Acting

Gösta Cederlund

Born March 6, 1888 · Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden

Died December 4, 1980 · aged 92

Gustaf Edvard Cederlund was an actor and director in theatre as well as film. One of Sweden's most popular and appreciated male character actors from 1917 and on. He didn't have any desire to direct film himself. But WW2 changed all that. Gösta Cederlund directed a handfull of important films with striking social character and consciousness. "Kungsgatan" (1943) and "En dotter född/ A daughter born…

Known For

The Brothers' Woman

The Brothers' Woman · 1943

The Brothers' Woman

MovieRomanceDrama

City girl Emma marries the farmer Nicklas but gets involved in a love triangle with his brother Ragnar.

Mot nya tider

Mot nya tider · 1939

A Swedish drama from 1939 about the social and political developments in Sweden from 1885 until the dissolution of the union in 1905. The year is 1885, Christina Nilsson sings "Fourteen years I believe certain that I was" in the Grand Hotel's Great Hall . She also sings from the balcony of the hotel and the panic arising among listeners outside the hotel. In Norway, talks about the dissolution of the Union and the Swedish socialists with Hjalmar Branting (Victor Sjöström) is in the lead for independence.

Sextetten Karlsson

Sextetten Karlsson · 1945

Sextetten Karlsson

The story about Karlsson's six boys, who makes mischief in the fictional town of Östköping.

Meeting in the Night

Meeting in the Night · 1946

Meeting in the Night

MovieThrillerCrime

A journalist is writing a critical article about the prison service in Sweden. The magazine's editor in chief does not agree with him and removes the article. The journalist then plans to fake a crime to gain knowledge about life in prison.

Valley of the Eagles

Valley of the Eagles · 1951

Valley of the Eagles

MovieAdventureDrama

A Norwegian scientist builds a device that can convert sound waves into electrical energy. However, the machine is stolen by the scientist's wife and assistant, who head across the frozen tundra towards Russia. A police inspector and a local girl team up with the scientist to help recover the device.

En svensk tiger

En svensk tiger · 1948

En svensk tiger

Johan Tiger is an actor in Stockholm during World War II. A British agent in Sweden discovers that Johan is a dead ringer for General Lucky and manages to lure him over to London with a role as Othello as bait.

The Serious Game

The Serious Game · 1945

The Serious Game

Arvid share the love with a young woman named Lydia, but as is customary at the turn of the century, is not love enough for a fairy tale to come true. While Arvid struggling to create the basis for their existence, Lydia's thirst for the good life leads her to marrying an older wealthy man.

The Priest Who Knocked Out

The Priest Who Knocked Out · 1943

The Priest Who Knocked Out

MovieComedyDrama

The boxing promoter Charlie returns from America to Sweden and needs to find a professional Swedish boxer for an upcoming fight. By chance Charlie watches Björn Harring fight off some hoodlums. Charlie sees great potential in Björn and wants to promote him for an upcoming fight, the problem is though that Björn is studying theology and is soon to become a priest. This might not look too good in a prejudiced society of the 40s with a boxing priest, but Charlie is determent to find a way.

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The Brothers' Woman

The Brothers' Woman · 1943

The Brothers' Woman

MovieRomanceDrama

City girl Emma marries the farmer Nicklas but gets involved in a love triangle with his brother Ragnar.

Director

Mot nya tider

Mot nya tider · 1939

A Swedish drama from 1939 about the social and political developments in Sweden from 1885 until the dissolution of the union in 1905. The year is 1885, Christina Nilsson sings "Fourteen years I believe certain that I was" in the Grand Hotel's Great Hall . She also sings from the balcony of the hotel and the panic arising among listeners outside the hotel. In Norway, talks about the dissolution of the Union and the Swedish socialists with Hjalmar Branting (Victor Sjöström) is in the lead for independence.

Curry Treffenberg

Sextetten Karlsson

Sextetten Karlsson · 1945

Sextetten Karlsson

The story about Karlsson's six boys, who makes mischief in the fictional town of Östköping.

direktör Stig Lind

Meeting in the Night

Meeting in the Night · 1946

Meeting in the Night

MovieThrillerCrime

A journalist is writing a critical article about the prison service in Sweden. The magazine's editor in chief does not agree with him and removes the article. The journalist then plans to fake a crime to gain knowledge about life in prison.

Holmstedt

Valley of the Eagles

Valley of the Eagles · 1951

Valley of the Eagles

MovieAdventureDrama

A Norwegian scientist builds a device that can convert sound waves into electrical energy. However, the machine is stolen by the scientist's wife and assistant, who head across the frozen tundra towards Russia. A police inspector and a local girl team up with the scientist to help recover the device.

Prof. Lind

En svensk tiger

En svensk tiger · 1948

En svensk tiger

Johan Tiger is an actor in Stockholm during World War II. A British agent in Sweden discovers that Johan is a dead ringer for General Lucky and manages to lure him over to London with a role as Othello as bait.

engelsk general

The Serious Game

The Serious Game · 1945

The Serious Game

Arvid share the love with a young woman named Lydia, but as is customary at the turn of the century, is not love enough for a fairy tale to come true. While Arvid struggling to create the basis for their existence, Lydia's thirst for the good life leads her to marrying an older wealthy man.

