Benkt-Åke Benktsson

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

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.

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.

In a small town lies Villa Villerkulla, and in that villa a small girl, Pippi Longstocking, has moved in with her horse and monkey.

The Troubadour sits at a rock beside his summerhouse Sjösala in the Stockholm archipelago. He is composing a new ballad, when his son Sven Bertil interrupts him, telling him that an angry man is knocking at their door. It is the creditor Andersson, coming with a new unpaid bill to be put on the top of all the other. The Troubadour is tired of all economical problems. It disturbs the peace he needs to be able to write new songs, and without new songs he cannot earn the money he needs to pay the bills. To get peace and inspiration for his writing, he makes a quick decision to go to Buenos Aires. By phone he persuades his publisher to prepay 7000 kronor for some future book. On the little ferry from the islands in the sea to Stockholm city the Troubadour is carried away by his imagination into the fictitious world of his main character Fritiof Andersson. Colorful scenes from various songs are enacted before his dreaming eyes. In Stockholm he spends the night at the inn Gyldene Freden. ...

Sture Letterström and Kurre Svensson take on the task of rescuing a secret document during World War II from a group of Swedish Nazis. Since both of them are known by the local Nazis, Sture takes on the role of Miss Märta Letterström, and Kurre also has to make use of his feminine side as well as a dress.

Two photographers from Stockholm go to the west coast on behalf of their employer, who is a swimwear manufacturer. They will look for the season's most beautiful bathing girl, but it will be harder than they think to find the ideal model.

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.

Farmer Mårten Esbjörnsson has three adult sons who all want to find a wife to marry. However, all the young women of the neighborhood seem to be less than perfect.

Farmer Mårten Esbjörnsson has three adult sons who all want to find a wife to marry. However, all the young women of the neighborhood seem to be less than perfect.

Gugge and Nuffe work at the competing meat wholesalers AB Delikatesser and AB Skånedelikatesser. The two companies compete for a large order and the two will stop at hardly nothing to get the order

Tage breaks up with his girlfriend Dora when he falls in love with the ballet dancer Maud.

The plot revolves around Edvar Månsson, a framer living in Skåne, Sweden.

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.