
Acting
Karin Swanström
Born 1873-06-13 · Norrköping, Östergötlands län, Sweden
Karin Sofia Swanström was a Swedish actress, director, producer and theatre director. She was artistic leader and production director at the Swedish Film Industry (SF) between 1933 and 1941. Her film debut was in filmed in Mauritz Stillers "De landsflyktige/The fugitives" (1921), this role was followed by almost another 50 films. Karin Swanström directed 4 productions 1923-1926.
Acting credits
9.0Porter's wife Emma has three daughters, all "marriageable". All three have worries about marriage.
Giftasvuxna döttrar
1933
8.0John 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.
Svärmor kommer
1932
5.8Eva 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
7.0Arvid 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
7.0Erhard Malm is studying to become an engineer, but support himself as a tutor at Consul Frendin. The consul's daughter Ruth and Erhard get interested in each other.
No. 40 Skipper Street
1925
5.8A 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
7.0The Forshyttan steel-mill has been owned by the Ancker family for generations. But competition is hard. When the son Bengt Ancker comes back from abroad he has an idea for success: a lighter steel with better quality. But a lot of money is necessary to develop his idea and the only way to raise the necessary capital is to sell the company to their competitor - Manchester Steel Company. But the workers are concerned that this could threaten their job-security
Steel
1940
9.0The ladies man Georg is finally about to get married, but a misunderstanding lead to his new wife break up the wedding.
Fasters millioner
1934
10.0At the home of the famous scientist Count Knut Lagercrona the wedding preparations has begun. The Counts daughter Heléne Von Bohren is about to marry the young lawyer Sebastian Lavenius.
Äventyret
1936
A series of events during a summer in Anna-Clara's life.
Anna-Clara and Her Brothers
1923
8.0Helga 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
6.6Gösta Berling is a young and attractive minister. Because of his alcoholism and his daring sermons, he is eventually defrocked. He becomes tutor of countess Marta's stepdaughter and they fall in love. But the countess has a plan of her own.
The Saga of Gösta Berling
1924
9.0Kalle and his girlfriend Blenda is on his way home from Tivoli, when he says that he will be away for two years as mate on a sailing ship, but swears her eternal fidelity. During the trip takes on board Bessie that has wrecked his vessel, the Donald withstand the temptation of a beautiful woman on board while Blenda waiting at home?
Styrman Karlssons flammor
1938
8.0Heinrich Zentler is a successful man, both on football and in his legal career.
Only a Dancing Girl
1926
7.0"The Russian Cold" - Kalle Brodin, the leader of the Swedish communists, just released from a short prison term, don't know what to do with the directives that comes from Moscow.
Ryska snuvan
1937
6.1A woman flees to avoid rumors of promiscuity, but is trailed by a reporter who wants to expose her dark past.
June Night
1940
7.8A handsome barber in Sweden doesn't know he's actually the Crown Prince of a Balkan kingdom in this charming Swedish-German comedy that effortlessly weaves together multiple Ruritanian tropes.
His Majesty the Barber
1928
10.0London socialite Cathleen Paget's adventures in love and misfortune a year after the death of her husband. Ivor Willington and Lionel Jesop play cards for who will be given the shot at flirting with Paget, as to claim her wealth. But when her brother Bruce has lost the family fortune in bad business, Cathleen is suggested to court Nordic giant Birger Holm. The two marry and the families financial problems seem to be at bay, although the life in the northern Sweden is wearing Cathleen down as she misses parties, friends and dancing at the Savoy Hotel.
His English Wife
1927
5.8The Swedenhielms is an old aristocratic family. The head of the family is professor Rolf Swedenhielm. His three children Bo, Julia and Rolf Jr also live in the house. They also have an excellent house maid, Boman. Because of the family's extravagance, they are heading for bankruptcy. But perhaps their problems would be solved if Rolf was awarded the Nobel Prize?
Swedenhielms
1935
7.0Karl Alfred Karlsson goes on an adventure on the seven seas.
First-mate Karlsson’s Sweethearts
1925
7.0A wealthy Russian family faces change and challenges as events unfold during the First World War.
In Self Defence
1921
Social comedy-drama. Aristocrat's boredom in marriage of convenience and sacrif ice of self on behalf of wife's lover.
A Perfect Gentleman
1927
8.0The Beckius family is living near the border to Russia. The youngest son, Armas, is living a wild life that eventually leads to a break with the family after which he joins the Russian Revolution. When he returns to his home country a few years later the family on the enemy's side.
One Night
1931
10.0André is a young attorney who has opened his own office in Paris without any success. One day he finds a will in an old book in an antique shop that reveals a hidden treasure at the castle Brignolles. The first 100% talkie film in Swedish film history.
When Roses Bloom
1930
Behind the camera
A series of events during a summer in Anna-Clara's life.
Anna-Clara and Her Brothers
1923
6.5Johan Sjöborg and his wife Karin are on their way back to Sweden from New York. They arrive to Gothenburg just as the big exhibition is opening.
Boman at the Exhibition
1923
6.6A collective of office girls and their tribulations in the male world, female solidarity, the place of women in the labor and civil rights struggles and the conflict between love and work.
The Norrtull Gang
1923
7.0Katja is about to graduate, but she has nothing to wear for the graduation ball. Her father, the eccentric inventor Carl Axel Kock does not spend much of his income on Katja while her brother Curry gets everything he wants. So on the day of the ball, Katja simply dresses up in her brother’s brand new evening attire and attends the dance, smokes cigars, drinks brandy–and causes a scandal.
The Girl in Tails
1926
8.0Pelle Frisk is second-in-command on the S/S Hispania. He is a fighter and a ladies man and known as "The Flying Dutchman".
The Flying Dutchman
1925
7.0Kalle Utter is theologian student at Uppsala University sometime during the latter half of the 19th century.
Kalle Utter
1925