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Gunnar Olsson

Gunnar Olsson

Gunnar Olsson was a Swedish stage and screen actor, director and screenwriter. He made his acting debut in Lorens Marmstedt's film "Kanske en diktare/Maybe a Poet" (1933) and his directing debut with "Järnets män/Men of Iron" (1935).

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A Stranger Came by Train (1974)

An American gangster of Swedish origins returns to his homeland to set up shop as a morality crusader, much in the manner of the later phenomenon of televangelists. While indulging in behind-the-scene shenanigans including rape and murder, the gangster (pl ...

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Sagan om Siv (1974)

About a woman and her boring life, based on haiku poems by Sonja Åkesson. ...

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Körsbärsträdgården (1970)

Television adaptation of Chekhov's story about the spoiled widow Madame Ranevskaya. ...

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Adam in Sweden (1966)

Rikard Adamsson, a young man dreaming of becoming a writer, lives a wild and dissolute bohemian life. A ferocious fighter with a heart of gold and a great taste for women. In the military service he gets in trouble, runs away, returns and is sentenced to p ...

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The Mistress (1962)

A young woman, living in a relationship, falls in love with a married man. ...

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On a Bench in a Park (1960)

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 get into a fight... ...

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Mälarpirater (1959)

Three boys "borrow" a sailboat and sail away for a summer adventure on Lake Mälaren. ...

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Måsen (1959)

This quintessential Chekhov drama--his first success--is both comic and tragic. A group of friends and relations gather at a country estate to see the first performance of an experimental play written and staged by the young man of the house, Konstantin, a ...

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Jazz Boy (1958)

The rich young man Teddy Anker invests his money in the theater at the beginning of the 1920s. Whatever he does becomes a success. He falls in love with a dancer, Karin. He decides to put up a show with Karin as the leading lady, but for the first time one ...

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Woman in a Fur Coat (1958)

Marianne is unhappily married with the rich Arvid Croneman. Arvid has been ill for some time and Marianne has been looking forward to his passing away. However, Arvid recovers. Marianne has had an affair with Lennart Hägg, her husband's doctor. She steals ...

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Wild Strawberries (1957)

Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. Along the way, they encounter a series of hitchhikers, each of w ...

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Som man bäddar... (1957)

Peter Kallander and Johannes Nord are childhood friends and close to each other's opposites. Peter is an energetic business man and a woman shaker, John's shy and introverted scientist who dares to admire a woman only from a distance. ...

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Gårdarna runt sjön (1957)

A young and spoiled aristocrat is guilty of a hit-and-run accident. ...

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The Seventh Seal (1957)

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 jou ...

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Resa i natten (1955)

Gösta is a lorry driver and has been married to Birgitta for eight years. Their marriage is only held together by their daughter. Gösta picks up girls along the roads and during a drive to Malmö he stumbles on the singing actress Irene. Gösta is captiv ...

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Gabrielle (1954)

While Bertil Lindström works at the Swedish embassy in Paris, his wife Gabrielle spends the summer alone in Sweden. After a phone call to her, he starts to think of all the things she can possibly be doing separated from him. ...

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Skrattbomben (1954)

Gus and Holger are inventors in their free time. One day they realize that they have invented a laugh bomb; a machine that makes all the people around laugh. ...

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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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Seger i mörker (1954)

The story about Gustaf Dalén, the farm boy who became one of Sweden's greatest inventors. ...

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Dumbom (1953)

Two twins, separated at birth, meet again by chance many years later. One is a progressive but insensitive mayor of a small town, the other a clown at a circus. ...

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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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Summer Interlude (1951)

During a brief summer vacation, a lonely woman recalls her first love thirteen years earlier. ...

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Skeppare i blåsväder (1951)

The story of the aging fisherman Alex who refuses to realize that his boat needs to be replaced. ...

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The Girl from the Third Row (1949)

A ring passes between a lot of different people, giving the bearer or someone close a new meaning to life. Actors, embezzlers, old ladies and cheated husbands all seem to gain temporary hope from misery and disillusionment. ...

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Vagabond Blacksmiths (1949)

Midsummer Eve in Malmfors in the 1880s. The holiday is celebrated with a big party. Three blacksmiths leave the ironworks and become drifters, seeking out jobs elsewhere. During their travels, they come across beautiful girls as well as jobs in different i ...

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Harald Handfaste (1946)

Harald Handfaste is a 15th century Swedish Robin Hood, who fights against foreign oppression. He becomes the leader of a band of highwaymen and they start dealing with the evil bailiff. However, the bailiff will stop at nothing to catch Handfaste and show ...

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The Happy Tailor (1945)

Sören, a poor tailor with many children, dreams of becoming a miller and buys the windmill of the village with money he does not have. ...

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Old Clock of Roenneberga (1944)

Rönneberga is an old family manor. When Lennart Heijken is born, his proud father buys his newborn a grandfather's clock that will follow him through his life and see him become a student, an officer, a married man, and eventually an old man. ...

