Mia Poppe

Nils Poppe was one of Sweden's comedy greats but in this film his daughter, the actress Mia Poppe, wants to find answers to his inner darkness - hidden from the masses.

It's 1923 at Fredriksdal manor and the widow Julia Sjölin is in the middle of her daughter Ofelia's wedding to lieutenant Rosencrona.

Swedish production of the muscial Once Upon a Mattress from 1998 that wasn't released until 2021.

Eva Rydberg, Eva Roos and Hampus Nessvold all take part in Andreas T. Olsson's new adaptation of the classic play "A traveling theater company". August Blanche's charming comedy is about a traveling theater company and their struggle to keep the dream of performing arts alive, despite chaos, conflicts and unexpected obstacles. Recorded in the summer of 2024.

The Fredriksdal outdoor theatre has been a comedy staple of Swedish summers and television in winters for decades. First under Nils Poppe and then under Eva Rydberg. But 2023 was Eva's last summer in charge of the theatre and the end of this era is celebrated by this documentary.

A town in south of Sweden is isolated after a viral outbreak. The Swedes and immigrants still inside must band together to survive the onslaught.

One of the best and funniest productions from Fredriksdalsteatern with Eva Rydberg, Ola Forssmed and Kim Sulocki as the Marx Brothers. The whole thing takes place at the Central Park Theatre in New York in 1935. In the middle of a rehearsal of a new musical, the theater director Hector Chesterfield dies and in order for the musical to premiere in a week, it is extremely important to find a new theater director. Hector's wife, Patricia, asks her old acquaintance, the incredibly strange and stupid adventurer Captain Spoling, to take over the theater. After much deliberation, he agrees. Then the great mafia boss Don Calzone shows up and claims ownership of the theater. Hector bet the theater in a game of poker, and lost. Now the two candidates, together with their lawyers and the others, must find Hector's will to see who he wanted as his successor. Amidst all this, love stories, madness and misunderstandings unfold - all while the theater's existence is in danger.

A comic dream team takes on the stage version of Soldat Fabian Bom, the film classic who turns 70 in 2018. Jojje Jönsson takes on the role of Nils Poppe's cult-declared figure, Fabian Bom, one of the most loving personalities of the century. With his incredible sense of duty, exuberant mood and crazy antics, he takes the stage.

A new production of the play "Hurra, ein Junge!" at Fredriksdalsteatern.

Boring office worker Magda Munter is having a hard time seducing her boss' son until a false rumour starts spreading about her having had an affair with Frank Sinatra in her youth.

Nina Frisk is a flight attendant who loves flying. She is happy above the clouds, far away from her dysfunctional family and superficial love life. But then one day Nina meets Marcus and his son William, and falls helplessly in love. For the first time ever in her life, Nina begins to long for a family of her own. But Nina soon discovers that life on earth can be just as turbulent as in the sky.

Play performed at Fredriksdalsteatern in 1999, based on Hurra, ein Junge by Arnold and Bach. It was originally performed in Swedish with Nils Poppe, but when Eva Rydberg took over, a new production was created.

At the home of Ulla, the girlfriends meet, as usual. This evening, however, pedantic Beatrice needs to move in with Ulla because she has been thrown out by her husband. Ulla knows the solution to Bea's problem and invites her neighbors, two fiery Spaniards.

A young princess falls in love with the castle's young music teacher, Roger Fleuirot, but he is shy and does not dare to show his love for her. When the music teacher goes to Paris, the princess follows him and pretends to be her own twin sister, who works in a shoe shop. Nils Poppe plays the cheerful shoemaker Fabian Filosel.

Soldier Fabian Bom moves around 1940s Helsingborg with his usual antics.

Three lazy old brothers living together in the Stockholm archipelago hire a housekeeper. When she starts bossing them around they decide they want to get rid of her.

Emma Klink is devoted to preserve morality in 1912 and she is also a chairwoman for "The support for unmarried mothers". Her husband is a mustard manufacturer who has had a secret affair with a Spanish dancer twenty-five years earlier. His mistake is that he confides in a semi-senile vicar, and when a strange young man suddenly appears shouting "Daddy!" chaos enters the once peaceful house.

Calle Pettersson is engaged to the young beauty Marilyn on the false pretense that he saved her life

When Waldemar Palm married an old woman as a young man to give her estranged son a surname he didn't expect his good deed to come back to haunt him. When his in-laws from his second marriage show up on the same day that his adult step-son turns up unannounced he finds himself getting more and more wrapped up in his lies.

A convent organist and music teacher escorts a young woman who has been boarding there, home to be married, but romantic complications ensue.

A feather-light comedy from 1920's Mölle with Nils Poppe and the Gaubier ballet. The play is about a grey aged bachelor who suddenly becomes every woman's dream prince when a rumor starts to circulate that he used to have a relationship with a famous movie star.