Sture Lagerwall

A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 films.

Don Juan is sent from Hell to Earth with a mission: to seduce a virgin in order to spoil her pure wedding. The mission becomes frantic when Don Juan falls in love for the first time in centuries.

Emil and Ove are two happily married men. Both are currently bachelorssince their wives are on holiday in Denmark. One day Emil almost run over a beautiful woman at Nybroplan in Stockholm. She is a outstanding redhead.

Based on the novel by Edith Unnerstad about a man, Pip Larsson, who invents a new kind of pot which makes a sound when the stuff you are cooking is ready. As he can't pay the bills he and his family get evicted but luckely they have a couple of carriages they can live in and travel round the country, selling the new kind of pots Pip Larsson has invented.

A playful television adaptation of a Renaissance sex comedy in which two Venetian women compete for the attentions of a charming outsider during carnival. Deliberately theatrical and stylized, the film reflects Bergman’s interest in farce and performance.

A triangle drama - directly from hell. The door to hell closes. A hell that the purgatory or physical torture. An inferno where the guests themselves must serve as each other's executioner.

In Stockholm in the year 2248 an excavation leads to the discovery of 45,000 meters of film from the 1940's master director Hasse Ekman . The material is in a disarray but the Society for Ancient Film Research compiles the material after what is believed to have been the master's artistic intentions

A wealthy woman is suspected of murder and runs from the police, all the while her family and friends discuss the possible motive.

A man comes to Stockholm's central station. He does not know who he is or where he has been. He has some keys and a phone number. Perhaps he is the escaped sex maniac the police are searching for. A waitress at a café tries to help him.

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.

1914. The monarchs of Sweden, Denmark and Norway meet to demonstrate unity. In the crowd is a beautiful noble woman from Finland. She is eagerly courted by the monarch's aides.

Harriet and Frank Allard have been married for many years. Almost twenty years ago, Harriet had a love affair with a colleague of Frank's, Claes von Klitzow, who made her pregnant. She had a son, Christer, whom Frank thinks that he is the father of. One day, Christer reveals that he is going to marry von Klitzow's daughter Louise. Harriet becomes upset but what will she do? Try to stop the marriage by telling the truth - which would endanger her marriage with Frank - or keep silent, which would mean that two half-siblings married?

A common shoe-shiner inherits a castle. Something his mean relatives dislikes. They try to scare him away with the help of fictional ghosts and other pranks.

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.

It's Christmas. The owner of an old mansion decides to tell his family he's going to sell it. The following morning he's found murdered.

After finding his wife in the arms of another man, an army officer kills his rival and then goes by train to Finland to fight in the Winter war.

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.

Kurt and Sonja are happily married and dream of buying a house and have children. One day Kurt's old friend Nick pops up. Secrets from Sonja's past life surface.

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.

As his 60th birthday approaches, Jacob grows concerned that none of his sons is capable of running his company.

Sixten reluctantly go to a ski resort in Åre to write a script to a movie.

A comedy about the young Marie who works in a daycare. However, the house where her work is located has been sold and the new owner does not want the daycare to remain, because he is only interested in dogs. Eventually, Marie manages to get the host to think better and, with some tricks, even get him to like children.

Young woman Marta dreams of a better future and leaves her parent's cabbage patch and move to Stockholm. Waiting tables doesn't pay nearly enough and she soon finds herself working the streets. Her teenage sweetheart Adrian also moves to Stockholm to search for her. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

Hellert, a middle-aged man, lawyer and well-established, make the acquaintance of kindergarten teacher Birgit Steen. He falls in love with her and discovers that his son Göran has done so too. Leading actor Gösta Ekman died during production.

Julius Berge has an advertising firm in Stockholm together with his wife Sonja. The man with the ideas is their colleague Kurt Dal, who used to be engaged to Sonja. Their ménage à trois becomes a crazy mix of jealousy and misunderstanding.

On an island in the Stockholm archipelago lives a man named Albin who has fallen in love with the new school teacher named Eva. Because of the Winter War the island is isolated and smuggling is rampant, the leader of this operation is named Fritjof and he is also interested in Eva.

Insurance salesman Paul is to be engaged with Louise, the daughter of his boss. Trying to sell insurance to a millionaire he meet the millionaire's daughter Annette whom he fall in love with after complications and funny business.

A young fisherman starts a business and climbs on the social ladder to avenge the man who plagued his parents.

Bernt comes to a small town to rob the bank. But behind the counter stands his old friends Hjalmar, and he has to pretend it was all a joke. Hjalmar asks him to spend the night at his home. He meets Ellen, now Hjalmar's wife. Bernt is still attracted to her and it was only a coincidence that it was Hjalmar who married her and not Bernt. When Hjalmar goes on a business trip, Bernt stays with Ellen.

Ingegerd Lindberg is coming to Stockholm from the countryside. The first person she meets at the Central Station is Curt Brehmer.

Business manager Ludvig Berndtson desperately needs a fiancée to get rid of an ex-girlfriend. He asks one of his employees, secretary Monica Brandt, to pretend to be his fiancée for a while. She is at first unwilling but desperately needs the money and accepts.

