Håkan Westergren

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

A mother is taken to a hospital and the town council wants to split up her children and put them in foster homes, but the children have a diffrent plan. They set out on a epic journey down thru Sweden, from Lappland down to Stockholm in search of their father. They encounter many people on their journey and make new friends while trying too elude the police.

Lena is a young woman in need of excitement and sexual satisfaction. Torn between her meek and innocent boyfriend Jan and the sadistic partygoer Helge, Lena‘s life is turned upside down when Helge take some nude photographs of her. These photos could destroy her life.

A German sociologist goes to Sweden to investigate whether the Swedish sin is myth or not. He stations himself in a student home for girls. His fiancée in Berlin fantasizes about the study, and to allay her worries she packs her bags and goes to find him, to convince him to come home.

During a witch trial in the seventeenth century a woman is accused of being a witch and burned at the stake. The witch curse the village priest who pushed through the accusations and promises that her offspring will avenge her. During the Caroline the priest's son take over as vicar of the congregation, and the daughter of the witch bewitches him so that he suffers constant erection. This is off course very embarrassing for the vicar. The local women has to step in and try to set things right

A comedy about the young notary Thore, who mistakenly opens a private letter to his boss, lawyer Larsson. The letter says that a certain Eva Larsson will inherit a piece of land in Guatemala, containing large oil deposits. A baby photo of Eva has been included for identification, and when Thore is fired for his mistake he happens to bring the photo with him.

A collection of classic scenes from the Åsa-Nisse movies.

Åsa-Nisse and Klabbarparn with wives taking part in a jenka-contest from Knohult to Vetlanda where he reports with his homemade walkie-talkie. Then he demonstrates the "Demon-Spritzer", a self-made cement machine which then breaks down and squirts down Klabbarparn with cement. Sjökvist is robbed and bike down with his delivery-bicycle in water at a beach. The robbers then repents and wants to return the money. Features performances from artists Sten & Stanley, The Moonlighters, and Shane.

Åsa-Nisse and Klabbarparn has found an old pirate map that leads them to the island Mallorca in the Mediterranean Sea as they search for the hidden treasure.

Forelsket i København is a 1960 Danish romance film directed by Finn Henriksen and starring Siw Malmkvist.

A New York newspaper reporter is sent to the Swedish island of Gotland to interview a nuclear scientist. He gets involved with foreign agents who have kidnapped the scientist’s daughter.

The local newspaper celebrates 50 years and are now looking for a citizen who has lived as long in the neighborhood. Our hero Åsa-Nisse seems to fit the profile.

A young and spoiled aristocrat is guilty of a hit-and-run accident.

Åsa-Nisse has invented a very powerful engine and he sells the patent. However, the grocery store owner Sjökvist has been sneaking around ...

Görel and Arne are about to get a divorce. Görel thinks back on how history has repeated itself within her family.

Sture and Birgit are secretly engaged. One day when they are kissing, they are discovered by Sture's father Dana. However, he promises not to reveal anything, as Sture would probably lose his job on Birgit's father Hjalle's shipyard. When Hjalle is forced by a usurer to pay back 23,000 on a loan, he gets problem. Dana promises to solve the problem, the question is just how. There is only one person that could help him, his childhood friend Gösta Hägg that nowadays is the director of a big company. But time passes quickly, and where is Mr. Hägg ...?

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.

Two broke actors are employed as private detectives to protect the young woman Ewa, who is on her way to Paris to sell a valuable piece of jewellery.

