Hasse Ekman

A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 films.

Povel Ramel jubilee show played at Berns in Stockholm in 1972.

Stockholm 1912. Site for the Olympic Games. Love entanglements and eroticism at hotel Eros.

5.2/10

A middle aged doctor begins a relationship with a teenage girl. His best friend is dating the girls mother. A group of boys plan to blackmail the doctor or expose him as a pedophile.

3.5/10

Four young criminals are planning a heist against a racecourse and in order to obtain a seed capital they rob a gambling den. They celebrate the successful heist by throwing a party but it turns out to be a lot of disagreement within the group.

5.7/10

Charlie Gedelius has spent the last years abroad as a golf trainer. In Copenhagen, Denmark, he meets young Lena, who happens to be his brother-in-law's mistress. He goes back to Sweden to meet his sister Astrid. Her son Staffan has borrowed money from a money-lender to pay for an abortion for a girl he has met.

3.8/10

Sam Persson is released from a mental hospital. He goes to Stockholm to meet a man he hates, theater manager Stig Brender. In Brender's office they get into a fight...

6.4/10

An agent on the brink of bankruptcy finds a reluctant singing talent on a TV quiz show.

6/10

Sequel to Sjunde himlen (1956). Dr. Lovisa Sundelius (Sickan Carlsson) and radio host Willy Lorens (Hasse Ekman) have been happily married for a couple of years, but when Willy becomes a TV host with cutie Suss (Lena Granhagen) by his side, things start to fall apart

5.4/10

Love triangle between Svante, his fiancee Inga and Sophie, a girl from a rich family.

5/10

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.

5.2/10

Two journalists marry each other but Tore is unhappy that his wife is ambitious in her career instead of their household.

5/10

The rich young man Teddy Anker invests his money in the theater in the beginning of the 1920s. Whatever he does becomes a success. He falls in love with a dancer, Karin. He decides to put up a show with Karin as the leading lady, but for the first time one of his shows becomes an economic disaster.

6/10

A secretary at a publishing company, Birgitta, writes a novel, based on her secret love of her boss. She sends it anonymously to her own company, who decides to publish it. The book becomes a success. Birgitta's husband's mistress get hold of the script and confesses that *she* wrote the novel. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

5.6/10

Married couple have romantic interludes in the summer, she at their summer cottage, him in the apartment in town.

5.2/10

Staffan Stolle becomes the sole heir to a rich and noble family when he is just a little boy. Early on he is engaged to be married to a girl he finds he does not love. Instead he flees the country only to return under a false name, looking for true love.

6.2/10

"Seventh Heaven" - Famous radio personality Willy Lorens has a big success with the radio series "Seventh Heaven." The amount of fan mail and attention eventually becomes too much for Willy, who suffers a minor collapse. Taken to a hospital where he meets Dr. Lovisa Sundelius, virtually the only woman in Sweden who do not admire the radio idol.

5.7/10

A seemingly ordinary day in October. A woman has since she separated from her husband lived in a single room with a separate entrance. But for her this is not an ordinary day. She only has six hours left to live.

5.7/10

Episodic, musical comedy. Povel Ramel company Knäppupp's first film where Martin Ljung plays 16 different roles.

5.7/10

While Bertil Lindström works at the Swedish embassy in Paris, his wife Gabrielle spends the summer alone in Sweden. After a phone call to her, he starts to think of all the things she can possibly be doing separated from him.

6.8/10

The year is 1954. The war in Korea has just ended and the superpowers stand by each side of the boarder. The peace in Europe is fragile and the cold war is imminent. At F8 - Air Fore Base, the yellow squadron stand ready with its J29 fighters.

5.2/10

Three young poets are about to make their debuts.

5.8/10

The marriage of the newlyweds Gun and Emil is strained when Gun sings in a radio show and makes a breakthrough.

5.5/10

The complicated relationships between a circus ringmaster, his estranged wife and his lover.

7.5/10
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The successful glass artist Stellan Sylvester ends up in the hospital after a car accident. He looks back at his life and finds it empty and meaningless. He falls in love with the nurse Marta but when he finds out that she engaged life turns out to be even more meaningless.

5.4/10

Italian singer Mario Vanni visits the Royal Opera in Stockholm and fall in love with ballet dancer Linda Corina.

