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...

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...

After learning that his wife has been killed in an accident, a violinist looks back on their relationship.

"Family Traditions" - The young Baron Robert falls in love with his distant relative Helga.

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

Based on the novel Lourdes by Émile Zola.

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...

His grace, the Lord Chamberlain and Colonel Baron Roger Bernhusen de Sars of Rogershus, Klockeberga and Björkenäs, will celebrate his 70th...

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...

Two brothers compete for the love of a woman while the impending war threatens to separate them from both sides of the border. Based on the novel "La...

The son of a wealthy farmer loves a simple maid, for which he's booted out of the house by his father.

The farmer Magni is planning to marry Teresia, but the maid Lovisa has other plans.

Despite her youth, Princess Lara Rispala has managed to get her kingdom Leskapur to move towards a new heyday. But one day, a catastrophe occurs in...

Hearts That Meet (Swedish: Hjärtan som mötas) is a 1914 Swedish silent drama film directed by Victor Sjöström.

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...

Olof Koskela, the only son is driven from home when he wants to marry the wrong girl. He takes a job as a floater. His reputation as a womanizer goes...

A comedy in which the noted and rotund Swedish comedian, Edvard Persson, plays the title role (Baldevin), as a waterfront tramp leading his chosen...

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

When his ancestors seem to appear in the clouds during a storm of biblical proportions, young Ingmar decides to give up his career as the village...