Sten Ardenstam

Acting

Sten Ardenstam

Born — Died

1921-04-06 — 1993-04-13

Place of birth

Helsinki, Finland

Known for

Acting

Credits

62 titles

Known for

The Seventh Seal poster
8.1

When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Block sets off on a journey, meeting up with traveling players Jof and his wife, Mia, and becoming determined to evade Death long enough to commit one redemptive act while he still lives.

The Seventh Seal

1957

No artwork available
NR

Partaj (Party) is a swedish classical humor TV series from 1969. Known actors and comdians deliver sketches and short stories. Among the participants you'll find among others, Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt, Lars Ekborg, Jarl Borssén, Sonya Hedenbratt, Margareta Sjödin, Roffe Bengtson and Mille Schmidt. The series used the same concept as the popular US show Laugh-In.

Party

1969

1939 poster
4.9

When the war breaks out, Annika lives with her parents in Värmland, close to the border to Norway. Her cousin Harald is a dealer in the black market but has to escape from the police to Norway. Annika moves to Stockholm and gets a job as a waitress. She meets the happy-go-lucky Berit and together they have a wonderful time. She also meets a young man, Bengt, whom she marries. But almost immediately she discovers that her husband is different from the man who was courting her. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

1939

1989

Around the World in 80 Days poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Around the World in 80 Days

1975

Dockorna i spegeln poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Dockorna i spegeln

1991

Roseanna poster
6.0

A dead and unknown woman is found in a canal. Police inspector Martin Beck becomes involved in the case. After several months the woman is identified. The police reconstruct the woman's last trip on the canal boat "Wilhelm Tham".

Roseanna

1967

Film credits

1980s · 5 titles

1939 poster
4.9

When the war breaks out, Annika lives with her parents in Värmland, close to the border to Norway. Her cousin Harald is a dealer in the black market but has to escape from the police to Norway. Annika moves to Stockholm and gets a job as a waitress. She meets the happy-go-lucky Berit and together they have a wonderful time. She also meets a young man, Bengt, whom she marries. But almost immediately she discovers that her husband is different from the man who was courting her. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

1939

1989

No artwork available
NR

In an effort to lower the carbon footprint of humanity a project is designed to shrink the size of the human body.

Krympningen

1985

The Jönsson Gang & Dynamite Harry poster
6.0

Sickan, Vanheden and Rocky try to rob the Berns nightclub one night, but Vanheden has made the mistake to invite his constantly drunk cousin, the old dynamiter Dynamite-Harry and he ruins the plan. Sickan is arrested, and has to spend 10 months in a small, locked room. When he is released, he has a new plan, but Rocky and Vanheden have decided to go straight. Together with Dynamite-Harry, Sickan plans to rob a cold store, managed by their arch-enemy, Wall-Enberg.

The Jönsson Gang & Dynamite Harry

1982

Pappa är död poster
NR

Jan-Olof has an unresolved relationship with his father, and during the days leading up to the funeral, he tries to find out who the father really was. The practical arrangements for a funeral are often of a tragicomic nature.

Pappa är död

1982

To Be a Millionaire poster
5.9

The terrorist Fors arrested after an attack on a OPEC meeting. Shortly afterwards town minister's daughter gets kidnapped by two men who require Fors be released and that he will flight phase to Albania. SÄPO agent Olsson will handle the case.

To Be a Millionaire

1980

1970s · 10 titles

Dante: Beware of the Shark! poster
7.0

When teenager Dante's parents go on vacation, they give him strict instructions not to "make anything up" while they're away. But when Dante and his friend Tvärsan find a diamond ring in the snow, they're drawn into an exciting detective adventure.

Dante: Beware of the Shark!

1978

91:an och generalernas fnatt poster
10.0

When private 91 "Mandel" Karlsson is appointed General due to a computer error, he tricks a foreign military attaché into believing that the Swedish defense has a new weapon that turns male soldiers into women.

