Åke Engfeldt

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

August Strindberg's historical play about the king he called Sweden's traitor.

Jeanette is an inmate at a juvenile prison. She contemplates her life which has been miserable ever since birth.

When a high-school girl complains of her inability to reach sexual climax, her doctor suggests that she keep a diary of her sexual encounters. She does just that and soon finds herself caught up in a sexual merry-go-round that includes making a hardcore porno film in Sweden, an escapade with a German sadist and a lesbian encounter.

Three girls (around 20 years old) who have grown up in different parts of Denmark get a strange letter. It turns out they are sisters, and will inherit from their late mother, if the can stay together one month in the same house. They end up in a lot of (romantic) trouble, because of speculations of who their father(s) might be.

A compilation of some of Adolf Jahr's films.

The Squadron leader throws big a party where one of his colleagues is going to demonstrate a new type of explosive substance.

A filmmaker sets out to create the greatest film in history, but finds out that human abilities have limits.

A classic melodrama about the famous pianist Thomas Dahlhoff.

"How crazy!" A man and a woman watch episodes from Nils Poppe movies outside a cinema Maxim in Stockholm. Poppe represents, among other things, a poor composer who vainly tries to get a tune adopted by a publisher. The failure makes him depressed, but he is living it up by meeting a good friend Calle, who invites him home. Poppe stays for a few days as a male housewife. Calle has a music store and there the two friends can go crazy among all the instruments.

The story about Karlsson's six boys, who makes mischief in the fictional town of Östköping.

A journalist is writing a critical article about the prison service in Sweden. The magazine's editor in chief does not agree with him and removes the article. The journalist then plans to fake a crime to gain knowledge about life in prison.

Manager Blom and his family stop at a mountain hotel. Once there, all family members are insolent and even cruel to both guests and staff. When the hotel manager tries to get rid of the family Manager Blom buys the hotel. But all of the staff resigns while a telegram to the family Blom tells them they are ruined! To raise money the family begins to work on and operate the hotel.

Orvar is a vagabond, walking the country roads and living on sunshine and generosity. One day he decides to find work somewhere to get some money. He becomes a helping hand for seven lumberjack brothers. The big and strong brothers really enjoy themselves, joking with the small and meek Orvar. Orvar does not know that he has inherited a large fortune but the seven brothers do and they begin to treat him with the greatest courtesy. They convince him to write his last will, making them his heirs, and then begin to make plans on how to kill him.

Kurre and Inga are engaged to be married. However, as they are very poor, they can't afford it just yet. They live separate, both in small apartments with a friend. Inga works at an office and Kurre at a small factory. Inga has a liability to be late in the mornings and this gets her into some trouble at the office, because of her very strict boss. This, along with the fact that another girl starts to court Kurre puts their relationship to the test, a crisis which is easier said than done to solve.

Farmer Mårten Esbjörnsson has three adult sons who all want to find a wife to marry. However, all the young women of the neighborhood seem to be less than perfect.

The boxing promoter Charlie returns from America to Sweden and needs to find a professional Swedish boxer for an upcoming fight. By chance Charlie watches Björn Harring fight off some hoodlums. Charlie sees great potential in Björn and wants to promote him for an upcoming fight, the problem is though that Björn is studying theology and is soon to become a priest. This might not look too good in a prejudiced society of the 40s with a boxing priest, but Charlie is determent to find a way.

First mate Karlsson is mistaken for famous actor Linde.

Three taxi drivers work and bet on the lottery together. One day they win a lot of money - but they find it hard to handle their new wealth.

Urban girl falls for rugged forest ranger.

Sten meets Nina on a train ride. He feels attracted to her but he is already engaged to his fiancee Marie-Louise.

Fearing a gangster's vengeance,his moll sails away to South Africa ,where many emigrants intend to work in the mines there.

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

The Nazis seize power and occupies a country. A celebrated pianist returns home from abroad during this time of national crisis and reconnects with Major von Ritter who leads the occupation and whom she had a passionate love affair in the past.

