Edvin Adolphson
Gustav Edvin Adolphson was a Swedish stage and screen actor and director. He made his stage debut in 1912, his first film "Thomas Graal's Best Child" (1918), and directed the first Swedish sound film, "Säg det i toner/ The Dream Waltz" in 1929. He was actress Harriet Bosse's third husband (1927–1932) and is father of actress Kristina Adolphson (b. 1937) and songwriter/composer Olle Adolphson (1934–2004). Edvin Adolphson appeared in more than 500 roles.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.8481 |
| Birthday | 1893-02-26 |
| Place of Birth | Furingstad, Vikbolandet, Östergötlands län |
| Also Known As | Edvin Adolfsson, |
1943
Hon trodde det var han
6/2
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
1964
Dance Around the Guldbaggen
0/0
Filmed during the first ever Guldbaggen (golden scarab) awards, it was edited and developed that night and shown for the first time to the guests at t...
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Dance Around the Guldbaggen
1928
Jansson’s Temptation
10/1
Baron von Werner and Gunnar Jansson are in a dispute over property rights. Inga, the baron's daughter, arrives home from France and is soon interested...
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Jansson’s Temptation
1950
When Love Came to the Village
8/1
A new teacher arrives to the small village and he soon stir up some trouble with his modern way of looking at things. He also stir up some amorous fee...
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When Love Came to the Village
1931
Ship Ahoy!
9/1
In the Swedish small town Kungshamn the journalist Fridolf Svensson writes for the local newspaper Allehanda.
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Ship Ahoy!
1950
Frökens första barn
5.75/4
Sonja Broberg needs to make extra money so she offers to help the author Johannes Porshammar with his latest novel about single mothers, a subject he...
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Frökens första barn
1955
Männen i mörker
9/1
When the men in the small mining community go to work, it is like any other day. They do not yet know that an accident will change everything.
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Männen i mörker
1932
Tango
7/1
A married woman visits her lover.
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Tango
1959
Får jag låna din fru?
6.25/2
Bertil Lund works at the wholesaling company Everything for the Baby. The supervisor Fredriksson is considering promoting him to vice-president but th...
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Får jag låna din fru?
1918
Thomas Graal's Best Child
5.4/7
Frau Bessie, once a madcap, aristocratic and modern Swedish fraulein, has become now a whimsical and conservative Swedish burgess after her marriage t...
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Thomas Graal's Best Child
1955
Darling of Mine
6.667/3
The Swedish/American actor Jack Harris visits the old country for the first time in his life. One of the journalist, Ingrid Billberg, is particularly...
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Darling of Mine
1951
One Summer of Happiness
6.266/32
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
Do You Believe in Angels?
6.8/12
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...
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Do You Believe in Angels?
1945
The Royal Rabble
6.8/6
The ups and downs of three generations in an acting family.
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The Royal Rabble
1939
Only One Night
6/5
Funfair worker Valdemar is unknowingly the illegitimate son of a rich landowner, colonel Von Brede. The colonel knows and employs Valdemar as his stab...
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Only One Night
1921
The Phantom Carriage
7.8/372
An alcoholic, abusive ne'er-do-well is shown the error of his ways through a legend that dooms the last person to die on New Year's Eve before the clo...
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The Phantom Carriage
1931
The General
9/1
Maria, a young Russian student, is loved by Viktor Sabline, a Russian scientist. They marry and immediately afterwards, the World War breaks out and V...
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The General
1935
The Count of the Old Town
5.2/12
A police inspector tracks a notorious jewel thief, 'Diamond-Lasse,' to a hotel filled with eccentrics.
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The Count of the Old Town
1931
Halfway to heaven
10/1
Love triangle in an acrobatic trapeze act results in a missed catch and a death, but was it on purpose?
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Halfway to heaven
1942
Flames in the Dark
6.3/3
Latin teacher Birger Sjögren at Ringsala boarding school threatens his possesive and chronically ill mother that he will get married. She gets a strok...
