Alf Kjellin

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

When fugitive human astronaut Virdon is shot, his chimp companion Galen must charm an old flame into accepting that a book on human surgery is no hoax. Meanwhile, their friend Burke is captured by the ape authorities and is to be brainwashed by a brilliant ape scientist named Wanda. [The fourth of five telefilms edited from episodes of the 1974 TV series; this film combines the episodes "The Surgeon" and "The Interrogation"]

The story of Francis Gary Powers, a U-2 pilot for the CIA who was shot down in his spy plane over Russia, captured and imprisoned.

The Holvak family house the escaped convict named Craw that the son befriends. Reverend Holvak's faith is tested and young Ramey faces a choice between a friendship and his family.

An unmarried teacher in a school for unwed mothers finds herself becoming too emotionally attached to her students and their problems.

A scientist keeps having dreams that he is marked for murder by a mysterious tribunal for something that he's not aware that he's done, and that his wife and his friends are part of the conspiracy. Soon he's not sure which is the dream and which is reality.

When a black Civil War veteran becomes co-owner of the southern McMasters ranch, the incensed local Confederate veterans come gunning for him and his Indian wife.

A veteran secret service officer from Britain hijacks a government shipment of $15 million of gold out of an irritation for never being knighted.

Esta espetacular produção de Martin Ransohoff, leva o submarino nuclear Tigerfish a uma perigosa viagem nas águas geladas do Pólo Norte, onde um satélite espião perdeu o controle e caiu. Dentro dele, um importante microfilme que pode desencadear um confronto nuclear entre os Estados Unidos e a União Soviética. Para resgatar o conteúdo do satélite, os serviços de espionagem dos dois países enviam agentes disfarçados, numa missão de vida ou morte. O submarino nuclear, sob o comando de James Ferraday (Rock Hudson), leva o agente inglês David Jones (Patrick McGoohan) até a Estação Polar Zebra, onde outros agentes já devem estar de posse do microfilme. Mas existe um agente duplo infiltrado no Tigerfish. Pior: uma frota soviética também está rumando para Zebra e o confronto entre as duas potencias está por um fio. Do mesmo diretor de “Sete Homens e um Destino” e “Fugindo do Inferno”.

Um grupo de aventureiros desencalha um submarino alemão da Segunda Guerra Mundial e pretende usá-lo para realizar algo grande: assaltar o navio The Queen Mary em pleno alto mar.

1933: Um transatlântico pertencente a uma empresa alemã de segunda categoria está fazendo uma viagem de 26 dias partindo de Veracruz, México, para Bremerhaven, Alemanha. Ao longo do caminho ele vai parar em Cuba para pegar um grande grupo de trabalhadores agrícolas espanhóis que estão sendo enviados para casa e que serão alojadas como gado na terceira classe. Vão também pegar La Condesa, uma condessa espanhola. Vão parar em Tenerife, onde os trabalhadores agrícolas irão desembarcar e onde La Condesa será enviado para uma prisão alemã por suas atividades "traidoras" em Cuba. Esta viagem será a última de três para o médico do navio, Willi Schumann, que tem uma doença cardíaca grave e que pensou que poderia encontrar algum sentido para sua vida através deste trabalho. Willi e La Condesa se apaixonam e o capitão do navio Thiele, que é o melhor amigo de Willie a bordo, acreditando que a viciada em drogas La Condesa está apenas usando-o para obter suas doses.

A middle aged doctor begins a relationship with a teenage girl. His best friend is dating the girls mother. A group of boys plan to blackmail the doctor or expose him as a pedophile.

A young woman struggles with life, love and career. She is courted by a young man but is unwilling to enter into a relationship if it means limiting her freedom.

Set in 1860s Holland along the famed Zeider Zee — young Hans Brinker finds himself responsible for supporting his family after his father becomes injured in an accident. He and his sister, Gretel, travel to Amsterdam in search of funds to help pay for their father's operation. Their only hope lies in the city's annual ice skating race in which Hans must face off against his arch-rival, Ludwig Schimmel, in hopes of winning the prize money.

A small picturesque town at the turn of the century. The conservative views of the townspeople are shaken when they find out that the school teacher Franzén published his own poetry anonymously many years ago. At the same time he acknowledges his love affair with a waitress at the city hotel, Fanny. What is most upsetting is the fact that Fanny has a grownup daughter, Anna, with no known father. Could their poet teacher be the father although he and Fanny are not married?

