Acting
A woman is murdered and a little girl is the only one who can reveal the perpetrator.
The General's daughter, Helene, grows up in a safe world. She doesn't want to get married or have kids. She meets a man who talks about platonic love which seems to fit her nice. They get married but when he wants to get more intimate with her she rejects him. August Strindberg's short story "Mot betalning" from the collection "Giftas 2".
A filmmaker sets out to create the greatest film in history, but finds out that human abilities have limits.
Marianne is a dancer at the Lilla Teatern. The theatre has financial troubles and its existence is under threat. Marianne falls in love with Stig Broman, the owner of the theatre. After a few problems, the actors manage to set up a show, with Marianne as leading lady, which will decide the fate of the theatre.
A man and a woman are cheated on by their respective partners and decide to get their revenge.
"Lunch- Break Café" - A café in the old Klara district in Stockholm attracts an offbeat clientel. Among those who gather at the café is a prisoner on the run, a prostitute, a journalist and a student who is having an affair with the cafe's waitress. Naturalism.
A woman is driving alone one evening, when she almost run over a man lying in the road. She gets out of the car to see. Suddenly the man attacks her. Eva Jansson's dead body is found by a local farmer, who calls the police. Soon after fashion designer Maj Berg comes driving the same road and is stopped by the police. When the road is cleared for traffic Mrs. Berg drives on but happens to get a flat tire. While changing to the spare wheel, she finds a black notebook in the ditch. Back in Stockholm she opens the notebook and finds a strange jotting that concerns her.
When a vagrant family arrives to the village Vindinge one hot summer in the 1920's, the parish is spiced up with sex and alcohol. Based on a novel by Swedish Academy member Artur Lundkvist.
When Hjalmar Hagerts son, Bertil, returns after graduated at Alnarps agricultural school Hjalmar gets a phone call from his friend and lawyer Friberg. He want's to talk about commonly known Törner that is very sick and needs help.
Spoiled upper class girl must change places with a housemaid.
Lilian is engaged to engineer Arne. To make him more interested in her, she meets a few other men.
In England, a famous jewel collection is stolen. The police suspect that the jewels have been smuggled to Sweden, and in Stockholm, the young insurance detective Peter Holmer is commissioned to trace the stolen jewels. The tracks first lead Peter to a certain ballet master Lando, but when he comes to Lando's flat, he finds him murdered. Before the police were summoned, Peter saw a young lady smearing from the floor. He tries to catch her, but when he gets down the street she disappears in a taxi..
Bengt, a ship mechanic , and his wife Karin has been relocated to a modern apartment house in Stockholm. On the ground floor is a tobacconist, whose owner Frithiof is also the deputy landlord of the house.
Baron Henric Löwencrona af Löwstaborg allows his daughter to marry a worker's son.
In Gothenburg. Louise is out walking at night - and witness an assault. She knows the attackers well. It is her sister Berit with boyfriend Ernie. Louise is told to be quiet of what she has seen. She moves to Stockholm.
After a series of bad card game experiences Carl Gustafsson and Arne Arnesson are forced to run away. A while later they are on a boat to America.
Monika and Nadja are sisters and ballet dancers. Lately, Monika has lost some of her interest in ballet. Instead, she marries the businessman Ragnar. But eventually, she discovers that the comfortable life she has does not suit her, and returns to the ballet academy.
When the airline captain Curt Ă…hs comes home one day he discovers that his wife is unfaithful. Later he and the flight attendant Berit shares an adventure together during a flight to Rio De Janeiro.
