Gunnar Björnstrand
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Gunnar Björnstrand (13 November 1909 – 26 May 1986) was a Swedish actor known for his frequent work with writer/director Ingmar Bergman. He was born in Stockholm. He appeared in over 120 films. Björnstrand at first had trouble finding work but got an engagement in Helsinki with his wife 1936-1938. Back in Stockholm he met Ingmar Bergman, at that time a mostly unknown theatre director. In the 1940s he got his first major film roles, making a breakthrough with the 1946 movie Kristin kommenderar. He was a versatile actor who could play tough and tender as well as comedy and tragedy. His daughter Veronica Björnstrand is also an actress. One of his most famous roles was as the worldly squire who makes such a contrast to his austere and spiritual master in Bergman's most famous film The Seventh Seal. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gunnar Björnstrand, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
The Seventh Seal
as JönsWhen disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his...
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Persona
as Herr VoglerA young nurse, Alma, is put in charge of Elisabeth Vogler: an actress who is seemingly healthy...
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Autumn Sonata
as PaulAfter a seven-year absence, Charlotte Andergast travels to Sweden to reunite with her daughter...
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Wild Strawberries
as Evald BorgCrotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and...
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Winter Light
as Tomas EricssonA Swedish pastor fails a loving woman, a suicidal fisherman and God.
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Fanny and Alexander
as Filip LandahlAs children in the loving Ekdahl family, Fanny and Alexander enjoy a happy life with their...
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Sawdust and Tinsel
as Mr. SjubergThe complicated relationships between a circus ringmaster, his estranged wife and his lover.
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Smiles of a Summer Night
as Fredrik EgermanEarly in the 20th century, middle-aged lawyer Fredrik Egerman and his young wife, Anne, have...
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Through a Glass Darkly
as DavidKarin hopes to recover from her recent stay at a mental hospital by spending the summer at her...
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Face to Face
as Jenny's GrandfatherDr. Jenny Isaksson is a psychiatrist whose temporary position at a mental hospital offers only...
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Shame
as Mr. JacobiIn the midst of a civil war, former violinists Jan and Eva Rosenberg, who have a tempestuous...
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The Magician
as Dr. Vergerus / Minister of HealthWhen 'Vogler's Magnetic Health Theater' comes to town, there's bound to be a spectacle. Reading...
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Torment
as TeacherJan-Erik Widgren meets the lonely Bertha Olsson, a woman struggling with alcoholism. Though...
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Tabu
as RådmanskanSolidarity with the border people. Equal rights for the sexual deviants. Kristoffer Lohman is a...
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The Devil's Eye
as The ActorThe devil has a stye in his eye, caused by the purity of a vicar's daughter. To get rid of it,...
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Waiting Women
as Fredrik LobeliusRakel, Marta, Karin and Annette are married to four brothers. While waiting in a summer cottage...
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It Rains on Our Love
as Mr. PurmanMaggi meets David after having missed her train, and they spend the night together. Penniless,...
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The Girls
as HugoA theater company rehearses Aristophanes play "Lysistrata" in which the Athenian women revolt to...
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Dreams
as Otto Sönderby, konsulSusanne is a woman in her mid-30s and the owner of a modeling agency in Stockholm. She...
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The Rite
as Hans WinkelmannA judge in an unnamed country interviews three actors, together and singly, provoking them while...
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A Lesson in Love
as David ErnemanAfter 15 years of marriage, David and Marianne have grown apart. David has had an affair with a...
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Here Is Your Life
as LundgrenA working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving through a series of jobs and...
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New Order at Sjogarda
as Felix PalmerMajor Grasser lives on his estate with his twin daughters Britta and Stina. Stina is studying at...
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Little Martin Returns
as The CaptainSture Letterström and Kurre Svensson take on the task of rescuing a secret document during World...
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Music in Darkness
as KlassonBecause of an accident at a military drill the recruit Bengt loses his eyesight and becomes...
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My Sister My Love
as Count SchwartzSweden, 1782. Jacob, a young noble, somewhat wild and vehement, returns from his studies in...
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You Who Are About to Enter
as HagmanTomas Eckert, a civil servant, is subjected to a violated woman's revenge. It happens to be his...
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It Is Never Too Late
as Arne's fatherGörel and Arne are about to get a divorce. Görel thinks back on how history has repeated itself...
