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Edvin Adolphson

Edvin Adolphson

Gustav Edvin Adolphson was a Swedish stage and screen actor and director. He made his stage debut in 1912, his first film "Thomas Graal's Best Child" (1918), and directed the first Swedish sound film, "Säg det i toner/ The Dream Waltz" in 1929. He was actress Harriet Bosse's third husband (1927–1932) and is father of actress Kristina Adolphson (b. 1937) and songwriter/composer Olle Adolphson (1934–2004). Edvin Adolphson appeared in more than 500 roles.

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Stjärnbilder (1995)

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. ...

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Dance Around the Guldbaggen (1964)

Filmed during the first ever Guldbaggen (golden scarab) awards, it was edited and developed that night and shown for the first time to the guests at the after party. ...

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Swedish Wedding Night (1964)

A wealthy butcher, fond of liquor and women is about to marry a much younger woman. The woman's father has locked himself in the attic and refuses to come to the wedding. ...

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Sällskapslek (1963)

In a magnificent villa a 25-year-old son of Count lives with his family. He falls in love with an elementary school teacher. So does even his father the Count. ...

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Prins hatt under jorden (1963)

A young man,Erik, breaks into a photo store. But he is discovered by the night watchman and has to fly. During the flight he is picked up by cabaret singer Margot, who offers him protection. Erik, now wanted by the police, stays for a longer time with Marg ...

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Pärlemor (1961)

Set in th 1930's depression times. A wealthy industrialist suffers a stroke. His wife takes over both family and business. The son worships his mother, but is forced to choose sides when he falls in love with the poor Aina. ...

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Do You Believe in Angels? (1961)

Jan Froman is a young man with great plans for the future. He gets a job as an assistant janitor at a bank, but with inherited money he starts to buy and sell real estate which eventually increases in value. He falls in love with Margareta, whose father is ...

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Swedenhielms (1961)

Tv play based on Hjalmar Bergmans play Swedenhielms from 1923. ...

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Good Friends and Faithful Neighbors (1960)

Hugo Frejer terrorizes his family and surroundings with his unhappy mood. ...

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The Wedding Day (1960)

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

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Av hjärtans lust (1960)

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 trying to acquire the castle. ...

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Boy of Two Worlds (1959)

A young orphan is sent to live in a Danish village where he is cast out because his mother was a West Indian. With nowhere to turn, the ingenious survivor begins devising a new life outside of town. ...

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Får jag låna din fru? (1959)

Bertil Lund works at the wholesaling company Everything for the Baby. The supervisor Fredriksson is considering promoting him to vice-president but there is one obstacle: Bertil is yet unmarried and is thus considered unsuitable. But Bertil's friend Torbjà ...

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Laila (1958)

Winter in Lapland, a settler and his wife just had their newborn daughter baptized. On the way home through the wilderness, they are chased by a pack of wolves. The little baby falls out of the sledge and parents plunges off a cliff. ...

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The Phantom Carriage (1958)

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 Year's Eve will face the death coachman, which happens to be his old friend Georges. Together, reliving the eve ...

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A Goat in the Garden (1958)

The wild Jon Esping bets that he will become a churchwarden. He, the upstart and the illiterate who can only write his name, a fox in business, a stud among women and a brute in general, wins the bet. ...

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A Girl of Solbakken (1957)

From Bjørnson's novels about romance in 19th century Norway. Thorbjörn Granliden is raised severely by his parents who notice that he is drawn to the sinister farmhand Aslak. After a fight with Thorbjörn's father, Aslak leaves the farm. Thorbjörn grows ...

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Song of the Scarlet Flower (1956)

Olof is driven from home when he wants to marry the wrong girl. He takes a job as a log driver and his reputation as a womanizer goes far and wide. ...

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Sceningång (1956)

A day in the life of a theater ensemble. The acting students are struggling to get one foot ahead of the others and the regular cast is fighting for the good parts. ...

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Pettersson i Annorlunda (1956)

Swedish propaganda film for the Social Democrats. ...

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Litet bo (1956)

Hasse has received a scholarship from the insurance company where he works together with his friend Lennart. They both travel to Vienna so that Hasse can take a few days off, while Lennart attends lectures about insurance. While away, Lennart has rented hi ...

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Hamlet (1955)

Prince Hamlet returns home from the university of Wittenberg to attend his father's funeral. His uncle Claudius, the new King, has announced his brother's widow queen. Claudius asks Hamlet to stop mourn his father. ...

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Paradiset (1955)

The two alcoholics Rudolf and Bertil gets fired from their jobs. For Bertil the story ends happily. He quits drinking and takes a job on a ship. For Rudolph it is worse. He can't kick the booze. ...

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The Unicorn (1955)

Harriet and Frank Allard have been married for many years. Almost twenty years ago, Harriet had a love affair with a colleague of Frank's, Claes von Klitzow, who made her pregnant. She had a son, Christer, whom Frank thinks that he is the father of. One da ...

