Erland Josephson
Biography: Erland Josephson (15 June 1923 – 25 February 2012) was a Swedish actor and author. He was best known by international audiences for his work in films directed by Ingmar Bergman, Andrei Tarkovsky and Theodoros Angelopoulos. Description above from the Wikipedia article Erland Josephson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: June 16, 1923
Deathday: February 25, 2012
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Nostalgia
1983-06-02
Nostalgia
Overview: A Russian poet, Andrei and his interpreter, Eugenia travel to Italy to research the life of an 18th-century composer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1983-06-02
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Cries and Whispers
1972-12-21
Cries and Whispers
Overview: As Agnes slowly dies of cancer, her sisters are so immersed in their own psychic pains that they are unable to offer her the support she needs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1972-12-21
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
1988-02-05
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Overview: Successful surgeon Tomas leaves Prague for an operation, meets a young photographer named Tereza, and brings her back with him. Tereza is surprised to learn that Tomas is already having an affair with the bohemian Sabina, but when the Soviet invasion occurs, all three flee to Switzerland. Sabina begins an affair, Tom continues womanizing, and Tereza, disgusted, returns to Czechoslovakia. Realizing his mistake, Tomas decides to chase after her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-02-05
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Season of Peace in Paris
1981-07-01
Season of Peace in Paris
Overview: A Yugoslavian man meets a woman in Paris, where he has come to do some research, and their mutual attraction leads to a liaison and shared adventures, not many good.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1981-07-01
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Prospero's Books
1991-08-30
Prospero's Books
Overview: An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and the son of his chief enemy fall in love in this uniquely structured retelling of the 'The Tempest'.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-08-30
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Från regnormarnas liv
1998-02-04
Från regnormarnas liv
Overview: The actress Johanne Heiberg and author Hans Christian Andersen bump into each other one night and nothing will ever be the same.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1998-02-04
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Fanny and Alexander
1982-12-17
Fanny and Alexander
Overview: As children in the loving Ekdahl family, Fanny and Alexander enjoy a happy life with their parents, who run a theater company. After their father dies unexpectedly, however, the siblings end up in a joyless home when their mother, Emilie, marries a stern bishop. The bleak situation gradually grows worse as the bishop becomes more controlling, but dedicated relatives make a valiant attempt to aid Emilie, Fanny and Alexander.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Mystery
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1982-12-17
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A Look at Liv
1979-01-31
A Look at Liv
Overview: Using original footage and interviews, family photos, and excepts from many of the actress's screen and stage performances, the film explores sources of Liv Ullman's creativity, the influence of her Norwegian heritage, her relationship with Ingmar Bergman, her views on being a woman and mother in contemporary society, and the writing of her autobiography,
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-31
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Ulysses' Gaze
1995-10-12
Ulysses' Gaze
Overview: An exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions of his early life come back to haunt him once more.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1995-10-12
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Foto: Sven Nykvist
1973-12-31
Foto: Sven Nykvist
Overview: A short documentary about the work of Swedish cinematographer and Ingmar Bergman collaborator, Sven Nykvist,, emphasizing his style of lighting and sense of humanity through interviews and film clips from key Bergman and Nykvist productions.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-31
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The Sacrifice
1986-05-09
The Sacrifice
Overview: Alexander, a journalist, philosopher and retired actor, celebrates a birthday with friends and family when it is announced that nuclear war has begun.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1986-05-09
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Änglastämman
2009-01-01
Änglastämman
Overview: The old man tells of angels, growing olives and the daughter he lost.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Autumn Sonata
1978-10-08
Autumn Sonata
