Folke Sundquist

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

Christer Berg dies in a car crash and is found with a teddy bear named "Bamse". His son, also named Christer finds out that Bamse belongs to his father's lover Barbro Persson. He tries to humiliate her, introducing her to his mother as his new fiancée. But he ends up falling in love with her, and she sees in him the memories of her dead lover. When she finds herself pregnant, they have to decide about their love affair.

Um pintor e sua esposa vão morar em uma ilha afastada de tudo e conhecem um misterioso grupo de pessoas que passam a trazer angústias ainda maiores à vida do casal, que já estava atormentado pelos pesadelos do pintor e por conflitos psicológicos. Durante a hora do lobo, entre a meia-noite e a aurora, ele conta para sua esposa suas memórias mais dolorosas, e começa a questionar a própria lucidez.

A knight returning home with his squire Jons after a ten-year crusade to the Holy Land finds a country paralyzed by the Black Death, a newly burned witch, a blacksmith and his runaway wife, an actress, a Virgin Mary with her child and the knight's faithful wife. All approaches the realm of the dead in a single "tragicomic long dance of death". The narrator begins with: "In a church in southern Småland is our spectacle painted on the wall just to the right of the entrance to the porch. The unknown painter has on the church wall depicted a number of people in formal long dance toward death."

Someone is murdered. Who is the killer? Members of all star cast are all suspects...

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.

Uma mulher veneziana apaixona-se por Julio, um nobre. Devotada ao amor efervescente, a senhorita encontra-se num estado incerto de fidelidade.

A student and his love for a young woman, misunderstood by her father.

O rabugento médico aposentado Isak Borg viaja de Estocolmo para Lund, na Suécia, com sua nora grávida e infeliz, Marianne, para receber um diploma honorário da universidade onde estudou. Ao longo do caminho, eles cruzam com uma série de caroneiros, cada um deles fazendo com que o médico idoso reflita sobre os prazeres e as falhas de sua própria vida, incluindo a vivaz jovem Sara, que se parece muito com o próprio primeiro amor do médico.

Per is in love with Kerstin. They are high school classmates. In the distance they see teacher Eva Hallström, ph. d. and the headmaster's wife, return home to her home. She is currently a major topic of conversation because she has just published an acclaimed collection of love poems. Everyone is curious about who the young lover of the poems might be.

A coming of age story about young Salka Valka who lives in the small fishing village of Íseyri. She is doing well for herself as a partner in a small fishing boat, but people believe she is financed by her deceased mother's former fiance, Steinthór, who disappeared on their wedding day many years ago. Salka becomes infatuated with the idealistic Arnaldur who wants to start a workers union, much to the opposition of local entrepreneur Bogesen. The past comes to haunt her in the return of Steinthór but Salka fends off his advances only to lose the restless Arnaldur away. http://www.icelandicfilmcentre.is

A traveling theatre company comes to a small town and performs to a packed house. But during the show the theatre director decides to run away with the money.

Four Swedish volunteer soldiers are trapped in Russia. In front of them lies the front with enemy outposts and patrols, behind them the enemy minefields. Hope to return to their own lines decreases each day. Corpses of fallen, "dead of cold and hard as iron", forms the macabre landmarks in the winter landscape. Nearby is a burnt Russian village.

For the Sake of My Intemperate Youth (Swedish: För min heta ungdoms skull) is a 1952 Swedish drama film directed by Arne Mattsson. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.

Um rapaz que terminou o ensino médio vai passar um tempo na casa do seu tio, em uma fazenda. Lá acaba fazendo alguns amigos e, principalmente, aprendendo a trabalhar e lidar com as terras. Surge também um interesse romântico. O jovem rapaz se vê cada vez mais preso à vida simples por causa de sua paixão. Tendo que dividir-se entre o futuro planejado pelo seu pai e a coragem em desistir de tudo pelo seu novo amor.