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Giftas (1955)

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 ...

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Darling of Mine (1955)

The Swedish/American actor Jack Harris visits the old country for the first time in his life. One of the journalist, Ingrid Billberg, is particularly interested in getting an interview with him. She finds out secret information about his next movie, and to ...

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The Summer Wind Blows (1955)

Claus, an unhappy 28 year old Norwegian insurance company employee quits his job in Oslo and heads for Sweden in order to figure out who he really is. In his travels he meets and falls in love with Liss, a liberated small town woman, but they both have tro ...

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Männen i mörker (1955)

When the men in the small mining community go to work, it is like any other day. They do not yet know that an accident will change everything. ...

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Young Summer (1954)

Helge Lysvik is a farmers son. He dreams of a future as a musician. ...

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Enchanted Journey (1954)

A traveling theatre company comes to a small town and performs to a packed house. But during the show the theatre director decides to run away with the money. ...

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Göingehövdingen (1953)

When the Swedish army occupies the eastern part of Denmark in 1678, the local inhabitants decide to fight back. Under the leadership of Svend Poulsen, a guerrilla is formed. And guerrilla officer Lars Paulinus has to fight the Swedish officer Henrik Wrede ...

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Vingslag i natten (1953)

Orphan boy and vicar's daughter fall in love but her father is strongly opposed to their relationship. ...

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The Road to Klockrike (1953)

Bolle gets tired of working at the cigar factory and because of his desire for freedom he takes to the road. He and the other hobos have only one problem and that is the mounted policemen chasing vagrants. ...

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HÃ¥rd klang (1952)

A small Swedish village has transformed to an industrial center with exports to Germany. A German opened a quarry some 50 years ago, after realizing the value of granite. Now WW1 begins. ...

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One Fiancé at a Time (1952)

Lilian is engaged to engineer Arne. To make him more interested in her, she meets a few other men. ...

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One Summer of Happiness (1951)

The young high school graduate Göran and the 17-year-old Kerstin get to know each other on the estate of Göran's uncle Persson and fall in love. But their relationship is watched suspiciously by the jammed adult world. While Persson has an understanding ...

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The Nuthouse (1951)

In Stockholm in the year 2248 an excavation leads to the discovery of 45,000 meters of film from the 1940's master director Hasse Ekman . ...

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Rolling Sea (1951)

"Rolling Sea" - After a longer stay at the hospital, the young Martin comes to Gothenburg and notice that his fiancee Sonja has met another man. ...

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The Quartet That Split Up (1950)

A small Swedish town just after WW1. An accountant and his two journalist friends have entered the stock market. The result is not as good as expected. ...

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The Pot Journey (1950)

Based on the novel by Edith Unnerstad about a man, Pip Larsson, who invents a new kind of pot which makes a sound when the stuff you are cooking is ready. As he can't pay the bills he and his family get evicted but luckely they have a couple of carriages t ...

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When Love Came to the Village (1950)

A new teacher arrives to the small village and he soon stir up some trouble with his modern way of looking at things. He also stir up some amorous feelings among the local women. ...

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Frökens första barn (1950)

Sonja Broberg needs to make extra money so she offers to help the author Johannes Porshammar with his latest novel about single mothers, a subject he knows very little of. However, Sonja is also single but borrows a young boy from a kindergarten, claiming ...

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Singoalla (1949)

Set in medieval times about the cursed Moonshield family. The young knight Erland Moonshield fall in love with a gypsy enchantress, Singoalla, he meet in the forest. ...

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Playing Truant (1949)

High school student Margareta fall head over heels in love with a young doctor and announce her engagement to him to her parents. She quits school and move in with him in a large house. However, the life of a housewife soon becomes tedious. Her husband doe ...

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Flottans kavaljerer (1948)

Baron Conrad Crusenhielm is hit in the head during a drunken brawl. Suffering from amnesia, he is mistaken for the lost sailor Karlsson and taken to the navy vessel Fylgia. ...

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En svensk tiger (1948)

Johan Tiger is an actor in Stockholm during World War II. A British agent in Sweden discovers that Johan is a dead ringer for General Lucky and manages to lure him over to London with a role as Othello as bait. ...

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The People from Simlång Valley (1947)

Class struggle and love trouble in the woods between Halland and Småland. ...

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Ingen väg tillbaka (1947)

The newly appointed director Hugo Henriksen gets into a fight and accidentally hits a prostitute. When Hugo is trying to leave the scene the girl dies. ...

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Supper for Two (1947)

Louise Mareuil owns a perfume factory on the French Riviera. She is in a traffic accident with a sketch artist, Claude Dubois. She gives him a blank check which he soon use to withdraw 2 000 000 franc as a joke. Visiting her office, he returns the money an ...

