John Elfström

After 15 years of marriage, David and Marianne have grown apart. David has had an affair with a patient... (imdb)

The heart-wrenching story of a wealthy, artistic young man who goes blind after an accident during military service and who must learn to live with his condition. (MovieMail-online.co.uk)

Student Göran is vacationing on his uncle's farm. On the first day he meets the 17-year old Kerstin, who lives on a farm nearby. The young people in the area are trying to organize a youth club. The priest refuses to help them but Göran's uncle let them use an old barn of his. Göran and Kerstin fall in love with each other, but neither Kerstin's relatives or Göran's father gives their consent to the relationship. (imdb)

Åsa-Nisse may be a most unlikely soldier, but that doesn't mean that he can't be drafted to the army. But corporal Åsa-Nisse Nilsson is a better officer than you might suspect, who manages to teach his soldiers both discipline and the art of war. (imdb)

ompa is unemployed - and not keen on getting a job. He still lives with his parents who are tired of his attitude about employment and regular hours. Jompa and his friends spend their time at nightclubs, cafes and doing petty crimes. While playing poker, Jompa becomes indebted to the criminal Kalle Lund. Of course, Jompa is unable to pay, but Kalle gives him a tip: an old fetcher has always a lot of money at home, and if Jompa could get his hands on the money, his troubles would disappear... (imdb)

This made-for-television film constituted Bergman's first production of Strindberg's A Dreamplay - a play he would revisit three times more. Gunnar Ollén's Malmö crew was behind this, for its time, prestigious and costly theatre production, involving more than 40 actors and no less than 75 extras. (Ingmarbergman.se)

On the anniversary of Strindberg's birth, Swedish television theatre presented his chamber play Oväder, directed by Bergman. The production, which was also transmitted to Denmark and Norway, received mostly rave reviews and consolidated Bergman's standing as an outstanding television director. He was praised for his tact and sympathy in depicting old age, for his superior lighting and fine camera work and for his understanding of the intimacy of the TV medium through his use of close-ups. (Birgitta Steene)

Swedish comedy from 1940. Kurre Karlsson, a simple man of the people, will be called up for military training given by an anti-aircraft units at sea. He does not like the military and will do anything to get away. One day he steals a wallet and in it finds his paper suggesting that a spy is on the move who think stealing trade secrets about the weapons factory in Granefors.

A story about a boy named Anders, who lives in an ordinary Swedish family in an apartment at the train station. Through his childhood, he experiences life's glorious scents of beautiful flowers and green forest, close and warm relationships with his grandparents and joyful play with his siblings. He has a strong friendship with his father and a great love for his mother. Still he lives in fear of death. He is afraid of losing all of this that is so valuable to him.

A witch's daughter take revenge on a vicar and bewitches him so that he suffers constant erection.

Åsa-Nisse gets a visit from his relative Doris who lives in USA. Nisse, Klabbarparn and Doris then travel together to Stockholm for vacation. (imdb)

Åsa-Nisse and Klabbarparn are hunting enthusiasts. This includes illicit hunting, but the new police officer Klöverhage keeps a sharp eye on them. When Åsa-Nisse happens to get caught with his foot in his own fox trap, Klöverhage steps in and brings him before the court in Jönköping. (imdb)

Åsa-Nisse and Klabbarparn has found an old pirate map that leads them to the island Mallorca in the Mediterranean Sea as they search for the hidden treasure. (imdb)

Åsa-Nisse and Eulalia have decided to accommodate summer guests. Mrs. Niklasson and her adult daughter Elsa arrive by train from Stockholm. The village shop-keeper Sjökvist is immediately infatuated with Elsa, and starts courting her. Sjökvist has invited all villagers to a big party, celebrating the 25th anniversary of his village shop. (imdb)

At a parish meeting its decided that the village should hire a common home help. When Elsa Haglund arrives from Gothenburg she starts her first week of work at one of the bachelors homes, the village shop-keeper Sjökvist. He is immediately infatuated by her and begins a flirtation. At the end of the week Elsa happens to meet another bachelor, Eric Broo, called "the singing farmer". She falls in love with him, but doesn't know how to hook him.

