Lars-Erik Larsson

Winter in Lapland, a settler and his wife just had their newborn daughter baptized. On the way home through the wilderness, they are chased by a pack of wolves. The little baby falls out of the sledge and parents plunges off a cliff.

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.

Harriet and Frank Allard have been married for many years. Almost twenty years ago, Harriet had a love affair with a colleague of Frank's, Claes von Klitzow, who made her pregnant. She had a son, Christer, whom Frank thinks that he is the father of. One day, Christer reveals that he is going to marry von Klitzow's daughter Louise. Harriet becomes upset but what will she do? Try to stop the marriage by telling the truth - which would endanger her marriage with Frank - or keep silent, which would mean that two half-siblings married?

Three Scottish noblemen escape from Gripsholm Castle and breaks in to the home of Lord Arne. They kill everyone except for Lord Arne's adopted daughter Elsalill.

A vixen mother invades a chicken coop to provide food for her cubs. She continues to raid the coop until she is shot by a farmer. The cubs are attacked by the farmer and only one survives. An otter trapped in a burrow is rescued by 10-year-old Anders and his six-year-old brother, Kjell. In secret, the boys cage the animal and finally domesticate it. They obtain food for the Otter by fishing through the ice on a frozen lake. The boys manage to keep their secret from their family. On the eve of the May Day festival, Kjell reveals to family and friends the otter's presence. Anders is so distressed that he runs into the woods with the otter. The otter breaks away and returns to its life of natural freedom. The film was a prize winner at the 1954 Cannes Film Festival.

Robert, an upper-class officer, meets and falls in love with Iris, a house maid. His family will do anything to stop her from marrying him.

The man of the gallows is a little sinister wooden figure that the proprietor must sell before his death. If not he will be doomed and unsaved.

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

Shipmate Henrik gets in contact with two women in Gothenburg — the sociable Lisbeth and the shy Astrid.

When the prestigious Dr. Arne Lundell completes the most important work of his life, a colleague from the University of Stockholm, Dr. Sander, complains against him for plagiarism. Marianne, wife of Arne, does everything possible to encourage her anxious husband for not understanding the reasons for this unjust accusation. In these circumstances, Sander is found dead. It seems that it is a suicide, but his soon finds that he has been murdered. Suspicions fall on Dr. Arne. The dramatic situation begins to unravel when Arne discovers, by chance, a letter by which he discovers that his wife was the secret lover of the missing professor.

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

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 professor suffers an accident that disables him. He struggles to keep his courage, trying to understand and solve a conflict with his wife.

Rolf Berger, a hard working and dutiful deputy judge at the court of appeal, has been married for many years with Eva. She has long ago accepted that he spends his evenings with his legal work. Rolf Berger has been invited to the 25th anniversary of his graduation and starts to reconsider the kind of life he lives. When he meets the 19-year old Inger he falls in love with her and decide to leave his wife.

An allegory of Germany's WWII occupation of Norway. Members of a theater ensemble join the resistance.

A priest decides to engage himself socially in prison. In the cells he meets a number of women with different fates. One is Mary, a young honest woman gone wrong.

A rural doctor in the north of Sweden must travel for hours to his patients. When a young woman has a serious case of appendicitis the doctor must bring her on a dangerous trek downriver to reach the clinic. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

A stateless lawyer comes with his son Karel and his two daughters Vanja and Sonja as refugees to Stockholm. No one gets work permit in Sweden and the family's problems grows to not just financially. The idleness and hopelessness towards the future is almost worse and that can lead into dangerous paths.

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.

The Swedish officer Mikael Bourg has served with the French army in Africa. When he returns to Sweden after many years abroad to recover from malaria, he meets his son, a student who prefers partying with his frat friends instead of his bank job; a disappointment in his father's eyes. He also meets a young librarian, Ebba Garland, which makes him feel young again and distracts him from the sickness.