Allan Edwall

Allan Edwall

Johan Allan Edwall was a Swedish stage and screen actor, singer, writer and director. He graduated from the Royal Dramatic Theatre's Acting School in 1952. Growing up in the landscape of Jämtland, Edwall spent some time working on a ship before he arrived in Stockholm in the 1940s, just barely making a living as a writer, painter and poet before he was admitted to the Royal Dramatic Theater's acting school in 1949. After graduation he worked at the theater in the 1950s and 1960s  but he was mainly a jack-of-all-trades, appearing on the stage, in movies as well as recording and publishing his own songs. He is remembered for a string of queer roles, such as Emil's father in the Emil of Lönneberga films, the cheerful vagabond in the Rasmus and the vagabond movie, the dying father in Ingmar Bergman's Fanny and Alexander as well as Carlsson in the TV adaptation of Strindberg's Hemsöborna. In the later part of his life he owned his own theater, Brunnsgatan 4, in Stockholm. Biography by Mattias Thuresson.

  • Title: Allan Edwall
  • Popularity: 2.525
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1924-08-25
  • Place of Birth: Rödön, Jämtlands län, Sweden
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  • Also Known As: Аллан Эдвалль
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Allan Edwall Movies

  • 1984
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    Ronia, the Robber's Daughter

    Ronia, the Robber's Daughter

    6.9 1984 HD

    Ronia lives happily in her father's castle until she comes across a new playmate, Birk, in the nearby dark forest. The two explore the wilderness,...

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  • 1978
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    Bröllopsfesten

    Bröllopsfesten

    1 1978 HD

    A story about Frida, Jonas and their wedding in Småland.

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  • 1980
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    Midsommardröm i fattighuset

    Midsommardröm i fattighuset

    1 1980 HD

    Blind-Jonas is in a poorhouse dreaming about his past, in contrast the young girl Cecilia shows up dreaming about her future.

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  • 1981
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    Rasmus and the Vagabond

    Rasmus and the Vagabond

    6.3 1981 HD

    9-year old orphan called Rasmus runs away from the orphanage. He meets a vagabond they call Paradise Oskar who likes to sing and play his accordion....

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  • 1982
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    Fanny and Alexander

    Fanny and Alexander

    7.8 1982 HD

    As children in the loving Ekdahl family, Fanny and Alexander enjoy a happy life with their parents, who run a theater company. After their father...

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  • 1977
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    The Brothers Lionheart

    The Brothers Lionheart

    6.8 1977 HD

    After brothers Jonathan and Crusty pass away, they reunite in Nangijala, the land of eternal spring. Casting a long shadow over their world is the...

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  • 1989
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    Doktor Glas

    Doktor Glas

    1 1989 HD

    A one man show based on Hjalmar Söderberg's book about Doctor Glas and his dilemma with his patient.

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  • 1986
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    The Sacrifice

    The Sacrifice

    7.7 1986 HD

    Alexander, a journalist, philosopher and retired actor, celebrates a birthday with friends and family when it is announced that nuclear war has begun.

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  • 1960
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    The Virgin Spring

    The Virgin Spring

    7.831 1960 HD

    Devout Christians Töre and Märeta send their only daughter, the virginal Karin, and their foster daughter, the unrepentant Ingeri, to...

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  • 1971
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    Emil of Lonneberga

    Emil of Lonneberga

    6.7 1971 HD

    Emil Svensson lives with his mother and father, little sister Ida, farmhand Alfred, and maid Lina on a picturesque farm in Småland. He is an...

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  • 1972
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    New Mischief by Emil

    New Mischief by Emil

    6.8 1972 HD

    Emil's reputation for being a troublemaker makes the Svensson family's neighbours take up a collection for sending the boy off to America. But even...

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  • 1973
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    Emil and the Piglet

    Emil and the Piglet

    6.838 1973 HD

    Nursing a piglet back to life because it's the runt of the litter earns Emil a friend for life.

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  • 1980
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    Madicken of June Hill

    Madicken of June Hill

    5.8 1980 HD

    A second movie based on Astrid Lindgren's novel "Madicken och Junibackens pims", which is about two sisters and their adventures in 1910s Sweden.

