Classics
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June Night
A shooting incident in a small town forces Kerstin Nordbäck to change her name to Nordan and move to Stockholm, where she moves in with three girls, takes a job at a pharmacy and tries to live down her past. Her life in the city quickly becomes almost intolerably complicated, however, when the man she shot turns up, wanting ...- Genre: Classics
- Director: Per Lindberg
- Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Marianne Löfgren, Lill-Tollie Z...
- First Release: 1940
- Language: Swedish
- Format: 1:1.37
- Duration: 90 minutes
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A Man There Was
Based on a poem by Henrik Ibsen, this drama captures the hardships of the Napoleonic Wars on a young fisherman, his wife and their newborn child. Desperate for food, the fisherman attempts to elude the English blockade. Captured and imprisoned by the English, the fisherman is unable to return to his native village until afte...- Genre: Classics
- Director: Victor Sjöström
- Cast: Victor Sjöström, Bergliot Husberg, Agust Falck, E...
- First Release: 1917
- Language: Swedish
- Duration: 45 min
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Witchcraft Through the Ages
Episodic fictionalisation of the history of witchcraft through the ages. The horrors of the Inquisition are revealed through the tortures subdued by a woman suspected of witchcraft; a masochistic priest whips himself for having impure thoughts about a woman while a witch brews a love potion for a young widow who wants to sed...- Genre: Classics
- Director: Benjamin Christensen
- Cast: Tora Teje, Alice Frederiksen, Oscar Tribolt, Emmy...
- First Release: 1922
- Language: Swedish
- Duration: 88 min
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Swedenhielms
The Swedenhielms are an aristocratic but impecunious family whose hopes for the future are based upon the belief that the father, Rolf, will win the Nobel Prize for chemistry. The children - Rolf Jr., Julia and Bo - have all borrowed money from money-lenders and when it appears that their father is not going to get the Prize...- Genre: Classics
- Director: Gustaf Molander
- Cast: Gösta Ekman, Karin Swanström, Björn Berglund, Håk...
- First Release: 1935
- Language: Swedish
- Format: 1:1.37
- Duration: 88 minutes
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The Count of Old Town
This is a story about a gang of crooks and booze smugglers and their girl friends in the Old City of Stockholm. It is a kind of thriller. Ingrid Bergman plays the daughter of a woman who owns a small bachelor hotel where the crooks hide out. A lot of money changes hands and is hidden in such unlikely places as under herring ...- Genre: Classics
- Director: Sigurd Wallén
- Cast: Waldemar Dahlquist, Sigurd Wallén, Eric Abrahamss...
- First Release: 1935
- Language: Swedish
- Format: 1:1.37
- Duration: 82 minutes
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Women's Face, A
A severe burn in childhood has left Anna Holm with a horrible scar on her face and turned her into misanthropic blackmailer who hates all mankind. In the course of collecting a blackmail payments she meets Dr. Wegert, a plastic surgeon who offers to try to improve her appearance. She is transformed into a beautiful woman. ...- Genre: Classics
- Director: Gustaf Molander
- Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Tore Svennberg, Georg Rydberg, Gö...
- First Release: 1938
- Language: Swedish
- Format: 1:1.37
- Duration: 104 minutes
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Sir Arne's Treasure
Set in the 16th century, a conspiracy among the King’s Scottish mercenaries develops into a touching and tragic romance as the plundering conspirators try to escape- Genre: Classics
- Director: Mauritz Stiller
- Cast: Richard Lund, Hjalmar Selander, Concordia Selande...
- First Release: 1919
- Language: Swedish
- Duration: 71 min
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Persona
A famous actress is unable to bring herself to speak again. The young nurse charged with caring for her reacts to this voluntary silence by talking all the time...- Genre: Classics
- Director: Ingmar Bergman
- Cast: Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Margaretha Krook, Gu...
- First Release: 1966
- Language: Swedish
- Format: 1:1.33
- Duration: 80 minutes
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Frida's Aura
In one of the early talking pictures, a young store clerk writes and sings love ballads to his beloved Frida- Genre: Classics
- Director: Gustaf Molander
- Cast: Bengt Durberg, Elisabeth Frisk, Tore Svennberg, H...
- First Release: 1930
- Language: Swedish
- Duration: 82 min
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The Outlaw and His Wife
Berg-Ejvind is banished to Iceland for stealing a sheep to feed his starving family. Falling in love with a rich widow farm-owner named Halla, Berg-Ejvind is tracked down out of jealousy by the local bailiff who tries to arrest him. Berg-Ejvind flees into the mountains and Halla follows.- Genre: Classics
- Director: Victor Sjöström
- Cast: Victor Sjöström, Edith Erastoff, John Ekman, Nils...
- First Release: 1918
- Language: Swedish
- Duration: 70 min