Three Post Office employees are at work when the facility is held up. The robber kills the supervisor and knocks out another employee. The third one offers no resistance and survives unscathed. Afterwards he begins to wonder if his refusal to resist was a prudent move to preserve his family, or an act of cowardice, as many in the town believe. The resulting conflict begins to tear apart his family.

Fabian Bom is a waiter at a hotel in a small town. But he dreams of doing something else - to dance and sing on a stage. He is madly in love with Matilda Roos, singer and diva. Fabian is too insensitive to notice that Annie, who works in the kitchen, is in love with him. Encouraged by Matilda, Fabian leaves the hotel and goes to Stockholm to become famous. But, as he soon learns, it is more difficult than he first thought.

Love triangle between Svante, his fiancee Inga and Sophie, a girl from a rich family.

It's summertime. The students Allan and Erik returns to their home town. 19-year old Allan is in love with 17-year old Anna-Lena. She rejects his clumsy attempts of telling her, but that's because she is uncertain of her own feelings. The Norwegian singer Lydia Hennert has an accident with her car and she is slightly injured. Allan's father is a doctor and Lydia spends a few days with them. Allan falls in love with her instead, she is a "real" woman and not a girl. But this makes Anna-Lena jealous.

It's summertime. The students Allan and Erik returns to their home town. 19-year old Allan is in love with 17-year old Anna-Lena. She rejects his clumsy attempts of telling her, but that's because she is uncertain of her own feelings. The Norwegian singer Lydia Hennert has an accident with her car and she is slightly injured. Allan's father is a doctor and Lydia spends a few days with them. Allan falls in love with her instead, she is a "real" woman and not a girl. But this makes Anna-Lena jealous.

Married couple have romantic interludes in the summer, she at their summer cottage, him in the apartment in town.

Eva Dahl, a doctor's wife, starts an affair with a younger man.

Olle moves to Stockholm to start a new job as a printer. He rents a room by his colleague-to-be, Victor. He shares the apartment with Roffe who has a serious alcohol problem - and a very flirtatious wife, Irma. He falls in love with Irma's sister, Barbro.

The nurse Nina becomes sterile after an illegal abortion and keep it a secret from her husband.

Young Lo (Marianne Bengtsson) lives in a boring small town. Locally she is known as somewhat of a fabulist. One day an airplane crashes just out of town. And the town goes crazy with excitement. Later, while hoping to catch a peak of the crashed plane, Lo sees a mysterious man (Günther Hüttmann) land out in the woods by parachute. She tries to tell the rest of town. But naturally nobody will believe her. Thus she is going to have to learn more about the stranger from the sky by herself in this immeasurably startling mammoth among thrillers!

A seemingly ordinary day in October. A woman has since she separated from her husband lived in a single room with a separate entrance. But for her this is not an ordinary day. She only has six hours left to live.

A train stops at a station in a small town. An accident has occurred and some freight cars have overturned, which stops the railway traffic. At the same time, some young people are breaking into a weapons depot, something that will have fatal consequences.

Young Anna Rydell comes to a boarding-school for girls. She is very shy and the other girls don't really try to get to know her. The French teacher Martin Andreasson, who Anna falls in love with, lives at the boarding-school with his wheel chair-bound wife. Her handicap has made her depressed and Martin finds it hard to love her like he used to do.

Young Anna Rydell comes to a boarding-school for girls. She is very shy and the other girls don't really try to get to know her. The French teacher Martin Andreasson, who Anna falls in love with, lives at the boarding-school with his wheel chair-bound wife. Her handicap has made her depressed and Martin finds it hard to love her like he used to do.

Young Anna Rydell comes to a boarding-school for girls. She is very shy and the other girls don't really try to get to know her. The French teacher Martin Andreasson, who Anna falls in love with, lives at the boarding-school with his wheel chair-bound wife. Her handicap has made her depressed and Martin finds it hard to love her like he used to do.

A girl has been found murdered in her apartment. But who killed her and why? Through a series of flashbacks, the police investigation unfolds the murder mystery.

Imber has a child with the dubious fiancé Erland. He is destructive and his unhealthy lifestyle subjects his family to starvation and the death of their child. Imber falls in love with Arne and a settlement between Arne and Erland unfolds.

A Holocaust survivor moves to Israel and experiences difficulty adjusting to life.

Neste filme biográfico, Jim Bowie vai para Nova Orleans, onde se apaixona por Judalon e torna-se amigo de seu irmão, Narcisse. Logo, Jim é forçado a vingar o assassinato de Narcisse, mas Judalon pega outro homem. Jim acaba tendo outro interlúdio romântico com Judalon e é forçado a matar um de seus pretendentes em legítima defesa. Jim deixa a cidade e se apaixona pela filha de um político do Texas, mas seu envolvimento com Judalon continua a atormentá-lo.

