John Elfström Movies

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...

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...

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...

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...

A film adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf's classic book about Nils Holgersson, who is a real rascal. As punishment for his mischief, a house elf...

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...

The boxing promoter Charlie returns from America to Sweden and needs to find a professional Swedish boxer for an upcoming fight. By chance Charlie...

A story about a boy named Anders, who lives in an ordinary Swedish family in an apartment at the train station. Through his childhood, he experiences...

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

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...

"A dream play" - This made-for-television film constituted Bergman’s first production of Strindberg’s A Dream Play – a play he...

A bus company wants to acquire traffic rights on an island in the Stockholm archipelago. The steam boats will be replaced by buses, but Captain...

The famous author Mark Storm's publisher is unhappy with his books and asks him to write books in a more popular genre, crime for example. When Mark...

Swedish film of the Kaj Munk play that was made into a far more famous film by Carl Dreyer in Denmark twelve years later.

Åsa-Nisse has invented a very powerful engine and he sells the patent. However, the grocery store owner Sjökvist has been sneaking around...

In the middle of the 1800s Swedish prince Gustaf meets the actress Anna Maria Wastenius and falls in love with her, but it is an impossible love...

Midsummer Eve in Malmfors in the 1880s. The holiday is celebrated with a big party. Three blacksmiths leave the ironworks and become drifters,...

Mattsson is a fisherman and widower in the Stockholm archipelago. He has two adult daughters that help run the household, Magda and Lena. Lena...

A teacher is so hard on his students that he faces a warning by the school principal. In order to at least improve the strained relationship with his...

David, a young woodsman with a family, is leasing a farm. The family are welcomed by the locals until it becomes known that David is the son of a...