Gustaf Molander

Gustaf Molander

Date of Birth: 18 Nov 1888

Country: Sweden

Total Credits at Criticker: 41 (Director), 25 (Writer)

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    A Woman\
    When she was a child, Anna Holm, burned her face. This destroyed her looks, and she has become a mean and bitter woman. She and her 'friends' are black-mailers. One of the victims pay her by letting a plastic surgeon, doctor Wegert, make her beautiful again... (imdb)
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    Intermezzo
    The world famous violinist Holger Brandt comes back to his family after a tour. He and his wife have been married for many years, but their love has faded. Their young daughter gets a new piano teacher, Anita Hoffman. Mr. Brandt fall in love with her and together they go on a world tour. But he soon discovers that the feelings for his wife that he thought were dead return. (imdb)
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    Eva
    During WW2 in neutral Sweden, young sailor Bo, son of a railway stationmaster, comes home from the Navy and reminisces a childhood accident. At age twelve, he ran away in a steam locomotive together with a blind 10-year-old girl. The engine derailed, and the little girl got killed. Feelings of guilt haunt Bo even in his courtship with Eva, a beautiful local girl. In Stockholm, Bo sees a nightmare about plotting to kill his roommate Göran together with Göran's flirtatious girlfriend Susanne. (imdb)
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    Kvinna utan ansikte
    Ragnar and Frida married solely because she was pregnant. Later he would have a passionate side-affair with Rut. Rut's sexual feelings were highly neurotic because she had been sexually abused by her stepfather. When the chimney sweep came, she seduced him and afterward felt dirty and desperate. She found and seduced Ragnar. From the beginning she interspersed mean attacks. During the war he was drafted, but deserted. He and Rut hired a room by the chimney sweep.
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    Dollar
    Ingrid Bergman does funny, sexy stuff.
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    En enda natt
    A bastard stable boy falls in love with his father's ward (Ingrid Bergman).
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    Parisiskor
    A house in Paris happens to have two families living there with the same last name. In one apartment lives opera singer Gambetta Duval with his two daughters, Jeanne and Nita. In the second apartment lives old lady Duval with her grandchild Philippa and an her lodger, the physician Leon Monnier. Jeanne is secretly in love with Dr. Monnier who is secretly in love with Nita, who is secretly having an affair with the great playwright Armand de Marny.
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    Ingmarsarvet
    "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. (youtube.com)
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    Synd
    French silent star Gina Manès played a femme fatale in Gustaf Molander's film "Synd" (The Sin), based on August Strindberg's Brott och brott (Crime and crime). (youtube.com)
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    Ordet
    Two families rivalizing for religious issues find a new problem between them when their son and daughter are getting married.
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    Swedenhielms
    The Swedenhielms is an old aristocratic family. The head of the family is professor Rolf Swedenhielm. His three children Bo, Julia and Rolf Jr also live in the house. They also have an excellent house maid, Boman. Because of the family's extravagance, they are heading for bankruptcy. But perhaps their problems would be solved if Rolf was awarded the Nobel Prize? (imdb)
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    Polis Paulus\
    Anne Marie (Lili Lani) gets invited by her aunt to a hotel to to meet her admirers. Not to fulfill her aunt's wishes, but to verify who works at the hotel.
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    En natt
    The Beckius family lives near the border with Russia. The youngest son, Armas, lives a wild life that ultimately leads to a break with the family and he then takes office in the Russian Revolution. When he returns to his home country a few years later, the family is on the enemy side.
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    En stilla flirt
    Orphan Didi is raised by her aunts and in love with her ward, the surgeon Dr. Gunnar Green. He is more interested in the stars of the theater so Didi decides to fight for him.
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    Bröllopsresan
    Director Björkman travels to Copenhagen with his daughter Astrid, who is together with a certain Count Erik Lejonsköld. They will take their father-in-law's car and go on a honeymoon to the Riviera. But "Count" gets a telegram from London calling him to a business meeting. Dad Björkman and the daughter decide to go to the Riviera while the suitor must come later. The real Count Erik Lejonsköld comes home to his office in Stockholm and is congratulated on the wedding by his staff....
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    Den ljusnande framtid
    Åke is very musical but has difficulty in completing his Swedish essay writing. At a party, the principal and Birgit become more familiar and soon a love story has evolved between them.
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    Frånskild
    Gertrud is being abandoned by her husband after 20 years of marriage. Offended and unhappy she leaves her home and rents a room. The landlady's son is drawn to her and tries to help her out of the loneliness. (imdb)
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    Trots
    A teacher is so hard on his students that he faces a warning by the school principal. In order to at least improve the strained relationship with his own son, he turns to a priest for advice.
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    Kärlek
    A new young priest begins his duty on a small island. He assumes that the service should not be to demanding, so that he will be able to finish his doctoral thesis. But the life at sea is hard with severe accidents. He faces emotionally difficult situations related to both love and death.
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    Glasberget
