Gösta Cederlund

Acting

Gösta Cederlund

Born — Died

1888-03-06 — 1980-12-04

Place of birth

Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden

Known for

Acting

Credits

68 titles

Gustaf Edvard Cederlund was an actor and director in theatre as well as film. One of Sweden's most popular and appreciated male character actors from 1917 and on. He didn't have any desire to direct film himself. But WW2 changed all that. Gösta Cederlund directed a handfull of important films with striking social character and consciousness. "Kungsgatan" (1943) and "En dotter född/ A daughter born" (1944) are two examples of his brilliance and ability to put female issues in focus. Gösta Cederlund appeared in some 130 feature films and tv-productions from 1917 to 1976. While he at the same time was vary active in the world of theatre.

Known for

Mot nya tider poster
8.0

A Swedish drama from 1939 about the social and political developments in Sweden from 1885 until the dissolution of the union in 1905. The year is 1885, Christina Nilsson sings "Fourteen years I believe certain that I was" in the Grand Hotel's Great Hall . She also sings from the balcony of the hotel and the panic arising among listeners outside the hotel. In Norway, talks about the dissolution of the Union and the Swedish socialists with Hjalmar Branting (Victor Sjöström) is in the lead for independence.

Mot nya tider

1939

The Brothers' Woman poster
6.3

City girl Emma marries the farmer Nicklas but gets involved in a love triangle with his brother Ragnar.

The Brothers' Woman

1943

The People of Hemsö poster
4.5

The widow Anna Eva Flod at Hemsö needs help on the farm and hire the new boy Carlsson.

The People of Hemsö

1919

Markurells i Wadköping poster
7.8

Mr. Markurell the innkeeper has great aspirations for his son and he doesn't hesitate to pull a few strings to ensure his son's success at school, causing great scandal in the process.

Markurells i Wadköping

1968

Valley of the Eagles poster
6.2

A Norwegian scientist builds a device that can convert sound waves into electrical energy. However, the machine is stolen by the scientist's wife and assistant, who head across the frozen tundra towards Russia. A police inspector and a local girl team up with the scientist to help recover the device.

Valley of the Eagles

1951

It Rains on Our Love poster
6.8

A young couple, penniless, break into a summer cottage; the owner offers to rent to them but he has ulterior motives. By living together, the lovers must face their pasts and contend with the meddling neighbors and authorities.

It Rains on Our Love

1946

Film credits

1960s · 2 titles

1950s · 9 titles

Valley of the Eagles poster
6.2

A Norwegian scientist builds a device that can convert sound waves into electrical energy. However, the machine is stolen by the scientist's wife and assistant, who head across the frozen tundra towards Russia. A police inspector and a local girl team up with the scientist to help recover the device.

Valley of the Eagles

1951

This Can't Happen Here poster
5.3

A story of two married refugees from the dictatorship; their quiet life in a new free country is impossible due to the husband's dark secret.

This Can't Happen Here

1950

Girl with Hyacinths poster
7.3

A young woman dies by suicide and leaves all her belongings to her next-door neighbour, who becomes determined to investigate her reasons for taking her life.

Girl with Hyacinths

1950

Darling of Mine poster
6.7

The Swedish/American actor Jack Harris visits the old country for the first time in his life. One of the journalist, Ingrid Billberg, is particularly interested in getting an interview with him. She finds out secret information about his next movie, and to stop her from revealing it, Jack Harris gets her alone with him on an isolated island in the archipelago. Romance blossoms... Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

Darling of Mine

1955

De röda hästarna poster
5.5

When Hjalmar Hagerts son, Bertil, returns after graduated at Alnarps agricultural school Hjalmar gets a phone call from his friend and lawyer Friberg. He want's to talk about commonly known Törner that is very sick and needs help.

De röda hästarna

1954

Åke klarar biffen poster
8.0

Åke is small and fits everywhere. A film mostly consisting of scenes from older films.

Åke klarar biffen

1952

No artwork available
10.0

Prince Hamlet returns home from the university of Wittenberg to attend his father's funeral. His uncle Claudius, the new King, has announced his brother's widow queen. Claudius asks Hamlet to stop mourn his father.

