Jenny Hasselqvist
Actor · 1894 – 1978 · Stockholm, Sweden
Jenny Matilda Elisabet Hasselquist, also spelled Hasselqvist (31 July 1894 – 8 June 1978), was a Swedish prima ballerina, film actress, and ballet teacher.
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Movie6.6DramaRomanceGösta Berling is a young and attractive minister. Because of his alcoholism and his daring sermons, he is eventually defrocked. He becomes tutor of countess Marta's stepdaughter and they fall in love. But the countess has a plan of her own.
Movie6.3DramaOn a farm in up-country Sweden, an enigmatic stranger comes to a conservative peasant community and seduces a farmer's wife.
Johan
1921 · 10 votes
Movie6.1AdventureDramaThe favorite slave girl of a tyrannical sheik falls in love with a cloth merchant. Meanwhile, a hunchback clown suffers unrequited love for a traveling dancer who wants to join the harem.
Sumurun
1920 · 32 votes
Movie7.1DocumentaryThe perfect body as an object of cult worship. Based on the mass sports and body worship movement of the 1920s, the film propagates physical training and shows in stylized documentary scenes aspects of physical hygiene, gymnastics, sports and dancing as well as scenes in which supposed sportsmen of antiquity pose naked.
MovieDocumentaryA quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 films.
Minns ni?
1993
Movie6.5DramaAt the end of the middle ages, Ursula is accused of having poisoned her own husband. She claims she is innocent, but to prove it, she must submit to a ritual: trial by fire, walking on fire along a path leading directly to a crucifix. A film that has been much commended for the visual creativity shown by the director in successive blending in of images involving Ursula, her husband, the Virgin Mary, and Jesus Christ. Much applauded, also: the performance of Jenny Hasselqvist, thus described by French director René Clair: “We shall never forget her flaming eyes, the severity of her spirit, her abrupt and alarmed expressions, like an animal under threat.”
Movie7.1DramaWhen his ancestors seem to appear in the clouds during a storm of biblical proportions, young Ingmar decides to give up his career as the village teacher and to reclaim the land and farm of his fathers. The same stormy night, the charismatic preacher Helgum arrives in the village to spread the word about the promises of the Holy Land, which turns parents and children, men and wives, brothers and sisters, against one another. Ingmar is torn between his love for the headmaster’s daughter Gertrud who is under the preacher’s spell, and the prospects of marrying the judge’s daughter Barbro in order to keep the farm.
Movie6.6DramaLovers are torn apart by a noble's desire for the female half of the couple.
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Das brennende Geheimnis
1923 · 1 votes
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Die Perücke
1925 · 1 votes
Movie10.0DramaWhen Ingmar Ingmarsson marries Barbro Svensdotter there's a big party with many guests. But the bride and groom are unhappy.
Movie7.0The story of Brennende Grenze (= Burning Border) starts after the end of WWI. Polish franctireurs invade the German bordering regions which are to be given to Poland as agreed on in the post-war peace treaties. Luise von Willkühnen's manor is invaded by Ladislaus von Zeremski, his lover Nadja and their gang. They treaten the inhabitants until Luise's son kills Zeremski.
Brennende Grenze
1927 · 2 votes
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Eva Bennet, a young mysterious widow appears at Pension Sanssouci in Berlin during the Weimar era. She attracts a lot of attention from everybody, especially from Georg Raval.
Das Mädchen ohne Heimat
1927 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaA wealthy Russian family faces change and challenges as events unfold during the First World War.
Movie5.8Drama"Guilty" - Thomas Feld returns home after 16 years in prison to find his wife Magda and daughter Maria fell in the hands of Peter Cornelius, the owner of a cabaret. Lawyer Frank Peters falls in love with Maria.
Schuldig
1928 · 4 votes
Movie6.2DramaA naval adventure that focuses on the rivalry among the crew, particularly the indignation wrought by the behavior of inplacable Captain Steen. Dick, one of the sailors, is one of the most rebellious and draws up plans to exact vengeance. The opportunity arises, but an incident that may sink the ship changes the focus of attention. The lighting for the film and the composition of the scenes are regarded as the highlights of the movie.
Movie10.0DramaWhen Ellen Brenton takes a swim too far from the shore she is be saved by the lifeguard Bob. While her husband is away on business Bob gets drunk and try to romance Ellen in her hotel room. There's a scandal in the media.
Movie10.0DramaComedyA husband, jealous of his wife's flirtations with another man, hatches a plot to make his wife jealous.
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A sailor is rescued after a storm, and accepted into a small fishing village, even though he’s lost all memories of his life before the shipwrecking. Eventually rumors and suspicion start to grow.
Movie9.0MusicDramaThis is the story of Olof Svensson who works as a streetcar conductor in Stockholm. In his free time he is a music composer.
Movie10.0ComedyGösta is a trainee for the brutal Algren. He runs away and get to know a friendly drifter.