John Botvid
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1889-09-12
Locus Natus: Göteborg, Göteborg- och Bohus län, Sweden
Et ut:
Sextetten Karlsson
The story about Karlsson's six boys, who makes mischief in the fictional town of Östköping.
release : 1945.10.19popularis : 2.412
Åsa-Nisse på semester
Åsa-Nisse is visited by cousin Doris from the United States. Nisse, Klabbarparn and Doris will travel to Stockholm, but Nisse and Klabbarparn...
release : 1953.09.04popularis : 0.853
Minns ni?
A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 films.
release : 1993.10.24popularis : 2.308
With You in My Arms
Millionaire Krister 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...
release : 1940.11.09popularis : 2.807
June Night
A woman flees to avoid rumors of promiscuity, but is trailed by a reporter who wants to expose her dark past.
release : 1940.04.03popularis : 2.851
Summer Interlude
A jaded prima ballerina reminisces about her first love affair after she is unexpectedly sent her lover's old diary.
release : 1951.10.01popularis : 7.425
Dance on Roses
Marianne is a dancer at the Lilla Teatern. The theatre has financial troubles and its existence is under threat. Marianne falls in love with Stig...
release : 1954.08.09popularis : 1.227
Flyg-Bom
The meticulous Fabin Bom is called up for military service in the airforce.
release : 1952.12.22popularis : 2.262
I mörkaste Småland
Albert Engström's anecdotes of Småland have been put together to make a comedy film about Johannes and Cornelius, two smallholding farmers...
release : 1943.10.25popularis : 1.313
Darling of Mine
The Swedish/American actor Jack Harris visits the old country for the first time in his life. One of the journalist, Ingrid Billberg, is particularly...
release : 1955.07.22popularis : 2.878
Klasskamrater
Newly graduated teacher Anna-Greta is courted by a senior student.
release : 1952.11.17popularis : 0.751
En förtjusande fröken
Insurance salesman Paul is to be engaged with Louise, the daughter of his boss. Trying to sell insurance to a millionaire he meet the millionaire's...
release : 1945.12.26popularis : 1.275
Hjältar i gult och blått
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...
release : 1940.02.16popularis : 0.987
Kajan går till sjöss
Kajan, a young boy, spends the summer with his friends working on a barge, earning extra money in the ports with their song and dance number. A young...
release : 1943.12.26popularis : 1.408
Landstormens lilla argbigga
Spoiled upper class girl must join a home defense unit to learn military drill and fall in love with a lieutenant.
release : 1941.03.22popularis : 0.999
Landstormens lilla Lotta
It's time for conscription training outside the small town Lillköping. The bank clerk becomes an officer - the bank manager ordinary conscript....
release : 1939.10.02popularis : 1.875
Livet på Forsbyholm
At Forsbyholm's boarding school, the problem-maker Rutger Von Hake reads. In order for the school to receive government funding, a new teacher comes...
release : 1948.01.19popularis : 0.464
Rospiggar
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,...
release : 1942.09.03popularis : 2.057
Playing Truant
High school student Margareta fall head over heels in love with a young doctor and announce her engagement to him to her parents. She quits school...
release : 1949.08.15popularis : 1.945
Kiss Her!
Lisa Larsson, dancer at a theater, witnesses a traffic accident and banker Brenner's private driver asks her to be a witness. When her friends see...
release : 1940.05.17popularis : 1.252
Guest House Paradise
Paradiset is a boarding house in the archipelago of Stockholm, run by the strict Elvira Pettersson, and with a large variety of guests. Her maid...
release : 1937.02.08popularis : 0.937
Our Gang
A gang of friends lose their club house and collect money for a new one by singing in public.
release : 1942.02.02popularis : 5.863
Karl för sin hatt
Urban girl falls for rugged forest ranger.
release : 1940.08.23popularis : 2.152
Jag dräpte
"I Slew" - Hospital drama of a doctor who thinks that he killed a patient on the operating table.
release : 1943.10.26popularis : 1.091
Maria på Kvarngården
Maria is a waitress at a local restaurant when an older man propose to her. She is a bit skeptical but agrees to marry him and become the mistress of...
release : 1945.01.15popularis : 1.232
Snurriga familjen
Manager Blom and his family stop at a mountain hotel. Once there, all family members are insolent and even cruel to both guests and staff. When the...
release : 1940.08.18popularis : 1.508
Puck heter jag
Romance blossoms between single seamstress Puck and the art critic, Roger. He is engaged to Elsa, whose wedding dress Puck is involved with designing.
release : 1951.03.05popularis : 1.093
The Ghost Reporter
Augustus Blomkvist sells his sausage factory and buys the newspaper Stockholms-Posten where he starts working as a reporter under false name.
release : 1941.08.09popularis : 1.074
Thor Modéen: Strålande tider, härliga tider!
