Mallorca in the Mediterranean Sea as they search for the hidden tr...
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Åsa-Nisse på Mallorca

1963

Åsa-Nisse och tjocka släkten
2.7/3
Åsa-Nisse's brother Julius returns home from USA, apparently very rich. Also, Åsa-Nisse och Klabbarparen takes care of a little child which leads to a...
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Åsa-Nisse och tjocka släkten

1946

Saltstänk och krutgubbar
3/2
The stingy fisherman Ericsson lives on a small island north of Stockholm with his wife Johanna och her father Isak.
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Saltstänk och krutgubbar

1970

The Lustful Vicar
3.9/9
During a witch trial in the seventeenth century a woman is accused of being a witch and burned at the stake. The witch curse the village priest who pu...
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The Lustful Vicar

1949

The Wind Is My Lover
6/4
Set in medieval times about the cursed Moonshield family. The young knight Erland Moonshield fall in love with a gypsy enchantress, Singoalla, he meet...
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The Wind Is My Lover

1945

Put Our Märta First or As Luck Will Have It
5.3/7
An out-of-work musician is desperate for work and when his best friend sees an add requesting a cellist he signs him up. However, the work is for a fe...
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Put Our Märta First or As Luck Will Have It

1952

När syrenerna blomma
5/1
The 1880s. Abandoned by his middle class parents in Stockholm, Johannes grows up in the countryside with a cobbler who regularly beats him up. Also at...
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När syrenerna blomma

1943

Aktören
4.7/3
The actor Philip has an accident on the way to his own wedding and the shock makes him lose his voice.
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Aktören

1968

Komedi i Hägerskog
0/0
Narcissa and Elina work in a small town social service office and have various erotic encounters with the people who visit it.
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Komedi i Hägerskog

1945

Rosen på tistelön
5.5/2
A smuggler's daughter falls in love with the son of a customs inspector.
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Rosen på tistelön

1946

Kristin Commands
5.8/5
Translator Vilhelm and his young wife have a child, as well as a grumpy housemaid who doesn't hesitate to give her opinion on how they behave as paren...
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Kristin Commands

1947

Livet i finnskogarna
3/2
In a rural parish in 1906, young Heikki, one of the Finnish immigrants, lives a wild and free life in the deep forest. After poaching, his furs are co...
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Livet i finnskogarna

1952

Under svällande segel
0/0
The student Olle has signed up to sail the Atlantic. But his sensitivity and personal problems make it difficult to be accepted on board. When some of...
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Under svällande segel

1949

Vagabond Blacksmiths
0/0
Midsummer Eve in Malmfors in the 1880s. The holiday is celebrated with a big party. Three blacksmiths leave the ironworks and become drifters, seeking...
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Vagabond Blacksmiths

1944

Skogen är vår arvedel
0/0
The farmer Per Jonsson doesn't think too well about the factory in the neighborhood, since he thinks that it destroys the fishing and makes the young...
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Skogen är vår arvedel

1963

A Dream Play
7.5/6
"A dream play" - This made-for-television film constituted Bergman’s first production of Strindberg’s A Dream Play – a play he would revisit three tim...
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A Dream Play

1995

Stjärnbilder
0/0
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 h...
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Stjärnbilder

1945

Bröderna Östermans huskors
0/0
The Österman brothers have come to realize that they need a housekeeper. Oldest brother Kalle travel to town and return with the young and modern Anna...
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Bröderna Östermans huskors

1949

Son of the Sea
0/0
The priest Hagen comes to a small Norwegian village one stormy evening. He brings the tragic news to wife Sigrid Bakken. Her husband and oldest son ha...
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Son of the Sea

1946

Bröllopet på Solö
0/0
Kalle Österman lives on the small island Solö together with his wife, Agneta.
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Bröllopet på Solö

1945

You Who Are About to Enter
2.5/2
Tomas Eckert, a civil servant, is subjected to a violated woman's revenge. It happens to be his boss's wife, Märta Palm. Tomas is accused of having ab...
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You Who Are About to Enter

