The best John Elfström’s 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.
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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

The Wind Is My Lover

The Wind Is My Lover
5.7/10
Set in medieval times about the cursed Moonshield family. The young knight Erland Moonshield fall in love with a gypsy enchantress, Singoalla, he meet in the forest.

Minns ni?

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

One Summer of Happiness

One Summer of Happiness
6.8/10
The young high school graduate Göran and the 17-year-old Kerstin get to know each other on the estate of Göran's uncle Persson and fall in love. But their relationship is watched suspiciously by the jammed adult world. While Persson has an understanding of the youth, Kerstin's parents and the pastor of the village rant against the alleged immorality of the young people. Despite all the malice, Göran and Kerstin decide for their love. But this love should last only one summer.

Music in Darkness

Music in Darkness
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 17/01/1948
  • Character: Otto Kelmens
Because of an accident at a military drill the recruit Bengt loses his eyesight and becomes blind. He gets to live with relatives in the countryside and meets the young Ingrid. She falls in love with him but Bengt's bitterness also makes him blind to her attentions.

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. ...

Saltstänk och krutgubbar

Saltstänk och krutgubbar
4.4/10
  • 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.

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.

Wonderful Adventures of Nils

Wonderful Adventures of Nils
6.4/10
Nils lives with his parents in the south of Sweden. He is a naughty boy and teases like the animals on the farm. They should not have him and be happy if he is bewitched one day with his hamster Crumb for punishment by a gnome.

Hård klang

Hård klang
4.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 15/09/1952
  • Character: Olof Rydberg
A small Swedish village has transformed to an industrial center with exports to Germany. A German opened a quarry some 50 years ago, after realizing the value of granite. Now WW1 begins.

Den Hårda Leken

Den Hårda Leken
5.8/10
  • Release: 10/09/1956
  • Character: William Persson
Conny Persson is an up-and-coming boxer. He wins the Junior Championships and is able to write a contract with boxing manager Andy Ekström. He falls in love with Margit. She doesn't like that he is boxing, but together they open a flower shop. When Conny still won't give up boxing, Margit tells him that he has to chose between her and the boxing.

The Yellow Squadron

The Yellow Squadron
5.3/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 29/11/1954
  • Character: Holm, Dag's father
The year is 1954. The war in Korea has just ended and the superpowers stand by each side of the boarder. The peace in Europe is fragile and the cold war is imminent. At F8 - Air Fore Base, the yellow squadron stand ready with its J29 fighters.

Åsa-Nisse ordnar allt

Åsa-Nisse ordnar allt
4.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 19/09/1955
  • Character: Åsa-Nisse
Åsa-Nisse has a bad back and when he visits the doctor he gets an experimental medicine for horses by mistake. Suddenly Åsa-Nisse has super strengths and becomes an unbeatable athlete.

A Dream Play

A Dream Play
7.1/10
"A dream play" - This made-for-television film constituted Bergman’s first production of Strindberg’s A Dream Play – a play he would revisit three times more. Gunnar Ollén’s Malmö crew was behind this, for its time, prestigious and costly theatre production, involving more than 40 actors and no less than 75 extras.

Åsa-Nisse jubilerar

Åsa-Nisse jubilerar
4.3/10
  • Release: 04/09/1959
  • Character: Åsa-Nisse
The local newspaper celebrates 50 years and are now looking for a citizen who has lived as long in the neighborhood. Our hero Åsa-Nisse seems to fit the profile.

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.

Doktor Knock

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

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

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

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