A shy and aging bachelor suddenly becomes very interesting to the women in town after a rumour starts spreading about him being together with a famous movie star in his youth.
Librarian Roger Fleuriot is in love with princess Saint Labiche but doesn't dare admit it because of their different classes. The princess feels the same way and invents a twin sister that works in a shoe shop that she pretends to be in order to seduce him.
Three lazy old brothers living together in the Stockholm archipelago hire a housekeeper. When she starts bossing them around they decide they want to get rid of her.
The Fredriksdal outdoor theatre has been a comedy staple of Swedish summers and television in winters for decades. First under Nils Poppe and then under Eva Rydberg. But 2023 was Eva's last summer in charge of the theatre and the end of this era is celebrated by this documentary.
Nils Poppe was one of Sweden's comedy greats but in this film his daughter, the actress Mia Poppe, wants to find answers to his inner darkness - hidden from the masses.
When Waldemar Palm married an old woman as a young man to give her estranged son a surname he didn't expect his good deed to come back to haunt him. When his in-laws from his second marriage show up on the same day that his adult step-son turns up unannounced he finds himself getting more and more wrapped up in his lies.
Emma Klink is devoted to preserve morality in 1912 and she is also a chairwoman for "The support for unmarried mothers". Her husband is a mustard manufacturer who has had a secret affair with a Spanish dancer twenty-five years earlier. His mistake is that he confides in a semi-senile vicar, and when a strange young man suddenly appears shouting "Daddy!" chaos enters the once peaceful house.
Ulla Winther has retired from her singing career to a marriage with two children. But her agent wants her to return and she finally agrees to take part in a charity concert
This is the story of Anna Månsdotter who was executed on the 7th of August 1890 in Kristianstad county prison. She was the last female ever to be executed in Sweden.