A tribute to Swedish film, which was made to celebrate the 100th anniversary of film in 1995 and consists of about a hundred clips from Swedish film history with many of its stars.
A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 films.
Filip Landahl
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.
Set between 1930s and 50s, The Farewell the story of Valerie, who lives in a household totally repressed by her stern father. When Valerie has a brief affair with another woman, her father is extremely angry and tries to end the affair with physical force. However Valerie’s determination, independence and lesbian feelings cannot be crushed.
Rural dean Forsius
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.
Paul
Charlotte es una famosa concertista de piano que ha estado tan volcada en su carrera que no ha visto a su hija Eva en siete años. Eva, que vive con su marido, un pastor protestante, y con una hermana gravemente incapacitada, mantiene con su madre una relación de amor-odio. Después de tantos años, Charlotte decide ir a visitarlos, pero el encuentro pronto se convertirá en un tenso duelo entre madre e hija.
Self
On-set documentary of the making of Ingmar Bergman's 1977 film Autumn Sonata starring Ingrid Bergman and Liv Ullman, examining every aspect of the production. Unusual for this kind of documentary, there is no post-production commentary or interviews.
Rådmanskan
Solidarity with the border people. Equal rights for the sexual deviants. Kristoffer Lohman is a young solicitor who collects stories and knowledge of different perversions. This has affected and changed his own sexual life. Sara, a young well-behaved and adorned woman, becomes interested in Kristoffer's activity.
Jenny's Grandfather
Una psiquiatra que no soporta la ausencia temporal de su marido se vuelca en el difícil caso de una de sus pacientes.
Fersen
Based on play by famous swedish author/playwright August Strindberg adapted for swedish TV in 70's. It's about the real life assassination on swedish king Gustav III who was killed by a lieutenant Jacob Johan Anckarström who acted on behalf of a group conspirators.
Översten
The Ghost Sonata relates the adventures of a young student, who idealizes the lives of the inhabitants of a stylish apartment building in Stockholm. He makes the acquaintance of the mysterious Jacob Hummel, who helps him to find his way into the apartment, only to find that it is a nest of betrayal and sickness. The world, the student learns, is hell and human beings must suffer to achieve salvation. The play centers on a family of strangers who meet for the sake of meeting. They exchange no dialogue, nor gestures, they simply sit and bask in their own misfortune.
Voice over
The major
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.
Prof. Gunnar Lindmark
Dos parejas en vacaciones, una más joven, otra madura. Gunnar es profesor de psicología, mientras que la otra esposa recuerda a un amante que murió. Esta crisis enloquece al profesor, que mata al joven.
Hans Winkelmann
Una pequeña compañía de teatro ve cómo la censura sueca prohíbe su espectáculo. Los actores son convocados ante el juez de instrucción. Sorprendentemente, el juicio provoca comportamientos neuróticos tanto en los actores como en el propio magistrado.
The husband
A loving couple on an escapade, ending in a hotel room in the underworld. When the floor waiter shows up, the woman feel she has seen him before. And suddenly she discovers who he is.
Admiral Carl
"Dad, why are you angry? You did the same yourself when you were young." - The Swedish army is too expensive. The cost has to be reduced by downsizing. The army chiefs begins to recreated the country's defense system.
Mr. Jacobi
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.
Hugo
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.
Self - Interviewee
Produced in 1968 for New York's WNET public television station and filmed by Gunnar Fischer, host Lewis Freedman visits director Ingmar Bergman during the production of SHAME. They discuss some of Bergman's major works leading up to SHAME as well as the just-released HOUR OF THE WOLF.
An engineer and an actor, two extremely similar men, change their identity with each other.
Paul Hartman
Una mujer no tiene más objetivo en la vida que llegar lo más alto posible, sin importarle los medios para conseguirlo ni el daño que pueda hacerle a los demás. Sin embargo, a pesar del poder y la riqueza que va acumulando, hay algo que jamás alcanzará: la felicidad.
King Sigvor
Seeking revenge against the rival clan responsible for the killing, Hagbard, the son of a slain Norse king, calms down long enough to establish a truce. He also falls in love with Signe, the daughter of his one-time enemy. Signe's former beau, sizzling with jealousy, breaks the truce and makes it appear that Hagbard was responsible.
Fondmäklare Rickardt
Doctor Henck is having bad day, and borrows a fur from a friend. It gives him new confidence, and his day immediately gets better. Hjalmar Söderberg's rejected 1911 movie script, filmed in 1966 for TV as a silent film with a piano soundtrack, to match the time in which it was written for.
