Nils Poppe

When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Block sets off on a journey, meeting up with traveling players Jof and his wife, Mia, and becoming determined to evade Death long enough to commit one redemptive act while he still lives.

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.

Bureacratic customs officer searching for a missing girl.

Fabian Bom, auctionist in a small town, one day finds a baby boy in a small crib that is for sale at an auction. He places the boy at an orphanage but returns the next day since he realizes that he misses the boy. Since a single man is not permitted to adopt a baby he arranges a marriage with a young woman, who really is the baby's mother.

Sten Stensson Stéen dies when he gets a wooden box in his head, and he enters heaven in a balloon.

Fabian Bom is a waiter at a hotel in a small town. But he dreams of doing something else - to dance and sing on a stage. He is madly in love with Matilda Roos, singer and diva. Fabian is too insensitive to notice that Annie, who works in the kitchen, is in love with him. Encouraged by Matilda, Fabian leaves the hotel and goes to Stockholm to become famous. But, as he soon learns, it is more difficult than he first thought.

The actor Philip has an accident on the way to his own wedding and the shock makes him lose his voice.

Johansson has managed to stay away from the military service for several years. But now his time has come.

The meticulous Fabin Bom is called up for military service in the airforce.

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.

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.

A film mostly consisting of scenes from older films. A sleep researcher has produced a serum with very fast effect.

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

Skorpan acts in a pick pocket show at the local amusement park.

Two movie actors are conscripted; at the regiments spies are trying to get hold of secret documents.

The author Tom Berger has written a book that is very prejudiced against women. The local chapter of Women's League starts a campaign against him.

Sten Stensson from Eslöv has just got his law-degree from the University of Stockholm.

Nils Poppe was one of Sweden's comedy greats but in this film his daughter, the actress Mia Poppe, wants to find answers to his inner darkness - hidden from the masses.

"How crazy!" A man and a woman watch episodes from Nils Poppe movies outside a cinema Maxim in Stockholm. Poppe represents, among other things, a poor composer who vainly tries to get a tune adopted by a publisher. The failure makes him depressed, but he is living it up by meeting a good friend Calle, who invites him home. Poppe stays for a few days as a male housewife. Calle has a music store and there the two friends can go crazy among all the instruments.

Tiburtius "Tibbe" Pettersson is a poor photographer in Stockholm's Old Town. He has a fiancee, Maja Sjöblom, who is a waitress. Tibbe has begun to doubt that they will ever be able to afford to marry.