세 명의 여자들이 여름 별장에서 같이 휴가를 보내면서 그녀들의 남편들이 돌아오기를 기다린다. 그녀들은 과거에 있었던 결혼 생활의 상처들을 회상하면서 서로를 위로하는데... 첫 번째 회상자 라켈은 성적으로 만족스럽지 못한 결혼 생활을 하던 중 그녀의 전 애인이었던 카이(얄 쿨레 분)와 야외 사우나에서 사랑을 나누다 남편에게 들켰던 일을 얘기한다. 골동품 수집가인 그녀의 남편이 감정적으로 움츠러든 상태에서 그 현장을 목격한 것이다. 그리고 그는 정원의 오두막으로 물러나서 자살할 것을 결심한다. 그러나 그의 형은 부인이 없는 것보다는 부정한 부인이라도 있는 것이 낫다면서 그의 자살 충동을 단념시킨다. 이 에피소드의 화자는 이상하게도 그녀의 남편이 어린 아이와 다르지 않음을 보여준다. 두 번째 에피소드는 마따 부인의 연애담이다. 그녀는 온 가족의 반대를 무릅쓰고 파리의 예술가와 결혼을 감행해서 아기를 낳은 이야기를 한다. 이 이야기에서는 생생한 출산 장면도 재현된다. 세 번째 에피소드는 코믹한 요소가 강한 이야기로 베리히만 감독의 단골 배우인 에바 달벡과 군나르 변스트란드가 감정적으로 소원해진 부부로 등장한다. 사이가 멀어져 있었던 이들 부부가 어느 날 엘리베이터에 갇힘으로써 그들의 사랑이 다시 불타게 된다.

Gertrud is being abandoned by her husband after 20 years of marriage. Offended and unhappy she leaves her home and rents a room. The landlady's son is drawn to her and tries to help her out of the loneliness.

Johansson has managed to stay away from the military service for several years. But now his time has come.

Biffen and Bananen are two ex bicycle racers who works in the bicycle factory Standard. Biffen is a meat eater, Bananen a vegetarian and they are in constant quarrel.

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.

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.

Insurance salesman Paul is to be engaged with Louise, the daughter of his boss. Trying to sell insurance to a millionaire he meet the millionaire's daughter Annette whom he fall in love with after complications and funny business.

"Sailors" - A musical comedy about Kalle Svensson, a sergeant in the navy, and his loved one Nanette Raquette who works as a gymnastics teacher.

Drama evolving around three brothers who join the air force to become flight cadets. When Åke's plane goes missing, the other two must find him.

Tennis competitions between Swedish actors at Saltsjöbaden.

"The Invisble Wall" - In an unnamed country under occupation, a senior officer is killed in an attack by a member of the resistance.

Ulla thinks her husband Billy is boring and starts dating other men. Lillans husband Peter is having important meetings, including girls. Billy and Lillan decides to pretend to be in love, to rouse jealousy of Ulla and Peter.

Business manager Ludvig Berndtson desperately needs a fiancée to get rid of an ex-girlfriend. He asks one of his employees, secretary Monica Brandt, to pretend to be his fiancée for a while. She is at first unwilling but desperately needs the money and accepts.

Celebrated elderly Austrian poet opposes nazism, while his daughter admires and falls in love with leading nazi activist, who eventually becomes concentration camp commander with his father-in-law as prisoner.

A ruthless businessman arrives to a small town. He is prepared to do pretty much anything to win beautiful Vera Odelman's heart.

Thomas Palm (Åke Söderblom) has recently been promoted at work at The Royal Canal Office. He celebrates with his friends on a night out and on the way home he saves a woman from drowning. The woman's name is Dolly (Marguerite Viby), an out of work actress, who won't leave his side and this gets him into trouble when he is about to get married in a couple of days.

Swedish Comedy film

A 1941 film.

"A Crime" - A murder is committed in an apartment building in Stockholm. And afterward all clues point toward the Justice of the Supreme Court and his sons. But who did it? And why? And will they be able to live with the guilt?

A story about the Swedish navy and their cadet school.

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.

Ludvig and Sussi Battwyhl, Louis and Katja Brenner and Julia and Kurt Balzar are upper class millionaires. They don't seem to do any real work but still need a vacation in the mountains. Everybody seems to be romantically involved with everybody. A rich American woman joins them.

Day to day life for an aristocratic family is upended when they lose their fortune and their housekeeper suddenly receives a large inheritance.

