Richard Lund

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

A compilation of some of Adolf Jahr's films.

The Forshyttan steel-mill has been owned by the Ancker family for generations. But competition is hard. When the son Bengt Ancker comes back from abroad he has an idea for success: a lighter steel with better quality. But a lot of money is necessary to develop his idea and the only way to raise the necessary capital is to sell the company to their competitor - Manchester Steel Company. But the workers are concerned that this could threaten their job-security

Jan-Erik Widgren meets the lonely Bertha Olsson, a woman struggling with alcoholism. Though Bertha is already linked to Caligula, Jan-Erik's heartless teacher, she begins a relationship with the boy anyway. When Caligula learns that Jan-Erik is having an affair with Bertha, he begins to torture his student psychologically. He reserves his cruelest behavior for Bertha, however, which results in a tragic turn of events.

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.

A woman flees to avoid rumors of promiscuity, but is trailed by a reporter who wants to expose her dark past.

An allegory of Germany's WWII occupation of Norway. Members of a theater ensemble join the resistance.

Gugge and Nuffe work at the competing meat wholesalers AB Delikatesser and AB Skånedelikatesser. The two companies compete for a large order and the two will stop at hardly nothing to get the order

Karin Berggren is living a double life. In the daytime she is a strict teacher at a boarding school for girls. In the evenings she becomes the star singer at a popular nightclub.

Lisa Larsson, dancer at a theater, witnesses a traffic accident and banker Brenner's private driver asks her to be a witness. When her friends see her talk to the driver, they start to believe that she is Brenner's fiancée. The manager of the theater, Gravander, gives her the leading part in his latest show, in order to befriend Brenner. Larsson plays along in this mistake and when Brenner hears about this he asks to see Larsson, pretending to be a news journalist... Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

Birgit Storm meets variety artist Jim Gray at a bar. They dance with each other, marry and have children. The Jim leaves to go to war.

Operetta singer Adolf Berg will be called up for military duty just as he gets assigned a major role in an operetta. On the train he meets Ulla Wern and complications occur.

In 1803 the Swedish inventor John Ericsson is born. After a military career he went to England and became one of the first builders of locomotives. Despite large debts, he invents the propeller. In 1839 he crosses the Atlantic and builds ships for the US Navy. When the US civil war breaks out, the Federation needs a ship to match the Confederate 'Merrimac' and preventing the Confederation from exporting cotton to Europe. Ericsson builds the 'Monitor', a ship the Federation needs to win the war.

Adolph Turesson is a mild-mannered, meek college professor whose faint-heart isn't impressing the fair-lady he secretly loves, the golden-haired Britta Larsson. Attending a lecture, he witnesses the attention paid to his lady-love by other faculty members, and falls to sleep. He dreams of the olden days and the knights, and the comely ladies of the court over whom they fought. His dream also gives all the cast the change to play a second role. Upon awakening, he proposes to Britta.

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.

Lena Bergström works in an office and is unhappily in love with her boss, Johan Borg. She decides to quit. Borg's wife won't have any children, and when she becomes pregnant she has an illegal abortion. For some reason, Lena's father believes that it is Lena who has had an abortion.

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

The rejected artist Tore Nilsson disrupts the radio managers broadcast and gets his singing audition live on air.

The Whalers (original title: Valfangare) is a filmed record of the final whaling expedition in the Arctic before the outbreak of WW2. Only partly a documentary, the film is able to accommodate a dramatic throughline, concerning the redemption of wastrelly millionaire's son Allan Blom (Allan Bohlin). Pressed into service on the expedition, Allan shows he's a true son of Scandanavia through his courageous actions on the high seas, and even wins the hand of heroine Sonja (Tutta Rolf) in the bargain. While the whaling scenes are both exciting and exhillarating, the sequence in which a whale carcass is stripped and gutted may not appeal to everyone in the audience. Originally filmed in 1939 in Swedish and Norwegian, The Whalers was helpfully fitted out with English subtitles for its 1942 American run.

It's time for conscription training outside the small town Lillköping. The bank clerk becomes an officer - the bank manager ordinary conscript. Everybody seems to be trying to get a date with Elsa, who cooks their food. Nobody takes the training seriously.

Bertil Dahl deals with bonds at a bank. He dislikes that his colleagues are lying to customers to sell more bonds and pledges to tell the truth for 24 hours. But the social life is smoothed by using white lies and Bertil's truth-telling is making everybody upset. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

When silly inventor Svensson gets mistaken for Swedish/American aviator Smith, he is accidentally enlisted in the military and drawn into unexpected romantic affairs.

René Marelle from Marseille is actually a Swede named Richard Bergin, but he has chosen to tamper with his identity to avoid his Swedish military service. A look-alike has taken his place to fifty thousand kronor in compensation.

The widower Karl Hawermann and his daughter Louise are forced to leave their home by the ruthless Pomuchelskopp.

Young Lieutenant Jeff Gordon is placed in an English town and he meets his loved one Mary. When the war starts in Africa his regiment is being sent to the desert.

Two riders on their way to Warsaw stop at a monastery for the night and ask an old monk there to tell them the story of its founding.

