Elsa Carlsson

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

Jan Froman is a young man with great plans for the future. He gets a job as an assistant janitor at a bank, but with inherited money he starts to buy and sell real estate which eventually increases in value. He falls in love with Margareta, whose father is a naval officer. Margareta is slighted by her fiance and follows Froman on a sailing trip in the archipelago. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

Anders and Sylvia are set to be married, but Sylvia says 'no' and runs away at the altar.

Oskar and Mona meet when they come to the Academy of Music to see if they have been accepted, he as a piano student, she a singing student. They become a couple and married but soon there are the frictions. Mona gets hundred crowns from her father, because he thinks she has become so charmless. For it, she buys a perfume called Three Wishes.

An agent on the brink of bankruptcy finds a reluctant singing talent on a TV quiz show.

Sylvia returns to Sweden after having lived abroad for six years. She visits her sister Karin, and is shocked to see how her husband and children regard her as a live-in housekeeper. She convinces Karin to take a vacation with her in Stockholm.

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

A secretary transforms their defunct legal agency into a service where you can get anything, from childcare to gardening to even a fiancée.

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

The police is looking for a female burglar all dressed in white.

Marianne is not very interested in love, but still has company with Bertil. It's only when he decides to try his luck over in America that she realizes how much she likes him.

When the old colonel Hummerborg dies, he leaves his fortune and estate to his trusted housemaid Hanna. But the colonel's relatives try everything to have the last will canceled.

Manager Blom and his family stop at a mountain hotel. Once there, all family members are insolent and even cruel to both guests and staff. When the hotel manager tries to get rid of the family Manager Blom buys the hotel. But all of the staff resigns while a telegram to the family Blom tells them they are ruined! To raise money the family begins to work on and operate the hotel.

A car mechanic saves his friend from getting fired when money is missing at his office.

A happy-go-lucky husband has a wife bitten with social aspirations and this leads to several social mishaps.

Wholesaler Pettersson ends up in the military after being mixed up with a soldier on the run, who has stolen his identity.

Operetta singer Adolf Berg will be called up for military duty just as he gets assigned a major role in an operetta. On the train he meets Ulla Wern and complications occur.

The sculptress Tora Diidiken is married to the sculptor Gunnar Grahn and they both compete in a contest to design a statue for the public square in Hicksville.

Simon lives a quiet life on his farm until one day he discovers he is the heir of a great fortune.

The two conmen Bendel and Pettersson starts doing business together. Bendel got the brains and Pettersson the charm.

The architect Georg Wall is sitting in his spacious Stockholm apartment. He has been waiting several hours since lunch for his significantly younger wife, Lola Wall, to appear. When she eventually comes home, she wants a divorce.

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.

Count Cronschöld is visited by his friend the historian Paul Linder, who wants to vist the castle ruin which is situated close to the count's mansion. During their excursion, the count spots a family of gypsies which is camping on his territory.