Arthur Fischer

Acting

Arthur Fischer

Born — Died

1897-11-02 — 1991-12-03

Place of birth

Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden

Known for

Acting

Credits

62 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

Summer with Monika poster
7.3

One summer day, two teens begin a reckless affair and abandon their families to be with one another.

Summer with Monika

1953

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

Tabu poster
5.0

Solidarity with the border people. Equal rights for the sexual deviants. Kristoffer Lohman is a young solicitor who collects stories and knowledge of different perversions. This has affected and changed his own sexual life. Sara, a young well-behaved and adorned woman, becomes interested in Kristoffer's activity.

Tabu

1977

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

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

Film credits

1960s · 4 titles

1950s · 19 titles

Summer with Monika poster
7.3

One summer day, two teens begin a reckless affair and abandon their families to be with one another.

Summer with Monika

1953

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

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

Folket i fält poster
10.0

Unknown parachute troops land near Norrköping and the local home defense is alerted.

Folket i fält

1953

Swinging at the Castle poster
7.0

Love triangle between Svante, his fiancee Inga and Sophie, a girl from a rich family.

Swinging at the Castle

1959

Åsa-Nisse ordnar allt poster
4.2

Åsa-Nisse has a bad back and when he visits the doctor he gets an experimental medicine for horses by mistake. Suddenly Åsa-Nisse has super strengths and becomes an unbeatable athlete.

Åsa-Nisse ordnar allt

1955

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

Just a Waiter poster
7.0

Fabian Bom is a waiter at a hotel in a small town. But he dreams of doing something else - to dance and sing on a stage. He is madly in love with Matilda Roos, singer and diva. Fabian is too insensitive to notice that Annie, who works in the kitchen, is in love with him. Encouraged by Matilda, Fabian leaves the hotel and goes to Stockholm to become famous. But, as he soon learns, it is more difficult than he first thought.

Just a Waiter

1959

While the City Sleeps poster
6.7

Jompa is unemployed - and not keen on getting a job. He still lives with his parents who are tired of his attitude about employment and regular hours. Jompa and his friends spend their time at nightclubs, cafés and doing petty crimes. While playing poker, Jompa becomes indebted to the criminal Kalle Lund. Of course, Jompa is unable to pay, but Kalle gives him a tip: an old fetcher has always a lot of money at home, and if Jompa could get his hands on the money, his troubles would disappear... Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

While the City Sleeps

1950

No artwork available
7.0

Biographical account of Kalle Jularbo, a famous Swedish accordion-player.

Kalle Karlsson från Jularbo

1952

No artwork available
6.0

Law graduate Ylva Markner spends the summer on the island of Väddö, where she gets involved in a quarrel concerning a last will.

Vi på Väddö

1958

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

Östermans testamente poster
7.0

The fishermen Österman and Sjöberg are sued by merchant Wikström. In order to raise capital, they decide to start producing a medicine from a recipe by Österman's father.

Östermans testamente

1954

När syrenerna blomma poster
7.0

The 1880s. Abandoned by his middle class parents in Stockholm, Johannes grows up in the countryside with a cobbler who regularly beats him up. Also at school he has to face regular beatings because of his Stockholm background, the only one who cares for him is a girl, Lotta, who promises to marry him one day. When he's 20 he moves to Stockholm and joins the Royal guards at the Royal palace. Quite by accident he meets Lotta again and start an affair with her. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

När syrenerna blomma

1952

Leva på 'Hoppet' poster
9.0

A young theater cast transforms with enthusiasm an old freighter into a theater boat.

Leva på 'Hoppet'

1951

No artwork available
8.0

Ursula is the only daughter of a rich landowner high in Sweden. At 20 her father dies and she becomes reluctant heiress to huge property. Ursula is emotionally torn between a young handsome forester and farmer.

