Adolf Jahr Movies

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

Urban girl falls for rugged forest ranger.

Karl Oskar Bohm looks back at his life, his estranged daughter Augusta and his wife Sofia.

Bragehus manor receives a new farm bailiff with new ideas on how to run a modern farm. The manor is haunted by a ghost.

Jompa 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...

Young Elisabeth comes to Västlinge to meet her old relative, the vicar and and his young daughter. She is going to spend the Christmas there in...

Young drifter tells his story in flashback from prison.

To get away from his nagging wife, a man goes to a desert island to settle down there.

Princess Caroline travels incognito to Stockholm and meets the Prince Birger, who also uses a fake name.

"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...

First mate Karlsson is mistaken for famous actor Linde.

The Österman brothers have come to realize that they need a housekeeper. Oldest brother Kalle travel to town and return with the young and...

The sailor Axel Nord is asked by his captain to do him a favor before his leave begins. Captain Rundholm wants him to give a letter to his niece in...

Fabian Bom is a waiter at a hotel in a small town. But he dreams of doing something else - to dance and sing on a stage. He is madly in love with...

Malm is the editor at a Stockholm newspaper who gets the assignment to cover the big ski race Vasaloppet.

Old fashioned teachers are taught swing dancing by a student.

Janne Vängman is having dreams of meeting aliens from outer space.

Johansson has managed to stay away from the military service for several years. But now his time has come.

"Strange Harbor " - A Swedish cargo ship is in the winter of 1938 at the dock in Gdynia in Poland, waiting to depart with coal to Sweden. In a tavern...

Erik Ernsson is on his way to Jon-Persgården in Ångermanland to seek employment. He befriends the old man Janne Vängman.