Gösta Ekman

An alchemist who, struggling with his faith amidst a devastating plague, is offered the power to cure and the gift of youth in exchange for his soul.

The Jönsson gang plots to steal a computer disk containing defense plans — but the hapless trio's old enemy has the same idea.

After spending 10 months in prison for a minor burglary, Sickan agrees to work as a diamond thief for a mysterious banker.

In his gray overcoat and silly hat, clumsy Mr. Gunnar Papphammar seems to always fall in disaster in this collection of classic comedic skits.

When the ragtag Jönsson gang's audacious robbery attempt goes awry, the ringleader must evade the police while seeking revenge on an archenemy.

A middle-aged man finds himself in an awkward position, forced to choose between his domineering mother and a new girlfriend.

A small-time crook plans to rob a furniture store but gets entangled in an evil villain's plot with more nefarious intentions.

The tensions between a domineering patriarch of an eccentric egg factory and his rebellious son reach a boiling point in this 1975 dark comedy.

The leader of the Jönsson gang leaves Stockholm to reconnect with his associates in sunny Mallorca, where he plots the biggest caper of his career.

When a debt collector is mistaken for a musical actor, his accidental audition marks a twist of fate for an unhappily married theater company secretary.

The relationship between a wealthy wholesaler and his three daughters is tested as they juggle business ventures and financial struggles.

When a developer proposes building a "Deutschneyland" in the Swedish wilds, a unique family marshals their magical forces to lead a resistance.

Essayist, novelist, critic, cinephile, and all-around intellectual dynamo Sontag made her directorial debut with this definition-defying, dryly funny psychological serio-comedy, the result of a Swedish studio’s invitation to her to make a film in Stockholm. The result, revolving around the quadrangular relationship between an arrogant ex-revolutionist German intellectual exile, his elegant wife, their Swedish student secretary, and the earnest secretary’s bride-to-be, is a roundelay of partner-swapping that gradually drifts towards uncharted territory, gamesmanship that broaches the surreal and violent. Defying literal-minded interpretation, Duet for Cannibals is both an illustrative companion to Sontag’s criticism, and introduction of a startlingly original filmmaker.

Friends arriving at an island for a summer party have trouble docking their boat, leading to a series of darkly comic incidents.

A good-natured farmhand, perpetually terrorized by his cruel boss for his disability, finds love and acceptance when a poor family takes him in.