Hamlet

1955

Han glömde henne aldrig poster
3.0

American businessman Chris Johnson spent WW2 in Sweden and fell in love with a nurse, Karin Engström. He lost contact with her after war and now, seven years later, he returns to Sweden on a business trip, trying to find her again.

Han glömde henne aldrig

1952

Giftas poster
8.0

The General's daughter, Helene, grows up in a safe world. She doesn't want to get married or have kids. She meets a man who talks about platonic love which seems to fit her nice. They get married but when he wants to get more intimate with her she rejects him. August Strindberg's short story "Mot betalning" from the collection "Giftas 2".

Giftas

1955

1940s · 29 titles

The Brothers' Woman poster
6.3

City girl Emma marries the farmer Nicklas but gets involved in a love triangle with his brother Ragnar.

The Brothers' Woman

1943

It Rains on Our Love poster
6.8

A young couple, penniless, break into a summer cottage; the owner offers to rent to them but he has ulterior motives. By living together, the lovers must face their pasts and contend with the meddling neighbors and authorities.

It Rains on Our Love

1946

Sextetten Karlsson poster
5.0

The story about Karlsson's six boys, who makes mischief in the fictional town of Östköping.

Sextetten Karlsson

1945

The Bells in Old Town poster
6.7

Kalle Magnus Berg is a kind bailiff in Gamla Stan (Old Town) in Stockholm. He helps out "clients" by supporting them with money from his own pocket. His neighbor is a jazz musician who plays at a restaurant for a living.

The Bells in Old Town

1946

I dag gifter sig min man poster
8.0

Mette divorced from her husband, the architect Sven, a year ago. But her feelings for him are still strong. When she hears about Sven getting married to Vera she can't avoid to interfer.

I dag gifter sig min man

1943

Meeting in the Night poster
6.8

A journalist is writing a critical article about the prison service in Sweden. The magazine's editor in chief does not agree with him and removes the article. The journalist then plans to fake a crime to gain knowledge about life in prison.

Meeting in the Night

1946

Åh, en sån' advokat poster
4.5

Driver Elof "Loffe" Karlsson ends his employment with the director Bergfeldt, who is divorcing wife Karin. He takes the place of a lawyer Nyberg, provides Mrs. Bergfeldt a restaurant. This is where the young and cute waitress Greta and Loffe become acquainted. Greta Bergman is involved in a large inheritance case, and as a lawyer Nyberg agreed to take care for her. But Nyberg is a swindler who himself wants to access the money.

Åh, en sån' advokat

1940

While the Door Was Locked poster
6.4

The film follows a number of people in an apartment building during a night full of dramatic events and entanglements.

While the Door Was Locked

1946

No artwork available
NR

Per Jonas wife Hedvig is ill and Barbro has been employed to care for her. Per Jonas falls in love with Barbro and in order to live with her, he kills Hedvig.

Onda ögon

1947

The Girl from the Third Row poster
5.7

A ring passes between a lot of different people, giving the bearer or someone close a new meaning to life. Actors, embezzlers, old ladies and cheated husbands all seem to gain temporary hope from misery and disillusionment.

The Girl from the Third Row

1949

En melodi om våren poster
9.0

Sten meets Nina on a train ride. He feels attracted to her but he is already engaged to his fiancee Marie-Louise.

En melodi om våren

1943

The Priest Who Knocked Out poster
5.4

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.

The Priest Who Knocked Out

1943

Torment poster
7.1

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.

Torment

1944

I gult och blått poster
7.0

Erik Brenner is crazy about football and his girlfriend Britta. She tries to make him concentrate on his studies, but that's easier said than done.

I gult och blått

1942

Private Bom poster
5.4

The station-master Fabian Bom is a very meticulous person, and he makes sure that the trains leaves exactly - on the second. To him, nothing could be more important than duty, efficiency and punctuality, in fact, his sense of duty is clearly perverted. His beloved Plum-Plum, the major's daughter, is infatuated with army officers. To regain her attention, he joins the infantry. Bom becomes a soldier who loves the military training, long marches as well as hard labour as punishment. He meets Agnes, who falls madly in love with him.

