Ulf Palme

Helmut Doork is a washed-up German circus clown during the beginning of World War II and the Holocaust. Although he was once a famous performer who toured North America and Europe with the Ringling Brothers, Doork is now past his prime and receives little respect. After Doork causes an accident during a show, the head clown convinces the circus owner to demote Doork. Upon returning home, Doork confides his problems to his wife Ada, and she encourages him to stand up for himself. After going back to the circus, Helmut overhears the circus owner agreeing to fire him after the head clown issues an ultimatum. A distraught Helmut is arrested later by the Gestapo and the Schutzstaffel for drunkenly mocking Adolf Hitler in a bar. Following an interrogation at the Gestapo headquarters, he is imprisoned in a Nazi camp for political prisoners. For the next three to four years, he remains there while hoping for a trial and a chance to plead his case.

A Professor comes home carrying a paper bag with food. Among the goods in the bag is apricot jam. His wife reacts strongly, since they always have eaten orange marmalade. The Professor leaves his house and checks into a hotel.

A lonely teacher muddles through a midlife crisis as he navigates romantic relationships and tries his hand at composing experimental music.

This historical drama is based on a play by Henrik Ibsen and set in the year 1528. The central figure in the low-keyed story is a Norwegian noblewoman who is seeking to bring independence to that country despite the involved political intrigues of the Swedes and Danes, who are using Norway as a pawn in their rivalries.

A young woman dies from a drug overdose, and her brother and his friend try to find out who supplied her with the narcotics. Soon, they're chased all over Stockholm by the cruel but suave ring leader Harry and his thugs. Among the wildness is a fight in a brothel filled with naked girls, and when Servus, one of the thugs, fails to kill our heroes, Harry has his men kill Servus with a razor blade equipped glove. Oh, and the heroine is raped by a guy sucking on a comforter

On his death-bed, Per Henrik Pistolekors must promise his father two things: first of all to kill king Gustav III, which his father hates. Second, to take his half-sister Annarella to Stockholm to find her a rich and noble husband.

A little rogue piece about the paths of fate.

Somewhere in the archipelago outside Sandhamn lives the barber Assar Gustafsson and his 17-year old daughter Anna-Bella...

A theater company rehearses Aristophanes play "Lysistrata" in which the Athenian women revolt to force the men to suspend the war and make peace. The three leading female actresses, Liz, Marianne and Gunilla, all live in humiliating circumstances to their men.

Doctor Glas finds himself attracted to a young woman, married to a corrupt clergyman. She's miserable in her marriage, so he agrees to help in anyway he can. But he is quickly torn between passion and morality.

Noomi is a refugee with traumatic memories, a stranger, afraid of contacts. Leo is a bourgeois man who is considering building a villa. Married with two children. Magnus is an artist, dreams of women. He associates with Noomi. Noomi is now meeting Leo.

A working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving through a series of jobs and romances that gradually shape his future.

In this absurdist comedy Roland Jung is a young man who wants to write, but when he is in desperate need of money, he has to take a job at an advertising agency in Stockholm. He lands on the department for cosmetics and especially deodorant preparations. He is asked by the agency to do market research among the youth to determine their reaction to a new drug against pimples.

An Italian fur merchant who is going to Sweden for the first time to attend the annual fur auctions in Stockholm.

An escaped convict assumes the identity of a professor in order to reveal a criminal syndicate who smuggle diamonds together with Parisian haute couture.

Holden interpreta um executivo sueco, Erick Ericksson, de origem americana que, aceitando ser agente duplo para os Aliados, finge-se de simpatizante dos nazistas visando ganhar-lhes a confiança e ter livre acesso à Alemanha, para onde viaja rotineiramente a pretexto de fazer negócios. Manifestando publicamente sua simpatia pelo nazismo, Erick acaba por ver-se abandonado pela família e hostilizado pelos amigos que se afastam dele devido a suas 'convicções fascista'. Na Alemanha, seu contato é uma mulher de família tradicional, católica, Marianne Möllendorf (Palmer), esposa de um oficial alemão, e ambos simulam ser amantes para se encontrar num apartamento e trocar informações. Com o tempo, eles realmente acabam por se apaixonar, mas os nazistas desconfiam e passam a segui-los. Em crise emocional porque suas informações permitiram aos Aliados bombardear uma região onde foram atingidas e mortas muitas crianças, Marianne vai-se confessar com um padre que, em verdade, é agente da Gestapo.