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June Night
as JournalistA woman flees to avoid rumors of promiscuity, but is trailed by a reporter who wants to expose...
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Ingmar Bergman Makes a Movie
as SelfThe year is 1961 and Ingmar Bergman is making a movie. While planted on the scene as apprentice...
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Miss April
as Marcus ArwidsonThe banker Marcus falls in love with the young ballet-dancer Maj who works at the opera. To meet...
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We Two
as DoctorArchitect Sture Ahrengren walks out of his job with an architecture firm with the support of his...
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Hagbard and Signe
as King SigvorSeeking revenge against the rival clan responsible for the killing, Hagbard, the son of a slain...
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Vi tre debutera
as Director BrummerThree young poets are about to make their debuts.
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Loving Couples
as Dr. Jacob LewinAs three pregnant women wait to have their babies in a hospital in Stockholm at the outbreak of...
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While the Door Was Locked
as Erik SahlénThe film follows a number of people in an apartment building during a night full of dramatic...
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Minns ni?
as (archive footage)A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about...
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Lockfågeln
as The majorOn his death-bed, Per Henrik Pistolekors must promise his father two things: first of all to...
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General von Döbeln
as Lieutenant Bäckström1813. The Swedish army is fighting in the War of the Sixth Coalition. The popular general Von...
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The Pleasure Garden
as David FranzénA small picturesque town at the turn of the century. The conservative views of the townspeople...
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Stimulantia
as Paul HartmanStimulantia is a 1967 Swedish anthology film comprising eight episodes by eight different...
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My Sister and I
as Gunnar StenwallThe rich, aristocratic Katarina Hassel have an architect renovate her mansion. Katarina fall in...
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Tull-Bom
as Frans Melin, aka Hamn-CasanovaBureacratic customs officer searching for a missing girl.
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The Girl from the Third Row
as Edvin BureliusA ring passes between a lot of different people, giving the bearer or someone close a new...
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An Introduction to Ingmar Bergman
as SelfProduced in 1968 for New York's WNET public television station and filmed by Gunnar Fischer,...
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Dance, My Doll
as Zdenko ZapatilIn a small town called Skrabbarp in Southern Sweden lives the school teacher Sebastian...
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Hjältar i gult och blått
as Sergeant FriskThe tailor Tosse is ordered to return to his old regiment to practice what he learned many years...
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Fianceé for Hire
as Julius BrumseA secretary transforms their defunct legal agency into a service where you can get anything,...
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The Ghost Sonata
as ÖverstenThe Ghost Sonata relates the adventures of a young student, who idealizes the lives of the...
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The lift that went down into hell
as The husbandA loving couple on an escapade, ending in a hotel room in the underworld. When the floor waiter...
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National match
as Young student watching competition (uncredited)Erik Andersson marries Brita Blomstedt. During the wedding party he drinks alcohol which he is...
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Pappa varför är du arg? Du gjorde likadant själv när du var ung
as Admiral Carl"Dad, why are you angry? You did the same yourself when you were young." - The Swedish army is...
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Jag dräpte
as Lindén"I Slew" - Hospital drama of a doctor who thinks that he killed a patient on the operating table.
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Crime in Paradise
as Adam PalmquistWhile four men blow up a safe, a night watchman is accidentally killed. They get away with the...
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Playing Truant
as Bertil KronbergHigh school student Margareta fall head over heels in love with a young doctor and announce her...
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My Love Is Like a Rose
as Georg EhnströmA middle aged doctor begins a relationship with a teenage girl. His best friend is dating the...
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Kristin Commands
as Dr. Westman Senior / Vilhelm WestmanTranslator Vilhelm and his young wife have a child, as well as a grumpy housemaid who doesn't...
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My Heart and Its Millions
as uncreditedFranck Crighton is a millionaire who is fed up with his hectic life. To have a bit of peace and...
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The White Cat
as Jarl EksellA man comes to Stockholm's central station. He does not know who he is or where he has been. He...
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Seventh Heaven
as Maj. Ernst C:son Kruuse"Seventh Heaven" - Famous radio personality Willy Lorens has a big success with the radio series...
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The Making of Fanny and Alexander
as SelfThe Making of Fanny and Alexander is a fascinating look at the creation of a masterpiece....
