Carin Swensson

Acting

Carin Swensson

Born — Died

1905-02-28 — 1990-10-14

Place of birth

Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden

Known for

Acting

Credits

53 titles

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 Paymaster poster
8.7

Henrik Karlsson is accused of having stolen 5,000 SEK, even though he is innocent. But to protect the real thief, who is sick in hospital, Karlsson takes the full responsibility.

The Paymaster

1939

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

To Joy poster
6.8

A young orchestra violinist’s fear of mediocrity and drive for artistic success strain his marriage to a fellow musician. Told largely in flashback and shaped by Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, the film examines ambition, love, and loss in early Ingmar Bergman.

To Joy

1950

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

Snurriga familjen poster
6.5

Manager Blom and his family stop at a mountain hotel. Once there, all family members are insolent and even cruel to both guests and staff. When the hotel manager tries to get rid of the family Manager Blom buys the hotel. But all of the staff resigns while a telegram to the family Blom tells them they are ruined! To raise money the family begins to work on and operate the hotel.

Snurriga familjen

1940

Film credits

1950s · 12 titles

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

To Joy poster
6.8

A young orchestra violinist’s fear of mediocrity and drive for artistic success strain his marriage to a fellow musician. Told largely in flashback and shaped by Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, the film examines ambition, love, and loss in early Ingmar Bergman.

To Joy

1950

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

Flickan från Backafall poster
4.0

Set on the island of Ven in the 1920s, Ellen is engaged with Per the sailor and waits for him while he is away at sea. She works as a maid in a rich family where Robert, the black sheep of the family, tries to seduce her. This leads to a rumour she has been unfaithful to Per. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

Flickan från Backafall

1953

My Sister and I poster
5.7

The rich, aristocratic Katarina Hassel have an architect renovate her mansion. Katarina fall in love with the young architect, Gunnar Stenwall. Alas, he doesn't fall in love with her. But perhaps if Gunnar would meet her identical sister, who works in Stockholm as a waitress, he would fall in love with her instead? So Katarina travels to Stockholm to act as her non-existing sister.

My Sister and I

1950

Flicka med melodi poster
NR

The sisters Britta and Ellinor live with their grandfather, music professor Libergius, teacher and leader of the city's orchestra association. In the city there is also a youthful jazz band - to the professor's horror.

Flicka med melodi

1954

Livat på luckan poster
9.0

Johansson has managed to stay away from the military service for several years. But now his time has come.

Livat på luckan

1951

No artwork available
10.0

Pelle Frisk is serving in the Swedish armed forces.

Kronans glada gossar

1952

Anderssonskans Kalle poster
6.0

Anderssonskans Kalle is the typical 'Söderkis'. It's a boy growing up on Söder in Stockholm and he is very fond of practical jokes. His mother sees him as a good natured boy but his victims, mostly the local policeman and two old crones in the same house, see him as the devil himself.

Anderssonskans Kalle

1950

Fianceé for Hire poster
6.4

A secretary transforms their defunct legal agency into a service where you can get anything, from childcare to gardening to even a fiancée.

Fianceé for Hire

1950

No artwork available
NR

A collection of funny scenes from Swedish comedies.

Klackarna i taket

1952

No artwork available
NR

A film mostly consisting of scenes from older films. A sleep researcher has produced a serum with very fast effect.

Snurren direkt

1952

1940s · 27 titles

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

Snurriga familjen poster
6.5

Manager Blom and his family stop at a mountain hotel. Once there, all family members are insolent and even cruel to both guests and staff. When the hotel manager tries to get rid of the family Manager Blom buys the hotel. But all of the staff resigns while a telegram to the family Blom tells them they are ruined! To raise money the family begins to work on and operate the hotel.

Snurriga familjen

1940

Hans Majestät får vänta poster
5.2

The chamberlain Carl Johan Stjärna is a poor aristocrat who has to resort to borrowing money from his manservant Frans to afford champagne and restaurant visits. Frans has told his fiance Irene that he is an aristocrat which leads to some complications, not least because Irene has told Frans she is a rich land owner's daughter, although she is in a housemaid.

Hans Majestät får vänta

1945

The Station Master poster
7.0

Carl Malm is a goodhearted man who runs a railway station. He lives together with his maid and her seven kids.

The Station Master

1942

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

Sunny Sunberg poster
NR

Gunnar Solberg is subjected to a robbery attempt at the cafe he owns. However, he stops the robbery and gets the robber to be honorable again.

Sunny Sunberg

1941

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

The Happy Tailor poster
6.5

Sören, a poor tailor with many children, dreams of becoming a miller and buys the windmill of the village with money he does not have.

The Happy Tailor

1945

Daddy Wanted poster
5.5

Holger Hallman, CEO of a weapons factory try to prevent his son Tom from dating a manucurist, Lydia. By mistake he try to pay off the wrong manicurist, Mary, who by coincidence has a fiancé named Tom.

Daddy Wanted

1947

...som en tjuv om natten poster
6.0

Nisse Ekberg is in San Francisco but wants to get back to Sweden. Not being a completely honest guy, he gets mixed up with another person and assumes his identity.

...som en tjuv om natten

1940

Här kommer vi ... poster
6.5

The actor Robert Berg is just about to get his dream role on the big stage in Stockholm when he gets called to the military service.

Här kommer vi ...

