John Elfström Movies

A film adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf's classic book about Nils Holgersson, who is a real rascal. As punishment for his mischief, a house elf...

"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...

The 1880s. Abandoned by his middle class parents in Stockholm, Johannes grows up in the countryside with a cobbler who regularly beats him up. Also...

The boxing promoter Charlie returns from America to Sweden and needs to find a professional Swedish boxer for an upcoming fight. By chance Charlie...

Law graduate Ylva Markner spends the summer on the island of Väddö, where she gets involved in a quarrel concerning a last will.

Doctor Knock takes over a medical clinic in a small town and provides a medical revival.

The stingy fisherman Ericsson lives on a small island north of Stockholm with his wife Johanna och her father Isak.

Prince Hamlet returns home from the university of Wittenberg to attend his father's funeral. His uncle Claudius, the new King, has announced his...

"The Hangman" - The events take place in two periods of time. In the Middle Ages a group of men sit and discuss the evil at the tavern. With the...

David, a young woodsman with a family, is leasing a farm. The family are welcomed by the locals until it becomes known that David is the son of a...

Midsummer Eve in Malmfors in the 1880s. The holiday is celebrated with a big party. Three blacksmiths leave the ironworks and become drifters,...

A melancholic depiction of life in a small Swedish town, seen through the eyes of a six-year-old boy.

Gunnar Carlman has returned to Sweden after a few years as a cowboy in Canada. He starts to work at a farm owned by vivacious and strongwilled...

The religious hypocrite Tartuffe parasites on a bourgeois family. He is looking for the daughter's hand and the family's property and is also trying...

A newly married Baron plans to sell his castle. His wife, who loves to live in a castle, knows nothing about the sale.

A teacher is so hard on his students that he faces a warning by the school principal. In order to at least improve the strained relationship with his...

Max Kvarne is an international adventurer who stole 25,000 pounds in 100-pound banknotes at a London coup.

Jompa is unemployed - and not keen on getting a job. He still lives with his parents who are tired of his attitude about employment and regular...

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

In a rural parish in 1906, young Heikki, one of the Finnish immigrants, lives a wild and free life in the deep forest. After poaching, his furs are...