Povel Ramel

Celebratory TV special for the 100th birthday of Swedish entertainer Povel Ramel with performances by many people who stood on stage with him

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"Bellman Forever" - about Sweden's foremost national poet and performer from the eighteenth century: Carl Michael Bellman. Despite the fact that he died 220 years ago, he is still making researchers fight about who he was and what he meant with his lyrics. In the programme, several of Sweden's most famous artists and researchers give their contribution to our understanding of this productive genius that died poor and forgotten.

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1955 - the year when The rip hunter is buried in snow for eight days before his ski pole with a movie ticket is discovered. Ingrid Bergman gets bad reviews as Joan of Arc, and James Dean dies in a 185 km/h car crash. The knappupgänget, with Povel Ramel and Gunwer Bergkvist, go to Nairobi to shoot a film that will never be finished. Sweden votes no to right-hand traffic and the "Motbok" disappears in October. Charlie Norman writes film music and gets a job in the US, while Sigge Eriksson becomes a world figure skating champion in Moscow. Anita Ekberg visits after years in Hollywood and Louis Armstrong gives concerts in Stockholm. Luleå is building the world's first indoor shopping center, and Viggen Viggo is visible on the TV screen.

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Thor Modéen (1898-1950) was one of our great Swedish film actors and comedians. Cicerone Ulf Larsson accompanies us through Modéen's life, with the help of interviews with friends, acquaintances and colleagues and with clips from feature films, magazine films and commercials.

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Celebrating the first 50 years of the Norwegian artist Wenche Myhre's life.

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The film is based on a series of immensely popular Swedish children's books, about the boy Bert, who is just hitting puberty and having the usual problems with it. But that's where the usual ends abruptly.

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Celebrating the first revue/variety/show "Akta huvet/Watch Your Head" released in 1953 by pastiches and reworkings of the Povel Ramel song and comedy book.

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A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 films.

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A congratulatory celebration of Povel Ramel's 70th birthday featuring a cavalcade of great Swedish performers.

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Talking head documentary about the early 20th century Swedish comedian and singer Karl Gerhard made for his hundredth birthday.

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A show/happening recorded at restaurant Tyrol in Stockholm.

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Documentary about the Swedish humorist, film maker and artist Yngve Gamlin

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Interviews with the band Ainbusk Singers interspersed with clips from their show "Greatest Tits"

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A documentary about the poet / singer / actor Cornelis Vreeswijk. Made about a year before he died.

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John and Carl have a small publishing company. One day John meets the poet Clara who recently made her debut, and Clara's fiancé Stig. John and Clara fall in love with each other, and she moves into an apartment owned by John. John breaks up with his wife and moves in with Clara. But Clara has a nervous breakdown.

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Jubilee show for Povel Ramel's 60th birthday

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Semlon Pytting struggles to navigate the complex web of lies he has created to hide his cheating from his wife.

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A lorry driver sets out for Jämtland with the dolls Posi and Maggan, where the Kingdom of Fairy Tales is said to exist. Along the way, they encounter a variety of characters from the world of fairy tales.

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Povel Ramel jubilee show played at Berns in Stockholm in 1972.

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'The Drunk Trio': Ivar Wallin, guitar, Erik Wiberg, accordion and Bror Wiberg, mandolin, play songs by Harry Rydell. The farm trader Sixten Landby talks about how to become a peddler, while cycling on a path to his own story about the profession. Kuno Persson, poet and ore prospector, stands on the beach and reads his own poem about the river.

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In 1969 Swedish television was split into two channels and to celebrate this satirical revue was made.

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Partaj (Party) is a swedish classical humor TV series from 1969. Known actors and comdians deliver sketches and short stories. Among the participants you'll find among others, Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt, Lars Ekborg, Jarl Borssén, Sonya Hedenbratt, Margareta Sjödin, Roffe Bengtson and Mille Schmidt. The series used the same concept as the popular US show Laugh-In.

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The performance is divided into two acts: The first takes place in a hot air balloon basket sometime around 1900, the second in the present day in a house on the French Riviera, where Povel and Beppe are writing the revue.

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A Swedish family musical by Beppe Wolgers.

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A genuine sit-down evening from 1965.

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Musical variety special with Povel Ramel and friends.

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10 year anniversary revue for the Knäppupp company, performances of both old and new material.

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Povel Ramel's 1962 show as filmed for television. This time the usual gang of four is joined by promising young comedian Hasse Alfredsson.

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Ad man Jonathan Blake gets tired of his work and runs away to a time travel agency for the first flight out.

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An annual Swedish Christmas calendar television series.

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Modern fairy tale about the small town of Fårtuna where the chief of police is also an amateur theater director. The local shop assistant Linda aspires to become an actress and gets discovered by a talent agent from Stockholm.

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Behind the scenes of Knäppupp's 1957 tour

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Staffan Stolle becomes the sole heir to a rich and noble family when he is just a little boy. Early on he is engaged to be married to a girl he finds he does not love. Instead he flees the country only to return under a false name, looking for true love.

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A comedy mystery involving the composer and cartoonist Hubert Yrhage, the journalist Gary Lundberg, anticartoon campaigner Lena Lett, the mysterious Jens Myskovich and music publisher Darling Karlsson. Yrhage receives his manuscripts from an 11 year-old whose inspiration comes from the mysterious events at a boarding house where several of the characters stay.

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Celebrating the first revue/variety/show "Akta huvet/Watch Your Head" released in 1953 by pastiches and reworkings of the Povel Ramel song and comedy book.

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A show/happening recorded at restaurant Tyrol in Stockholm.

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Semlon Pytting struggles to navigate the complex web of lies he has created to hide his cheating from his wife.

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Povel Ramel jubilee show played at Berns in Stockholm in 1972.

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In 1969 Swedish television was split into two channels and to celebrate this satirical revue was made.

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The performance is divided into two acts: The first takes place in a hot air balloon basket sometime around 1900, the second in the present day in a house on the French Riviera, where Povel and Beppe are writing the revue.

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Musical variety special with Povel Ramel and friends.

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