Anders Ek

The Seventh Seal

Monk

When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Block sets off on a journey, meeting up with traveling players Jof and his wife, Mia, and becoming determined to evade Death long enough to commit one redemptive act while he still lives.

Svenska noveller

Gustaf

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Engeln

Bertil "Engeln" Engelbrecht is tired of working for his half-brother's detective agency. After being released from prison his girlfriend Maggie begs him to find another job. But leaving his prior work is harder than Bertil thought.

Cries and Whispers

Isak

As Agnes slowly dies of cancer, her sisters are so immersed in their own psychic pains that they are unable to offer her the support she needs.

Girl with Hyacinths

Elias Körner

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.

The Rite

Sebastian Fisher

Called to court on obscenity charges, a theatre troupe are forced to expose their neuroses and inner psychological torments.

Mosebacke Monarki

A satire comedy show by Hans Alfredson and Tage Danielsson, recorded 1968 on Mosebacke in Stockholm.

Sawdust and Tinsel

Frost

A number of complicated relationships develop between a circus ringmaster, his estranged wife and his lover.

Hallo Baby

Anders Ek

About a girl growing up in a big city in the seventies. She cultivates her artistic ambitions. After a series of relationships, she gets a small part in a play and becomes pregnant.

The Girl and the Devil

Olof

The soul of an evil witch about to be burned is transferred to the child of a pregnant woman in the audience. 19 years later a timid girl arrives at a farm looking for work. The farmer employs her despite his wife's protests. Soon it stands clear that the girl is in fact the evil witch, returned to wreak havoc on the farmer and his family. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

Ride Tonight!

Peasant (uncredited)

In the south of Sweden, some farmers get into trouble when the German Count is forcing them to perform day labor for him. But a man refuses to bow to the German Count.

The Road to Klockrike

Bolle

Bolle gets tired of working at the cigar factory and because of his desire for freedom he takes to the road. He and the other hobos have only one problem and that is the mounted policemen chasing vagrants.

They Staked Their Lives

den blinde positivhalaren

"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.

När ungdomen vaknar

Kåre

Liv and Kåre both come from broken families bursting with frustration and aggression's. Having found each other they now feel supported and loved.

Den bergtagna

Gustave Alland

Depicts a woman who commits suicide after being betrayed by a man who, by playing on her low self-esteem, has made herself her superior - and thus deprived her of all right to exist.

En skugga

The farm hand

"A Shadow" - Henry Kendall, Elizabeth Allan, Sam Livesey. An old dark house on a gloomy night is the setting for this British horror thriller about a mad killer, dressed completely in black, who bumps off the inhabitants one by one.

Nisse och Greta

Nisse and Greta, a middle-aged married couple, sit and watch TV. To their surprise they get to experience their own life's in a TV show being broadcasted.

Mosebacke monarki

Mosebacke Monarki was a humorous radio program that began broadcasting on Swedish Radio on October 6, 1958. It was the radio equivalent of the satirical magazine Grönköpings Veckoblad.