Erik Strandmark
Actor · 1919 – 1963 · Storvik, Gästrikland, Sweden
Erik Alfred Strandmark was a Swedish stage and screen actor and director. Frequently appearing in plays and films of the prominent directors at that time in Sweden. He was kille in a plane crash in Trinidad.
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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.
Movie7.3DramaA number of complicated relationships develop between a circus ringmaster, his estranged wife and his lover.
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A Swedish TV movie based on the play L'Hôtel du Libre échange from 1894.
Spökhotellet
1960 · 1 votes
Movie7.8DramaActionSet in 1860s Holland along the famed Zeider Zee — young Hans Brinker finds himself responsible for supporting his family after his father becomes injured in an accident. He and his sister, Gretel, travel to Amsterdam in search of funds to help pay for their father's operation. Their only hope lies in the city's annual ice skating race in which Hans must face off against his arch-rival, Ludwig Schimmel, in hopes of winning the prize money.
Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates
1962 · 8 votes
Movie6.3DramaKarl Oskar Bohm looks back at his life, his estranged daughter Augusta and his wife Sofia.
Movie4.5The widow Anna Eva Flod at Hemsö needs help on the farm and hire the new boy Carlsson, who quickly wins the heart of Anna Eva.
Hemsöborna
1955 · 2 votes
Movie8.0Drama"Rolling Sea" - After a longer stay at the hospital, the young Martin comes to Gothenburg and notice that his fiancee Sonja has met another man.
Movie6.6DramaThe story about the thief who didn't get crucified because Jesus was choosen to take his place.
Barabbas
1953 · 7 votes
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Law graduate Ylva Markner spends the summer on the island of Väddö, where she gets involved in a quarrel concerning a last will.
Vi på Väddö
1958 · 2 votes
Movie6.0DramaA coming of age story about young Salka Valka who lives in the small fishing village of Íseyri. She is doing well for herself as a partner in a small fishing boat, but people believe she is financed by her deceased mother's former fiance, Steinthór, who disappeared on their wedding day many years ago. Salka becomes infatuated with the idealistic Arnaldur who wants to start a workers union, much to the opposition of local entrepreneur Bogesen. The past comes to haunt her in the return of Steinthór but Salka fends off his advances only to lose the restless Arnaldur away. http://www.icelandicfilmcentre.is
Salka Valka
1954 · 4 votes
Movie6.1CrimeMysteryA wealthy woman is suspected of murder and runs from the police, all the while her family and friends discuss the possible motive.
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.
Movie6.8DramaComedyThe ups and downs of three generations in an acting family.
Movie8.0DramaA devoted but controversial priest comes to a Swedish village. He encounters conflicts with the locals. The priest has some problems within his family as well. One is related to an orphan girl.
Movie8.0DramaThe story about Gustaf Dalén, the farm boy who became one of Sweden's greatest inventors.
Seger i mörker
1954 · 3 votes
Movie6.0ThrillerDramaA vengeful ex-con, framed and sentenced to eight years on for arson, heads to Sweden to look for the real guilty party.
Movie6.0HistoryDramaKarin does not belong to the nobility but nevertheless marries the mentally ill king Erik XIV and becomes queen of Sweden. The king's skilled counsellor Göran Persson wants a royal policy supporting the people and supported by it. But in relation to the nobility the king oscillates between provocative strength and unpredictable weakness. Göran arranges that some very powerful noblemen are killed. Subsequently the king tries to have them convicted of high treason by the parliament. He forgets the manuscript, mixes up all facts, and the noblemen are acquitted. But Göran speedily gathers another parliament and has them convicted. Meanwhile Erik apologises because of the unjust murders. Hence Erik is dethroned and imprisoned. Göran is executed. Karin is restricted to a castle in Finland. In the prison Erik believes that he is still the king and gives the guards presents such as all fishes in the Baltic Sea.
Karin Månsdotter
1954 · 3 votes
Movie6.6FamilyCrimeWhen Eva-Lotta climbs the roof of moneylender Gren's house. Through a window she overhears a turbulent conversation about an IOU. A few days later she finds Gren dead.
Movie10.0Conny Persson is an up-and-coming boxer. He wins the Junior Championships and is able to write a contract with boxing manager Andy Ekström. He falls in love with Margit. She doesn't like that he is boxing, but together they open a flower shop. When Conny still won't give up boxing, Margit tells him that he has to chose between her and the boxing.
Den hårda leken
1956 · 1 votes
Movie9.0DramaElin Tarp is an unmarried mother with three children who lives a hard life in the countryside.
Movie6.1ComedyFridolf and his wife Selma gets a telegram from their daughter Maggan. She is engaged and are her way home to show her little baby.
Movie5.5DramaGunnar and Ulf are neighbors. They are both lured into a life of crime.
Fartfeber
1953 · 2 votes
Movie6.4DramaWarIn an unnamed country under occupation, a senior officer is killed in an attack by a member of the resistance.
Movie6.5FamilyDramaOrphan girl Gunilla (nick named Kulla-Gulla) gets sent from her orphanage to work as an housemaid at sharecropper Karlbergs household. Among her duties is to take care of Karlberg, his wife and their five children.
Kulla-Gulla
1956 · 2 votes