Benkt-Åke Benktsson
Actor · 1907 – 1957 · Halmstad, Hallands län, Sweden
Movies19
Movie8.1FantasyDramaWhen 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 journey, meeting up with traveling players Jof and his wife, Mia, and becoming determined to evade Death long enough to commit one redemptive act while he still lives.
Movie7.0DramaRomanceTwo women—a fashion executive and her young model—experience parallel romantic disappointments during a trip to Gothenburg, exposing generational differences in desire, illusion, and emotional endurance. A transitional work in Ingmar Bergman’s mid-1950s cinema.
Movie10.0MusicComedyThe Troubadour sits at a rock beside his summerhouse Sjösala in the Stockholm archipelago. He is composing a new ballad, when his son Sven Bertil interrupts him, telling him that an angry man is knocking at their door. It is the creditor Andersson, coming with a new unpaid bill to be put on the top of all the other. The Troubadour is tired of all economical problems. It disturbs the peace he needs to be able to write new songs, and without new songs he cannot earn the money he needs to pay the bills. To get peace and inspiration for his writing, he makes a quick decision to go to Buenos Aires. By phone he persuades his publisher to prepay 7000 kronor for some future book. On the little ferry from the islands in the sea to Stockholm city the Troubadour is carried away by his imagination into the fictitious world of his main character Fritiof Andersson. Colorful scenes from various songs are enacted before his dreaming eyes. In Stockholm he spends the night at the inn Gyldene Freden. ...
Sjösalavår
1949 · 1 votes
Movie10.0ComedyTwo photographers from Stockholm go to the west coast on behalf of their employer, who is a swimwear manufacturer. They will look for the season's most beautiful bathing girl, but it will be harder than they think to find the ideal model.
Movie6.8DramaRomanceA young couple, penniless, break into a summer cottage; the owner offers to rent to them but he has ulterior motives. By living together, the lovers must face their pasts and contend with the meddling neighbors and authorities.
Movie7.0RomanceComedyFarmer Mårten Esbjörnsson has three adult sons who all want to find a wife to marry. However, all the young women of the neighborhood seem to be less than perfect.
Skåningar
1944 · 1 votes
Movie10.0RomanceComedyTage breaks up with his girlfriend Dora when he falls in love with the ballet dancer Maud.
Vi som går scenvägen
1938 · 1 votes
Movie5.8ComedySture Letterström and Kurre Svensson take on the task of rescuing a secret document during World War II from a group of Swedish Nazis. Since both of them are known by the local Nazis, Sture takes on the role of Miss Märta Letterström, and Kurre also has to make use of his feminine side as well as a dress.
Lilla Märta kommer tillbaka eller Grevinnans snedsteg eller Den vilda jakten efter det hemliga dokumentet
Little Martin Returns
1948 · 9 votes
MovieDocumentaryA quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 films.
Minns ni?
1993
Movie7.5ComedyGugge and Nuffe work at the competing meat wholesalers AB Delikatesser and AB Skånedelikatesser. The two companies compete for a large order and the two will stop at hardly nothing to get the order
Springpojkar är vi allihopa
1941 · 2 votes
Movie7.0ComedyBirgit Johansson works at the Match Factory in Jönköping. In a matchbox she puts her photo and address to find a partner.
Movie5.0ComedyRomanceOrphan Didi is raised by her aunts and in love with her ward, the surgeon Dr. Gunnar Green. He is more interested in the stars of the theatre so Didi decides to fight for him.
Movie7.3FamilyComedyIn a small town lies Villa Villerkulla, and in that villa a small girl, Pippi Longstocking, has moved in with her horse and monkey.
Movie6.3ComedyKarl and Ada are engaged, Gustaf is a sailor and in love with Elsa. For her sake he's willing to stay ashore.
Vi masthuggspojkar
1940 · 3 votes
Movie7.0ComedyRomanceCarl Malm is a goodhearted man who runs a railway station. He lives together with his maid and her seven kids.
Movie7.5DramaFantasySten Stensson Stéen dies when he gets a wooden box in his head, and he enters heaven in a balloon.
Movie8.0ComedyDramaThe plot revolves around Edvar Månsson, a farmer living in Skåne, Sweden.
Movie7.0ComedyThe old count Kristian Örnklo has four children spread around the world since his career as a diplomat, children he has never met. His doctor convinces him that he should gather his children at his countryside estate. The doctor's son, John, is sent out to bring them back. They all meet at the estate, Kerstin from Sweden, Dagmar from Denmark, Olav from Norway and Enrico from Spain. They all have a wonderful summer, and John and Kerstin fall in love with each other.
Movie8.0DramaComedyIn the Skåne manor house Cronoholm, the rich Baron Rutger Cronsköld live with his two children Börje and Martha.