Edvard Persson
Actor · 1888 – 1957 · Malmö, Skåne län, Sweden
Carl Edvard Persson (17 January 1888, in Sankt Pauli parish, Malmö, Scania – 19 September 1957, in Helsingborg, Scania) was a celebrated Swedish actor, director and singer. During his time, he was well-known in the entire country, but through many of his films and songs, he is often associated with his home province, Scania (Swedish and Danish: Skåne).
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Movie6.0ComedyRomanceMunthe has become a rich farmer through his own work and has gained some influence in the local community. He is strongly opposed to the immigration of east European farm labour from Galicia who, he claims, makes life difficult for the locals. A new school teacher with socialist leanings arrive and Munthe's daughter fall in love with him. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
- Movie9.0Comedy
Lasse Larsson's friend, Johan Jansson, are in trouble because of his wife. She has told her American relatives that her husband is a consul. When the relatives from America announce a visit, Lasse has to help to keep up the lie.
- Movie8.5Comedy
When Count Sebastian Furucrona dies, his will states that if his long lost son, Rickard, doesn’t reappear within the next decade, his estate will be inherited by it’s temporary caretaker, Joachim Harden.
- Movie10.0Comedy
The story of Anders Svensson who travels to Copenhagen to prevent his sister-in-law Greta from being unfaithful.
Greve Svensson
1951 · 1 votes
Movie6.0ComedyRomanceBaron Brusenhielm at castle Tröstehult in Skåne dislikes how his young son Karl Oscar is playing “mother and father” with the tenant’s daughter Ann-Marie, as he anticipates the beginning of a future misalliance. Years pass, and Karl Oscar is about to graduate high school. He pretends to study church history but reads in fact “The Seducer’s Diary” and thinks of Ann-Marie, who is now grown up into a woman.
Movie6.7DramaKalle Magnus Berg is a kind bailiff in Gamla Stan (Old Town) in Stockholm. He helps out "clients" by supporting them with money from his own pocket. His neighbor is a jazz musician who plays at a restaurant for a living.
Movie7.0ComedyRomanceGammel-Nils works as a guide at Glimmingehus and guides us through this movie about love and ghosts.
En natt på Glimmingehus
1954 · 1 votes
- Movie10.0Comedy
Lasse Larsson works as a baker at the bakery Gyllene Trappen in Stockholm. He loves to sing while he bakes.
Larsson i andra giftet
1935 · 1 votes
- Movie9.0Comedy
Napolean Pettersson is a placid, contented small town storekeeper transplanted into a fashionable big-city home by his overly-ambitious family. He attempts to adjust himself to his new life, but everything he does is inevitably wrong...and funny. Finally he rebels at the members of his family who forced him into these situations, and leaves to take up where he left off at his store.
Movie10.0DocumentaryA tribute to Swedish film, which was made to celebrate the 100th anniversary of film in 1995 and consists of about a hundred clips from Swedish film history with many of its stars.
Stjärnbilder
1995 · 1 votes
Movie5.0ComedyJens Månsson has big financial problems and realizes that he probably has to leave his dear Skåne farm Gåsabo. But suddenly, he inherits a fortune from his brother John in America.
- Movie5.7ComedyRomance
Two sailors, Lasse and Karl Gustav, float ashore after a shipwreck. Visiting a castle a baron ask them to help him lay his hands on an inheritance by Karl Gustav posing as the heir of the castle.
Movie6.7ComedyAnother adventure with Kalle "Blixten" Svensson.
Movie6.0ComedyRomanceIn an occupied country, the people rise to throw off the occupants. This includes Jens the farmer and his three sons who successfully perform sneak attacks on the invading army.
Snapphanar
1941 · 6 votes
Movie10.0ComedyRomanceGreve Axel Von Rambow owns the Poppelhagen estate. One day an inspector comes to see him and a big quarrel starts.
- Movie9.0ComedyDrama
Bertil Bergencrantz dislikes that his daughter Ann-Margret falls in love with the student Torsten. To prevent their romance, he tries to marry the daughter with the young Count Cronhielm. A 40-minute fragment survives.
MovieComedyAnthology film made from clips from films starring Swedish actor Edvard Persson. The film was produced for Persson’s 60th birthday and starts off with a prologue created for this movie, portraying the star’s youth.
Glada paraden
1948 · 1 votes
Movie10.0DramaComedyYoung Gustaf Svensson has been warned by his father that he should stop chasing girls.
Två hjärtan och en skuta
1932 · 1 votes
Movie8.0ComedyHarry Willis is a slob and a bacchant. He is therefore abandoned by his wife Maggi.
Movie7.0ComedyAbout two girls sharing an apartment in the Old Town of Stockholm.
Movie4.0DramaRomanceSet on the island of Ven in the 1920s, Ellen is engaged with Per the sailor and waits for him while he is away at sea. She works as a maid in a rich family where Robert, the black sheep of the family, tries to seduce her. This leads to a rumour she has been unfaithful to Per. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Flickan från Backafall
1953 · 1 votes
Movie6.5ComedyAs Word War II ends and everyone is celebrating peace, farmer Anders Svensson recieves a message from his nephew Ville who was lost during the war. Anders learns that Ville was kept prisoner in a German camp, and is now stuck in the city of Stettin, occupied by the Soviet army. He decides to get his nephew home.
Pimpernel Svensson
1950 · 2 votes
Movie8.0ComedyA traveling theatre company comes to Lund and one of the smallest hotels in town. A female actress gets a key by mistake to a room where Sten Stensson Stéen lives.
Sten Stensson Stéen från Eslöv på nya äventyr
1932 · 1 votes
- Movie8.0Drama
Sven Jönsson is a big man in Havborre fishing village in Skåne. He is usually called Sven Tusan.
Sven Tusan
1949 · 1 votes