Gunnar Olsson Movies

This quintessential Chekhov drama--his first success--is both comic and tragic. A group of friends and relations gather at a country estate to see...

About a woman and her boring life, based on haiku poems by Sonja Åkesson.

Sören, a poor tailor with many children, dreams of becoming a miller and buys the windmill of the village with money he does not have.

Filip works as a coat janitor at a restaurant; he is a dreamer who has failed in life and sees people as the clothes he has in his wardrobe. On one...

The story about Gustaf Dalén, the farm boy who became one of Sweden's greatest inventors.

The artist Richard Stolpe paints a portrait of the beautiful blonde Gurli that leads to complications.

Peter Kallander and Johannes Nord are childhood friends and close to each other's opposites. Peter is an energetic business man and a woman shaker,...

A free fantasy about the Swedish poet and adventurer Lars Wivallius.

Three boys "borrow" a sailboat and sail away for a summer adventure on Lake Mälaren.

Sam Persson is released from a mental hospital. He goes to Stockholm to meet a man he hates, theater manager Stig Brender. In Brender's office they...

Marianne is unhappily married with the rich Arvid Croneman. Arvid has been ill for some time and Marianne has been looking forward to his passing...

A humorous story concerning the return of a prosperous Swedish native, Charlie Johnson, to his native country after many years in America. The...

Architect Sture Ahrengren walks out of his job with an architecture firm with the support of his wife Kristina. He gets a position with an old...

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...

Harald Handfaste is a 15th century Swedish Robin Hood, who fights against foreign oppression. He becomes the leader of a band of highwaymen and they...

Erik Ernsson is on his way to Jon-Persgården in Ångermanland to seek employment. He befriends the old man Janne Vängman.

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

Janne is an old man who is locked up in the church on New Year's Eve 1900 and has to play the organ to make someone to open the door.

Campaign film for the Swedish Folkpartiet (People's Party) in 1936.

Helge Lysvik is a farmers son. He dreams of a future as a musician.