Toivo Pawlo

The Adventures of Picasso (1978)

A farcical biopic about Pablo Picasso, from his early years, to his middle years, to the years right before his death, and some of the years before and in-between that. ...

Tabu (1977)

Solidarity with the border people. Equal rights for the sexual deviants. Kristoffer Lohman is a young solicitor who collects stories and knowledge of different perversions. This has affected and changed his own sexual life. Sara, a young well-behaved and ...

Hallo Baby (1976)

About a girl growing up in a big city in the seventies. She cultivates her artistic ambitions. After a series of relationships, she gets a small part in a play and becomes pregnant. ...

Charlie's Climbing Tree (1975)

Charlie, a small boy living in a big city, is content with lying in the top of a big tree and dreaming, for example about Emma. On the ground beneath it sits his big fat grandpa and he reads the newspaper over and over. Once in a while Charlie climbs down ...

Christopher's Christmas Mission (1975)

"Christopher's Christmas Mission"- A tale about a boy who steals Christmas gifts from the wealthy to give to the poor people of Stockholm, while working in a post office on Christmas Eve. ...

Gamen (1973)

Aa self-indulgent TV theater dramatization of Sigmund Freud's thesis on Leonardo da Vinci. ...

Inferno (1973)

August Strindberg in Paris divorced from his wife, children and friends. In the company of Parisian artists and writers, including Paul Gauguin and Edvard Munch, but often he feel they ridicule and persecute him. Isolated Strindberg venture successfully in ...

The Man Who Quit Smoking (1972)

The Plot focuses on Dante Alighieri, a young man who loves smoking. When his father dies Dante inherits $17 million on one special condition: He must give up smoking in 14 days and then stay smoke-free for an entire year. If he fails, his uncle inherits th ...

Paria (1971)

Mr X and Mr Y both have a hidden past. Mr X committed manslaughter in his youth without being caught. Mr Y falsified a debt without being punished. Now they meet in a countryside house in the middle of a storm. ...

The Lie (1970)

A Swedish couple are trapped in their marriage and way of life. Locked up in their bourgeois inferno. ...

Story of a Woman (1970)

Karin, a Swedish music student in Rome, falls in love with Bruno, a medical student. After learning he is married, she returns to Sweden, where she meets and marries David, an American diplomat. When he is assigned to Rome, Karin's past unexpectedly comes ...

Made in Sweden (1969)

Joergen (Per Myberg) is the Swedish journalist who uncovers a gun-running operation on the borders of Vietnam. The trail leads to a financial group of wealthy industrialists lead by Magnus Rud (Max von Sydow). He refuses to bury the story, leading to troub ...

Twelfth Night (1967)

Television adaptation of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night ...

The Banquet Room (1965)

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

Loving Couples (1964)

As three pregnant women wait to have their babies in a hospital in Stockholm at the outbreak of the Great War, they relive their childhood and youthful experiences. ...

Lyckodrömmen (1963)

The Karlsson family moves from a small village to a suburb outside Stockholm. The change from a country life to the big city is not easy. ...

The Yellow Car (1963)

On a tourist trip abroad the passengers on the coach witness an assassination attempt on the President Hurkas. One of the tourists has evidence against the perpetrators, and is killed when the coach reaches Sweden. Another passenger observes how one of the ...

Topaze (1963)

A shy but righteous teacher - Topaze - with no social skills what so ever, gradually becomes aware of the realities of human societies and finally learns to master the rules at level far superior to his former mentor, Laurent Castel-Benac. ...

Kurragömma (1963)

An escaped convict assumes the identity of a professor in order to reveal a criminal syndicate who smuggle diamonds together with Parisian haute couture. ...

Wonderful Adventures of Nils (1962)

A film adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf's classic book about Nils Holgersson, who is a real rascal. As punishment for his mischief, a house elf shrinks him to his size. The farm animals are out for revenge and so Nils must escape on the back of a goose from S ...

A Zero Too Much (1962)

A newspaper misprints Pontus Blom's (Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt) yearly income as being much more than it is; this leads to various comical situations of exceeding hilarity. ...

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 ...

The Die Is Cast (1960)

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 suspect but claims his innocence and tries to clear his name. But who is the murderer and what is his motive? ...

Blackjackets (1959)

Young Greasers, known as Raggare in Sweden, gather at a café outside Stockholm. Roffe is the toughest greaser and kidnaps his girlfriend Bibban, when he discovers that she is out riding with other guys. Bibban falls in love with the sensitive Lasse. ...

The Magician (1958)

A traveling magician and his troupe arrive in a Swedish town in the 1840s, where their act is scrutinized by local authorities and a skeptical medical official. Their stay leads to a series of confrontations that test the boundaries between performance, be ...

Rabies (1958)

Structured as six interconnected episodes, Rabies depicts cruelty as a contagious force: each character, wounded or humiliated, passes that violence on to another. Filmed for Swedish television, Ingmar Bergman's adaptation of Olle Hedberg's morality play p ...

Där möllorna gå... (1956)

Blue sky (1955)

Teacher Rundqvist who works in a school in a small town in Scania is old fashioned but loved by his pupils. When a younger teacher with new ideas of teaching starts at the school Rundqvist's methods are questioned. ...

Kärlek på turné (1955)

"Love on Tour" - A traveling theatre company has arrived at an outdoor stage. They are ready for the rehearsal. But one of the actors is missing. ...

Barabbas (1953)

The story about the thief who didn't get crucified because Jesus was choosen to take his place. ...

Gno mindre, hinn mer (1950)

Propaganda for more rational domestic work. ...

Number 17 (1949)

The sailor Calle Svensson gets a tip on a cheap hotel from a stranger. But Calle walks to the wrong house. And finds a dead man in the bed, stolen passports and signs of trafficking in a cupboard. ...

Stora Hoparegränd och himmelriket (1949)

Erik, a poor inventor meets the clerk Lillemor and fall in love. Erik's becomes invention is ready for the market. He contacts a director who might be interested. Erik is attracted almost immediately by the director's wife. ...

Crime and Punishment (1945)

Former student Raskolnikov is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police, Raskolnikov struggles between trying to hide his guilt and the pressure to confess. ...

The Girl and the Devil (1944)

The soul of an evil witch about to be burned is transferred to the child of a pregnant woman in the audience. 19 years later a timid girl arrives at a farm looking for work. The farmer employs her despite his wife's protests. Soon it stands clear that the ...

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. ...

Young Blood (1943)

Eva is a very talented and able college girl. In the summer she is going to work at a farm. There she meets a different world of unwanted children, desires and temporary relationships. ...

The Sin of Anna Lans (1943)

At a meeting at the Salvation Army a female soldier tells the story of her life. ...