Movies: Birgitta Rydberg

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 c...

It's 1923 at Fredriksdal manor and the widow Julia Sjölin is in the middle of her daughter Ofelia's wedding to lieutenant Rosencrona....

In 1930s Sweden the residents of a small town are upset with the morals of modern times and travel to Copenhagen to see for themselves what is going on with this new jazz music....

It's the 1960s and the local bandstand is in dire straits economically. Nancy the consultant shows up and attempts to get the business running smoothly again....

At the Café René in the small French commune of Nouvion everything is as usual. Chaos. René himself is trying to keep a straight face in a dangerous game. Of course he has to stay on the good side of the Germans in order to not get in trouble. He als...

Molières The imaginary Invalid forms the basis of this comedy play that was performed at Fredriksdals Friluftsteater in the summer of 2001....

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Boring office worker Magda Munter is having a hard time seducing her boss' son until a false rumour starts spreading about her having had an affair with Frank Sinatra in her youth....

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It's Saturday night at an old Hospital in Helsingborg. Karin Bellman is a bit forgetful and has been admitted with an injury to her arm. Her husband is by her side and introduces himself as doctor in theology but in the weekend stress he is mistaken ...

The wealthy Pantalone (Ulf Brunnberg) and Doctor Lombardi (Ewa Roos) have just witnessed the engagement between their children. Then an unusually cheeky figure pops up and throws all plans. She calls herself Truffaldina (Eva Rydberg) and seems free f...

Swedish production of the muscial Once Upon a Mattress from 1998 that wasn't released until 2021....

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The year is 1925. Mölle is the fashionable tourist destination for people of a certain class. Ladies with shingled hair, men in straw hats and white suits. At the popular guest house Summer Lust the uptight but lovesick Beda rules with an iron fist. ...

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