A tribute to Swedish film, which was made to celebrate the 100th anniversary of film in 1995 and consists of about a hundred clips from Swedish film history with many of its stars.
A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 films.
Filip Landahl
Alexander tem apenas dez anos e sua irmã, Fanny, seis, quando seu pai morre de um mal súbito. Alexander começa a ver o fantasma do pai frequentemente até que sua mãe se casa com um Pastor de hábitos muito severos e vai morar em sua casa. Lá as duas crianças sofrerão muito, sendo tratadas como prisioneiras. [Esta é a versão original de Fanny & Alexander, que foi concebido como uma série de TV e depois reduzido para o formato de filme]
Set between 1930s and 50s, The Farewell the story of Valerie, who lives in a household totally repressed by her stern father. When Valerie has a brief affair with another woman, her father is extremely angry and tries to end the affair with physical force. However Valerie’s determination, independence and lesbian feelings cannot be crushed.
Rural dean Forsius
1830 Värmland, Sweden. Master Karl Arthur Ekenstedt comes to aid the Minister at Crosss Church. He falls in love with Charlotte Löwensköld, housekeeper in the rectory. They get engaged. Charlotte is full of life, energetic and practical. Karl Arthur struggle with his faith and God.
Paul
Após ter sido uma mãe ausente por anos, Charlotte (Ingrid Bergman), uma renomada pianista, vai até a casa de sua filha Eva (Liv Ullmann) para lhe fazer uma visita. Ela se surpreende ao encontrar sua outra filha, Helena (Lena Nyman), que tem problemas mentais. Eva tirou Helena da instituição que Charlotte a havia internado para cuidar dela em casa. A tensão entre mãe e filha começa a crescer devagar até elas colocarem tudo em panos limpos, dizendo tudo que sempre gostariam de dizer.
Self
On-set documentary of the making of Ingmar Bergman's 1977 film Autumn Sonata starring Ingrid Bergman and Liv Ullman, examining every aspect of the production. Unusual for this kind of documentary, there is no post-production commentary or interviews.
Rådmanskan
Solidarity with the border people. Equal rights for the sexual deviants. Kristoffer Lohman is a young solicitor who collects stories and knowledge of different perversions. This has affected and changed his own sexual life. Sara, a young well-behaved and adorned woman, becomes interested in Kristoffer's activity.
Jenny's Grandfather
A psiquiatra Jenny Isaksson tem o casamento e a saúde mental abalados por visões de uma mulher idosa. Para tentar fugir das alucinações, ela começa um caso com o médico Tomas. Ainda atormentada, porém, a mulher entra em uma jornada de autoconhecimento enquanto sua sanidade deteriora.
Fersen
Based on play by famous swedish author/playwright August Strindberg adapted for swedish TV in 70's. It's about the real life assassination on swedish king Gustav III who was killed by a lieutenant Jacob Johan Anckarström who acted on behalf of a group conspirators.
Översten
The Ghost Sonata relates the adventures of a young student, who idealizes the lives of the inhabitants of a stylish apartment building in Stockholm. He makes the acquaintance of the mysterious Jacob Hummel, who helps him to find his way into the apartment, only to find that it is a nest of betrayal and sickness. The world, the student learns, is hell and human beings must suffer to achieve salvation. The play centers on a family of strangers who meet for the sake of meeting. They exchange no dialogue, nor gestures, they simply sit and bask in their own misfortune.
Voice over
The major
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.
Prof. Gunnar Lindmark
A quirky, but happily in love young Italian couple fall in with an older, but distinctly reserved Swedish couple whilst on vacation on islands off the coast of Southern Italy. Eventually the couples seem to warm to each other as the infectious youths bring the standoffish couple out of their shells. But there is a sinister reason for the Swedish couple's cold behavior and it may spell doom for them all.
Hans Winkelmann
Um juiz de um país não mencionado entrevista três atores, juntos e separadamente, provocando-os enquanto investigava um desempenho pornográfico para o qual eles podem enfrentar uma multa. Os seus relacionamentos são complicados. Sebastian, um volátil bêbado e com dívidas, é culpado de matar o seu antigo parceiro e tem um caso com Thea, a viúva do morto. Thea, uma mulher sensível que é propenso a ataques e aparentemente frágil, atualmente é casada com novo parceiro de Sebastian, Hans. Hans é o líder da trupe, é rico, independente e em crescente cansaço da trupe. O juiz brinca com a insegurança do trio, mas eles podem ter a sua vingança quando eles finalmente realizam o ritual numa sessão privada com ele.