1947

Kronans käcka gossar poster
5.2

New explosives will be demonstrated for the military authorities, but some shady characters looking to steal it to sell it to a foreign power.

Kronans käcka gossar

1940

Som fallen från skyarna poster
8.0

Professor Örnstedt is having a hard time at home.

Som fallen från skyarna

1943

Kärlek och allsång poster
7.0

Anna loses her driver's license after driving too fast. When she is later robbed by two men, it is the same constable who took her driver's license. They fall in love with each other and get engaged.

Kärlek och allsång

1944

Marknadsafton poster
10.0

The farmer Magni is planning to marry Teresia, but the maid Lovisa has other plans.

Marknadsafton

1948

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

Jolanta - den gäckande suggan poster
7.0

The Skåne farmer Jeppsson has a tax debt and gets into trouble when he refuses to pay.

Jolanta - den gäckande suggan

1945

Brita i grosshandlarhuset poster
7.0

Brita moves from the countryside and her parent's cabbage patch to work as a housemaid in Stockholm. The big city overwhelms her at first and she falls in love with a young man. But one day Arvid, an infatuated young man from the old village also comes to Stockholm to express his love for her.

Brita i grosshandlarhuset

1946

Bohus Bataljon poster
7.0

Three newly drafted recruits arrives to the I17 regiment to do their military service.

Bohus Bataljon

1949

Song of Stockholm poster
5.0

Knatten and Janne, just released from the prison of Långholmen, meet a romantic Stockholm in the 40s. Knatten tries to earn money while Janne is looking for the music.

Song of Stockholm

1947

The Turnstile poster
9.0

The small town of Gåtatorp in Småland is entirely dependent on its prominent furniture factory. But the factory is in danger because the weak economy means that the bank wants to shut down the factory.

The Turnstile

1944

No artwork available
8.0

Young Allan feed on petty crime and theft. He spice his life by scaring people with stolen dynamite.

Dynamite

1947

Karusellen går poster
7.0

Swedish comedy from 1940. Carnival director Knut Lindberg has ended up in the hands of the usurer Director Aronsson and his shady practices trying to take over Lindberg's funfair. But the two new colleagues, Kalle and Nisse, does everything to stop him.

Karusellen går

1940

The Girls in Smaland poster
8.0

Gunnar Carlman has returned to Sweden after a few years as a cowboy in Canada. He starts to work at a farm owned by vivacious and strongwilled Christina Larsson.

The Girls in Smaland

1945

Gentleman att hyra poster
5.7

Two friends, a rich landowner and a flight lieutenant, compete for the love of the same woman, singer Claire Wanner.

Gentleman att hyra

1940

Familjen Björck poster
6.5

The Björcks are an ordinary middle-class family in a large Stockholm apartment with with two children, Greta and Ville. But the family's happiness is threatened in two ways: Greta prefers Börje Schack instead of the well-behaving Bertil. And the flirtatious Mrs. Holten tries to snare Mr. Björck.

Familjen Björck

1940

1930s · 13 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

The Paymaster poster
8.7

Henrik Karlsson is accused of having stolen 5,000 SEK, even though he is innocent. But to protect the real thief, who is sick in hospital, Karlsson takes the full responsibility.

The Paymaster

1939

Två hjärtan och en skuta poster
10.0

Young Gustaf Svensson has been warned by his father that he should stop chasing girls.

Två hjärtan och en skuta

1932

To Help the Lady of the House poster
5.5

Ingrid Eriksson, a social worker, decides to find out something about the problems facing housemaids and gets herself a job as one at the home of John Willman's family. John's son, Åke, falls in love with her and numerous complications arise before the course of true love runs smoothly.

To Help the Lady of the House

1939

En natt på Smygeholm poster
8.0

It is rumored that there are ghosts at Smygeholm Castle.

En natt på Smygeholm

1933

No artwork available
10.0

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

Fröken blir piga

1936

Just a Trumpeter poster
4.5

An army musician is mistaken for a company manager and fall in love.

Just a Trumpeter

1938

Ocean Breakers poster
8.0

Daniel has reluctantly followed his father into the priesthood. After graduating, he comes to a parish in Hälsingland. During one stormy night, Daniel and Karin, a resident of Hälsingland and old friend, are both overcome with emotion and sleep together. Filled with regret over breaking his vows, he runs out into the dark night and is struck by lightning. He loses his memory and is taken to a distant hospital to recover. Meanwhile Karin gets pregnant and has a child. Eventually Daniel comes back and when he meets Karin his memory returns.

Ocean Breakers

1935

Under False Flag poster
7.0

The bank employee Bertil falls in love with Margot. He does not know she is the bank director's daughter.

Under False Flag

1935

Släkten är värst poster
7.5

A bachelor in Stockholm must invent a family to be able to get financial support from his aunt Anna. Everything is going well until she arrives on an unexpected visit.

Släkten är värst

1936

Vi går landsvägen poster
8.0

Three drifters walks on a country road. Loffe is about 35 years, Maggan about 50 years and Novisen about 25 years. They arrive to a mansion with a castle ruin by a lake. Loffe says he is the eldest of children born on the estate.

Vi går landsvägen

1937

Kärlek efter noter poster
7.0

The Karlsson family has a grocery store, but the son Bertil wants to set up an operetta on stage.

Kärlek efter noter

1935

Wanted poster
7.0

A woman sitting in a Stockholm cafe hears to her surprise on the radio that she is wanted by the police.

Wanted

1939