Åke Fridell

Prince Hamlet is the son of the late king. He hears from a ghost that the current king, Claudius, has murdered his father. Hamlet is unsure if this is true. He test the king by pretending to be insane and put on a show where the murder is reconstructed.

A TV drama about an old man who doesn't want to retire.

"Christopher's Christmas Mission"- A tale about a boy who steals Christmas gifts from the wealthy to give to the poor people of Stockholm, while working in a post office on Christmas Eve.

Un taxista fiestero decide ayudar a la atractiva hermana de su novia, que tiene problemas con los narcotraficantes.

Holidays on the swedish east coast. Invading summer guests collide with the locals, all without inhibitions. The formerly so radical Social Democratic municipal councilor has completely lost his visions and fully accepts that the area is transformed into a tourist resort for the rich.

A mediados del siglo XIX, Kristina y Karl-Oskar viven en una pequeña aldea rural de Småland (al sur de Suecia). Se casan e intentan ganarse el sustento con un pequeño trozo de tierra. Sin embargo, el pequeño tamaño de su tierra, su suelo estéril, y algunas malas cosechas hacen las cosas muy difíciles. Incluso uno de sus hijos está a punto de morir. Por todo ello deciden emigrar a los EE.UU. Lo venden todo y se embarcan hacia América.

La hija de la bruja decide vengarse de un vicario y le hechiza para que sufra una erección constante.

Set in the world of the Swedish culture establishment, this is a psychotic thriller where morbid visions, depraved sexuality, and violence come together in perfect proportions.

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.

Narcissa and Elina work in a small town social service office and have various erotic encounters with the people who visit it.

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.

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.

Merchant Valentin Skog runs the small town's grocery shop and folk park with little revenue but a lot of heart. But the no-good profiteers brothers Grym has their eyes on his business, and will use any means. The dirtier the better! But they haven't counted on "The Doll"- a fresh breeze from the big city - or rather storm wind - who blows life in the struggle against the crooks.

Ante Nordlund is on his way to Stockholm and gets a ride with a diplomat in his car. He leaves Ante at the entrance of Grand Hôtel where he gets treated like a millionaire.

The unemployed Timjan discover Mejram singing and instantly fall in love with her.

A man witness an automobile accident. He takes care of one of the survivors. They suspect that something was wrong with the car and track it to a dubious salesman.

Nils Holgersson es un niño travieso que vive con sus padres en una granja y se divierte gastando crueles bromas a los animales. Un día atrapa a un duende y éste le ofrece una buena moneda si le libera, pero Nils no mantiene su promesa y el duende, como castigo, le reduce a un tamaño minúsculo, aunque también le da la facultad de entender el lenguaje de los animales. Temiendo la venganza de los animales de la granja, Nils escapa agarrándose al ganso doméstico Martin, que ha decidido unirse a una bandada de gansos salvajes en su emigración anual hacia Laponia.

16 -year-old Mari has just been released from a juvenile detention school after one year of treatment. To prevent her from making contact with her old gang, she is sent to Skåne in southern Sweden, where she will work in a dairy shop. She doesn't like being there so she decides to run away and hitchhike her way up to Stockholm. She makes contact with her old gang but realizes that she's not welcome anymore and her boyfriend has even hooked up with a new girl.

The Baron of Qvinnevad Castle has financial problems and is forced to show the estate to tourists. The baron finds out that an unknown person is trying to acquire the castle.

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.

A relay race of "scenes from human life". Depicts the human characters inferior traits are spreading like a disease: the person who gets rejected / humiliated / oppressed takes it out on someone else.

The wild Jon Esping bets that he will become a churchwarden. He, the upstart and the illiterate who can only write his name, a fox in business, a stud among women and a brute in general, wins the bet.

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.

During a train journey, Carolus, master of literature, meets the charming Italian Enrico. The two men discuss eroticism, and it ends with a bet: In a few days in Copenhagen, Enrico will seduce four women. Coincidentally - and unfortunately, Carolus' wife is the first Enrico to date.

Portrait of the Swedish poet Dan Andersson (1888-1920). Brought up during poor conditions he finds work as a temperance preacher and educator. Bored by this he travels to Stockholm to try to get his poems published. On the train he meets a rich, sophisticated art patron who encourages him and grinds his literary and philosophical formation.

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.

A man (Gunnar Hellström) meets prisoner Nils Gustaf Boman and asks him why he strayed from the straight and narrow. The prisoner says: "Put yourself in my position." The man does and sees before him himself as Nils Gustaf Boman.