Hämnaren (The Avenger) was made in 1915, and was rediscovered in Berlin in 2001. It begins with a woman named Ester, who is reading a letter and crying. The letter says that a man named George won't marry her, because he knows his father would never allow him to marry a Jewish woman. Ester dies of childbirth, and possibly a broken heart. Her suitor Jakob takes care of her son, who is named Josef, and sends George a note, accusing him of causing her death

Ayo Vindico is known in the capital Stockholm as the Bird of paradise.

Olga is a young student and a revolutionary agitator in Russian ruled Poland.

After Ingeborg Holm's husband becomes sick and dies, the family's small grocery store fails, Ingeborg becomes bankrupt, and she is forced to move to the workhouse. Her three children go to foster homes. Ingeborg simply must see them again.

An important man's death brings forth a secret, revealing a daughter from another woman, previously unknown to his wife - and bringing about the meeting of the two sisters.

A sea captain travels to the foreign port of San Lucas and collects a large sum of money, where he meets with a beautiful woman...and trouble.

Two smugglers meet two customs officers at sea, and happen to kill them. The story continues fifteen years later when a son of one of the officers and a smuggler's daughter fall in love with each other.

Göran Stål, an elegant and spoiled young man, has a relationship with painter Margit Degn, who is deeply in love with him. But Göran has a lot of bad business deals.

The old friends Otto Berner and Charles Von Barton stands on separate sides in a political conflict.

A film about family secrets... and deathbed confessions.

Theater director Robert Walter hires the young Emma Reuter as his secretary, and soon she becomes his wife. But when Walter's old flame Countess Nora von Reimers arrives, his loyalty towards his wife is tested.

Two men are rivals for the affection of the beautiful Eufrosyne Linde - who is actually toying with one gentleman to make the other jealous.

A man undergoing a mid-life crises suddenly becomes irresponsible and behaves in reckless manner. His self-destructive habits not only creates havoc in his home life, it leads to other problems.

A beautiful woman is torn between her loyalty to her unscrupulous brother and feelings for her lover.

The aging Count Eric von Ure is worried about the lack of responsibility shown by his son and heir Kuno. His extramarital son Jörgen Ager is however a model of virtue, while distant relative Count Fritz also plots to be included in the will.

Maria lives with her alcoholic father in a cabin the forest. One day she is seduced by the local land owner after he gives her a ring. Shortly afterwards he decides to leave the area and travel to Stockholm.

Ruth has had a happy childhood until her family falls on hard time. Not wishing to be a burden she decides to get a job but she's having a hard time getting one until she gets the idea to dress up as a boy and get a job as a milkman.

The stock broker Franz Von Bierman has been speculating on the stock market and lost a lot of money.

Thomas Abel is a happily married man with children, and head of one of the largest companies in Sweden. His life will soon change after a serious accusation is made against him.

Stina and her daughter Karin lives in a small cabin on Baron Silverlods land.

A woman journalist employed as a maid by a great explorer is overcome with remorse at revealing his private life to the public. He shares her feelings and marries her

Despite her youth, Princess Lara Rispala has managed to get her kingdom Leskapur to move towards a new heyday. But one day, a catastrophe occurs in her life. She loses the "Sun Mirror", the symbol of the dignity and security of the old royal family. Lara confides in the young European and engineer Rudolf Corvin, who has long been her confidant. Together they go to the fakir Rahu. The fakir has the ability to read out all the secrets of the universe in his well. He sees that the Sun Mirror has been stolen by the prince in the neighboring kingdom of Valpur.

Three Scottish officers, including Sir Archi, murder Sir Arne and his household for a coffin filled with gold. The only survivor is Elsalill, who moves to relatives in Marstrand. There she meets a charming young officer- Sir Archi- and she soon understands that he was one of the murderers.

Two brothers compete for the love of a woman while the impending war threatens to separate them from both sides of the border. Based on the novel "La Débâcle" by Émile Zola.

Young Albert Ström struggles the ensure the money needed to keep after his sister and aging mother. But his mechanical skills serves him well.

The international criminal Helene Voigt, who calls herself Countess Montigno, is on the run from the law.

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

Professor Ernest Wearnkeal has problems with repeated thefts at his Egyptian museum. For help, he turns to the famous detective and author Oswald Read. Read arrives at the museum under the disguise of a Dr. Kearn who will study the museum's art treasures. As Dr. Kearn, he is also introduced to the professor's beautiful daughter Ester.

Lovers are torn apart by a noble's desire for the female half of the couple.

Sven Nilsson has a wife and a little child. One day the child gets very sick and Sven has to find a doctor.

Margot Brising spends the summer in the countryside with her aunt, Mrs. Börje. There she reunites with her childhood friend Gustav, Mrs. Börje's son, who is a naval officer. They fall in love with each other.

A young woman is wrongfully accused of a crime. Adapted from the 1862 play by Johan Jolin.

Lord Handsome travels incognito to find a woman who loves him more than his money.

Helder is a happy family man, but one day his wife receives a letter from her brother Albert, who managed to escape from prison.