An engineer with a factory is on the brink of ruin. A greedy director offers to buy his mill. Instead, the engineer opens a hotel. With little success. A rumor has that Greta Garbo is expected at the hotel.

About the Swedish trickster and thief Lars "Lasse-Maja" Molin. He often disguised himself and lived as a woman in 1800s. He takes place as a kitchen boy for a bailiff and manages to prevent him from taking over the cottage where his beloved lives. His true identity will, however, be disclosed and he is forced to become an outlaw.

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.

Martin and Märta live in a seemingly happy marriage, but Märta feels neglected. One evening she meets Martine's colleague, the Frenchman Barthou, famous for his success with the Stockholm ladies. He starts to flirt with Märta.

Tells a story about a man named Anthony who loses his wife, to an illness and finds it hard to move on. Although Anthony is now single, he struggles with how to build a new relationship with Tiffany. Anthony is uneasy to love again and pushes her away. He finds a letter from his deceased wife, saying that if something happens, to love and marry again. He is ready to let go, let God and move on.

Fredrik seduces the office girl Anna. She becomes helplessly passionately in love. Fredrik cheat Anna of all her savings. He intends to manufacture beauty products. To market the product he forge the signature of a wealthy aunt of Anna.

Tennis competitions between Swedish actors at Saltsjöbaden.

Sonja meet Curt in a taxi cab. By mistake, each believes that the other is a rich member of the upper class. They meet on a date, but since neither wants to reveal the truth about themselves, they both get more and more caught in the web of lies they have produced.

Choreographer is found murdered and the police investigate. There are several suspects among his lovers, dancers and family members.

Björn Kraft is an office clerk and one day his boss installs a new accounting machine that can do three mans job. A couple of days later Björn gets the termination letter.

Porter's wife Emma has three daughters, all "marriageable". All three have worries about marriage.

Bombi Bitt is the mischievous boy in 1930s Skåne whom no one can control – and the stationmaster's strict son Eli becomes his admiring companion. Together they experience a series of thrilling and cheerful adventures among characters such as Jöns Pumpare, the painter Vricklund, the sugar whore Franskan and the horse thief Nils Gallilé. The highlight is the grand visit to Kivik Market. Based on Fritiof Nilsson Piraten's autobiographical debut book.

Åke is employed as a singer in a revue tour and his uncle Karlsson becomes the tour bus driver.

Lena Bergström works in an office and is unhappily in love with her boss, Johan Borg. She decides to quit. Borg's wife won't have any children, and when she becomes pregnant she has an illegal abortion. For some reason, Lena's father believes that it is Lena who has had an abortion.

Architect Sture Ahrengren walks out of his job with an architecture firm with the support of his wife Kristina. He gets a position with an old friend, Balstar Ekberg, who has a big engineering job going. But Sture gets entangled in a romance with Ekberg's wife, Helena.

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.

John and Ulla are happily married and live in the villa Fridhem. Via telegram, John gets the news that his dreaded mother-in-law will come to visit.

The American boat is on its way to Gothenburg. On board are the Swedish-American millionaire Fridolf F. Johnson from Detroit (Håkan Westergren) and his male secretary of the same name (Fridolf Rhudin). The millionaire stays hidden in his cabin with the secretary and does not appear on deck. A journalist arrives out at sea by airplane and asks for an interview, which the millionaire refuses to agree to. The journalist disguises himself as a steward, puts on a hidden camera (a spy camera) in the buttonhole, enters with a tea tray and photographs the wrong person - the secretary.

Emelie Högqvist is an actress at the Royal Theatre who gets involved in an intimate relationship with the Crown Prince Oscar.

One day, a theater company to Iron Creek. In the city's steel mills meet the young actress Monika young Erik. The love between them is from the very clear but complicated by the fact both have careers.

Young runaway aristocrat fall in love with blacksmith's daughter.

The orphan Alfred lives with two ladies in an idyllic cottage near a private golf course.

Jideon Andersson is the leader of the "Red Day" organization that are planning a communist takeover of the capital of Stockholm on August 1.

The story revolves around a collective of variety artists. A stolen safety deposit box theft gets all in toruble.

At the Carlssons hotel in Stockholm we find unemployed actor Gunnar Berg, whose father owns Sundsvalls Steel mill and wants the son to enter the company. But the son prefers to sit and wait for roles together with his friend Jan Jansson.

John Smith is an accountant at a stockbroking firm, where the firm ends up in the liquidity crisis because of his managerial speculation with the firm's money. The bank wants John to take over leadership of the company.

Loffe and his friend Pelle are called to the military service.

The Sjölund family on Lillholmen in the archipelago of Stockholm is quite religious and is considered suitable for dealing with odd specimens of wild youth placed there by one of Stockholm's youth associations for young girls.

Gustav lives in Värnamo. He constructs a new boat engine, but needs time to complete it. The work has been financed by factory director "Hatt-Johan" Johansson who would like to sell the invention. Gustav's father returns from the United States and everyone thinks he's become a millionaire.