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  • 1966
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    Here Is Your Life

    Here Is Your Life

    7.1 1966 HD

    A working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving through a series of jobs and romances that gradually shape his future.

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  • 1979
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    You're Out of Your Mind, Madicken

    You're Out of Your Mind, Madicken

    6.121 1979 HD

    Madicken is a Swedish girl from the upper level family, growing up during the time of first world war which did not include Sweden. She lives happily...

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  • 1971
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    The Emigrants

    The Emigrants

    7.5 1971 HD

    Karl and Kristina Nilsson work on a farm in a cold and desolate area of 19th century rural Sweden. Growing privations, combined with increasing...

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  • 1963
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    Winter Light

    Winter Light

    7.9 1963 HD

    A Swedish pastor fails a loving woman, a suicidal fisherman and God.

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  • 1981
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    The Rooster

    The Rooster

    5.4 1981 HD

    In 1944, Cederqvist comes to a small cloth factory to see how the all-women employees can work more efficiently. At the beginning he is greeted with...

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  • 1972
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    The New Land

    The New Land

    7.7 1972 HD

    A Swedish immigrant family struggles to adapt to their new life on the American frontier during the second half of the 19th century amidst civil war,...

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  • 1960
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    The Devil's Eye

    The Devil's Eye

    7.2 1960 HD

    The devil has a stye in his eye, caused by the purity of a vicar's daughter. To get rid of it, he sends Don Juan up from hell to seduce the 20 year...

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  • 1989
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    During the Journey to Melonia

    During the Journey to Melonia

    1 1989 HD

    Documentary about the production of Per Åhlin's feature film Resan till Melonia

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  • 1989
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    Voyage to Melonia

    Voyage to Melonia

    6.8 1989 HD

    When a ship sinks during a storm, a slave from the industrial island of Plutonia is washed up on the beaches of paradise island Melonia, where the...

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  • 1954
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    Dance on Roses

    Dance on Roses

    5 1954 HD

    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...

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  • 1965
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    Gustav Vasa

    Gustav Vasa

    1 1965 HD

    Gustav Vasa struggles to keep power while dealing with the Dacke War in his own country and his foreign debts.

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  • 1966
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    Sadist

    Sadist

    5.7 1966 HD

    The plot revolves around a sadistic doctor, a macabre gravedigger, an innocent girl, sabotage, sex and violent death. The beautiful Vivi Sander is...

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  • 1987
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    Pirates of the Lake

    Pirates of the Lake

    6.2 1987 HD

    It is the first day of the summer vacation. Jojje, Jerker and Fabian wants to borrow a sailing boat to take a boat trip so they steal it. They plan...

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  • 1964
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    All These Women

    All These Women

    6.1 1964 HD

    Pretentious critic Cornelius is writing a biography on a famous cellist and to do some research he stays in the critic's house for a few days. He...

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  • 1983
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    P & B

    P & B

    6 1983 HD

    Pettersson and Bendel are both worn, run-down and broke. Despite this they decide to start a business and become rich. Unexperienced they are open to...

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  • 1967
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    Mördaren - en helt vanlig person

    Mördaren - en helt vanlig person

    5 1967 HD

    People on a train get murdered. Who is the murderer? Everybody on the train is a suspect. One of them is the homosexual dope fiend played by Heinz...

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  • 1991
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    Duo jag

    Duo jag

    1 1991 HD

    Gösta Ekman and Kent Andersson play two men, living together for a long time. One a small, skinny and unknown poet - the other a large, famous...

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  • 1984
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    Åke and His World

    Åke and His World

    6.115 1984 HD

    Åke and his world is a long, lyrical study of a Swedish country doctor of the 1930s. Åke is the doctor's six-year-old son, from whose...

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  • 1973
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    Who Loves Yngve Frej

    Who Loves Yngve Frej

    6.9 1973 HD

    A tragicomic story about rural extinction and the meeting between the local shoemaker Gustafsson and Pettersson from Stockholm.

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  • 1969
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    The Bookseller Who Gave Up Bathing

    The Bookseller Who Gave Up Bathing

    6 1969 HD

    A sleepy village around 1910. Jacob, the owner of a book store in a small town is a member of a club who baths together every Sunday. He is...

