A group of party goers have trouble getting their boat ashore on a small island. The inhabitants of the island try to help, often with the help of an old…
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 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….
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…
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…
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…
Karl and Kristina Nilsson work on a farm in a cold and desolate area of 19th century rural Sweden. Growing privations, combined with increasing social and religious persecution, motivate the…
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…
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…