Kotti Chave

Acting

Kotti Chave

Born — Died

1911-09-18 — 1986-05-04

Place of birth

Helsinki, Finland

Known for

Acting

Credits

52 titles

Known for

The Silence poster
7.5

Traveling through an unnamed European country on the brink of war, sickly, intellectual Ester, her sister Anna and Anna's young son, Johan, check into a near-empty hotel. A basic inability to communicate among the three seems only to worsen during their stay. Anna provokes her sister by enjoying a dalliance with a local man, while the boy, left to himself, has a series of enigmatic encounters that heighten the growing air of isolation.

The Silence

1963

The Red Room poster
7.0

A young idealistic civil servant, Arvid Falk, leaves the drudgery of bureaucracy to become a journalist and author. As he explores various social activities—politics, publishing, theatre, philanthropy, and business—he finds more hypocrisy and political corruption than he thought possible. He takes refuge with a group of "bohemians", who meet in a red dining room in Berns Salonger to discuss these matters.

The Red Room

1970

En vår i vapen poster
9.0

During the spring of 1940 two young men gets drafted and deployed close to the Norwegian border, where they fall in love with the same woman.

En vår i vapen

1943

Do You Believe in Angels? poster
6.8

Jan Froman is a young man with great plans for the future. He gets a job as an assistant janitor at a bank, but with inherited money he starts to buy and sell real estate which eventually increases in value. He falls in love with Margareta, whose father is a naval officer. Margareta is slighted by her fiance and follows Froman on a sailing trip in the archipelago. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

Do You Believe in Angels?

1961

Musik ombord poster
7.0

Ulla Winther has retired from her singing career to a marriage with two children. But her agent wants her to return and she finally agrees to take part in a charity concert

Musik ombord

1958

The Lady in Black poster
5.8

The married detective couple John and Kajsa Hillman goes on a vacation to Holmfors mill where a friend of Kajsa's lives with her husband. When a young woman is found murdered it is clear that this is another case for the Hillmans.

The Lady in Black

1958

Film credits

1960s · 7 titles

The Silence poster
7.5

Traveling through an unnamed European country on the brink of war, sickly, intellectual Ester, her sister Anna and Anna's young son, Johan, check into a near-empty hotel. A basic inability to communicate among the three seems only to worsen during their stay. Anna provokes her sister by enjoying a dalliance with a local man, while the boy, left to himself, has a series of enigmatic encounters that heighten the growing air of isolation.

The Silence

1963

Do You Believe in Angels? poster
6.8

Jan Froman is a young man with great plans for the future. He gets a job as an assistant janitor at a bank, but with inherited money he starts to buy and sell real estate which eventually increases in value. He falls in love with Margareta, whose father is a naval officer. Margareta is slighted by her fiance and follows Froman on a sailing trip in the archipelago. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

Do You Believe in Angels?

1961

A Zero Too Much poster
6.6

A newspaper misprints Pontus Blom's (Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt) yearly income as being much more than it is; this leads to various comical situations of exceeding hilarity.

A Zero Too Much

1962

Just Once More poster
7.0

16 -year-old Mari has just been released from a juvenile detention school after one year of treatment. To prevent her from making contact with her old gang, she is sent to Skåne in southern Sweden, where she will work in a dairy shop. She doesn't like being there so she decides to run away and hitchhike her way up to Stockholm. She makes contact with her old gang but realizes that she's not welcome anymore and her boyfriend has even hooked up with a new girl.

Just Once More

1962

Good Friends and Faithful Neighbors poster
3.3

Hugo Frejer terrorizes his family and surroundings with his unhappy mood.

Good Friends and Faithful Neighbors

1960

The Yellow Car poster
5.8

On a tourist trip abroad the passengers on the coach witness an assassination attempt on the President Hurkas. One of the tourists has evidence against the perpetrators, and is killed when the coach reaches Sweden. Another passenger observes how one of the perpetrators is picked up by a yellow car. She is kidnapped and locked up in a mental hospital.

The Yellow Car

1963

Bödeln poster
7.5

"The Hangman" - The events take place in two periods of time. In the Middle Ages a group of men sit and discuss the evil at the tavern. With the hangman close by. 1930s: a dance hall where many people gathered. A jazz orchestra of colored musicians entertain. When the musicians take a break to eat, they are denied this by a Nazi.

