John Elfström Movies

In the middle of the 1800s Swedish prince Gustaf meets the actress Anna Maria Wastenius and falls in love with her, but it is an impossible love...

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...

Åsa-Nisse has invented a very powerful engine and he sells the patent. However, the grocery store owner Sjökvist has been sneaking around...

Åsa-Nisse gets a chance to win 10.000 SEK in the biggest game show on Swedish TV.

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

An out-of-work musician is desperate for work and when his best friend sees an add requesting a cellist he signs him up. However, the work is for a...

"The Hangman" - The events take place in two periods of time. In the Middle Ages a group of men sit and discuss the evil at the tavern. With the...

In "Mission Åsa-Nisse" filmmaker Anders Nordqvist explores the 60th anniversary film classic series Åsa-Nisse. Through old film clips,...

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...

The priest Hagen comes to a small Norwegian village one stormy evening. He brings the tragic news to wife Sigrid Bakken. Her husband and oldest son...

At a parish meeting Åsa-Nisse suggests that they should hire a common home help, who could give their wives some relief by staying one week at...

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...

A Swedish TV movie based on the play L'Hôtel du Libre échange from 1894.

If I give birth, I will certainly be punished and lose my reputation. If I don't, then I may be punished, too. And also lose my reputation.

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...

Åsa-Nisse has a bad back and when he visits the doctor he gets an experimental medicine for horses by mistake. Suddenly Åsa-Nisse has...

"A dream play" - This made-for-television film constituted Bergman’s first production of Strindberg’s A Dream Play – a play he...

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

Åsa-Nisse and Klabbarparn with wives taking part in a jenka-contest from Knohult to Vetlanda where he reports with his homemade walkie-talkie....

"How crazy!" A man and a woman watch episodes from Nils Poppe movies outside a cinema Maxim in Stockholm. Poppe represents, among other things, a...