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  • 1976
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    Elvis! Elvis!

    Elvis! Elvis!

    4.8 1976 HD

    The adventures of a small boy (Elvis), his mother and a male friend.

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  • 1983
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    Limpan

    Limpan

    7 1983 HD

    Limpan is an alcoholic who has been put into a caretaking home for alcoholics. He's promised a job on the 'outside', but he's not released from the...

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  • 1980
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    To Be a Millionaire

    To Be a Millionaire

    5.3 1980 HD

    The terrorist Fors arrested after an attack on a OPEC meeting. Shortly afterwards town minister's daughter gets kidnapped by two men who require Fors...

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  • 1981
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    SOPOR

    SOPOR

    5.5 1981 HD

    One Monday morning, a thousand children leave the suburb of Farsta and go to Stockholm to occupy the Royal Castle. The children have formed a group...

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  • 1960
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    On a Bench in a Park

    On a Bench in a Park

    4.4 1960 HD

    Sam Persson is released from a mental hospital. He goes to Stockholm to meet a man he hates, theater manager Stig Brender. In Brender's office they...

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  • 1956
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    Girls Without Rooms

    Girls Without Rooms

    5 1956 HD

    Fransiska is visited by a social worker when she's in the custody. She tells him her lives story, about her mother who was an alcoholic, her father a...

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  • 1980
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    Sverige åt svenskarna

    Sverige åt svenskarna

    2.7 1980 HD

    This farce cocerns Sweden's King Gustav (Per Oscarsson who plays all the lead roles). The royal monarchs of three major European countries are...

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  • 1962
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    Stolarna

    Stolarna

    1 1962 HD

    An Old Man and Old Woman frantically prepare chairs for a series of invisible guests who are coming to hear an orator reveal the old man's discovery.

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  • 1953
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    Resan till dej

    Resan till dej

    5 1953 HD

    The marriage of the newlyweds Gun and Emil is strained when Gun sings in a radio show and makes a breakthrough.

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  • 1990
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    Evert Taube 100 år

    Evert Taube 100 år

    1 1990 HD

    Jubilee special celebrating Evert Taube's 100th birthday with performances and interviews with friends and family.

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  • 1984
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    The Making of Fanny and Alexander

    The Making of Fanny and Alexander

    6.8 1984 HD

    The Making of Fanny and Alexander is a fascinating look at the creation of a masterpiece. Directed by Ingmar Bergman himself, this feature-length...

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  • 1974
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    Kulstötaren

    Kulstötaren

    1 1974 HD

    When Nisse's son breaks his arm, Johan has to pull into the club team in shot put. In a competition he hits 32.47 meters, a world record. Only two...

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  • 1969
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    We Are All Demons

    We Are All Demons

    5.5 1969 HD

    A veteran sea captain abducts his niece for what he believes is his last chance at love. As the sad demon of the ocean Klabautermanden watches the...

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  • 1963
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    A Dream Play

    A Dream Play

    7.5 1963 HD

    "A dream play" - This made-for-television film constituted Bergman’s first production of Strindberg’s A Dream Play – a play he...

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  • 1995
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    Stjärnbilder

    Stjärnbilder

    1 1995 HD

    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...

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  • 1996
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    Bättre utan hund

    Bättre utan hund

    8 1996 HD

    On the comic tragedy of loneliness, based on the short story "Blumfeld, an elderly bachelor" by Franz Kafka.

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  • 1974
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    Nattens konung

    Nattens konung

    1 1974 HD

    An old fisherman is feeling lonely and begins to long for death.

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  • 1969
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    Eriksson

    Eriksson

    1 1969 HD

    Eriksson is a divorced engineer without intellectual interests. He lives alone in a friendly, rundown tenement where the neighbors' intimate...

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  • 1965
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    Interlude in the Marshland

    Interlude in the Marshland

    7.4 1965 HD

    It's the mid 1930s and brakeman Kvist had enough of working on the train, jumps off and starts to walk on the train tracks in the middle of nowhere...

