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- EROTIKON surely pushed the boundaries of what was acceptable on the screen in 1920: Irene, the bored wife of a distracted entomologist, pursues a womanizing aviator, but she may actually be in love with Preben, her husband's best friend. Meanwhile, her husband seems to be getting unusually close with his own niece. Stiller obviously delights in teasing his audience with each scandalous plot twist and every salacious leer, and the result is a deliciously subversive comedy that was very much ahead of its time.
- Helga is a young single lady who has a baby by a much older married man. After the older man tells Helga's father that he refuses to pay child support because he isn't the child's father, her father insists that Helga take him to court. On court day, just as the older married man is about to swear on the Bible that he is not the father of Helga's child, Helga suddenly tells the court that she's dropping the case because although the man did father her child, she doesn't want him to commit perjury, which is not only a serious crime but a mortal sin as well.
- In this sequel to Wanted - A Film Actress (1917), comedic situations follow Thomas and Bessie - beginning with the preparations of wedding ceremony, to the daily married life.
- A young student has had a relationship with a young Jewish woman. When she becomes pregnant, he refuses to marry her, arguing that she is Jewish and he Christian.
- Journalist Hertha Weye is commissioned to publish an article on the intimate life of a young and famous explorer. To conduct her investigation, she disguises herself in order to get closer to him.
- The widower Jakob Vindås lives with his daughter and his mother in a small west coast fishing community.
- Professor Barclay travels with the young Dorian Holbein to the big city to oversee his violinist education.
- While Bertil Lindström works at the Swedish embassy in Paris, his wife Gabrielle spends the summer alone in Sweden. After a phone call to her, he starts to think of all the things she can possibly be doing separated from him.
- Synnöve lives with her parents at the farm Solbakken on a sunny hill. Thorbjörn, who lives at Granliden in the shadow of a big mountain, often looks wistfully up to Solbakken. As teenagers they meet and fall in love. Another boy, Knud Nordhaug, is also yearning for Synnöve. Together with some companions he bullies Thorbjörn, who knocks them down. When Knud meets Synnöve's father, he gets him to believe that it is Thorbjörn who is the bully. Synnöve's parents forbid her to meet Thorbjörn henceforth. Some years later Knud proposes to Synnöve, but is turned down. At Midsummer Eve Thorbjörn and Synnöve meet secretly. They renew their love-vows, and Thorbjörn promises to develop a better reputation in the village. When Thorbjörn is driving a loaded cart to the town, the wagon breaks down. As the Nordhaug farm is nearby, he goes there to lend a new wagon. Knud sees Thorbjörn and starts a fight. When Thorbjörn turns away, Knud stabs a knife in his back. For many weeks Thorbjörn hovers between life and death. Ultimately he rises from the bed, but as a changed man, open for reconciliation.
- Thomas Graal's a screenwriter, is very fond of his secretary Bessie. Overtaken by a kiss by Thomas she runs away. In his misfortune Thomas writes a screenplay inspired by Bessie. But she has not been really honest with him .
- Ture believes he has killed an elderly man after his birthday party.
- King of the gypsies daughter Ayla give birth to a child with a man who does not belong to the tribe. She is cursed by his father and is expelled. A countess adopts the child.
- Count Eric von Ure has developed the estate Uresholm into a exemplary farm. The Count begins to age, and he hesitates whether the son Kuno von Ure is really suitable to take over the farm. Kuno is immature and is under poor influence by cousin Fritz, a Lebeman with questionable morality and lousy economy. The Old Count appoints the Trustee Jörgen Ager to take care of the farm. During a hunt, Kuno is shot dead, and Fritz makes sure that Ager is suspected of murder.
- Georg Bonnet is a patron of the arts and popular with artists, whom he maintains friendships. At his wedding celebration to the beautiful Eve, he does not suspect that trouble would soon follow.
- Professor Ernest Wearnkeal has problems with repeated thefts at his Egyptian museum. For help, he turns to the famous detective and author Oswald Read. Read arrives at the museum under the disguise of a Dr. Kearn who will study the museum's art treasures. As Dr. Kearn, he is also introduced to the professor's beautiful daughter Ester.
- The story of two men and their rivalry for the attention of a dancer, and the events that follow.
- Snippets of Greta Garbo movies interspersed with provincial gigs of girls resembling Garbo. The film begins with one of the aspirants reading an issue of the newspaper Stockholms-Tidningen.
- One day when Ruben Stiller is playing in a bath, he gets an alien talking to Nadja, who asks him to find out the fate of Charly's dog. Ruben agrees because Charly's host was Mauritz Stiller, and Ruben is the grandson of Mauritz's brother.
- The title comes from a comment that Danish director Carl Dreyer made about Swedish director Victor Sjostrom, and the focus here is on the Svensk studio and the role played by adaptations of contemporary novels by the author Selma Lagerlof.