91:an och generalernas fnatt

1977

Dead Man's Trail poster
4.0

A drunken gunfighter, Ben Walker, is one day visited by an old friend's daughter who needs his help. The gold digger Tom is being chased by a gang of bandits and heads to Carson City. He gives his daughter Isabella his treasure map and tells her that she need find his old friend Ben and let him help her to locate the hidden gold.

Dead Man's Trail

1975

The Sound of Näverlur poster
9.0

An American astronaut is visiting Dalarna in Sweden. He spends all his money so he can't pay his hotel bill. He must try to escape. Disguised as a local.

The Sound of Näverlur

1971

Do You Believe in Swedish Sin? poster
4.7

A German sociologist goes to Sweden to investigate whether the Swedish sin is myth or not. He stations himself in a student home for girls. His fiancée in Berlin fantasizes about the study, and to allay her worries she packs her bags and goes to find him, to convince him to come home.

Do You Believe in Swedish Sin?

1970

47:an Löken blåser på! poster
4.2

A French and a Russian general show up at the regiment where 47:an Löken and 69:an are up to their old tricks again

47:an Löken blåser på!

1972

No artwork available
6.5

The immortal story of Phileas Fogg and his servant Passepartout.

Around the World in 80 Days

1974

The Wedding poster
3.2

"The Marriage" - Eva and Kent are planning to get married. Their bridal stag parties causes some problems. The wedding reception will serve moonshine since the regular booze is capsized at sea.

The Wedding

1973

47:an Löken poster
3.7

47:an Löken and his friends get into mischief in the army.

47:an Löken

1971

Guttersnipes poster
6.9

Poor painter helps a paralysed child.

Guttersnipes

1974

1960s · 24 titles

Roseanna poster
6.0

A dead and unknown woman is found in a canal. Police inspector Martin Beck becomes involved in the case. After several months the woman is identified. The police reconstruct the woman's last trip on the canal boat "Wilhelm Tham".

Roseanna

1967

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

Dreamboy poster
9.0

Ante Nordlund is on his way to Stockholm and gets a ride with a diplomat in his car. He leaves Ante at the entrance of Grand Hôtel where he gets treated like a millionaire.

Dreamboy

1964

Är du inte riktigt klok? poster
6.5

Lawyer Hans is having an affair with his secretary Anni and is trying to get his wife to meet another husband. When his wife falls in love with another man, Hans instead becomes jealous and realizes his true love for Ellen.

Är du inte riktigt klok?

1964

Svenska Floyd poster
5.7

The world-famous Swedish boxer Flosse travels to Italy to fight for the world boxing title. In Rome he meets the nightclub singer Lollo.

Svenska Floyd

1961

A Dream About Freedom poster
9.0

After a few years in prison Stickan comes out and trying to readjust to society. He is approached by his old prison buddy Janne who is full of ideas how to get over the money without having to work.

A Dream About Freedom

1969

Henpecked poster
8.0

An engineer and an actor, two extremely similar men, change their identity with each other.

Henpecked

1967

Freddy klarar biffen poster
9.0

Farce with ghost hunting.

Freddy klarar biffen

1968

Lyckodrömmen poster
10.0

The Karlsson family moves from a small village to a suburb outside Stockholm. The change from a country life to the big city is not easy.

Lyckodrömmen

1963

Eriksson poster
8.0

Eriksson is a divorced engineer without intellectual interests. He lives alone in a friendly, rundown tenement where the neighbors' intimate relationships can be easily listened to through the walls.

Eriksson

1969

Wild West Story poster
7.0

Swedish cowboys in the Wild West. Defending their town Small Lands Hills and their mining claims against bandits of all sorts.

Wild West Story

1964

Nightmare poster
7.3

A woman is driving alone one evening, when she almost run over a man lying in the road. She gets out of the car to see. Suddenly the man attacks her. Eva Jansson's dead body is found by a local farmer, who calls the police. Soon after fashion designer Maj Berg comes driving the same road and is stopped by the police. When the road is cleared for traffic Mrs. Berg drives on but happens to get a flat tire. While changing to the spare wheel, she finds a black notebook in the ditch. Back in Stockholm she opens the notebook and finds a strange jotting that concerns her.