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Flames in the Dark
1948
En svensk tiger
8/1
Johan Tiger is an actor in Stockholm during World War II. A British agent in Sweden discovers that Johan is a dead ringer for General Lucky and manage...
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En svensk tiger
1956
Song of the Scarlet Flower
7/2
Olof is driven from home when he wants to marry the wrong girl. He takes a job as a log driver and his reputation as a womanizer goes far and wide.
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Song of the Scarlet Flower
1949
Singoalla
6.286/7
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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Singoalla
1943
The Sixth Shot
6.667/3
Georg Winkler meet Marguerite Hoffman at the casino in Monte Carlo. They become an item and travel the world with their act - Winkler is an accomplish...
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The Sixth Shot
1941
Life Goes On
5.5/2
The Swedish officer Mikael Bourg has served with the French army in Africa. When he returns to Sweden after many years abroad to recover from malaria,...
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Life Goes On
1934
Atlantäventyret
4.833/3
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...
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Atlantäventyret
1947
Supper for Two
6/4
Louise Mareuil owns a perfume factory on the French Riviera. She is in a traffic accident with a sketch artist, Claude Dubois. She gives him a blank c...
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Supper for Two
1936
On the Sunny Side
5.833/3
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....
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On the Sunny Side
1949
Playing Truant
5.75/4
High school student Margareta fall head over heels in love with a young doctor and announce her engagement to him to her parents. She quits school and...
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Playing Truant
1956
Sceningång
5.7/3
A day in the life of a theater ensemble. The acting students are struggling to get one foot ahead of the others and the regular cast is fighting for t...
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Sceningång
1964
Swedish Wedding Night
6.333/6
A wealthy butcher, fond of liquor and women is about to marry a much younger woman. The woman's father has locked himself in the attic and refuses to...
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Swedish Wedding Night
1942
General von Döbeln
6.3/3
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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General von Döbeln
1959
Boy of Two Worlds
5.778/9
A young orphan is sent to live in a Danish village where he is cast out because his mother was a West Indian. With nowhere to turn, the ingenious surv...
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Boy of Two Worlds
1948
Flottans kavaljerer
5.125/4
Baron Conrad Crusenhielm is hit in the head during a drunken brawl. Suffering from amnesia, he is mistaken for the lost sailor Karlsson and taken to t...
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Flottans kavaljerer
1945
Marie in the Windmill
5/3
Maria is a waitress at a local restaurant when an older man propose to her. She is a bit skeptical but agrees to marry him and become the mistress of...
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Marie in the Windmill
1944
A Day Will Dawn
7/6
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.
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A Day Will Dawn
1951
The Nuthouse
5.2/5
In Stockholm in the year 2248 an excavation leads to the discovery of 45,000 meters of film from the 1940's master director Hasse Ekman . The material...
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The Nuthouse
1928
Gustaf Wasa, Part One
9/1
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....
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Gustaf Wasa, Part One
1928
Gustaf Wasa, Part Two
7/2
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...
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Gustaf Wasa, Part Two
1940
With You in My Arms
6.2/5
Millionaire Krister Dahl loses his memory when he is hit in the head by a golf ball. He meets his ex-wife and immediately fall in love with her again....
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With You in My Arms
1953
Göingehövdingen
9/1
When the Swedish army occupies the eastern part of Denmark in 1678, the local inhabitants decide to fight back. Under the leadership of Svend Poulsen,...
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Göingehövdingen
1956
Litet bo
10/1
Hasse has received a scholarship from the insurance company where he works together with his friend Lennart. They both travel to Vienna so that Hasse...
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Litet bo
1940
A Crime
5.429/7
A murder is committed in an apartment building in Stockholm. And afterward all clues point toward the Justice of the Supreme Court and his sons. But w...
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A Crime
1957
A Girl of Solbakken
7.5/2
From Bjørnson's novels about romance in 19th century Norway. Thorbjörn Granliden is raised severely by his parents who notice that he is drawn to the...
