Folke Sundquist

A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 films.

Christer Berg dies in a car crash and is found with a teddy bear named "Bamse". His son, also named Christer finds out that Bamse belongs to his father's lover Barbro Persson. He tries to humiliate her, introducing her to his mother as his new fiancée. But he ends up falling in love with her, and she sees in him the memories of her dead lover. When she finds herself pregnant, they have to decide about their love affair.

En una isla viven los Borg: Johan, que es pintor, y su mujer Alma. Sus vecinos, los siniestros Von Merken, poseen un círculo de amistades tan escalofriante que Johan comienza a obsesionarse con la idea de que los demonios lo acechan...

A knight returning home with his squire Jons after a ten-year crusade to the Holy Land finds a country paralyzed by the Black Death, a newly burned witch, a blacksmith and his runaway wife, an actress, a Virgin Mary with her child and the knight's faithful wife. All approaches the realm of the dead in a single "tragicomic long dance of death". The narrator begins with: "In a church in southern Småland is our spectacle painted on the wall just to the right of the entrance to the porch. The unknown painter has on the church wall depicted a number of people in formal long dance toward death."

Someone is murdered. Who is the killer? Members of all star cast are all suspects...

A relay race of "scenes from human life". Depicts the human characters inferior traits are spreading like a disease: the person who gets rejected / humiliated / oppressed takes it out on someone else.

A young beautiful man from Milan arrives at the carnival in Venice. He meets two flirtatious women.

A student and his love for a young woman, misunderstood by her father.

El profesor Borg, un eminente físico, debe ir a Estocolmo para recibir un homenaje de su universidad. Sobrecogido, tras un sueño en el que contempla su propio cadáver, decide emprender el viaje en coche con su nuera, que acaba de abandonar su casa, tras una discusión con su marido, que se niega a tener hijos. Durante el viaje se detiene en la casa donde pasaba las vacaciones cuando era niño, un lugar donde crecen las fresas salvajes y donde vivió su primer amor.

Per is in love with Kerstin. They are high school classmates. In the distance they see teacher Eva Hallström, ph. d. and the headmaster's wife, return home to her home. She is currently a major topic of conversation because she has just published an acclaimed collection of love poems. Everyone is curious about who the young lover of the poems might be.

A coming of age story about young Salka Valka who lives in the small fishing village of Íseyri. She is doing well for herself as a partner in a small fishing boat, but people believe she is financed by her deceased mother's former fiance, Steinthór, who disappeared on their wedding day many years ago. Salka becomes infatuated with the idealistic Arnaldur who wants to start a workers union, much to the opposition of local entrepreneur Bogesen. The past comes to haunt her in the return of Steinthór but Salka fends off his advances only to lose the restless Arnaldur away. http://www.icelandicfilmcentre.is

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.

Four Swedish volunteer soldiers are trapped in Russia. In front of them lies the front with enemy outposts and patrols, behind them the enemy minefields. Hope to return to their own lines decreases each day. Corpses of fallen, "dead of cold and hard as iron", forms the macabre landmarks in the winter landscape. Nearby is a burnt Russian village.

For the Sake of My Intemperate Youth (Swedish: För min heta ungdoms skull) is a 1952 Swedish drama film directed by Arne Mattsson. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.

El joven graduado de secundaria Göran y el joven de 17 años Kerstin se conocen en la finca del tío Persson de Göran y se enamoran. Pero su relación es observada sospechosamente por el mundo adulto atascado. Si bien Persson entiende a los jóvenes, los padres de Kerstin y el pastor de la aldea protestan contra la supuesta inmoralidad de los jóvenes. A pesar de toda la malicia, Göran y Kerstin deciden por su amor. Pero este amor debería durar sólo un verano.