Man in the Refugee Boat
Durante uma guerra civil, dois músicos se retiram para uma fazenda numa ilha. Eles são apolíticos. Às vezes um vizinho lhes dá um peixe; ou um vinho que é um luxo. Eles se amam, mas há problemas: a guerra perturba Jan, ele ficou triste, muito sensível; Eva quer filhos, ele não. A guerra de repente chega: rebeldes atacam, vizinhos morrem. Quando o outro lado restabelece a ordem, Jan e Eva são presos como colaboradores. Depois de amedronta-los e domina-los o coronel local os libera. Em seguida, ele começa a aparecer em sua fazenda. Para falar ou para perseguir Eva? Ele lhes dá dinheiro. Os rebeldes retornam e o caos se instala. Jan se torna violento e assassino. Então eles fogem. Será que eles conseguirão escapar? Se assim for, para quê?
Estudo psicológico de Ingmar Bergman de como os seres humanos reagem em uma situação de guerra. O filme se passa em Gotland, onde as forças de invasão chegam.
Jönsson, inneboende hos fru Karlsson
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 monologue of a woman who tells about her life, mainly about the men she met, while walking.
Herr Prästen
Stockholm 1912. Site for the Olympic Games. Love entanglements and eroticism at hotel Eros.
Man at the train station
On a tourist trip abroad the passengers on the coach witness an assassination attempt on the President Hurkas. One of the tourists has evidence against the perpetrators, and is killed when the coach reaches Sweden. Another passenger observes how one of the perpetrators is picked up by a yellow car. She is kidnapped and locked up in a mental hospital.
Gold smith (uncredited)
An escaped convict assumes the identity of a professor in order to reveal a criminal syndicate who smuggle diamonds together with Parisian haute couture.
Drunk
Sam Persson is released from a mental hospital. He goes to Stockholm to meet a man he hates, theater manager Stig Brender. In Brender's office they get into a fight...
This quintessential Chekhov drama--his first success--is both comic and tragic. A group of friends and relations gather at a country estate to see the first performance of an experimental play written and staged by the young man of the house, Konstantin, an aspiring writer who dreams of bringing new forms to the theatre.
Station inspector
An agent on the brink of bankruptcy finds a reluctant singing talent on a TV quiz show.
Cemetary worker
A model is murdered at a famous fashion house and the Hillmans start to investigate. Kajsa Hillman is employed as a model and discovers that several people had motives to kill her.
Travelling salesman
Corporal Åsa-Nisse Nilsson is an officer who somehow manages to teach his soldiers both discipline and the art of war.
Maitre d' at Los Caracoles
Fabian Bom has been sent by the Export Association to promote Swedish export to Spain. He travels with the navy's cruiser to Barcelona, but his jealous fiancée Gullan has followed him in secret to keep an eye on him. In Barcelona the usually strict and virtuous Bom is surrounded by the local women and has a ball. He meets the young and zestful Linnea from Sweden. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Stage manager
The banker Marcus falls in love with the young ballet-dancer Maj who works at the opera. To meet her he takes a job there but Maj is in love with Osvald Berg, the big star of the opera. To wake Osvald's interest for her she asks Marcus if he could play deeply in love with her. Plot summary by nL.
Johan
A young and spoiled aristocrat is guilty of a hit-and-run accident.
Flagellant (uncredited)
Após dez anos, um cavaleiro retorna das Cruzadas e encontra o país devastado pela Peste Negra. Sua fé em Deus é sensivelmente abalada e, enquanto reflete sobre o significado da vida, a Morte surge à sua frente querendo levá-lo, pois chegou sua hora. Objetivando ganhar tempo, convida-a para um jogo de xadrez que decidirá se ele parte com ela ou não. Tudo depende da sua vitória no jogo e a Morte concorda com o desafio, já que não perde nunca.
The nurse Nina becomes sterile after an illegal abortion and keep it a secret from her husband.
Staffan Stolle becomes the sole heir to a rich and noble family when he is just a little boy. Early on he is engaged to be married to a girl he finds he does not love. Instead he flees the country only to return under a false name, looking for true love.
Orphan girl Gunilla (nick named Kulla-Gulla) gets sent from her orphanage to work as an housemaid at sharecropper Karlbergs household. Among her duties is to take care of Karlberg, his wife and their five children.
Composer
Unsuccessful composer Stig disguises himself as a woman to play in ex-fiancee Sonja's seven piece women's orchestra, which is temporarily short one member, at a hotel. When Stig's jealous, and unsuccessful actress, wife Eva finds out about it she too disguises herself as the opposite sex by posing as a hotel porter. Additional complications arise and hilarity ensues!
man commenting on a newspaper
Görel and Arne are about to get a divorce. Görel thinks back on how history has repeated itself within her family.
Sigurdsson
A horse wanders from town to the countryside. Here lives Sten Stensson Steen, a bachelor at law and philosophy. He is writing a social psychological report on the youth problem.