Nightmare

1965

The Heist poster
6.1

Four young criminals are planning a heist against a racecourse and in order to obtain a seed capital they rob a gambling den. They celebrate the successful heist by throwing a party but it turns out to be a lot of disagreement within the group.

The Heist

1961

Agent 0,5 och Kvarten fattaruväl poster
9.0

Brothers Rolly and Ricky hunt boat thieves and smugglers in the Stockholm archipelago.

Agent 0,5 och Kvarten fattaruväl

1968

On a Bench in a Park poster
5.0

Sam Persson is released from a mental hospital. He goes to Stockholm to meet a man he hates, theater manager Stig Brender. In Brender's office they get into a fight...

On a Bench in a Park

1960

To Ingrid, My Love, Lisa poster
3.3

Lisa is a Stockholm fashion designer who leaves the big city to rent a country home for the summer. The landlords have a beautiful 17-year-old daughter Ingrid, and at summer's end Lisa agrees to take Ingrid back to the city to give her a job as a model. When Lisa sets Ingrid up with a date, the teenage temptress wears out her date then bounces from bed to bed in her amorous pursuits of love and freedom. Ingrid invites Lisa over for dinner where they also end up in bed together in this erotic exploitation feature.

To Ingrid, My Love, Lisa

1968

The Banquet Room poster
6.5

A young girl is a confidante to four men who regularly visit her in her apartment.

The Banquet Room

1965

The Die Is Cast poster
6.1

A member of a highly successful crime drama series is found murdered in a television studio. The screenwriter of the TV-series is found as prime suspect but claims his innocence and tries to clear his name. But who is the murderer and what is his motive?

The Die Is Cast

1960

Swedish Wedding Night poster
6.3

A wealthy butcher, fond of liquor and women is about to marry a much younger woman. The woman's father has locked himself in the attic and refuses to come to the wedding.

Swedish Wedding Night

1964

Pang i bygget poster
6.2

Merchant Valentin Skog runs the small town's grocery shop and folk park with little revenue but a lot of heart. But the no-good profiteers brothers Grym has their eyes on his business, and will use any means. The dirtier the better! But they haven't counted on "The Doll"- a fresh breeze from the big city - or rather storm wind - who blows life in the struggle against the crooks.

Pang i bygget

1965

Adam in Sweden poster
3.8

Rikard Adamsson, a young man dreaming of becoming a writer, lives a wild and dissolute bohemian life. A ferocious fighter with a heart of gold and a great taste for women. In the military service he gets in trouble, runs away, returns and is sentenced to prison. Inside he finishes his first novel. However, no publisher is interested.

Adam in Sweden

1966

No artwork available
9.0

Set in the world of the Swedish culture establishment, this is a psychotic thriller where morbid visions, depraved sexuality, and violence come together in perfect proportions.

Kameleonterna

1969

Petter's and Lotta's Christmas poster
7.5

Petter and Lotta are excited to celebrate Christmas for the first time with a real Christmas tree and Christmas presents.

Petter's and Lotta's Christmas

1968

1950s · 18 titles

The Seventh Seal poster
8.1

When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Block sets off on a journey, meeting up with traveling players Jof and his wife, Mia, and becoming determined to evade Death long enough to commit one redemptive act while he still lives.

The Seventh Seal

1957

Far till sol och vår poster
6.7

Martin Wide inherits a bus from his dying grandfather. He restores it from being a hen house into a tourist bus. He puts an ad in the newspaper about "travels to the sun" and also advertises for a stewardess at the same time. The female reporter Vera Boman signs up for the job, in order to expose the "tourist travel hoax". The two, together with passengers of various kinds set off from a snowy Sweden towards Paris. During the trip, Vera starts to realize that Martin is not a "tourist cheater" but a kind and thoughtful travel arranger, who tries to tend to all his passengers as best as he can, even when the situations become difficult to handle. In addition, a famous Swedish diamond has just been stolen and it turns out that both the thieves and the private detectives who are after them, are passengers on the bus.