Overview: After a seven-year absence, Charlotte Andergast travels to Sweden to reunite with her daughter Eva. The pair have a troubled relationship: Charlotte sacrificed the responsibilities of motherhood for a career as a classical pianist. Over an emotional night, the pair reopen the wounds of the past. Charlotte gets another shock when she finds out that her mentally impaired daughter, Helena, is out of the asylum and living with Eva.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1978-10-08
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After the Rehearsal
1984-06-21
After the Rehearsal
Overview: Rational, exacting, and self-controlled theater director, Henrik Vogler, often stays after rehearsal to think and plan. On this day, Anna comes back, ostensibly looking for a bracelet. She is the lead in his new production of Strindberg's A Dream Play. She talks of her hatred for her mother, now dead, an alcoholic actress, who was Vogler's star and lover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1984-06-21
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The Magician
1958-12-26
The Magician
Overview: When 'Vogler's Magnetic Health Theater' comes to town, there's bound to be a spectacle. Reading reports of a variety of supernatural disturbances at Vogler's prior performances abroad, the leading townspeople (including the police chief and medical examiner) request that their troupe provide them a sample of their act, before allowing them public audiences. The scientific-minded disbelievers try to expose them as charlatans, but Vogler and his crew prove too clever for them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-12-26
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Face to Face
1976-04-05
Face to Face
Overview: Dr. Jenny Isaksson is a psychiatrist whose temporary position at a mental hospital offers only modest responsibilities. With her husband out of the country for a seminar and her daughter at camp, Jenny moves in with her grandparents, expecting a relaxing few months. But it isn't long before unpleasant memories of her childhood, the sudden appearance of strange apparitions, and a near-rape push this otherwise stable woman to the very edge of sanity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1976-04-05
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Hanussen
1988-05-20
Hanussen
Overview: A man's story parallels Hitler's rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in the care of Dr. Emil Bettleheim. Bettleheim discovers that Schneider possesses powers of empathy and of clairvoyance, such that could aid suicidal patients. After the war, with one friend as his manager and another as his lover, Schneider changes his name to Eric Jan Hanussen and goes to Berlin, as a hypnotist and clairvoyant performing in halls and theaters. He always speaks the truth, which brings him to the attention of powerful Nazis. He predicts their rise (good propaganda for them) and their violence (not so good). He's in pain and at risk. What is Hanussen's future?
Genres: Science Fiction History Drama Fantasy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1988-05-20
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The Passion of Anna
1969-11-10
The Passion of Anna
Overview: Andreas, a man struggling with the recent demise of his marriage and his own emotional isolation, befriends a married couple also in the midst of psychological turmoil. In turn he meets Anna, who is grieving the recent deaths of her husband and son. She appears zealous in her faith and steadfast in her search for truth, but gradually her delusions surface. Andreas and Anna pursue a love affair, but he is unable to overcome his feelings of deep humiliation and remains disconnected. Meanwhile, the island community is victimized by an unknown person committing acts of animal cruelty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1969-11-10
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Brink of Life
1958-03-31
Brink of Life
Overview: Three women in a maternity ward reveal their lives and intimate thoughts to each other.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1958-03-31
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The Accidental Golfer
1991-12-25
The Accidental Golfer
Overview: I bet anyone can get better at golf than you are in one week, a golfer says to her golfing businessman for a boyfriend in a quarrel. Unfortunately Stig-Helmer is standing nearby when the boyfriend accepts the bet, and he is chosen to be the competitor. Stig-Helmer has never played the game before, but his Norwegian friend Ole promises to help him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1991-12-25
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Minns ni?
1993-10-24
Minns ni?
Overview: A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 films.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1993-10-24
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To Joy
1950-02-20
To Joy
Overview: After learning that his wife has been killed in an accident, a violinist looks back on their relationship.
