Hjördis Petterson Movies

A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 films.

The film follows a number of people in an apartment building during a night full of dramatic events and entanglements.

A local handyman saves a child in a fire, but the burns he receives disfigure his face so much that the townspeople avoid him.

The office worker Eva is told that she has inherited a massive amount of money in the United States.

Lisa Larsson, dancer at a theater, witnesses a traffic accident and banker Brenner's private driver asks her to be a witness. When her friends see...

Newly graduated teacher Anna-Greta is courted by a senior student.

"Dad, why are you angry? You did the same yourself when you were young." - The Swedish army is too expensive. The cost has to be reduced by...

A young woman owns a garden center outside Stockholm. Her two employees, a Swede and an Italian, has private dreams and desires to meet. The Italian...

Buster Carell, a talent agent is threatened by bankruptcy when his only real talent, a singing lumberjack, runs off with the company funds. Watching...

The night before her wedding, a nervous bride examines her gifts and picks out a book of romantic short stories. Hoping to while away the evening,...

A teacher is so hard on his students that he faces a warning by the school principal. In order to at least improve the strained relationship with his...

August Strindberg's feedback to Henrik Ibsen's "Doll's House"--a short story from the collection "Giftas" (Getting married), about female...

A collection of human stories from the streets of Stockholm. Taxi 13 becomes the link between them. One night a taxi driver disappears.

John Smith is an accountant at a stockbroking firm, where the firm ends up in the liquidity crisis because of his managerial speculation with the...

The student Olle has signed up to sail the Atlantic. But his sensitivity and personal problems make it difficult to be accepted on board. When some...

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...

Selma and her friend Agatha are watching a movie on TV. Agatha starts to talk about older men and their dangerous age, but Selma can't image that her...

Hans-Christian is a middle-aged priest who in the shadow of World War II decides to form a geographic association aiming at increased understanding...

Ulla takes the train to Stockholm to try her luck in the big city.

Manager Björkman is going bankrupt and has to take desperate measures to try to sort his life together.