The best Gunnar Sjöberg’s comedy movies

Gunnar Sjöberg

Gunnar Sjöberg

25/03/1909- 08/06/1977
We present our ranking of the best Gunnar Sjöberg’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Gunnar Sjöberg.

The Devil's Eye

The Devil's Eye
7.1/10
The devil has a stye in his eye, caused by the purity of a vicar's daughter. To get rid of it, he sends Don Juan up from hell to seduce the 20 year old Britt-Marie and to rob her of her virginity and her belief in love. She however can resist him and things get even turned around when Don Juan falls in love with her. The fact that he feels love for the first time now, makes him even less attractive to her and Don Juan returns to hell.

Seventh Heaven

Seventh Heaven
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 11/06/1956
  • Character: Bernhard Svanström
"Seventh Heaven" - Famous radio personality Willy Lorens has a big success with the radio series "Seventh Heaven." The amount of fan mail and attention eventually becomes too much for Willy, who suffers a minor collapse. Taken to a hospital where he meets Dr. Lovisa Sundelius, virtually the only woman in Sweden who do not admire the radio idol.

Dårskapens hus

Dårskapens hus
4.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 21/09/1951
  • Character: Kapten Hansson (archive footage)
In Stockholm in the year 2248 an excavation leads to the discovery of 45,000 meters of film from the 1940's master director Hasse Ekman . The material is in a disarray but the Society for Ancient Film Research compiles the material after what is believed to have been the master's artistic intentions

Night Light

Night Light
5.8/10
Sixteen year old Maria arrives in Stockholm. She is going to stay with her aunt. Already at the Central station events occur that change her route.

Do You Believe in Angels?

Do You Believe in Angels?
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 30/01/1961
  • Character: Karl-Evert Raeder
Jan Froman is a young man with great plans for the future. He gets a job as an assistant janitor at a bank, but with inherited money he starts to buy and sell real estate which eventually increases in value. He falls in love with Margareta, whose father is a naval officer. Margareta is slighted by her fiance and follows Froman on a sailing trip in the archipelago. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

The Priest Who Knocked Out

The Priest Who Knocked Out
4.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 06/03/1943
  • Character: Artist
The boxing promoter Charlie returns from America to Sweden and needs to find a professional Swedish boxer for an upcoming fight. By chance Charlie watches Björn Harring fight off some hoodlums. Charlie sees great potential in Björn and wants to promote him for an upcoming fight, the problem is though that Björn is studying theology and is soon to become a priest. This might not look too good in a prejudiced society of the 40s with a boxing priest, but Charlie is determent to find a way.

Kurragömma

Kurragömma
4.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 05/02/1963
  • Character: Francesco Felici
An escaped convict assumes the identity of a professor in order to reveal a criminal syndicate who smuggle diamonds together with Parisian haute couture.

Landstormens lilla argbigga

Landstormens lilla argbigga
5.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 22/03/1941
  • Character: Engineer
Spoiled upper class girl must join a home defense unit to learn military drill and fall in love with a lieutenant.

Pälsen

Pälsen
Doctor Henck is having bad day, and borrows a fur from a friend. It gives him new confidence, and his day immediately gets better. Hjalmar Söderberg's rejected 1911 movie script, filmed in 1966 for TV as a silent film with a piano soundtrack, to match the time in which it was written for.

Den glade skomakaren

Den glade skomakaren
4.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 19/09/1955
  • Character: Hjalmar "Hjalle" Ek
Sture and Birgit are secretly engaged. One day when they are kissing, they are discovered by Sture's father Dana. However, he promises not to reveal anything, as Sture would probably lose his job on Birgit's father Hjalle's shipyard. When Hjalle is forced by a usurer to pay back 23,000 on a loan, he gets problem. Dana promises to solve the problem, the question is just how. There is only one person that could help him, his childhood friend Gösta Hägg that nowadays is the director of a big company. But time passes quickly, and where is Mr. Hägg ...?

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