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Begär (1946)

Carsten Berg returns home after 15 years abroad. He gets into a fight with his father, who dies of a heart attack. Carsten must take over his fathers business. He is informed that he is suffering from an incurable disease. ...

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Ã…sa-Hanna (1946)

Hanna lives in a small village in Småland together with her parents. She is the most beautiful girl around and has a lot of admirers. ...

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The Gallows Man (1945)

The man of the gallows is a little sinister wooden figure that the proprietor must sell before his death. If not he will be doomed and unsaved. ...

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Man's Woman (1945)

An agrarian community sometime in the 1700s. The farmer Påvel is married with his young wife Märit and very proud to have married such a young and sweet girl. Märit however, is disappointed about her marriage. Their neighbor Håkan lives alone on his fa ...

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The Royal Rabble (1945)

The ups and downs of three generations in an acting family. ...

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Marie in the Windmill (1945)

Maria is a waitress at a local restaurant when an older man propose to her. She is a bit skeptical but agrees to marry him and become the mistress of his estate Kvarngården. Maria had a son which she was forced to give away for adoption when he was born b ...

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A Day Will Dawn (1944)

After finding his wife in the arms of another man, an army officer kills his rival and then goes by train to Finland to fight in the Winter war. ...

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The Sixth Shot (1943)

Georg Winkler meet Marguerite Hoffman at the casino in Monte Carlo. They become an item and travel the world with their act - Winkler is an accomplished marksman. Eventually Winkler's jealousy leads to their separation and he has to resort to work for seco ...

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Hon trodde det var han (1943)

The famous author Mark Storm's publisher is unhappy with his books and asks him to write books in a more popular genre, crime for example. When Mark Storm comes to his apartment, he finds a burglar, Kurre. He notices that they have a physical similarity an ...

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Man glömmer ingenting (1942)

When Nora's father unexpectedly dies, she moves to her uncle Berthold and his wife Alice. Berthold is immediately attracted to the 19-year old girl, but his wife, jealous and alcoholic, notices it and becomes hostile to Nora. Nora begins her art studies to ...

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General von Döbeln (1942)

1813. The Swedish army is fighting in the War of the Sixth Coalition. The popular general Von Döbeln is arrested for sending the army against the French in breach of orders by the crown prince. At the court martial he is sentenced to death but is pardoned ...

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Flames in the Dark (1942)

Latin teacher Birger Sjögren at Ringsala boarding school threatens his possesive and chronically ill mother that he will get married. She gets a stroke and dies. Sjögren is affected by feelings of guilt, envy and hatred towards the surroundings. A series ...

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Fröken Kyrkråtta (1941)

Banking director Anders Berg in Gothenburg has found reason to terminate his former secretary Vivi Lundgren, who obviously did everything to vamp him. ...

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Life Goes On (1941)

The Swedish officer Mikael Bourg has served with the French army in Africa. When he returns to Sweden after many years abroad to recover from malaria, he meets his son, a student who prefers partying with his frat friends instead of his bank job; a disappo ...

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En kvinna ombord (1941)

In the beginning of WW II a Swedish ship in a northern French port is exposed to German air raids. The captain take a chance to leave the port without permission. A stranded woman seize the chance to get home to Sweden. ...

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With You in My Arms (1940)

Millionaire Krister Dahl loses his memory when he is hit in the head by a golf ball. He meets his ex-wife and immediately fall in love with her again. She does not know what to believe, is it true or is it only a joke? He also discovers how he has mismanag ...

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A Crime (1940)

A murder is committed in an apartment building in Stockholm. And afterward all clues point toward the Justice of the Supreme Court and his sons. But who did it? And why? And will they be able to live with the guilt? ...

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Only One Night (1939)

Funfair worker Valdemar is unknowingly the illegitimate son of a rich landowner, colonel Von Brede. The colonel knows and employs Valdemar as his stable master. The colonel has a young and beautiful ward, Eva, but will she and Valdemar fall in love with ea ...

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Wanted (1939)

A woman sitting in a Stockholm cafe hears to her surprise on the radio that she is wanted by the police. ...

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Gubben kommer (1939)

The old man, Carl-Henrik de Grévy, left his family many years ago, when the stock market collapsed. His sister Louise believes that he is dead and wants to get control of her brother's property, being the sole inheritor. The Sneijder's live on one of the ...

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Dollar (1938)

Ludvig and Sussi Battwyhl, Louis and Katja Brenner and Julia and Kurt Balzar are upper class millionaires. They don't seem to do any real work but still need a vacation in the mountains. Everybody seems to be romantically involved with everybody. A rich Am ...

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The Great John Ericsson (1937)

In 1803 the Swedish inventor John Ericsson is born. After a military career he went to England and became one of the first builders of locomotives. Despite large debts, he invents the propeller. In 1839 he crosses the Atlantic and builds ships for the US N ...

