Gunnar Olsson
Actor · 1904 – 1983 · Nyköping, Södermanlands län, Sweden
Gunnar Olsson was a Swedish stage and screen actor, director and screenwriter. He made his acting debut in Lorens Marmstedt's film "Kanske en diktare/Maybe a Poet" (1933) and his directing debut with "Järnets män/Men of Iron" (1935).
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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.
Movie8.1DramaCrotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. Along the way, they encounter a series of hitchhikers, each of whom causes the elderly doctor to muse upon the pleasures and failures of his own life. These include the vivacious young Sara, a dead ringer for the doctor's own first love.
Movie7.0DramaTV MovieTelevision adaptation of Chekhov's story about the spoiled widow Madame Ranevskaya.
Movie5.7ComedyDramaA ring passes between a lot of different people, giving the bearer or someone close a new meaning to life. Actors, embezzlers, old ladies and cheated husbands all seem to gain temporary hope from misery and disillusionment.
Movie7.4DramaRomanceDuring a brief summer vacation, a lonely woman recalls her first love thirteen years earlier.
Movie7.3MusicDramaThe rich young man Teddy Anker invests his money in the theater at the beginning of the 1920s. Whatever he does becomes a success. He falls in love with a dancer, Karin. He decides to put up a show with Karin as the leading lady, but for the first time one of his shows becomes an economic disaster.
Movie7.0DramaRönneberga is an old family manor. When Lennart Heijken is born, his proud father buys his newborn a grandfather's clock that will follow him through his life and see him become a student, an officer, a married man, and eventually an old man.
Movie5.6DramaWhile Bertil Lindström works at the Swedish embassy in Paris, his wife Gabrielle spends the summer alone in Sweden. After a phone call to her, he starts to think of all the things she can possibly be doing separated from him.
Gabrielle
1954 · 5 votes
Movie4.3DramaBolle gets tired of working at the cigar factory and because of his desire for freedom he takes to the road. He and the other hobos have only one problem and that is the mounted policemen chasing vagrants.
Movie5.0CrimeDramaSam Persson is released from a mental hospital. He goes to Stockholm to meet a man he hates, theater manager Stig Brender. In Brender's office they get into a fight...
Movie8.0DramaThe story about Gustaf Dalén, the farm boy who became one of Sweden's greatest inventors.
Seger i mörker
1954 · 3 votes
Movie6.0DramaA young woman, living in a relationship, falls in love with a married man.
Movie6.0ActionRomanceHarald Handfaste is a 15th century Swedish Robin Hood, who fights against foreign oppression. He becomes the leader of a band of highwaymen and they start dealing with the evil bailiff. However, the bailiff will stop at nothing to catch Handfaste and show the people who is in charge. He even attempts to marry Handfaste's beloved Karin, and when she refuses to subdue, the bailiff decides to execute both her, her father and a monk who has been helping them.
Harald Handfaste
1946 · 2 votes
Movie6.0CrimeDramaAn American gangster of Swedish origins returns to his homeland to set up shop as a morality crusader, much in the manner of the later phenomenon of televangelists. While indulging in behind-the-scene shenanigans including rape and murder, the gangster (played by American Clu Gulagher) preaches to large audiences, using mass hypnotism and show-biz razzmatazz to get his message across. The film also features a brief performance by Per Oscarsson, following his highly publicized "retirement" from screen acting.
Movie10.0TV MovieDramaAbout a woman and her boring life, based on haiku poems by Sonja Åkesson.
Sagan om Siv
1974 · 1 votes
- Movie9.0Drama
The story about Axel Bergström who's the manager at a light bulb factory, where many women work.
Flickor på fabrik
1935 · 1 votes
Movie6.5ComedySören, a poor tailor with many children, dreams of becoming a miller and buys the windmill of the village with money he does not have.
- Movie9.0Comedy
Peter Kallander and Johannes Nord are childhood friends and close to each other's opposites. Peter is an energetic business man and a woman shaker, John's shy and introverted scientist who dares to admire a woman only from a distance.
Som man bäddar...
1957 · 1 votes
Movie5.7ComedyTwo twins, separated at birth, meet again by chance many years later. One is a progressive but insensitive mayor of a small town, the other a clown at a circus.
Dumbom
1953 · 7 votes
Movie9.0DramaGösta is a lorry driver and has been married to Birgitta for eight years. Their marriage is only held together by their daughter. Gösta picks up girls along the roads and during a drive to Malmö he stumbles on the singing actress Irene. Gösta is captivated by her romantic presence and her joy of life. Besides picking up women, Gösta is sometimes affected by sudden seizures. His wife is unaware of this.
Resa i natten
1955 · 1 votes
Movie6.0ComedyNisse Ekberg is in San Francisco but wants to get back to Sweden. Not being a completely honest guy, he gets mixed up with another person and assumes his identity.
...som en tjuv om natten
1940 · 3 votes
Movie3.8DramaRikard Adamsson, a young man dreaming of becoming a writer, lives a wild and dissolute bohemian life. A ferocious fighter with a heart of gold and a great taste for women. In the military service he gets in trouble, runs away, returns and is sentenced to prison. Inside he finishes his first novel. However, no publisher is interested.
Movie4.3DramaArchitect Sture Ahrengren walks out of his job with an architecture firm with the support of his wife Kristina. He gets a position with an old friend, Balstar Ekberg, who has a big engineering job going. But Sture gets entangled in a romance with Ekberg's wife, Helena.
Movie7.0ComedyÅke is employed as a singer in a revue tour and his uncle Karlsson becomes the tour bus driver.
Alla tiders Karlsson
1936 · 1 votes