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  • 1983
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    Alf Sjöberg - mästaren

    Alf Sjöberg - mästaren

    1 1983 HD

    Alf Sjöberg (1903-1980) was Swedens greatest theater director of the 20th century and as a film director the first of international importance...

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  • 1980
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    Filmen om Anton Nilson. Till arbetarklassens barn

    Filmen om Anton Nilson. Till arbetarklassens barn

    1 1980 HD

    Anton Nilson is known as one of the Amalthea men, three young socialists who in 1908, in one of the labor conflicts that crippled Malmö, carried...

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  • 1983
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    The School of Wives

    The School of Wives

    7.2 1983 HD

    The elderly Arnolphe has decided to marry a young woman, Agnes, whom he has fallen in love with. She is too young and innocent to realize what plans...

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  • 1977
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    Games of Love and Loneliness

    Games of Love and Loneliness

    4 1977 HD

    This co-production between Norway and Sweden is the first film that Anja Breien has made since Wives. She has adapted a novel by Hjalmar Soderberg....

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  • 1959
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    Blackjackets

    Blackjackets

    6 1959 HD

    Young Greasers, known as Raggare in Sweden, gather at a café outside Stockholm. Roffe is the toughest greaser and kidnaps his girlfriend...

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  • 1961
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    The Brig Three Lilies

    The Brig Three Lilies

    6.7 1961 HD

    On the coast of Sweden in 1888, a 12-year-old orphan finds adventure and new hope that his missing father survived a shipwreck years before.

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  • 1965
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    The Devil's Instrument

    The Devil's Instrument

    7 1965 HD

    A jazz bassist who surveys a beautiful girl at a gig decides to try to get her home. But the devil is getting into the game too.

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  • 1960
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    The Die Is Cast

    The Die Is Cast

    6 1960 HD

    A member of a highly successful crime drama series is found murdered in a television studio. The screenwriter of the TV-series is found as prime...

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  • 1957
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    Ingen morgondag

    Ingen morgondag

    1 1957 HD

    It is in a battlefield in Karelia, Finland during the Continuation war (1941-1944). Intensive shooting between Finnish and Soviet troops takes place....

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  • 1963
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    Topaze

    Topaze

    1 1963 HD

    A shy but righteous teacher - Topaze - with no social skills what so ever, gradually becomes aware of the realities of human societies and finally...

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  • 1962
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    Kort är sommaren

    Kort är sommaren

    1 1962 HD

    Lieutenant Glahn arrives in a small village in northern Norway. He wants to live in peace in the company of his dog. The young Edvarda stirs emotions...

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  • 1977
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    Mondays with Fanny

    Mondays with Fanny

    1 1977 HD

    Robert works at a warehouse and as a cinema usher and lives in a strained marriage. Every monday, he visits his ill father at the hospital. There he...

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  • 1970
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    Good-Bye Nana

    Good-Bye Nana

    1 1970 HD

    A film that questions the right of parents to force their children into the adult world's rational behavior. A 6-year-old revolt by going to a lawyer...

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  • 1955
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    Vildfåglar

    Vildfåglar

    1 1955 HD

    "Wild birds" - A Swedish film noir with the character of a French noir ('Quai des brumes', 'Le jour se lève'). Two worlds meet for a brief...

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  • 1960
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    Av hjärtans lust

    Av hjärtans lust

    1 1960 HD

    The Baron of Qvinnevad Castle has financial problems and is forced to show the estate to tourists. The baron finds out that an unknown person is...

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  • 1961
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    Ljuvlig är sommarnatten

    Ljuvlig är sommarnatten

    5.3 1961 HD

    Someone is murdered. Who is the killer? Members of all star cast are all suspects...

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  • 1954
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    Tattarblod

    Tattarblod

    1 1954 HD

    David, a young woodsman with a family, is leasing a farm. The family are welcomed by the locals until it becomes known that David is the son of a...

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  • 1965
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    The Devotion

    The Devotion

    1 1965 HD

    A punctuation during a theater rehearsal between actor and director.

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  • 1958
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    The Phantom Carriage

    The Phantom Carriage

    5.7 1958 HD

    The third film adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf's novel of the same name. The drinker David Holm gets killed right on the stroke of midnight on New...