Young Göran Hilding gamble and loses money he does not have. He'll have to pledge his 50 shares in a publishing company.

Mr. Miller is the CEO of a big soap company whose son Henry like to spend his father's money but isn't interesting in working. Henry's laziness makes Mr. Miller upset and stressed out, so he assigns his young secretary (who the son also is in love with) to figure out a way to make Henry work and she will get 10,000 crowns ($1000). But things doesn't really to turn out the way Mr. Miller imagined.

A bachelor in Stockholm must invent a family to be able to get financial support from his aunt Anna. Everything is going well until she arrives on an unexpected visit.

Director Björkman travels to Copenhagen with his daughter Astrid, who is together with a certain Count Erik Lejonsköld. They will take their father-in-law's car and go on a honeymoon to the Riviera. But "Count" gets a telegram from London calling him to a business meeting. Dad Björkman and the daughter decide to go to the Riviera while the suitor must come later. The real Count Erik Lejonsköld comes home to his office in Stockholm and is congratulated on the wedding by his staff. But he did not get married at all, it was a scammer instead of Henry. Erik searches the newspaper notice his wedding announced in Copenhagen and sees a chance to expose the imposter.

A travelling theater-company performs Offenbach's "The Beautiful Helene" when an officer in the audience notices the similarity in appearance between the leading actor Leonard Pettersson and the king Charles XV.With Pettersson dressed as the king and the other actors as the royal suite, they all go to Herrsunda castle where the officer is trying to make an impression on his fiance.

The Swedenhielms is an old aristocratic family. The head of the family is professor Rolf Swedenhielm. His three children Bo, Julia and Rolf Jr also live in the house. They also have an excellent house maid, Boman. Because of the family's extravagance, they are heading for bankruptcy. But perhaps their problems would be solved if Rolf was awarded the Nobel Prize?

16-year-old Marianne will be confirmed. She is reluctant to do this, but her mother is more than happy for her to complete the confirmation. Marianne travels to a rectory in the country where she and a group of other girls will live while they read to the priest. On Midsummer's Eve, she meets by chance one of the other confirmands' fiancés and the feeling arises.

Famous chef Carl-Ulrik Johansson (Erik 'Bullen' Berglund) comes home to Sweden after twenty years abroad and finds out he never finished his compulsory military service. Consequently he is forced to join the army as a conscript. He has many fights with his sergeant Göran Persson (Thor Modéen).

About two girls sharing an apartment in the Old Town of Stockholm.

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.

The American boat is on its way to Gothenburg. On board are the Swedish-American millionaire Fridolf F. Johnson from Detroit (Håkan Westergren) and his male secretary of the same name (Fridolf Rhudin). The millionaire stays hidden in his cabin with the secretary and does not appear on deck. A journalist arrives out at sea by airplane and asks for an interview, which the millionaire refuses to agree to. The journalist disguises himself as a steward, puts on a hidden camera (a spy camera) in the buttonhole, enters with a tea tray and photographs the wrong person - the secretary.

Vera Nilsson is friendly with the poor neighbor boy Håkan, this is not seen kindly by Vera's father Nils.

Frida lives in a small idyllic town called Little Paris.

The young married couple Sigvard and Isabella Löfgren are constantly being sought by different companies where they are trading on the bill. Sigvard is a traveling salesman and Isabella works as a secretary at a theatre agency seeking artists for a revue.

This is the story of Olof Svensson who works as a streetcar conductor in Stockholm. In his free time he is a music composer.

London socialite Cathleen Paget's adventures in love and misfortune a year after the death of her husband. Ivor Willington and Lionel Jesop play cards for who will be given the shot at flirting with Paget, as to claim her wealth. But when her brother Bruce has lost the family fortune in bad business, Cathleen is suggested to court Nordic giant Birger Holm. The two marry and the families financial problems seem to be at bay, although the life in the northern Sweden is wearing Cathleen down as she misses parties, friends and dancing at the Savoy Hotel.