The best Hasse Ekman’s comedy movies

Hasse Ekman

Hasse Ekman

10/09/1915- 15/02/2004
We present our ranking of the best Hasse Ekman’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 Hasse Ekman.

Seventh Heaven

Seventh Heaven
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 11/06/1956
  • Character: Willy Lorens
"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.

The Girl from the Third Row

The Girl from the Third Row
7.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 29/08/1949
  • Character: Sture Anker
A ring passes between a lot of different people, giving the bearer or someone close a new meaning to life. Actors, embezzlers, old ladies and cheated husbands all seem to gain temporary hope from misery and disillusionment.

Dårskapens hus

Dårskapens hus
4.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 21/09/1951
  • Character: Hans Hasseson Ekman / Fänrik Bråde / Kim (voice)
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

Miss Chic

Miss Chic
5.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 26/01/1959
  • Character: Buster Carell
An agent on the brink of bankruptcy finds a reluctant singing talent on a TV quiz show.

Heaven and Pancakes

Heaven and Pancakes
5.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 02/11/1959
  • Character: Willy Lorens
Sequel to Sjunde himlen (1956). Dr. Lovisa Sundelius (Sickan Carlsson) and radio host Willy Lorens (Hasse Ekman) have been happily married for a couple of years, but when Willy becomes a TV host with cutie Suss (Lena Granhagen) by his side, things start to fall apart

The Staffan Stolle Story

The Staffan Stolle Story
6.3/10
Staffan Stolle becomes the sole heir to a rich and noble family when he is just a little boy. Early on he is engaged to be married to a girl he finds he does not love. Instead he flees the country only to return under a false name, looking for true love.

The Royal Rabble

The Royal Rabble
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 19/01/1945
  • Character: Tommy Anker
The ups and downs of three generations in an acting family.

Little Martin Returns

Little Martin Returns
4.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 14/08/1948
  • Character: Second Lieutenant Svensson
Sture Letterström and Kurre Svensson take on the task of rescuing a secret document during World War II from a group of Swedish Nazis. Since both of them are known by the local Nazis, Sture takes on the role of Miss Märta Letterström, and Kurre also has to make use of his feminine side as well as a dress.

Med glorian på sned

Med glorian på sned
5.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/07/1957
  • Character: Per-Axel Dahlander
A secretary at a publishing company, Birgitta, writes a novel, based on her secret love of her boss. She sends it anonymously to her own company, who decides to publish it. The book becomes a success. Birgitta's husband's mistress get hold of the script and confesses that *she* wrote the novel. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

Put Our Märta First or As Luck Will Have It

Put Our Märta First or As Luck Will Have It
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 29/09/1945
  • Character: Kurre
An out-of-work musician is desperate for work and when his best friend sees an add requesting a cellist he signs him up. However, the work is for a female, so he creates the character Märta Letterström and joins the trio at a small-town hotel. But being a woman is not as easy as you think.

Lyckan kommer

Lyckan kommer
5.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 17/08/1942
  • Character: Voice on the radio
The idle rich have their own particular problems. Case in point, Georg and Monika Hedberg were once poor and happy but since Georg became an established painter family bliss has decreased for every fur coat Monika has bought. Their divorce lawyer suggest that they try to save their marriage by moving to a small apartment and live life frugally but happy. When the trial period is over and they want to return home again, their lawyer has stolen their money and disappeared. The Hedbergs are evicted for unpaid rent and terminal poverty seem to be imminent. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

The Great Amateur

The Great Amateur
5.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 22/06/1958
  • Character: Max Wallby
Modern fairy tale about the small town of Fårtuna where the chief of police is also an amateur theater director. The local shop assistant Linda aspires to become an actress and gets discovered by a talent agent from Stockholm.

I rök och dans

I rök och dans
5.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 30/07/1954
  • Character: Well dressed man in haystack
Episodic, musical comedy. Povel Ramel company Knäppupp's first film where Martin Ljung plays 16 different roles.

One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer

One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer
5.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 17/09/1947
  • Character: Bertil
When Inga Brantemo goes on a business trip to Italy, her husband Bertil gets romantically involved with Christina Lovén, whose father is a book publisher. When Inga returns, Bertil has a difficult time trying to explain who the woman the neighbors saw in the Brantemo home was. Bertil is an author and it doesn't get easier when he and his wife gets invited to Christina's father to talk business.

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