Lundgren
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.
Herr Vogler
Elisabeth, una célebre actriz teatral, es hospitalizada tras perder la voz durante una representación de 'Electra'. Una doctora la somete a toda una serie de pruebas, y afirma que está sana y bien, pero ella sigue sin hablar y permanece en el pabellón. Alma, la enfermara encargada de cuidarla, intenta establecer una relación con ella y se dedica a hablarle todo el tiempo.
Dr. Rune Wester
The plot revolves around a sadistic doctor, a macabre gravedigger, an innocent girl, sabotage, sex and violent death. The beautiful Vivi Sander is living a rough life and is deeply in debt. She tries to force her family to sell the house to make ends meet. Vivi's car crash after a sabotage. She is injured and brought to a medical center where she meets the perverted Dr. Wester.
Count Schwartz
Suecia, 1782. Jacob, un joven noble, alocado y algo vehemente, retorna de sus estudios en Francia. Después de su ausencia, le alegra volver a su hogar, pero le hace más feliz reencontrarse con su querida hermana Charlotte. Sin embargo ésta se ha prometido al barón Alsmeden, hombre de gran influencia en la corte, lo que despierta en Jacob un sentimiento parecido a los celos.
Dr. Jacob Lewin
As three pregnant women wait to have their babies in a hospital in Stockholm at the outbreak of the Great War, they relive their childhood and youthful experiences.
Herr Fotograf Fäger
Stockholm 1912. Site for the Olympic Games. Love entanglements and eroticism at hotel Eros.
Helmer Berg
Edit is pleased that her mother agrees to let her buy a dress she loves, but which in fact is made for an adult woman.
Self
Filmed during the first ever Guldbaggen awards it was edited and developed that night and shown for the first time to the guests at the after party.
Georg Ehnström
A middle aged doctor begins a relationship with a teenage girl. His best friend is dating the girls mother. A group of boys plan to blackmail the doctor or expose him as a pedophile.
Sebastian
The Karlsson family moves from a small village to a suburb outside Stockholm. The change from a country life to the big city is not easy.
Tomas Ericsson
Thomas es un pastor protestante que celebra los oficios religiosos con la iglesia casi vacía. Es un hombre solitario que sufre una profunda crisis espiritual y cuya vida carece de sentido. Incluso el amor que le profesa la maestra Marta se ha vuelto para él una carga insoportable. Su situación se agrava al verse incapaz de ofrecer ayuda alguna a una pareja de campesinos que acuden a él para pedirle consejo. Cuando, poco después, el campesino se suicida, Thomas se encuentra al borde del abismo y ya nada podrá llenar su vacío interior.
Self
Documental que trata sobre el proceso de trabajo de Ingmar Bergman en la producción de una película. (FILMAFFINITY)
David Franzén
A small picturesque town at the turn of the century. The conservative views of the townspeople are shaken when they find out that the school teacher Franzén published his own poetry anonymously many years ago. At the same time he acknowledges his love affair with a waitress at the city hotel, Fanny. What is most upsetting is the fact that Fanny has a grownup daughter, Anna, with no known father. Could their poet teacher be the father although he and Fanny are not married?
David
Durante un hermoso verano, un escritor, siempre demasiado ocupado y de temperamento frío y distante, va a pasar unos días con sus hijos, un adolescente y una joven con problemas mentales, que está casada con un médico que la cuida con gran ternura. Su estancia en la isla donde viven sus hijos desencadena una crisis que los afecta a todos, pero especialmente a él, porque toma conciencia de su incapacidad para darle a su familia lo que espera de él.
Actor
La castidad de Britt-Marie, hija de un pastor protestante, le provoca a Satán una verruga en un párpado. Para deshacerse de ella, manda a la Tierra a don Juan para que seduzca a Britt-Marie.
Ernst C:son Kruuse
Sequel to Sjunde himlen (1956). Dr. Lovisa Sundelius (Sickan Carlsson) and radio host Willy Lorens (Hasse Ekman) have been happily married for a couple of years, but when Willy becomes a TV host with cutie Suss (Lena Granhagen) by his side, things start to fall apart
Adam Palmquist
While four men blow up a safe, a night watchman is accidentally killed. They get away with the loot. Ten years later, the stepson of the dead night watchman receives vital information.
