Edvin Adolphson

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.

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Mr. Markurell the innkeeper has great aspirations for his son and he doesn't hesitate to pull a few strings to ensure his son's success at school, causing great scandal in the process.

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Carlsson arrives at the widow Flod's farm in the Stockholm archipelago to help in the running of it. He is met with resistance by the widow's jealous son Gusten who is more interested in fishing than farming. When it is decided to hire out some houses for summer guests from the city the equilibrium is disturbed.

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Filmed during the first ever Guldbaggen (golden scarab) awards, it was edited and developed that night and shown for the first time to the guests at the after party.

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A wealthy butcher, fond of liquor and women is about to marry a much younger woman. The woman's father has locked himself in the attic and refuses to come to the wedding.

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In a magnificent villa a 25-year-old son of Count lives with his family. He falls in love with an elementary school teacher. So does even his father the Count.

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A young man,Erik, breaks into a photo store. But he is discovered by the night watchman and has to fly. During the flight he is picked up by cabaret singer Margot, who offers him protection. Erik, now wanted by the police, stays for a longer time with Margot and becomes her lover. Margot, however, is not alone in recruiting Erik: even the young Li is interested in him.

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Set in th 1930's depression times. A wealthy industrialist suffers a stroke. His wife takes over both family and business. The son worships his mother, but is forced to choose sides when he falls in love with the poor Aina.

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Jan Froman is a young man with great plans for the future. He gets a job as an assistant janitor at a bank, but with inherited money he starts to buy and sell real estate which eventually increases in value. He falls in love with Margareta, whose father is a naval officer. Margareta is slighted by her fiance and follows Froman on a sailing trip in the archipelago. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

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Tv play based on Hjalmar Bergmans play Swedenhielms from 1923.

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Hugo Frejer terrorizes his family and surroundings with his unhappy mood.

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

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The Baron of Qvinnevad Castle has financial problems and is forced to show the estate to tourists. The baron finds out that an unknown person is trying to acquire the castle.

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A young orphan is sent to live in a Danish village where he is cast out because his mother was a West Indian. With nowhere to turn, the ingenious survivor begins devising a new life outside of town.

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Bertil Lund works at the wholesaling company Everything for the Baby. The supervisor Fredriksson is considering promoting him to vice-president but there is one obstacle: Bertil is yet unmarried and is thus considered unsuitable. But Bertil's friend Torbjörn has an idea: Bertil can borrow Torbjörn's wife Ulla and tell everybody that she is his wife. When his colleagues at work hears that he is married, Bertil has a lot of problems to deal with. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

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Winter in Lapland, a settler and his wife just had their newborn daughter baptized. On the way home through the wilderness, they are chased by a pack of wolves. The little baby falls out of the sledge and parents plunges off a cliff.

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The third film adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf's novel of the same name. The drinker David Holm gets killed right on the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve will face the death coachman, which happens to be his old friend Georges. Together, reliving the events of the past, and David becomes aware that he ruined the lives of two women who both loved him.

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The wild Jon Esping bets that he will become a churchwarden. He, the upstart and the illiterate who can only write his name, a fox in business, a stud among women and a brute in general, wins the bet.

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From Bjørnson's novels about romance in 19th century Norway. Thorbjörn Granliden is raised severely by his parents who notice that he is drawn to the sinister farmhand Aslak. After a fight with Thorbjörn's father, Aslak leaves the farm. Thorbjörn grows up and falls in love with the beautiful Synnöve.

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Olof is driven from home when he wants to marry the wrong girl. He takes a job as a log driver and his reputation as a womanizer goes far and wide.

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A day in the life of a theater ensemble. The acting students are struggling to get one foot ahead of the others and the regular cast is fighting for the good parts.

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Swedish propaganda film for the Social Democrats.

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Hasse has received a scholarship from the insurance company where he works together with his friend Lennart. They both travel to Vienna so that Hasse can take a few days off, while Lennart attends lectures about insurance. While away, Lennart has rented his room to a girl, Alva. When he returns home earlier than expected, they have to share the apartment a few days...

