Gustaf Molander

Directing

Gustaf Molander

Born — Died

1888-11-18 — 1973-06-19

Place of birth

Helsinki, Finland

Known for

Directing

Credits

48 titles

Gustaf Harald August Molander (18 November 1888 – 19 June 1973) was a Swedish actor and film director.

Known for

Film credits

Behind the camera

Servant's Entrance poster
8.0

Helga Breder is a young, spoiled girl. To her beloved Jörgen she says that she, as a modern young woman, is multi-talented and can do whatever she likes. Jörgen bets that she can't work as a house-maid but, if she manages it, he will buy her a diamond ring. Helga becomes a house-maid at Vinger Mansion and falls in love with an inventor, Bertil Frigård, who lives there.

Servant's Entrance

1932

A Man There Was poster
7.1

Terje Vigen, a sailor, suffers the loss of his family through the inflexibility of another man. Years later, when his enemy's family finds itself dependent on his benevolence, Terje must decide whether to avenge himself.

A Man There Was

1917

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

Tonight or Never poster
5.5

A famous crime novelist checks in at a hotel in the mountains under false identity.

Tonight or Never

1941

No artwork available
9.0

Well off Helga takers on a bet that she can be a house maid for a year, to get a diamond ring, which leads to a job that implicates quite a lot, and even challenges her father's motorcycle production business.

Vi som går kjøkkenveien

1933

No artwork available
9.0

Well off Helga takers on a bet that she can be a house maid for a year, to get a diamond ring, which leads to a job that implicates quite a lot, and even challenges her father's motorcycle production business.

Vi som går kjøkkenveien

1933

Ride Tonight! poster
5.9

In the south of Sweden, some farmers get into trouble when the German Count is forcing them to perform day labor for him. But a man refuses to bow to the German Count.

Ride Tonight!

1942

Ride Tonight! poster
5.9

In the south of Sweden, some farmers get into trouble when the German Count is forcing them to perform day labor for him. But a man refuses to bow to the German Count.

Ride Tonight!

1942

Divorced poster
7.0

Gertrud is being abandoned by her husband after 20 years of marriage. Offended and unhappy she leaves her home and rents a room. The landlady's son is drawn to her and tries to help her out of the loneliness.

Divorced

1951

Intermezzo poster
5.9

An intense love affair develops between a married concert violinist (Gösta Ekman) and his daughter's music teacher (Ingrid Bergman).

Intermezzo

1936

Intermezzo poster
5.9

An intense love affair develops between a married concert violinist (Gösta Ekman) and his daughter's music teacher (Ingrid Bergman).

Intermezzo

1936

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

Sin poster
6.1

A married writer's luck turns when he gets a play produced at Théâtre de Paris. He meets the femme fatale who should play the lead in his play. Passion and conflict occurs.

Sin

1928

Ordet poster
6.9

Swedish film of the Kaj Munk play that was made into a far more famous film by Carl Dreyer in Denmark twelve years later.

Ordet

1943

Woman Without a Face poster
5.5

Martin is married to Frida and together they have a son. One day after a quarrel with his wife, he goes to buy flowers to ask for forgiveness. In the flower shop he meets the beautiful Rut and falls instantly in love. They both start a passionate love affair but beneath the beautiful surface hides a completely different woman than he expected ...

Woman Without a Face

1947

Woman Without a Face poster
5.5

Martin is married to Frida and together they have a son. One day after a quarrel with his wife, he goes to buy flowers to ask for forgiveness. In the flower shop he meets the beautiful Rut and falls instantly in love. They both start a passionate love affair but beneath the beautiful surface hides a completely different woman than he expected ...

Woman Without a Face

1947

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

The Invisible Wall poster
6.4

In an unnamed country under occupation, a senior officer is killed in an attack by a member of the resistance.

The Invisible Wall

1944

A Little Flirt poster
5.0

Orphan Didi is raised by her aunts and in love with her ward, the surgeon Dr. Gunnar Green. He is more interested in the stars of the theatre so Didi decides to fight for him.

A Little Flirt

1934

Älskling, jag ger mig poster
7.0

Marianne is not very interested in love, but still has company with Bertil. It's only when he decides to try his luck over in America that she realizes how much she likes him.

