Karin Molander

Acting

Karin Molander

Born 1889-05-20

Karin Molander (born Katarina Margareta Elisabet Edwertz, 20 May 1889 – 3 September 1978) was a Swedish stage and film actress whose career spanned over five decades.

Acting credits

Madame de Thèbes poster
5.9

The story is wacky – a gypsy is cursed by her father, so that she has to deny her illegitimate son in order for him to have a successful life. She gives him to a well-to-do lady who has lost her own child. Later, he has grown up to be a politician who wants to become the foreign minister. He doesn’t know that his real mother is the famous Madame de Thebes, the fortuneteller who all politicians make sure to visit! This information falls into the hands of a rival, who tries to use it to ruin his career. Meanwhile, the rival’s attractive daughter is attacked by a ruffian and needs to be rescued… There are a lot of striking images in this film. You can see the beauty of them even if the state of the print is far from perfect. The Norwegian actress Ragna Wettergreen gives a haunting performance as Madame de Thebes, with wisdom and regret – and quite a few melodramatic gestures. Understatement was not the norm in those days.

Madame de Thèbes

1915

Who Shot? poster
NR

The aging Count Eric von Ure is worried about the lack of responsibility shown by his son and heir Kuno. His extramarital son Jörgen Ager is however a model of virtue, while distant relative Count Fritz also plots to be included in the will.

Who Shot?

1917

Halfbreed poster
NR

Cavalry captain von Stahl is in love with dancer Marianne Rizetskis, but when he suddenly finds himself completely destitute he takes off to South America, leaving Marianne heartbroken. Arriving im America, von Stahl finds work at the estate of a man wanted by the local government, and gets romantically involved with his daughter Soledad. When Marianne arrives as well, von Stahl finds himself torn between the two women.

Halfbreed

1914

Gabrielle poster
5.6

While Bertil Lindström works at the Swedish embassy in Paris, his wife Gabrielle spends the summer alone in Sweden. After a phone call to her, he starts to think of all the things she can possibly be doing separated from him.

Gabrielle

1954

The Avenger poster
6.0

Hämnaren (The Avenger) was made in 1915, and was rediscovered in Berlin in 2001. It begins with a woman named Ester, who is reading a letter and crying. The letter says that a man named George won't marry her, because he knows his father would never allow him to marry a Jewish woman. Ester dies of childbirth, and possibly a broken heart. Her suitor Jakob takes care of her son, who is named Josef, and sends George a note, accusing him of causing her death

The Avenger

1915

The Surrogate poster
7.0

At the Stora Morgonbladet newspaper office the daily work has started, at the same time the journalist Maggie Frisch has just noticed how late she is and what a great position in the paper her article from yesterday has received. She hopes to use the success of her article to lessen the anger of her boss when she gets to the office.

The Surrogate

1919

No artwork available
NR

Snippets of Greta Garbo movies interspersed with provincial gigs of girls resembling Garbo. The film begins with one of the aspirants reading an issue of the newspaper Stockholms-Tidningen.

Fröken, Ni liknar Greta Garbo!

1931

No artwork available
NR

Ture believes he has killed an elderly man after his birthday party.

The Bomb

1920

Stiller, Garbo & jag poster
3.7

One day when Ruben Stiller is playing in a bath, he gets an alien talking to Nadja, who asks him to find out the fate of Charly's dog. Ruben agrees because Charly's host was Mauritz Stiller, and Ruben is the grandson of Mauritz's brother.

Stiller, Garbo & jag

1988

Hearts That Meet poster
NR

Young Albert Ström struggles the ensure the money needed to keep after his sister and aging mother. But his mechanical skills serves him well.

Hearts That Meet

1914

Love and Journalism poster
5.8

A woman journalist employed as a maid by a great explorer is overcome with remorse at revealing his private life to the public. He shares her feelings and marries her

Love and Journalism

1916

Mrs Bonnet’s Slip poster
NR

Beautiful young Eva is comfortably married to the wealthy Georg Bonnet, who enjoys the company of several artists and painters. When Eva finds herself drawn to handsome young artist Paul Verdier, she sets off a series of devestating events.

Mrs Bonnet’s Slip

1917

The Red Tower poster
NR

Professor Barclay travels with the young Dorian Holbein to the big city to oversee his violinist education.

The Red Tower

1914

The Living Mummy poster
NR

Professor Ernest Wearnkeal has problems with repeated thefts at his Egyptian museum. For help, he turns to the famous detective and author Oswald Read. Read arrives at the museum under the disguise of a Dr. Kearn who will study the museum's art treasures. As Dr. Kearn, he is also introduced to the professor's beautiful daughter Ester.

The Living Mummy

1917

The Struggle for His Heart poster
NR

Theater director Robert Walter hires the young Emma Reuter as his secretary, and soon she becomes his wife. But when Walter's old flame Countess Nora von Reimers arrives, his loyalty towards his wife is tested.

The Struggle for His Heart

1916

Erotikon poster
5.7

Erotikon is a 1920 Swedish romantic comedy film directed by Mauritz Stiller, starring Tora Teje, Karin Molander, Anders de Wahl and Lars Hanson. It is based on the 1917 play A kék róka by Ferenc Herczeg. The story revolves around an entomology professor obsessed with the sexual life of bugs, and his easygoing wife who is courted by two suitors.

Erotikon

1920

Het Royal Highness poster
NR

It is decided that Prince Albert of Valencia and Princess Irma of Aquitanien should be married, and in order to get to know his future wife better, the prince assumes a false identity and is hired as the princess' secretary.

Het Royal Highness

1916

Thomas Graal's Best Film poster
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

No artwork available
NR

Compilation film with scenes from different Swedish silent films, many of the films have since been lost and the only surviving fragments can be found in this film.

Do You Remember?

1935

The Fishing Village poster
8.0

The widower Jakob Vindås lives with his daughter and his mother in a small west coast fishing community.

The Fishing Village

1920

The Girl from the Marsh Croft poster
6.2

Helga is a young single lady who has a baby by a much older married man. After the older man tells Helga's father that he refuses to pay child support because he isn't the child's father, her father insists that Helga take him to court. On court day, just as the older married man is about to swear on the Bible that he is not the father of Helga's child, Helga suddenly tells the court that she's dropping the case because although the man did father her child, she doesn't want him to commit perjury, which is not only a serious crime but a mortal sin as well.

The Girl from the Marsh Croft

1917

The Fairy of Solbakken poster
7.5

Synnöve lives with her parents at the farm Solbakken on a sunny hill. Thorbjörn, who lives at Granliden in the shadow of a big mountain, often looks wistfully up to Solbakken. As teenagers they meet and fall in love. Another boy, Knud Nordhaug, is also yearning for Synnöve.

The Fairy of Solbakken

1919

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