Hilda Borgström
Hilda Teresia Borgström (13 October 1871 – 2 January 1953) was a Swedish stage and film actress.
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Flickan från tredje raden
Is man's existence really meaningful and hopeful? As a reply to Ingmar Bergman's Prison (1949), this movie claims that it is. A ring passes between a lot of different people, giving the bearer or someone close a new meaning to life. Actors, embezzlers, old ladies, and cheated husbands all seem to gain temporary hope from misery and disillusionment.
Var sin väg
A drama about a doctor and his wife. She used to be an actress, but became a housewife when she married. When she resumes her acting career the marriage crashes.
Musik i mörker
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 and meets the young Ingrid. She falls in love with him but Bengt's bitterness also makes him blind to her attentions.
Eva
Marine Bo Fredriksson is travelling home on a leave. He reminisce about an accident he caused as a 12-year old which killed a young girl, an event that has made him feel revulsion for death. Back home he meets Eva, a girl he fancies and they move together to Stockholm to start a life together.
Banketten
As his 60th birthday approaches, Jacob grows concerned that none of his sons are capable of running his company.
Sången om Stockholm
Janne has just spent a year in jail and dreams of a career as a pianist. He falls in love with young songwriter Britt, but her father does everything to ruin their relationship.
Driver dagg faller regn
The Farmer Germund is planning a wedding between his daughter Marit and Mats, the son of a neighboring farm. Everything seems to be going according to plan until Marit meets the fiddler Jon, an illegitimate son who enchants the youth with his violin.
Brita i grosshandlarhuset
Brita moves from her parents' cabbage patch in the countryside to work in Stockholm as a housemaid for a wealthy family. The big city overwhelms her at first and she falls in love with Greger, the young man of the household. But one day Arvid, an infatuated young man from her home village also comes to Stockholm to express his love for her.
Kejsarn av Portugallien
Poor farmer Jan is getting very old when he becomes the father of a daughter, Klara Gulla. First he sees the child as a burden, but when he holds the newborn in his arms, he is overjoyed. He does everything in his power for her during her childhood, but when she leaves home as an adult, Jan cannot get over losing her.
En dag skall gry
An army officer kills his wife's lover, then escapes to Finland to fight in the Winter War.
Den osynliga muren
In an unnamed country under occupation, a senior officer is killed in an attack by a member of the resistance.
Appassionata
A classic melodrama about the famous pianist Thomas Dahlhoff.
Kvinnor i fångenskap
A priest decides to engage himself socially in prison. In the cells he meets a number of women with different fates. One is Mary, an honest young woman gone wrong.
Rid i natt!
In the south of Sweden, some farmers get into trouble when the German Count is forcing them to perform day labor for him. But a man refuses to bow to the German Count.
Lågor i dunklet
In this obvious forerunner to Torment (1944), Stig Järrel plays mentally-disturbed Latin teacher Birger Sjögren at Ringsala boarding school. A series of mysterious fires have taken place around the school in the last few months. One of the students has seen Sjögren setting fire to a barn.
Ett brott
A murder is committed in an apartment building in Stockholm. The clues point toward the Justice of the Supreme Court and his sons.
En kvinnas ansikte
A woman with a disfigured face, which is reflected in her life view: she is bitter and mean-spirited, is given the chance to lead a new life thanks to plastic surgery. Will her old life and acquaintances allow her to completely change?
Körkarlen
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 clock strikes twelve to take the reins of Death's chariot and work tirelessly collecting fresh souls for the next year.
Ingeborg Holm
After Ingeborg Holm's husband becomes sick and dies, the family's small grocery store fails, Ingeborg becomes bankrupt, and she is forced to move to the workhouse. Her three children go to foster homes. Ingeborg simply must see them again.