Svea Holst
Nacimiento : 1901-04-20, Björskog, Västmanlands län, Sweden
Muerte : 1996-04-28
Kärringen
Real estate broker Oskarsson visits a cabin deep in the woods. There he finds a bedridden and mute old woman who seems well cared for. There has recently been a fire in the stove, there is food in the fridge, but no trace of who cares for her.
Three friends who haven't seen each other for seventeen years reunite and have a lot to tell about what has happened in the meantime. The film follows the friends for some time afterwards and then moves another twenty years in the future...
Miss Ester
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.
Maternal grandmother
Erika is 13 years and lives with her parents and her grandmother in the far north of Sweden in the 1940's. The family is depressed and disappointed in life. Erika dreams of a separate being in another world.
Lille-Sara
9-year old orphan called Rasmus runs away from the orphanage. He meets a vagabond they call Paradise Oskar who likes to sing and play his accordion. Oskar makes the Rasmus world seem like a better place.
Sally's Grandma
About choices in life and responsibilities. Sally has decided to have an abortion. It seriously affects her relationship with her partner Jonas, and their daughter Mia.
Anna-Rosa's Great Grandmother
The adventures of a small boy (Elvis), his mother and a male friend.
Verner's Wife (uncredited)
Andreas, un hombre desconectado del mundo después de su divorcio, se retira a vivir a una pequeña isla del Báltico. Allí conoce a una pareja de artistas que está en plena desintegración, y a una joven e inestable viuda. Unidos por el dolor de la pérdida y la desconexión emocional, ella y Andreas inician una relación. Mientras tanto, alguien recorre la comunidad de la isla realizando actos de crueldad animal.
The Lady in the Subway
Four young criminals are planning a heist against a racecourse and in order to obtain a seed capital they rob a gambling den. They celebrate the successful heist by throwing a party but it turns out to be a lot of disagreement within the group.
Sales woman
Sam Persson is released from a mental hospital. He goes to Stockholm to meet a man he hates, theater manager Stig Brender. In Brender's office they get into a fight...
Miss Svensson
Fabian Bom has been sent by the Export Association to promote Swedish export to Spain. He travels with the navy's cruiser to Barcelona, but his jealous fiancée Gullan has followed him in secret to keep an eye on him. In Barcelona the usually strict and virtuous Bom is surrounded by the local women and has a ball. He meets the young and zestful Linnea from Sweden. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Elin Tarp is an unmarried mother with three children who lives a hard life in the countryside.
Mother
Swedish propaganda film for the Social Democrats.
Mrs Wallin
A horse wanders from town to the countryside. Here lives Sten Stensson Steen, a bachelor at law and philosophy. He is writing a social psychological report on the youth problem.
Dresser (uncredited)
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.
A collection of human stories from the streets of Stockholm. Taxi 13 becomes the link between them. One night a taxi driver disappears.
Midwife
Karl Oskar Bohm looks back at his life, his estranged daughter Augusta and his wife Sofia.
Woman knitting
Two twins, separated at birth, meet again by chance many years later. One is a progressive but insensitive mayor of a small town, the other a clown at a circus.
Åsa-Nisse is visited by cousin Doris from the United States. Nisse, Klabbarparn and Doris will travel to Stockholm, but Nisse and Klabbarparn lose track of Doris, who get into a hands of a Casanova. Nisse and Klabbarparn instead ends up at the Nordic Museum, where Åsa-Nisse turns out to have unexpected qualities in the art of imitating a mannequin. After that they had found each other is Doris robbed and it leads to a wild brawl that it sparkles and sputters on.
A small Swedish village has transformed to an industrial center with exports to Germany. A German opened a quarry some 50 years ago, after realizing the value of granite. Now WW1 begins.
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
Eksell's maid
A man comes to Stockholm's central station. He does not know who he is or where he has been. He has some keys and a phone number. Perhaps he is the escaped sex maniac the police are searching for. A waitress at a café tries to help him.
Dagmar's maid
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.
Nurse at the maternity ward
Stig y Martha Eriksson forman una joven pareja de violinistas que tocan en la misma orquesta. Mientras Stig ensaya la novena Sinfonía de Beethoven, el joven violonista se entera de la muerte accidental de su mujer. Una vez en casa, Stig recuerda su encuentro con Martha, así como momentos privilegiados de su felicidad pasada.
Anna Andreasson
Britt Malm gets hit by a car on a Stockholm street and is taken to hospital. She is badly injured and must undergo surgery. While the anesthetic takes effect she sees hallucinatory images. This turns into a flashback of what happened Britt before the accident.
Maid (uncredited)
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.
Un soldado, que se ha quedado ciego a causa de un accidente, encuentra trabajo como pianista en un restaurante, pero no consigue acostumbrarse a que lo vean como un inválido. Una joven obrera se fijará en él y tratará de reconfortarlo.
Stina
The north of Sweden in 1902. A team of railroad men are building a rail road from Luleå at the Bay of Bothnia to Narvik at the Norwegian Sea. One of the newest workers, Valfrid from the south of Sweden, is not accepted by neither Stora Ballong, the informal leader of the workers, nor the others. They refuse to talk to him but instead Valfrid gets help from the sworn enemy of the railroad workers: the greedy drugstore owner Blom.
Un sugestivo triángulo amoroso entre una corista, un marinero y el padre de éste, un alcohólico capitán de barco. Después de haber amargado la vida a su mujer y a su hijo, el capitán, que se está quedando ciego, se da cuenta de que su juventud pertenece ya al pasado. Pero, al iniciar una relación con una corista, ve que la última oportunidad de sentirse joven puede desvanecerse porque también su hijo se ha enamorado de ella
Woman outside Gaffelgränd 4
Translator Vilhelm and his young wife have a child, as well as a grumpy housemaid who doesn't hesitate to give her opinion on how they behave as parents. In secret Kristin arranges a scholarship for Vilhelm so he can go back to his medical studies.
Malin
Nelly tiene dieciocho años y vive en casa de su madre adoptiva. La adolescente no deja de soñar con el que será su primer baile, organizado por el ayuntamiento de su pequeña ciudad. La chica escribe a su madre, Jenny, que vive en Estocolmo, para conseguir un vestido bonito. Jenny aprovechará la ocasión para visitar a su hija, acompañada de su amante, Jack, un actor fracasado y suicida.
Edit, mrs Jenner's maid
Björn Norell, a bookish assistant to an art dealer, is fired because of his inability to find the third of a trio of Buddha statues. In order to get his job back, Norell, goes on a hunt to find it in order to get his job back. Meanwhile, the art dealer has sent his daughter Ulla after him to retrieve the statue. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Ingrid Eriksson, a social worker, decides to find out something about the problems facing housemaids and gets herself a job as one at the home of John Willman's family. John's son, Åke, falls in love with her and numerous complications arise before the course of true love runs smoothly.
Shop assistant
Bertil Dahl deals with bonds at a bank. He dislikes that his colleagues are lying to customers to sell more bonds and pledges to tell the truth for 24 hours. But the social life is smoothed by using white lies and Bertil's truth-telling is making everybody upset. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
A collective of office girls and their tribulations in the male world, female solidarity, the place of women in the labor and civil rights struggles and the conflict between love and work.