Signe Stade

A working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving through a series of jobs and romances that gradually shape his future.

During his military service, a man meets a woman who works in the kitchen at the camp and they start a relationship. When the man is out on combat exercises, he becomes a witness to his Sergeant being paralyzed by a snake.

A love story about a young woman's relationship with two men, the lawyer she was previously married to and a romantic Swedish actor. At the same time, it is a discussion of gender roles: Are a man's work and future more important than a woman's?

Sten Stensson Stéen has been challenged by a professor of law in a TV-game-show. Stensson, always fighting against immorality, comes to Stockholm a few days before the the broadcast to teach the young generation how to behave. A gang of crooks mistakes him for a famous dynamiter that they've been waiting for.

Ola is a pop idol, touring with his band in Sweden in the mid-60's. Julia is a young actress in a traveling theatre company. They meet and fall in love.

Lawyer Hans is having an affair with his secretary Anni and is trying to get his wife to meet another husband. When his wife falls in love with another man, Hans instead becomes jealous and realizes his true love for Ellen.

Consists of a series of crazy-stressed sketches, in a loosely coherent framework. The story is a bizarre variation on the tale of the three suitors and the king's daughter.