The husband
A loving couple on an escapade, ending in a hotel room in the underworld. When the floor waiter shows up, the woman feel she has seen him before. And suddenly she discovers who he is.
Admiral Carl
"Dad, why are you angry? You did the same yourself when you were young." - The Swedish army is too expensive. The cost has to be reduced by downsizing. The army chiefs begins to recreated the country's defense system.
Mr. Jacobi
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.
Hugo
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.
Self - Interviewee
Produced in 1968 for New York's WNET public television station and filmed by Gunnar Fischer, host Lewis Freedman visits director Ingmar Bergman during the production of SHAME. They discuss some of Bergman's major works leading up to SHAME as well as the just-released HOUR OF THE WOLF.
An engineer and an actor, two extremely similar men, change their identity with each other.
Paul Hartman
Stimulantia is a 1967 Swedish anthology film comprising eight episodes by eight different directors including Ingmar Bergman, Jörn Donner, Gustaf Molander and Vilgot Sjöman and starring among others Ingrid Bergman, Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Björnstrand, Lars Ekborg and Inga Landgré.
King Sigvor
Seeking revenge against the rival clan responsible for the killing, Hagbard, the son of a slain Norse king, calms down long enough to establish a truce. He also falls in love with Signe, the daughter of his one-time enemy. Signe's former beau, sizzling with jealousy, breaks the truce and makes it appear that Hagbard was responsible.
Fondmäklare Rickardt
Doctor Henck is having bad day, and borrows a fur from a friend. It gives him new confidence, and his day immediately gets better. Hjalmar Söderberg's rejected 1911 movie script, filmed in 1966 for TV as a silent film with a piano soundtrack, to match the time in which it was written for.
Lundgren
A working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving through a series of jobs and romances that gradually shape his future.
Herr Vogler
Uma atriz teatral de sucesso sofre uma crise emocional e para de falar. Uma enfermeira é designada a cuidar dela em uma casa reclusa, perto da praia, onde as duas permanecem sozinhas. Para quebrar o silêncio, a enfermeira começa a falar incessantemente, narrando diversos episódios relevantes de sua vida, mas quando descobre que a atriz usa seus depoimentos como fonte de análise, a cumplicidade entre as duas se transforma em embate.
Dr. Rune Wester
The plot revolves around a sadistic doctor, a macabre gravedigger, an innocent girl, sabotage, sex and violent death. The beautiful Vivi Sander is living a rough life and is deeply in debt. She tries to force her family to sell the house to make ends meet. Vivi's car crash after a sabotage. She is injured and brought to a medical center where she meets the perverted Dr. Wester.
Count Schwartz
Sweden, 1782. Jacob, a young noble, somewhat wild and vehement, returns from his studies in France. After his absence, he returns home happy, but is even happier of meeting his beloved sister Charlotte again. However, she has been promised to the Baron Alsmeden, a man of great influence at court, and this fact will awake a feeling like jealousy in Jacob.
Dr. Jacob Lewin
As three pregnant women wait to have their babies in a hospital in Stockholm at the outbreak of the Great War, they relive their childhood and youthful experiences.
Herr Fotograf Fäger
Stockholm 1912. Site for the Olympic Games. Love entanglements and eroticism at hotel Eros.
Helmer Berg
Edit is pleased that her mother agrees to let her buy a dress she loves, but which in fact is made for an adult woman.
Self
Filmed during the first ever Guldbaggen awards it was edited and developed that night and shown for the first time to the guests at the after party.
Georg Ehnström
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.
Sebastian
The Karlsson family moves from a small village to a suburb outside Stockholm. The change from a country life to the big city is not easy.
Tomas Ericsson
O pastor da igreja de uma pequena vila começa a sentir sua fé em Deus abalada e a questionar seu trabalho e missão no que faz todos os dias. Um colega que frequenta a Igreja está numa terrível crise existencial pela situação política atual da Guerra Fria temendo a destruição do mundo caso as bombas atômicas sejam usadas, e quando procura o pastor, este, ao contrário de confortá-lo com a palavra de Deus também apresenta todas as suas dúvidas e inseguranças.
Self
The year is 1961 and Ingmar Bergman is making a movie. While planted on the scene as apprentice to Bergman, Vilgot Sjöman (director, I Am Curious–Yellow, 1967), suggests to Swedish Television that they take the opportunity to record with the acclaimed director. In August, Sjöman and the television crew begin to capture what would become a comprehensive five-part documentary on the making of Winter Light, offering views of script development, set construction and lighting, rehearsals and editing, as well as intimate conversations with Bergman and members of his cast and crew. Footage from the film’s Swedish premiere delivers immediate audience reactions and the critics’ reviews the following day.