Private Bom

1948

En svensk tiger poster
8.0

Johan Tiger is an actor in Stockholm during World War II. A British agent in Sweden discovers that Johan is a dead ringer for General Lucky and manages to lure him over to London with a role as Othello as bait.

En svensk tiger

1948

They Staked Their Lives poster
6.5

"With life at stake"- Max is illegal arms dealers and lives with Wanda, a spy for the dictatorship in which they live. She is ordered by her superiors to reveal the actions and members resistance group. The freedom fighter John falls in love with Wanda.

They Staked Their Lives

1940

Females At Play poster
6.3

A musical comedy about Kalle Svensson, a sergeant in the navy, and his loved one Nanette Raquette who works as a gymnastics teacher.

Females At Play

1945

Hjältar i gult och blått poster
6.3

The tailor Tosse is ordered to return to his old regiment to practice what he learned many years ago. But he asks his assistant Loffe to go there instead of himself. Everything is fine until Loffe gets the same order - at the same regiment. When Tosse comes to the regiment, it becomes a case of mistaken identity. Due to the confusion, Loffe is now Tosse's platoon commander. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

Hjältar i gult och blått

1940

Farliga vägar poster
7.0

A stateless lawyer comes with his son Karel and his two daughters Vanja and Sonja as refugees to Stockholm. No one gets work permit in Sweden and the family's problems grows to not just financially. The idleness and hopelessness towards the future is almost worse and that can lead into dangerous paths.

Farliga vägar

1942

En sjöman i frack poster
7.5

First mate Karlsson is mistaken for famous actor Linde.

En sjöman i frack

1942

The Serious Game poster
3.7

Arvid share the love with a young woman named Lydia, but as is customary at the turn of the century, is not love enough for a fairy tale to come true. While Arvid struggling to create the basis for their existence, Lydia's thirst for the good life leads her to marrying an older wealthy man.

The Serious Game

1945

No artwork available
7.0

Göran Brehmer lives in Stockholm and can't resist flirting with women.

Så tuktas en äkta man

1941

No artwork available
10.0

Eva-Maria Dahl gets the news from a doctor that she's having a baby.

Moderskapets kval och lycka

1945

Uppåt igen poster
10.0

The unemployed Loffe meets his old friend Wilhelm and gets some money. A year later it's time for Loffe to help Wilhelm.

Uppåt igen

1941

Vagabond Blacksmiths poster
9.0

Midsummer Eve in Malmfors in the 1880s. The holiday is celebrated with a big party. Three blacksmiths leave the ironworks and become drifters, seeking out jobs elsewhere. During their travels, they come across beautiful girls as well as jobs in different ironworks, where the workers are organizing, monitored by a brutal police force.

Vagabond Blacksmiths

1949

Som du vill ha mej poster
8.0

The architect Gösta complains to Dr. Holm about his wife Gunilla's introverted character. Holm proposes a drug that will make her more outgoing.

Som du vill ha mej

1943

A Crime poster
5.4

A murder is committed in an apartment building in Stockholm. And afterward all clues point toward the Justice of the Supreme Court and his sons. But who did it? And why? And will they be able to live with the guilt?

A Crime

1940

Kvinnor i väntrum poster
7.0

A doctor for females gets a visit from Gun, who wants to get an abortion. But the doctor wants her to reconsider and keep the baby.

Kvinnor i väntrum

1946

1930s · 16 titles

Mot nya tider poster
8.0

A Swedish drama from 1939 about the social and political developments in Sweden from 1885 until the dissolution of the union in 1905. The year is 1885, Christina Nilsson sings "Fourteen years I believe certain that I was" in the Grand Hotel's Great Hall . She also sings from the balcony of the hotel and the panic arising among listeners outside the hotel. In Norway, talks about the dissolution of the Union and the Swedish socialists with Hjalmar Branting (Victor Sjöström) is in the lead for independence.