Portrait documentary of the Swedish comedic actor Thor Modéen full of clips from his greatest roles.
release : 1992.11.22popularis : 1.142
Stjärnbilder
A tribute to Swedish film, which was made to celebrate the 100th anniversary of film in 1995 and consists of about a hundred clips from Swedish film...
release : 1995.09.10popularis : 2.098
Bröderna Östermans huskors
The Österman brothers have come to realize that they need a housekeeper. Oldest brother Kalle travel to town and return with the young and...
release : 1945.09.20popularis : 1.689
Aktören
The actor Philip has an accident on the way to his own wedding and the shock makes him lose his voice.
release : 1943.01.01popularis : 0.571
When Bengt and Anders Changed Wives
Two neighbours, each with a small plot of land, hate each other. Both are dissatisfied with his wife.
release : 1950.12.23popularis : 0.717
Like Everyone Else
Kurre and Inga are engaged to be married. However, as they are very poor, they can't afford it just yet. They live separate, both in small apartments...
release : 1944.09.09popularis : 0.397
Prince Gustaf
In the middle of the 1800s Swedish prince Gustaf meets the actress Anna Maria Wastenius and falls in love with her, but it is an impossible love...
release : 1944.11.29popularis : 2.033
Åh, en så'n advokat
Driver Elof "Loffe" Karlsson ends his employment with the director Bergfeldt, who is divorcing wife Karin. He takes the place of a lawyer Nyberg,...
release : 1940.08.26popularis : 0.706
We Home Toilers
The stern, but kind-hearted, Kristiana from the country takes place as a maid with the Larsson family in Stockholm, previously (in)famous for its...
release : 1942.04.04popularis : 1.293
Wedding Night
It is a great day for Albert and Yvonne. They will finally get divorced. Together with their lawyers they celebrate their new happy lives without...
release : 1947.02.05popularis : 0.877
'Swing It' Teacher
Old fashioned teachers are taught swing dancing by a student.
release : 1940.12.21popularis : 2.964
One Fiancé at a Time
Lilian is engaged to engineer Arne. To make him more interested in her, she meets a few other men.
release : 1952.05.04popularis : 0.917
...som en tjuv om natten
Nisse Ekberg is in San Francisco but wants to get back to Sweden. Not being a completely honest guy, he gets mixed up with another person and assumes...
release : 1940.03.18popularis : 1.886
Djurgårdskvällar
An artist with drinking problems is depressed because his career didn't turn out so good. He puts his faith in his daughter to carry the artistic...
release : 1946.11.18popularis : 0.71
Witches' Night
The teacher Arne Markell, who is also a well-known poet, leaves his class of students. He will marry Lena and work for a new school. One of the...
release : 1937.11.01popularis : 0.873
Tåget går klockan 9
Stockholm Central station. The loudspeaker announces that the train 7.03 is delayed and arrives at 7.30. The troubled brothers Oskar and Fredrik...
release : 1941.11.15popularis : 0.763
Dolly tar chansen
Dolly Holm work as a waitress, but her big dream is to stand on stage and act.
release : 1944.11.06popularis : 1.712
Hon eller ingen
The wholesaler Blomberg is a regular customer of "Parfumerie Marie Danielsson". He often buys perfume for his many girlfriends. Blomberg's driver...
release : 1934.11.10popularis : 1.599
Bror min och jag
Gus and Holger, two students in Uppsala, have problems with the rent. They are waiting for money from their uncle, but instead of money they are...
release : 1953.12.26popularis : 1.037
Folket i fält
Unknown parachute troops land near Norrköping and the local home defense is alerted.
release : 1953.03.14popularis : 0.974
Bröder emellan
Identical twin brothers Patrik and Peter Brodd haven't seen each other for twelve years until Peter returns from America and goes to Patrik's office...