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A Girl of Solbakken
1995
Stjärnbilder
10/1
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
1955
The Unicorn
4.25/4
Harriet and Frank Allard have been married for many years. Almost twenty years ago, Harriet had a love affair with a colleague of Frank's, Claes von K...
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The Unicorn
1953
The Road to Klockrike
4.333/3
Bolle gets tired of working at the cigar factory and because of his desire for freedom he takes to the road. He and the other hobos have only one prob...
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The Road to Klockrike
1954
Young Summer
8/1
Helge Lysvik is a farmers son. He dreams of a future as a musician.
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Young Summer
1927
Sealed Lips
9/1
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...
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Sealed Lips
1945
Man's Woman
9/1
An agrarian community sometime in the 1700s. The farmer Påvel is married with his young wife Märit and very proud to have married such a young and swe...
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Man's Woman
1931
Longing for the Sea
7/1
Marius is torn between the love for Fanny on land and the desire to go out to sea.
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Longing for the Sea
1931
Scattered Pages
9/1
Vera Nilsson is friendly with the poor neighbor boy Håkan, this is not seen kindly by Vera's father Nils.
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Scattered Pages
1937
The Great John Ericsson
7/1
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. De...
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The Great John Ericsson
1939
Gubben kommer
9/1
The old man, Carl-Henrik de Grévy, left his family many years ago, when the stock market collapsed. His sister Louise believes that he is dead and wan...
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Gubben kommer
1926
To the Orient
10/1
When Ingmar Ingmarsson marries Barbro Svensdotter there's a big party with many guests. But the bride and groom are unhappy.
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To the Orient
1952
One Fiancé at a Time
6/3
Lilian is engaged to engineer Arne. To make him more interested in her, she meets a few other men.
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One Fiancé at a Time
1923
Triton tvättpulver
0/0
Laundry detergent commercial.
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Triton tvättpulver
1923
Andersson, Pettersson and Lundström
10/1
Andersson, Pettersson and Lundström goes out for a long walk with Stockholm as a goal. On the way they buy a lottery ticket and wins a lot of money.
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Andersson, Pettersson and Lundström
1922
The House Surrounded
9/1
Young Lieutenant Jeff Gordon is placed in an English town and he meets his loved one Mary. When the war starts in Africa his regiment is being sent to...
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The House Surrounded
1925
The Flying Dutchman
8/1
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".
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The Flying Dutchman
1936
Johan Ulfstjerna
10/1
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 Ulfs...
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Johan Ulfstjerna
1938
Dollar
4.5/10
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 sti...
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Dollar
1922
Thomas Graal's Ward
8/1
Paul is a student does not devote to much time for studies. He enjoys the pleasures of life. Babette is a girl who dreams about a life in luxury. Paul...
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Thomas Graal's Ward
1922
A Scarlet Angel
8.5/2
The criminal couple Louise Kent and Charles Zukor stages a coup in the luxury restaurant Oriental. In the midst of a dance number goes suddenly all th...
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A Scarlet Angel
1946
Begär
9/1
Carsten Berg returns home after 15 years abroad. He gets into a fight with his father, who dies of a heart attack. Carsten must take over his fathers...
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Begär
1947
Ingen väg tillbaka
9/1
The newly appointed director Hugo Henriksen gets into a fight and accidentally hits a prostitute. When Hugo is trying to leave the scene the girl dies...
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Ingen väg tillbaka
1955
Hamlet
10/1
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
1923
New Pranks by Andersson’s Kalle
8/1
Mrs. Andersson’s mischievous Kalle gets adopted by Director Graham and moves from the working-class area into the high society of Stockholm.
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New Pranks by Andersson’s Kalle
1955
Paradiset
7/2
The two alcoholics Rudolf and Bertil gets fired from their jobs. For Bertil the story ends happily. He quits drinking and takes a job on a ship. For R...