Man in the boat
The Swedish/American actor Jack Harris visits the old country for the first time in his life. One of the journalist, Ingrid Billberg, is particularly interested in getting an interview with him. She finds out secret information about his next movie, and to stop her from revealing it, Jack Harris gets her alone with him on an isolated island in the archipelago. Romance blossoms... Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Kar-Fredrik
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.
Johansson
Gösta is a lorry driver and has been married to Birgitta for eight years. Their marriage is only held together by their daughter. Gösta picks up girls along the roads and during a drive to Malmö he stumbles on the singing actress Irene. Gösta is captivated by her romantic presence and her joy of life. Besides picking up women, Gösta is sometimes affected by sudden seizures. His wife is unaware of this.
Arne's neighbour
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.
The fishermen Österman and Sjöberg are sued by merchant Wikström. In order to raise capital, they decide to start producing a medicine from a recipe by Österman's father.
David Erneman e a sua esposa Marianne estão casados há 15 anos. Antes do casamento, Marianne esteve noiva de um artista, Carl-Adam, o melhor amigo de David. Sabendo que David a trai, Marianne procura o antigo amor. Um triângulo sentimental longe de ser compreendido que questiona a durabilidade das relações.
Johansson
Karl Oskar Bohm looks back at his life, his estranged daughter Augusta and his wife Sofia.
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.
Harry's Father
Harry Lund tem 19 anos de idade e trabalha numa loja de porcelanas. Quase vizinho a ele, na loja de verduras, trabalha Monika, uma simpática e alegre garota de 17 anos. Assim que eles se conhecem a paixão explode. Mas por causa da idade deles, os dois sofrem com a intereferência dos mais velhos. Monika briga com os pais e decide sair de casa. Harry discute com o chefe e pede demissão. Sem mais nada que os prendem na cidade, os jovem decidem fugir de barco para uma ilha e passar algumas semanas juntos.
Metal shop worker
"She Came Like a Wind" - Fabian Rosander works at a factory and is close to 50 years old. When a new employee named Lilly, a young beautiful girl, comes to the factory Fabians life takes a new turn.
Priest
About the farming mountain settlers in 1870s Sweden. The young Helge has been accused of manslaughter and has to fight for his life to survive.
Benster
After watching Stig Järrel star in a production of Pygmalion Mister Haglund bets him that he can turn anyone into a gentlemen in a few months.
To save intoxicated friend Boman from getting caught, two conscripts lock him up in the local jail and release a prisoner, Ivan Jansson, so that he can pretend to be Boman for a few hours. But when the real Boman is transported to the county jail, switching them back could be difficult.
Tenant
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.
Agent
Two neighbours, each with a small plot of land, hate each other. Both are dissatisfied with his wife.
Worker
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.
Parish Clerk
A new teacher arrives to the small village and he soon stir up some trouble with his modern way of looking at things. He also stir up some amorous feelings among the local women.
Uma mulher deixa uma festa, vai para casa e é encontrada morta no dia seguinte, morta por suas próprias mãos. Por que ela quis se suicidar? Flashbacks mostram quem ela era e as pessoas que ela encontrou. Será que o seu segredo morrerá com ela?
Hajen
A new realism depiction of life and work in an old restaurant. A social portrayal of exhausted staff and dubious guests.
Anker, flute player
After discovering that his wife has been killed in an accident, Stig looks back on their relationship, beginning with when he and Marta were starting out as violinists together in an orchestra overseen by conductor Sonderby.
An inventive store assistant becomes a major motorcycle racing star.
Wiland's janitor
Erik, a poor inventor meets the clerk Lillemor and fall in love. Erik's becomes invention is ready for the market. He contacts a director who might be interested. Erik is attracted almost immediately by the director's wife.
Kjellstedt
it's the 1840s and a rural parish plagued by drinking and fighting gets a new vicar who has decided to instill law, order and fear of God into the parishioners.
Tailor Hampus Pihl
Kronblom wins a little pig in a lottery and starts to build a sty for his new friend.
Hotel Porter
Fredrik seduces the office girl Anna. She becomes helplessly passionately in love. Fredrik cheat Anna of all her savings. He intends to manufacture beauty products. To market the product he forge the signature of a wealthy aunt of Anna.
Customs officer Holmberg
To get away from his nagging wife, a man goes to a desert island to settle down there.
Farm hand reading from a book
Young drifter tells his story in flashback from prison.
Pilgren (uncredited)
Sture Letterström and Kurre Svensson take on the task of rescuing a secret document during World War II from a group of Swedish Nazis. Since both of them are known by the local Nazis, Sture takes on the role of Miss Märta Letterström, and Kurre also has to make use of his feminine side as well as a dress.
Because of an accident at a military drill the recruit Bengt loses his eyesight and becomes blind. He gets to live with relatives in the countryside and meets the young Ingrid. She falls in love with him but Bengt's bitterness also makes him blind to her attentions.
The young kid Kalle is always unlucky.
Pelle (Karl-Arne Holmsten) and Siska (Irma Christenson) Hedberg are both journalists on the same newspaper. Pelle is an editor and Siska writes a relationship advice column. They're also newlyweds. And they love each other and are very happy together. But Siska often works late. Which leaves Pelle home alone. And after a while he starts to feel neglected. So he writes a letter about his problem to Siska’s relationship column. And HILARITY ensues in this ZANY ROM-COM!
