Stig Järrel

Born: 1910-02-08

Stig Järrel (8 February 1910 – 1 July 1998) was a Swedish actor, film director and revue artist. Järrel was one of the most popular actors in Sweden during his career, and also one of the most productive, participating in a total of 131 films. He also performed as an actor at various Swedish theatres and was a frequent guest on radio and television.


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The Devil's Eye

as Satan
Released: 1960-10-17

The 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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Torment

as Caligula
Released: 1944-10-02

Jan-Erik Widgren meets the lonely Bertha Olsson, a woman struggling with alcoholism. Though...

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Little Martin Returns

as Sture Lagerström
Released: 1948-08-14

Sture Letterström and Kurre Svensson take on the task of rescuing a secret document during World...

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Miss Chic

as Urbáhn
Released: 1959-01-26

Buster Carell, a talent agent is threatened by bankruptcy when his only real talent, a singing...

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Dirch Passer vælter byen

as Captain Jacob Grönkvist
Released: 1954-03-22

The scam artist Jens Nielsen is in prison. In exchange for a cigarette, he is told by fellow...

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Iris and the Lieutenant

as Harald
Released: 1946-12-16

Robert, an upper-class officer, meets and falls in love with Iris, a house maid. His family will...

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Rasmus, Pontus and Toker

as Sword-swallower Alfredo
Released: 1956-12-08

Ten-year-old Rasmus, his friend Pontus and his dog Toker, find out about a silver theft in the...

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Put Our Märta First or As Luck Will Have It

as Sture / Märta
Released: 1945-09-29

An out-of-work musician is desperate for work and when his best friend sees an add requesting a...

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Walpurgis Night

as Grane
Released: 1935-10-23

Lena Bergström works in an office and is unhappily in love with her boss, Johan Borg. She...

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Gatan

as Sven Andreasson
Released: 1949-02-27

Britt Malm gets hit by a car on a Stockholm street and is taken to hospital. She is badly...

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I dag gifter sig min man

as uncredited
Released: 1943-10-01

Mette divorced from her husband, the architect Sven, a year ago. But her feelings for him are...

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Karin Månsdotter

as Olof Gustavsson Stenbock
Released: 1954-11-01

Karin does not belong to the nobility but nevertheless marries the mentally ill king Erik XIV...

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Skattefria Andersson

as Gustav Andersson, kallad Skattefria Andersson
Released: 1954-08-01

Andersson is always complaining about high taxes and dreams about a world with no taxes.

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There Burns a Fire

as Paul Winter
Released: 1943-08-23

An allegory of Germany's WWII occupation of Norway. Members of a theater ensemble join the...

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While the Door Was Locked

as En kund hos Bojan
Released: 1946-12-26

The film follows a number of people in an apartment building during a night full of dramatic...

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When Love Came to the Village

as Teacher Axel Brunell
Released: 1950-10-08

A new teacher arrives to the small village and he soon stir up some trouble with his modern way...

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The Right to Love

as Bernhard Borg
Released: 1956-02-27

Priests who call sex education the devil's invention rage against the progressive doctor whose...

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Var sin väg

as Nils Brenner
Released: 1948-02-16

A drama about a doctor and his wife. She used to be an actress, but became a housewife when she...

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Happiness Is on Its Way

as Georg Hedberg
Released: 1942-08-17

The idle rich have their own particular problems. Case in point, Georg and Monika Hedberg were...

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Sjösalavår

as Carmencita's father
Released: 1949-09-05

The Troubadour sits at a rock beside his summerhouse Sjösala in the Stockholm archipelago. He is...

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Jag är eld och luft

as Pharmacist Edvind Franzen, Jenny's first husband
Released: 1944-09-07

Vicar Ahrman's young daughter Jenny has left the home to start a new life with her beloved...

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Like Everyone Else

as Enander
Released: 1944-09-09

Kurre and Inga are engaged to be married. However, as they are very poor, they can't afford it...

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We Two

as Baltzar Ekberg
Released: 1939-03-16

Architect Sture Ahrengren walks out of his job with an architecture firm with the support of his...

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Blonde in Bondage

as Kreuger - Drug Lord
Released: 1957-11-08

A reporter (Mark Miller) tries to help a drug-addicted cabaret dancer (Anita Thallaug) who has...

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Little Fridolf and Me

as Ludde
Released: 1956-10-29

Fridolf and his wife Selma gets a telegram from their daughter Maggan. She is engaged and are...

