Alf Östlund
Known For & Full Filmography39 Titles
Movie - 1951, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
"Ghost on Holiday" - Stockholm 1950 is experiencing a gold rush, after the discovery of gold during the building of the new underground. Assistant Borgkrona (Järrell) owns a plot in the gold area. The lawyer Målbrott informs Borgkrona that he has inherited a haunted castle and must stay there for a fortnight. However, once at the castle he meets his old relative who is a ghost (Järrell) and the two trade places
Movie - 1955, 2h 15m • as Parish constable
The Swedish/American actor Jack Harris visits the old country for the first time in his life. One of the journalist, Ingrid Billberg, is particularly interested in getting an interview with him. She finds out secret information about his next movie, and to stop her from revealing it, Jack Harris gets her alone with him on an isolated island in the archipelago. Romance blossoms... Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Movie - 1953, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Åsa-Nisse is visited by cousin Doris from the United States. Nisse, Klabbarparn and Doris will travel to Stockholm, but Nisse and Klabbarparn lose track of Doris, who get into a hands of a Casanova. Nisse and Klabbarparn instead ends up at the Nordic Museum, where Åsa-Nisse turns out to have unexpected qualities in the art of imitating a mannequin. After that they had found each other is Doris robbed and it leads to a wild brawl that it sparkles and sputters on.
Movie - 1950, 2h 15m • as Viktor Ekberg
A young woman dies by suicide and leaves all her belongings to her next-door neighbour, who becomes determined to investigate her reasons for taking her life.
Movie - 1959, 2h 15m • as Butler at Ekeberga
Buster Carell, a talent agent is threatened by bankruptcy when his only real talent, a singing lumberjack, runs off with the company funds. Watching a TV quiz show, Carell discovers a prodigal singer, Isabella Linder, and offers her a contract. But she is unwilling and would like to remain a school teacher.
Movie - 1955, 2h 15m • as Speta-Pelle
Åsa-Nisse has a bad back and when he visits the doctor he gets an experimental medicine for horses by mistake. Suddenly Åsa-Nisse has super strengths and becomes an unbeatable athlete.
Movie - 1949, 2h 15m • as Hägglund i Backa
it's the 1840s and a rural parish plagued by drinking and fighting gets a new vicar who has decided to instill law, order and fear of God into the parishioners.
Movie - 1929, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
When silly inventor Svensson gets mistaken for Swedish/American aviator Smith, he is accidentally enlisted in the military and drawn into unexpected romantic affairs.
Movie - 1950, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Jompa is unemployed - and not keen on getting a job. He still lives with his parents who are tired of his attitude about employment and regular hours. Jompa and his friends spend their time at nightclubs, cafés and doing petty crimes. While playing poker, Jompa becomes indebted to the criminal Kalle Lund. Of course, Jompa is unable to pay, but Kalle gives him a tip: an old fetcher has always a lot of money at home, and if Jompa could get his hands on the money, his troubles would disappear... Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Movie - 1958, 2h 15m • as Jazzgosse
The rich young man Teddy Anker invests his money in the theater at the beginning of the 1920s. Whatever he does becomes a success. He falls in love with a dancer, Karin. He decides to put up a show with Karin as the leading lady, but for the first time one of his shows becomes an economic disaster.
Movie - 1965, 2h 15m • as Ruffian
A woman is driving alone one evening, when she almost run over a man lying in the road. She gets out of the car to see. Suddenly the man attacks her. Eva Jansson's dead body is found by a local farmer, who calls the police. Soon after fashion designer Maj Berg comes driving the same road and is stopped by the police. When the road is cleared for traffic Mrs. Berg drives on but happens to get a flat tire. While changing to the spare wheel, she finds a black notebook in the ditch. Back in Stockholm she opens the notebook and finds a strange jotting that concerns her.
Movie - 1960, 2h 15m • as mannen i telefonkiosken som varnar Arnold
Krister and his fiancé Brita return to Stockholm after a stay in Italy. Shortly upon their return Krister learns that all his assets left to him by his father has disappeared. Together with Brita he tries to obtain justice in a aristocratic and corrupt legal system.
Movie - 1949, 2h 15m • as Nilsson
Kronblom wins a little pig in a lottery and starts to build a sty for his new friend.
Movie - 1963, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A television adaptation of August Strindberg’s A Dream Play, the film follows Agnes, the daughter of the god Indra, as she descends to Earth to witness the conditions of human existence. Through a succession of loosely connected scenes, she encounters individuals from different walks of life, with events unfolding according to dream logic rather than linear narrative.
