John Ekman Movies

An alcoholic, abusive ne'er-do-well is shown the error of his ways through a legend that dooms the last person to die on New Year's Eve before the...

After discovering that his wife has been killed in an accident, Stig looks back on their relationship, beginning with when he and Marta were starting...

Terje Vigen, a sailor, suffers the loss of his family through the inflexibility of another man. Years later, when his enemy's family finds itself...

A stranger comes to work at widow Halla's farm. Halla and the stranger fall in love, but when he is revealed as Eyvind, an escaped thief forced into...

A collective of office girls and their tribulations in the male world, female solidarity, the place of women in the labor and civil rights struggles...

A young woman is predestined to marry her fathers companion. During the summer she falls in love with an artist. The intended husband detects the...

A smuggler's daughter falls in love with the son of a customs inspector.

In an occupied country, the people rise to throw off the occupants. This includes Jens the farmer and his three sons who successfully perform sneak...

Hämnaren (The Avenger) was made in 1915, and was rediscovered in Berlin in 2001. It begins with a woman named Ester, who is reading a letter...

An important man's death brings forth a secret, revealing a daughter from another woman, previously unknown to his wife - and bringing about the...

A travelling theater-company performs Offenbach's "The Beautiful Helene" when an officer in the audience notices the similarity in appearance between...

A gardener's son has fallen in love with the daughter of one of the workers at the nursery, and the two are married. The gardener then kicks his...

Theatre director Freddy Alsterberg has failed with his latest operetta. He decides to work his way over the Atlantic. His niece Tusse also stows away...

Arvid share the love with a young woman named Lydia, but as is customary at the turn of the century, is not love enough for a fairy tale to come...

"The Ingmar Inheritance". The story of a group of farmers who choose to leave their homes and follow the preacher Helgum to the Holy Land.

Swedish version of Norwegian National Author Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson's novel.

Based on the novel Lourdes by Émile Zola.

Mean farmer Ola Berg reigns at Högbogården and endures a loveless relationship with his wife Karin.

An unemployed man encounters trouble when he tries to find a way to help his sick wife.

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...