1950

When Bengt and Anders Changed Wives
5/1
Two neighbours, each with a small plot of land, hate each other. Both are dissatisfied with his wife.
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When Bengt and Anders Changed Wives

1944

Prince Gustaf
0/0
In the middle of the 1800s Swedish prince Gustaf meets the actress Anna Maria Wastenius and falls in love with her, but it is an impossible love story...
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Prince Gustaf

1945

Oss tjuvar emellan eller en burk ananas
0/0
Max Kvarne is an international adventurer who stole 25,000 pounds in 100-pound banknotes at a London coup.
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Oss tjuvar emellan eller en burk ananas

1960

Spökhotellet
0/0
A Swedish TV movie based on the play L'Hôtel du Libre échange from 1894.
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Spökhotellet

1933

Hälsingar
0/0
Jonas goes with a tremendous speed with his horse over a country road in Hälsingland. Because of this speed Birgit Ljusnar, who is along the road pick...
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Hälsingar

1936

Samvetsömma Adolf
0/0
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 a...
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Samvetsömma Adolf

1954

Östermans testamente
0/0
The fishermen Österman and Sjöberg are sued by merchant Wikström. In order to raise capital, they decide to start producing a medicine from a recipe b...
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Östermans testamente

1956

Den Hårda Leken
0/0
Conny Persson is an up-and-coming boxer. He wins the Junior Championships and is able to write a contract with boxing manager Andy Ekström. He falls i...
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Den Hårda Leken

1952

Defiance
0/0
A teacher is so hard on his students that he faces a warning by the school principal. In order to at least improve the strained relationship with his...
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Defiance

1960

Storm
5.8/4
An elderly gentleman lives alone with his maid Louise. He spends his days chatting with the confectioner who lives and works downstairs, playing ches...
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Storm

1966

Tartuffe
0/0
The religious hypocrite Tartuffe parasites on a bourgeois family. He is looking for the daughter's hand and the family's property and is also trying t...
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Tartuffe

1955

Hamlet
0/0
Prince Hamlet returns home from the university of Wittenberg to attend his father's funeral. His uncle Claudius, the new King, has announced his broth...
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Hamlet

1955

Finnskogens folk
0/0
The year is 1906. Somewhere on the long lake of Fryken, pastor David Amberg appears. He is not satisfied with the religious life of the countryside. H...
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Finnskogens folk

1939

Sjöcharmörer
5/1
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 Johans...
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Sjöcharmörer

1959

Vår ofödde son
0/0
If I give birth, I will certainly be punished and lose my reputation. If I don't, then I may be punished, too. And also lose my reputation.
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Vår ofödde son

1955

The bravado of the Österman brothers
0/0
Director Svensson in Stockholm is going on vacation to Koön in the archipelago. The rented cottage is inhabited by the brothers August and Johan Öster...
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The bravado of the Österman brothers

1947

Lata Lena och blåögde Per
0/0
Mattsson is a fisherman and widower in the Stockholm archipelago. He has two adult daughters that help run the household, Magda and Lena. Lena prefers...
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Lata Lena och blåögde Per

1950

While the City Sleeps
6.2/5
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....
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While the City Sleeps

1940

Everybody at His Station
0/0
Swedish comedy from 1940. Kurre Karlsson, a simple man of the people, will be called up for military training given by an anti-aircraft units at sea....
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Everybody at His Station

1959

Sköna Susanna och gubbarna
2/2
In the legend of Susanna in Babylon she was highly desired by the old men. In this movie, Susanna the beautiful lives in a Swedish town in the 19th ce...
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Sköna Susanna och gubbarna

1945

Idel ädel adel
3/2
A newly married Baron plans to sell his castle. His wife, who loves to live in a castle, knows nothing about the sale.
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Idel ädel adel

2010

Uppdrag Åsa-Nisse
0/0
In "Mission Åsa-Nisse" filmmaker Anders Nordqvist explores the 60th anniversary film classic series Åsa-Nisse. Through old film clips, meetings with a...
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Uppdrag Åsa-Nisse

