Movies by Gösta Ekman
![The Simple-Minded Murderer](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/jzKjJVWiUfHqScib0nb5tFgkmO3.jpg)
The Simple-Minded Murderer
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. He meets the disabled Anna who is the first one to treat him as an adult. One day he has had enough of Höglund's maltreatment and moves in with Anna's family. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
![Los 5 Faust de F. W. Murnau](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/cD9yoUeCTw3UpbwxNWcgWzhCU77.jpg)
Los 5 Faust de F. W. Murnau
![His English Wife](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/qazsYpkzYqx24NmUD8ShDjFKAEv.jpg)
His English Wife
London socialite Cathleen Paget's adventures in love and misfortune a year after the death of her husband. Ivor Willington and Lionel Jesop play cards for who will be given the shot at flirting with Paget, as to claim her wealth. But when her brother Bruce has lost the family fortune in bad business, Cathleen is suggested to court Nordic giant Birger Holm. The two marry and the families financial problems seem to be at bay, although the life in the northern Sweden is wearing Cathleen down as she misses parties, friends and dancing at the Sav...
![I huvet på n' Gamlin](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/wXt1ZsL72s3k3nGmBcHGU8ItnzY.jpg)
I huvet på n' Gamlin
Documentary about the Swedish humorist, film maker and artist Yngve Gamlin
![Som natt och dag](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/zrmEnkhItlagCBHn4IONX67a4zw.jpg)
Som natt och dag
Television hostess Susanne has an affair with Rikard, who is a doctor at a hospital. But after meeting the man who Rikard works for, Professor Erland Roos, she leaves Rikard and eventually marries the professor. Susanne's sister comes to Stockholm, desperately in need of money. Perhaps Susanne, now married to a rich professor, can help her?
![Shit Happens](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/o25kaNRyelWwq2HjBv5wYZrqILp.jpg)
Shit Happens
A young couple, Sophia and Freddie has just got their first baby, but this little thing makes their lives way to complicated and difficult for them to handle. They both have jobs, Sophia is an actress and Freddie a balloon-flier, which makes it tough to be home with the baby and such. They also have to deal with Sophia´s family, which includes a depressed dad, a close to senile mother, and two eccentric sisters. The family life is nothing what Sophia and Freddie expected.
![A Scarlet Angel](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/7Zga33XbxH1zxJEykQRjiTz9NUr.jpg)
A Scarlet Angel
The criminal couple Louise Kent and Charles Zukor stages a coup in the luxury restaurant Oriental. In the midst of a dance number goes suddenly all the lights out. In the confusion that arises one of the elegant guests is deprived of her jewelry.
![A Fortune Hunter](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/zumDF63gn4FkX8UPBVRPOHLS07K.jpg)
A Fortune Hunter
Historical drama which features Gösta Ekman as the dashing rogue who steals the heart of the ethereal Mary Johnson.
![Kungen kommer](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/bJDRSilf9zbHTC6RgrckZZM7Tl5.jpg)
Kungen kommer
A travelling theater-company performs Offenbach's "The Beautiful Helene" when an officer in the audience notices the similarity in appearance between the leading actor Leonard Pettersson and the king Charles XV.With Pettersson dressed as the king and the other actors as the royal suite, they all go to Herrsunda castle where the officer is trying to make an impression on his fiance.
![Trummor i natten](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/9sVXS8Wn77oFOLZpVPMvofFlr6Z.jpg)
Trummor i natten
After the first world war Andreas returns to Berlin to find it in chaos after the fall of the empire. The main battle is between the Spartacists and the Freikorps and Andreas needs to find a place for himself in the conflict for the future of Germany.
![Nattcafé](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/3bRBQQmbk66QhGAdBJls6mFGIr1.jpg)
Nattcafé
Shows the people who visit a café that is open late at night
![Svea hund på Göta Lejon](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/bip2oaFALtTQgOHeSn9PoZn30MC.jpg)
Svea hund på Göta Lejon
Svea hund, complete title Svea Hund på Göta Lejon (Svea Dog at Göta Lejon), was a Swedish variety show produced by AB Svenska Ord. It was written by Hans Alfredsson and Tage Danielsson, commonly known as Hasseåtage and directed by Tage. The show premièred on 15 February (although it had a sneak première on 9 February) 1976 on the theater Göta Lejon in Stockholm. It was the last of the three "Dog-revues"; the first was Gröna hund (Green Dog) the second being Gula Hund (Yellow Dog). Both Hasse and Tage starred in various roles. Other cast mem...
![Till minne av Gösta Ekman](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/tCOIKGM5X4gPrx1lOTje0lg8Tsq.jpg)
Till minne av Gösta Ekman
The actor and director Gösta Ekman was one of Sweden's most popular artists. He was born 77 years ago straight into the Swedish acting elite. In this memory film, we start from the very last filmed interview that was done with Gösta.
![Nilsson](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/ax4eOW5y3JSl6DXFHbdRjPX1hki.jpg)
Nilsson
A young man receives a farewell letter from his girlfriend. He walks around the home depressed and after a phone call with the woman, he is again seized by despair.
![Skulden](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/qC1Vqrer3obytvDOzGE4EJTHRvi.jpg)
Skulden
Rune Strand is a married journalist with children in a suburb of Stockholm. He is also concerned with the economy. A story about a Swedish spy after a novel by Olle Högstrand.
![Macklean](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/piFWnjCny3p9QBwsQ6xgfpU52q6.jpg)
Macklean
Sweden in the 1780s. At the court the nobility lords and ladies dance, love, intrigue and compete for the King's favor. To this Stockholm arrives Rutger Macklean, nobleman and an officer. With a notion of an extensive re-organisation of the agricultural lands and the farm properties.
![The Gyurkovics Boys](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/qnsoMfdim9Nvj9Mx8fiV12pkF1X.jpg)
The Gyurkovics Boys
Mr. and Mrs. Gyurkovics have a dozen children the oldest of which, the twins Géza and Bandi, just preparing for their matriculation examination. When graduation day has come Géza refuses to set up but taken by force by the principal's henchmen. When dad Gyurkovics later dies, takes over Bandi goods while Géza becoming an officer cadet in the nearby garrison city.
![Powder](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/jy1YgiIzEe6L1grD2tU8vbkUoAE.jpg)
Powder
A tiny theatrical company turns into a war zone of egos as a new play goes into rehearsal in this broad comedy from Sweden. A camera crew from a television outlet is on hand to shoot a commercial as a harried director tries to put her cast through their paces. Not everyone, however, feels like cooperating; her two leading men seem to be competing over who gets most of the spotlight, much to the annoyance of the female star, while the troupe's makeup artist has a plan of his own.
![Twelfth Night](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/tsL11NnNtdRtgXQpg8Gu9vopzQl.jpg)
Twelfth Night
Television adaptation of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
![Love's Crucible](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/9UNpWJdgyx5ydcm9WIIUakR5LDO.jpg)
Love's Crucible
At the end of the middle ages, Ursula is accused of having poisoned her own husband. She claims she is innocent, but to prove it, she must submit to a ritual: trial by fire, walking on fire along a path leading directly to a crucifix. A film that has been much commended for the visual creativity shown by the director in successive blending in of images involving Ursula, her husband, the Virgin Mary, and Jesus Christ. Much applauded, also: the performance of Jenny Hasselqvist, thus described by French director René Clair: “We shall never forg...