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1950-02-20
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Faithless
2000-09-15
Faithless
Overview: Scripted by Ingmar Bergman, this very personal film is about a destructive affair which wrecks the marriage of an actress (Marianne) and musician (Markus). Wanting to continue the affair, Marianne moves in with her lover. But she is tormented by Markus' decision not to let her have custody of their daughter. Finally Markus announces he may have a solution to the stalemate, but this leads to deception, lies and ultimately, tragedy.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2000-09-15
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In the Presence of a Clown
1998-10-01
In the Presence of a Clown
Overview: Inventor Carl Åkerblom is a rosy-cheeked 54 year-old admirer of Franz Schubert - and a patient in the psychiatric ward of Akademiska Hospital in Uppsala, after having attempted to beat to death his fiancée, Pauline Thibault. Together with another patient, Professor Osvald Vogler, they set up a film project: the living talkie. Before long, they set off on a frantic tour with their film, "The Joy of the Joyous Girl"... Written by Fredrik Klasson
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1998-10-01
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Le Testament d'un poète juif assassiné
1988-02-26
Le Testament d'un poète juif assassiné
Overview: This somber drama chronicles the writings of Paltiel Kossover (Michel Jonasz), a Rumanian Jew who was incarcerated in a Stalinist prison. Zupanev (Erland Josephson) is a sympathetic court registrar who smuggles the documents and later presents them to the poet's son Grisha (Vincent David).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-02-26
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Hour of the Wolf
1968-02-19
Hour of the Wolf
Overview: While vacationing on a remote German island with his pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1968-02-19
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The Tattooed Widow
1998-03-10
The Tattooed Widow
Overview: Ester is the perfect grandmother everyone expects her to be. But she unexpectedly inherits an old aunt and gets a big apartment and a lot of money. She decides to leave her husband, children and grandchildren to start her life over. Before long, she has four men who court her and she feels young once again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1998-03-10
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Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg
1990-10-05
Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg
Overview: Swedish account of Raoul Wallenberg, the man responsible for the largest rescue of Jews during World War II.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1990-10-05
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Beyond Good and Evil
1977-10-05
Beyond Good and Evil
Overview: The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and his Jewish companion Paul Ree meet a beautiful young Russian intellectual and draw her into a ménage-à-trois.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-10-05
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Montenegro
1981-10-09
Montenegro
Overview: Marilyn Jordan, an American, lives in Stockholm with her Swedish husband and family. Her behavior is bizarre, perhaps mad: she poisons the dog's milk and advises the dog not to drink it; she sets the sheets afire as her husband sleeps; she crawls under the dining table to sing. While detained at airport customs for carrying pruning shears, she meets a young Yugoslav woman and goes with her to a Gypsy enclave where she's fought over, takes a lover, helps with the sordid entertainment at a bar, and returns home more dangerous than before. The film also tells parallel stories of Marilyn's daughter becoming a junior homemaker as the young immigrant practices her striptease.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1981-10-09
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Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
1988-09-23
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
Overview: This documentary offers a rare glimpse of the legendary Soviet filmmaker, Andrei Tarkosvky, at work. Tarkovsky made only seven films in his brief, but brilliant, career; Michal Leszczylowski's respectful movie chronicles him at work on his last film, The Sacrifice. Offering insight into Tarkovsky's working methods and transcendental aesthetics, the movie is a compelling account of the difficulties of film production. In the case of an uncompromising and visionary filmmaker like Tarkovsky, the practical problems of filmmaking are only magnified, as cast and crew struggle to realize the ambitious concepts in Tarkovsky's mind.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1988-09-23
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Saraband
2003-12-01
Saraband
Overview: In this sequel to Scenes from a Marriage (1973), we revisit the characters of Johan and Marianne, then a married couple. After their divorce, Johan and Marianne haven't seen each other for 32 years. Marianne is still working, as a divorce lawyer. Johan is quite well off and has retired to a house in the Orsa finnmark district of Sweden. On a whim, Marianne decides to visit him. Johan's son from a previous marriage, Henrik, lives nearby in a cottage with his daughter Karin, a gifted cello player. The relationship between father and son is strained.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2003-12-01
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To Forget Venice
1979-04-14
To Forget Venice
Overview: Nicky and Marta, brother and sister, reunite in their childhood home in the Venetian countryside. Accompanied by Claudia and her lover, as well as Nicky's partner, Picchio, they plan to spend a Sunday together when fate intervenes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-04-14
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I Am Afraid
1977-10-06
I Am Afraid
Overview: During a wave of political violence in Italy, a policeman who's already survived an assassination is assigned to act as a bodyguard to a morally upright judge. He feels increasingly fearful as the links of the upper echelons of police and government to the violence become clear.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-10-06
