John Elfström Movies

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...

Swedish film of the Kaj Munk play that was made into a far more famous film by Carl Dreyer in Denmark twelve years later.

Max Kvarne is an international adventurer who stole 25,000 pounds in 100-pound banknotes at a London coup.

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

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

The 1880s. Abandoned by his middle class parents in Stockholm, Johannes grows up in the countryside with a cobbler who regularly beats him up. Also...

A poor Jewish family, called the Riffraff by the author, puts the great Joe Meng at the heart of high-flying plans and imaginative flair.

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

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...

Nils Nilsson from Åsen, better known as Åsa-Nisse and his friend Klabbarparn goes Moose hunting. As a result of a sabotage, staged by...

Inspired by the space-race, Åsa-Nisse and his friends build a top-secret moon rocket. They have big trouble hiding their secret from prying...

David, a young woodsman with a family, is leasing a farm. The family are welcomed by the locals until it becomes known that David is the son of a...

Albert Engström's anecdotes of Småland have been put together to make a comedy film about Johannes and Cornelius, two smallholding farmers...

Åsa Nisse compilation from other movies.

The famous author Mark Storm's publisher is unhappy with his books and asks him to write books in a more popular genre, crime for example. When Mark...

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

Corporal Åsa-Nisse Nilsson is an officer who somehow manages to teach his soldiers both discipline and the art of war.

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...

Laban Lundström is the porter at Hotell Kåkbrinken. The hotel is threatened by wholesaler Sjökvist, who wants to pull down the house...

Play by Federico Garcia Lorca. Swedish interpretation of Hjalmar Gullberg and Karin Alin.