Gösta Prüzelius

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

Año 1909. En el transcurso de una huelga general, Henrik, un humilde estudiante de Teología, conoce a una chica de una familia de clase alta a la que todos adoran, sobre todo su padre. Entre ellos nacerá, a pesar de la oposición familiar, una larga historia de amor que encarna la lucha contra el rígido sistema de clases dominante. Se basa en la historia de los padres de Bergman.

The story of the charlatan Gustaf Raskenstam life and times during World War II, who for financial gain seduced a large number of women.

Fanny y Alexander son dos hermanos que pertenecen a la pintoresca familia Ekdahl, a principios de siglo XX. Sus padres, Oscar y Emilie, son el director y la actriz principal de la compañía local de teatro, respectivamente. Tras la repentina muerte de Oscar, Emilie se vuelve a casar con un predicador autoritario que les obliga a mantener una vida ascética. "Fanny y Alexander" fue mimada por la crítica y consiguió cuatro Oscars en la edición de 1984: dirección artística, fotografía, vestuario y película de habla no inglesa.

The women of Athens plotting to end the war with Sparta by refusing to have sex until there is peace.

"A Dream Play" - Agnes, a daughter of the Vedic god Indra, descends to Earth to bear witness to problems of human beings. She meets about 40 symbolical characters.

1830 Värmland, Sweden. Master Karl Arthur Ekenstedt comes to aid the Minister at Crosss Church. He falls in love with Charlotte Löwensköld, housekeeper in the rectory. They get engaged. Charlotte is full of life, energetic and practical. Karl Arthur struggle with his faith and God.

When private 91 "Mandel" Karlsson is appointed General due to a computer error, he tricks a foreign military attaché into believing that the Swedish defense has a new weapon that turns male soldiers into women.

Conventions of civility among family members are severely strained by the very real breakup of the bonds between them. During a few days at a vacation home, Katha, a woman in late middle age, tries to cope with an influx of discontented, disconnected relatives. Her divorced daughter brings all sorts of people to the house, including a woman-friend accompanied by her psychotic son; the grandfather of the house is convinced he is dying and is satisfied by nothing; and some friends drop off their angry teenage son to stay with her, while they go on a long trip abroad. Her friend Emma doesn't help much with keeping a lid on things, as she is a social worker who is fascinated by the awfulness of these situations.

Adaptación televisiva de la famosa ópera de W. A. Mozart. El príncipe Tamino se ha enamorado de la princesa Pamina, pero ésta ha sido secuestrada por Sarastro. La madre de la princesa, la Reina de la Noche, lo incita a rescatarla, prometiéndole que si lo consigue podrá casarse con ella.

En Estocolmo, Fanny Hill está cansada de ser ama de casa, y ella sospecha que su esposo Roger, un director de televisión comercial que está rodeado de estrellas, la engaña. Entonces, ella le pone una trampa a él con su amiga Mónica, solicita el divorcio, y se dirige a Hollywood, con Mónica, para encontrarse con las estrellas de cine. Roger la sigue, celoso, esperando recuperarla.

Helge, a factory worker, awakens to life after he almost loses his arm in a machine. His happiness at not losing his arm has him see the world in a new way. He takes a vacation, where he sees Klara, a beautiful girl. He decides to spend the rest of the vacation searching for her.

A priest, Sven, and his wife Anna live in a lonely vicarage in northern Sweden. Anna has been suffering from nervous trouble. With them lives her "self-sacrificing" friend Hedvig. Hedvig is a complicated character. At first sight she exposes dark sides. She has sworn her self to the devil, by carving a bloody cross onto her body. Hedvig is successfully performing a lot of sorceries, several of them with a strong erotic meaning Thus she sneaks naked to the priest's bed during night. Leaning over him she kisses his body. Sven is moving uneasily in his sleep but does not wake up. Carefully she sits astride him. There is a night of lust. Anna fins herself soon entangled in a net of wickedness.

To increase sales of the magazine Veckohatten, the management decides to invest heavily in the beauty contest Miss Sweden. A communist cell is planning to sabotage the competition, because it is sexist.

The classic tale of a young woman's erotic awakening is transplanted to swinging '60s Stockholm...

Huyendo de la guerra civil que asola su país, Jan y Eva Rosenberg, dos músicos, se van a vivir a una isla, completamente apartados del mundo. Llevan una vida sencilla y apacible, preocupados únicamente por la música. Hasta que un día llegan unos soldados y todo cambia radicalmente. La pareja es arrestada bajo la acusación de colaborar con las fuerzas rebeldes. Al frente de la unidad militar que tiene la misión de defender la isla está el coronel Jacobi, un antiguo amigo de Jan y Eva. Pero esto no hará más que empeorar la situación. Con ciega brutalidad, la guerra sigue su curso con su cortejo de incendios de napalm, de sumarias ejecuciones, de redadas, de torturas.