release : 1946.11.18popularis : 1.586
Flickan är ett fynd
Brothers Fredrik and Pontus own a family company. Fredrik is the manager of the old school and Pontus is a professor of psychology, which theorizes...
release : 1943.03.20popularis : 1.133
Söderpojkar
A gang of unemployed itinerant musicians play in the south of Stockholm. Then they get the chance to be an orchestra in a dance restaurant. It goes...
release : 1941.01.31popularis : 0.28
Ung dam med tur
The office worker Eva is told that she has inherited a massive amount of money in the United States.
release : 1941.09.29popularis : 1.614
Den underbara lögnen
The night before her wedding, a nervous bride examines her gifts and picks out a book of romantic short stories. Hoping to while away the evening,...
release : 1955.11.25popularis : 0.631
Botte i farten
Engineer Hellner has invented a cure that provides eternal youth.
release : 1945.07.27popularis : 0.423
Snurren direkt
A film mostly consisting of scenes from older films. A sleep researcher has produced a serum with very fast effect.
release : 1952.09.01popularis : 0.639
Lata Lena och blåögde Per
Mattsson is a fisherman and widower in the Stockholm archipelago. He has two adult daughters that help run the household, Magda and Lena. Lena...
release : 1947.08.30popularis : 2.849
The Balloon
Sten Stensson Stéen dies when he gets a wooden box in his head, and he enters heaven in a balloon.
release : 1946.10.07popularis : 1.092
Gentleman att hyra
Two friends, a rich landowner and a flight lieutenant, compete for the love of the same woman, singer Claire Wanner.
release : 1940.11.18popularis : 0.714
Gröna hissen
Ulla thinks her husband Billy is boring and starts dating other men. Lillans husband Peter is having important meetings, including girls. Billy and...
release : 1944.07.31popularis : 1.86
Löjtnant Galenpanna
At a restaurant visit happens to the distracted professor and flea animal expert Loris get his overcoat replaced by Lieutenant Juncker. Lt. discovers...
release : 1917.09.10popularis : 0.365
Fröken Vildkatt
Thomas Palm (Åke Söderblom) has recently been promoted at work at The Royal Canal Office. He celebrates with his friends on a night out...
release : 1941.12.15popularis : 0.803
Vi Masthuggspojkar
Karl and Ada are engaged, Gustaf is a sailor and in love with Elsa. For her sake he's willing to stay ashore.
release : 1940.10.23popularis : 0.449
Pettersson & Bendels nya affärer
After some time abroad, Bendel returns to Sweden and seeks up his old friend and business accomplice Pettersson to commit some new frauds.Follow-up...
release : 1945.02.26popularis : 0.871
Oppåt med Gröna Hissen
A man and a woman are cheated on by their respective partners and decide to get their revenge.
release : 1952.12.26popularis : 0.97
Reveille
Countess Hedvig von Wärnfelt (born Wärnfelt), receives her orphan's granddaughter Marianne to educate her in tukt and her reverence....
release : 1917.07.14popularis : 0.806
Fattiga riddare
Marianne is not satisfied with her job at a farm and dreams of moving to the big city. When she finally decides to go she is robbed on arrival. Two...
release : 1944.12.26popularis : 2.351
Hur tokigt som helst
"How crazy!" A man and a woman watch episodes from Nils Poppe movies outside a cinema Maxim in Stockholm. Poppe represents, among other things, a...
release : 1949.02.28popularis : 1.401
Fröken Kyrkråtta
Banking director Anders Berg in Gothenburg has found reason to terminate his former secretary Vivi Lundgren, who obviously did everything to vamp him.
release : 1941.04.07popularis : 1.98
Night Music
The rich Baron Von Meislingen dreams of being a poet-- Unfortunately, he has no talent what so ever. In one of his apartments lives the talented but...
release : 1918.04.01popularis : 0.228
The Lord from the Lane
The poor photographer Tibbe turns out to be the heir of the recently deceased count Silfverbåge. But he can only get the money on one...
release : 1949.06.07popularis : 0.89
Flottare med färg
"Colorful Raftsmen" - The three brothers Nils, Lars and Ivar are members of a raftsmen team. Ivar feels that he does not really belong there, he...
release : 1952.12.26popularis : 0.425
In the Arms of Roslagen
Based on Evert Taube songs about the sailor and womanizer Fritiof Andersson. Midsummer in the archipelago of Roslagen. Andersson has returned home to...