1945

Pettersson & Bendels nya affärer
0/0
After some time abroad, Bendel returns to Sweden and seeks up his old friend and business accomplice Pettersson to commit some new frauds.Follow-up to...
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Pettersson & Bendels nya affärer

1945

Wandering with the Moon
6.5/2
Dan, aged 19, leaves his home after a quarrel with his father. At the side of the country road he meets a traveling theater company who has run out of...
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Wandering with the Moon

1942

Flickan i fönstret mitt emot
0/0
The bricklayer Loffe often sees sculptress Ingrid in a window a cross the building. They get to now each other and soon fall in love. Loffe works for...
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Flickan i fönstret mitt emot

1966

Patrasket
0/0
A poor Jewish family, called the Riffraff by the author, puts the great Joe Meng at the heart of high-flying plans and imaginative flair.
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Patrasket

1961

Guest of Reality
8/2
A story about a boy named Anders, who lives in an ordinary Swedish family in an apartment at the train station. Through his childhood, he experiences...
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Guest of Reality

1965

Bödeln
6/1
"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 hangm...
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Bödeln

1959

Åke and His World
0/0
A melancholic depiction of life in a small Swedish town, seen through the eyes of a six-year-old boy.
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Åke and His World

1960

Fröken Rosita
0/0
Play by Federico Garcia Lorca. Swedish interpretation of Hjalmar Gullberg and Karin Alin.
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Fröken Rosita

1962

Wonderful Adventures of Nils
5.7/6
A film adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf's classic book about Nils Holgersson, who is a real rascal. As punishment for his mischief, a house elf shrinks hi...
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Wonderful Adventures of Nils

1949

Sjösalavår
0/0
The Troubadour sits at a rock beside his summerhouse Sjösala in the Stockholm archipelago. He is composing a new ballad, when his son Sven Bertil inte...
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Sjösalavår

1954

Tattarblod
0/0
David, a young woodsman with a family, is leasing a farm. The family are welcomed by the locals until it becomes known that David is the son of a noto...
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Tattarblod

1944

Den osynliga muren
5.3/3
"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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Den osynliga muren

1941

Fransson the Terrible
0/0
A young baker moves to the small town of Västerby and becomes successful with a new type of whole wheat bread.
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Fransson the Terrible

1961

Swedenhielms
6/1
Tv play based on Hjalmar Bergmans play Swedenhielms from 1923.
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Swedenhielms

1946

Hotell Kåkbrinken
0/0
Laban Lundström is the porter at Hotell Kåkbrinken. The hotel is threatened by wholesaler Sjökvist, who wants to pull down the house and build a new a...
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Hotell Kåkbrinken

1968

Sarons ros och gubbarna i Knohult
0/0
Åsa Nisse compilation from other movies.
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Sarons ros och gubbarna i Knohult

1952

Hård klang
4.3/3
A small Swedish village has transformed to an industrial center with exports to Germany. A German opened a quarry some 50 years ago, after realizing t...
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Hård klang

1966

Doktor Knock
0/0
Doctor Knock takes over a medical clinic in a small town and provides a medical revival.
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Doktor Knock

1959

Midsommardröm i fattighuset
0/0
A Swedish TV play about a workhouse in Småland, Sweden. Midsummer's Dream in the Workhouse is written by Pär Lagerkvist.
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Midsommardröm i fattighuset

1950

Perhaps a Gentleman
5/1
After watching Stig Järrel star in a production of Pygmalion Mister Haglund bets him that he can turn anyone into a gentlemen in a few months.
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Perhaps a Gentleman

1947

Railroad Workers
0/0
The north of Sweden in 1902. A team of railroad men are building a rail road from Luleå at the Bay of Bothnia to Narvik at the Norwegian Sea. One of t...
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Railroad Workers

1942

General von Döbeln
4.5/2
1813. The Swedish army is fighting in the War of the Sixth Coalition. The popular general Von Döbeln is arrested for sending the army against the Fren...
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