John Elfström Movies

Sjökvist needs a woman to tidy up his general store and Åsa-Nisse helps him out to put an ad in the local newspaper.

A Swedish TV movie based on the play L'Hôtel du Libre échange from 1894.

An elderly gentleman lives alone in a well-appointed residential building, spending his days in habitual routines with neighbors and family. When his...

Director Svensson in Stockholm is going on vacation to Koön in the archipelago. The rented cottage is inhabited by the brothers August and Johan...

Dan, aged 19, leaves his home after a quarrel with his father. At the side of the country road he meets a traveling theater company who has run out...

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...

1813. The Swedish army is fighting in the War of the Sixth Coalition. The popular general Von Döbeln is arrested for sending the army against...

Based on Evert Taube songs about the sailor and womanizer Fritiof Andersson. Midsummer in the archipelago of Roslagen. Andersson has returned home to...

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...

Doctor Knock takes over a medical clinic in a small town and provides a medical revival.

A bus company wants to acquire traffic rights on an island in the Stockholm archipelago. The steam boats will be replaced by buses, but Captain...

Swedish comedy from 1940. Kurre Karlsson, a simple man of the people, will be called up for military training given by an anti-aircraft units at sea....

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...

In an unnamed country under occupation, a senior officer is killed in an attack by a member of the resistance.

The actor Philip has an accident on the way to his own wedding and the shock makes him lose his voice.

Johansson has managed to stay away from the military service for several years. But now his time has come.

The north of Sweden in 1902. A team of railroad men are building a rail road from Luleå at the Bay of Bothnia to Narvik at the Norwegian Sea....

A Swedish TV play about a workhouse in Småland, Sweden. Midsummer's Dream in the Workhouse is written by Pär Lagerkvist.

A collection of classic scenes from the Åsa-Nisse movies.

A melancholic depiction of life in a small Swedish town, seen through the eyes of a six-year-old boy.