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

"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.

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.

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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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A show/happening recorded at restaurant Tyrol in Stockholm.

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.

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.

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

Jubilee show for Povel Ramel's 60th birthday

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

'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.

A genuine sit-down evening from 1965.

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

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

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

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

A Swedish family musical by Beppe Wolgers.

Musical variety special with Povel Ramel and friends.

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.

"In rain and shine" - Sid och Filibert are identical twins. Sid is a theater manager and composer and when his brother arrives to Stockholm for a position at the Museum of Natural History, Filibert is mistaken for Sid.

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

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.

Romance blossoms between single seamstress Puck and the art critic, Roger. He is engaged to Elsa, whose wedding dress Puck is involved with designing.

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.

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.

The fifth edition of "Terras fönster" reporting from Oslo 900 years. Two episodes with Povel Ramel that sings and spits together with Martin Ljung and Brita Borg. Miss Sweden 1951, Anita Ekberg, visits Stockholm, inaugurates Children's Day in Humlegården. Art, the sculptor Einar Luter card in his studio, and fashion. Report from the factory community Harg in Nyköping municipality, with Lars Johansson, who played a guard post in Nyköping's guest ban, and his wife Marianne. Musical cavalcade with Povel Ramel, Brita Borg and Martin Ljung.

The two young attachées Freddie Rundhult and Rutger af Utterfeldt at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are rivals for the beautiful operetta singer Alice.

Behind the scenes of Knäppupp's 1957 tour