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 history with many of its stars.
A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 films.
Faster Agda
Farce with ghost hunting.
portvaktstanten
A comedy about the young notary Thore, who mistakenly opens a private letter to his boss, lawyer Larsson. The letter says that a certain Eva Larsson will inherit a piece of land in Guatemala, containing large oil deposits. A baby photo of Eva has been included for identification, and when Thore is fired for his mistake he happens to bring the photo with him.
Countess Katarina af Silfverbåge
Tiburtius "Tibbe" Pettersson is a poor photographer in Stockholm's Old Town. He has a fiancee, Maja Sjöblom, who is a waitress. Tibbe has begun to doubt that they will ever be able to afford to marry.
Clara
A spy is sent to the military service to monitor the soldiers.
Plåt-Jullan
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 reporters, and spies disguised as cows...
A collection of classic scenes from the Åsa-Nisse movies.
Miss Andersson
Merchant Valentin Skog runs the small town's grocery shop and folk park with little revenue but a lot of heart. But the no-good profiteers brothers Grym has their eyes on his business, and will use any means. The dirtier the better! But they haven't counted on "The Doll"- a fresh breeze from the big city - or rather storm wind - who blows life in the struggle against the crooks.
Julia
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 demonstrates the "Demon-Spritzer", a self-made cement machine which then breaks down and squirts down Klabbarparn with cement. Sjökvist is robbed and bike down with his delivery-bicycle in water at a beach. The robbers then repents and wants to return the money. Features performances from artists Sten & Stanley, The Moonlighters, and Shane.
Old lady
The family of an old, loathed millionaire named Verner Vade are sick of his dictatorship, and are just waiting for him to fall over and die. When he is attacked one night and disappears, a nosey cops start to investigate. A few days later Verner comes home again, wounded, and is back to his old, angry routines. And the family have had enough.
Great-Grandmother
The unemployed Timjan discover Mejram singing and instantly fall in love with her.
Beda
Farm girl Kerstin is the most popular girl in the village and the men are swarming around her. This results in jealousy, and the electrician Tage causes a fire on the farm, resulting in economic trouble for Kerstin's father. Suddenly grandfather's rich brother Arvid appears from America. Will he be able to solve the family's problems?
Camillas dresser
Someone is murdered. Who is the killer? Members of all star cast are all suspects...
Ottilia Svensson
There is a barn dance in the village Stubbhult. Johan Snippen and his friend the stationmaster Mandus plays happily, when a fight is about to break out.
Staffan Stolle becomes the sole heir to a rich and noble family when he is just a little boy. Early on he is engaged to be married to a girl he finds he does not love. Instead he flees the country only to return under a false name, looking for true love.
Klöverhage's aunt
Åsa-Nisse and Klabbarparn are winter fishing.
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 the money.
Gus and Holger, two students in Uppsala, have problems with the rent. They are waiting for money from their uncle, but instead of money they are reached by the news that he has gone bankrupt.
Klöverhage's faster
Åsa-Nisse is visited by cousin Doris from the United States. Nisse, Klabbarparn and Doris will travel to Stockholm, but Nisse and Klabbarparn lose track of Doris, who get into a hands of a Casanova. Nisse and Klabbarparn instead ends up at the Nordic Museum, where Åsa-Nisse turns out to have unexpected qualities in the art of imitating a mannequin. After that they had found each other is Doris robbed and it leads to a wild brawl that it sparkles and sputters on.
Maja
A jaded prima ballerina reminisces about her first love affair after she is unexpectedly sent her lover's old diary.
M.C.
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 is in a disarray but the Society for Ancient Film Research compiles the material after what is believed to have been the master's artistic intentions
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 ready. As he can't pay the bills he and his family get evicted but luckely they have a couple of carriages they can live in and travel round the country, selling the new kind of pots Pip Larsson has invented.
Barbara Nilsson
Handyman "Inventive Johansson" from the popular swedish comics is now live in his own movie and can handle an oil can and a screwdriver as inventive as brushes and eggs.
