Swedish films
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As she lies on her deathbed one New Year’s eve, salvation army worker Edit insists that a man named David Holm be brought to her. The previous year, David, an ill-humoured down-and-out, fell on her charity, but Edit’s intervention in his life had a far from happy outcome. Unaware of Edit’s interest in him...
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18-year old Nelly lives an idyllic life with her adopted mother Ingeborg in a small provincial town. One fateful day, her real mother, Jenny, appears, with the intention of taking her back to Stockholm. At the town ball, Nelly succumbs to the charms of Jenny’s erstwhile lover, Jack, who is a much more exciting proposition than her current suitor...
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Whilst attempting to rescue a puppy, Bengt, a young army cadet, gets himself shot on a rifle range. Awaking from a coma, he discovers that he is blind. Rejected by his fiancée, he finds comfort in the friendship of a peasant girl, Ingrid. Bengt’s hopes for a career as a musician are shattered when he fails to enter the Royal Music Academy...
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Shortly after landing at the port of Gothenburg, a merchant seaman named Gösta prevents a young woman from drowning herself. Some days later, he meets the same girl, Berit, at a dance and they become friends. Afterwards, Berit invites Gösta back home, but regrets doing so the next day when her domineering mother finds out...
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A film director is visited by his erstwhile mathematics teacher, who offers him an idea for a film: life on Earth is Hell, governed not by God, but by the Devil. The director discusses the idea with a writer, Tomas, who finds himself living out the scenario a few months later. Depressed, Tomas invites his wife to join him in a suicide pact; when she walks out on him...
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In a hotel room, Rut looks back on her life whilst her husband Bertil sleeps. She recalls the time she had with Raoul, a young officer. It was a happy romance, until she discovered he had a wife and learnt she was pregnant. After an abortion which left her sterile and ended her career as a dancer, Rut married Bertil, an impoverished art historian...
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Stig Eriksson is a violist in a Swedish orchestra company. During a rehearsal, he is informed that his wife Marta has just died in a domestic accident. Grief-stricken, Stig looks back on his life over the past ten years, recalling his first meeting with Marta, their marriage and the painful separation that ensued......
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Marie is a leading ballerina with a ballet company in Stockholm. One day, she receives a mysterious parcel – an old diary written by Henrik, her first love. After a frosty exchange with her present boyfriend, she gets on a boat and heads for the archipelago where she spent her happiest summer, more than ten years before...
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Whilst waiting for their husbands to join them at their holiday home, four sisters-in-law swap stories about their lukewarm marriages. Rakel recalls how her husband threatened to shoot himself when he learnt she had been amusing herself with another man. Marta remembers the idyllic time she spent in Paris, where she fell in love with an artist...
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A travelling circus that has obviously seen better days arrives at a provincial town, but the weary performers are gloomy about the reception they will receive. Manager and ringmaster Albert Johansson takes his mistress Anne to see the owner of the town’s theatre, hoping to borrow some costumes to replace their worn out garments...
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In the mid-fourteenth century, Europe is being ravaged by the Black Death. On his way home from the Crusades, a knight, Antonius Block, is visited by Death, in the form of an old man in a black cowl. Block is in no hurry to die and challenges Death to a game of chess. If the knight wins, he will be allowed to go on living; if he loses...
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The year is 1846. A troupe of travelling performers, the Magnetic Health Theatre, is making its way across Sweden. The troupe consists of Dr Vogler, a mute magician, his assistant (who is in truth his wife Manda), an elderly woman resembling a witch and Tubal, the show’s talkative barker. Arriving in Stockholm, the troupe is taken to a grand house to meet the town’s officials...
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Few things annoy the Devil more than a woman’s chastity – it always brings on a painful stye in his eye. Irked by this affliction, he summons Don Juan, who is still serving his 300 year sentence in Hell, and sends him back to Earth on a vital mission – to divest a pastor’s 20-year old daughter, Britt-Marie...
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In 14th Century Sweden, a wild young woman Ingeri lives with her foster parents, Töre and Märeta, hard working peasants who have chosen to follow the new Christian faith. One sunny spring morning, Töre’s beloved daughter Karin is given the task of delivering virgin candles to a local church, which is several hours’ ride away from the homestead...
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Four family members arrive on a remote island to spend a few days in each other’s company. They consist of David, a renowned author who is working on the final draft of a novel, his daughter Karin, his son Minus and Karin’s husband, Martin. Karin suffers from mental illness and has only just been released from a psychiatric establishment...
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Tomas Ericsson is the pastor of a small rural church in a Swedish village. After a sparsely attended service, one of his parishioners, Jonas, admits to having doubts about the existence of God. This causes Tomas to examine his own beliefs and he suddenly realises that everything he has dedicated his life to – God...
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Whilst travelling by train in a foreign country, a young woman named Ester suddenly falls ill. With her companions – sister Anna and young nephew Johan – she stops at a hotel. Whilst Esther is bed-ridden, Anna goes out to explore the town and indulge her carnal appetites, leaving Johan to roam about the hotel...
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Before the coffin of a once great virtuoso cellist, a series of beautiful women come to pay their last respects. They are joined by Cornelius, a composer and critic who had been writing a biography of the musician before he died. Cornelius recalls the days leading up to the great man’s death. Determined to hear him play...
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Whilst performing a stage play, a well-known actress Elisabeth Vogler loses the power of speech. There follows a mental breakdown throughout which she is bed-ridden and unable, or unwilling, to speak. Her doctor sends her to a house by the sea, to be cared for by a young nurse, Alma. The latter becomes fascinated by her silent patient and reveals intimate secrets about her own past...
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Jan and Eva are two former concert musicians who have retired to a sparsely populated island where they live a peaceful, uneventful life working on a remote farm. Their isolation from the outside world keeps them in ignorance of an impending war – which suddenly arrives on their door step, instantly upending their lives...
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