Agne C:son Stressberg
Love triangle between Svante, his fiancee Inga and Sophie, a girl from a rich family.
Dr. Vergerus / Minister of Health
Suecia, mediados del siglo XIX. Dentro de un vehículo sumergido en la niebla, viaja una compañía de artistas ambulantes, cuyo jefe es el doctor Vogler, mago e hipnotizador que va acompañado de una anciana bruja, experta en pócimas de amor, y de su mujer y ayudante. Al pasar por una ciudad se convierten en el blanco de las burlas y humillaciones de un comité encabezado por el cínico doctor Vergerus, un médico que le pide a Vogler una representación.
Marcus Arwidson
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.
Tore Hall
Two journalists marry each other but Tore is unhappy that his wife is ambitious in her career instead of their household.
Evald Borg
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.
Gustaf Dahlström
Married couple have romantic interludes in the summer, she at their summer cottage, him in the apartment in town.
Purman
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.
Jöns
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.
Maj. Ernst C:son Kruuse
"Seventh Heaven" - Famous radio personality Willy Lorens has a big success with the radio series "Seventh Heaven." The amount of fan mail and attention eventually becomes too much for Willy, who suffers a minor collapse. Taken to a hospital where he meets Dr. Lovisa Sundelius, virtually the only woman in Sweden who do not admire the radio idol.
Arne's father
Görel and Arne are about to get a divorce. Görel thinks back on how history has repeated itself within her family.
Fredrik Egerman
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.
Otto Sönderby, konsul
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.
Acke Kullerstedt
Pawnshop assistant Patrick and maid Viveka meet by chance and become fond of each other, but none of them want to reveal his real profession for the other.
Robert Holmén
While Bertil Lindström works at the Swedish embassy in Paris, his wife Gabrielle spends the summer alone in Sweden. After a phone call to her, he starts to think of all the things she can possibly be doing separated from him.
David Erneman
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.
Henrik Kugelström
The story about Gustaf Dalén, the farm boy who became one of Sweden's greatest inventors.
Ludvig "Ludde" Ekman
When Ludvig Ekman is ordered to do his military rehearsals course, he sends one of his employees, Lasse Alm, to do it for him. Everything is fine until Alm also is ordered to do the same thing - on the same boat! There is only one thing to do: Ekman goes as Alm. When Ekman goes aboard, he discovers that it is his wife's ex-husband who is captain and Ekman really is punished for marrying his wife.
Dr. Dalander
The successful glass artist Stellan Sylvester ends up in the hospital after a car accident. He looks back at his life and finds it empty and meaningless. He falls in love with the nurse Marta but when he finds out that she engaged life turns out to be even more meaningless.
Mr. Sjuberg
Albert, el propietario de un circo, abandona a su familia para entregarse a Anne, una orgullosa y apasionada amazona que mantiene relaciones esporádicas con un joven y neurótico actor. Pero el circo es un desastre y Albert y su compañera se ven obligados a mendigar para sobrevivir.
Director Brummer
Three young poets are about to make their debuts.
Zdenko Zapatil
In a small town called Skrabbarp in Southern Sweden lives the school teacher Sebastian Pettersson, an amateur detective and one of the most diligent correspondents of the Stockholm police.
Malte Lövman
A man and a woman are cheated on by their respective partners and decide to get their revenge.
Niklas Slevbrink
The meticulous Fabin Bom is called up for military service in the airforce.
Fredrik Lobelius
En una casa de verano, cuatro mujeres esperan la llegada de sus maridos desde Estocolmo. Alrededor de una taza de café, evocan sus experiencias conyugales. La más joven de ellas, que espera a su novio, las escucha hablar de sus fracasos, de su amargura y de sus desilusiones.
Valentin Fredriksson-Frisk, alias ''Dynamit-Valle'', dynamitard
Lilian is engaged to engineer Arne. To make him more interested in her, she meets a few other men.
Johansson has managed to stay away from the military service for several years. But now his time has come.
Frans Melin, aka Hamn-Casanova
Bureacratic customs officer searching for a missing girl.
Engineer Planertz
A small Swedish town just after WW1. An accountant and his two journalist friends have entered the stock market. The result is not as good as expected.
Jarl Eksell
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.
