Keve Hjelm

A tragedy by William Shakespeare about King Lear who intends to abdicate, and therefore wants to carve the kingdom up between his three daughters.

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Interview-based documentary on the Swedish actor Keve Hjelm where he discusses his career.

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An enterprising star agent and party-maker is a heavy drinker. He is struggling to keep everything moving. He tries to get his life in shape, but is surrounded by chaos.

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A stand-up comedian who loses his train of thought and his wife takes over the show with resounding success.

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In this film about Ingmar Bergman's parents, Henrik Bergman is studying for the priesthood and trying to make ends meet when he encounters the lovely, affluent Anna. Despite their social differences, Henrik and Anna fall in love, wed and move to the country. They lead a quiet life as Henrik works as a priest, but it isn't long before the simple people and plain surroundings make Anna long for a more lavish lifestyle, which causes marital stress.

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A a walk on the paths of childhood with Sweden's greatest working-class writer Ivar Lo-Johansson. During a few sunny May days in 1986, Ivar Lo looks back on his life and his deeds.

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During World War I in Norway, the lives of a shipping agent and his family are put under pressure when he becomes bankrupt and his wife's mentally disturbed sister comes to stay.

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When the war breaks out, Annika lives with her parents in Värmland, close to the border to Norway. Her cousin Harald is a dealer in the black market but has to escape from the police to Norway. Annika moves to Stockholm and gets a job as a waitress. She meets the happy-go-lucky Berit and together they have a wonderful time. She also meets a young man, Bengt, whom she marries. But almost immediately she discovers that her husband is different from the man who was courting her. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

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The depressed Adolf has been visited by his new friend friend Gustav who is in contact with him about what he is going to do with his wife Tekla.

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In a rural western town in 1890 a woman has a mute old daughter after relations with her step father, which in his need of money, wants to sell them off to a rich skin tradesman. While resisting this, the woman turns lame.

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Two brothers meet again after a few years away from each other. Jerry has been in prison for petty crimes but has now decided to try to live honestly and build a family. Kiljan is a dreamer who lives a life of a bohemian.

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A crime melodrama set in the world of horse racing. A trainer is wrongfully accused of doping a horse and loses his license. When he begins to investigate the matter himself, a series of shady dealings are uncovered.

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A meeting between the Swedish/French Simone and the Norwegian Stein at a book convention in Frankfurt turns into something more. They keep contact by phone and cassettes, but it seems they don't dare to take the relationship any further.

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Limpan is an alcoholic who has been put into a caretaking home for alcoholics. He's promised a job on the 'outside', but he's not released from the home, so he runs away. He misses the job and gets caught and is brought back, but they won't accept him, since it's after closing time. During a couple of days, he wanders back and forth between the home and the world, meeting several different people who all have their different problems, which Limpan confronts and all the time, there's the question of alcohol; to drink or not to drink.

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Edgar and Alice have been married 25 years. Now their marriage is falling apart as all the pent up bitterness is starting to break through.

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"Prosperous Times" - It is in the mid 70s. UN soldier Jussi, returns to his native village after a few years of absence, looks at the resort boredom and injustice with new eyes, but is not able to do anything.

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"My Love" - A drama rich in symbols about an unsuccessful Norwegian bookseller. With a bag filled with quirky literature he wanders through Stockholm, trying to find book buyers.

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It is 1957. A young student is unhappy at school, play hooky frequently and devotes himself to his great interest in music. Together with his girlfriend and other friends he lives a bohemian life in anticipation of becoming an adult.

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Documentary which follows Bo Widerberg during the making of 'Man on the Roof', 'The Butt' and a failed theater production.

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About a girl growing up in a big city in the seventies. She cultivates her artistic ambitions. After a series of relationships, she gets a small part in a play and becomes pregnant.

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Nisse and Greta, a middle-aged married couple, sit and watch TV. To their surprise they get to experience their own life's in a TV show being broadcasted.

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

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Göte is an alcoholic dockworker who wants to turn his life around to get his son back.

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Sören Hellgren comes home drunk one night and his wife Tyra is furious because he is boozed up and has spent a lot of money. Sören doesn't understand why she is mad, he thinks she should be happy that he came home at all.

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Mr X and Mr Y both have a hidden past. Mr X committed manslaughter in his youth without being caught. Mr Y falsified a debt without being punished. Now they meet in a countryside house in the middle of a storm.

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Two women, Karen (theatre director) and Lena, visit an island, a Swedish resort, where Lena's ex-husband, Martin (choreographer), lives in comparative seclusion with a mentally disturbed ballet dancer named Carl. Carl is brother by guilt rather than blood, for Martin is somehow responsible for his breakdown.

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This adaptation of Emile Zola's novel "NANA," is about the sexual liaisons of a woman who through her relationships with different men, enjoys a life of pleasure and luxury. However, her lavish life-style does not always bring happiness.

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A young idealistic civil servant, Arvid Falk, leaves the drudgery of bureaucracy to become a journalist and author. As he explores various social activities—politics, publishing, theatre, philanthropy, and business—he finds more hypocrisy and political corruption than he thought possible. He takes refuge with a group of "bohemians", who meet in a red dining room in Berns Salonger to discuss these matters.

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"Pig Hunt" - Lennart Siljeberg works at the Cattle Inspection Agency. He is the perfect bureaucrat, always careful and pedantic. The agency's latest mission is to extinguish all pigs on the island of Gotland. However, for some unexplainable reason, the local farmers use violence to destroy the agency's work.

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Television hostess Susanne has an affair with Rikard, who is a doctor at a hospital. But after meeting the man who Rikard works for, Professor Erland Roos, she leaves Rikard and eventually marries the professor. Susanne's sister comes to Stockholm, desperately in need of money. Perhaps Susanne, now married to a rich professor, can help her?

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