John Elfström Movies

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...

A teacher is so hard on his students that he faces a warning by the school principal. In order to at least improve the strained relationship with his...

Frank Bing is a big artist in the USA and arrives home in his native Sweden with his secretary Ada. The portier at the hotel has great difficulties...

Wholesaler Ferdinand wants his son to marry his firm partner's daughter, but the problem is they don't want to get married. The son turns to a friend...

Gustav Vasa struggles to keep power while dealing with the Dacke War in his own country and his foreign debts.

Midsummer Eve in Malmfors in the 1880s. The holiday is celebrated with a big party. Three blacksmiths leave the ironworks and become drifters,...

Narcissa and Elina work in a small town social service office and have various erotic encounters with the people who visit it.

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...

The author Tom Berger has written a book that is very prejudiced against women. The local chapter of Women's League starts a campaign against him.

Nils Dacke, leader of the revolt against Gustav Vasa, is torn between his anger over social injustice and royal oppression, and his doubt in the...

A young baker moves to the small town of Västerby and becomes successful with a new type of whole wheat bread.

Tv play based on Hjalmar Bergmans play Swedenhielms from 1923.

Play by Federico Garcia Lorca. Swedish interpretation of Hjalmar Gullberg and Karin Alin.

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....

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.

The local newspaper celebrates 50 years and are now looking for a citizen who has lived as long in the neighborhood. Our hero Åsa-Nisse seems...

The stingy fisherman Ericsson lives on a small island north of Stockholm with his wife Johanna och her father Isak.

Simon lives a quiet life on his farm until one day he discovers he is the heir of a great fortune.

In a rural parish in 1906, young Heikki, one of the Finnish immigrants, lives a wild and free life in the deep forest. After poaching, his furs are...

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...