The Adventures of Picasso
Already in his childhood, Pablo Picasso shows talent for painting and is sent to the Academy of Arts in Madrid. He becomes a painter but has to live in Paris…
Pippi on the Run
Fed up with their strict parents, Tommy and Annika run away from home, with their friend Pippi Longstocking to look after them in their long trek.
Shame
In the midst of a civil war, former violinists Jan and Eva Rosenberg, who have a tempestuous marriage, run a farm on a rural island. In spite of their best…
Skrallan, Ruskprick and Gurnard
The children of Seacrow Island take a public ferry to visit a relative only to find that she has went to hospital. When they try to row back home they…
The Simple-Minded Murderer
The feeble-minded Sven’s mother dies and he gets work as a farm-hand at the rich, affluent Höglund’s farm. He has to work without pay and sleeps together with the cows….
The Emigrants
A Swedish peasant family, ravaged by poverty, privation and misery in mid-19th century Sweden, set out on a perilous journey to America in hope of a better life.
The Great Day on the Beach
It is the adult Gustav Adolf, who tells the story of the momentous day when he as a little boy with his father and mother and the whole staircase, went…
The Apple War
A German businessman wants to buy land in southern Sweden for a gigantic amusement park, his new project called “Deutschneyland” (a wordplay of Deutschland and Disneyland). Some of the locals…
The New Land
A Swedish immigrant family struggles to adapt to their new life on the American frontier during the second half of the 19th century amidst civil war, native uprising and the…