Edvard Persson
Birth : 1888-01-17, Malmö, Skåne län, Sweden
Death : 1957-09-19
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.
Fridolf Rundquist
Teacher Rundqvist who works in a school in a small town in Scania is old fashioned but loved by his pupils. When a younger teacher with new ideas of teaching starts at the school Rundqvist's methods are questioned.
Nils ''Gammel-Nils'' Jeppsson
Gammel-Nils works as a guide at Glimmingehus and guides us through this movie about love and ghosts.
Silla-Sven
Set on the island of Ven in the 1920s, Ellen is engaged with Per the sailor and waits for him while he is away at sea. She works as a maid in a rich family where Robert, the black sheep of the family, tries to seduce her. This leads to a rumour she has been unfaithful to Per. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Calle Svensson
The sailor Calle Svensson gets a tip on a cheap hotel from a stranger. But Calle walks to the wrong house. And finds a dead man in the bed, stolen passports and signs of trafficking in a cupboard.
Jens Månsson
Jens Månsson has big financial problems and realizes that he probably has to leave his dear Skåne farm Gåsabo. But suddenly, he inherits a fortune from his brother John in America.
Karl-Magnus Berg
Kalle Magnus Berg is a kind bailiff in Gamla Stan (Old Town) in Stockholm. He helps out "clients" by supporting them with money from his own pocket. His neighbor is a jazz musician who plays at a restaurant for a living.
Sören Sörenson
Sören, a poor tailor with many children, dreams of becoming a miller and buys the windmill of the village with money he does not have.
Writer
Sören, a poor tailor with many children, dreams of becoming a miller and buys the windmill of the village with money he does not have.
Munthe
Munthe has become a rich farmer through his own work and has gained some influence in the local community. He is strongly opposed to the immigration of east European farm labour from Galicia who, he claims, makes life difficult for the locals. A new school teacher with socialist leanings arrive and Munthe's daughter fall in love with him. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Zakarias Bräsig
Greve Axel Von Rambow owns the Poppelhagen estate. One day an inspector comes to see him and a big quarrel starts.
Ararat
The film is about a group of artists in the Klara Quarter. Ararat, a poor painter in Stockholm, one day meet his ex-fiance Elisabeth who is now a rich widow.
Grimme-Jens
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.
Lasse Borg
Two sailors, Lasse and Karl Gustav, float ashore after a shipwreck. Visiting a castle a baron ask them to help him lay his hands on an inheritance by Karl Gustav posing as the heir of the castle.
Karl Anton Malm
Anton, a very shy bookkeeper, must show his mettle when him and his colleagues at work ask for a raise but instead are laid off.
Kalle Jeppsson
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.
Henrik Karlsson
Henrik Karlsson is accused of having stolen 5,000 SEK, even though he is innocent. But to protect the real thief, who is sick in hospital, Karlsson takes the full responsibility.
Edward Månsson
The plot revolves around Edvar Månsson, a farmer living in Skåne, Sweden.
Lars Blomquis, Florist
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".
Lasse Larsson
Young runaway aristocrat fall in love with blacksmith's daughter.
Edvard "Lasse" Larsson
About two girls sharing an apartment in the Old Town of Stockholm.
August Olsson
The little town Västerköping needs a new police man - but the only applicant is the small and tiny Fridolf. He gets the job but has to work with the big and strong police inspector Göransson. The town is visited by a crook who has specialized in stealing from local councils. Can this unusual pair stop him?
Napoleon "Nappe" Johansson
Writer
Lola Brio has a large number of professions. She is partly a revue primadonna and gramophone singer, but the nameplate on her door also reads "Lessons in French and Grace", which of the film's act to judge apparently means that she is partly a luxury prostitute and partly takes care of country girls to give them some posture of polish.
August Vredberg, Accountant
Lola Brio has a large number of professions. She is partly a revue primadonna and gramophone singer, but the nameplate on her door also reads "Lessons in French and Grace", which of the film's act to judge apparently means that she is partly a luxury prostitute and partly takes care of country girls to give them some posture of polish.
Smulle
Augusta (Dagmar Ebbesen) and her man receives a letter from the countryside one day therein her come-by-chance daughter Lisa announces her arrival to Stockholm. During the travel Lisa befriends Holger (Thor Modéen) whom makes her company to her mother and step father.
Young Gustaf Svensson has been warned by his father that he should stop chasing girls.
Lasse Larsson
About two neighboring houses on Södermalm in Stockholm and the people living in them.
Screenplay
The wealthy hat maker Cederström has two daughters, Marianne and Lotte. He has decided that Marianne should marry Melander even though she loves the poet Malm. Lotte on the other hand loves Melander.
Director
The wealthy hat maker Cederström has two daughters, Marianne and Lotte. He has decided that Marianne should marry Melander even though she loves the poet Malm. Lotte on the other hand loves Melander.
August Cederström
The wealthy hat maker Cederström has two daughters, Marianne and Lotte. He has decided that Marianne should marry Melander even though she loves the poet Malm. Lotte on the other hand loves Melander.
Screenplay
Another adventure with Kalle "Blixten" Svensson.
Director
Another adventure with Kalle "Blixten" Svensson.
Kalle "Blixten" Svensson
Another adventure with Kalle "Blixten" Svensson.
Screenplay
Millionaire for a Day was filmed during the summer of 1925 in Skåne, the southernmost province of Sweden. This Edvard Persson's third film became a flop in Stockholm, but was quite successful in many rural areas all over the country.
Kalle 'Blixten' Svensson
Millionaire for a Day was filmed during the summer of 1925 in Skåne, the southernmost province of Sweden. This Edvard Persson's third film became a flop in Stockholm, but was quite successful in many rural areas all over the country.
Director
Millionaire for a Day was filmed during the summer of 1925 in Skåne, the southernmost province of Sweden. This Edvard Persson's third film became a flop in Stockholm, but was quite successful in many rural areas all over the country.
Writer
Baron Brusenhielm at castle Tröstehult in Skåne dislikes how his young son Karl Oscar is playing “mother and father” with the tenant’s daughter Ann-Marie, as he anticipates the beginning of a future misalliance. Years pass, and Karl Oscar is about to graduate high school. He pretends to study church history but reads in fact “The Seducer’s Diary” and thinks of Ann-Marie, who is now grown up into a woman.
Tobias Bruce, tutor
Baron Brusenhielm at castle Tröstehult in Skåne dislikes how his young son Karl Oscar is playing “mother and father” with the tenant’s daughter Ann-Marie, as he anticipates the beginning of a future misalliance. Years pass, and Karl Oscar is about to graduate high school. He pretends to study church history but reads in fact “The Seducer’s Diary” and thinks of Ann-Marie, who is now grown up into a woman.
Director
Baron Brusenhielm at castle Tröstehult in Skåne dislikes how his young son Karl Oscar is playing “mother and father” with the tenant’s daughter Ann-Marie, as he anticipates the beginning of a future misalliance. Years pass, and Karl Oscar is about to graduate high school. He pretends to study church history but reads in fact “The Seducer’s Diary” and thinks of Ann-Marie, who is now grown up into a woman.