In the last year of the 60s, history gets the chance to breathe a little after the turbulent 1968. Pippi Longstocking rides into the television sets and the writers demonstrate for more compensation. There is also a space race - where both the Soviet Union and the USA send up their rockets. Towards the end of the year, Sweden finally gets its second TV channel, TV2.
The film takes place over one day in Sweden. From dawn in Västervik to sunset in Stockholm a variety of characters going about their everyday lives.
We follow the super boy band Björnzone as they record the Christmas song "A Christmas Song" at the iconic Henson Studio in Los Angeles, where "We Are the World" was recorded. Björnzone is Björn Gustafsson, Filip Berg, Loa Falkman, Casper Janebrink, Victor Leksell, Adam Lundgren, Ulrik Munther, Boris René, Eric Saade and Måns Zelmerlöw
A thriller about deceit and the struggle for power within Eastern European mafia gangs living in exile in Sweden. Swedish fisherman Arne rescues a young Polish woman, Irena, after a mysterious incident at sea. Two people, both with a past, both determined never to fall in love again, are slowly drawn to each other. Irena has to learn to distinguish friend from foe. Arne must confront his nightmares to save the woman he loves.
In this psychological drama Rosalita is on leave from prison for a few days in late summer. She wants to explain to her son Jens what really happened and wants to create a new life for them both. They meet Ebba, a teenager who joins them, as well as people from Rosalita's past.
The story takes its beginning in 1518 , the Danish King Christian II has taken Sweden. Sten Sture the younger appeal to all loyal subjects to resist. The offer reaches the farmer Mats Waltersson in Dalarna , Sweden's heart and he gathers his men. Dalmas were going from house to house, they do not want a Dane on the throne. At Brännkyrka outside Stockholm is a battle between the Danes and Swedes. Swedes win and the Swedish riksbaneret out during the Battle of Gustav Eriksson Vasa.
After getting fired from his current job as a pilot and dumped by his current wife, he seeks to find a new job. Out of desperation on the job market he disguises himself as a woman in order to get a job from Silver, a company seeking a female pilot. The lines between his female and male life as well as his personal and love life starts to become a blur which he eventually cannot handle.
See behind the scenes of the Jönssonligan films in this anniversary documentary where we get to hear the story behind the comedy classics and take part in exclusive background material from the recordings. In new interviews, actors, directors and screenwriters talk about how the films were once created. We also get to hear some of today's most popular comedians and artists talk about their obsession with Jönssonligan.
Stig Helmer is celebrating Christmas alone in his apartment when he dreams of a better life.
Paul is a student does not devote to much time for studies. He enjoys the pleasures of life. Babette is a girl who dreams about a life in luxury. Paul falls in love with Babette.
At Uncle Blue's house, Petter and Lotta get to go to their very own school. Their teacher teaches the children everything under the sun. They play cowboys and Indians and learn how to build an igloo. When Aunt Brown's birthday comes around, they prepare a surprise, with a treasure hunt and ghost games. Of course, it turns out to be a very successful birthday!
Tilde de Paula Eby and Edvin Törnblom welcome us to a star-studded evening and offer treats from the past year. On site are Benjamin Ingrosso, Carola, Robert Gustafsson, Marko Lehtosalo and many more! In addition, Agneta Sjödin shares her favorites from the caramel archive. We also peek into 2024's crystal ball and are treated to exciting news and exclusive previews.
Kurt Wallander and the team are stumped when they find an old man, Greger Stehn, dead due to poisoning. It appears that Stehn, who looked like a vagrant, was in fact very wealthy.
1957 - this is when the space age begins. The Soviets send up Sputnik 1 and 2. The whole world searches the sky for moving stars and the radio amateurs listen in their headphones for beeps from space. Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries are shown in cinemas. Stockholm gets its first female parking attendants and Tommy Steele comes to visit.
1954 - this is the year when Marilyn Monroe wave to the American soldiers in Korea. In Sweden, a black hurricane takes the forest with it and the cargo boat Nedjan goes down with seventeen men. The sooty glasses emerge when the sun is completely eclipsed. And there is competition to look like Audrey Hepburn. Radiotjänst broadcasts television and the author Stig Dagerman dies.
A Maid slaves in a Swedish family high-etc kitchen in the year of 2008, serving some twin brats, a hungry Nosferatu-teenager and a father "dying" in a cold. All tensed up, she suddenly starts to burn and SELF-COMBUST!
The theater director Sten Rampe, Svend Blom and Ulrik Blad are on their way to Sten's summer house and suddenly get a flat tire. The fate brings them together with seven young women whose car has fallen out for the same accident.