Bödeln

1965

1950s · 7 titles

Musik ombord poster
7.0

Ulla Winther has retired from her singing career to a marriage with two children. But her agent wants her to return and she finally agrees to take part in a charity concert

Musik ombord

1958

The Lady in Black poster
5.8

The married detective couple John and Kajsa Hillman goes on a vacation to Holmfors mill where a friend of Kajsa's lives with her husband. When a young woman is found murdered it is clear that this is another case for the Hillmans.

The Lady in Black

1958

Mannequin in Red poster
6.5

A model is murdered at a famous fashion house and the Hillmans start to investigate. Kajsa Hillman is employed as a model and discovers that several people had motives to kill her.

Mannequin in Red

1958

Rider in Blue poster
6.1

When private eye John Hillman is on assignment in London his wife Kajsa visits the Army's riding school at Strömsholm, Sweden. She gets involved in the strange murder of the Blue Rider. Unknown to everyone at Strömsholm.

Rider in Blue

1959

The Phantom Carriage poster
6.0

The third film adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf's novel of the same name. The drinker David Holm gets killed right on the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve will face the death coachman, which happens to be his old friend Georges. Together, reliving the events of the past, and David becomes aware that he ruined the lives of two women who both loved him.

The Phantom Carriage

1958

Fridolf sticker opp! poster
6.2

A comedy about the shunned office worker Fridolf who gets into trouble when a rationalization expert audits the colonial goods company. It doesn't get any better when Fridolf invites the clerk Lisa, who is newly employed and feels lonely, to his home, a visit that his jealous wife Selma does not appreciate.

Fridolf sticker opp!

1958

No artwork available
9.0

Lieutenants Johnny Waller and Ingvar Lund have been appointed captains of two torpedo boats.

Blue Sea

1956

1940s · 16 titles

En vår i vapen poster
9.0

During the spring of 1940 two young men gets drafted and deployed close to the Norwegian border, where they fall in love with the same woman.

En vår i vapen

1943

A Day Will Dawn poster
7.0

After finding his wife in the arms of another man, an army officer kills his rival and then goes by train to Finland to fight in the Winter war.

A Day Will Dawn

1944

Old Clock of Roenneberga poster
7.0

Rönneberga is an old family manor. When Lennart Heijken is born, his proud father buys his newborn a grandfather's clock that will follow him through his life and see him become a student, an officer, a married man, and eventually an old man.

Old Clock of Roenneberga

1944

The First Squadron poster
7.0

The year is 1941 and Nazi Germany is at its peak. Hitler's army is storming into Russia. Sweden stands lonely and isolated while the air force is training intensely due to a coming attack. The squadron leader pushes his men at its hardest. It's a constant game with death where death unfortunately often wins.

The First Squadron

1941

Landstormens lilla argbigga poster
6.7

Spoiled upper class girl must join a home defense unit to learn military drill and fall in love with a lieutenant.

Landstormens lilla argbigga

1941

Göranssons pojke poster
10.0

Unemployed season worker Göransson sits on the Stockholm Central Station and waits for something to happen.

Göranssons pojke

1941

Life and Death poster
6.7

Thriller set in northern Sweden during WWII where a regiment of ski-borne soldiers and guests in a tourist hotel experience and investigate acts of treason.

Life and Death

1943

The Gallows Man poster
8.0

The man of the gallows is a little sinister wooden figure that the proprietor must sell before his death. If not he will be doomed and unsaved.

The Gallows Man

1945

Lillebror och jag poster
7.0

Manager Björkman is going bankrupt and has to take desperate measures to try to sort his life together.

Lillebror och jag

1940

Livet på en pinne poster
7.0

Aldor Johnsson is an old but unsuccessful criminal.

Livet på en pinne

1942

Queen for a Night poster
9.0

"His Majesty's Rival" - A young man, Lars Hjelm, returns home after being in Italy on a scholarship from the Swedish king, Gustaf III. On his way home he meets with opera singer Antoinette and fall in love with her. His fiancee Eva expects him home any day.

Queen for a Night

1943

The Fight Continues poster
8.0

Georg Hammar works at the General Hospital and is engaged to the famous professor Berg's daughter Inga. But he is also drawn to the nurse Maria.

The Fight Continues

1941

Stora famnen poster
9.0

In the late 1800's, the old Karolina Koger dictates his will: all her money shall form a family fund.

Stora famnen

1940

Katrina poster
8.0

Proud Katrina falls in love with Johan, who's a sailor, and follows him home to the island of Åland. She has been promised a paradise with blooming apple trees but are greeted by poverty and hard work.