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One Fiancé at a Time

as Adolf Lundkvist, handelsresande i damunderkläder
Released: 1952-05-04

Lilian is engaged to engineer Arne. To make him more interested in her, she meets a few other men.

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Ljuvlig är sommarnatten

as Sebastian Petrén, managing director
Released: 1961-08-17

Someone is murdered. Who is the killer? Members of all star cast are all suspects...

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Flames in the Dark

as Birger Sjögren
Released: 1942-03-02

Latin teacher Birger Sjögren at Ringsala boarding school threatens his possesive and chronically...

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Seventh Heaven

as Sture Tureson
Released: 1956-06-11

"Seventh Heaven" - Famous radio personality Willy Lorens has a big success with the radio series...

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Gustav III

as Pechlin
Released: 1974-04-08

Based on play by famous swedish author/playwright August Strindberg adapted for swedish TV in...

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Romans

as uncredited
Released: 1940-12-17

An engineer with a factory is on the brink of ruin. A greedy director offers to buy his mill....

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The Royal Rabble

as Stridström
Released: 1945-01-19

The ups and downs of three generations in an acting family.

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Åke klarar biffen

as uncredited
Released: 1952-03-24

Åke is small and fits everywhere. A film mostly consisting of scenes from older films.

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The Staffan Stolle Story

as Ulf Christer Lefverhielm
Released: 1956-09-10

Staffan Stolle becomes the sole heir to a rich and noble family when he is just a little boy....

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...som en tjuv om natten

as uncredited
Released: 1940-03-18

Nisse Ekberg is in San Francisco but wants to get back to Sweden. Not being a completely honest...

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Hennes melodi

as uncredited
Released: 1940-06-02

Sonja meet Curt in a taxi cab. By mistake, each believes that the other is a rich member of the...

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Wandering with the Moon

as The Vagabonde
Released: 1945-08-07

Dan, aged 19, leaves his home after a quarrel with his father. At the side of the country road...

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En flicka kommer till sta'n

as uncredited
Released: 1937-02-18

Ulla takes the train to Stockholm to try her luck in the big city.

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Oppåt med Gröna Hissen

as Billy Forsberg
Released: 1952-12-26

A man and a woman are cheated on by their respective partners and decide to get their revenge.

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Ä' vi gifta?

as Maestro O. Toni, fiolinist og komponist
Released: 1936-03-09

The well-known musician and composer Åke Kjellberg wakes up in a nice Stockholm apartment. He...

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The First Squadron

as Lieutenant Sperling
Released: 1941-09-23

The year is 1941 and Nazi Germany is at its peak. Hitler's army is storming into Russia. Sweden...

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The White Cat

as Algot
Released: 1950-12-25

A man comes to Stockholm's central station. He does not know who he is or where he has been. He...

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Poker

as Mr. Alkeryd a.k.a. The Spider
Released: 1951-11-12

Sven Bergström is charged with murder, alternatively a man slaughter, on an infamous...

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Incorrigible

as Björn "Mankan" Mander
Released: 1946-09-30

Olga Sundbom is divorced and has custody of her spoiled son Krister. The lack of upbringing has...

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Litet bo

as uncredited
Released: 1956-01-30

Hasse has received a scholarship from the insurance company where he works together with his...

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Två trappor över gården

as Art collector
Released: 1950-02-06

The rootless, misfit artist Bengt Hallberg escapes from a mental hospital. The head doctor...

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Minns ni?

as (archive footage)
Released: 1993-10-24

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

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The Pleasure Garden

as Ludvig Lundberg
Released: 1961-12-26

A small picturesque town at the turn of the century. The conservative views of the townspeople...

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Stora Hoparegränd och himmelriket

as Director Wiland
Released: 1949-12-26

Erik, a poor inventor meets the clerk Lillemor and fall in love. Erik's becomes invention is...

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Fianceé for Hire

as Major Pålman
Released: 1950-08-28

A secretary transforms their defunct legal agency into a service where you can get anything,...

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Strange Harbor

as The man in the fur coat
Released: 1948-10-02

"Strange Harbor " - A Swedish cargo ship is in the winter of 1938 at the dock in Gdynia in...

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Karl för sin hatt

as Jimmy
Released: 1940-08-23

Urban girl falls for rugged forest ranger.

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The Happy Shoemaker

as Strömbäck, usurer
Released: 1955-09-19

Sture and Birgit are secretly engaged. One day when they are kissing, they are discovered by...

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Pippi Longstocking

as Albin Rosén
Released: 1949-12-09

In a small town lies Villa Villerkulla, and in that villa a small girl, Pippi Longstocking, has...