David Franzén
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?
David
Harriet Andersson é a frágil Karin. Afetada por crises de loucura, ela entra em conflito com seus familiares durante as férias de verão numa ilha remota. Um drama psicológico intenso em que Bergman disseca o processo de degradação de uma família.
Actor
O Diabo fica intrigado com um terçol que subitamente aparece em seu olho. Seus conselheiros mais capazes informam que o motivo da moléstia é uma jovem que se casará virgem, dando uma vitória sem precedentes ao Céu e trazendo vergonha ao Inferno. O Diabo ainda tem alguns dias para tentar contornar o problema, e usará a arma secreta que tem nas mãos, Don Juan, que será mandado de volta à vida para tentar seduzir a jovem.
Ernst C:son Kruuse
Sequel to Sjunde himlen (1956). Dr. Lovisa Sundelius (Sickan Carlsson) and radio host Willy Lorens (Hasse Ekman) have been happily married for a couple of years, but when Willy becomes a TV host with cutie Suss (Lena Granhagen) by his side, things start to fall apart
Adam Palmquist
While four men blow up a safe, a night watchman is accidentally killed. They get away with the loot. Ten years later, the stepson of the dead night watchman receives vital information.
Agne C:son Stressberg
Love triangle between Svante, his fiancee Inga and Sophie, a girl from a rich family.
Dr. Vergerus / Minister of Health
When 'Vogler's Magnetic Health Theater' comes to town, there's bound to be a spectacle. Reading reports of a variety of supernatural disturbances at Vogler's prior performances abroad, the leading townspeople (including the police chief and medical examiner) request that their troupe provide them a sample of their act, before allowing them public audiences. The scientific-minded disbelievers try to expose them as charlatans, but Vogler and his crew prove too clever for them.
Marcus Arwidson
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.
Tore Hall
Two journalists marry each other but Tore is unhappy that his wife is ambitious in her career instead of their household.
Evald Borg
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.
Gustaf Dahlström
Married couple have romantic interludes in the summer, she at their summer cottage, him in the apartment in town.
Purman
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.
Jöns
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.
Maj. Ernst C:son Kruuse
"Seventh Heaven" - Famous radio personality Willy Lorens has a big success with the radio series "Seventh Heaven." The amount of fan mail and attention eventually becomes too much for Willy, who suffers a minor collapse. Taken to a hospital where he meets Dr. Lovisa Sundelius, virtually the only woman in Sweden who do not admire the radio idol.
Arne's father
Görel and Arne are about to get a divorce. Görel thinks back on how history has repeated itself within her family.
Fredrik Egerman
Early in the 20th century, middle-aged lawyer Fredrik Egerman and his young wife, Anne, have still not consummated their marriage, while Fredrik's son finds himself increasingly attracted to his new stepmother. To make matters worse, Fredrik's old flame Desiree makes a public bet that she can seduce him at a romantic weekend retreat where four couples convene, swapping partners and pairing off in unexpected ways.
Otto Sönderby, konsul
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.
Acke Kullerstedt
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.
Robert Holmén
While Bertil Lindström works at the Swedish embassy in Paris, his wife Gabrielle spends the summer alone in Sweden. After a phone call to her, he starts to think of all the things she can possibly be doing separated from him.
David Erneman
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.
Henrik Kugelström
The story about Gustaf Dalén, the farm boy who became one of Sweden's greatest inventors.
Ludvig "Ludde" Ekman
When Ludvig Ekman is ordered to do his military rehearsals course, he sends one of his employees, Lasse Alm, to do it for him. Everything is fine until Alm also is ordered to do the same thing - on the same boat! There is only one thing to do: Ekman goes as Alm. When Ekman goes aboard, he discovers that it is his wife's ex-husband who is captain and Ekman really is punished for marrying his wife.
Dr. Dalander
The successful glass artist Stellan Sylvester ends up in the hospital after a car accident. He looks back at his life and finds it empty and meaningless. He falls in love with the nurse Marta but when he finds out that she engaged life turns out to be even more meaningless.
Mr. Sjuberg
The complicated relationships between a circus ringmaster, his estranged wife and his lover.
Director Brummer
Three young poets are about to make their debuts.
Zdenko Zapatil
In a small town called Skrabbarp in Southern Sweden lives the school teacher Sebastian Pettersson, an amateur detective and one of the most diligent correspondents of the Stockholm police.
Malte Lövman
A man and a woman are cheated on by their respective partners and decide to get their revenge.
Niklas Slevbrink
The meticulous Fabin Bom is called up for military service in the airforce.
