Acting
An alcoholic, abusive ne'er-do-well is shown the error of his ways through a legend that dooms the last person to die on New Year's Eve before the clock strikes twelve to take the reins of Death's chariot and work tirelessly collecting fresh souls for the next year.
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.
When silly inventor Svensson gets mistaken for Swedish/American aviator Smith, he is accidentally enlisted in the military and drawn into unexpected romantic affairs.
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.
A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 films.
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.
Harry, a young successful journalist, falls for Maud. Maud, however, turns out to be a journalist on a competing magazine.
About loaner Master Samuel, based on a writings by Hjalmar Bergman
Torkel Gudmundson is the owner of the beautiful farm Paradise. But he is worried that his eldest son Ragnar shows no interest in becoming a farmer. In connection with a new well being dug, farmhand MĂĄns discovers that there is iron ore in the ground. Engineer Ruterberg sees a great opportunity and makes an offer on the farm.
Ragnhild is a girl who enjoys dancing. Her school teacher forbids her to go to the dance hall. She rebels against the ban by setting the hall on fire. The outbreak of fire becomes extremely violent.
The orphaned Eva flees from her harsh foster mother, who wants to marry her off to the suitor Berg. By pure chance, she ends up with the barber Kummersen, who has his own struggles to deal with: A Bolshevik apprentice with a large, dripping nose, an old intrusive housekeeper, and above all, a missing hundred kroner note for the rent. Nevertheless, he takes pity on Eva and accepts her as an apprentice, since the previous one had left in fury. To avoid upsetting the old housekeeper, Eva must disguise herself as a boy, and from here the story takes many unexpected twists and turns. (Stumfilm.dk)
Rudolf Carlsson, who works at a department store, dreams of making movies.
Karl Alfred Karlsson goes on an adventure on the seven seas.
The American boat is on its way to Gothenburg. On board are the Swedish-American millionaire Fridolf F. Johnson from Detroit (HĂĄkan 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.
Together with her friend Elsie, Ann-Mari Löfvenholm, the young heir to Björneborg, returns from studies in Stockholm to the hometown.
In a sham ceremony at the city hall, the dimwitted Fridolf is married to Margit. It doesn't take long, however, before he is arrested for bigamy. His first wife left him a few years ago, but Fridolf isn't very bright and he thought that she was dead when she wrote a letter to him saying that. She ran off to join a circus. By a coincidence, the circus is visiting Fridolf's home town and Fridolf goes to the circus with a free ticket. But at the circus all he can do is make a fool of himself.
In the Swedish small town Kungshamn the journalist Fridolf Svensson writes for the local newspaper Allehanda.
A tribute to Swedish film, which was made to celebrate the 100th anniversary of film in 1995 and consists of about a hundred clips from Swedish film history with many of its stars.
It's Walpurgis Night in Uppsala. The students sing the Student Song, put on their white caps, cheer and have drinks.
Simon lives a quiet life on his farm until one day he discovers he is the heir of a great fortune.
