Georg Fernquist
Actor · 1883 – 1954 · Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
Movies24
Movie10.0ComedyOperetta singer Adolf Berg will be called up for military duty just as he gets assigned a major role in an operetta. On the train he meets Ulla Wern and complications occur.
Samvetsömma Adolf
1936 · 1 votes
Movie6.6DramaRomanceBased on the play by August Strindberg, Miss Julie vividly depicts the battle of the sexes and classes that ensues when Julie, a wealthy businessman's daughter, falls for Jean, her father's bitter servant.
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.
Movie7.0DramaWarAfter finding his wife in the arms of another man, an army officer kills his rival and then goes by train to Finland to fight in the Winter war.
Movie8.0DramaDante, the great conjurer, performs at the Café Grans, a fashionable hotel-restaurant. Face to a dumbfound patrons he does his most famous tricks among which card manipulations or sawing a woman in half.
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.
Movie5.9DramaThe story is wacky – a gypsy is cursed by her father, so that she has to deny her illegitimate son in order for him to have a successful life. She gives him to a well-to-do lady who has lost her own child. Later, he has grown up to be a politician who wants to become the foreign minister. He doesn’t know that his real mother is the famous Madame de Thebes, the fortuneteller who all politicians make sure to visit! This information falls into the hands of a rival, who tries to use it to ruin his career. Meanwhile, the rival’s attractive daughter is attacked by a ruffian and needs to be rescued… There are a lot of striking images in this film. You can see the beauty of them even if the state of the print is far from perfect. The Norwegian actress Ragna Wettergreen gives a haunting performance as Madame de Thebes, with wisdom and regret – and quite a few melodramatic gestures. Understatement was not the norm in those days.
Madame de Thèbes
1915 · 5 votes
Movie8.0CrimeA brutal businessman, Vilhelm Gerner, triggers a stock speculation by providing false information. Two of his partners, Smith and Grå, get ruined and therefore Smith commit suicide. Later, Gerner is found shot by his own gun. The police suspects at least seven persons. Most of them admits murdering Gerner. A reconstruction is staged in the presence of all the suspects.
Movie7.5ComedyFirst mate Karlsson is mistaken for famous actor Linde.
En sjöman i frack
1942 · 2 votes
Movie10.0ComedyRomanceGreve Axel Von Rambow owns the Poppelhagen estate. One day an inspector comes to see him and a big quarrel starts.
Movie6.5DramaAbout the conspiracy against the Swedish entrepeneur Ivar Kreuger. Presented through his secretary as a strictly busy, very wealthy man, involved in important international transactions. Ministers from all over the world stand in line to visit him. The Kreuger shares are in high demand. Germany needs a $ 125 million loan. Bank director Ryder suggests that secret forces want to stop this loan. Ted Harris, an American rogue, wants to sell secret papers from Wall Street on plots against Kreuger. The French minister and an international Soviet agent, Brody, also visit Kreuger regarding the loans. Kreuger shares are dropping around the world. The firm Nathan and Kohn contributes to dumping Kreuger shares after a bribe of SEK 25,000. Ordinary savers are ruined.
Panik
1939 · 2 votes
- Movie10.0Comedy
In a southern Swedish city by Öresund, two young ladies, Maud and Viola, are discussing the novel Maud almost finished writing and to be submitted to the World Publishing's competition of $ 50,000 in the first prize.
En kärleksnatt vid Öresund
1931 · 1 votes
Movie7.0ComedyAbout two girls sharing an apartment in the Old Town of Stockholm.
Movie9.0WarDramaAn allegory of Germany's WWII occupation of Norway. Members of a theater ensemble join the resistance.
Movie8.0DramaOlof Koskela, the only son is driven from home when he wants to marry the wrong girl. He takes a job as a floater. His reputation as a womanizer goes far and wide. When he meets the proud Kyllikki, he enters into a bet to defeat the mighty rapids standing on a log.
Movie4.8ComedyTheatre director Freddy Alsterberg has failed with his latest operetta. He decides to work his way over the Atlantic. His niece Tusse also stows away on the ship disguised as a boy.
Atlantäventyret
1934 · 3 votes
Movie5.5DramaMartin is married to Frida and together they have a son. One day after a quarrel with his wife, he goes to buy flowers to ask for forgiveness. In the flower shop he meets the beautiful Rut and falls instantly in love. They both start a passionate love affair but beneath the beautiful surface hides a completely different woman than he expected ...
Movie6.0ComedyDay to day life for an aristocratic family is upended when they lose their fortune and their housekeeper suddenly receives a large inheritance.
- Movie9.0Comedy
The office worker Eva is told that she has inherited a massive amount of money in the United States.
Ung dam med tur
1941 · 1 votes
Movie6.0ComedyInga Danell's summer vacation is near. But unfortunately both Inga and her brother Acke have bad grades and are forced to study by the help of a tutor.
Magistrarna på sommarlov
1941 · 3 votes
Movie10.0ComedyButcher Charles Svensson (Thor Modéen) bets on the horses and wins the jackpot. He finds high society is not immediately appreciative of the newly rich.
Svensson ordnar allt!
1938 · 1 votes
Movie5.9ComedyMusicOld fashioned teachers are taught swing dancing by a student.
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.
Movie8.0DramaA Swedish drama from 1939 about the social and political developments in Sweden from 1885 until the dissolution of the union in 1905. The year is 1885, Christina Nilsson sings "Fourteen years I believe certain that I was" in the Grand Hotel's Great Hall . She also sings from the balcony of the hotel and the panic arising among listeners outside the hotel. In Norway, talks about the dissolution of the Union and the Swedish socialists with Hjalmar Branting (Victor Sjöström) is in the lead for independence.
Mot nya tider
1939 · 1 votes