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Vi som går scenvägen

as uncredited
Released: 1938-02-12

Tage breaks up with his girlfriend Dora when he falls in love with the ballet dancer Maud.

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The Girl and the Devil

as "Guffar", travelling salesman
Released: 1944-10-30

The soul of an evil witch about to be burned is transferred to the child of a pregnant woman in...

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Maria

as Movie director Harry Sörbom
Released: 1947-08-01

Maria has been fired from her job as a householder with a family in a small town in Sweden. She...

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Larsson i andra giftet

as uncredited
Released: 1935-08-30

Lasse Larsson works as a baker at the bakery Gyllene Trappen in Stockholm. He loves to sing...

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Fröken Vildkatt

as Jimmy Cronklinga
Released: 1941-12-15

Thomas Palm (Åke Söderblom) has recently been promoted at work at The Royal Canal Office. He...

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Simon the Sinner

as Reverend Rickman
Released: 1954-11-15

After a fist fight, Simon thinks he has killed a man and seek refuge in a religious sect. Saved...

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Peggy på vift

as Frank Bing
Released: 1946-06-08

Frank Bing is a big artist in the USA and arrives home in his native Sweden with his secretary...

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Oss tjuvar emellan eller en burk ananas

as lawyer Barman
Released: 1945-01-22

Max Kvarne is an international adventurer who stole 25,000 pounds in 100-pound banknotes at a...

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Säg det med blommor

as uncredited
Released: 1952-01-28

Kirre buys a flower for his fiancee Gun on the anniversary of their engagement. Gun's mother, an...

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Enslingen Johannes

as Enslingen Johannes
Released: 1957-10-21

Johannes live a lonesome life in the archipelago and use to have on the air phone calls with...

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The Woman Drives Me Crazy

as uncredited
Released: 1948-12-26

Managing Director Erik Cassander is in financial strain and his only hope is a wealthy aunt.

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Livat på luckan

as uncredited
Released: 1951-10-29

Johansson has managed to stay away from the military service for several years. But now his time...

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Så tuktas en äkta man

as Baltzar Hassler, bankir
Released: 1941-04-10

Göran Brehmer lives in Stockholm and can't resist flirting with women.

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Life Goes On

as Kristensson (uncredited)
Released: 1941-02-28

The Swedish officer Mikael Bourg has served with the French army in Africa. When he returns to...

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The Bride Came Through the Ceiling

as Sigvard Lejoncrona
Released: 1947-03-24

The police is looking for a female burglar all dressed in white.

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Resan till dej

as Bruno Vikström
Released: 1953-12-19

The marriage of the newlyweds Gun and Emil is strained when Gun sings in a radio show and makes...

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Den osynliga muren

as Victor Reis
Released: 1944-08-21

"The Invisble Wall" - In an unnamed country under occupation, a senior officer is killed in an...

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Henpecked

as uncredited
Released: 1967-09-25

An engineer and an actor, two extremely similar men, change their identity with each other.

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Enslingen i blåsväder

as uncredited
Released: 1959-02-09

The lonesome Johannes gets a phone call from Gösta Bernhard who wants to come over to him for a...

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It Happens Tonight

as Fencer
Released: 1957-12-20

Lars Ekborg and Sven Eric Gamble portray bumbling criminals who get involved in a safe-cracking...

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Herr Husassistenten

as uncredited
Released: 1938-12-26

Vicke Lundin is a car mechanic in a garage where the owner is a brutal and selfish. With him,...

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The Nuthouse

as Birger Sjögren
Released: 1951-09-21

In Stockholm in the year 2248 an excavation leads to the discovery of 45,000 meters of film from...

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Fartfeber

as Chief Constable
Released: 1953-11-27

Gunnar and Ulf are neighbors. They are both lured into a life of crime.

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Spöke på semester

as Borgkrona
Released: 1951-09-02

"Ghost on Holiday" - Stockholm 1950 is experiencing a gold rush, after the discovery of gold...

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Interlude

as Martin Dahlberg
Released: 1946-02-11

The Swedish doctor of literature Vilhelm Canitz arrive to Lugano in Italy for a few weeks stay...

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Med glorian på sned

as Karl Anton
Released: 1957-07-01

A secretary at a publishing company, Birgitta, writes a novel, based on her secret love of her...

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Raggen - det är jag det

as uncredited
Released: 1936-02-27

Maria, who's called Raggen, is one of a total of 9 daughters in the family. For a birthday...

