Adolf Jahr Movies

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

Malm is the editor at a Stockholm newspaper who gets the assignment to cover the big ski race Vasaloppet.

Karl Oskar Bohm looks back at his life, his estranged daughter Augusta and his wife Sofia.

Erik, the son of a wealthy farmer, and Anna, the daughter of a poor crofter, have known each other since they were children. Now, that they are grown...

"Strange Harbor " - A Swedish cargo ship is in the winter of 1938 at the dock in Gdynia in Poland, waiting to depart with coal to Sweden. In a tavern...

There is a barn dance in the village Stubbhult. Johan Snippen and his friend the stationmaster Mandus plays happily, when a fight is about to break...

Erik Ernsson is on his way to Jon-Persgården in Ångermanland to seek employment. He befriends the old man Janne Vängman.

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...

Young drifter tells his story in flashback from prison.

Fabian Bom is a waiter at a hotel in a small town. But he dreams of doing something else - to dance and sing on a stage. He is madly in love with...

"How crazy!" A man and a woman watch episodes from Nils Poppe movies outside a cinema Maxim in Stockholm. Poppe represents, among other things, a...

Young Elisabeth comes to Västlinge to meet her old relative, the vicar and and his young daughter. She is going to spend the Christmas there in...

Old fashioned teachers are taught swing dancing by a student.

The two young attachées Freddie Rundhult and Rutger af Utterfeldt at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are rivals for the beautiful operetta...

The two conmen Bendel and Pettersson starts doing business together. Bendel got the brains and Pettersson the charm.

In the village of Stubbhult lives many motorcycle interested young people. However, their rampage interfere with the local population.

In a small town called Skrabbarp in Southern Sweden lives the school teacher Sebastian Pettersson, an amateur detective and one of the most diligent...

Janne Vängman is having dreams of meeting aliens from outer space.

A small Swedish town just after WW1. An accountant and his two journalist friends have entered the stock market. The result is not as good as...

Operetta singer Adolf Berg will be called up for military duty just as he gets assigned a major role in an operetta. On the train he meets Ulla Wern...