16-year-old Mikael is the gang leader of the infamous Fonzie gang that wreaked havoc in Stockholm in 1980. He shares a home with his mother, who is a taxi driver by profession. She is completely unaware of what her son does in the evenings. One day, he is picked up by the police right in front of her eyes and their lives change forever.
About a young man who falls in love with his brother's pregnant wife.
Kenny Starfighter fights against the evil lord Dr. Deo.
Anna, a young and naive woman, moves to Knutby to become part of the free church congregation as a nanny, which to her seems like a warm and pious community. But soon the idyll that never existed crackles, and manipulation, power games, social exclusion, group pressure, brainwashing, fanaticism and both more and less religiously sanctioned left-wing chatter end in murder and grief.
Friendship, grief and romance intersect with love in the lives of three generations of people living in Stockholm.
Music show that tells the story behind modern pop classics.
A relationship comedy in sketch form about orphaned brothers Leif and Billy, two Nordic hillbillies.
Allt för Sverige is a Swedish reality show based on the original Norwegian format Culture Shock:Norway. The first season of Allt för Sverige premiered on Sveriges Television SVT1 on October 30, 2011, and the last episode aired on December 18, 2011. The series is about Swedish Americans who return to their Swedish roots. In the program, they give the participants more about their families but in each episode one in the group must leave the show and therefore know less about their ancestry.
The Three Friends and Jerry is an animated television series which aired in the United States on Fox Family, Nickelodeon in the UK and Latin America and TG4 in Ireland. A Swedish/British co-production, the series was created by Magnus Carlsson and produced by Happy Life Productions and TV Loonland.
When Andrea, a damage regulator from Benthos Oil, is sent out to Rig 45 two days before Christmas to investigate a fatal accident, the rig is hit by a hurricane and all communications lost. Soon, the crew realize that the accident is in fact a murder, and they now know that they are in real danger.
To celebrate his 60th birthday, Werner Gyllenmark holds a party at his beach hotel and invites his family, employees and even his arch-enemy, Egil Grip. But the event ends abruptly with an accident that shocks the entire town - and slowly but surely, explosive secrets emerge that some people will go to any lengths to keep hidden.
Detective Inspector Eva Thörnblad returns to Silver Height seven years after her daughter Josefine disappeared by a lake in the woods. The body was never found and the girl was believed to have drowned. Now a boy has vanished without a trace and Thörnblad wants to find out if there is a link to her daughter's disappearance. At the same time , she will take care of the legacy of her father, the great entrepreneur Johan Thörnblad, who built an empire of timber and timber processing on the large forest owned by his ancestors. As the plot deepens more children are kidnapped and what initially seems like a police drama takes a more sinister and stranger twist with each episode.
The police woman Hanna Svensson has a strained relationship to her son after having arrested him for drug dealing. Her married police man lover disappears, possibly kidnapped by MC gangs, although ties to Bosnia also appear.
Investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist is drawn into an endlessly dark world, with enigmatic hacker Lisbeth Salander his only guide.
An insomnia epidemic plunges Stockholm into chaos. A prime minister manages the crisis while protecting his son, a nurse fights to save her infected partner, and a teenager protects her neighbor amid the spreading disease.
Oskyldigt dömd is a Swedish drama television series from 2008. The first season was recorded in twelve episodes during February 2008 to be aired later during the fall. It premiered on the Finnish TV channel FST5 on September 24, 2008 and later the same evening on Swedish TV4. The series is produced by Filmlance. On January 23 TV4 announced that Mikael Persbrandt would be playing the main character and on February 10 other cast members were announced; Helena af Sandeberg, Sofia Ledarp, Marie Richardson and Mirja Turestedt. TV4 also announced that they had started to work on the second season before the first had even been aired., the first season was written by Johan Zollitsch, Jan Arnald, Karin Gidfors and Hans Rosenfeldt but the second one is written by Thomas Borgström and Sara Heldt. Filming the second season took place during the spring 2009. TV4 refused to say how much money the filming has cost the channel, but they confirms that "a lot of money" has been used.
Robert Kastell returns to Sweden after having been presumed dead for thirty years. A personal tragedy has made him leave his exile, and sent him on a last journey of revenge
Meet Nora, a young and vibrant journalist with a promising future ahead of her. But just as she’s about to take on the world, fate throws her a cruel curveball: a life-threatening cancer diagnosis.
Danish secret service agent Katrine Poulson and British spy Beatrice Ogilvy are thrown together in a race against time. As a terrorist plot against the British PM unfolds, Poulson and Ogilvy are tangled up in a web of lies, murder and power struggles; they can't trust anyone, and they soon realise the deadly conspiracy could be part of a far-reaching geopolitical masterplan.
Police investigator Irene Huss lives in Gothenburg, Sweden, and tries to balance between murder investigations and family life.
