John Ekman Movies

An alcoholic, abusive ne'er-do-well is shown the error of his ways through a legend that dooms the last person to die on New Year's Eve before the...

Terje Vigen, a sailor, suffers the loss of his family through the inflexibility of another man. Years later, when his enemy's family finds itself...

A stranger comes to work at widow Halla's farm. Halla and the stranger fall in love, but when he is revealed as Eyvind, an escaped thief forced into...

The son of a wealthy farmer loves a simple maid, for which he's booted out of the house by his father.

About loaner Master Samuel, based on a writings by Hjalmar Bergman

When his ancestors seem to appear in the clouds during a storm of biblical proportions, young Ingmar decides to give up his career as the village...

After learning that his wife has been killed in an accident, a violinist looks back on their relationship.

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 international criminal Helene Voigt, who calls herself Countess Montigno, is on the run from the law.

Olof 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...

The farmer Magni is planning to marry Teresia, but the maid Lovisa has other plans.

Kalle Utter is theologian student at Uppsala University sometime during the latter half of the 19th century.

Mean farmer Ola Berg reigns at Högbogården and endures a loveless relationship with his wife Karin.

A collective of office girls and their tribulations in the male world, female solidarity, the place of women in the labor and civil rights struggles...

Theatre director Freddy Alsterberg has failed with his latest operetta. He decides to work his way over the Atlantic. His niece Tusse also stows away...

Two smugglers meet two customs officers at sea, and happen to kill them. The story continues fifteen years later when a son of one of the officers...

it's the 1840s and a rural parish plagued by drinking and fighting gets a new vicar who has decided to instill law, order and fear of God into the...

"Family Traditions" - The young Baron Robert falls in love with his distant relative Helga.

Two brothers compete for the love of a woman while the impending war threatens to separate them from both sides of the border. Based on the novel "La...

In an occupied country, the people rise to throw off the occupants. This includes Jens the farmer and his three sons who successfully perform sneak...