Rikard Adamsson, a young man dreaming of becoming a writer, lives a wild and dissolute bohemian life. A ferocious fighter with a heart of gold and a great taste for women. In the military service he gets in trouble, runs away, returns and is sentenced to prison. Inside he finishes his first novel. However, no publisher is interested.

A collection of classic scenes from the Åsa-Nisse movies.

"Hello Happy Summer!!!" - Valle and Bror are two fishermen brothers who lives in the remote archipelago. One day Valles wife receives a big inheritance from a distant relative and their lives takes a new turn.

El pretencioso crítico Cornelius está escribiendo una biografía sobre un famoso violonchelista y para investigar un poco va a quedarse en su casa unos días. No consigue una entrevista con el hombre, pero al hablar con todas las mujeres que viven con él, aprende mucho sobre la vida privada del músico. Cornelius luego decide usar esta información e intenta chantajear al violonchelista para que interprete una composición que él, Cornelius, ha escrito. Escrito por Leon Wolters

A newspaper misprints Pontus Blom's (Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt) yearly income as being much more than it is; this leads to various comical situations of exceeding hilarity.

Country bailiff believes that a man of the people shall exercise police work. Åsa-Nisse appointed to the local police for some time. "Nesses" sometimes odd methods will still work somehow. Åsa-Nisse and Klabbarparn then visit Gothenburg to see the singer Gun from Knohult at Liseberg. There they also take a tour of the roller-coaster.

Rich socialite must deny persistent rumours that she has an affair with a poor author.

Selma and her friend Agatha are watching a movie on TV. Agatha starts to talk about older men and their dangerous age, but Selma can't image that her husband Fridolf is among those.

After a herd of reindeer are mysteriously found dead following a meteor crash in a remote part of Lapland in northern Sweden, soldiers and a geologist are called out to investigate.

After a series of bad card game experiences Carl Gustafsson and Arne Arnesson are forced to run away. A while later they are on a boat to America.

An agent on the brink of bankruptcy finds a reluctant singing talent on a TV quiz show.

In Gothenburg. Louise is out walking at night - and witness an assault. She knows the attackers well. It is her sister Berit with boyfriend Ernie. Louise is told to be quiet of what she has seen. She moves to Stockholm.

The banker Marcus falls in love with the young ballet-dancer Maj who works at the opera. To meet her he takes a job there but Maj is in love with Osvald Berg, the big star of the opera. To wake Osvald's interest for her she asks Marcus if he could play deeply in love with her. Plot summary by nL.

Sixteen year old Maria arrives in Stockholm. She is going to stay with her aunt. Already at the Central station events occur that change her route.

Åsa-Nisse gets a chance to win 10.000 SEK in the biggest game show on Swedish TV.

Privates 91 and 87 are ordered to carry a tube of explosive chemicals to a military depot, while prize fighter Ingemar Johansson tries to teach them how to throw a punch.

A secretary at a publishing company, Birgitta, writes a novel, based on her secret love of her boss. She sends it anonymously to her own company, who decides to publish it. The book becomes a success. Birgitta's husband's mistress get hold of the script and confesses that *she* wrote the novel. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

Suecia, mediados del siglo XIV. La Peste Negra asola Europa. Tras diez años de inútiles combates en las Cruzadas, el caballero sueco Antonius Blovk y su leal escudero regresan de Tierra Santa. Blovk es un hombre atormentado y lleno de dudas. En el camino se encuentra con la Muerte que lo reclama. Entonces él le propone jugar una partida de ajedrez, con la esperanza de obtener de Ella respuestas a las grandes cuestiones de la vida: la muerte y la existencia de Dios.

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.

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

Fransiska is visited by a social worker when she's in the custody. She tells him her lives story, about her mother who was an alcoholic, her father a night watchman and how she and her five year old little sister was left. Her boyfriend was unemployed and needed money and to help him she stole money.

Priests who call sex education the devil's invention rage against the progressive doctor whose bigoted wife may regret when his teenage daughter comes home and wants an abortion. The subject of Mimi Pollack's only feature film was controversial. The model for Doctor Borg was the well-known Katrineholms lecturer Torsten Wickbom, who advocated modern sexual education in the school and family.

