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

Gösta Berling is a young and attractive minister. Because of his alcoholism and his daring sermons, he is finally defrocked. He becomes a tutor...

The favorite slave girl of a tyrannical sheik falls in love with a cloth merchant. Meanwhile, a hunchback clown suffers unrequited love for a...

When his ancestors seem to appear in the clouds during a storm of biblical proportions, young Ingmar decides to give up his career as the village...

The story of Brennende Grenze (= Burning Border) starts after the end of WWI. Polish franctireurs invade the German bordering regions which are to be...

The perfect body as an object of cult worship. Based on the mass sports and body worship movement of the 1920s, the film propagates physical training...

Compilation film with scenes from different Swedish silent films, many of the films have since been lost and the only surviving fragments can be...

When Ellen Brenton takes a swim too far from the shore she is be saved by the lifeguard Bob. While her husband is away on business Bob gets drunk and...

A naval adventure that focuses on the rivalry among the crew, particularly the indignation wrought by the behavior of inplacable Captain Steen. Dick,...

Eva Bennet, a young mysterious widow appears at Pension Sanssouci in Berlin during the Weimar era. She attracts a lot of attention from everybody,...

Silent film starring Jenny Hasselqvist

On a farm in up-country Sweden, an enigmatic stranger comes to a conservative peasant community and seduces a farmer's wife.

Lovers are torn apart by a noble's desire for the female half of the couple.

"Guilty" - Thomas Feld returns home after 16 years in prison to find his wife Magda and daughter Maria fell in the hands of Peter Cornelius, the...

At the end of the middle ages, Ursula is accused of having poisoned her own husband. She claims she is innocent, but to prove it, she must submit to...

A wealthy Russian family is faced with change and challenges as events unfold during the First World War.

Gösta is a trainee for the brutal Algren. He runs away and get to know a friendly drifter.

When Ingmar Ingmarsson marries Barbro Svensdotter there's a big party with many guests. But the bride and groom are unhappy.

A husband, jealous of his wife's flirtations with another man, hatches a plot to make his wife jealous.

This is the story of Olof Svensson who works as a streetcar conductor in Stockholm. In his free time he is a music composer.