5/10

In Stockholm in the year 2248 an excavation leads to the discovery of 45,000 meters of film from the 1940's master director Hasse Ekman . The material is in a disarray but the Society for Ancient Film Research compiles the material after what is believed to have been the master's artistic intentions

4.3/10

Dagmar Brink, a young female pianist, commits suicide in her Stockholm apartment. She leaves all her belongings to her next-door neighbours, an author and his wife. Perplexed and curious, they investigate the girl's reasons for taking her life. As they visit Dagmar's friends, acquaintances and former boyfriends, her story unfolds. She stands out as loner, a woman no one could really grasp, always in want of something that nobody she met could make out.

7.6/10

Lasse Brenner is a serious filmmaker (spoof on Ingmar Bergman) who is forced to direct a lighthearted comedy. The filming takes place in different cities across Europe and North Africa so Brenner and the crew have to sail on a cruse ship. Brenner's wife suspects he has an affair with the lead actress, so she also boards the ship undercover to keep an eye on him.

4.7/10

A man comes to Stockholm's central station. He does not know who he is or where he has been. He has some keys and a phone number. Perhaps he is the escaped sex maniac the police are searching for. A waitress at a café tries to help him. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

6.2/10

Lieutenant Anders Canitz is a womanizer and gambler from the upper class. He has spent all of heritage and tries to get to his sister's money by engaging her to invest in a shady business project he is involved in.

5/10

A needy couple in a bad marriage travel back to Stockholm after a trip to Italy. Meanwhile, a widow resists seductions from two different persons - her psychiatrist and a lesbian friend.

6.6/10
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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.

6.9/10

A movie director is approached by his old math teacher with a great movie idea: the Devil declares that the Earth is hell. The director rejects the idea, but subsequent events in the life of a writer, a friend of the director's, and a young prostitute he loves seem to prove the math teacher's idea.

6.8/10

Sture Letterström and Kurre Svensson take on the task of rescuing a secret document during World War II from a group of Swedish Nazis. Since both of them are known by the local Nazis, Sture takes on the role of Miss Märta Letterström, and Kurre also has to make use of his feminine side as well as a dress.

4.7/10

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.

5.8/10

As his 60th birthday approaches, Jacob grows concerned that none of his sons are capable of running his company.

6.9/10

When Inga Brantemo goes on a business trip to Italy, her husband Bertil gets romantically involved with Christina Lovén, whose father is a book publisher. When Inga returns, Bertil has a difficult time trying to explain who the woman the neighbors saw in the Brantemo home was. Bertil is an author and it doesn't get easier when he and his wife gets invited to Christina's father to talk business.

5.5/10

Sixten reluctantly go to a ski resort in Åre to write a script to a movie.

5.6/10

The film follows a number of people in an apartment building during a night full of dramatic events and entanglements.

7.3/10

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.

6.1/10

The Swedish doctor of literature Vilhelm Canitz arrive to Lugano in Italy for a few weeks stay at a medical clinic. Canitz considers himself to be quite healthy and the stay as an extended vacation. He meets a number of patients at the clinic suffering of terminal illnesses, including Vellamo Toivonen (Lindfors). The patients deal with the fact that they will not leave the clinic alive in different ways; with self-destruction, denial or imprudence. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

5.3/10

The ups and downs of three generations in an acting family.

6.7/10

An out-of-work musician is desperate for work and when his best friend sees an add requesting a cellist he signs him up. However, the work is for a female, so he creates the character Märta Letterström and joins the trio at a small-town hotel. But being a woman is not as easy as you think.

6.1/10

Tennis competitions between Swedish actors at Saltsjöbaden.

Dan, aged 19, leaves his home after a quarrel with his father. At the side of the country road he meets a traveling theater company who has run out of money. He falls in love with the young actress Pia and together they leave, meeting a string of peculiar characters: a vagabond, a friendly vicar and a cynical adventurer.

6.7/10

Kurre and Inga are engaged to be married. However, as they are very poor, they can't afford it just yet...

5.2/10

Vicar Ahrman's young daughter Jenny has left the home to start a new life with her beloved Stefan. But Jenny's dreams for the future is shattered when Stefan doesn't turn up to their meeting. Heartbroken, she returns home.

5.6/10

After finding his wife in the arms of another man, army officer kills his rival and then go by train to Finland to fight in the Winter war.

5.1/10

A propaganda film for the Swedish professional military made during the Second World War.

Celebrated elderly Austrian poet opposes nazism, while his daughter admires and falls in love with leading nazi activist, who eventually becomes concentration camp commander with his father-in-law as prisoner.