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Ryska snuvan (1937)

"The Russian Cold" - Kalle Brodin, the leader of the Swedish communists, just released from a short prison term, don't know what to do with the directives that comes from Moscow. ...

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Johan Ulfstjerna (1936)

It's the last night of 1899. In Helsingfors they celebrate the new millennium. The students at the university are dancing and among them is Helge Ulfstjerna. ...

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The Honeymoon (1936)

Director Björkman travels to Copenhagen with his daughter Astrid, who is together with a certain Count Erik Lejonsköld. They will take their father-in-law's car and go on a honeymoon to the Riviera. But "Count" gets a telegram from London calling him to ...

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On the Sunny Side (1936)

Eva Bergh works as a bank clerk, but dreams of becoming an artist. At a party she meets the rich Harald Ribe and he instantly falls in love with her. When he proposes to marry her she has no work or place to live and she accepts. At Harald's estate she can ...

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The Count of the Old Town (1935)

A police inspector tracks a notorious jewel thief, 'Diamond-Lasse,' to a hotel filled with eccentrics. ...

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Man's Way with Women (1934)

Olof Koskela, the only son is driven from home when he wants to marry the wrong girl. He takes a job as a floater. His reputation as a womanizer goes far and wide. When he meets the proud Kyllikki, he enters into a bet to defeat the mighty rapids standing ...

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Atlantäventyret (1934)

Theatre director Freddy Alsterberg has failed with his latest operetta. He decides to work his way over the Atlantic. His niece Tusse also stows away on the ship disguised as a boy. ...

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Dear Relatives (1933)

The story about a Stockholm wholesaler and his three daughters. ...

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Modern Wives (1932)

The architect Georg Wall is sitting in his spacious Stockholm apartment. He has been waiting several hours since lunch for his significantly younger wife, Lola Wall, to appear. When she eventually comes home, she wants a divorce. ...

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Love and Deficit (1932)

Office clerk Margit suspects that the senior accountant is embezzling money from the company. Now the auditors are on their way to check the bookkeeping. It seems that the senior accountant isn't the only embezzler in the town, even the chief of police is ...

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Tango (1932)

A married woman visits her lover. ...

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Ship Ahoy! (1931)

In the Swedish small town Kungshamn the journalist Fridolf Svensson writes for the local newspaper Allehanda. ...

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Halfway to heaven (1931)

Love triangle in an acrobatic trapeze act results in a missed catch and a death, but was it on purpose? ...

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Longing for the Sea (1931)

Marius is torn between the love for Fanny on land and the desire to go out to sea. ...

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The General (1931)

Maria, a young Russian student, is loved by Viktor Sabline, a Russian scientist. They marry and immediately afterwards, the World War breaks out and Viktor is drafted as lieutenant. ...

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Scattered Pages (1931)

Vera Nilsson is friendly with the poor neighbor boy HÃ¥kan, this is not seen kindly by Vera's father Nils. ...

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Movies Made By Edvin Adolphson (10)

Ingen väg tillbaka (1947)

The newly appointed director Hugo Henriksen gets into a fight and accidentally hits a prostitute. When Hugo is trying to leave the scene the girl dies. ...

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Begär (1946)

Carsten Berg returns home after 15 years abroad. He gets into a fight with his father, who dies of a heart attack. Carsten must take over his fathers business. He is informed that he is suffering from an incurable disease. ...

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Hon trodde det var han (1943)

The famous author Mark Storm's publisher is unhappy with his books and asks him to write books in a more popular genre, crime for example. When Mark Storm comes to his apartment, he finds a burglar, Kurre. He notices that they have a physical similarity an ...

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Klart till drabbning (1937)

Two marines go AWOL and save a girl from drowning, they then sneak her aboard the ship. ...

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The Girls' Alfred (1935)

The orphan Alfred lives with two ladies in an idyllic cottage near a private golf course. ...

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The Count of the Old Town (1935)

A police inspector tracks a notorious jewel thief, 'Diamond-Lasse,' to a hotel filled with eccentrics. ...

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Atlantäventyret (1934)

Theatre director Freddy Alsterberg has failed with his latest operetta. He decides to work his way over the Atlantic. His niece Tusse also stows away on the ship disguised as a boy. ...

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Vad veta väl männen? (1933)

Hjalmar Björklund and his daughter Margit runs a second-hand bookshop in a small Swedish town. ...

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Modern Wives (1932)

The architect Georg Wall is sitting in his spacious Stockholm apartment. He has been waiting several hours since lunch for his significantly younger wife, Lola Wall, to appear. When she eventually comes home, she wants a divorce. ...

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Scattered Pages (1931)

Vera Nilsson is friendly with the poor neighbor boy HÃ¥kan, this is not seen kindly by Vera's father Nils. ...

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