Young Lo (Marianne Bengtsson) lives in a boring small town. Locally she is known as somewhat of a fabulist. One day an airplane crashes just out of town. And the town goes crazy with excitement. Later, while hoping to catch a peak of the crashed plane, Lo sees a mysterious man (Günther Hüttmann) land out in the woods by parachute. She tries to tell the rest of town. But naturally nobody will believe her. Thus she is going to have to learn more about the stranger from the sky by herself in this immeasurably startling mammoth among thrillers!

El abogado Fredrik Egerman (Gunnar Björnstrand) es un hombre maduro que vive una relación platónica con Anne (Ulla Jacobsson), su joven y virginal esposa. Henrik, hijo de un matrimonio anterior, persigue a Petra (Harriet Andersson), la doncella de la familia. Una actriz llamada Desiree (Eva Dahlbeck), antigua amante de Fredrik, está en la ciudad y él la visita, pero ahora ella tiene un nuevo amante, el Conde Malcom, casado con Charlotte. Todos estan invitados a una fiesta durante un fin de semana en la propiedad de la madre de Desiree. Charlotte intenta seducir a Fredrik para vengarse de Desiree. Mientras tanto, Anne, la casta esposa de Fredrik, se da cuenta de lo mucho que le atrae su hijastro.

It is 1940. A young man is facing court martial on charges of conscientious objection. He admits the crime. The prosecutor demands a most severe punishment. While waiting for the verdict, the young man think back of his past. How could this happen?

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 and becomes an unbeatable athlete.

A comedy mystery involving the composer and cartoonist Hubert Yrhage, the journalist Gary Lundberg, anticartoon campaigner Lena Lett, the mysterious Jens Myskovich and music publisher Darling Karlsson. Yrhage receives his manuscripts from an 11 year-old whose inspiration comes from the mysterious events at a boarding house where several of the characters stay.

Love, jealousy, music and drugs in violent wild youth thriller. Takes place at the legendary dance-hall Nalen in Stockholm.

Three Scottish noblemen escape from Gripsholm Castle and breaks in to the home of Lord Arne. They kill everyone except for Lord Arne's adopted daughter Elsalill.

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 war is imminent. At F8 - Air Fore Base, the yellow squadron stand ready with its J29 fighters.

El ginecólogo David Erneman y su mujer Marianne llevan quince años casados. Un verano, David tiene una aventura. Marianne, desesperada, huye de Copenhague para reanudar la relación con su ex-novio, Carl Adam. David, celoso y hastiado de su amante, sólo desea una cosa: reconquistar a su esposa. Los dos vuelven a reencontrarse en el tren que va hacia Copenhague y rememoran las escenas de su vida en común.

The story about Gustaf Dalén, the farm boy who became one of Sweden's greatest inventors.

A director has designed a burglar-proof safe that no one can open.

Monika trabaja en un mercado de verduras. Harry, un joven de 19 años, vive al lado. Un día van al cine y pasan la noche juntos en la barca del padre de Harry. Al día siguiente Harry es despedido. Los dos deciden dejar Estocolmo. Al principio las cosas son idílicas: toman el sol desnudos, beben, van a bailar pero Monika se queda embarazada. Se quedan sin comida y empiezan a robar en cabañas cercanas. Monika es arrestada pero logra escapar. Y ambos deciden volver a la ciudad.

American businessman Chris Johnson spent WW2 in Sweden and fell in love with a nurse, Karin Engström. He lost contact with her after war and now, seven years later, he returns to Sweden on a business trip, trying to find her again.

Intrigues and entanglements before Prince Paris wins the heart of beautiful Helena. It all happens in the small kingdom of Arcadia at the time of the Trojan War. Swedish version of Jacques Offenbach's operetta of the classic Greek myth.

In the early 1950s Ingmar Bergman made a series of imaginative commercials for the soap brand "Bris".

Biffen and Bananen are two ex bicycle racers who works in the bicycle factory Standard. Biffen is a meat eater, Bananen a vegetarian and they are in constant quarrel.

The year is 1946. Dr. Bertil Burman works at a Red Cross Hospital in Vienna. One day, a barely teenage girl, Leni Rosner, collapses at his reception.

Spoiled upper class girl must change places with a housemaid.

Maggi se encuentra con David después de haber perdido su tren, y pasan la noche juntos. Sin dinero, los jóvenes amantes entran en una cabaña de verano. El propietario, Håkansson, les ofrece alquilarlo, pero tiene un motivo oculto. Al vivir juntos, tienen que enfrentar su pasado y tratar con los vecinos y autoridades entrometidos.

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 Christina Larsson.