release : 1945.08.20popularis : 1.336
Helen of Troy
Intrigues and entanglements before Prince Paris wins the heart of beautiful Helena. It all happens in the small kingdom of Arcadia at the time of the...
release : 1951.12.26popularis : 1.998
Blåjackor
"Sailors" - A musical comedy about Kalle Svensson, a sergeant in the navy, and his loved one Nanette Raquette who works as a gymnastics teacher.
release : 1945.10.23popularis : 1.481
Magistrarna på sommarlov
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...
release : 1941.11.22popularis : 0.92
Den heliga lögnen
Helen Wahlman is the hostess of a luxury hotel in the mountains. Her husband fled to Chile 15 years ago, after being guilty of fraud, and was killed...
release : 1944.10.23popularis : 0.585
Tre glada tokar
The wealthy Rudolf Trane helps the unsuccessful vacuum-cleaner salesman Rhuter to find a girl called Marianne. Trane, Rhuter and Trane's manservant...
release : 1942.02.16popularis : 4.19
Love Goes Up and Down
Sixten reluctantly go to a ski resort in Åre to write a script to a movie.
release : 1946.08.30popularis : 0.959
Fransson the Terrible
A young baker moves to the small town of Västerby and becomes successful with a new type of whole wheat bread.
release : 1941.09.22popularis : 0.634
Släkten är bäst
The hypocritical wholesaler Johan Ekberg is taught a lesson.
release : 1944.02.26popularis : 1.145
Hotell Kåkbrinken
Laban Lundström is the porter at Hotell Kåkbrinken. The hotel is threatened by wholesaler Sjökvist, who wants to pull down the house...
release : 1946.12.26popularis : 0.872
I gult och blått
Erik Brenner is crazy about football and his girlfriend Britta. She tries to make him concentrate on his studies, but that's easier said than done.
release : 1942.11.11popularis : 0.615
Två sköna juveler
Two broke actors are employed as private detectives to protect the young woman Ewa, who is on her way to Paris to sell a valuable piece of jewellery.
release : 1954.12.06popularis : 2.372
Lillebror och jag
Manager Björkman is going bankrupt and has to take desperate measures to try to sort his life together.
release : 1940.03.11popularis : 0.813
Lille Napoleon
Office worker Napoleon Larsson is an unnoticed existence. One day when he arrives late for work, he gets fired, but through his wife's actions he...
release : 1943.05.31popularis : 1.254
Lorden från gränden
Tiburtius "Tibbe" Pettersson is a poor photographer in Stockholm's Old Town. He has a fiancee, Maja Sjöblom, who is a waitress. Tibbe has begun...
release : 1967.03.27popularis : 2.272
Ung och kär
The two young attachées Freddie Rundhult and Rutger af Utterfeldt at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are rivals for the beautiful operetta...
release : 1950.11.11popularis : 1.152
Lilla helgonet
Celestin is the singing teacher in a monastery and Denis is one of her students. They both dream about the life outside. (It's a Swedish version of...
release : 1944.08.01popularis : 0.724
His Grace's Will
His grace, the Lord Chamberlain and Colonel Baron Roger Bernhusen de Sars of Rogershus, Klockeberga and Björkenäs, will celebrate his 70th...
release : 1940.12.26popularis : 1.415
Tre skojiga skojare
The author Tom Berger has written a book that is very prejudiced against women. The local chapter of Women's League starts a campaign against him.
release : 1942.08.31popularis : 0.53
Det spökar - det spökar...
The hunt for a precious porcelain tableware leads to the Möllegården estate, where ghosts are said to live.
release : 1943.09.06popularis : 0.748
The Suburban Vicar
"Suburban Priest". The film premiered on September 3 1917 at cinema Sture and Brunkeberg Theatre in Stockholm . The film was shot at the Hasselblad...
release : 1917.07.09popularis : 0.969
Skattefria Andersson
Andersson is always complaining about high taxes and dreams about a world with no taxes.
release : 1954.08.01popularis : 0.632
Anderssonskans Kalle
Anderssonskans Kalle is the typical 'Söderkis'. It's a boy growing up on Söder in Stockholm and he is very fond of practical jokes. His...
release : 1950.11.21popularis : 2.846
Rattens musketörer
Three cab drivers win a big sum of money and try to adjust to their new lifestyles.
release : 1945.10.29popularis : 0.623