Jenny Tegenstedt
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.
Euphemia Olsson
Fabian Bom, auctionist in a small town, one day finds a baby boy in a small crib that is for sale at an auction. He places the boy at an orphanage but returns the next day since he realizes that he misses the boy. Since a single man is not permitted to adopt a baby he arranges a marriage with a young woman, who really is the baby's mother. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Skollärarinnan
In a small town lies Villa Villerkulla, and in that villa a small girl, Pippi Longstocking, has moved in with her horse and monkey.
Mrs Andersson
it's the 1840s and a rural parish plagued by drinking and fighting gets a new vicar who has decided to instill law, order and fear of God into the parishioners.
Mrs. Fridh, mother-in-law
Kronblom wins a little pig in a lottery and starts to build a sty for his new friend.
Countess Katarina af Silfverbåge
The poor photographer Tibbe turns out to be the heir of the recently deceased count Silfverbaage. But he can only get the money on one condition: he must stop seeing his old friends, including his fiancée Maja. A film version of "Me and my gal" staged in the Old Town of Stockholm.
Heliga Birgitta
A young prostitute, Gullan Svan, is murdered one night. The police suspects that the murderer is a student, since she had a lot of students as customers. The murderer stole a picture of Gullan after he killed her, a picture which later is found in a rented tuxedo when the tuxedo is returned. Four students decide to solve the case, but it seems that the truth is even closer than they first suspected... Plot by Mattias Thuresson
Mrs Blomqvist, landlady
Britt Malm gets hit by a car on a Stockholm street and is taken to hospital. She is badly injured and must undergo surgery. While the anesthetic takes effect she sees hallucinatory images. This turns into a flashback of what happened Britt before the accident.
Carolina Hård
The station-master Fabian Bom is a very meticulous person, and he makes sure that the trains leaves exactly - on the second. To him, nothing could be more important than duty, efficiency and punctuality, in fact, his sense of duty is clearly perverted. His beloved Plum-Plum, the major's daughter, is infatuated with army officers. To regain her attention, he joins the infantry. Bom becomes a soldier who loves the military training, long marches as well as hard labour as punishment. He meets Agnes, who falls madly in love with him. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Mrs. Råkberg
The waitress Monica goes to Västerköping to find out who actually was her father. By aunt Margareta, she has been told that her mother, who died at birth, had four admirers.
Majoress Rosa Morgonkrök
Private number 91 gets into more hijinks in this hilarious sequel.
Berta
It's Christmas. The owner of an old mansion decides to tell his family he's going to sell it. The following morning he's found murdered.
Fru Frid
A couple of thieves are terrorizing the village of Vinkelboda, and Kronblom becomes a suspect and must clear his name. Based on the popular Swedish comic strip Kronblom, about the laziest man in town.
Anna
It is a great day for Albert and Yvonne. They will finally get divorced. Together with their lawyers they celebrate their new happy lives without each other, and all the fighting.
Mrs. Ledin
Maggi meets David after having missed her train, and they spend the night together. Penniless, the young lovers break into a summer cottage. The owner, Håkansson, offers to rent it to them, but he has an ulterior motive. By living together, they have to face their pasts and deal with the meddling neighbors and authorities.
Agency superintendent
The maid quits at the Sommer family household and because no one in the family can cook they desperately needs a new maid. The son in the family, Åke, is a famous actor at the theater and when the up and coming actress Marianne (who also has a crush on the famous Åke) hears about the Sommers needing a new maid, she seizes the opportunity and goes undercover as a maid to get closer to Åke and the big roles in the theater.