Far till sol och vår

1957

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

Private Entrance poster
4.1

A seemingly ordinary day in October. A woman has since she separated from her husband lived in a single room with a separate entrance. But for her this is not an ordinary day. She only has six hours left to live.

Private Entrance

1956

Little Fridolf and Me poster
6.1

Fridolf and his wife Selma gets a telegram from their daughter Maggan. She is engaged and are her way home to show her little baby.

Little Fridolf and Me

1956

Den hårda leken poster
10.0

Conny Persson is an up-and-coming boxer. He wins the Junior Championships and is able to write a contract with boxing manager Andy Ekström. He falls in love with Margit. She doesn't like that he is boxing, but together they open a flower shop. When Conny still won't give up boxing, Margit tells him that he has to chose between her and the boxing.

Den hårda leken

1956

Den hårda leken poster
10.0

Conny Persson is an up-and-coming boxer. He wins the Junior Championships and is able to write a contract with boxing manager Andy Ekström. He falls in love with Margit. She doesn't like that he is boxing, but together they open a flower shop. When Conny still won't give up boxing, Margit tells him that he has to chose between her and the boxing.

Den hårda leken

1956

Song of the Scarlet Flower poster
7.0

Olof is driven from home when he wants to marry the wrong girl. He takes a job as a log driver and his reputation as a womanizer goes far and wide.

Song of the Scarlet Flower

1956

I rök och dans poster
6.0

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

I rök och dans

1954

The Staffan Stolle Story poster
6.3

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.

The Staffan Stolle Story

1956

Guest at One's Own Home poster
8.0

Eva Dahl, a doctor's wife, starts an affair with a younger man.

Guest at One's Own Home

1957

Farligt löfte poster
5.5

A woman is murdered and a little girl is the only one who can reveal the perpetrator.

Farligt löfte

1955

Flottans överman poster
4.8

Fabian Bom has been sent by the Export Association to promote Swedish export to Spain. He travels with the navy's cruiser to Barcelona, but his jealous fiancée Gullan has followed him in secret to keep an eye on him. In Barcelona the usually strict and virtuous Bom is surrounded by the local women and has a ball. He meets the young and zestful Linnea from Sweden. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

Flottans överman

1958

Night Light poster
4.3

Sixteen year old Maria arrives in Stockholm. She is going to stay with her aunt. Already at the Central station events occur that change her route.

Night Light

1957

Charlie Strap, Froggy Ball and Their Friends poster
6.5

Kalle Stropp, Grodan Boll and all their friends chasing Sotisarna, who has stolen Plåt-Niklas propeller.

Charlie Strap, Froggy Ball and Their Friends

1956

The Happy Shoemaker poster
7.0

Sture and Birgit are secretly engaged. One day when they are kissing, they are discovered by Sture's father Dana. However, he promises not to reveal anything, as Sture would probably lose his job on Birgit's father Hjalle's shipyard. When Hjalle is forced by a usurer to pay back 23,000 on a loan, he gets problem. Dana promises to solve the problem, the question is just how. There is only one person that could help him, his childhood friend Gösta Hägg that nowadays is the director of a big company. But time passes quickly, and where is Mr. Hägg ...?

The Happy Shoemaker

1955

Suss gott poster
5.0

The jack of all trades Pekka is having financial trouble and is being hunted by a debt collector.

Suss gott

1956

Flottans glada gossar poster
6.5

When Ludvig Ekman is ordered to do his military rehearsals course, he sends one of his employees, Lasse Alm, to do it for him. Everything is fine until Alm also is ordered to do the same thing - on the same boat! There is only one thing to do: Ekman goes as Alm. When Ekman goes aboard, he discovers that it is his wife's ex-husband who is captain and Ekman really is punished for marrying his wife.

Flottans glada gossar

1954

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