Set between 1930s and 50s, The Farewell the story of Valerie, who lives in a household totally repressed by her stern father. When Valerie has a brief affair with another woman, her father is extremely angry and tries to end the affair with physical force. However Valerie’s determination, independence and lesbian feelings cannot be crushed.
Apr 1982
It is 1940. A young man is facing court martial on charges of conscientious objection. He admits the crime. The prosecutor demands a most severe punishment. While waiting for the verdict, the young man think back of his past. How could this happen?
Sep 1955
Sitcom for 1920s cinemas about the Winter family.
Feb 1921
For a long time, a group of friends have been on a yearly summer trip to Laholm. This year, they want to go somewhere else, at least everyone except Ulf, who force the others to join the trip - by saying he has cancer.
Mar 2012
14-year old Em likes to hang around in her old play house. One day a boy, Jakob, sets fire to it, and Em catches a brief glimpse of him before he disappears. They meet again a few days later. For the first time in her life, Em falls in love.
Feb 1996
A recently separated ladies' magazine reporter, a young couple who are in love, an unfaithful but jealous crane driver, a longing father and his unknowing daughter, the home coming fisherman's son who seeks reconciliation with his parents, the farmer who thirsts for tenderness. We meet them all in Svenska hjältar, a modern saga about the chipped heroes of everyday life.
Sep 1997
The terrorist Fors arrested after an attack on a OPEC meeting. Shortly afterwards town minister's daughter gets kidnapped by two men who require Fors be released and that he will flight phase to Albania. SÄPO agent Olsson will handle the case.
May 1980
First Swedish puppet film. A witch offers a soldier a wealthy life if he retrieves a tinderbox from a hollow tree.
Jan 1951
A portrait of fishing life on the west coast (Västerhavet) in Sweden, 1935.
Oct 1935
Historical drama which features Gösta Ekman as the dashing rogue who steals the heart of the ethereal Mary Johnson.
Mar 1921
Diddi Werner is an orphan and has been raised by her aunts Lotten and Amalia. Amalia wants her to study further after graduation while Lotten wants her to get married. Lotten predicts her future and see a dark, older man in the cards.
Dec 1933
About the importance of personal responsibility and the advantages of sobriety.
Feb 1957
Episodes about life and death.
Aug 1956
Documents the arrival of Holocaust victims in Sweden.
Nov 1945
Journal film about refugees in Sweden, Denmark and Norway in 1944.
Jan 1945
Documentary film about Storks in Scania, the southernmost province of Sweden.
Dec 1920
About modern Liberia and the iron ore prospecting on Mount Nimba.
Jan 1958
“A retrospect of European events during the past forty years, composed from early documentary material, and including one of the earliest extant specimens of news-reel film dating from 1897.” - The [London] Film Society, 1936.
Dec 1934
An eider duck defend her nest and eggs agains sea gulls
Jan 1922
Norrland in Sweden while the power plant dams are being built.
Nov 1956