Adolf Jahr Movies

A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 films.

The shy Anne-Marie wants to marry the mayor's son despite his parents' opposition.

Young Elisabeth comes to Västlinge to meet her old relative, the vicar and and his young daughter. She is going to spend the Christmas there in...

The two conmen Bendel and Pettersson starts doing business together. Bendel got the brains and Pettersson the charm.

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

In the legend of Susanna in Babylon she was highly desired by the old men. In this movie, Susanna the beautiful lives in a Swedish town in the 19th...

Urban girl falls for rugged forest ranger.

The two young attachées Freddie Rundhult and Rutger af Utterfeldt at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are rivals for the beautiful operetta...

In the Stockholm archipelago in the 1880s, Carlsson move out to an isolated farmstead to help the widow Flood with the farm. Carlsson has big plans...

A compilation of some of Adolf Jahr's films.

In a small town called Skrabbarp in Southern Sweden lives the school teacher Sebastian Pettersson, an amateur detective and one of the most diligent...

Operetta singer Adolf Berg will be called up for military duty just as he gets assigned a major role in an operetta. On the train he meets Ulla Wern...

The fishermen Österman and Sjöberg are sued by merchant Wikström. In order to raise capital, they decide to start producing a medicine...

Adolph Turesson is a mild-mannered, meek college professor whose faint-heart isn't impressing the fair-lady he secretly loves, the golden-haired...

David, a young woodsman with a family, is leasing a farm. The family are welcomed by the locals until it becomes known that David is the son of a...

Tailor Ågren in Ebberöd lives with his dominant wife Karolina and their two children. His everyday life would have been problem free if it...

The ladies man Georg is finally about to get married, but a misunderstanding lead to his new wife break up the wedding.

The farmer Magni is planning to marry Teresia, but the maid Lovisa has other plans.

Jompa is unemployed - and not keen on getting a job. He still lives with his parents who are tired of his attitude about employment and regular...

The sailor Axel Nord is asked by his captain to do him a favor before his leave begins. Captain Rundholm wants him to give a letter to his niece in...