4.9/10

The trio Erik, Arne and Ingrid have been friends since childhood, the two boys always competing for the affection of Ingrid. At the naval academy Erik gets into a fistfight and is expelled, to instead become a captain of a trading ship. Before he leaves Ingrid and Erik are engaged in secret. Later, when Erik is believed to be lost at sea, Ingrid instead gets engaged with Arne.

5.4/10

Thriller set in northern Sweden during WWII where a regiment of ski-borne soldiers and guests in a tourist hotel experience and investigate acts of treason.

5.4/10

Georg Winkler meet Marguerite Hoffman at the casino in Monte Carlo. They become an item and travel the world with their act - Winkler is an accomplished marksman. Eventually Winkler's jealousy leads to their separation and he has to resort to work for secondrate circuses with a dwarf. But eventually he meet Margurite once again. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

5/10

Inga, an unemployed actress, meet a sweetheart, Kim, from days long gone at a train station. Over coffee they reminisce about their romance and how Inga left Kim for a moderately successful acting career and the attractive theater director Leo Waller. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

5.7/10

The idle rich have their own particular problems. Case in point, Georg and Monika Hedberg were once poor and happy but since Georg became an established painter family bliss has decreased for every fur coat Monika has bought. Their divorce lawyer suggest that they try to save their marriage by moving to a small apartment and live life frugally but happy. When the trial period is over and they want to return home again, their lawyer has stolen their money and disappeared. The Hedbergs are evicted for unpaid rent and terminal poverty seem to be imminent. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

4.9/10

Latin teacher Birger Sjögren at Ringsala boarding school threatens his possesive and chronically ill mother that he will get married. She gets a stroke and dies. Sjögren is affected by feelings of guilt, envy and hatred towards the surroundings. A series of mysterious fires have taken place around the school the last few months. One of the students has seen Sjögren setting fire to a barn. But can he convince the trusted biology teacher Nordmark, expert of the criminal mind?

6.3/10

Augustus Blomkvist sells his sausage factory and buys the newspaper Stockholms-Posten where he starts working as a reporter under false name.

2.9/10

"Life Goes On" - The Swedish officer Mikael Bourg has served with the French army in Africa. When he returns to Sweden after many years abroad to recover from malaria, he meets his son, a student who prefers partying with his frat friends instead of his bank job; a disappointment in his father's eyes. He also meets a young librarian, Ebba Garland, which makes him feel young again and distracts him from the sickness. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

4.8/10

Inga Danell's summer vacation is near. But unfortunately both Inga and her brother Acke have bad grades and are forced to study by the help of a tutor.

5.4/10

The year is 1941 and Nazi Germany is at its peak. Hitler's army is storming into Russia. Sweden stands lonely and isolated while the air force is training intensely due to a coming attack. The squadron leader pushes his men at its hardest. It's a constant game with death where death unfortunately often wins.

5.5/10

Old fashioned teachers are taught swing dancing by a student.

6.1/10

The tailor Tosse is ordered to return to his old regiment to practice what he learned many years ago. But he asks his assistant Loffe to go there instead of himself. Everything is fine until Loffe gets the same order - at the same regiment. When Tosse comes to the regiment, it becomes a case of mistaken identity. Due to the confusion, Loffe is now Tosse's platoon commander. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

5/10

Millionaire Christer Dahl loses his memory when he is hit in the head by a golf ball. He meets his ex-wife and immediately fall in love with her again. She does not know what to believe, is it true or is it only a joke? He also discovers how he has mismanaged his company in his earlier life. —Mattias Thuresson

6.2/10

Urban girl falls for rugged forest ranger.

5.4/10

A woman flees to avoid rumors of promiscuity, but is trailed by a reporter who wants to expose her dark past.

6.1/10

A story about the Swedish navy and their cadet school.

6.9/10

The aristocratic count Hägerskiöld is very proud of his swine Helen of Troy who wins a prize every year as the best swine in the area. This year his son Claes-Ferdinand needs money to get married with Pyret, a chorus-girl. His father won't give him any so he steals the swine, expecting that his father will give a reward to anyone who can find her.

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.

4.7/10

The world famous violinist Holger Brandt comes back to his family after a tour. He and his wife have been married for many years, but their love has faded. Their young daughter gets a new piano teacher, Anita Hoffman. Mr. Brandt fall in love with her and together they go on a world tour. But he soon discovers that the feelings for his wife that he thought were dead return.

6.6/10