Eva Henning

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

Private detective Ture Sventon is visited by his friend Mr. Omar of the Arabic desert. Sventon decides to travel with Mr. Omar on his flying carpet to Paris. However, Sventon almost exclusively lives on cream puffs, and to transport these across the continent, he needs a portable fridge. He pays a visit to Stockholms foremost fridge inventor and are introduced to a new fridge which shrinks and deshrinks the food. The inventor is afraid his new invention will be stolen, and thus Sventon brings it to Paris where it gets stolen.

Four sailors stranded in Rio are about to retrieve their salary for a salvage. The only requirement is that they ALL must be sober.

One autumn day, Ivar goes to the Botanical Garden in Oslo to visit Maria who is the mother of a little girl named Tilla. Ivar is a child psychologist and had Tilla observed a few months earlier. Treatment for her was agreed upon, but Maria has not returned with Tilla. Now Ivar finds her sleeping under a tree in the garden, and he meets Maria bent over a microscope in the laboratory. Maria has become even more nervous and unbalanced than the last time he met her, because nothing has been "corrected" as quickly as she had hoped -- Tilla has not spoken now for a year and a half. Maria herself is on her way to being as closed off as her own little girl. Ivar persuades Maria to come to the pediatric psychiatric clinic with Tilla so they can begin her treatment. There she meets Mimi Backer. But neither does Mimi get Maria to open up about her experiences with Tilla. In the clinic's observation room, however, the first little flicker of light falls on the mystery...

Charlie Gedelius has spent the last years abroad as a golf trainer. In Copenhagen, Denmark, he meets young Lena, who happens to be his brother-in-law's mistress. He goes back to Sweden to meet his sister Astrid. Her son Staffan has borrowed money from a money-lender to pay for an abortion for a girl he has met.

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.

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.

A wealthy woman is suspected of murder and runs from the police

Italian singer Mario Vanni visits the Royal Opera in Stockholm and fall in love with ballet dancer Linda Corina.

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

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 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.

발레학교 출신 루스는 대학 조교수인 베르틸과 결혼하기 전에, 군인이자 유부남인 라울과 불륜 관계였다. 그의 아이를 임신했지만 낙태를 강요당하고, 그 충격으로 결혼 후에도 계속 히스테리 증세를 보인다. 베르틸의 전 애인인 비올라는 남편을 잃은 고통에 시달리다 정신과 의사인 로젠그렌을 찾지만, 오히려 그의 수작에 모욕을 당한다. 그녀는 우연히 학교 동창인 발보그와 재회하고, 그녀가 루스와 발레학교 동창임을 알게 된다. 취중에 간신히 발보그의 유혹을 뿌리친 그녀는 그 길로 스스로 목숨을 끊는다. 루스의 히스테리에 시달려 온 베르틸은 그녀를 죽이는 꿈을 꾸게 되고, 그 끔찍한 경험을 통해, 루스와의 지옥 같은 사랑을 받아들일 수밖에 없음을 깨닫는다.

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.

영화감독 마르틴의 촬영장에 스승 파울이 찾아와 지옥과 같은 세상을 다룬 영화 아이디어를 주고 마르틴은 작가인 토마스와 그의 부인 소피에게 이를 들려준다. 토마스는 창녀인 비르이타를 인터뷰하고 수개월 후 소피가 자신을 떠나자 비르이타를 만나기 시작한다. 비르이타는 약혼자 페테르의 아이를 낳지만 주위 사람들에 의해 아이를 버리게 된다. 토마스는 비르이타를 사랑하며 도와주겠다고 하지만 그녀는 페테르에게 돌아가겠다고 한다. 그녀는 고통스러운 삶을 견디지 못하고 자살을 한다.

As his 60th birthday approaches, Jacob grows concerned that none of his sons are capable of running his company.

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.

A documentary short featuring a 50th anniversary party in celebration of film.

Dan, aged 19, leaves his home after a quarrel with his father. At the side of the country road he meets a traveling theater company who has run out of money. He falls in love with the young actress Pia and together they leave, meeting a string of peculiar characters: a vagabond, a friendly vicar and a cynical adventurer.

A smuggler's daughter falls in love with the son of a customs inspector.

The ups and downs of three generations in an acting family.

Liv and Kåre both come from broken families bursting with frustration and aggression's. Having found each other they now feel supported and loved.

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.

Inga and her father, the violin maker Lars, are big music enthusiasts. One day they meet the violinist Jan-Erik.

A local newspaper editor in northern Sweden starts to spread a rumor that sextuplets has been born. In reality it turns out that it's only two sets of twins.

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.

Art professor Tore Stenwall is engaged to one of his young students, Anna-Lisa. He shows her a portrait and tells the story of how it came to be.

Birgit Norén is the new teacher at a small town school and falls in love with the principal.

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

Two friends, a rich landowner and a flight lieutenant, compete for the love of the same woman, singer Claire Wanner.