Movie - 1949, 2h 15m • as Man at the restaurant
Britt Malm gets hit by a car on a Stockholm street and is taken to hospital. She is badly injured and must undergo surgery. While the anesthetic takes effect she sees hallucinatory images. This turns into a flashback of what happened Britt before the accident.
Movie - 1950, 2h 15m • as Ticket inspector
A man comes to Stockholm's central station. He does not know who he is or where he has been. He has some keys and a phone number. Perhaps he is the escaped sex maniac the police are searching for. A waitress at a café tries to help him.
Movie - 1954, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Episodic, musical comedy. Povel Ramel company Knäppupp's first film where Martin Ljung plays 16 different roles.
Movie - 1948, 2h 15m • as Customs officer
To get away from his nagging wife, a man goes to a desert island to settle down there.
Movie - 1968, 2h 15m • as Carlberg
A writer spends the summer holidays with his children on an island. The family grows together through friendships with humans and animals and through adventures.
Movie - 1957, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Sixteen year old Maria arrives in Stockholm. She is going to stay with her aunt. Already at the Central station events occur that change her route.
Movie - 1950, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
The singing vagabond Loffe suddenly becomes a man of the law.
Movie - 1968, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Åsa Nisse compilation from other movies.
Movie - 1955, 2h 15m • as Theaterdirektor
Several men have been murdered lately, mostly rich lovers on their way to meet their mistresses with gifts of fine jewelry. To fight this scourge, King Louis XIV decides to create a special court named "La chambre ardente", designed to find and punish the perpetrators of such heinous crimes. An unexpected person, Mademoiselle de Scudéry, the famous poetess, will find herself entangled in the web of a criminal intrigue linked with the jewel murders, along with a a goldsmith, his daughter and her fiancé...
Movie - 1949, 2h 15m • as Fingal
The poor photographer Tibbe turns out to be the heir of the recently deceased count Silfverbåge. But he can only get the money on one condition: he must stop seeing his old friends, including his fiancée Maja.
Movie - 1973, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A woman accused in court explains how she got started on this track.
Movie - 1951, 2h 15m • as Skakis
Bureacratic customs officer searching for a missing girl.
Movie - 1949, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
The theater director Sten Rampe, Svend Blom and Ulrik Blad are on their way to Sten's summer house and suddenly get a flat tire. The fate brings them together with seven young women whose car has fallen out for the same accident.
Movie - 1956, 2h 15m • as Pär Johansson
The brothers Kalle and Pär, each without the other's knowledge, win money on state bonds. Per opens a small shop in Stockholm and Kalle helps him. The wholesaler Ivar Olsson tries to swindle them.
Movie - 1950, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
An inventive store assistant becomes a major motorcycle racing star.
Movie - 1951, 2h 15m • as Stenerud
About the farming mountain settlers in 1870s Sweden. The young Helge has been accused of manslaughter and has to fight for his life to survive.
Movie - 1957, 2h 15m • as handelsman
Biffen and Bananen compete in a walking race between Stockholm and Gothenburg.
Movie - 1950, 2h 15m • as fabrikör Svensson
Handyman "Inventive Johansson" from the popular swedish comics is now live in his own movie and can handle an oil can and a screwdriver as inventive as brushes and eggs.
Movie - 1933, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Nappe and Johan are two friends who gets cheated by the trickster Johnny.
Movie - 1948, 2h 15m • as baron Igelstam
The vagabond Loffe is drifting along the Swedish summer landscape.
Movie - 1954, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Åsa-Nisse and Klabbarparn are winter fishing.
Movie - 1954, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
The sisters Britta and Ellinor live with their grandfather, music professor Libergius, teacher and leader of the city's orchestra association. In the city there is also a youthful jazz band - to the professor's horror.
Movie - 1961, 2h 15m • as Gottwolf Kleminger
Ad man Jonathan Blake gets tired of his work and runs away to a time travel agency for the first flight out.
Movie - 1955, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Charged by their infatuation of the regiment's maid Elvira, friends and rivals Mandel and Axelsson arrive for military duty, whereupon silly things happen in and around a mansion that is rumored to be haunted.
Movie - 1953, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
While Stockholm celebrates its 700th anniversary, private 91 is knocked on his head and goes on a fantastical journey through Swedish history.