Acting

Einar Axelsson

Born February 25, 1895 · Lund, Skåne län, Sweden

Died October 30, 1971 · aged 76

Einar Axelsson (25 February 1895 – 30 October 1971) was a Swedish stage and film actor. Einar Rickard Axelsson was born at Lund in Skåne, Sweden. He was the son of actors Konstantin and Amelie Axelsson. He was the brother of journalist George Axelsson (1898–1966). After playing at the Folkteatern in Gothenburg (1913–1914), he joined the theater company of Karin Swanström which was active until th…

Known For

The Phantom Carriage

The Phantom Carriage · 1921

The Phantom Carriage

MovieDramaFantasy

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.

Det är min musik

Det är min musik · 1942

Det är min musik

Inga and her father, the violin maker Lars, are big music enthusiasts. One day they meet the violinist Jan-Erik.

A Dream Play

A Dream Play · 1963

MovieDramaFantasy

A television adaptation of August Strindberg’s A Dream Play, the film follows Agnes, the daughter of the god Indra, as she descends to Earth to witness the conditions of human existence. Through a succession of loosely connected scenes, she encounters individuals from different walks of life, with events unfolding according to dream logic rather than linear narrative.

Divorced

Divorced · 1951

MovieDramaRomance

Gertrud is being abandoned by her husband after 20 years of marriage. Offended and unhappy she leaves her home and rents a room. The landlady's son is drawn to her and tries to help her out of the loneliness.

I dag gifter sig min man

I dag gifter sig min man · 1943

I dag gifter sig min man

Mette divorced from her husband, the architect Sven, a year ago. But her feelings for him are still strong. When she hears about Sven getting married to Vera she can't avoid to interfer.

A Little Flirt

A Little Flirt · 1934

MovieComedyRomance

Orphan Didi is raised by her aunts and in love with her ward, the surgeon Dr. Gunnar Green. He is more interested in the stars of the theatre so Didi decides to fight for him.

Iris and the Lieutenant

Iris and the Lieutenant · 1946

Iris and the Lieutenant

MovieRomanceDrama

Robert, an upper-class officer, meets and falls in love with Iris, a house maid. His family will do anything to stop her from marrying him.

Getting Married

Getting Married · 1926

Getting Married

MovieDramaComedy

Paul Rosenkrans is a Captain of the Swedish Navy and has been married to his Signe for six years. They are still as in love as if they were newly engaged. But when Paul's leave is over for this time, Signe meets an old good friend, the plucky suffragette Annie Behrman, chairman of "Women's Political Freedom Party". Annie has written a book about the woman's slavery in marriage and begins to process Signe with her ideas that soon makes Signe see her marriage in a whole new light.

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The Phantom Carriage

The Phantom Carriage · 1921

The Phantom Carriage

MovieDramaFantasy

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.

David's Brother

Det är min musik

Det är min musik · 1942

Det är min musik

Inga and her father, the violin maker Lars, are big music enthusiasts. One day they meet the violinist Jan-Erik.

Ragnar

A Dream Play

A Dream Play · 1963

MovieDramaFantasy

A television adaptation of August Strindberg’s A Dream Play, the film follows Agnes, the daughter of the god Indra, as she descends to Earth to witness the conditions of human existence. Through a succession of loosely connected scenes, she encounters individuals from different walks of life, with events unfolding according to dream logic rather than linear narrative.

Divorced

Divorced · 1951

MovieDramaRomance

Gertrud is being abandoned by her husband after 20 years of marriage. Offended and unhappy she leaves her home and rents a room. The landlady's son is drawn to her and tries to help her out of the loneliness.

I dag gifter sig min man

I dag gifter sig min man · 1943

I dag gifter sig min man

Mette divorced from her husband, the architect Sven, a year ago. But her feelings for him are still strong. When she hears about Sven getting married to Vera she can't avoid to interfer.

A Little Flirt

A Little Flirt · 1934

MovieComedyRomance

Orphan Didi is raised by her aunts and in love with her ward, the surgeon Dr. Gunnar Green. He is more interested in the stars of the theatre so Didi decides to fight for him.

Henry Wallé

Iris and the Lieutenant

Iris and the Lieutenant · 1946

Iris and the Lieutenant

MovieRomanceDrama

Robert, an upper-class officer, meets and falls in love with Iris, a house maid. His family will do anything to stop her from marrying him.

Getting Married

Getting Married · 1926

Getting Married

MovieDramaComedy

Paul Rosenkrans is a Captain of the Swedish Navy and has been married to his Signe for six years. They are still as in love as if they were newly engaged. But when Paul's leave is over for this time, Signe meets an old good friend, the plucky suffragette Annie Behrman, chairman of "Women's Political Freedom Party". Annie has written a book about the woman's slavery in marriage and begins to process Signe with her ideas that soon makes Signe see her marriage in a whole new light.

Åh, en sån' advokat

Åh, en sån' advokat · 1940

Åh, en sån' advokat

MovieComedyRomance

Driver Elof "Loffe" Karlsson ends his employment with the director Bergfeldt, who is divorcing wife Karin. He takes the place of a lawyer Nyberg, provides Mrs. Bergfeldt a restaurant. This is where the young and cute waitress Greta and Loffe become acquainted. Greta Bergman is involved in a large inheritance case, and as a lawyer Nyberg agreed to take care for her. But Nyberg is a swindler who himself wants to access the money.