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The House of the Yellow Carpet
1983-09-09
The House of the Yellow Carpet
Overview: Franca and her husband Antonio decide to sell a yellow rug which was a gift of Franca's stepfather. One day, while Antonio is out, a strange man rings saying he wishes to buy the rug. But the man's visit begins a twisted a nightmare.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-09-09
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Kristin Lavransdatter
1995-08-25
Kristin Lavransdatter
Overview: The daughter of a prominent medieval Norway landowner, Kristin grows up in total harmony with the ideals of the time: strong family ties, social pride and devout Christianity. As she accepts the fact that she has been arranged to marry the son of another landowner, Kristin's beauty, innocence and purity evokes violent emotions around her: envy, lust, murder, revenge. She seeks refuge in a convent, awaiting marriage. Here, the passion of her life strikes, the knight Erlend Nikulaussonn. However, their love cannot be private, and suddenly Kristin is the centre of a scandal.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1995-08-25
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Savannen
1983-11-16
Savannen
Overview: A couple have installed a new high tech television system in their children's room and become more and more vary of it.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1983-11-16
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Un caso d'incoscienza
1985-07-10
Un caso d'incoscienza
Overview: In Italy, set in the early 1930s, a missing Swedish millionaire (Erland Josephson) is the target of a journalist (Rüdiger Vogler) who sets out to discover exactly what happened to the man and whether or not he is still alive. The biggest lead he has is the millionaire's attractive mistress (Brigitte Fossey), and the story takes off from there.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-07-10
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Vendetta
1995-02-10
Vendetta
Overview: Two Swedish business men are kidnapped in Rome by the Mob, and moved to Sicily. Carl Hamilton is sent to Sicily on direct order from the Swedish Government. He is sent to negotiate for their release. Hamiltons partner and best friend, Lundwall, is murdered by the Mob. Hamilton is dragged into a bitter and brutal vendetta between himself and the Mob-leader Don Tommaso.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1995-02-10
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Saving Grace
1986-05-02
Saving Grace
Overview: A newly-elected Pope Leo XIV finds himself accidentally locked out of the Vatican. Unknown to the outside world, he winds up in an impoverished Italian village, where his adventures ultimately teach the Pope and his new friends some important lessons about friendship and self-esteem. Written by Chris DeSantis
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-02
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Light Keeps Me Company
2000-08-26
Light Keeps Me Company
Overview: Carl-Gustaf Nykvist's documentary about his father, Sven Nykvist. The film is based on Sven's memoirs with Sven himself as narrator. A journey to the place of birth, Moheda, constitutes the hub of the film and during the journey friends and memories emerge. Written by Fredrik Klasson
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2000-08-26
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Variola Vera
1982-07-09
Variola Vera
Overview: An Albanian pilgrim, infected with an unknown disease, is on his way back to Belgrade from the Middle East. When doctors realize that it is a disease that has been considered eradicated, it is already too late - variola vera begins to languish and the hospital is quarantined.
Genres: Drama History Horror
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1982-07-09
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Sceningång
1956-12-03
Sceningång
Overview: A day in the life of a theater ensemble. The acting students are struggling to get one foot ahead of the others and the regular cast is fighting for the good parts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1956-12-03
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Scenes from a Marriage
1974-09-15
Scenes from a Marriage
Overview: Johan and Marianne are married and seem to have it all. Their happiness, however, is a façade for a troubled relationship, which becomes even rockier when Johan admits that he's having an affair. Before long, the spouses separate and move towards finalizing their divorce, but they make attempts at reconciling. Even as they pursue other relationships, Johan and Marianne realize that they have a significant bond, but also many issues that hinder that connection.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1974-09-15
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Meeting Venus
1991-09-18
Meeting Venus
Overview: Celebrated Swedish opera star Karin Anderson is slated to appear in an internationally-telecast production of Tannhauser. Ms. Anderson balks at the notion of working with obscure Hungarian conductor Zoltan Szanto. The much-anticipated production may never get off the ground, thanks to labor-management difficulties, intramural jealousies, and clashing egos. Amidst all this chaos, the mismatched Anderson and Szanto fall in love.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-18
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On the Last Verse - A Small Film About Death
1999-04-15
On the Last Verse - A Small Film About Death
Overview: The documentary director KG Forsberg makes a film about his dying father.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1999-04-15
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The Wicked
1991-10-07
The Wicked
Overview: At the beginning of the 20th century, a junior resident takes an interest in a newly-arrived patient, a young Italian woman who has mysteriously developed schizophrenia. To identify the causes of her condition, he employs psychoanalytic methods to dig into her sexual past, despite objections by the old-fashioned chief physician.