Krister and his fiancé Brita return to Stockholm after a stay in Italy. Shortly upon their return Krister learns that all his assets left to him by his father has disappeared. Together with Brita he tries to obtain justice in a aristocratic and corrupt legal system.

Marianne is unhappily married with the rich Arvid Croneman. Arvid has been ill for some time and Marianne has been looking forward to his passing away. However, Arvid recovers. Marianne has had an affair with Lennart Hägg, her husband's doctor. She steals poison from his office and makes sure that her husband gets a poisonous injection that swiftly kills him. After his burial, Arvid's relatives, who lives in the house, treats her with suspicion. Has she really gotten rid of all the evidence?

Elin Tarp is an unmarried mother with three children who lives a hard life in the countryside.

Brulard, a French civil engineer on assignment in a remote Swedish village, meets Ina, who has been raised in forested isolation by her haggish mother and believes herself to be a witch. He falls in love with her and tries to convert her to civilization; but in the meantime, his female boss, Kristina, has fallen in love with him, while the villagers turn against him for consorting with someone they believe is cursed by the Devil.

Susanne, uma fotógrafa de moda que não consegue se esquecer do ex-amante, vai a Gotemburgo à procura dele. Com ela vai Doris, sua jovem modelo que brigou com o namorado e se atrasa para o trabalho quando conhece um cônsul que lhe oferece joias.

"Wild birds" - A Swedish film noir with the character of a French noir ('Quai des brumes', 'Le jour se lève'). Two worlds meet for a brief experience of happiness ended by a violent tragedy. In one world the unhappy prostitute (Ulla) finds a drunken young man (Nisse) who had previously failed in many occupations. She takes him home. Her feelings are like those for a younger brother.

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 lonely young man falls in love with a girl he has observed from a distance. One day he stops her on the street and asks if she has lost a piece of jewelry.

Filme histórico inovador e divertido baseado na peça 'Erik IV', de August Strindberg.

David, a young woodsman with a family, is leasing a farm. The family are welcomed by the locals until it becomes known that David is the son of a notorious drifter.

The story about the thief who didn't get crucified because Jesus was choosen to take his place.

"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.

Final do século XIX. Julie "Julia" (Anita Björk), uma jovem de família aristocrática, que acaba de terminar um noivado, se envolve com Jean (Ulf Palme), um ambicioso serviçal. Ao longo do verão, os dois passam momentos juntos e compartilham lembranças e sonhos. Até que os dois decidem fugir juntos para a Suiça.

A short documentary by Arne Sucksdorff about a village in India. Won the Special Prize of the Jury in Cannes 1952.

A short documentary by Arne Sucksdorff about a village in India. Won the Special Prize of the Jury in Cannes 1952.

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.

Jompa is unemployed - and not keen on getting a job. He still lives with his parents who are tired of his attitude about employment and regular hours. Jompa and his friends spend their time at nightclubs, cafés and doing petty crimes. While playing poker, Jompa becomes indebted to the criminal Kalle Lund. Of course, Jompa is unable to pay, but Kalle gives him a tip: an old fetcher has always a lot of money at home, and if Jompa could get his hands on the money, his troubles would disappear... Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

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?

A man is forced to leave his family estate and start again.

A poor woman in a Swedish farming community struggles to feed her large family and is torn by her passion for two different men.

Um realizador de cinema é abordado pelo seu antigo professor de matemática com uma grande ideia para um filme: o Diabo declara que a Terra é o Inferno. O realizador rejeita a ideia, mas os acontecimentos que se seguem na vida de um escritor seu amigo e da jovem prostituta que ele ama parecem provar a ideia do professor.

"Stay a while!" - Reflections on the short duration of life. A boy suffers from a serious illness, is in hospital and would rather not be alone.

Harry, returning home after six years in an asylum, has vivid recollections of a party many years ago with six of his friends. The party ended with one of them, Raoul, disappearing. A gardener is digging in Harry's garden when a skeleton and a watch with the name "Raoul" is found. Harry invites his friends to a dinner to solve the mystery of Raoul's disappearance.

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.

A journalist is writing a critical article about the prison service in Sweden. The magazine's editor in chief does not agree with him and removes the article. The journalist then plans to fake a crime to gain knowledge about life in prison.

Arvid share the love with a young woman named Lydia, but as is customary at the turn of the century, is not love enough for a fairy tale to come true. While Arvid struggling to create the basis for their existence, Lydia's thirst for the good life leads her to marrying an older wealthy man.