Mot nya tider

1939

A Woman's Face poster
6.0

A cynical woman with a disfigured face—a hardened criminal—gets an opportunity to change her ways when she meets a sympathetic plastic surgeon. She leaves her old life behind, but soon her old friends catch up with her.

A Woman's Face

1938

Sigge Nilsson och jag poster
5.7

Sigge and Putte has moved to a private school, where they fight and get up to mischief.

Sigge Nilsson och jag

1938

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

No artwork available
8.0

The story of the circus family Bohlin.

Cirkus

1939

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

Våran pojke poster
7.0

A rampant musical comedy drama about petty crimes, a seven year old boy and lots of rumble. A Swedish version of the play "Bouleboule gewinnt".

Våran pojke

1936

Melodin från Gamla Stan poster
7.0

Swedish movie from 1939. In summer Stockholm live the unemployed musician Nisse trying to sell the songs to music publishers. One day the treasurer of a prominent publisher is arrested, on suspicion of theft of 10,000 crowns from a cash box. Nisse has, however, seen something suspicious.

Melodin från Gamla Stan

1939

No artwork available
9.0

The sailor Axel Nord is asked by his captain to do him a favor before his leave begins. Captain Rundholm wants him to give a letter to his niece in Stockholm. As Nord discovers, it isn't easy to find somebody you never have met, and it isn't made easier by the fact that some crooks believe that the letter contains evidence proving embezzlement in the shipping company.

En sjöman går iland

1937

Å en så'n grabb poster
6.5

A car mechanic saves his friend from getting fired when money is missing at his office.

Å en så'n grabb

1939

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

No artwork available
7.0

Knut is a farmer's son who wants to get an education and see the world.

Rejoice While You're Young, Fellow Cadets

1939

No artwork available
9.0

Ulla takes the train to Stockholm to try her luck in the big city.

En flicka kommer till sta'n

1937

Ä' vi gifta? poster
7.0

The well-known musician and composer Åke Kjellberg wakes up in a nice Stockholm apartment. He lives in Count Sparvhök's empty home until it gets rented out.

Ä' vi gifta?

1936

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

Milly, Maria och jag poster
5.8

A young medical student falls in love with her professor. To pay for her studies, she works extra nights and performs as a popular singer at a dance restaurant. But she is fired because of an unpleasant guest and takes a job as a maid. The professor appears in the family and a carousel of lies takes off.

Milly, Maria och jag

1938

1910s · 3 titles

The People of Hemsö poster
4.5

The widow Anna Eva Flod at Hemsö needs help on the farm and hire the new boy Carlsson.

The People of Hemsö

1919

A Dangerous Courtship poster
6.4

The farmer Knut Husaby has a daughter, Aslaug, who is the most beautiful girl in the village. Many boys are after her, but Knut and his two sons drive them away, if they come too close to the farm. Aslaug is secretly in love with Tore Naesset. But he is only a smallholder's son, and when he asks for Aslaug's hand, her father just laughs at him. Instead her father wants Aslaug to marry Ola Thormundson, a gawky boy, who is the son of the wealthiest farmer in the village. Aslaug brings her family's cattle to the Husaby summer farm up in the mountain. Only one road leads to the summer farm, and it passes right by the main farm. When Tore returns from a visit to Aslaug in the mountains, Knut and his sons beat him black and blue. As it's impossible for him to use the road anymore, Tore has to figure out another way to go to Aslaug. Next Saturday he crosses the fiord in a rowing-boat. He stops at a fifty meter high wall of rock, and starts climbing it, hoping to reach Aslaug at the top.

A Dangerous Courtship

1919

The Girl from the Marsh Croft poster
6.3

Helga is a young single lady who has a baby by a much older married man. After the older man tells Helga's father that he refuses to pay child support because he isn't the child's father, her father insists that Helga take him to court. On court day, just as the older married man is about to swear on the Bible that he is not the father of Helga's child, Helga suddenly tells the court that she's dropping the case because although the man did father her child, she doesn't want him to commit perjury, which is not only a serious crime but a mortal sin as well.

The Girl from the Marsh Croft

1917

Series credits

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