Mother
Ada
The landlady
Karin Larsson and Douglas Hallencreutz has a somewhat peculiar relationship. They meet every Wednesday at Douglas. Karin is Douglas "Wednesday's friend." Otherwise, they live completely separate lives. This Wednesday they wake up together. Karin showers and leave Douglas fancy apartment at Strandvägen, Stockholm. She lives with her father, former captain Larsson. When Karin come home, Baltzar is at the door. Baltzar is a typical "guy" full of ideas, not always successful. It also turns out that Baltzar had a relationship with one of Karin's sisters.
Mayor's wife
A small-town piano teacher is shocked by the arrival of her foster daughter's real mother, whose young lover soon follows and causes further disruption.
Ms. Fahlén
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 female, so he creates the character Märta Letterström and joins the trio at a small-town hotel. But being a woman is not as easy as you think.
Helena Vestman
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.
Alma
A self centered author are having a word feud in a news paper column with a journalist called Sussie. The author has just divorced and now need a new house keeper. Sussie sees her chance to go undercover and takes the job with the intent to dig up some dirt. However, love intervenes.
Agneta Hermansson
The chamberlain Carl Johan Stjärna is a poor aristocrat who has to resort to borrowing money from his manservant Frans to afford champagne and restaurant visits. Frans has told his fiance Irene that he is an aristocrat which leads to some complications, not least because Irene has told Frans she is a rich land owner's daughter, although she is in a housemaid.
Hulda
The ups and downs of three generations in an acting family.
Madame Winter
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 due to the rules of society.
Gammel-Kersti
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.
Hulda
The spoiled Marianne has switched cocktail parties to flight lessons.
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.
Fru Karlsson, portvaktsfru
Ulla thinks her husband Billy is boring and starts dating other men. Lillans husband Peter is having important meetings, including girls. Billy and Lillan decides to pretend to be in love, to rouse jealousy of Ulla and Peter.
Woman at the dance
Albert Engström's anecdotes of Småland have been put together to make a comedy film about Johannes and Cornelius, two smallholding farmers and best friends.
Mrs. Karlsson
Short comedy about an author named Viktor Mattson (Nils Poppe) whose publisher tells him that his latest book is bad. To make money, Mattson becomes a door salesman for the publisher and goes to Nyköping to sell books. After a few ifs and buts, Mattson meets Ingrid Bergsjö (Britta Brunius) whom he falls in love with.
Kvinna i kyrkan
Proud Katrina falls in love with Johan, who's a sailor, and follows him home to the island of Åland. She has been promised a paradise with blooming apple trees but are greeted by poverty and hard work.
Cook
A waitress finds out that her fourteen year old brother is a member of a youth gang doing burglaries in kiosks. Valdemar Jansson escapes prison and seeks out his fiancee Karin, but she does not want to know about him. She studies at the Social Institute and provides herself as a waitress in a cafe. She lives with her grandmother and her younger brother Benke. One day she discovers that Benke belongs to a boy, who makes minor burglaries in newspaper kiosks.
Jullan
Erik Brenner is crazy about football and his girlfriend Britta. She tries to make him concentrate on his studies, but that's easier said than done.
Ordförande för kvinnofridsföreningen
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.
Hanna
The stern, but kind-hearted, Kristiana from the country takes place as a maid with the Larsson family in Stockholm, previously (in)famous for its rapid turnover of housemaids.
Mrs. Nilsson
The wealthy Rudolf Trane helps the unsuccessful vacuum-cleaner salesman Rhuter to find a girl called Marianne. Trane, Rhuter and Trane's manservant John pretend to be waiters when Marianne's family is having a large dinner.
Mrs. Hagman
Wholesaler Ferdinand wants his son to marry his firm partner's daughter, but the problem is they don't want to get married. The son turns to a friend for advice. It turns out that Ferdinand had a daughter from a previous marriage he didn't know nothing about, which leads to further confusion
Woman at the castle
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.
Mammy
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 permission. A stranded woman seize the chance to get home to Sweden.
Ms Jonsson
Old fashioned teachers are taught swing dancing by a student.