Adolf Bergfeldt

I gult och blått

I gult och blått · 1942

I gult och blått

Erik Brenner is crazy about football and his girlfriend Britta. She tries to make him concentrate on his studies, but that's easier said than done.

Jerry Landén

Swedish and Underage

Swedish and Underage · 1969

Swedish and Underage

A girl of 14 is embarrassing her foster parents. She exposes herself to a homeless and police. It turns out that the girl has had sex with various men in exchange for a little kindness and chocolate. At fornication trial she has to face the city's municipal chief, who also has abused the girl.

Editor-in-chief

Ungdom av i dag

Ungdom av i dag · 1935

Ungdom av i dag

Lydia is a problem for her husband. She is wasteful and the family have huge debts. To solve the financial problems, Lydia is planning to marry her daughter to a wealthy acquaintance.

The Great Amateur

The Great Amateur · 1958

The Great Amateur

Modern fairy tale about the small town of Fårtuna where the chief of police is also an amateur theater director. The local shop assistant Linda aspires to become an actress and gets discovered by a talent agent from Stockholm.

Victor Wirén

A Commercial House in the Archipelago

A Commercial House in the Archipelago · 1925

A Commercial House in the Archipelago

Åke Hjelm and Wilhelm Holt run a business together. Hjelm is honest and fair, but Holt takes every opportunity to gain some easy money – legal or not.

Wilhelm Holt

Giftasvuxna döttrar

Giftasvuxna döttrar · 1933

Giftasvuxna döttrar

Porter's wife Emma has three daughters, all "marriageable". All three have worries about marriage.

Erik Ehrenberg

On the Sunny Side

On the Sunny Side · 1936

On the Sunny Side

MovieDramaRomance

Eva Bergh works as a bank clerk, but dreams of becoming an artist. At a party she meets the rich Harald Ribe and he instantly falls in love with her. When he proposes to marry her she has no work or place to live and she accepts. At Harald's estate she can live comfortably, but she misses her old friends.

Olle Lagerberg

Solkatten

Solkatten · 1948

The waitress Monica goes to Västerköping to find out who actually was her father. By aunt Margareta, she has been told that her mother, who died at birth, had four admirers.

Arvid Bjurstedt

Flickan i fönstret mitt emot

Flickan i fönstret mitt emot · 1942

Flickan i fönstret mitt emot

The bricklayer Loffe often sees sculptress Ingrid in a window a cross the building. They get to now each other and soon fall in love. Loffe works for the master-builder Swahne who is Ingrid's uncle. Swahne comes up with a plan to see if Loffe's feelings for her are true or if he is just out for her money.

Dalsjö

$En sjöman i frack$ En sjöman i frack · 1942

En sjöman i frack

First mate Karlsson is mistaken for famous actor Linde.

Film director Tallén

The Emperor of Portugallia

The Emperor of Portugallia · 1944

The Emperor of Portugallia

The poor farmer Jan is getting very old when he becomes father to the girl, Klara Gulla. First, he sees the child as a burden, but when he receives the newborn child in his arms he is overjoyed. He does everything in his power for her during her. But when she as an adult leaves home, Jan can not come over the loss of her.

The Girl in Tails

The Girl in Tails · 1926

The Girl in Tails

MovieDramaComedy

Katja is about to graduate, but she has nothing to wear for the graduation ball. Her father, the eccentric inventor Carl Axel Kock does not spend much of his income on Katja while her brother Curry gets everything he wants. So on the day of the ball, Katja simply dresses up in her brother’s brand new evening attire and attends the dance, smokes cigars, drinks brandy–and causes a scandal.

Ludwig von Battwhyl

Swing it, fröken

Swing it, fröken · 1956

Swing it, fröken

There is a new English teacher in school, Miss Lind. She moves in with the Nilssons, whose son Sigge prefers playing with his trumpet than to study German. Miss Lind convinces him how important his studies are. But Sanna, a girl in Sigge's class becomes jealous and angry when Sigge prefers his homework instead of her. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

Fred

The Pilgrimage to Kevlaar

The Pilgrimage to Kevlaar · 1921

The Pilgrimage to Kevlaar

A mother walks with her melancholic son on pilgrimage to seek comfort at the Madonna image, thereby trying to heal the broken heart of the son.

Ä' vi gifta?

Ä' vi gifta? · 1936

The well-known musician and composer Åke Kjellberg wakes up in a nice Stockholm apartment. He lives in Count Sparvhök's empty home until it gets rented out.

Bo Brehmerfeldt, Monias forlovede

The Red Room

The Red Room · 1970

A young idealistic civil servant, Arvid Falk, leaves the drudgery of bureaucracy to become a journalist and author. As he explores various social activities—politics, publishing, theatre, philanthropy, and business—he finds more hypocrisy and political corruption than he thought possible. He takes refuge with a group of "bohemians", who meet in a red dining room in Berns Salonger to discuss these matters.

Den gamle komikern

Don Juan

Don Juan · 1965

This television adaptation retells the story of Dom Juan, an aristocratic libertine whose serial seductions culminate in a fatal confrontation with a supernatural avenger. The production presents the classic Don Juan legend in a comic tone for television.

Gusman