Katrina

1943

Sextuplets poster
7.0

A local newspaper editor in northern Sweden starts to spread a rumor that sextuplets has been born. In reality it turns out that it's only two sets of twins.

Sextuplets

1942

Gentlemannagangstern poster
10.0

Patrik Bergman returns to Stockholm after a couple of years. He had to leave the capital when he was the suspect of a bank robbery.

Gentlemannagangstern

1941

1930s · 17 titles

Med folket för fosterlandet poster
8.0

This film depicts every noteworthy event (in the eyes of the film-makers) in Sweden from the death of King Oscar II, in 1907, to the celebration of the 80th birthday of King Gustave V in Stockholm in June of 1938. This film is comprised largely of newsreel clips intermixed with the fictional story of the family lives of a working man and a well-to-do newspaper editor through two generations, with a special significance in the showing of the development of the social-democratic form of government in Sweden.

Med folket för fosterlandet

1938

His Life's Match poster
9.0

Gunnar Gawell is mason on a building but also a very good football player. He gets a chance to play for the the national team against Denmark. Gunnar is offered a bribe if he allows the Danish team to win the match.

His Life's Match

1932

Dollar poster
4.5

Ludvig and Sussi Battwyhl, Louis and Katja Brenner and Julia and Kurt Balzar are upper class millionaires. They don't seem to do any real work but still need a vacation in the mountains. Everybody seems to be romantically involved with everybody. A rich American woman joins them.

Dollar

1938

Ungdom av i dag poster
10.0

Lydia is a problem for her husband. She is wasteful and the family have huge debts. To solve the financial problems, Lydia is planning to marry her daughter to a wealthy acquaintance.

Ungdom av i dag

1935

The Family Secret poster
7.0

Arvid and Lilli Ekman is a senior couple with one single adult son, Arne. They find out that the son is secretly engaged with the young Margit Berg - and that they already have a three-year-old son together.

The Family Secret

1936

The Great John Ericsson poster
7.0

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.

The Great John Ericsson

1937

No artwork available
9.0

A story about the Swedish navy and their cadet school.

Cadets Together

1939

Fasters millioner poster
9.0

The ladies man Georg is finally about to get married, but a misunderstanding lead to his new wife break up the wedding.

Fasters millioner

1934

Sara Learns Manners poster
6.0

Day to day life for an aristocratic family is upended when they lose their fortune and their housekeeper suddenly receives a large inheritance.

Sara Learns Manners

1937

No artwork available
NR

Election film for the Social Democrats.

Knut Unties the Knot

1938

Good Friends and Faithful Neighbours poster
10.0

At Södermalm in Stockholm there are nice, honest people and so some really unpleasant capitalists. And also a deliverer.

Good Friends and Faithful Neighbours

1938

Karl Fredrik Reigns poster
6.7

A man goes from the tough life as a hired worker all the way into the Swedish government.

Karl Fredrik Reigns

1934

Min svärmor - dansösen poster
9.0

From Barcelona, the widower Svante Holmenius travel with his daughter Sylvia to visit her close friends in Stockholm.

Min svärmor - dansösen

1936

The Wrong Millionaire poster
5.7

The American boat is on its way to Gothenburg. On board are the Swedish-American millionaire Fridolf F. Johnson from Detroit (Håkan Westergren) and his male secretary of the same name (Fridolf Rhudin). The millionaire stays hidden in his cabin with the secretary and does not appear on deck. A journalist arrives out at sea by airplane and asks for an interview, which the millionaire refuses to agree to. The journalist disguises himself as a steward, puts on a hidden camera (a spy camera) in the buttonhole, enters with a tea tray and photographs the wrong person - the secretary.

The Wrong Millionaire

1931

No artwork available
10.0

A school kitchen teacher works on a farm under a fake name.

Fröken blir piga

1936

Unga hjärtan poster
8.0

16-year-old Marianne will be confirmed. She is reluctant to do this, but her mother is more than happy for her to complete the confirmation. Marianne travels to a rectory in the country where she and a group of other girls will live while they read to the priest. On Midsummer's Eve, she meets by chance one of the other confirmands' fiancés and the feeling arises.

Unga hjärtan

1934

Kärlek och monopol poster
8.5

Campaign film for the Swedish Högern party in 1936.

Kärlek och monopol

1936

1910s · 3 titles

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