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You Are My Adventure
as Tore HallTwo journalists marry but the husband grows unhappy when he is left to take care of their child...
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Midwinter Sacrifice
as HövdingenA mythic depiction of a pagan sacrifice in prehistoric Sweden.
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Gabrielle
as Robert HolménWhile Bertil Lindström works at the Swedish embassy in Paris, his wife Gabrielle spends the...
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Nationalmonumentet
as Svante PukeThe sculptor Erik Some gets commissioned to create a national monument. His sculpture gets...
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Stampen
as Acke KullerstedtPawnshop assistant Patrick and maid Viveka meet by chance and become fond of each other, but...
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Oppåt med Gröna Hissen
as Malte LövmanA man and a woman are cheated on by their respective partners and decide to get their revenge.
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Flyg-Bom
as Niklas SlevbrinkThe meticulous Fabin Bom is called up for military service in the airforce.
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Night Light
as PurmanSixteen year old Maria arrives in Stockholm. She is going to stay with her aunt. Already at the...
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Peggy på vift
as Harald HaraldssonFrank Bing is a big artist in the USA and arrives home in his native Sweden with his secretary...
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One Fiancé at a Time
as Valentin Fredriksson-Frisk, alias ''Dynamit-Valle'', dynamitardLilian is engaged to engineer Arne. To make him more interested in her, she meets a few other men.
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Private Bom
as BerglundThe station-master Fabian Bom is a very meticulous person, and he makes sure that the trains...
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The Dress
as Helmer BergEdit is pleased that her mother agrees to let her buy a dress she loves, but which in fact is...
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Var sin väg
as Sture WidmanA drama about a doctor and his wife. She used to be an actress, but became a housewife when she...
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Flottans glada gossar
as Ludvig "Ludde" EkmanWhen Ludvig Ekman is ordered to do his military rehearsals course, he sends one of his...
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Dance Around the Guldbaggen
as SelfFilmed during the first ever Guldbaggen (golden scarab) awards, it was edited and developed that...
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Uppsagd
as uncreditedBjörn Kraft is an office clerk and one day his boss installs a new accounting machine that can...
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The Ghost Reporter
as uncreditedAugustus Blomkvist sells his sausage factory and buys the newspaper Stockholms-Posten where he...
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The Nuthouse
as uncreditedIn Stockholm in the year 2248 an excavation leads to the discovery of 45,000 meters of film from...
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Swinging at the Castle
as Agne C:son StressbergLove triangle between Svante, his fiancee Inga and Sophie, a girl from a rich family.
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Appassionata
as Svensson, Editor of Vecko-BildenA classic melodrama about the famous pianist Thomas Dahlhoff.
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Two Women
as Bengt Larsson"Two Women" - Cecilia is in hospital after being subjected to an attempt on her life. Her...
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The Bride Came Through the Ceiling
as Sune ErikssonThe police is looking for a female burglar all dressed in white.
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Incorrigible
as Dr. Bertil LangenfeldtOlga Sundbom is divorced and has custody of her spoiled son Krister. The lack of upbringing has...
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The Marriage Wrestler
as Herr Fotograf FägerStockholm 1912. Site for the Olympic Games. Love entanglements and eroticism at hotel Eros.
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Panik
as Ryder, BankerAbout the conspiracy against the Swedish entrepeneur Ivar Kreuger. Presented through his...
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Här kommer vi ...
as SkådespelareThe actor Robert Berg is just about to get his dream role on the big stage in Stockholm when he...
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Summer Place Wanted
as Gustaf DahlströmMarried couple have romantic interludes in the summer, she at their summer cottage, him in the...
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Blow Hot, Blow Cold
as Prof. Gunnar LindmarkA quirky, but happily in love young Italian couple fall in with an older, but distinctly...
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The Farewell
as uncreditedSet between 1930s and 50s, The Farewell the story of Valerie, who lives in a household totally...
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One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer
as 40-talistenWhen Inga Brantemo goes on a business trip to Italy, her husband Bertil gets romantically...
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Seger i mörker
as Henrik KugelströmThe story about Gustaf Dalén, the farm boy who became one of Sweden's greatest inventors.
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Säg det med blommor
as uncreditedKirre buys a flower for his fiancee Gun on the anniversary of their engagement. Gun's mother, an...
