Nils Poppe
Nils Poppe (31 May 1908 – 28 June 2000) was a Swedish actor, comedian, director, screenwriter and theatre manager. He is internationally most famous for his part in Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal, but in Sweden he was much loved and participated in over 50 films on cinema... Read full bio →
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Sten Stensson Stéen går igen
The plot takes place on a mansion owned by the new widow Birgitta von Carping (Berit Carlberg). Sten Stensson Steen (Nils Poppe) has rented a room in the manor. He accidentally arrives a month early and the carousel is in full swing.
Sten Stensson kommer tillbaka
Sten Stensson Stéen has been challenged by a professor of law in a TV-game-show. Stensson, always fighting against immorality, comes to Stockholm a few days before the the broadcast to teach the young generation how to behave. A gang of crooks mistakes him for a famous dynamiter that they've been waiting for.
Djävulens öga
Don Juan is sent from Hell to Earth with a mission: to seduce a virgin in order to spoil her pure wedding. The mission becomes frantic when Don Juan falls in love for the first time in centuries.
Bara en kypare
Fabian Bom is a waiter at a hotel in a small town. But he dreams of doing something else - to dance and sing on a stage. He is madly in love with Matilda Roos, singer and diva. Fabian is too insensitive to notice that Annie, who works in the kitchen, is in love with him.
Flottans överman
Fabian Bom has been sent by the Export Association to promote the Swedish export to Spain. He travels with the navy's cruiser to Barcelona, but his jealous fiancée Gullan has followed him in secrecy to keep an eye on him. In Barcelona the usually strict and virtuous Bom is surrounded by the local women and has a ball.
Det sjunde inseglet
When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life.
Stampen
Pawnshop assistant Patrick and maid Viveka meet by chance and become fond of each other, but none of them want to reveal his real profession for the other.
Ljuset från Lund
A horse wanders from town to the countryside. Here lives Sten Stensson Stéen, a bachelor at law and philosophy. He is writing a social psychological report on the youth-problem.
Dum-Bom
The mayor of Bomsta, the efficient but insensitive Fabian Bom, has remade his town into a social-engineer's dream. The only inefficient thing left is the old farm Rosengård. The farm has recently been inherited by Camilla, a childhood friend of Fabian Bom.
Flyg-Bom
More of the same thing when Fabian Bom returns to the military, this time it is the air force who has to deal with his antics and meticulousness. He falls in love with a sami girl, Lisa, but has trouble finding her.
Tull-Bom
Comedy with Nils Poppe as Fabian Bom, chief inspector in the customs service and the fear of all smugglers. He is a zealous and dutiful official who always checks every 20th person, regardless of whether it is the customs director himself.
Pappa Bom
One-day auctioneer Fabian Bom finds a little child in a cradle that is about to be called out. He leaves for the orphanage, but there they don't want to take the boy. Bom thinks about adoption but that requires some qualifications. The boy needs a mother and that means that Fabian Bom have to get married.
Greven från gränden
The poor photographer Tibbe is the heir of the recently deceased count Silfverbaage. But there is a condition to get the money: he must stop seeing his old friends, including his fiancée Maja.
Soldat Bom
The station-master Fabian Bom is a very meticulous person, and he makes sure that the train leaves exactly - on the second. To him, nothing could be more important than duty, efficiency and punctuality, in fact, his sense of duty is clearly perverted. His beloved Plum-Plum, the major's daughter, is infatuated with army officers.
Tappa inte sugen
About the extra who wants to be a star, and the hero who vainly favors his costar.
Pengar: En tragikomisk saga
Orvar is a vagabond, walking the country roads and living on sunshine and generosity. One day he decides to find work somewhere to get some money. He becomes a helping hand for seven lumberjack brothers. The big and strong brothers really enjoy themselves, joking with the small and meek Orvar.
Ballongen
Sten Stensson Stéen dies when he gets a wooden box in his head, and he enters heaven in a balloon.
Sten Stensson kommer till stan
Sten Stensson from Eslöv has just got his law-degree from the University of Stockholm.
Blåjackor
A musical comedy about Kalle Svensson, a sergeant in the navy, and his loved one Nanette Raquette who works as a gymnastics teacher.
Det spökar - det spökar...
The hunt for a precious porcelain-tableware leads to Möllegården's estate, where ghosts are said to live.
Aktören
The actor Philip has an accident on the way to his own wedding and the shock makes him lose his voice.
Tre skojiga skojare
The author Tom Berger has written a book who is very prejudiced against women. The local chapter of Women's League starts a campaign against him. Will Berger's charm and white smile help against these women?
Tre glada tokar
The wealthy Rudolf Trane helps the unsuccessful vacuum-cleaner salesman Rhuter in order to find a beautiful girl whose first name is all he knows, Marianne. Trane, Rhuter and Trane's manservant John pretend to be waiters when Marianne's family is having a large dinner.
Kronans käcka gossar
The misadventures of 52:an Nisse, 47:an Kalle and 55:an Lasse in the military service.