Idel ädel adel

A newly married Baron plans to sell his castle. His wife, who loves to live in a castle, knows nothing about the sale.

It Pays to Advertise!

Mr. Miller is the CEO of a big soap company whose son Henry like to spend his father's money but isn't interesting in working. Henry's laziness makes Mr. Miller upset and stressed out, so he assigns his young secretary (who the son also is in love with) to figure out a way to make Henry work and she will get 10,000 crowns ($1000). But things doesn't really to turn out the way Mr. Miller imagined.

Ett dockhem

August Strindberg's feedback to Henrik Ibsen's "Doll's House"--a short story from the collection "Giftas" (Getting married), about female emancipation and obsolete marriages.

Flickan från fjällbyn

Bad harvests and starvation makes northern Swedish farmers consider emigrating to the USA.

Åsa-Hanna

Hanna lives in a small village in Småland together with her parents. She is the most beautiful girl around and has a lot of admirers.

Thunder and Lightning

The aristocratic count Hägerskiöld is very proud of his swine Helen of Troy who wins a prize every year as the best swine in the area. This year his son Claes-Ferdinand needs money to get married with Pyret, a chorus-girl. His father won't give him any so he steals the swine, expecting that his father will give a reward to anyone who can find her.

Det vackraste på jorden

Bengt, a ship mechanic , and his wife Karin has been relocated to a modern apartment house in Stockholm. On the ground floor is a tobacconist, whose owner Frithiof is also the deputy landlord of the house.