Movies: Povel Ramel

The film is based on a series of immensely popular Swedish children's books, about the boy Bert, who is just hitting puberty and having the usual problems with it. But that's where the usual ends abruptly....

Thor Modéen (1898-1950) was one of our great Swedish film actors and comedians. Cicerone Ulf Larsson accompanies us through Modéen's life, with the help of interviews with friends, acquaintances and colleagues and with clips from feature films, magaz...

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

10 year anniversary revue for the Knäppupp company, performances of both old and new material....

Ad man Jonathan Blake gets tired of his work and runs away to a time travel agency for the first flight out....

"In rain and shine" - Sid och Filibert are identical twins. Sid is a theater manager and composer and when his brother arrives to Stockholm for a position at the Museum of Natural History, Filibert is mistaken for Sid....

Celebratory TV special for the 100th birthday of Swedish entertainer Povel Ramel with performances by many people who stood on stage with him...

Modern fairy tale about the small town of Fårtuna where the chief of police is also an amateur theater director. The local shop assistant Linda aspires to become an actress and gets discovered by a talent agent from Stockholm....

Documentary about the Swedish humorist, film maker and artist Yngve Gamlin...

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Romance blossoms between single seamstress Puck and the art critic, Roger. He is engaged to Elsa, whose wedding dress Puck is involved with designing....

'The Drunk Trio': Ivar Wallin, guitar, Erik Wiberg, accordion and Bror Wiberg, mandolin, play songs by Harry Rydell. The farm trader Sixten Landby talks about how to become a peddler, while cycling on a path to his own story about the profession. Kun...

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Talking head documentary about the early 20th century Swedish comedian and singer Karl Gerhard made for his hundredth birthday....

A documentary about the poet / singer / actor Cornelis Vreeswijk. Made about a year before he died....

Celebrating the first revue/variety/show "Akta huvet/Watch Your Head" released in 1953 by pastiches and reworkings of the Povel Ramel song and comedy book....

The two young attachées Freddie Rundhult and Rutger af Utterfeldt at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are rivals for the beautiful operetta singer Alice....

Staffan Stolle becomes the sole heir to a rich and noble family when he is just a little boy. Early on he is engaged to be married to a girl he finds he does not love. Instead he flees the country only to return under a false name, looking for true l...

A comedy mystery involving the composer and cartoonist Hubert Yrhage, the journalist Gary Lundberg, anticartoon campaigner Lena Lett, the mysterious Jens Myskovich and music publisher Darling Karlsson. Yrhage receives his manuscripts from an 11 year-...

A genuine sit-down evening from 1965....