Movies: Nils Poppe

When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Block sets off on...

A feather-light comedy from 1920's Mölle with Nils Poppe and the Gaubier ballet. The play is about a grey aged bachelor who suddenly becomes every woman's dream prince when a rumor starts to circulate that he used to have a relationship with a famous...

The Fredriksdal outdoor theatre has been a comedy staple of Swedish summers and television in winters for decades. First under Nils Poppe and then under Eva Rydberg. But 2023 was Eva's last summer in charge of the theatre and the end of this era is c...

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 history with many of its stars....

The beautiful widow Josefina Pellerin falls for the hapless Mille after he saves her life. However her nephew wants Josefina to marry his commanding officer instead....

Three lazy old brothers living together in the Stockholm archipelago hire a housekeeper. When she starts bossing them around they decide they want to get rid of her....

Don Juan is sent from Hell to Earth with a mission: to seduce a virgin in order to spoil her pure wedding. The mission becomes frantic when Don Juan falls in love for the first time in centuries....

Emma Klink is devoted to preserve morality in 1912 and she is also a chairwoman for "The support for unmarried mothers". Her husband is a mustard manufacturer who has had a secret affair with a Spanish dancer twenty-five years earlier. His mistake is...

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

A young princess falls in love with the castle's young music teacher, Roger Fleuirot, but he is shy and does not dare to show his love for her. When the music teacher goes to Paris, the princess follows him and pretends to be her own twin sister, who...

Nils Poppe was one of Sweden's comedy greats but in this film his daughter, the actress Mia Poppe, wants to find answers to his inner darkness - hidden from the masses....

Calle Pettersson is engaged to the young beauty Marilyn on the false pretense that he saved her life...

Sten Stensson Stéen has been challenged by a professor of law in a TV-game-show. Stensson, always fighting against immorality, comes to Stockholm a few days before the the broadcast to teach the young generation how to behave. A gang of crooks mistak...

Pawnshop assistant Patrick and maid Viveka meet by chance and become fond of each other, but none of them want to reveal his real profession for the other....

The meticulous Fabin Bom is called up for military service in the airforce....

In a movie studio, a fight scene is underway. The hero, played by Allan Bergner, will make an impression on the heroine, played by Ylva Vendel. But Allan is not prepared to give more than one pale hint of fight; he wants to be presentable in later sc...

Two twins, separated at birth, meet again by chance many years later. One is a progressive but insensitive mayor of a small town, the other a clown at a circus....

Librarian Roger Fleuriot is in love with princess Saint Labiche but doesn't dare admit it because of their different classes. The princess feels the same way and invents a twin sister that works in a shoe shop that she pretends to be in order to sedu...

As a young girl, the exiled princess Laya was forced to leave Hawaii and was raised in France. She discovers that she looks like the Parisian revue star Suzanne Provence and decides to return to her homeland incognito, disguised as Miss Provence. She...

Fabian Bom has been sent by the Export Association to promote Swedish export to Spain. He travels with the navy's cruiser to Barcelona, but his jealous fiancée Gullan has followed him in secret to keep an eye on him. In Barcelona the usually strict a...