Swedish

Hilda Granström runs a ladies’ tailoring shop. Her husband Richard is a cellist in the Opera Orchestra. Their three daughters help out in Hilda’s shop. Richard’s 80-year-old mother, who once was a dancer, also lives with the family.Read More »

A lonely night watchman at a department store develops a fixation on one of the store’s mannequins. He soon steals her and brings her to his home, where he can be with her all the time. One day, she comes to life…Read More »

Young greasers, known as “raggare” in Sweden, gather at a café outside of Stockholm. Roffe is the toughest greaser. He kidnaps his own girlfriend Bibban, when he discovers that she is out riding with other guys. Bibban falls in love with the sensitive Lasse.Read More »

PLOT: In several unrelated stories, the consequences of putting one’s foot down – or failing to do so – are explored.Read More »

Swedish filmmaker Alf Sjöberg’s visually innovative, Cannes Grand Prix-winning adaptation of August Strindberg’s renowned 1888 play brings to scalding life the excoriating words of the stage’s preeminent surveyor of all things rotten in the state of male-female relations. Miss Julie vividly depicts the battle of the sexes and classes that ensues when a wealthy businessman’s daughter (Anita Björk, in a fiercely emotional performance) falls for her father’s bitter servant. Celebrated for its unique cinematic style (and censored upon its first release in the United States for its adult content), Sjöberg’s film was an important turning point in Scandinavian cinema.Read More »

Mats Ersson is engaged to Marit and they plan to get married in the spring. But when the plague comes, the people accuse Marit of witchcraft. She is sentenced to death. Mats can not understand the divine justice and decides to go to paradise and ask God himself. It becomes a journey where he meets the prophets, king Solomon and finally God himself.Read More »

One day Tord accidentally walks in to the apartment next to his own. Another person named Tord lives there, he has just moved in. Tord and Tord start to spend time with each other.Read More »

Inventor Carl Åkerblom is a rosy-cheeked 54 year-old admirer of Franz Schubert – and a patient in the psychiatric ward of Akademiska Hospital in Uppsala, after having attempted to beat to death his fiancée, Pauline Thibault. Together with another patient, Professor Osvald Vogler, they set up a film project: the living talkie. Before long, they set off on a frantic tour with their film, “The Joy of the Joyous Girl”… Written by Fredrik KlassonRead More »

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This is the second part of Stefans Jarl’s Mods trilogy. The films depict the story of Kenta and Stoffe, but at the same time tells the story of Swedish society between the years 1968 and 1993. In A Respectable Life, we return to Kenta and Stoffe eleven years later. Both have created a family. Kenta has done his best and now has a more stable life. Stoffe, however dies during recording, after an overdose of heroin.Read More »