Grynet Molvig Movies
- 1989
This musical comedy is taken from Torbjorn Egner's best-selling novel from 1955. Police Chief Bastian (Brasse Brannstrom) oversees the law and order of his town, an idyllic toyland. Aunt Sophie (Kjersti Dovidgan) is the local sourpuss who won't let her niece attend the annual festival celebration. A trio of benevolent robbers kidnap Aunt Sophie after they have tempting dreams of delicious food. The robbers are eventually rehabilitated and their pet lion finds a job in a circus. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Brasse Brannstrom, Kjersti Dovigen, (more)
- 1981
The title of this comedy is the first indication of the absurd: "sopor" means "trash" in Swedish and the acronym that is the film's title is playing with words to name a make-believe organization that stands up for the lowly or forgotten in society. About 1000 children of SOPOR unload from the subway one morning, march to the Royal Palace, and proceed to blithely take it over, holding the royal family up for a very reasonable ransom: they want the powers-that-be to reconsider their treatment of neglected or unpopular groups, like the elderly and in the case of this film, those who protest the development of nuclear power plants (a contemporary issue). Queen Sylvia (Gynet Movig), King Carl-Gustaf (Brasse Braennstroem), and Princess Victoria (Lena Nyman) are hostages who take kindly to the children's efforts, but given their status as royals, the best of Sweden's security police are out to free them by any devious means possible. This includes a security police chief launching into various character disguises and the opposition leader sweet-talking the children as only a politco with years of self-promotion can do. As broadly-painted characters from the government move in and out of the scenes, the spoof zeros in on real politicians. The satire does not bite lethally, and still leaves the audience something to chew on once the laughter has subsided. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Brasse Braennstrom, Grynet Molvig, (more)
- 1972
The subtitle of this Swedish comedy is "Tage Danielsson's Divine Comedy." It recounts the trials of a man named Dante Alighieri (Gosta Ekman) as he attempts to quit smoking. He is worried about backsliding, so he hires a pair of private detectives to keep him from smoking even a single cigarette. They follow him around from Sweden to France and back again. He also has an uncle who thinks it is funny to offer him cigars and cigarettes. Indeed, he even hires Dante's private eyes away from him and instructs them to get him smoking again. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- 1970
- R
In this Swedish drama, a woman suffers from a terrible fatal illness. Her dark days become brighter after she falls in love and marries a journalist. Soon after the woman bears a child, her health begins to change rapidly. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1970
- PG
A young man learns the identity of his father's mistress after finding a teddy bear in the car after his father's fatal auto accident. He threatens to tell his mother about the affair unless the mistress pretends to be his fiancee. They end up falling in love, but she leaves soon after finding out that she is pregnant by the young man's father. ~ Steve Huey, All Movie Guide
- 1970
Chris (Bjorn Thambert) is a teenage boy who covets the mistress of his late father. His mother Vera (Ulla Jacobsson) follows her son's mysterious actions and discovers Barbro (Grynet Molvig) has the same attraction for her son as she did for her late husband, who is only shown in flashbacks before his death in an auto accident. Vera is crushed to find Barbro is not only intimately involved with her son, but was also her husband's mistress before he died. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Grynet Molvig, Folke Sundquist, (more)
- 1967
A deathly ill princess (Grynet Molvig) is saved by the love of her husband Gunnar (Lars Passgard) in this romantic melodrama taken from the novel by (Gunnar Mattsson). She survives and later gives birth to the couple's first child. Monika Nielsson plays the other woman who looks for love after a soured relationship. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Grynet Molvig, Lars Passgård, (more)
