Åke Fridell Movies

Young drifter tells his story in flashback from prison.

Holidays on the swedish east coast. Invading summer guests collide with the locals, all without inhibitions. The formerly so radical Social...

A film adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf's classic book about Nils Holgersson, who is a real rascal. As punishment for his mischief, a house elf...

Lieutenant Anders Canitz is a womanizer and gambler from the upper class. He has spent all of heritage and tries to get to his sister's money by...

The story about the thief who didn't get crucified because Jesus was choosen to take his place.

The complicated relationships between a circus ringmaster, his estranged wife and his lover.

Britt Malm gets hit by a car on a Stockholm street and is taken to hospital. She is badly injured and must undergo surgery. While the anesthetic...

Set in th 1930's depression times. A wealthy industrialist suffers a stroke. His wife takes over both family and business. The son worships his...

A relay race of "scenes from human life". Depicts the human characters inferior traits are spreading like a disease: the person who gets rejected /...

About the farming mountain settlers in 1870s Sweden. The young Helge has been accused of manslaughter and has to fight for his life to survive.

The 1880s. Abandoned by his middle class parents in Stockholm, Johannes grows up in the countryside with a cobbler who regularly beats him up. Also...

"Strange Harbor " - A Swedish cargo ship is in the winter of 1938 at the dock in Gdynia in Poland, waiting to depart with coal to Sweden. In a tavern...

The Troubadour sits at a rock beside his summerhouse Sjösala in the Stockholm archipelago. He is composing a new ballad, when his son Sven...

A poor woman in a Swedish farming community struggles to feed her large family and is torn by her passion for two different men.

Prince Hamlet is the son of the late king. He hears from a ghost that the current king, Claudius, has murdered his father. Hamlet is unsure if this...

The wild Jon Esping bets that he will become a churchwarden. He, the upstart and the illiterate who can only write his name, a fox in business, a...

Ursula is the only daughter of a rich landowner high in Sweden. At 20 her father dies and she becomes reluctant heiress to huge property. Ursula is...

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

Portrait of the Swedish poet Dan Andersson (1888-1920). Brought up during poor conditions he finds work as a temperance preacher and educator. Bored...

The rootless, misfit artist Bengt Hallberg escapes from a mental hospital. The head doctor believes him to be a hopeless case and dangerous for the...