Älskling, jag ger mig

1943

Älskling, jag ger mig poster
7.0

Marianne is not very interested in love, but still has company with Bertil. It's only when he decides to try his luck over in America that she realizes how much she likes him.

Älskling, jag ger mig

1943

Only One Night poster
6.0

Funfair worker Valdemar is unknowingly the illegitimate son of a rich landowner, colonel Von Brede. The colonel knows and employs Valdemar as his stable master. The colonel has a young and beautiful ward, Eva, but will she and Valdemar fall in love with each other?

Only One Night

1939

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

On the Sunny Side poster
5.8

Eva Bergh works as a bank clerk, but dreams of becoming an artist. At a party she meets the rich Harald Ribe and he instantly falls in love with her. When he proposes to marry her she has no work or place to live and she accepts. At Harald's estate she can live comfortably, but she misses her old friends.

On the Sunny Side

1936

Eva poster
6.3

Marine Bo Fredriksson is travelling home on a leave. He reminisce about an accident he caused as a 12-year old which killed a young girl, an event that has made him feel revulsion for death. Back home he meets Eva, a girl he fancies and they move together to Stockholm to start a life together.

Eva

1948

Variety is the Spice of Life poster
8.0

A couple in an 'all but perfect' marriage takes a one year time-out. When they reunite the husband realizes that his wife has changed drastically.

Variety is the Spice of Life

1939

Dear Relatives poster
5.5

The story about a Stockholm wholesaler and his three daughters.

Dear Relatives

1933

Dear Relatives poster
5.5

The story about a Stockholm wholesaler and his three daughters.

Dear Relatives

1933

Thomas Graal's Best Child poster
5.4

Frau Bessie, once a madcap, aristocratic and modern Swedish fraulein, has become now a whimsical and conservative Swedish burgess after her marriage to Herr Thomas Graal. The destabilization of the marriage begins right at the wedding (which contains some hilarious incidents) when Frau Bessie announces the first Graal child must be a girl, creating a terrible conflict with her husband who is hoping for a boy. It takes a scandal to finally end the war between man and wife.

Thomas Graal's Best Child

1918

The Emperor of Portugallia poster
7.2

The poor farmer Jan is getting very old when he becomes father to the girl, Klara Gulla. First, he sees the child as a burden, but when he receives the newborn child in his arms he is overjoyed. He does everything in his power for her during her. But when she as an adult leaves home, Jan can not come over the loss of her.

The Emperor of Portugallia

1944

Song of the Scarlet Flower poster
5.6

The son of a wealthy farmer loves a simple maid, for which he's booted out of the house by his father.

Song of the Scarlet Flower

1919

Parisiennes poster
5.8

A house in Paris happens to have two families living there with the same last name. In one apartment lives opera singer Gambetta Duval with his two daughters, Jeanne and Nita. In the second apartment lives old lady Duval with her grandchild Philippa and an her lodger, the physician Leon Monnier. Jeanne is secretly in love with Dr. Monnier who is secretly in love with Nita, who is secretly having an affair with the great playwright Armand de Marny.

Parisiennes

1928

Affairs of a Model poster
9.0

Dora moves in with the artist Erik to become his model. Three men from a Masonic Order pretends to be interested in his art, but Dora is their real focus.

Affairs of a Model

1946

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

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

Stimulantia poster
6.1

Eight vignettes on a variety of topics, including a baby growing up, Charlie Chaplin, Birgit Nilsson, the racing track at Le Mans, erotic cleanliness, French literature, and a black woman in a cupboard in the neighborhood of Farsta near Stockholm.

Stimulantia

1967

Stimulantia poster
6.1

Eight vignettes on a variety of topics, including a baby growing up, Charlie Chaplin, Birgit Nilsson, the racing track at Le Mans, erotic cleanliness, French literature, and a black woman in a cupboard in the neighborhood of Farsta near Stockholm.

Stimulantia

1967

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

No artwork available
5.9

Thomas Graal's a screenwriter, is very fond of his secretary Bessie. Overtaken by a kiss by Thomas she runs away. In his misfortune Thomas writes a screenplay inspired by Bessie. But she has not been really honest with him. 31 minutes of runtime are missing and presumed lost.

Thomas Graal's Best Film

1917

Sir Arne's Treasure poster
7.1

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.

Sir Arne's Treasure

1919