John Elfström Movies

After watching Stig Järrel star in a production of Pygmalion Mister Haglund bets him that he can turn anyone into a gentlemen in a few months.

The religious hypocrite Tartuffe parasites on a bourgeois family. He is looking for the daughter's hand and the family's property and is also trying...

Translator Vilhelm and his young wife have a child, as well as a grumpy housemaid who doesn't hesitate to give her opinion on how they behave as...

In "Mission Åsa-Nisse" filmmaker Anders Nordqvist explores the 60th anniversary film classic series Åsa-Nisse. Through old film clips,...

A small Swedish village has transformed to an industrial center with exports to Germany. A German opened a quarry some 50 years ago, after realizing...

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...

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...

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.

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

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.

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

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...

Jonas goes with a tremendous speed with his horse over a country road in Hälsingland. Because of this speed Birgit Ljusnar, who is along the...

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

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

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

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 Hangman" - The events take place in two periods of time. In the Middle Ages a group of men sit and discuss the evil at the tavern. With the...

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....

Tv play based on Hjalmar Bergmans play Swedenhielms from 1923.