Ulf Palme

Helmut Doork is a washed-up German circus clown during the beginning of World War II and the Holocaust. Although he was once a famous performer who toured North America and Europe with the Ringling Brothers, Doork is now past his prime and receives little respect. After Doork causes an accident during a show, the head clown convinces the circus owner to demote Doork. Upon returning home, Doork confides his problems to his wife Ada, and she encourages him to stand up for himself. After going back to the circus, Helmut overhears the circus owner agreeing to fire him after the head clown issues an ultimatum. A distraught Helmut is arrested later by the Gestapo and the Schutzstaffel for drunkenly mocking Adolf Hitler in a bar. Following an interrogation at the Gestapo headquarters, he is imprisoned in a Nazi camp for political prisoners. For the next three to four years, he remains there while hoping for a trial and a chance to plead his case.

A Professor comes home carrying a paper bag with food. Among the goods in the bag is apricot jam. His wife reacts strongly, since they always have eaten orange marmalade. The Professor leaves his house and checks into a hotel.

A lonely teacher muddles through a midlife crisis as he navigates romantic relationships and tries his hand at composing experimental music.

This historical drama is based on a play by Henrik Ibsen and set in the year 1528. The central figure in the low-keyed story is a Norwegian noblewoman who is seeking to bring independence to that country despite the involved political intrigues of the Swedes and Danes, who are using Norway as a pawn in their rivalries.

A young woman dies from a drug overdose, and her brother and his friend try to find out who supplied her with the narcotics. Soon, they're chased all over Stockholm by the cruel but suave ring leader Harry and his thugs. Among the wildness is a fight in a brothel filled with naked girls, and when Servus, one of the thugs, fails to kill our heroes, Harry has his men kill Servus with a razor blade equipped glove. Oh, and the heroine is raped by a guy sucking on a comforter

On his death-bed, Per Henrik Pistolekors must promise his father two things: first of all to kill king Gustav III, which his father hates. Second, to take his half-sister Annarella to Stockholm to find her a rich and noble husband.

A little rogue piece about the paths of fate.

Somewhere in the archipelago outside Sandhamn lives the barber Assar Gustafsson and his 17-year old daughter Anna-Bella...

A theater company rehearses Aristophanes play "Lysistrata" in which the Athenian women revolt to force the men to suspend the war and make peace. The three leading female actresses, Liz, Marianne and Gunilla, all live in humiliating circumstances to their men.

Doctor Glas finds himself attracted to a young woman, married to a corrupt clergyman. She's miserable in her marriage, so he agrees to help in anyway he can. But he is quickly torn between passion and morality.

Noomi is a refugee with traumatic memories, a stranger, afraid of contacts. Leo is a bourgeois man who is considering building a villa. Married with two children. Magnus is an artist, dreams of women. He associates with Noomi. Noomi is now meeting Leo.

Adaptación de la novela de Eyvind Johnson que traza una historia de la Suecia rural a partir del año 1914, a través de un chico que deja la escuela para trabajar en los más diversos oficios.

In this absurdist comedy Roland Jung is a young man who wants to write, but when he is in desperate need of money, he has to take a job at an advertising agency in Stockholm. He lands on the department for cosmetics and especially deodorant preparations. He is asked by the agency to do market research among the youth to determine their reaction to a new drug against pimples.

Amedeo Ferretti es un comerciante de pieles de 40 años, casado. Nunca ha engañado a su mujer y, como buen italiano, se avergüenza por ello. Está de camino a Estocolmo, capital de un país que ha perdido la fe y cuyas mujeres tienen una forma de vida muy diferente a la de las italianas. Amedeo cree que ésta es su oportunidad para tener una aventurilla... (FILMAFFINITY)

An escaped convict assumes the identity of a professor in order to reveal a criminal syndicate who smuggle diamonds together with Parisian haute couture.

Alemania, II Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Eric Erickson, un importador de petróleo sueco, pero oriundo de los Estados Unidos, es contratado por el servicio secreto británico para espiar refinerías y otras instalaciones nazis. Debido a su actitud colaboracionista va perdiendo a todos sus amigos, pero obtiene una información muy valiosa de las fábricas alemanas. En cualquier caso su misión es muy peligrosa y tendrá que huir antes de ser descubierto.

Un viaje te puede cambiar la vida. Lo descubren Krister y su prometida Brita cuando, tras una temporada de ausencia, descubren que los agujeros legales podrían dejar a Krister sin su herencia paterna.

Marianne is unhappily married with the rich Arvid Croneman. Arvid has been ill for some time and Marianne has been looking forward to his passing away. However, Arvid recovers. Marianne has had an affair with Lennart Hägg, her husband's doctor. She steals poison from his office and makes sure that her husband gets a poisonous injection that swiftly kills him. After his burial, Arvid's relatives, who lives in the house, treats her with suspicion. Has she really gotten rid of all the evidence?

Elin Tarp is an unmarried mother with three children who lives a hard life in the countryside.