A psychologist takes on the daunting task of getting into the mind of prisoners. He must gain the trust and cooperation from a group of men who have no reason to help him and who might enjoy killing him.

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.

Uma mulher solitária recorda seu primeiro amor treze anos antes durante umas breves férias de verão. Enquanto espera pelo ensaio noturno do balé Lago do Cisne, a solitária bailarina de vinte e oito anos, Marie, recebe um diário pelo correio. Ela viaja de balsa para uma ilha próxima a Estocolmo, onde se lembra de seu primeiro amor, Henrik. Treze anos atrás, enquanto viajava para passar suas férias de verão com sua tia Elisabeth e seu tio Erland, Marie encontra Henrik na balsa e, mais cedo, eles se apaixonam um pelo outro. Eles passam férias de verão juntos quando uma tragédia os separa e Marie constrói uma parede afetando sua vida sentimental.

"Rolling Sea" - After a longer stay at the hospital, the young Martin comes to Gothenburg and notice that his fiancee Sonja has met another man.

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.

Atka Natas is a secret agent from the oppressive regime of Liquidatzia. He visits his estranged wife Vera, a chemist who is involved with a group of exiles trying to smuggle their compatriots out of Liquidatzia. Almkvist, a local policeman and former lover of Vera's, contacts her while investigating the death of one of the refugees. Natas has a list of agents operating in the host country and wants to sell them to the Americans. However before he can do so, Vera tries to kill him, after an argument about getting her parents out of Liquidatzia.

Set in medieval times about the cursed Moonshield family. The young knight Erland Moonshield fall in love with a gypsy enchantress, Singoalla, he meet in the forest.

Based on the French literary classic, this drama presents author Gustave Flaubert narrating his tale of infidelity and narcissism. After marrying small-town doctor Charles Bovary, Emma becomes tired of her limited social status and begins to have affairs, first with the young Leon Dupuis and later with the wealthy Rodolphe Boulanger. Eventually, however, her self-involved behavior catches up with her.

Martin is married to Frida and together they have a son. One day after a quarrel with his wife, he goes to buy flowers to ask for forgiveness. In the flower shop he meets the beautiful Rut and falls instantly in love. They both start a passionate love affair but beneath the beautiful surface hides a completely different woman than he expected ...

The Farmer Germund is planning a wedding between his daughter Marit and Mats, the son of a neighboring farm. Everything seems to be going according to plan until Marit meets the fiddler Jon, an illegitimate son who enchants the youth with his violin.

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.

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.

In the middle of the 1800s Swedish prince Gustaf meets the actress Anna Maria Wastenius and falls in love with her, but it is an impossible love story due to the rules of society.

Um professor sádico apelidado pelos alunos de Caligula, rege suas aulas como um tirano. Mostra-se particularmente rígido com Jan-Erik Widgren. Numa noite ao retornar para casa,Widgren encontra uma moça chorando, Bertha.Decide ajuda-la e reconduzila para casa. Mas esta aproximação irá desencadear uma série de eventos cada vêz mais nebulosos e ameaçadores. Bergman foi responsavel pelo roteiro, assim como pela direção da última sequência. O filme recebeu a Palma de Ouro do festival de Cannes em 1946.

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

A classic melodrama about the famous pianist Thomas Dahlhoff.

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.

"I Slew" - Hospital drama of a doctor who thinks that he killed a patient on the operating table.

Early 1940s, during WW2, pitch black waters except for a moon-shadow over the waves. Surrounded by minefields and the fog slips in the sweeping headlights of the cargo ship S/S Rune. But the ship bows relentlessly forward through the night.

Early 1940s, during WW2, pitch black waters except for a moon-shadow over the waves. Surrounded by minefields and the fog slips in the sweeping headlights of the cargo ship S/S Rune. But the ship bows relentlessly forward through the night.

Georg Hammar works at the General Hospital and is engaged to the famous professor Berg's daughter Inga. But he is also drawn to the nurse Maria.

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

His grace, the Lord Chamberlain and Colonel Baron Roger Bernhusen de Sars of Rogershus, Klockeberga and Björkenäs, will celebrate his 70th birthday. He decides to write his will and publish it on the birthday.

A woman flees to avoid rumors of promiscuity, but is trailed by a reporter who wants to expose her dark past.

A story about the Swedish navy and their cadet school.