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...

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...

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

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...

A wealthy Russian family is faced with change and challenges as events unfold during the First World War.

Hämnaren (The Avenger) was made in 1915, and was rediscovered in Berlin in 2001. It begins with a woman named Ester, who is reading a letter...

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

Björn Norell, a bookish assistant to an art dealer, is fired because of his inability to find the third of a trio of Buddha statues. In order to...

"The Ingmar Inheritance". The story of a group of farmers who choose to leave their homes and follow the preacher Helgum to the Holy Land.

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...

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...

In an occupied country, the people rise to throw off the occupants. This includes Jens the farmer and his three sons who successfully perform sneak...

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

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

A smuggler's daughter falls in love with the son of a customs inspector.

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

The widower Stensson lives a happy life on his farm with his two children.

it's the 1840s and a rural parish plagued by drinking and fighting gets a new vicar who has decided to instill law, order and fear of God into the...

A young worker has decided he must get to buy a lottery ticket with the number 33.333. He manage to get the ticket. This leads to a long series of...

A married writer's luck turns when he gets a play produced at Théâtre de Paris. He meets the femme fatale who should play the lead in...