John Elfström Movies

A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 films.

During a witch trial in the seventeenth century a woman is accused of being a witch and burned at the stake. The witch curse the village priest who...

The poor farmer Jan is getting very old when he becomes father to the girl, Klara Gulla. First, he sees the child as a burden, but when he receives...

A 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...

On his death-bed, Per Henrik Pistolekors must promise his father two things: first of all to kill king Gustav III, which his father hates. Second, to...

The young high school graduate Göran and the 17-year-old Kerstin get to know each other on the estate of Göran's uncle Persson and fall in...

Set in medieval times about the cursed Moonshield family. The young knight Erland Moonshield fall in love with a gypsy enchantress, Singoalla, he...

At a parish meeting Åsa-Nisse suggests that they should hire a common home help, who could give their wives some relief by staying one week at...

After 15 years of marriage, David and Marianne have grown apart. David has had an affair with a patient of his and Marianne has got herself involved...

Gustav Vasa struggles to keep power while dealing with the Dacke War in his own country and his foreign debts.

The actor Philip has an accident on the way to his own wedding and the shock makes him lose his voice.

A poor Jewish family, called the Riffraff by the author, puts the great Joe Meng at the heart of high-flying plans and imaginative flair.

Åsa Nisse compilation from other movies.

1813. The Swedish army is fighting in the War of the Sixth Coalition. The popular general Von Döbeln is arrested for sending the army against...

The author Tom Berger has written a book that is very prejudiced against women. The local chapter of Women's League starts a campaign against him.

"How crazy!" A man and a woman watch episodes from Nils Poppe movies outside a cinema Maxim in Stockholm. Poppe represents, among other things, a...

Swedish film of the Kaj Munk play that was made into a far more famous film by Carl Dreyer in Denmark twelve years later.

Translator Vilhelm and his young wife have a child, as well as a grumpy housemaid who doesn't hesitate to give her opinion on how they behave as...

Because of an accident at a military drill the recruit Bengt loses his eyesight and becomes blind. He gets to live with relatives in the countryside...

Kalle Österman lives on the small island Solö together with his wife, Agneta.