John Ekman Movies

Terje Vigen, a sailor, suffers the loss of his family through the inflexibility of another man. Years later, when his enemy's family finds itself...

An alcoholic, abusive ne'er-do-well is shown the error of his ways through a legend that dooms the last person to die on New Year's Eve before the...

After learning that his wife has been killed in an accident, a violinist looks back on their relationship.

A stranger comes to work at widow Halla's farm. Halla and the stranger fall in love, but when he is revealed as Eyvind, an escaped thief forced into...

Björn Norell, a bookish assistant to an art dealer, is fired because of his inability to find the third of a trio of Buddha statues. In order to...

Arvid share the love with a young woman named Lydia, but as is customary at the turn of the century, is not love enough for a fairy tale to come...

Hämnaren (The Avenger) was made in 1915, and was rediscovered in Berlin in 2001. It begins with a woman named Ester, who is reading a letter...

A gardener's son has fallen in love with the daughter of one of the workers at the nursery, and the two are married. The gardener then kicks his...

A collective of office girls and their tribulations in the male world, female solidarity, the place of women in the labor and civil rights struggles...

A comedy in which the noted and rotund Swedish comedian, Edvard Persson, plays the title role (Baldevin), as a waterfront tramp leading his chosen...

Baron Henric Löwencrona af Löwstaborg allows his daughter to marry a worker's son.

During the 1200s, the catholic priest Peder has to divorce his wife when the church votes for celibacy.

A married writer's luck turns when he gets a play produced at Théâtre de Paris. He meets the femme fatale who should play the lead in...

Mauritz Stiller directed adaptation of Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Das fremde Mädchen.

"The Ingmar Inheritance". The story of a group of farmers who choose to leave their homes and follow the preacher Helgum to the Holy Land.

The son of a wealthy farmer loves a simple maid, for which he's booted out of the house by his father.

Two smugglers meet two customs officers at sea, and happen to kill them. The story continues fifteen years later when a son of one of the officers...

A Swedish feature film based on a novel by Fritiof Nilsson Piraten.

In an occupied country, the people rise to throw off the occupants. This includes Jens the farmer and his three sons who successfully perform sneak...

About loaner Master Samuel, based on a writings by Hjalmar Bergman