Fredrik Lobelius
Rakel, Marta, Karin e Annette são casadas com quatro irmãos. Enquanto esperam numa cabana de verão para que seus maridos voltem para casa, elas contam histórias umas as outras sobre os seus casamentos. Rakel fala sobre o tempo que ela teve um caso e confrontou o marido com isso. A história de Marta é sobre como ela a princípio se recusou a casar e teve seu filho sozinha. Karin fala sobre o que aconteceu quando uma vez ela e o seu marido ficaram presos num elevador. Enquanto as mulheres contam as suas histórias, a irmã mais nova de Marta, Maj, está a planear fugir.
Valentin Fredriksson-Frisk, alias ''Dynamit-Valle'', dynamitard
Lilian is engaged to engineer Arne. To make him more interested in her, she meets a few other men.
Johansson has managed to stay away from the military service for several years. But now his time has come.
Frans Melin, aka Hamn-Casanova
Bureacratic customs officer searching for a missing girl.
Engineer Planertz
A small Swedish town just after WW1. An accountant and his two journalist friends have entered the stock market. The result is not as good as expected.
Jarl Eksell
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.
Lars Brenner, film director
Lasse Brenner is a serious filmmaker (spoof on Ingmar Bergman) who is forced to direct a lighthearted comedy. The filming takes place in different cities across Europe and North Africa so Brenner and the crew have to sail on a cruse ship. Brenner's wife suspects he has an affair with the lead actress, so she also boards the ship undercover to keep an eye on him.
Julius Brumse
A secretary transforms their defunct legal agency into a service where you can get anything, from childcare to gardening to even a fiancée.
Gunnar Stenwall
The rich, aristocratic Katarina Hassel have an architect renovate her mansion. Katarina fall in love with the young architect, Gunnar Stenwall. Alas, he doesn't fall in love with her. But perhaps if Gunnar would meet her identical sister, who works in Stockholm as a waitress, he would fall in love with her instead? So Katarina travels to Stockholm to act as her non-existing sister.
Fritjoff Krafft
Fabian Bom, auctionist in a small town, one day finds a baby boy in a small crib that is for sale at an auction. He places the boy at an orphanage but returns the next day since he realizes that he misses the boy. Since a single man is not permitted to adopt a baby he arranges a marriage with a young woman, who really is the baby's mother. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Edvin Burelius
A ring passes between a lot of different people, giving the bearer or someone close a new meaning to life. Actors, embezzlers, old ladies and cheated husbands all seem to gain temporary hope from misery and disillusionment.
Bertil Kronberg
High school student Margareta fall head over heels in love with a young doctor and announce her engagement to him to her parents. She quits school and move in with him in a large house. However, the life of a housewife soon becomes tedious. Her husband does not want her to study but secretly she enrolls in a high school again to be able to graduate. Her husband suspects funny business when she is spotted with her private tutor.
Berglund
The station-master Fabian Bom is a very meticulous person, and he makes sure that the trains leaves exactly - on the second. To him, nothing could be more important than duty, efficiency and punctuality, in fact, his sense of duty is clearly perverted. His beloved Plum-Plum, the major's daughter, is infatuated with army officers. To regain her attention, he joins the infantry. Bom becomes a soldier who loves the military training, long marches as well as hard labour as punishment. He meets Agnes, who falls madly in love with him. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
The Captain
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.
Sture Widman
A drama about a doctor and his wife. She used to be an actress, but became a housewife when she married. When she resumes her acting career the marriage crashes.
Klasson
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.
Bengt Larsson
"Two Women" - Cecilia is in hospital after being subjected to an attempt on her life. Her husband is called to the hospital. Cecilia deliriously mentions a mutual friend. The husband seeks out the friend.
Skådespelare
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.
40-talisten
When Inga Brantemo goes on a business trip to Italy, her husband Bertil gets romantically involved with Christina Lovén, whose father is a book publisher. When Inga returns, Bertil has a difficult time trying to explain who the woman the neighbors saw in the Brantemo home was. Bertil is an author and it doesn't get easier when he and his wife gets invited to Christina's father to talk business.
Shoe-shiner Tom, 'Plutten'
Holger Hallman, CEO of a weapons factory try to prevent his son Tom from dating a manucurist, Lydia. By mistake he try to pay off the wrong manicurist, Mary, who by coincidence has a fiancé named Tom.
Sune Eriksson
The police is looking for a female burglar all dressed in white.
Erik Sahlén
The film follows a number of people in an apartment building during a night full of dramatic events and entanglements.
