Georg Blickingberg

Judge Evald Sterner and engineer Kai Falk are rivals for the beautiful Jesta Fridman, daughter of a rich banker. Jesta loves Kai Falk but her father prefers Sterner.

16-year-old Marianne will be confirmed. She is reluctant to do this, but her mother is more than happy for her to complete the confirmation. Marianne travels to a rectory in the country where she and a group of other girls will live while they read to the priest. On Midsummer's Eve, she meets by chance one of the other confirmands' fiancés and the feeling arises.

Lena Bergström est la fille d'un journaliste vieillissant, obsédé par la baisse de la natalité. Elle est aussi la secrétaire d'un chef d'entreprise, Johan Borg, dont elle est désespérément éprise. Désireux de sauver son mariage raté, Borg souhaiterait que sa femme lui donne un enfant, ce à quoi Clary s'oppose obstinément. Lorsque cette dernière découvre qu'elle est enceinte, elle décide de se faire avorter et fait appel aux services d'un charlatan. Tandis qu'un maître chanteur fait pression sur les Borg, le père de Lena s'imagine que sa fille a subi un avortement...

"Suburban Priest". The film premiered on September 3 1917 at cinema Sture and Brunkeberg Theatre in Stockholm . The film was shot at the Hasselblad studio on Otterhällan in Gothenburg with exteriors from Gothenburg by Carl Gustaf Florin.

A series of family entanglements develop around the changing will of Roger Bernhuses de Sars (Karl Mantzius), who wants his heritage to go to his illegitimate daughter Blenda (Greta Almroth). But love and fate also plays their cards. One of the most surprising films of Sjöström, close to Stroheim and some of the silent comedies of Lubitsch. Belonging to the golden age of Swedish film, this comedy offers one of the earliest explorations of the relationship between masters and servants on the screen, later developed by French masters like Renoir and Guitry. After acting in the diptych of Thomas Graal, Sjöström shows that he also dominates the “light genre” as director.

Siberian hunter Burtaj learns from his dying father that he originates from German farmers on his mother side. He is thus a "bastard", since the hunters and peasants have been enemies since ancient times.

À sa mort, un colonel décide de léguer sa fortune et son domaine à sa fidèle employée de maison. Mais sa famille est prête à tout pour invalider le testament.