Brothers Fredrik and Pontus own a family company. Fredrik is the manager of the old school and Pontus is a professor of psychology, which theorizes that men is more intelligent than women. Astrid, a young woman, opposes these theories and Pontus decides to hires her, which Fredrik doesn't like. Astrid gets installed as in charge of advertising, and soon she begins her modernizations.

The story about Klas Ekengren, the mayor of a small Swedish town, and his mother Alma.

The year is 1946. Dr. Bertil Burman works at a Red Cross Hospital in Vienna. One day, a barely teenage girl, Leni Rosner, collapses at his reception.

1813. The Swedish army is fighting in the War of the Sixth Coalition. The popular general Von Döbeln is arrested for sending the army against the French in breach of orders by the crown prince. At the court martial he is sentenced to death but is pardoned by the king and sent to prison instead. A group of conspirators are planning to set him free and make him their leader in a coup d'etat.

Poppe plays Sven, an orphan who is being taken care of by the kind Mr. Carlsson. However, when Carlsson remarries a baroness, life becomes hard for Sven. The baroness and her two sons do all they can to make it so. The daughter (Anna-Lisa Ericsson) of their even richer neighbour is mistaken for the new house-maid and she helps Sven get ready for the ball that her father is having, while she and Sven secretly fall in love with each other.

The wealthy Rudolf Trane helps the unsuccessful vacuum-cleaner salesman Rhuter to find a girl called Marianne. Trane, Rhuter and Trane's manservant John pretend to be waiters when Marianne's family is having a large dinner.

Tennis competitions between Swedish actors at Saltsjöbaden.

A professor suffers an accident that disables him. He struggles to keep his courage, trying to understand and solve a conflict with his wife.

Inga Danell's summer vacation is near. But unfortunately both Inga and her brother Acke have bad grades and are forced to study by the help of a tutor.

A young baker moves to the small town of Västerby and becomes successful with a new type of whole wheat bread.

Engineer Hellner has invented a cure that provides eternal youth.

Tells a story about a man named Anthony who loses his wife, to an illness and finds it hard to move on. Although Anthony is now single, he struggles with how to build a new relationship with Tiffany. Anthony is uneasy to love again and pushes her away. He finds a letter from his deceased wife, saying that if something happens, to love and marry again. He is ready to let go, let God and move on.

The stern, but kind-hearted, Kristiana from the country takes place as a maid with the Larsson family in Stockholm, previously (in)famous for its rapid turnover of housemaids.

Translator Vilhelm and his young wife have a child, as well as a grumpy housemaid who doesn't hesitate to give her opinion on how they behave as parents. In secret Kristin arranges a scholarship for Vilhelm so he can go back to his medical studies.

Janne Vängman is heavy drinker who always stands up for the poor and oppressed.

Baron Conrad Crusenhielm is hit in the head during a drunken brawl. Suffering from amnesia, he is mistaken for the lost sailor Karlsson and taken to the navy vessel Fylgia.

A gang of unemployed itinerant musicians play in the south of Stockholm. Then they get the chance to be an orchestra in a dance restaurant. It goes well until the female owner falls in love with one of them.

An artist lives with his wife in a large house on the countryside. She is bored, longing to return to the city and her life as an actress. She leaves him. He falls in love with a young girl, not knowing that the girl is his wife's daughter.

John is the skipper of the Albertina which is moored in Mariehamn. Nearby is luxury yacht Sea Star, where Ann-Mari boards. She begins to take an interest in John and makes sure to come aboard the Albertina to meet him.

A car mechanic saves his friend from getting fired when money is missing at his office.

One day, a theater company to Iron Creek. In the city's steel mills meet the young actress Monika young Erik. The love between them is from the very clear but complicated by the fact both have careers.

The members of a string quartet in a small town engage themselves in share speculation.

Vicke Lundin is a car mechanic in a garage where the owner is a brutal and selfish. With him, Vicke argues about the bills the customers have to pay.