Ursula - Flickan i Finnskogarna

1953

The Halo Is Slipping poster
4.9

A secretary at a publishing company, Birgitta, writes a novel, based on her secret love of her boss. She sends it anonymously to her own company, who decides to publish it. The book becomes a success. Birgitta's husband's mistress get hold of the script and confesses that *she* wrote the novel. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

The Halo Is Slipping

1957

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

Regementets ros poster
6.5

To save intoxicated friend Boman from getting caught, two conscripts lock him up in the local jail and release a prisoner, Ivan Jansson, so that he can pretend to be Boman for a few hours. But when the real Boman is transported to the county jail, switching them back could be difficult.

Regementets ros

1950

1940s · 27 titles

The Blockhead of the Block poster
7.0

The kids on the south side of Stockholm get together to help their friend Kalle out when he's broken a window, by starting a fund-raiser. But some older kids are after the money.

The Blockhead of the Block

1947

Caged Women poster
8.0

Cecilia is in hospital after being subjected to an attempt on her life. Her husband is called to the hospital. Cecilia deliriously mentions a mutual friend. The husband seeks out the friend.

Caged Women

1947

Crime and Punishment poster
7.7

Former student Raskolnikov is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police, Raskolnikov struggles between trying to hide his guilt and the pressure to confess.

Crime and Punishment

1945

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

Försök inte med mej... poster
6.0

Björn Norell, a bookish assistant to an art dealer, is fired because of his inability to find the third of a trio of Buddha statues. In order to get his job back, Norell, goes on a hunt to find it in order to get his job back. Meanwhile, the art dealer has sent his daughter Ulla after him to retrieve the statue. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

Försök inte med mej...

1946

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

No artwork available
7.0

Identical twin brothers Patrik and Peter Brodd haven't seen each other for twelve years until Peter returns from America and goes to Patrik's office and demands that he gives him more money. Patrik becomes so upset that he faints. Peter quickly sends the unconscious Patrik to the hospital and takes over his brother's identity. He soon discovers that Peter is having an affair with his secretary. Peter's wife discovers that her husband has become very charming, not at all the usual boor. Meanwhile, Patrik tries to leave the hospital and stop his brother.

Bröder emellan

1946

Pettersson & Bendels nya affärer poster
9.0

After some time abroad, Bendel returns to Sweden and seeks up his old friend and business accomplice Pettersson to commit some new frauds.Follow-up to Pettersson & Bendel from 1933.

Pettersson & Bendels nya affärer

1945

Blyge Anton poster
7.0

Anton, a very shy bookkeeper, must show his mettle when him and his colleagues at work ask for a raise but instead are laid off.

Blyge Anton

1940

Father Bom poster
5.9

Fabian Bom, auctionist in a small town, one day finds a baby boy in a small crib that is for sale at an auction. He places the boy at an orphanage but returns the next day since he realizes that he misses the boy. Since a single man is not permitted to adopt a baby he arranges a marriage with a young woman, who really is the baby's mother.

Father Bom

1949

Lång-Lasse i Delsbo poster
7.5

it's the 1840s and a rural parish plagued by drinking and fighting gets a new vicar who has decided to instill law, order and fear of God into the parishioners.

Lång-Lasse i Delsbo

1949

Three Sons poster
9.0

Drama evolving around three brothers who join the air force to become flight cadets. When Åke's plane goes missing, the other two must find him.

Three Sons

1945

No artwork available
9.0

The film shows episodes from the labor movement's breakthrough and reform work.

They Fought Their Way to Freedom

1948

No artwork available
10.0

The schoolgirl Maj-Lis comes from a wealthy family and is unhappy with her life. Emmy, her friend at school, tells Maj-Lis about her lousy job at the Vidi department store. Maj-Lis then decides to apply for a job at Vidi to learn more.

Morgondagens melodi

1942

Farlig vår poster
4.7

A young prostitute, Gullan Svan, is murdered one night. The police suspects that the murderer is a student, since she had a lot of students as customers. The murderer stole a picture of Gullan after he killed her, a picture which later is found in a rented tuxedo when the tuxedo is returned. Four students decide to solve the case, but it seems that the truth is even closer than they first suspected...

Farlig vår

1949

Once Upon a Time poster
8.0

A peddler visiting a small cottage in the winter. He tells some strange tales for the family living there.

