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The Strongest AKA Den starkaste (1929) Axel Lindblom, Alf Sjöberg, Anders Henrikson, Bengt Djurberg, Gun Holmqvist
Skipper Larsen and his assistant Ole, are planning the season’s seal and bear-hunting trip to Spetzbergen with the ship “Viking”. Read More »
Elvira Madigan (1967) Bo Widerberg, Pia Degermark, Thommy Berggren, Lennart Malmer
Hedvig Jensen is a famous ropewalker and is known to her public as Elvira Madigan. Read More »
To Joy AKA Till glädje (1950) Ingmar Bergman, Maj-Britt Nilsson, Stig Olin, Birger Malmsten
Stig, a visiting soloist to a small Swedish orchestra, marries fellow musician Martha Read More »
The Girl from the Third Row AKA Flickan från tredje raden (1949) Hasse Ekman, Hilda Borgström, Gunnar Olsson, Sigge Fürst
Is man’s existence really meaningful and hopeful? As a reply to Ingmar Bergman’s Fängelse (1949), this movie claims that it is. Read More »
Jazz Boy AKA Jazzgossen (1958) Maj-Britt Nilsson, Hasse Ekman, Elof Ahrle
The rich young man Teddy Anker invests his money in the theater in the beginning of the 1920s. Read More »
The Girls AKA Flickorna (1968) Mai Zetterling, Bibi Andersson, Harriet Andersson, Gunnel Lindblom
Three actresses prepare to go on the road in a theater production of Lysistrata, Aristophanes’ classic comic play about women and war. Read More »
One Summer of Happiness AKA Hon dansade en sommar (1951) Arne Mattsson, Edvin Adolphson, Ulla Jacobsson, John Elfström
After graduating from high school 19 year old Göran goes to his uncle Anders’s farm in the countryside for recreation. Read More »
Summer Interlude AKA Sommarlek (1951) Ingmar Bergman, Maj-Britt Nilsson, Birger Malmsten, Alf Kjellin
While waiting for the night rehearsal of the ballet Swan Lake, the lonely twenty-eight year-old ballerina Read More »
House of Angels AKA Änglagård (1992) Colin Nutley, Helena Bergström, Rikard Wolff, Sven Wollter
A small village in Västergötland, Sweden. Everything is turned upside-down when the local loner dies Read More »
The New Land AKA Nybyggarna (1972) Jan Troell, Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Eddie Axberg
This film continues from where The Emigrants / Utvandrarna (1971) left off. Starting a new life in the New World from almost nothing is not easy. Read More »
Loving Couples AKA Älskande par (1964) Mai Zetterling, Harriet Andersson, Gunnel Lindblom, Gio Petré
Stockholm, 1915. Three women, Agda, Adele and Angela are about to give birth in a clinic. Read More »
Together AKA Tillsammans (2000) Lukas Moodysson, Lisa Lindgren, Michael Nyqvist, Emma Samuelsson
It is the 1970s and a group of very different individuals live together as a community. Read More »
Lilya 4-ever AKA Lilja 4-ever (2002) Lukas Moodysson, Oksana Akinshina, Artyom Bogucharskiy, Pavel Ponomaryov
While waiting for her mothers reply to take her to the USA, Lilya idles the time away smoking Read More »
The Bookseller Gave Up Bathing AKA Bokhandlaren som slutade bada (1969) Jarl Kulle, Allan Edwall, Margaretha Krook
A sleepy village around 1910. Jacob, the owner of a book store in a small town is a member Read More »