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Snöstormen (1944)

Lave decides to leave his hometown in order to escape murder suspicions. On his way to Killingdal, he gets right in the middle of a snow storm. ...

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Ung dam med tur (1941)

The office worker Eva is told that she has inherited a massive amount of money in the United States. ...

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Hanna in High Society (1940)

When the old colonel Hummerborg dies, he leaves his fortune and estate to his trusted housemaid Hanna. But the colonel's relatives try everything to have the last will canceled. ...

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...som en tjuv om natten (1940)

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. ...

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We Two (1939)

Architect Sture Ahrengren walks out of his job with an architecture firm with the support of his wife Kristina. He gets a position with an old friend, Balstar Ekberg, who has a big engineering job going. But Sture gets entangled in a romance with Ekberg's ...

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Our Building of Home and Community (1936)

Campaign film for the Swedish Folkpartiet (People's Party) in 1936. ...

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Bombi Bitt and Me (1936)

Bombi Bitt is the mischievous boy in 1930s Skåne whom no one can control – and the stationmaster's strict son Eli becomes his admiring companion. Together they experience a series of thrilling and cheerful adventures among characters such as Jöns Pumpa ...

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Alla tiders Karlsson (1936)

Åke is employed as a singer in a revue tour and his uncle Karlsson becomes the tour bus driver. ...

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Flickor på fabrik (1935)

The story about Axel Bergström who's the manager at a light bulb factory, where many women work. ...

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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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Kanske en diktare (1933)

Filip works as a coat janitor at a restaurant; he is a dreamer who has failed in life and sees people as the clothes he has in his wardrobe. On one night, three guests enter the restaurant: the extensive Viding with his beautiful wife Jane, and the remorse ...

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En melodi om våren (1933)

The artist Richard Stolpe paints a portrait of the beautiful blonde Gurli that leads to complications. ...

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Movies Made By Gunnar Olsson (18)

Janne Vängman i farten (1952)

Erik Ernsson is on his way to Jon-Persgården in Ångermanland to seek employment. He befriends the old man Janne Vängman. ...

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Skeppare i blåsväder (1951)

The story of the aging fisherman Alex who refuses to realize that his boat needs to be replaced. ...

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Janne Vängman på nya äventyr (1949)

Janne is an old man who is locked up in the church on New Year's Eve 1900 and has to play the organ to make someone to open the door. ...

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Janne Vängmans bravader (1948)

Janne Vängman is heavy drinker who always stands up for the poor and oppressed. ...

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The Happy Tailor (1945)

Sören, a poor tailor with many children, dreams of becoming a miller and buys the windmill of the village with money he does not have. ...

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Turn of the Century (1944)

Munthe has become a rich farmer through his own work and has gained some influence in the local community. He is strongly opposed to the immigration of east European farm labour from Galicia who, he claims, makes life difficult for the locals. A new school ...

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När ungdomen vaknar (1943)

Liv and Kåre both come from broken families bursting with frustration and aggression's. Having found each other they now feel supported and loved. ...

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Det går som en dans... (1943)

Short comedy about an author named Viktor Mattson (Nils Poppe) whose publisher tells him that his latest book is bad. To make money, Mattson becomes a door salesman for the publisher and goes to Nyköping to sell books. After a few ifs and buts, Mattson me ...

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Kvinnan tar befälet (1942)

A story about a gang of youngsters living in a boarding house in Stockholm. ...

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En äventyrare (1942)

A free fantasy about the Swedish poet and adventurer Lars Wivallius. ...

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Lasse-Maja (1941)

About the Swedish trickster and thief Lars "Lasse-Maja" Molin. He often disguised himself and lived as a woman in 1800s. He takes place as a kitchen boy for a bailiff and manages to prevent him from taking over the cottage where his beloved lives. His true ...

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Hanna in High Society (1940)

When the old colonel Hummerborg dies, he leaves his fortune and estate to his trusted housemaid Hanna. But the colonel's relatives try everything to have the last will canceled. ...

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Vi på Solgläntan (1939)

The politicians wants to build a factory on the allotment garden Solgläntan, but they encounter resistance. ...

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To Help the Lady of the House (1939)

Ingrid Eriksson, a social worker, decides to find out something about the problems facing housemaids and gets herself a job as one at the home of John Willman's family. John's son, Åke, falls in love with her and numerous complications arise before the co ...

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Du gamla du fria ! (1938)

A humorous story concerning the return of a prosperous Swedish native, Charlie Johnson, to his native country after many years in America. The acceptance and acclamation of himself and his American-born daughter provide many situations involving them, thei ...

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Bergslagsfolk (1937)

A mining engineer comes to the quiet village of Nimansberg in Bergslagen and tries to persuade the farmers to invest in mining. ...

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Our Building of Home and Community (1936)

Campaign film for the Swedish Folkpartiet (People's Party) in 1936. ...

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Järnets män (1935)

A film about the breakthrough of the labor movement in Sweden depicted by a metal worker's point of view. ...

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