Movies: John Botvid

A gang of unemployed itinerant musicians play in the south of Stockholm. Then they get the chance to be an orchestra in a dance restaurant. It goes well until the female owner falls in love with one of them....

"Suburban Priest". The film premiered on September 3 1917 at cinema Sture and Brunkeberg Theatre in Stockholm . The film was shot at the Hasselblad studio on Otterhällan in Gothenburg with exteriors from Gothenburg by Carl Gustaf Florin....

Marianne is not satisfied with her job at a farm and dreams of moving to the big city. When she finally decides to go she is robbed on arrival. Two older gentlemen decide to help her avoid the dangers of the city....

Two friends, a rich landowner and a flight lieutenant, compete for the love of the same woman, singer Claire Wanner....

"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 poor composer who vainly tries to get a tune adopted by a publisher. The failure makes him depressed, bu...

Based on Evert Taube songs about the sailor and womanizer Fritiof Andersson. Midsummer in the archipelago of Roslagen. Andersson has returned home to settle down with his fiancee Linnea. On the dance floor he meets Rosa....

"Colorful Raftsmen" - The three brothers Nils, Lars and Ivar are members of a raftsmen team. Ivar feels that he does not really belong there, he prefers a little poaching andante a lot of flirting with women....

Lilian is engaged to engineer Arne. To make him more interested in her, she meets a few other men....

Ulla thinks her husband Billy is boring and starts dating other men. Lillans husband Peter is having important meetings, including girls. Billy and Lillan decides to pretend to be in love, to rouse jealousy of Ulla and Peter....

Laban Lundström is the porter at Hotell Kåkbrinken. The hotel is threatened by wholesaler Sjökvist, who wants to pull down the house and build a new and modern house instead....

Helen Wahlman is the hostess of a luxury hotel in the mountains. Her husband fled to Chile 15 years ago, after being guilty of fraud, and was killed there. Helen's image of marriage is just dark memories. A few days before Christmas, Helen gets a sho...

Anderssonskans Kalle is the typical 'Söderkis'. It's a boy growing up on Söder in Stockholm and he is very fond of practical jokes. His mother sees him as a good natured boy but his victims, mostly the local policeman and two old crones in the same h...

The Österman brothers have come to realize that they need a housekeeper. Oldest brother Kalle travel to town and return with the young and modern Anna....

The rich Baron Von Meislingen dreams of being a poet-- Unfortunately, he has no talent what so ever. In one of his apartments lives the talented but poor poet Peter Långhår. Von Meislingen steals his latest work from him and publishes it under his ow...

Celestin is the singing teacher in a monastery and Denis is one of her students. They both dream about the life outside. (It's a Swedish version of the famous vaudeville-opérette "Mam'zelle Nitouche")....

After some time abroad, Bendel returns to Sweden and seeks up his old friend and business accomplice Pettersson to commit some new frauds.Follow-up to Pettersson & Bendel from 1933....

The actor Philip has an accident on the way to his own wedding and the shock makes him lose his voice....

Sixten reluctantly go to a ski resort in Åre to write a script to a movie....

Manager Björkman is going bankrupt and has to take desperate measures to try to sort his life together....

Gus and Holger, two students in Uppsala, have problems with the rent. They are waiting for money from their uncle, but instead of money they are reached by the news that he has gone bankrupt....