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Prince Hamlet returns home from the university of Wittenberg to attend his father's funeral. His uncle Claudius, the new King, has announced his brother's widow queen. Claudius asks Hamlet to stop mourn his father.

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The two alcoholics Rudolf and Bertil gets fired from their jobs. For Bertil the story ends happily. He quits drinking and takes a job on a ship. For Rudolph it is worse. He can't kick the booze.

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Harriet and Frank Allard have been married for many years. Almost twenty years ago, Harriet had a love affair with a colleague of Frank's, Claes von Klitzow, who made her pregnant. She had a son, Christer, whom Frank thinks that he is the father of. One day, Christer reveals that he is going to marry von Klitzow's daughter Louise. Harriet becomes upset but what will she do? Try to stop the marriage by telling the truth - which would endanger her marriage with Frank - or keep silent, which would mean that two half-siblings married?

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The General's daughter, Helene, grows up in a safe world. She doesn't want to get married or have kids. She meets a man who talks about platonic love which seems to fit her nice. They get married but when he wants to get more intimate with her she rejects him. August Strindberg's short story "Mot betalning" from the collection "Giftas 2".

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The Swedish/American actor Jack Harris visits the old country for the first time in his life. One of the journalist, Ingrid Billberg, is particularly interested in getting an interview with him. She finds out secret information about his next movie, and to stop her from revealing it, Jack Harris gets her alone with him on an isolated island in the archipelago. Romance blossoms... Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

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Claus, an unhappy 28 year old Norwegian insurance company employee quits his job in Oslo and heads for Sweden in order to figure out who he really is. In his travels he meets and falls in love with Liss, a liberated small town woman, but they both have trouble considering a long-term commitment which will curtail their treasured freedom. After separating, Claus heads north and joins a surveying team, where he finds himself attracted to a country girl. Will the big city boy settle down in the rugged wilds of the Northlands, or will he return to the south and negotiate a commitment to Liss.

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When the men in the small mining community go to work, it is like any other day. They do not yet know that an accident will change everything.

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Helge Lysvik is a farmers son. He dreams of a future as a musician.

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A traveling theatre company comes to a small town and performs to a packed house. But during the show the theatre director decides to run away with the money.

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When the Swedish army occupies the eastern part of Denmark in 1678, the local inhabitants decide to fight back. Under the leadership of Svend Poulsen, a guerrilla is formed. And guerrilla officer Lars Paulinus has to fight the Swedish officer Henrik Wrede to prove his love for Anna Ryding.

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Orphan boy and vicar's daughter fall in love but her father is strongly opposed to their relationship.

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Bolle gets tired of working at the cigar factory and because of his desire for freedom he takes to the road. He and the other hobos have only one problem and that is the mounted policemen chasing vagrants.

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A small Swedish village has transformed to an industrial center with exports to Germany. A German opened a quarry some 50 years ago, after realizing the value of granite. Now WW1 begins.

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The newly appointed director Hugo Henriksen gets into a fight and accidentally hits a prostitute. When Hugo is trying to leave the scene the girl dies.

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Carsten Berg returns home after 15 years abroad. He gets into a fight with his father, who dies of a heart attack. Carsten must take over his fathers business. He is informed that he is suffering from an incurable disease.

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The famous author Mark Storm's publisher is unhappy with his books and asks him to write books in a more popular genre, crime for example. When Mark Storm comes to his apartment, he finds a burglar, Kurre. He notices that they have a physical similarity and they change identity, which makes it possible for Storm to make empirical studies in the world of crime.

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The orphan Alfred lives with two ladies in an idyllic cottage near a private golf course.

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Hjalmar Björklund and his daughter Margit runs a second-hand bookshop in a small Swedish town.

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The architect Georg Wall is sitting in his spacious Stockholm apartment. He has been waiting several hours since lunch for his significantly younger wife, Lola Wall, to appear. When she eventually comes home, she wants a divorce.

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André is a young attorney who has opened his own office in Paris without any success. One day he finds a will in an old book in an antique shop that reveals a hidden treasure at the castle Brignolles. The first 100% talkie film in Swedish film history.

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