Redaktör Markel

The Priest Who Knocked Out

The Priest Who Knocked Out · 1943

The Priest Who Knocked Out

MovieComedyDrama

The boxing promoter Charlie returns from America to Sweden and needs to find a professional Swedish boxer for an upcoming fight. By chance Charlie watches Björn Harring fight off some hoodlums. Charlie sees great potential in Björn and wants to promote him for an upcoming fight, the problem is though that Björn is studying theology and is soon to become a priest. This might not look too good in a prejudiced society of the 40s with a boxing priest, but Charlie is determent to find a way.

Björn Kronfors

Sigge Nilsson och jag

Sigge Nilsson och jag · 1938

Sigge Nilsson och jag

Sigge and Putte has moved to a private school, where they fight and get up to mischief.

Col. Nikolaus Malling

Melodin från Gamla Stan

Melodin från Gamla Stan · 1939

Melodin från Gamla Stan

Swedish movie from 1939. In summer Stockholm live the unemployed musician Nisse trying to sell the songs to music publishers. One day the treasurer of a prominent publisher is arrested, on suspicion of theft of 10,000 crowns from a cash box. Nisse has, however, seen something suspicious.

Mr. Carlton

The People of Hemsö

The People of Hemsö · 1919

The People of Hemsö

The widow Anna Eva Flod at Hemsö needs help on the farm and hire the new boy Carlsson.

A Woman's Face

A Woman's Face · 1938

MovieDramaCrime

A cynical woman with a disfigured face—a hardened criminal—gets an opportunity to change her ways when she meets a sympathetic plastic surgeon. She leaves her old life behind, but soon her old friends catch up with her.

"Greven" Severin

It Rains on Our Love

It Rains on Our Love · 1946

It Rains on Our Love

MovieDramaRomance

A young couple, penniless, break into a summer cottage; the owner offers to rent to them but he has ulterior motives. By living together, the lovers must face their pasts and contend with the meddling neighbors and authorities.

Man with Umbrella

Girl with Hyacinths

Girl with Hyacinths · 1950

Girl with Hyacinths

MovieDramaMystery

A young woman dies by suicide and leaves all her belongings to her next-door neighbour, who becomes determined to investigate her reasons for taking her life.

G. D. von Lieven

Giftas

The General's daughter, Helene, grows up in a safe world. She doesn't want to get married or have kids. She meets a man who talks about platonic love which seems to fit her nice. They get married but when he wants to get more intimate with her she rejects him. August Strindberg's short story "Mot betalning" from the collection "Giftas 2".

Colonel

Åke klarar biffen

Åke klarar biffen · 1952

Åke klarar biffen

Åke is small and fits everywhere. A film mostly consisting of scenes from older films.

The Bells in Old Town

The Bells in Old Town · 1946

The Bells in Old Town

Kalle Magnus Berg is a kind bailiff in Gamla Stan (Old Town) in Stockholm. He helps out "clients" by supporting them with money from his own pocket. His neighbor is a jazz musician who plays at a restaurant for a living.

Johan Fredrik Morén

Med folket för fosterlandet

Med folket för fosterlandet · 1938

Med folket för fosterlandet

MovieCrimeDrama

This film depicts every noteworthy event (in the eyes of the film-makers) in Sweden from the death of King Oscar II, in 1907, to the celebration of the 80th birthday of King Gustave V in Stockholm in June of 1938. This film is comprised largely of newsreel clips intermixed with the fictional story of the family lives of a working man and a well-to-do newspaper editor through two generations, with a special significance in the showing of the development of the social-democratic form of government in Sweden.

Kvinnor i väntrum

Kvinnor i väntrum · 1946

Kvinnor i väntrum

A doctor for females gets a visit from Gun, who wants to get an abortion. But the doctor wants her to reconsider and keep the baby.

Hall

Our Gang

Our Gang · 1942

MovieComedyMusic

A gang of friends lose their club house and collect money for a new one by singing in public.

Vicar Klewe

They Staked Their Lives

They Staked Their Lives · 1940

They Staked Their Lives

"With life at stake"- Max is illegal arms dealers and lives with Wanda, a spy for the dictatorship in which they live. She is ordered by her superiors to reveal the actions and members resistance group. The freedom fighter John falls in love with Wanda.

Sergei, baker

The Girl from the Third Row

The Girl from the Third Row · 1949

The Girl from the Third Row

MovieComedyDrama

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.

Hjalmar Haller

This Can't Happen Here

This Can't Happen Here · 1950

This Can't Happen Here

MovieMysteryThriller

A story of two married refugees from the dictatorship; their quiet life in a new free country is impossible due to the husband's dark secret.

Doctor

Torment

Torment · 1944

Jan-Erik Widgren meets the lonely Bertha Olsson, a woman struggling with alcoholism. Though Bertha is already linked to Caligula, Jan-Erik's heartless teacher, she begins a relationship with the boy anyway. When Caligula learns that Jan-Erik is having an affair with Bertha, he begins to torture his student psychologically. He reserves his cruelest behavior for Bertha, however, which results in a tragic turn of events.

Pippi

Markurells i Wadköping

Markurells i Wadköping · 1968

Markurells i Wadköping

Mr. Markurell the innkeeper has great aspirations for his son and he doesn't hesitate to pull a few strings to ensure his son's success at school, causing great scandal in the process.