    The successful glass artist Stellan Sylvester ends up in the hospital after a car accident. He looks back at his life and finds it empty and meaningless. He falls in love with the nurse Marta but when he finds out that she is engaged, life turns out to be even more meaningless.
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    Sången om den eldröda blomman
    Olof and Elly falls in love. Relatives and friends are disturbed by this. When Olof decides to leave the village and work as floater, Elly wants to come along. He asks her to stay and wait for his return.
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    Enhörningen
    Harriet and Frank Allard have been married for many years. Almost twenty years ago, Harriet had a love affair with a colleague of Frank's, Claes von Klitzow, who made her pregnant. She had a son, Christer, whom Frank thinks that he is the father of. One day, Christer reveals that he is going to marry von Klitzow's daughter Louise.
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    Den osynliga muren
    In an unnamed country under occupation, a senior officer is killed in an attack by a member of the resistance.
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    Rid i natt!
    In the south of Sweden, a German Count is forcing a number of farmers to perform day labour for him. But one man refuses to bow to the German Count.
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    Affairs of a Model
    Dora moves in with the artist Erik to become his model. Three men from a Masonic Order pretends to be interested in his art, but Dora is their real focus. (imdb)
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    En, men ett lejon!
    Fashion-house boss Harry Martin has invited all his staff to a crayfish party at his home.
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    Kejsarn av Portugallien
    The poor farmer Jan is getting very old when he becomes father to a girl, Klara Gulla. At first he sees the child as a burden, but when he receives the newborn child in his arms he is overjoyed. He does everything in his power to provide for her. But when she leaves home as an adult, Jan can not come over the loss of her.
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    Kvartetten som sprängdes
    In a small Swedish town during the aftermath of World War 1, an accountant and his two journalist friends enter the stock market but the results are not as good as expected.
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    There Burns a Fire
    In an unnamed country, the greatest supporter of the National Theatre and its actors is a diplomat from a foreign country, Ernst Lemmering. Lemmering is also in a relationship with the theatre's star actress Harriet Brandt. After a late night rehearsal he has invited the actors to his home when the news comes through that the country has been occupied by the military of Lemmering's home country.
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    Striden går vidare
    Georg Hammar works at the General Hospital and is engaged to the famous professor Berg's daughter Inga, but he also finds himself drawn to the nurse Maria.
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    Hjärtats triumf
    In a small mine town north of the circle, Torsten lives, working with his sister Eva and comrade Lars, who is engaged to Eva. The town's bat-owner has a daughter, Märta, who, after trying out the big city life, has returned to the village for a while, and begins to flirt openly with Torsten, but also with Lars. Märta hears of an old gold treasure that will be hidden somewhere in the mountains, trying to seduce both of them and seek both friends to find out the treasure.
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    Sir Arne\
    King John III has all the Scottish mercenaries in his service kicked out of the country and their leaders imprisoned after he discovers a conspiracy. They escape from prison and try to escape to a Danish province before they are recaptured.
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    Bodakungen
    It's the beginning of the 1800s. A feud between the people of Ödemo and Rävgården has been going on since the dawn of time and now it's worse than ever.
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    Fiancée for Hire
    The staff at a legal agency in Stockholm are suddenly unemployed. On the initiative of secretary Margit Berg, a service company is started. From that you can order childcare, flower watering etc. (imdb)
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    I natt - eller aldrig
    A famous crime novelist checks in at a hotel in the mountains under false identity.
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    Mälarpirater
    Three boys steal a sailboat and sail away for a summer adventure on Lake Mälaren. Based on Sigfrid Siwertz's novel.
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    Vi som går köksvägen
    Helga Breder is a young, spoiled girl. To her beloved Jörgen she says that she, as a modern young woman is multi-talented and can do whatever she likes. Jörgen bets that she can't work as a house-maid but, if she manages it, he will buy her a diamond ring. Helga becomes a house-maid at Vinger Mansion and falls in love with an inventor, Bertil Frigård, who lives there.
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    Sara lär sig folkvett
    The rich Haller family have lost nearly all their money after investing in the stock market. They need more money, but from where? They have a young house-maid, Sara, who inherits a fortune from a rich uncle in Australia. Sara is in love with the son in the family, Georg Haller, but he won't marry for money. She has to spend all her money if she will ever marry him.
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    Hans engelska fru
    Two English gentlemen of the upper class, Ivor Willington and Lionel Jessop, play a card game about who will get the young beautiful widow Cathleen Paget and her fortune after her grieving year is over.
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    På Solsidan
    Eva Bergh works as a bank clerk, but dreams of becoming an artist. At a party she meets the rich Harald Ribe and he instantly falls in love with her. When he proposes to marry her she has no work or place to live and she accepts. At Harald's estate she can live comfortably, but she misses her old friends.
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    Kära släkten
    The story about a Stockholm wholesaler and his three daughters.
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