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Paradiset
1953
Vingslag i natten
8/2
Orphan boy and vicar's daughter fall in love but her father is strongly opposed to their relationship.
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Vingslag i natten
1921
A Wild Bird
5.3/6
A woman searches for the child she gave up at birth.
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A Wild Bird
1941
En kvinna ombord
5.667/6
In the beginning of WW II a Swedish ship in a northern French port is exposed to German air raids. The captain take a chance to leave the port without...
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En kvinna ombord
1963
Prins hatt under jorden
9/1
A young man,Erik, breaks into a photo store. But he is discovered by the night watchman and has to fly. During the flight he is picked up by cabaret s...
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Prins hatt under jorden
1961
Pärlemor
8/1
Set in th 1930's depression times. A wealthy industrialist suffers a stroke. His wife takes over both family and business. The son worships his mother...
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Pärlemor
1963
Sällskapslek
9/1
In a magnificent villa a 25-year-old son of Count lives with his family. He falls in love with an elementary school teacher. So does even his father t...
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Sällskapslek
1955
The Summer Wind Blows
8/1
Claus, an unhappy 28 year old Norwegian insurance company employee quits his job in Oslo and heads for Sweden in order to figure out who he really is....
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The Summer Wind Blows
1941
Fröken Kyrkråtta
9/1
Banking director Anders Berg in Gothenburg has found reason to terminate his former secretary Vivi Lundgren, who obviously did everything to vamp him.
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Fröken Kyrkråtta
1933
Dear Relatives
5.5/4
The story about a Stockholm wholesaler and his three daughters.
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Dear Relatives
1929
Triumph of the Heart
6.75/2
In a small mine town north of the circle, Torsten lives, working with his sister Eva and comrade Lars, who is engaged to Eva. The town's bat-owner has...
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Triumph of the Heart
1945
The Gallows Man
8/1
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.
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The Gallows Man
1954
Enchanted Journey
8/1
A traveling theatre company comes to a small town and performs to a packed house. But during the show the theatre director decides to run away with th...
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Enchanted Journey
1958
Laila
7/2
Winter in Lapland, a settler and his wife just had their newborn daughter baptized. On the way home through the wilderness, they are chased by a pack...
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Laila
1960
Av hjärtans lust
10/1
The Baron of Qvinnevad Castle has financial problems and is forced to show the estate to tourists. The baron finds out that an unknown person is tryin...
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Av hjärtans lust
1950
Rolling Sea
8/1
"Rolling Sea" - After a longer stay at the hospital, the young Martin comes to Gothenburg and notice that his fiancee Sonja has met another man.
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Rolling Sea
1950
The Quartet That Split Up
10/1
A small Swedish town just after WW1. An accountant and his two journalist friends have entered the stock market. The result is not as good as expected...
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The Quartet That Split Up
1937
Ryska snuvan
7/1
"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 direct...
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Ryska snuvan
1958
The Phantom Carriage
6/6
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...
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The Phantom Carriage
1932
Modern Wives
9/1
The architect Georg Wall is sitting in his spacious Stockholm apartment. He has been waiting several hours since lunch for his significantly younger w...
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Modern Wives
1934
Man's Way with Women
8/1
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...
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Man's Way with Women
1936
The Honeymoon
8/1
Director Björkman travels to Copenhagen with his daughter Astrid, who is together with a certain Count Erik Lejonsköld. They will take their father-in...
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The Honeymoon
1921
In Self Defence
7/1
A wealthy Russian family faces change and challenges as events unfold during the First World War.
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In Self Defence
1923
The Suitor from the Highway
10/1
Gösta is a trainee for the brutal Algren. He runs away and get to know a friendly drifter.
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The Suitor from the Highway
1926
The Wedding at Bränna
8/1
The farmer Emanuel’s mother Ingrid wants him to marry his cousin Maja Sofia.
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The Wedding at Bränna
1924
Where the Lighthouse Flashes
8/1
The lighthouse keeper Lang has become a loner since his little daughter drowned in the sea.