Mr. Purman
Maggi meets David after having missed her train, and they spend the night together. Penniless, the young lovers break into a summer cottage. The owner, Håkansson, offers to rent it to them, but he has an ulterior motive. By living together, they have to face their pasts and deal with the meddling neighbors and authorities.
Dr. Bertil Langenfeldt
Olga Sundblom has alone after the divorce the custody of the son Krister. He has trouble of controlling himself. He cheats in school, smokes in the bed and is generally unbearable. He is send to Granberga boarding school and soon he starting to turn everything upside down. He offers the schoolmates alcohol and begins a relationship with a young woman that he treats like a slut. When he gets expelled he escapes to his summerhouse.
Dr. Westman Senior / Vilhelm Westman
Translator Vilhelm and his young wife have a child, as well as a grumpy housemaid who doesn't hesitate to give her opinion on how they behave as parents. In secret Kristin arranges a scholarship for Vilhelm so he can go back to his medical studies.
Harald Haraldsson
Hövdingen
A mythic depiction of a pagan sacrifice in prehistoric Sweden.
Hagman
"You who entry..." A drama about revenge, lies and destruction. Tomas Eckert, a civil servant, is subjected to a violated woman's revenge. It happens to be his boss's wife, Märta Palm. Tomas is accused of having abused Mrs.Palm. She also reveals that Tomas's wife is morphine addict. He collapses and is forced to accept early retirement, diagnosed "epilepsy with mental changes"
Harry Hellberg
A self centered author are having a word feud in a news paper column with a journalist called Sussie. The author has just divorced and now need a new house keeper. Sussie sees her chance to go undercover and takes the job with the intent to dig up some dirt. However, love intervenes.
Felix Palmer
Major Grasser at Sjögårda manor considers selling the estate but his twin daughters Brita and Stina have other plans.
Teacher
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.
Hahn
Iben Holt, a rich bohemian, lives in an occupied country. On his way home from a party he hears an explosion and sees flames rising from a factory. At home awaits another surprise.
Svensson, Editor of Vecko-Bilden (uncredited)
A classic melodrama about the famous pianist Thomas Dahlhoff.
Lindén
"I Slew" - Hospital drama of a doctor who thinks that he killed a patient on the operating table.
Sven Eriksson
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.
Lieutenant Bäckström
1813. The Swedish army is fighting in the War of the Sixth Coalition. The popular general Von Döbeln is arrested for sending the army against the French in breach of orders by the crown prince. At the court martial he is sentenced to death but is pardoned by the king and sent to prison instead. A group of conspirators are planning to set him free and make him their leader in a coup d'etat.
Soldier
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.
Militärläkare
Military Doctor
Swedish comedy from 1940. Kurre Karlsson, a simple man of the people, will be called up for military training given by an anti-aircraft units at sea. He does not like the military and will do anything to get away. One day he steals a wallet and in it finds his paper suggesting that a spy is on the move who think stealing trade secrets about the weapons factory in Granefors.
Clerk
Urban girl falls for rugged forest ranger.
Journalist
A woman flees to avoid rumors of promiscuity, but is trailed by a reporter who wants to expose her dark past.
Sergeant Frisk
The tailor Tosse is ordered to return to his old regiment to practice what he learned many years ago. But he asks his assistant Loffe to go there instead of himself. Everything is fine until Loffe gets the same order - at the same regiment. When Tosse comes to the regiment, it becomes a case of mistaken identity. Due to the confusion, Loffe is now Tosse's platoon commander. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
August Palm's Associate
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.
Doctor
Architect Sture Ahrengren walks out of his job with an architecture firm with the support of his wife Kristina. He gets a position with an old friend, Balstar Ekberg, who has a big engineering job going. But Sture gets entangled in a romance with Ekberg's wife, Helena.
Ryder, Banker
About the conspiracy against the Swedish entrepeneur Ivar Kreuger. Presented through his secretary as a strictly busy, very wealthy man, involved in important international transactions. Ministers from all over the world stand in line to visit him. The Kreuger shares are in high demand. Germany needs a $ 125 million loan. Bank director Ryder suggests that secret forces want to stop this loan. Ted Harris, an American rogue, wants to sell secret papers from Wall Street on plots against Kreuger. The French minister and an international Soviet agent, Brody, also visit Kreuger regarding the loans. Kreuger shares are dropping around the world. The firm Nathan and Kohn contributes to dumping Kreuger shares after a bribe of SEK 25,000. Ordinary savers are ruined.
Young student watching competition (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.
Gunnar Gawell is masonry on a building but also a very good football player. He gets a chance to play for the the national team against Denmark. Gunnar is offered a bribe if he allows the Danish team to win the match.