Brulard, a French civil engineer on assignment in a remote Swedish village, meets Ina, who has been raised in forested isolation by her haggish mother and believes herself to be a witch. He falls in love with her and tries to convert her to civilization; but in the meantime, his female boss, Kristina, has fallen in love with him, while the villagers turn against him for consorting with someone they believe is cursed by the Devil.

Susanne es dueña de una agencia de modelos en Estocolmo. Doris, su modelo más popular, tiene una discusión con su novio, Palle, justo antes de que ella vaya con Susanne a Gotemburgo para ser fotografiada en una nueva colección. En Gotemburgo, Doris se encuentra con un cónsul de edad avanzada, que ve en ella un parecido sorprendente con su esposa, ahora en un hospital psiquiátrico. El cónsul satisface los deseos de Doris, comprándole ropa fina y joyas, y los dos pasan un día emocionante juntos, hasta que llega la hija del cónsul y, sin piedad, expone el egoísmo de su padre.

"Wild birds" - A Swedish film noir with the character of a French noir ('Quai des brumes', 'Le jour se lève'). Two worlds meet for a brief experience of happiness ended by a violent tragedy. In one world the unhappy prostitute (Ulla) finds a drunken young man (Nisse) who had previously failed in many occupations. She takes him home. Her feelings are like those for a younger brother.

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.

A lonely young man falls in love with a girl he has observed from a distance. One day he stops her on the street and asks if she has lost a piece of jewelry.

Karin no pertenece a la nobleza, pero a pesar de ello se casa con el mentalmente desequilibrado rey Erik XIV, convirtiéndose en reina de Suecia. El habilidoso consejero del rey Göran Persson quiere una política real que apoye al pueblo y apoyada por él. Pero en relación a la nobleza el rey oscila entre provocativas exhibición de fuerza y una impredecible debilidad.

David, a young woodsman with a family, is leasing a farm. The family are welcomed by the locals until it becomes known that David is the son of a notorious drifter.

The story about the thief who didn't get crucified because Jesus was choosen to take his place.

"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.

Julia (Anita Björk), hija de un Conde con una infancia infeliz y un matrimonio fracasado, se deja seducir en la noche más corta del año (la noche de San Juan) por un sirviente (Ulf Palme), que la desea desde que era pequeña

A short documentary by Arne Sucksdorff about a village in India. Won the Special Prize of the Jury in Cannes 1952.

A short documentary by Arne Sucksdorff about a village in India. Won the Special Prize of the Jury in Cannes 1952.

Liquidanzia, imaginario país vecino de Suecia, sufre una sangrienta dictadura, razón por la cual Suecia se convierte en destino de refugiados, pero también de los espías que intentan capturarlos. Entre esos refugiados está Vera (Signe Hasso), que espera la llegada de sus padres de un momento a otro, si es que logran escapar; por otra parte, creyendo que su marido, un espía de la dictadura (Ulf Palme), estaba muerto, Vera había estado saliendo con un detective de la policía sueca (Alf Kjellin).

Jompa is unemployed - and not keen on getting a job. He still lives with his parents who are tired of his attitude about employment and regular hours. Jompa and his friends spend their time at nightclubs, cafés and doing petty crimes. While playing poker, Jompa becomes indebted to the criminal Kalle Lund. Of course, Jompa is unable to pay, but Kalle gives him a tip: an old fetcher has always a lot of money at home, and if Jompa could get his hands on the money, his troubles would disappear... Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

Dagmar Brink, a young female pianist, dies by suicide in her Stockholm apartment. She leaves all her belongings to her next-door neighbors, an author and his wife. Perplexed and curious, they investigate the girl's reasons for taking her life. As they visit Dagmar's friends, acquaintances and former boyfriends, her story unfolds. She stands out as loner, a woman no one could really grasp, always in want of something that nobody she met could make out.

A man is forced to leave his family estate and start again.

A poor woman in a Swedish farming community struggles to feed her large family and is torn by her passion for two different men.

Un director de cine recibe la visita de su antiguo profesor de matemáticas que sale de un asilo. Éste le propone realizar una película sobre el tema: "Nuestro mundo es el infierno y el diablo lo dirige todo".

"Stay a while!" - Reflections on the short duration of life. A boy suffers from a serious illness, is in hospital and would rather not be alone.

Harry, returning home after six years in an asylum, has vivid recollections of a party many years ago with six of his friends. The party ended with one of them, Raoul, disappearing. A gardener is digging in Harry's garden when a skeleton and a watch with the name "Raoul" is found. Harry invites his friends to a dinner to solve the mystery of Raoul's disappearance.

The Farmer Germund is planning a wedding between his daughter Marit and Mats, the son of a neighboring farm. Everything seems to be going according to plan until Marit meets the fiddler Jon, an illegitimate son who enchants the youth with his violin.

A journalist is writing a critical article about the prison service in Sweden. The magazine's editor in chief does not agree with him and removes the article. The journalist then plans to fake a crime to gain knowledge about life in prison.

Arvid share the love with a young woman named Lydia, but as is customary at the turn of the century, is not love enough for a fairy tale to come true. While Arvid struggling to create the basis for their existence, Lydia's thirst for the good life leads her to marrying an older wealthy man.