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Where the Lighthouse Flashes
1946
Åsa-Hanna
9/1
Hanna lives in a small village in Småland together with her parents. She is the most beautiful girl around and has a lot of admirers.
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Åsa-Hanna
1939
Wanted
7/1
A woman sitting in a Stockholm cafe hears to her surprise on the radio that she is wanted by the police.
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Wanted
1942
Man glömmer ingenting
7/1
When Nora's father unexpectedly dies, she moves to her uncle Berthold and his wife Alice. Berthold is immediately attracted to the 19-year old girl, b...
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Man glömmer ingenting
1926
She Is the Only One
8/1
Love entanglements among the upper class of Paris. The young upper-class Parisian Valentin van Zanten has a luxurious lunch-density dinner with the fl...
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She Is the Only One
1961
Swedenhielms
7/2
Tv play based on Hjalmar Bergmans play Swedenhielms from 1923.
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Swedenhielms
1960
The Wedding Day
7/1
Anders and Sylvia are set to be married, but Sylvia says 'no' and runs away at the altar.
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The Wedding Day
1947
The People from Simlång Valley
10/1
Class struggle and love trouble in the woods between Halland and Småland.
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The People from Simlång Valley
1960
Good Friends and Faithful Neighbors
3.333/3
Hugo Frejer terrorizes his family and surroundings with his unhappy mood.
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Good Friends and Faithful Neighbors
1929
The Dream Waltz
9/1
This is the story of Olof Svensson who works as a streetcar conductor in Stockholm. In his free time he is a music composer.
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The Dream Waltz
1952
Hård klang
5.25/4
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
1950
The Pot Journey
10/1
Based on the novel by Edith Unnerstad about a man, Pip Larsson, who invents a new kind of pot which makes a sound when the stuff you are cooking is re...
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The Pot Journey
1932
Love and Deficit
10/1
Office clerk Margit suspects that the senior accountant is embezzling money from the company. Now the auditors are on their way to check the bookkeepi...
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Love and Deficit
1955
Giftas
8/1
The General's daughter, Helene, grows up in a safe world. She doesn't want to get married or have kids. She meets a man who talks about platonic love...
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Giftas
1926
The Tales of Ensign Stål
8/2
Based on the poems by finnish poet Johan Ludvig Runeberg, the movie centers on the Finnish War between Russia and Sweden in 1808.
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The Tales of Ensign Stål
1920
A Lover in Pawn
6.9/7
About loaner Master Samuel, based on a writings by Hjalmar Bergman
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A Lover in Pawn
1922
Love's Crucible
6.455/10
At the end of the middle ages, Ursula is accused of having poisoned her own husband. She claims she is innocent, but to prove it, she must submit to a...
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Love's Crucible
1956
Pettersson i Annorlunda
0/0
Swedish propaganda film for the Social Democrats.
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Pettersson i Annorlunda
1920
The Gyurkovics Boys
5/5
Mr. and Mrs. Gyurkovics have a dozen children the oldest of which, the twins Géza and Bandi, just preparing for their matriculation examination. When...
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The Gyurkovics Boys
1958
A Goat in the Garden
8/1
The wild Jon Esping bets that he will become a churchwarden. He, the upstart and the illiterate who can only write his name, a fox in business, a stud...
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A Goat in the Garden
1930
The Two of Us
8/1
Widower Robert Rossiter lives in New York with his two teenage children. When he visits a fashion house one day, he falls in love with the store clerk...
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The Two of Us
1925
Constable Paulus’ Easter Cracker
6.3/3
Anne Marie gets invited by her aunt to a hotel to to meet her admirers. Not to fulfill her aunt's wishes, but to verify who works at the hotel.
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Constable Paulus’ Easter Cracker
1924
Sten Stensson Stéen from Eslöv
10/1
When Sten, at a mature age, is to study for his preliminary degree at the University of Lund, he is given a place to stay with Mrs. Lindgren on Adelga...
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