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Easter

as Lindqvist
Released: 1968-04-14

A family in crisis during the holiday of Easter

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The Sixth Commandment

as Krister Ekberg
Released: 1947-09-27

Jane and Karl have been married for many years. Jane feels trapped in their marriage and takes a...

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Three Wishes

as uncredited
Released: 1960-01-03

Oskar and Mona meet when they come to the Academy of Music to see if they have been accepted, he...

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Nygifta

as Dr. Albert Lundberg
Released: 1941-02-20

The young architect Gunnar Bergstrand marries the Norwegian Eva, against his parents' wishes.

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Sällskapslek

as Carl Stjernesten
Released: 1963-12-16

In a magnificent villa a 25-year-old son of Count lives with his family. He falls in love with...

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Motorkavaljerer

as Major Eggert
Released: 1950-03-13

An inventive store assistant becomes a major motorcycle racing star.

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Lyckliga Vestköping

as Rolf Gånge
Released: 1937-08-20

When the mine is closing down in the small community of Vestköping the town bank is also in...

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Hans officiella fästmö

as uncredited
Released: 1944-06-12

Business manager Ludvig Berndtson desperately needs a fiancée to get rid of an ex-girlfriend. He...

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Hans officiella fästmö

as Otto, Ludvig's uncle
Released: 1944-06-12

Business manager Ludvig Berndtson desperately needs a fiancée to get rid of an ex-girlfriend. He...

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Love, Sunshine and Songs

as Narrator / Man in Bathrobe
Released: 1948-02-28

Two photographers from Stockholm go to the west coast on behalf of their employer, who is a...

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Gösta Ekman - En levande legend

as Self
Released: 1987-01-07

Documentary about the Swedish actor Gösta Ekman (1890-1938) with interviews with friends and...

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With You in My Arms

as Felix Tallgren
Released: 1940-11-09

Millionaire Krister Dahl loses his memory when he is hit in the head by a golf ball. He meets...

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Syndare i filmparadiset

as uncredited
Released: 1956-09-17

Set during 1930's Stockholm, a portrayal about the birth of Europa Films - featuring over thirty...

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Flicka utan namn

as The fur trader
Released: 1954-09-05

A girl has been found murdered in her apartment. But who killed her and why? Through a series of...

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Tappa inte sugen

as Valle, author
Released: 1947-12-22

In a movie studio, a fight scene is underway. The hero, played by Allan Bergner, will make an...

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Samvetsömma Adolf

as Anton
Released: 1936-01-13

Operetta singer Adolf Berg will be called up for military duty just as he gets assigned a major...

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Herr Collins äventyr

as uncredited
Released: 1943-08-27

Filip Collin, the elegant small town patron, has suffered from money market concerns due to...

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Hin och smålänningen

as uncredited
Released: 1949-03-14

Gunnar works at a rail road in the woods and blasts a large boulder. Out of the ashes comes...

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I rök och dans

as Handlarns Per
Released: 1954-07-30

Episodic, musical comedy. Povel Ramel company Knäppupp's first film where Martin Ljung plays 16...

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Drömsemester

as Porter / Police / Newspaper editor / Landlady / Customs officer / Gipsy / Gentleman
Released: 1952-10-03

The Danish school teacher Mogens Jensen is on his holiday through Sweden in a rickety T-Ford.

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The Wedding Day

as Narrator
Released: 1960-10-03

Anders and Sylvia are set to be married, but Sylvia says 'no' and runs away at the altar.

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His Excellency

as Major Monk
Released: 1944-03-03

Celebrated elderly Austrian poet opposes nazism, while his daughter admires and falls in love...

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Gomorron Bill!

as Julle Spant
Released: 1945-11-14

Land owner Bill Bärnfelt sees a beautiful woman when he is out riding and immediately falls in...

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Trolltider

as Gorm
Released: 1979-12-01

Under the stairs to the human beings house lives Vätten. He has a nice view of the forest where...

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13 Chairs

as Strand
Released: 1945-12-26

Filip Palm works as a clerk. His hobby is creating inventions of different sorts. He has just...

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Heaven and Pancakes

as Sture Turesson
Released: 1959-11-02

Sequel to Sjunde himlen (1956). Dr. Lovisa Sundelius (Sickan Carlsson) and radio host Willy...

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Helen of Troy

as Hector
Released: 1951-12-26

Intrigues and entanglements before Prince Paris wins the heart of beautiful Helena. It all...

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Flottans Muntergökar

as Captain Rickard
Released: 1955-01-01

Bob and Bernard serve as lieutenants on a cruiser. They intend to enjoy themselves.