Genres: Drama Romance Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1991-10-07
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The Girls
1968-09-16
The Girls
Overview: A theater company rehearses Aristophanes play "Lysistrata" in which the Athenian women revolt to force the men to suspend the war and make peace. The three leading female actresses, Liz, Marianne and Gunilla, all live in humiliating circumstances to their men.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1968-09-16
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Flying Devils
1985-08-16
Flying Devils
Overview: A family of aerialists decides to go after the $250,000 prize being offered to any group that can execute a complicated trapeze maneuver. However, personal dramas and financial difficulties soon threaten to overtake the flyers' pursuit of the elusive quadruple somersault. The film received a Robert Award as the best Danish film of 1985.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1985-08-16
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Now
2003-01-27
Now
Overview: A man and a woman meet in 1960. They marry because that's what you are supposed to do. But something goes wrong on their wedding night. They have no idea what to do with each other. Sexually. Emotionally. The husband meets a man who knows what to do with his sexuality. Suddenly a hand can do something no hand has done before and lips something no lips have ever done. The two men have a secret love affair. But there is a problem: The woman. And she has something up her sleeve. Will she act? Yes, she will. What happens? Nobody knows. Until now.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2003-01-27
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Dubbelsvindlarna
1982-01-01
Dubbelsvindlarna
Overview: Principal Bertilsson live a peaceful small-town life in Kalmar. No one knows that in his basement waits a million kronor. The result of a successful bank robbery.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Hr. Boe & Co.’s Anxiety
2001-01-01
Hr. Boe & Co.’s Anxiety
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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The Magnetist’s Fifth Winter
1999-03-04
The Magnetist’s Fifth Winter
Overview: A mysterious stranger, Meisner, arrives in a northern Swedish town in 1820, calling himself a magnetist - an amalgam of hypnotist and healer - and claiming he can cure diseases un-treatable by doctors. Ignoring the objections of his colleagues, Dr. Selander allows Meisner to cure his blind daughter, Maria, who not only regains her sight, but also falls in love with the charismatic magnetist. Dark secrets and repressed memories start to emerge, amidst the love between father and daughter, man and woman.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1999-03-04
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I Am Curious, Film
1995-10-28
I Am Curious, Film
Overview: The Scandinavian entry in the BFI's Century of Cinema series of documentaries
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1995-10-28
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Dreamplay
1994-08-05
Dreamplay
Overview: Hindu god Indra has a daughter Agnes, who visits Earth to find out if people have legitimate complaints. She marries a lawyer from Bergen and has children, but is disillusioned by marriage and embarks on a journey among men.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1994-08-05
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The Making of Fanny and Alexander
1984-09-16
The Making of Fanny and Alexander
Overview: The Making of Fanny and Alexander is a fascinating look at the creation of a masterpiece. Directed by Ingmar Bergman himself, this feature-length documentary chronicles the methods of one of cinema’s true luminaries as he labors to realize his crowning production.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1984-09-16
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Amorosa
1986-03-14
Amorosa
Overview: About the Swedish author Agnes Von Krusenstjerna during the period of her marriage to David Sprengel. In the hallucinatory opening sequence she is brought in a straitjacket by her husband and two psychiatric nurses through the Venice Carnival nocturnal antics to a mental hospital in the city. With her is a manuscript of her autobiography, which she calls "her child". The book is Agnes showdown with her family, and in flashbacks presented, Agnes progress from the author of innocent girls' books to serious and self-consuming novelist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1986-03-14
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Control
1987-02-14
Control
Overview: An experiment of psychological effects under stressful conditions in a shelter. When fifteen strangers are put into a nuclear shelter to see how long they can survive without interaction with the outside, things work out fine.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-02-14
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The Sunset Boys
1995-08-04
The Sunset Boys
Overview: Ernest, Ted and August fulfill their friend Carl's dying wish and take him to Heidelberg, where they all first met 45 years ago, to see his old girlfriend one last time. However, the locals won't talk about her, due to a WW2 secret.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1995-08-04
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Day and Night
2004-08-06
Day and Night
Overview: Thomas has decided to die, and spends his last day driving around to say good-bye to everybody, his son, wife, mistress and all others. Nobody understands that this good-bye is definite, and still he says things they will never forget.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2004-08-06
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Stjärnbilder
1995-09-10
Stjärnbilder
Overview: A tribute to Swedish film, which was made to celebrate the 100th anniversary of film in 1995 and consists of about a hundred clips from Swedish film history with many of its stars.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1995-09-10