Once Upon a Time

1945

If I Could Marry the Minister poster
7.7

Eva Örn is a newly graduated teacher, who becomes a school teacher in rural Vikarlunda. She is a beautiful young woman with firm opinions and she does not live up to the locals' picture of the ideal female teacher. She has an affair with the pastor, Ingvar Hagson, but they have to keep their love a secret.

If I Could Marry the Minister

1941

No artwork available
9.0

The teacher Clemens is instructed to learn to dance so that he can teach the subject.

Får jag lov, magistern!

1947

The Bachelor Brothers’ Housekeeper poster
9.0

The Österman brothers have come to realize that they need a housekeeper. Oldest brother Kalle travel to town and return with the young and modern Anna.

The Bachelor Brothers’ Housekeeper

1945

Se opp för spioner! poster
8.0

A bomb attempt is prevented in the last minute but one question remains: who placed the bomb? After some stakeout work the police are on the track and a wild hunt through Stockholm begins.

Se opp för spioner!

1944

The Ghost Reporter poster
6.0

Augustus Blomkvist sells his sausage factory and buys the newspaper Stockholms-Posten where he starts working as a reporter under false name.

The Ghost Reporter

1941

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

In the Arms of Roslagen poster
8.0

Based on Evert Taube songs about the sailor and womanizer Fritiof Andersson. Midsummer in the archipelago of Roslagen. Andersson has returned home to settle down with his fiancee Linnea. On the dance floor he meets Rosa.

In the Arms of Roslagen

1945

Yellow Ward poster
4.9

A chief physician at a women's clinic is against abortion. He strongly influence the patients not to abort. But there are doctors who think differently.

Yellow Ward

1942

The Race of His Life poster
NR

Social Democratic election film. Young Lasse is unemployed and drawn to the Communists. However, he comes to the Social Democratic fold after heroically capturing a saboteur. He falls in love with young Greta, whose father is a nimble master tailor who knows how to put both communists and citizens in place.

The Race of His Life

1944

The People from Simlång Valley poster
10.0

Class struggle and love trouble in the woods between Halland and Småland.

The People from Simlång Valley

1947

Railroad Workers poster
9.0

The north of Sweden in 1902. A team of railroad men are building a rail road from Luleå at the Bay of Bothnia to Narvik at the Norwegian Sea. One of the newest workers, Valfrid from the south of Sweden, is not accepted by neither Stora Ballong, the informal leader of the workers, nor the others. They refuse to talk to him but instead Valfrid gets help from the sworn enemy of the railroad workers: the greedy drugstore owner Blom.

Railroad Workers

1947

1930s · 9 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

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

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
10.0

The life of the residents at Alpgatan 57 in Stockholm.

Grabbarna i 57:an

1935

Guest House Paradise poster
5.4

Paradiset is a boarding house in the archipelago of Stockholm, run by the strict Elvira Pettersson, and with a large variety of guests. Her maid Lotta quits her job but when she leaves she accidentally forgets to turn off the iron. However, her brother Julle sneaks back one night to turn it off. When he is discovered, he tries to make them believe that he is the great Argentine opera singer Don Carlos they have been waiting for

Guest House Paradise

1937

Augustas lilla felsteg poster
5.3

Augusta and her man receives a letter from the countryside one day therein her come-by-chance daughter Lisa announces her arrival to Stockholm. During the travel Lisa befriends Holger whom makes her company to her mother and step father.

Augustas lilla felsteg

1933

The Count of the Old Town poster
5.2

A police inspector tracks a notorious jewel thief, 'Diamond-Lasse,' to a hotel filled with eccentrics.

The Count of the Old Town

1935

Storm över skären poster
9.0

The vessel pilot Alfred and fisherman Sven are both in love with Sonja, the most beautiful girl on the island they live on. Sven and Alfred become quarrel when Alfred one evening finds Sven with Sonja. The fight ends when Sven leaves the island. He freaked out completely when he hit Alfred with a bottle over the head. Now rumor has that Sonja is pregnant.

Storm över skären

1938

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