Nils Poppe

Au XIVe siècle, la grande peste ravage la Suède. De retour des croisades, le chevalier Antonius Blok rencontre la Mort sur son chemin. Espérant retarder l'échéance fatidique, le temps de trouver des réponses à ses questionnements métaphysiques, il lui propose une partie d'échecs. Sur la route, tandis que l'écuyer qui l'accompagne professe sa philosophie nihiliste, les deux hommes rencontrent le bateleur Jof qui chemine avec sa jeune famille au cœur du pays tourmenté et dit avoir vu la vierge Marie.

Satan se réveille un jour avec un orgelet. Ses conseillers, deux marquis, italien et français du XVIIe siècle, découvrent que la cause du mal est terrestre : une jeune fille a conservé sa pureté première.

"How crazy!" A man and a woman watch episodes from Nils Poppe movies outside a cinema Maxim in Stockholm. Poppe represents, among other things, a poor composer who vainly tries to get a tune adopted by a publisher. The failure makes him depressed, but he is living it up by meeting a good friend Calle, who invites him home. Poppe stays for a few days as a male housewife. Calle has a music store and there the two friends can go crazy among all the instruments.

Swedish movie from 1939. In summer Stockholm live the unemployed musician Nisse trying to sell the songs to music publishers. One day the treasurer of a prominent publisher is arrested, on suspicion of theft of 10,000 crowns from a cash box. Nisse has, however, seen something suspicious.

The station-master Fabian Bom is a very meticulous person, and he makes sure that the trains leaves exactly - on the second. To him, nothing could be more important than duty, efficiency and punctuality, in fact, his sense of duty is clearly perverted. His beloved Plum-Plum, the major's daughter, is infatuated with army officers. To regain her attention, he joins the infantry. Bom becomes a soldier who loves the military training, long marches as well as hard labour as punishment. He meets Agnes, who falls madly in love with him.

Sten Stensson Stéen has been challenged by a professor of law in a TV-game-show. Stensson, always fighting against immorality, comes to Stockholm a few days before the the broadcast to teach the young generation how to behave. A gang of crooks mistakes him for a famous dynamiter that they've been waiting for.

Two men in love with Henriette Perrichon do their best to convince her father to pick them as her groom in mid 19th century France.

Sten Stensson Stéen dies when he gets a wooden box in his head, and he enters heaven in a balloon.