Lars Hanson Movies

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 eventually defrocked. He becomes tutor...

Snippets of Greta Garbo movies interspersed with provincial gigs of girls resembling Garbo. The film begins with one of the aspirants reading an...

The farmer Knut Husaby has a daughter, Aslaug, who is the most beautiful girl in the village. Many boys are after her, but Knut and his two sons...

An allegory of Germany's WWII occupation of Norway. Members of a theater ensemble join the resistance.

Erotikon is a 1920 Swedish romantic comedy film directed by Mauritz Stiller, starring Tora Teje, Karin Molander, Anders de Wahl and Lars Hanson. It...

One day when Ruben Stiller is playing in a bath, he gets an alien talking to Nadja, who asks him to find out the fate of Charly's dog. Ruben agrees...

A tribute to Swedish film, which was made to celebrate the 100th anniversary of film in 1995 and consists of about a hundred clips from Swedish film...

Synnöve lives with her parents at the farm Solbakken on a sunny hill. Thorbjörn, who lives at Granliden in the shadow of a big mountain,...

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

[For 9 minute surviving fragment] Lucian, a soldier in Paris, is to ship out for Algiers at 9 that evening. He stops by for a last meal with his...

Celebrated elderly Austrian poet opposes nazism, while his daughter admires and falls in love with leading nazi activist, who eventually becomes...

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

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

Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini at a gala held in Sweden in 1953.

Professor Barring is awarded the Nobel Prize in physics. According to Barring the scientist's sole duty is to seek the truth, even if this leads to...

Just before the young Anna is getting married to the lighthouse keeper Holmstrand, she meets the Norwegian sailor John. He falls in love with her,...

Helga is a young single lady who has a baby by a much older married man. After the older man tells Helga's father that he refuses to pay child...

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

The widower Jakob Vindås lives with his daughter and his mother in a small west coast fishing community.