Emil Fjellström Movies

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

"The Heavenly Play" - Mats Ersson is engaged to Marit and they plan to get married in the spring. But when the plague comes, the people accuse Marit...

The film takes place in the 1780s. The Russians plan to overthrow Gustav III from the Swedish throne and Lieutenant Rehusen tries to stop them, while...

The schoolgirl Maj-Lis comes from a wealthy family and is unhappy with her life. Emmy, her friend at school, tells Maj-Lis about her lousy job at the...

In a small provincial town there is a hotel run by one of those eccentric cooks of long ago who made generous meals that have nothing in common with...

About the Swedish trickster and thief Lars "Lasse-Maja" Molin. He often disguised himself and lived as a woman in 1800s. He takes place as a kitchen...

A bus company wants to acquire traffic rights on an island in the Stockholm archipelago. The steam boats will be replaced by buses, but Captain...

Part one of an ambitious screen adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf's book Jerusalem.

Helga is a young single lady who has a baby by a much older married man. After the older man tells Helga's father that he refuses to pay child...

A man goes from the tough life as a hired worker all the way into the Swedish government.

Famous chef Carl-Ulrik Johansson (Erik 'Bullen' Berglund) comes home to Sweden after twenty years abroad and finds out he never finished his...

The Beckius family is living near the border to Russia. The youngest son, Armas, is living a wild life that eventually leads to a break with the...

Simon lives a quiet life on his farm until one day he discovers he is the heir of a great fortune.

Erik Andersson marries Brita Blomstedt. During the wedding party he drinks alcohol which he is not used to. Later that evening Erik is involved in a...

A young baker moves to the small town of Västerby and becomes successful with a new type of whole wheat bread.

Shipmate Henrik gets in contact with two women in Gothenburg — the sociable Lisbeth and the shy Astrid.

A lonely fisherman drowns and his elderly brother Efraim is left to do an inventory of the estate. He discovers that his brother had a son,...

Theatre director Freddy Alsterberg has failed with his latest operetta. He decides to work his way over the Atlantic. His niece Tusse also stows away...

Gustav lives in Värnamo. He constructs a new boat engine, but needs time to complete it. The work has been financed by factory director...

The little town Västerköping needs a new police man - but the only applicant is the small and tiny Fridolf. He gets the job but has to work...