Acting

Lili Ziedner

Lili Ziedner (14 September 1885 – 10 February 1939) was a Swedish actress. She appeared in over twenty films between 1909 and 1939.

Acting credits

The Mannequin poster
NR

Lili is a young and courageous woman. She does things that create confusion. She suddenly begin to act in a film's plot in a movie theater, or take a mannequin from a shop.

The Mannequin

1913

The Judgement of Solomon poster
NR

A wife applies for a divorce since her husband does nothing but read the newspaper. But since they have three children, the division of property proves to be a problem.

The Judgement of Solomon

1914

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NR

Axel is told to buy his mother-in-law a birthday present, but struggles with finding anything good.

The Birthday Present

1914

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9.0

Lasse Larsson's friend, Johan Jansson, are in trouble because of his wife. She has told her American relatives that her husband is a consul. When the relatives from America announce a visit, Lasse has to help to keep up the lie.

Close Relations

1935

Eva går ombord poster
10.0

Eva is an employee in a fashion store. One day she finds cruise tickets in the name of Bo Stensjö and boards the ship pretending to be his wife. Things get awkward when Stensjö eventually boards the boat himself and is informed that his "wife" is already aboard....

Eva går ombord

1934

Revenge is Sweet poster
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Private 15 August tries to escape military service while handling two girls at the same time.

Revenge is Sweet

1915

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NR

Cousins Axel and Lilli are supposed to get married. Lilli is however much more interested in reading than doing a wife's chores.

The Way to a Man’s Heart

1914

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9.0

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

Kvartetten som sprängdes

1936

We Two poster
4.3

Architect Sture Ahrengren walks out of his job with an architecture firm with the support of his wife Kristina. He gets a position with an old friend, Balstar Ekberg, who has a big engineering job going. But Sture gets entangled in a romance with Ekberg's wife, Helena.

We Two

1939

Scattered Pages poster
9.0

Vera Nilsson is friendly with the poor neighbor boy Håkan, this is not seen kindly by Vera's father Nils.

Scattered Pages

1931

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NR

Pastor Elias is preparing a sermon for when the bishop is coming by his church.

When Mother in Law Rules

1914

The Norrtull Gang poster
6.6

A collective of office girls and their tribulations in the male world, female solidarity, the place of women in the labor and civil rights struggles and the conflict between love and work.

The Norrtull Gang

1923

The Modern Suffragette poster
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Lili and her friend attends a conference, where the English suffragette Miss Spratt. Bursting with enthusiasm they form a feminist cell.

The Modern Suffragette

1913

A Stolen Waltz poster
7.0

A guest house in Stockholm. A group of music students hang out. Everyone is supposed to contribute with a composition. The comrades try to force Inga to play hers, but she refuses. She leaves for a walk. From a window she hear a melody.

A Stolen Waltz

1932

Guest House Paradise poster
5.4

Paradiset is a boarding house in the archipelago of Stockholm, run by the strict Elvira Pettersson, and with a large variety of guests. Her maid Lotta quits her job but when she leaves she accidentally forgets to turn off the iron. However, her brother Julle sneaks back one night to turn it off. When he is discovered, he tries to make them believe that he is the great Argentine opera singer Don Carlos they have been waiting for

Guest House Paradise

1937

Transit Camp poster
7.0

Set among the traveling circus community. Artists of many talents and origins. A showman causes an accident in which his wife is killed. He accuses the circus clown who spends ten years in prison. It was made as a polyglot film with each actor speaking in their own language.

Transit Camp

1932

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NR

Compilation film with scenes from different Swedish silent films, many of the films have since been lost and the only surviving fragments can be found in this film.

Do You Remember?

1935

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5.0

In a small provincial town there is a hotel run by one of those eccentric cooks of long ago who made generous meals that have nothing in common with the extravagant restaurateurs of nowadays and their meagre menus. The manager is named after Alexander the Great and in his restaurant the town bourgeoisie meet and discuss various issues, especially matters of the heart. Morals are part of the conversations and prove to be complicated issues even for strict and serious Nordics. 28 minutes of runtime are missing and presumed lost.

Alexander the Great

1917

Uncle Frans poster
8.0

Set in 1880's, an aged woman sentimentally recalls a time of love and heartache from her own past in segments of flashbacks. Based on the novel by Danish writer Jenny Blicher-Clausen.

Uncle Frans

1926

Herr Husassistenten poster
9.0

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.

Herr Husassistenten

1938

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10.0

Dentist Weber practices in the small town of Vårköping and gets into love trouble.

Kärleksexpressen

1932

The Bimbini Circus poster
7.0

The mayoress of Grönköping is against all immoral entertainment until she one day falls in love with the circus director that arrives in town.

The Bimbini Circus

1921

En bröllopsnatt på Stjärnehov poster
10.0

To save the family estate Stjärnehov, one of the twins Stiernhielm, Bertil, marries the rich sausage maker Magnusson's daughter Britta.

En bröllopsnatt på Stjärnehov

1934