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Affairs of a Model

as uncredited
Released: 1946-09-23

Dora moves in with the artist Erik to become his model. Three men from a Masonic Order pretends...

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Det vackraste på jorden

as uncredited
Released: 1947-09-15

Bengt, a ship mechanic , and his wife Karin has been relocated to a modern apartment house in...

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Swing it, Boccaccio

as Sten Rampe / Dioneo / Selabeatto / Stig Järrel
Released: 1949-11-27

The theater director Sten Rampe, Svend Blom and Ulrik Blad are on their way to Sten's summer...

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...och alla dessa kvinnor

as Gunnar Skönman
Released: 1944-11-13

Axel is courting women in large quantities. He increasingly conscious and excessively uses his...

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Flicka med melodi

as uncredited
Released: 1954-08-16

The sisters Britta and Ellinor live with their grandfather, music professor Libergius, teacher...

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Pettersson i Annorlunda

as Gustav Pettersson
Released: 1956-08-01

Swedish propaganda film for the Social Democrats.

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Onda ögon

as uncredited
Released: 1947-02-03

Per Jonas wife Hedvig is ill and Barbro has been employed to care for her. Per Jonas falls in...

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Vi tre

as Baltsar Ekberg
Released: 1940-10-19

Kristina and Sture is married and has a little baby boy, Olle. Sture is an architect and while...

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Mamma tar semester

as Director Sandell
Released: 1957-08-02

Sylvia returns to Sweden after having lived abroad for six years. She visits her sister Karin,...

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Lev farligt

as Otto Frank
Released: 1944-04-03

Iben Holt, a rich bohemian, lives in an occupied country. On his way home from a party he hears...

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Defiance

as uncredited
Released: 1952-09-15

A teacher is so hard on his students that he faces a warning by the school principal. In order...

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Kalle Karlsson från Jularbo

as uncredited
Released: 1952-10-13

Biographical account of Kalle Jularbo, a famous Swedish accordion-player.

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Hanna in High Society

as uncredited
Released: 1940-11-04

When the old colonel Hummerborg dies, he leaves his fortune and estate to his trusted housemaid...

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Sin

as Brust
Released: 1948-12-22

Fredrik seduces the office girl Anna. She becomes helplessly passionately in love. Fredrik cheat...

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En fattig miljonär

as Nils "Nisse" Holm
Released: 1941-12-26

Nisse Holm start marketing coffee made of tree cones.

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Som du vill ha mej

as Dr. Holm
Released: 1943-03-22

The architect Gösta complains to Dr. Holm about his wife Gunilla's introverted character. Holm...

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Kungajakt

as uncredited
Released: 1944-01-21

The film takes place in the 1780s. The Russians plan to overthrow Gustav III from the Swedish...

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Perhaps a Gentleman

as Stig Järrel
Released: 1950-12-26

After watching Stig Järrel star in a production of Pygmalion Mister Haglund bets him that he can...

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En sjöman i frack

as Professor Petréus
Released: 1942-02-22

First mate Karlsson is mistaken for famous actor Linde.

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Adolf i toppform

as uncredited
Released: 1952-05-12

A compilation of some of Adolf Jahr's films.

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Stig Järrel 80 år

as Self
Released: 1990-02-08

A documentary made to celebrate Stig Järrel's 80th birthday, clips of old performances are mixed...

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The Lunch-break Cafe

as Ali Baba
Released: 1954-02-15

"Lunch- Break Café" - A café in the old Klara district in Stockholm attracts an offbeat...

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Herre med portfölj

as Manager Bexell
Released: 1943-11-30

Rolf Berger, a hard working and dutiful deputy judge at the court of appeal, has been married...

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Får jag lov, magistern!

as uncredited
Released: 1947-12-26

The teacher Clemens is instructed to learn to dance so that he can teach the subject.

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Skådetennis

as Himself
Released: 1945-01-22

Tennis competitions between Swedish actors at Saltsjöbaden.

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Den ynkryggen Valdemar

as Gunnar Emanuelsson
Released: 1980-04-06

The consultant at a mental hospital receives a visit from one of the hospital's female doctors...

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Vara eller inte vara

as uncredited
Released: 1952-06-18

"Be Or Not To Be" - The devil and his grandmother pose a problem for humanity by making it...

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The Red Room

as Bokförläggare Smith
First aired: 1970-03-22

A young idealistic civil servant, Arvid Falk, leaves the drudgery of bureaucracy to become a...

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