Adolf Jahr Movies

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

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

"Strange Harbor " - A Swedish cargo ship is in the winter of 1938 at the dock in Gdynia in Poland, waiting to depart with coal to Sweden. In a tavern...

"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...

There is a barn dance in the village Stubbhult. Johan Snippen and his friend the stationmaster Mandus plays happily, when a fight is about to break...

A small Swedish town just after WW1. An accountant and his two journalist friends have entered the stock market. The result is not as good as...

Erik Ernsson is on his way to Jon-Persgården in Ångermanland to seek employment. He befriends the old man Janne Vängman.

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...

Young drifter tells his story in flashback from prison.

Princess Caroline travels incognito to Stockholm and meets the Prince Birger, who also uses a fake name.

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...

Malm is the editor at a Stockholm newspaper who gets the assignment to cover the big ski race Vasaloppet.

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

Fabian Bom is a waiter at a hotel in a small town. But he dreams of doing something else - to dance and sing on a stage. He is madly in love with...

Karl Oskar Bohm looks back at his life, his estranged daughter Augusta and his wife Sofia.

Baron Leijoncloo comes back to Sweden after many years in Argentina. On his way to his good friend Victor Sällberg's home, he loses his luggage....

Old fashioned teachers are taught swing dancing by a student.

Erik, the son of a wealthy farmer, and Anna, the daughter of a poor crofter, have known each other since they were children. Now, that they are grown...

In the village of Stubbhult lives many motorcycle interested young people. However, their rampage interfere with the local population.

A compilation of some of Adolf Jahr's films.