Movies: Åke Claesson

Based on the play by August Strindberg, Miss Julie vividly depicts the battle of the sexes and classes that ensues when Julie, a wealthy businessman's daughter, falls for Jean, her father's bitter servant....

Helge Lysvik is a farmers son. He dreams of a future as a musician....

Because of an accident at a military drill the recruit Bengt loses his eyesight and becomes blind. He gets to live with relatives in the countryside and meets the young Ingrid. She falls in love with him but Bengt's bitterness also makes him blind to...

Vicar Ahrman's young daughter Jenny has left the home to start a new life with her beloved Stefan. But Jenny's dreams for the future is shattered when Stefan doesn't turn up to their meeting. Heartbroken, she returns home....

Robert, an upper-class officer, meets and falls in love with Iris, a house maid. His family will do anything to stop her from marrying him....

Marine Bo Fredriksson is travelling home on a leave. He reminisce about an accident he caused as a 12-year old which killed a young girl, an event that has made him feel revulsion for death. Back home he meets Eva, a girl he fancies and they move tog...

Jan Froman is a young man with great plans for the future. He gets a job as an assistant janitor at a bank, but with inherited money he starts to buy and sell real estate which eventually increases in value. He falls in love with Margareta, whose fat...

Latin teacher Birger Sjögren at Ringsala boarding school threatens his possesive and chronically ill mother that he will get married. She gets a stroke and dies. Sjögren is affected by feelings of guilt, envy and hatred towards the surroundings. A se...

A gang of friends lose their club house and collect money for a new one by singing in public....

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 having abused Mrs.Palm. She also reveals that Tomas's wife is morphine addict. He collapses and is forced to ...

Teodor is happy and newly married to Marianne; unfortunately, his domineering mother-in-law shares the young couple's home....

Ingegerd Lindberg is coming to Stockholm from the countryside. The first person she meets at the Central Station is Curt Brehmer....

The small town of Gåtatorp in Småland is entirely dependent on its prominent furniture factory. But the factory is in danger because the weak economy means that the bank wants to shut down the factory....

A young woman is predestined to marry her fathers companion. During the summer she falls in love with an artist. The intended husband detects the love affair and confronts the couple....

A man meets prisoner Nils Gustaf Boman and asks him why he strayed from the straight and narrow. The prisoner says: "Put yourself in my position." The man does and sees before him himself as Nils Gustaf Boman....

A free fantasy about the Swedish poet and adventurer Lars Wivallius....

A classic melodrama about the famous pianist Thomas Dahlhoff....

"A Crime" - A murder is committed in an apartment building in Stockholm. And afterward all clues point toward the Justice of the Supreme Court and his sons. But who did it? And why? And will they be able to live with the guilt?...

In Stockholm in the year 2248 an excavation leads to the discovery of 45,000 meters of film from the 1940's master director Hasse Ekman . The material is in a disarray but the Society for Ancient Film Research compiles the material after what is beli...

The Swedish officer Mikael Bourg has served with the French army in Africa. When he returns to Sweden after many years abroad to recover from malaria, he meets his son, a student who prefers partying with his frat friends instead of his bank job; a d...