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Pälsen
as Fondmäklare RickardtDoctor Henck is having bad day, and borrows a fur from a friend. It gives him new confidence,...
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Mitt folk är icke ditt
as uncreditedThe Nazis seize power and occupies a country. A celebrated pianist returns home from abroad...
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Mälarpirater
as uncreditedThree boys "borrow" a sailboat and sail away for a summer adventure on Lake Mälaren.
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Gustav III
as FersenBased on play by famous swedish author/playwright August Strindberg adapted for swedish TV in...
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Daddy Wanted
as Shoe-shiner Tom, 'Plutten'Holger Hallman, CEO of a weapons factory try to prevent his son Tom from dating a manucurist,...
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Everybody at His Station
as Military DoctorSwedish comedy from 1940. Kurre Karlsson, a simple man of the people, will be called up for...
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Skorpan
as uncreditedSkorpan acts in a pick pocket show at the local amusement park.
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Henpecked
as uncreditedAn engineer and an actor, two extremely similar men, change their identity with each other.
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Lyckodrömmen
as SebastianThe Karlsson family moves from a small village to a suburb outside Stockholm. The change from a...
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En äventyrare
as uncreditedA free fantasy about the Swedish poet and adventurer Lars Wivallius.
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Pygmalion
as Prof. Henry HigginsCan Professor Higgins teach a working-class flower girl to speak like a duchess?
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Snapphanar
as SoldierIn an occupied country, the people rise to throw off the occupants. This includes Jens the...
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Mot nya tider
as August Palm's AssociateA Swedish drama from 1939 about the social and political developments in Sweden from 1885 until...
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Father Bom
as Fritjoff KrafftFabian Bom, auctionist in a small town, one day finds a baby boy in a small crib that is for...
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Heaven and Pancakes
as Ernst C:son KruuseSequel to Sjunde himlen (1956). Dr. Lovisa Sundelius (Sickan Carlsson) and radio host Willy...
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Sussie
as Harry HellbergA self centered author are having a word feud in a news paper column with a journalist called...
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Stjärnbilder
as (archive footage)A tribute to Swedish film, which was made to celebrate the 100th anniversary of film in 1995 and...
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Kyssen på kryssen
as Lars Brenner, film directorLasse Brenner is a serious filmmaker (spoof on Ingmar Bergman) who is forced to direct a...
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Lev farligt
as Dr. HahnIben Holt, a rich bohemian, lives in an occupied country. On his way home from a party he hears...
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Bergslagsfolk
as uncreditedA mining engineer comes to the quiet village of Nimansberg in Bergslagen and tries to persuade...
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Karl för sin hatt
as ClerkUrban girl falls for rugged forest ranger.
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Natt i hamn
as Sven ErikssonEarly 1940s, during WW2, pitch black waters except for a moon-shadow over the waves. Surrounded...
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Livat på luckan
as uncreditedJohansson has managed to stay away from the military service for several years. But now his time...
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Klackarna i taket
as uncreditedA collection of funny scenes from Swedish comedies.
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His Life's Match
as uncreditedGunnar Gawell is mason on a building but also a very good football player. He gets a chance to...
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Krigsmans erinran
as uncreditedJocke gets leave from the military to travel home to get married.
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The Making of Autumn Sonata
as SelfA behind the scenes documentary of Ingmar Bergman's Autumn Sonata (1978), detailing every aspect...
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En svensk tiger
as Hans WolffJohan Tiger is an actor in Stockholm during World War II. A British agent in Sweden discovers...
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Kvartetten som sprängdes
as Engineer PlanertzA small Swedish town just after WW1. An accountant and his two journalist friends have entered...
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Tunneln
as uncredited"The Tunnel" - an expressionistic scene in the presence of personal tragedy and an accident. Two...
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Någonstans i Sverige
as SvärfadernIn the end of 1939, the Soviet Union attacks Finland. In Sweden, 100.000 men are quickly drafted...
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Fanny and Alexander
as Filip LandahlThrough the eyes of ten-year-old Alexander, we witness the delights and conflicts of the Ekdahl...
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Face to Face
as Jenny's GrandfatherDr. Jenny Isaksson is a psychiatrist married to another psychiatrist; both are successful in...
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