The best John Elfström’s comedy movies

John Elfström

John Elfström

20/04/1902- 27/03/1981
Today we present the best John Elfström’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best John Elfström’s movies.

Kristin Commands

Kristin Commands
5.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 02/09/1946
  • Character: Herman Karlsson
Translator Vilhelm and his young wife have a child, as well as a grumpy housemaid 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.

A Lesson in Love

A Lesson in Love
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 04/10/1954
  • Character: Sam, driver
After 15 years of marriage, David and Marianne have grown apart. David has had an affair with a patient of his and Marianne has got herself involved with her former lover Carl-Adam, who's also David's best friend. When she travels to Copenhagen to meet Carl-Adam, David takes the same train as she does, making it look coincidental. Spending time together remembering their past and talking about their future, they come to understand each other again, which leads to a reconciliation.

The Lustful Vicar

The Lustful Vicar
4.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 29/03/1970
  • Character: Parish Clerk and Organist
During a witch trial in the seventeenth century a woman is accused of being a witch and burned at the stake. The witch curse the village priest who pushed through the accusations and promises that her offspring will avenge her. During the Caroline the priest's son take over as vicar of the congregation, and the daughter of the witch bewitches him so that he suffers constant erection. This is off course very embarrassing for the vicar. The local women has to step in and try to set things right

Sjösalavår

Sjösalavår
5.4/10
The Troubadour sits at a rock beside his summerhouse Sjösala in the Stockholm archipelago. He is composing a new ballad, when his son Sven Bertil interrupts him, telling him that an angry man is knocking at their door. It is the creditor Andersson, coming with a new unpaid bill to be put on the top of all the other. The Troubadour is tired of all economical problems. It disturbs the peace he needs to be able to write new songs, and without new songs he cannot earn the money he needs to pay the bills. To get peace and inspiration for his writing, he makes a quick decision to go to Buenos Aires. By phone he persuades his publisher to prepay 7000 kronor for some future book. On the little ferry from the islands in the sea to Stockholm city the Troubadour is carried away by his imagination into the fictitious world of his main character Fritiof Andersson. Colorful scenes from various songs are enacted before his dreaming eyes. In Stockholm he spends the night at the inn Gyldene Freden. ...

Hotell Kåkbrinken

Hotell Kåkbrinken
4.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 26/12/1946
  • Character: Laban Lundström
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.

Flickan i fönstret mitt emot

Flickan i fönstret mitt emot
5.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 03/03/1942
  • Character: Pelle, bricklayer
A 1942 film.

Åsa-Nisse som polis

Åsa-Nisse som polis
3.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 19/09/1960
  • Character: Åsa-Nisse
Country bailiff believes that a man of the people shall exercise police work. Åsa-Nisse appointed to the local police for some time. "Nesses" sometimes odd methods will still work somehow. Åsa-Nisse and Klabbarparn then visit Gothenburg to see the singer Gun from Knohult at Liseberg. There they also take a tour of the roller-coaster.

Åsa-Nisse på hal is

Åsa-Nisse på hal is
3.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/09/1954
  • Character: Åsa-Nisse
Åsa-Nisse and Klabbarparn are winter fishing.

Åsa-Nisse på Mallorca

Åsa-Nisse på Mallorca
3.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 31/08/1962
  • Character: Åsa-Nisse
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.

Fransson den förskräcklige

Fransson den förskräcklige
4.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 22/09/1941
  • Character: Gunnar, Franssons kamrat
A young baker moves to the small town of Västerby and becomes successful with a new type of whole wheat bread.

Doktor Knock

Doktor Knock
Doctor Knock takes over a medical clinic in a small town and provides a medical revival.

Åsa-Nisse slår till

Åsa-Nisse slår till
2.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 03/09/1965
  • Character: Åsa-Nisse
Åsa-Nisse and Klabbarparn with wives taking part in a jenka-contest from Knohult to Vetlanda where he reports with his homemade walkie-talkie. Then he demonstrates the "Demon-Spritzer", a self-made cement machine which then breaks down and squirts down Klabbarparn with cement. Sjökvist is robbed and bike down with his delivery-bicycle in water at a beach. The robbers then repents and wants to return the money. Features performances from artists Sten & Stanley, The Moonlighters, and Shane.

Åsa-Nisse på nya äventyr

Åsa-Nisse på nya äventyr
3.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 19/09/1952
  • Character: Åsa-Nisse
Åsa-Nisse advertise for Summer guests and from Stockholm arrives Mrs. Niklasson and her atlethic daughter Elsa who is currently training for the olympic games.

Åsa-Nisse i agentform

Åsa-Nisse i agentform
3.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 25/08/1967
  • Character: Åsa-Nisse
Åsa-Nisse and Klabbarparn teach Sjökvisten how to be a secret agent.

Åsa-Nisse in Rocket Form

Åsa-Nisse in Rocket Form
3.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 26/08/1966
  • Character: Åsa-Nisse
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...

När Bengt och Anders bytte hustrur

När Bengt och Anders bytte hustrur
5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 23/12/1950
  • Character: Bengt Bengtsson
Two neighbours, each with a small plot of land, hate each other. Both are dissatisfied with his wife.

Saltstänk och krutgubbar

Saltstänk och krutgubbar
4.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 28/10/1946
  • Character: August Karlsson
The stingy fisherman Ericsson lives on a small island north of Stockholm with his wife Johanna och her father Isak.

Åsa-Nisse

Åsa-Nisse
4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 22/10/1949
  • Character: Åsa-Nisse

Åsa-Nisse flyger i luften

Åsa-Nisse flyger i luften
3.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 07/09/1956
  • Character: Åsa-Nisse
Åsa-Nisse has invented a very powerful engine and he sells the patent. However, the grocery store owner Sjökvist has been sneaking around ...

Åsa-Nisse på jaktstigen

Åsa-Nisse på jaktstigen
4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 11/09/1950
  • Character: Åsa-Nisse
Nils Nilsson from Åsen, better known as Åsa-Nisse and his friend Klabbarparn goes Moose hunting. As a result of a sabotage, staged by their wives, Åsa-Nisse is accused for hunting with illegal weapons.

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