The police department of Knohult wants to recruit a man of the people as the local policeman. Åsa-Nisse seems to be the perfect choice. (imdb)

The local newspaper celebrates 50 years and are now looking for a citizen who has lived as long in the neighborhood. Our hero Åsa-Nisse seems to fit the profile. (imdb)

Åsa-Nisse gets a chance to win 10.000 on the biggest game show on Swedish TV. (imdb)

Åsa-Nisse has found a new job as forest ranger at count Malcolms estate Segerstad. (imdb)

Pop music comes to Knohult and Åsa-Nisse has a new invention that makes his hens lay their eggs to the beat of the music. (imdb)

Åsa-Nisses brother Julius comes all the way from USA to visit. (imdb)

Åsa-Nisse has a bad back and when he visits the doctor he gets an experimental medicine for horses by mistake. Suddenly Åsa-Nisse has super strengths and becomes an unbeatable athlete. (imdb)

Åsa-Nisse and Klabbarparn are winter fishing. (imdb)

Åsa-Nisse has invented a very powerful engine and he sells the patent for 50,000 kronor. However, the grocery store owner Sjökvist has been sneaking around and while Åsa-Nisse and Klabbarparn are on skiing vacation in Åre he manages to talk Eulalia into selling the patent to him for 250 kronor. (imdb)

Inspired by the space-race, Åsa-Nisse and his friends build a top-secret moon rocket. They have big trouble hiding their secret from prying newspaper reporters, and spies disguised as cows... (imdb)

Sigrid has just lost her husband and her son in an accident. She begs her other son not to go out to sea, but he finds the lure of the ocean hard to resist.

On an Island in the Stockholm archipelago, fisherman Ericsson lives with his wife and his father-in-law. Ericsson is concerned when he hears that his brother-in-law is on his way back to Sweden from a Life abroad.

In 1906 Heikki seduces the young women of a rural parish one by one for revenge. (imdb)

Sjökvist needs a woman to tidy up his general store and Åsa-Nisse helps him out to put an ad in the local newspaper. (imdb)

Åsa-Nisse has a lot of things going on. He is constantly inventing stuff and is also the leader of a hockey team and a pop concert arranger. (imdb)

n the legend of Susanna in Babylon she was highly desired by the old men. In this movie, Susanna the beautiful lives in a Swedish town in the 19th century and as in the legend desired. (imdb)

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

Translator Vilhelm and his young wife have a child, as well as a grumpy house maid who doesn't hesitate to give her opinion on how they behave as parents. In secret Kristin arranges a scholarship for Vilhelm so he can go back to his medical studies. imdb.

The brothers Österman have come to realize that they need a housekeeper on their farm. Big brother Kalle travels to town and returns with the young Anna. (imdb)

Björn Harring studies theology, but the boxing coach Charlie happens to see when he scares a couple of troublemakers through skilled boxing. (imdb)

In 14th Century Sweden, when Lord Erland Maneskold marries Singoalla, a gypsy, he abandons his worldly possessions. The gypsies, who meanwhile have stolen the Maneskold treasure, want the couple to join their caravan to escape detection. A jealous suitor makes Erland think Singoalla has betrayed him, and he returns to his castle, where a battle between the gypsies and the landed-gentry ensues. Ten years later, Sorgbarn, the son born to Singoalla from the marriage sets out to find his father.

Åsa-Nisse and Klabbarparn learn Sjökvisten how to be a secret agent. (imdb)

The fisherman Mattsson, who lives on an island in the Stockholm archipelago, is a widow and now the daughters Lena and Magda are responsible for the household.

Laban Lundström is the porter at Hotell Kåkbrinken. The hotel is threatened by wholesaler Sjökvist, who wants to pull down the house and build a new and modern house instead.