Lars Brenner, film director
Lasse Brenner is a serious filmmaker (spoof on Ingmar Bergman) who is forced to direct a lighthearted comedy. The filming takes place in different cities across Europe and North Africa so Brenner and the crew have to sail on a cruse ship. Brenner's wife suspects he has an affair with the lead actress, so she also boards the ship undercover to keep an eye on him.
Julius Brumse
A secretary transforms their defunct legal agency into a service where you can get anything, from childcare to gardening to even a fiancée.
Gunnar Stenwall
The rich, aristocratic Katarina Hassel have an architect renovate her mansion. Katarina fall in love with the young architect, Gunnar Stenwall. Alas, he doesn't fall in love with her. But perhaps if Gunnar would meet her identical sister, who works in Stockholm as a waitress, he would fall in love with her instead? So Katarina travels to Stockholm to act as her non-existing sister.
Fritjoff Krafft
Fabian Bom, auctionist in a small town, one day finds a baby boy in a small crib that is for sale at an auction. He places the boy at an orphanage but returns the next day since he realizes that he misses the boy. Since a single man is not permitted to adopt a baby he arranges a marriage with a young woman, who really is the baby's mother. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Edvin Burelius
A ring passes between a lot of different people, giving the bearer or someone close a new meaning to life. Actors, embezzlers, old ladies and cheated husbands all seem to gain temporary hope from misery and disillusionment.
Bertil Kronberg
High school student Margareta fall head over heels in love with a young doctor and announce her engagement to him to her parents. She quits school and move in with him in a large house. However, the life of a housewife soon becomes tedious. Her husband does not want her to study but secretly she enrolls in a high school again to be able to graduate. Her husband suspects funny business when she is spotted with her private tutor.
Berglund
The station-master Fabian Bom is a very meticulous person, and he makes sure that the trains leaves exactly - on the second. To him, nothing could be more important than duty, efficiency and punctuality, in fact, his sense of duty is clearly perverted. His beloved Plum-Plum, the major's daughter, is infatuated with army officers. To regain her attention, he joins the infantry. Bom becomes a soldier who loves the military training, long marches as well as hard labour as punishment. He meets Agnes, who falls madly in love with him. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
The Captain
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.
Sture Widman
A drama about a doctor and his wife. She used to be an actress, but became a housewife when she married. When she resumes her acting career the marriage crashes.
Klasson
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.
Bengt Larsson
"Two Women" - Cecilia is in hospital after being subjected to an attempt on her life. Her husband is called to the hospital. Cecilia deliriously mentions a mutual friend. The husband seeks out the friend.
Skådespelare
The actor Robert Berg is just about to get his dream role on the big stage in Stockholm when he gets called to the military service.
40-talisten
When Inga Brantemo goes on a business trip to Italy, her husband Bertil gets romantically involved with Christina Lovén, whose father is a book publisher. When Inga returns, Bertil has a difficult time trying to explain who the woman the neighbors saw in the Brantemo home was. Bertil is an author and it doesn't get easier when he and his wife gets invited to Christina's father to talk business.
Shoe-shiner Tom, 'Plutten'
Holger Hallman, CEO of a weapons factory try to prevent his son Tom from dating a manucurist, Lydia. By mistake he try to pay off the wrong manicurist, Mary, who by coincidence has a fiancé named Tom.
Sune Eriksson
The police is looking for a female burglar all dressed in white.
Erik Sahlén
The film follows a number of people in an apartment building during a night full of dramatic events and entanglements.
Mr. Purman
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.
Dr. Bertil Langenfeldt
Olga Sundblom has alone after the divorce the custody of the son Krister. He has trouble of controlling himself. He cheats in school, smokes in the bed and is generally unbearable. He is send to Granberga boarding school and soon he starting to turn everything upside down. He offers the schoolmates alcohol and begins a relationship with a young woman that he treats like a slut. When he gets expelled he escapes to his summerhouse.
Dr. Westman Senior / Vilhelm Westman
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.
Harald Haraldsson
Hövdingen
A mythic depiction of a pagan sacrifice in prehistoric Sweden.
Hagman
"You who entry..." A drama about revenge, lies and destruction. Tomas Eckert, a civil servant, is subjected to a violated woman's revenge. It happens to be his boss's wife, Märta Palm. Tomas is accused of having abused Mrs.Palm. She also reveals that Tomas's wife is morphine addict. He collapses and is forced to accept early retirement, diagnosed "epilepsy with mental changes"
Harry Hellberg
A self centered author are having a word feud in a news paper column with a journalist called Sussie. The author has just divorced and now need a new house keeper. Sussie sees her chance to go undercover and takes the job with the intent to dig up some dirt. However, love intervenes.