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  • 1972
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    The Ghost Sonata

    The Ghost Sonata

    9 1972 HD

    The Ghost Sonata relates the adventures of a young student, who idealizes the lives of the inhabitants of a stylish apartment building in Stockholm....

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  • 1988
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    Lighting

    Lighting

    1 1988 HD

    A documentary on Sven Nykvist lighting the movie-set during the shooting of Andrei Tarkovsky's film "The Sacrifice."

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  • 1965
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    The Banquet Room

    The Banquet Room

    5 1965 HD

    A young girl is a confidante to four men who regularly visit her in her apartment.

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  • 1960
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    The Wedding Day

    The Wedding Day

    1 1960 HD

    Anders and Sylvia are set to be married, but Sylvia says 'no' and runs away at the altar.

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  • 1965
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    My Home Is Copacabana

    My Home Is Copacabana

    6.6 1965 HD

    Homeless children in the slums of Rio are driven out of their temporary shelters by ruthless gangsters in this somber drama. The kids survive by...

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  • 1965
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    4 x 4

    4 x 4

    7.2 1965 HD

    Four short stories from Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland.

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  • 1961
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    Mr. Ernest

    Mr. Ernest

    1 1961 HD

    Mr. Worthing and Mr. Moncrieff both use the pseudonym Ernest, leading to a lot of misunderstandings.

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  • 1977
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    Hålet

    Hålet

    1 1977 HD

    Animated film about a man interested in holes.

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  • 1987
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    Pirates of the Lake

    Pirates of the Lake

    6.2 1987 HD

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  • 1987
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    Pirates of the Lake

    Pirates of the Lake

    6.2 1987 HD

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  • 1984
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    Åke and His World

    Åke and His World

    6.115 1984 HD

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  • 1984
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    Åke and His World

    Åke and His World

    6.115 1984 HD

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  • 1969
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    Eriksson

    Eriksson

    1 1969 HD

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  • 1969
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    Eriksson

    Eriksson

    1 1969 HD

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  • 1996
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    Bättre utan hund

    Bättre utan hund

    8 1996 HD

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  • 1986
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    Den nervöse mannen

    Den nervöse mannen

    5 1986 HD

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  • 1986
    imgMovies

    Den nervöse mannen

    Den nervöse mannen

    5 1986 HD

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  • 1996
    imgMovies

    Bättre utan hund

    Bättre utan hund

    8 1996 HD

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  • 1989
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    Doktor Glas

    Doktor Glas

    1 1989 HD

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  • 1989
    imgMovies

    Doktor Glas

    Doktor Glas

    1 1989 HD

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  • 1983
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    Limpan

    Limpan

    7 1983 HD

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  • 1975
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    Nisse och Greta

    Nisse och Greta

    1 1975 HD

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  • 1978
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    Svenska noveller

    Svenska noveller

    1 1978 HD

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  • 1984
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    Fanny and Alexander

    Fanny and Alexander

    8.2 1984 HD

    Through the eyes of ten-year-old Alexander, we witness the delights and conflicts of the Ekdahl family, a sprawling bourgeois clan in...

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  • 1975
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    Emil of Lönneberga

    Emil of Lönneberga

    7.5 1975 HD

    Emil i Lönneberga is a Swedish television adaptation of Astrid Lindgren's Emil i Lönneberga books

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  • 1974
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    Engeln

    Engeln

    8 1974 HD

    Bertil "Engeln" Engelbrecht is tired of working for his half-brother's detective agency. After being released from prison his girlfriend Maggie begs...

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  • 1966
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    Hemsöborna

    Hemsöborna

    7.75 1966 HD

    Carlsson arrives at the widow Flod's farm in the Stockholm archipelago to help in the running of it. He is met with resistance by the widow's jealous...

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  • 1979
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    Madicken

    Madicken

    6.5 1979 HD

    Madicken's life on Junibacken is filled with ups and down.

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  • 1986
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    Ronja Rövardotter

    Ronja Rövardotter

    6.8 1986 HD

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  • 1970
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    The Red Room

    The Red Room

    7 1970 HD

    A young idealistic civil servant, Arvid Falk, leaves the drudgery of bureaucracy to become a journalist and author. As he explores various social...

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