Allan Edwall Movies

"Wild birds" - A Swedish film noir with the character of a French noir ('Quai des brumes', 'Le jour se lève'). Two worlds meet for a brief...

A film that questions the right of parents to force their children into the adult world's rational behavior. A 6-year-old revolt by going to a lawyer...

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

Marianne is a dancer at the Lilla Teatern. The theatre has financial troubles and its existence is under threat. Marianne falls in love with Stig...

Anders and Sylvia are set to be married, but Sylvia says 'no' and runs away at the altar.

On the comic tragedy of loneliness, based on the short story "Blumfeld, an elderly bachelor" by Franz Kafka.

A tragicomic story about rural extinction and the meeting between the local shoemaker Gustafsson and Pettersson from Stockholm.

The Ghost Sonata relates the adventures of a young student, who idealizes the lives of the inhabitants of a stylish apartment building in Stockholm....

An old fisherman is feeling lonely and begins to long for death.

Robert works at a warehouse and as a cinema usher and lives in a strained marriage. Every monday, he visits his ill father at the hospital. There he...

Blind-Jonas is in a poorhouse dreaming about his past, in contrast the young girl Cecilia shows up dreaming about her future.

The adventures of a small boy (Elvis), his mother and a male friend.

Mr. Worthing and Mr. Moncrieff both use the pseudonym Ernest, leading to a lot of misunderstandings.

A punctuation during a theater rehearsal between actor and director.

Alceste has a very low opinion about humanity and is always brutally honest. This gets him into a lot of trouble.

A one man show based on Hjalmar Söderberg's book about Doctor Glas and his dilemma with his patient.

An Old Man and Old Woman frantically prepare chairs for a series of invisible guests who are coming to hear an orator reveal the old man's discovery.

Sigvard has poor finances and a tangled marriage. He happens to come across a larger sum of money. Sigvard sees this money as a way out of his sad...

When Nisse's son breaks his arm, Johan has to pull into the club team in shot put. In a competition he hits 32.47 meters, a world record. Only two...

Alf Sjöberg (1903-1980) was Swedens greatest theater director of the 20th century and as a film director the first of international importance...