Felix Palmer
Major Grasser at Sjögårda manor considers selling the estate but his twin daughters Brita and Stina have other plans.
Teacher
Un profesor de latín, apodado Calígula, de carácter paranoico, goza persiguiendo a uno de sus alumnos, Jan-Erik Widgren, y satisface su sadismo en una joven vendedora en un estanco llamada Bertha. Widgren se enamorará de Bertha, sin saber que ella también se relaciona con Calígula.
Hahn
Iben Holt, a rich bohemian, lives in an occupied country. On his way home from a party he hears an explosion and sees flames rising from a factory. At home awaits another surprise.
Svensson, Editor of Vecko-Bilden (uncredited)
A classic melodrama about the famous pianist Thomas Dahlhoff.
Lindén
"I Slew" - Hospital drama of a doctor who thinks that he killed a patient on the operating table.
Sven Eriksson
Early 1940s, during WW2, pitch black waters except for a moon-shadow over the waves. Surrounded by minefields and the fog slips in the sweeping headlights of the cargo ship S/S Rune. But the ship bows relentlessly forward through the night.
Lieutenant Bäckström
1813. The Swedish army is fighting in the War of the Sixth Coalition. The popular general Von Döbeln is arrested for sending the army against the French in breach of orders by the crown prince. At the court martial he is sentenced to death but is pardoned by the king and sent to prison instead. A group of conspirators are planning to set him free and make him their leader in a coup d'etat.
Soldier
In an occupied country, the people rise to throw off the occupants. This includes Jens the farmer and his three sons who successfully perform sneak attacks on the invading army.
Militärläkare
Military Doctor
Swedish comedy from 1940. Kurre Karlsson, a simple man of the people, will be called up for military training given by an anti-aircraft units at sea. He does not like the military and will do anything to get away. One day he steals a wallet and in it finds his paper suggesting that a spy is on the move who think stealing trade secrets about the weapons factory in Granefors.
Clerk
Urban girl falls for rugged forest ranger.
Journalist
A woman flees to avoid rumors of promiscuity, but is trailed by a reporter who wants to expose her dark past.
Sergeant Frisk
The tailor Tosse is ordered to return to his old regiment to practice what he learned many years ago. But he asks his assistant Loffe to go there instead of himself. Everything is fine until Loffe gets the same order - at the same regiment. When Tosse comes to the regiment, it becomes a case of mistaken identity. Due to the confusion, Loffe is now Tosse's platoon commander. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
August Palm's Associate
A Swedish drama from 1939 about the social and political developments in Sweden from 1885 until the dissolution of the union in 1905. The year is 1885, Christina Nilsson sings "Fourteen years I believe certain that I was" in the Grand Hotel's Great Hall . She also sings from the balcony of the hotel and the panic arising among listeners outside the hotel. In Norway, talks about the dissolution of the Union and the Swedish socialists with Hjalmar Branting (Victor Sjöström) is in the lead for independence.
Doctor
Architect Sture Ahrengren walks out of his job with an architecture firm with the support of his wife Kristina. He gets a position with an old friend, Balstar Ekberg, who has a big engineering job going. But Sture gets entangled in a romance with Ekberg's wife, Helena.
Ryder, Banker
About the conspiracy against the Swedish entrepeneur Ivar Kreuger. Presented through his secretary as a strictly busy, very wealthy man, involved in important international transactions. Ministers from all over the world stand in line to visit him. The Kreuger shares are in high demand. Germany needs a $ 125 million loan. Bank director Ryder suggests that secret forces want to stop this loan. Ted Harris, an American rogue, wants to sell secret papers from Wall Street on plots against Kreuger. The French minister and an international Soviet agent, Brody, also visit Kreuger regarding the loans. Kreuger shares are dropping around the world. The firm Nathan and Kohn contributes to dumping Kreuger shares after a bribe of SEK 25,000. Ordinary savers are ruined.
Young student watching competition (uncredited)
Erik Andersson marries Brita Blomstedt. During the wedding party he drinks alcohol which he is not used to. Later that evening Erik is involved in a brawl that end with a policeman getting a knife in the back.
Gunnar Gawell is masonry on a building but also a very good football player. He gets a chance to play for the the national team against Denmark. Gunnar is offered a bribe if he allows the Danish team to win the match.