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.

Rasmus escapes from the orphanage to find parents for himself. He teams up with a hobo and together they experience a series of adventures while looking for a home for Rasmus .

Old lady Malin Klintbom is being promised a cosy and comfortably life at the residential home she is invited to visit. However, she finds the home impossible to live at and flies in panic to her cabin.

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.

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

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.

Christer is a teenager who prefers to spend his time on motorcycles instead of his studies which doesn't impress his father. There is also a youth motorcycle gang terrorising the local girls but Christer doesn't dare to stand up to them, leading to his humiliation. One day he comes into contact with a professional speedway racer who takes him under his wing.

The 1880s. Abandoned by his middle class parents in Stockholm, Johannes grows up in the countryside with a cobbler who regularly beats him up. Also at school he has to face regular beatings because of his Stockholm background, the only one who cares for him is a girl, Lotta, who promises to marry him one day. When he's 20 he moves to Stockholm and joins the Royal guards at the Royal palace. Quite by accident he meets Lotta again and start an affair with her. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

About the farming mountain settlers in 1870s Sweden. The young Helge has been accused of manslaughter and has to fight for his life to survive.

In Stockholm in the year 2248 an excavation leads to the discovery of 45,000 meters of film from the 1940's master director Hasse Ekman . The material is in a disarray but the Society for Ancient Film Research compiles the material after what is believed to have been the master's artistic intentions

"Ghost on Holiday" - Stockholm 1950 is experiencing a gold rush, after the discovery of gold during the building of the new underground. Assistant Borgkrona (Järrell) owns a plot in the gold area. The lawyer Målbrott informs Borgkrona that he has inherited a haunted castle and must stay there for a fortnight. However, once at the castle he meets his old relative who is a ghost (Järrell) and the two trade places

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

To save intoxicated friend Boman from getting caught, two conscripts lock him up in the local jail and release a prisoner, Ivan Jansson, so that he can pretend to be Boman for a few hours. But when the real Boman is transported to the county jail, switching them back could be difficult.

A new teacher arrives to the small village and he soon stir up some trouble with his modern way of looking at things. He also stir up some amorous feelings among the local women.

Lieutenant Anders Canitz is a womanizer and gambler from the upper class. He has spent all of heritage and tries to get to his sister's money by engaging her to invest in a shady business project he is involved in.

A new realism depiction of life and work in an old restaurant. A social portrayal of exhausted staff and dubious guests.

The rootless, misfit artist Bengt Hallberg escapes from a mental hospital. The head doctor believes him to be a hopeless case and dangerous for the environment. Bengt looks up Inga Larsson, the only person that matters to him.

Erik, a poor inventor meets the clerk Lillemor and fall in love. Erik's becomes invention is ready for the market. He contacts a director who might be interested. Erik is attracted almost immediately by the director's wife.

The sailor Calle Svensson gets a tip on a cheap hotel from a stranger. But Calle walks to the wrong house. And finds a dead man in the bed, stolen passports and signs of trafficking in a cupboard.

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

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. ...

In England, a famous jewel collection is stolen. The police suspect that the jewels have been smuggled to Sweden, and in Stockholm, the young insurance detective Peter Holmer is commissioned to trace the stolen jewels. The tracks first lead Peter to a certain ballet master Lando, but when he comes to Lando's flat, he finds him murdered. Before the police were summoned, Peter saw a young lady smearing from the floor. He tries to catch her, but when he gets down the street she disappears in a taxi..

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".

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.

"Strange Harbor " - A Swedish cargo ship is in the winter of 1938 at the dock in Gdynia in Poland, waiting to depart with coal to Sweden. In a tavern in the port a Polish dockworkers tries to tell something to the Swedish sailors, but is rudely turned away by the tavern owner. Later in the evening the port worker is found dead. That same evening one of the Swedish sailors, meets a Jewish woman who has fled Nazi Germany.

To get away from his nagging wife, a man goes to a desert island to settle down there.

Young drifter tells his story in flashback from prison.

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

The farm workers at Näs Farm, lead by Hellman, go on strike, demanding that their employer recognize their labor union. But he calls on strike-breakers to perform the farm work. Hellman's son Gunnar is a hothead who easily gets in trouble.

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.

The soul of an evil witch about to be burned is transferred to the child of a pregnant woman in the audience. 19 years later a timid girl arrives at a farm looking for work. The farmer employs her despite his wife's protests. Soon it stands clear that the girl is in fact the evil witch, returned to wreak havoc on the farmer and his family. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.