The actor Robert Berg is just about to get his dream role on the big stage in Stockholm when he gets called to the military service.
Kolare
In a rural parish in 1906, young Heikki, one of the Finnish immigrants, lives a wild and free life in the deep forest. After poaching, his furs are confiscated and Heikki vows to have his revenge by seducing the young women of the parish, one by one.
Tailor
A couple of thieves are terrorizing the village of Vinkelboda, and Kronblom becomes a suspect and must clear his name. Based on the popular Swedish comic strip Kronblom, about the laziest man in town.
Carl Carlbom
Maria has been fired from her job as a householder with a family in a small town in Sweden. She leaves in anger for Stockholm, aiming for a career as an actress.
Poor farmer
Harald Handfaste is a 15th century Swedish Robin Hood, who fights against foreign oppression. He becomes the leader of a band of highwaymen and they start dealing with the evil bailiff. However, the bailiff will stop at nothing to catch Handfaste and show the people who is in charge. He even attempts to marry Handfaste's beloved Karin, and when she refuses to subdue, the bailiff decides to execute both her, her father and a monk who has been helping them.
The story about Karlsson's six boys, who makes mischief in the fictional town of Östköping.
Lutter
A smuggler's daughter falls in love with the son of a customs inspector.
Broder Johansson
A lonely fisherman drowns and his elderly brother Efraim is left to do an inventory of the estate. He discovers that his brother had a son, Karl-Erik. Keeping it a secret, he travels to Stockholm to employ the young man as a hired hand. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Berglund på AB Skånedelikatesser (uncredited)
Gugge and Nuffe work at the competing meat wholesalers AB Delikatesser and AB Skånedelikatesser. The two companies compete for a large order and the two will stop at hardly nothing to get the order
Journalist (uncredited)
Lisa Larsson, dancer at a theater, witnesses a traffic accident and banker Brenner's private driver asks her to be a witness. When her friends see her talk to the driver, they start to believe that she is Brenner's fiancée. The manager of the theater, Gravander, gives her the leading part in his latest show, in order to befriend Brenner. Larsson plays along in this mistake and when Brenner hears about this he asks to see Larsson, pretending to be a news journalist... Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Secretary
A Swedish drama from 1939 about the social and political developments in Sweden from 1885 until the dissolution of the union in 1905. The year is 1885, Christina Nilsson sings "Fourteen years I believe certain that I was" in the Grand Hotel's Great Hall . She also sings from the balcony of the hotel and the panic arising among listeners outside the hotel. In Norway, talks about the dissolution of the Union and the Swedish socialists with Hjalmar Branting (Victor Sjöström) is in the lead for independence.
Tvätteriarbetare
A happy-go-lucky husband has a wife bitten with social aspirations and this leads to several social mishaps.
Shipyard worker
"Conflict" - Shipbuilder Edvard Banck is busy building new ships, but forgets that his wife Birgit wants his attention and tenderness. A new engineer, Reidar Hagen, begins at the shipyard, and Birgit is immediately attracted to him. They fall in love, and Birgit decides to leave her husband. But is it possible and what will Edvard do?
Adolph Turesson is a mild-mannered, meek college professor whose faint-heart isn't impressing the fair-lady he secretly loves, the golden-haired Britta Larsson. Attending a lecture, he witnesses the attention paid to his lady-love by other faculty members, and falls to sleep. He dreams of the olden days and the knights, and the comely ladies of the court over whom they fought. His dream also gives all the cast the change to play a second role. Upon awakening, he proposes to Britta.
Åke is employed as a singer in a revue tour and his uncle Karlsson becomes the tour bus driver.
Guest at Tora's party
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.
Olle
Daniel has been forced by his father to become a priest. After graduating, he comes to a parish in Hälsingland. During one stormy night, he seduces a young girl, Karin, and rapes her. Filled with regret, he runs out into the dark night and is struck by lightning. He loses his memory and is taken to a distant hospital to recover. Meanwhile Karin gets pregnant and has a child. Eventually Daniel comes back and when he meets Karin his memory returns.
bensinförsäljaren
Simon lives a quiet life on his farm until one day he discovers he is the heir of a great fortune.
Participator at Erik's engagement party (uncredited)
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.
When Ellen Brenton takes a swim too far from the shore she is be saved by the lifeguard Bob. While her husband is away on business Bob gets drunk and try to romance Ellen in her hotel room. There's a scandal in the media.
Tomt-Matts' farm worker
King Christian II rides busy street by Sweden which he now put under him, while he remembers what he did against the Swedes at the Stockholm Bloodbath. In dala heels walk a lonely man, dressed as a peasant. It's the one the Danes would prefer to get hold of - Gustaf Eriksson Vasa . He goes from Rankhyttan to Ornäs , where he is kindly received by the farmer Arendt Persson, but Arendt is a deceitful man who has thought enter Wasa to the Danish bailiff. But Arendt's wife helps Wasa to escape and he continues his long journey.