John Ekman Movies

An alcoholic, abusive ne'er-do-well is shown the error of his ways through a legend that dooms the last person to die on New Year's Eve before the...

Terje Vigen, a sailor, suffers the loss of his family through the inflexibility of another man. Years later, when his enemy's family finds itself...

After learning that his wife has been killed in an accident, a violinist looks back on their relationship.

A stranger comes to work at widow Halla's farm. Halla and the stranger fall in love, but when he is revealed as Eyvind, an escaped thief forced into...

1813. The Swedish army is fighting in the War of the Sixth Coalition. The popular general Von Döbeln is arrested for sending the army against...

The son of a wealthy farmer loves a simple maid, for which he's booted out of the house by his father.

A gardener's son has fallen in love with the daughter of one of the workers at the nursery, and the two are married. The gardener then kicks his...

The farmer Magni is planning to marry Teresia, but the maid Lovisa has other plans.

In an occupied country, the people rise to throw off the occupants. This includes Jens the farmer and his three sons who successfully perform sneak...

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...

Olof Koskela, the only son is driven from home when he wants to marry the wrong girl. He takes a job as a floater. His reputation as a womanizer goes...

An old poor man steals some wood and gets sentenced to 1 1/2 years of hard labor.

A collective of office girls and their tribulations in the male world, female solidarity, the place of women in the labor and civil rights struggles...

Mauritz Stiller directed adaptation of Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Das fremde Mädchen.

About loaner Master Samuel, based on a writings by Hjalmar Bergman

A married writer's luck turns when he gets a play produced at Théâtre de Paris. He meets the femme fatale who should play the lead in...

A travelling theater-company performs Offenbach's "The Beautiful Helene" when an officer in the audience notices the similarity in appearance between...

Baron Henric Löwencrona af Löwstaborg allows his daughter to marry a worker's son.

Björn Norell, a bookish assistant to an art dealer, is fired because of his inability to find the third of a trio of Buddha statues. In order to...

A Swedish feature film based on a novel by Fritiof Nilsson Piraten.