Agda Holmblom
Baron Leijoncloo comes back to Sweden after many years in Argentina. On his way to his good friend Victor Sällberg's home, he loses his luggage. A con artist, Jönsson, finds it, and uses the baron's title to get invited to the manor of Mr. and Mrs. Blomqvist. By a coincidence, the baron also comes to the manor using a fake name. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Augusta Ljunggren
Spoiled upperclass girl Marianne speeds through a small village and crashes her sportscar into the house of the local vicar. Opposites attract but what will the locals think?
Kristin
Bertil Dahl deals with bonds at a bank. He dislikes that his colleagues are lying to customers to sell more bonds and pledges to tell the truth for 24 hours. But the social life is smoothed by using white lies and Bertil's truth-telling is making everybody upset. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Ida Berggren
Wholesaler Berggren's daughter Elin travels to Örebro to spend her honeymoon with her husband Efraim. They get separate rooms on the hotel and later that night she finds another woman in her husband's bed. She goes back home immediately. Elin's sister Irma is courted by the handsome Klas, but he seems to be unable to forget his last fiancée. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
"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.
Elvira Pettersson
Paradiset is a boarding house in the archipelago of Stockholm, run by the strict Elvira Pettersson, and with a large variety of guests. Her maid Lotta quits her job but when she leaves she accidentally forgets to turn off the iron. However, her brother Julle sneaks back one night to turn it off. When he is discovered, he tries to make them believe that he is the great Argentine opera singer Don Carlos they have been waiting for
Miss Pallander
Young Göran Hilding gamble and loses money he does not have. He'll have to pledge his 50 shares in a publishing company.
Mrs. Karlsson, Landlady
A rampant musical comedy drama about petty crimes, a seven year old boy and lots of rumble. A Swedish version of the play "Bouleboule gewinnt".
Åke is employed as a singer in a revue tour and his uncle Karlsson becomes the tour bus driver.
Vackra Olga
Gustav lives in Värnamo. He constructs a new boat engine, but needs time to complete it. The work has been financed by factory director "Hatt-Johan" Johansson who would like to sell the invention. Gustav's father returns from the United States and everyone thinks he's become a millionaire.
Klara Edlund (as Julia Caesar)
A police inspector tracks a notorious jewel thief, 'Diamond-Lasse,' to a hotel filled with eccentrics.
Änkefru Ewa (Amalia) Roos på Pensionat Paradiset i Backabo
Simon lives a quiet life on his farm until one day he discovers he is the heir of a great fortune.
Amalia
Orphan Didi is raised by her aunts and in love with her ward, the surgeon Dr. Gunnar Green. He is more interested in the stars of the theatre so Didi decides to fight for him.
Lövdalskan
Gossiping Lady
The story revolves around a collective of variety artists. A stolen safety deposit box theft gets all in toruble.
Gunnar Gawell is masonry 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 Rask, widow
The labor movement's emerging in Sweden. Welfare evolving. A young couple rents a modern apartment.
Based on a Finnish poem, The Kingdom of Rye is a gorgeous romantic drama set in rural northern Sweden during the harvest. It features a young couple whose love affair is fraught with Hardy-esque complications and an unhappily married wife of the landowner.
wife of statare
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.
Woman at funeral
Three boys steal a sailboat and sail away for a summer adventure on Lake Mälaren. Based on Sigfrid Siwertz's novel.
Woman outside church
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 ritual: trial by fire, walking on fire along a path leading directly to a crucifix. A film that has been much commended for the visual creativity shown by the director in successive blending in of images involving Ursula, her husband, the Virgin Mary, and Jesus Christ. Much applauded, also: the performance of Jenny Hasselqvist, thus described by French director René Clair: “We shall never forget her flaming eyes, the severity of her spirit, her abrupt and alarmed expressions, like an animal under threat.”
(uncredited)
It's New Year's Eve. Three drunkards evoke a legend. The legend tells that the last person to die in a year, if he is a great sinner, will have to drive during the whole year the Phantom Chariot, that picks up the souls of the dead.
