John Elfström Movies

A Swedish TV movie based on the play L'Hôtel du Libre échange from 1894.

Gunnar Carlman has returned to Sweden after a few years as a cowboy in Canada. He starts to work at a farm owned by vivacious and strongwilled...

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...

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...

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...

A smuggler's daughter falls in love with the son of a customs inspector.

The priest Hagen comes to a small Norwegian village one stormy evening. He brings the tragic news to wife Sigrid Bakken. Her husband and oldest son...

Jonas goes with a tremendous speed with his horse over a country road in Hälsingland. Because of this speed Birgit Ljusnar, who is along the...

Rudolf Carlsson, who works at a department store, dreams of making movies.

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...

A melancholic depiction of life in a small Swedish town, seen through the eyes of a six-year-old boy.

The year is 1906. Somewhere on the long lake of Fryken, pastor David Amberg appears. He is not satisfied with the religious life of the countryside....

Based on Evert Taube songs about the sailor and womanizer Fritiof Andersson. Midsummer in the archipelago of Roslagen. Andersson has returned home to...

Tv play based on Hjalmar Bergmans play Swedenhielms from 1923.

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

The fishermen Österman and Sjöberg are sued by merchant Wikström. In order to raise capital, they decide to start producing a medicine...

Swedish comedy from 1940. Kurre Karlsson, a simple man of the people, will be called up for military training given by an anti-aircraft units at sea....

Tomas Eckert, a civil servant, is subjected to a violated woman's revenge. It happens to be his boss's wife, Märta Palm. Tomas is accused of...

Prince Hamlet returns home from the university of Wittenberg to attend his father's funeral. His uncle Claudius, the new King, has announced his...

If I give birth, I will certainly be punished and lose my reputation. If I don't, then I may be punished, too. And also lose my reputation.