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Bergmans Hushållerska
2009-01-01
Bergmans Hushållerska
Overview: Anita Haglöf was Ingmar Bergman's housekeeper for eight years, in his home at Karlaplan in Stockholm and at Fårö. She constantly accused him of harassment in her diary, but didn't quit the job.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky
2008-10-17
Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky
Overview: In honor of the twentieth anniversary of Andrei Tarkovsky's death, student filmmaker Dmitry Tarkovsky sets out in search of his favorite director's legacy. His journey leads him to fifteen moving interviews in California, Italy, Sweden, and finally, Russia as he attempts to come closer to the meaning of one of Tarkovsky's most enigmatic beliefs... that death doesn't exist.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-17
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The Ghost Sonata
2007-12-25
The Ghost Sonata
Overview: The Ghost Sonata relates the adventures of a young student, who idealizes the lives of the inhabitants of a stylish apartment building in Stockholm. He makes the acquaintance of the mysterious Jacob Hummel, who helps him to find his way into the apartment, only to find that it is a nest of betrayal and sickness. The world, the student learns, is hell and human beings must suffer to achieve salvation.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2007-12-25
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Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012-02-04
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
Overview: A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, and so on. The only same thing: The love between man and woman... in an archetypical love story cut from 500 classics from all around the world.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2012-02-04
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The Magic Flute
1975-10-04
The Magic Flute
Overview: The Queen of the Night enlists a handsome prince named Tamino to rescue her beautiful kidnapped daughter, Princess Pamina, in this screen adaptation of the beloved Mozart opera. Aided by the lovelorn bird hunter Papageno and a magical flute that holds the power to change the hearts of men, young Tamino embarks on a quest for true love, leading to the evil Sarastro's temple where Pamina is held captive.
Genres: Music Romance Fantasy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1975-10-04
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The Ox
1991-11-22
The Ox
Overview: In desperation brought on by near-starvation, Helge Roos kills his master's ox to feed his wife and baby daughter, setting off a devastating and unexpected chain of events.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1991-11-22
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Spelar du ikväll?
2006-09-09
Spelar du ikväll?
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2006-09-09
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Bergman Island
2006-12-06
Bergman Island
Overview: The desolate and mysterious island of Fårö, Sweden, Baltic Sea, 2004. Swedish master filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) looks back on his personal and artistic life; a journey through more than sixty years devoted to film, plays and television programs. (An abridged version of Ingmar Bergman Complete, 2004; a collection of three thematic documentaries: Bergman and Film; Bergman and Theater; and Bergman and Fårö Island.)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-06
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The Malady of Love
1986-12-03
The Malady of Love
Overview: Physician Robert Briand (Robin Renucci) runs a leper colony in the 15th century that takes in new residents who suffer from the ravages of syphilis. When the beautiful Marie-Blanche (Isabelle Pasco) is brought to the grim, prison-like facility, Robert finds she displays no apparent signs of disease. He risks everything when he falls in love with the woman and makes plans to run away with her. Erland Josephson plays Robert's father, with Piera Degli Esposti as Robert's faithful assistant Terese.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1986-12-03
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The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway
1988-01-01
The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway
Overview: Larger-than-life American author Ernest Hemingway is the subject of this biopic that chronicles the famous writer's life from childhood to his suicide at age 61. Haunted by various inner demons -- including his father's suicide -- Hemingway serves in World War I, marries four times, and finds creative support from Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein and other expatriates living in 1920s Paris.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Lighting
1988-01-01
Lighting
Overview: A documentary on Sven Nykvist lighting the movie-set during the shooting of Andrei Tarkovsky's film "The Sacrifice."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Migrations
1989-05-21
Migrations
Overview: Based on the famous novel of Milos Crnjanski, the story follows Serbian migrations from the Austro-Hungarian Empire during the XVIII century.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1989-05-21
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L'ultima mazurka
1986-10-25
L'ultima mazurka
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1986-10-25
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Som man bäddar...
1957-05-31
Som man bäddar...
Overview: Peter Kallander and Johannes Nord are childhood friends and close to each other's opposites. Peter is an energetic business man and a woman shaker, John's shy and introverted scientist who dares to admire a woman only from a distance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1957-05-31
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Bakom jalusin
1984-09-26
Bakom jalusin
Overview: A Swedish writer is visiting Morocco. At his hotel, he stays next door to an Italian couple. He becomes obsessed with the woman, spying and following her. One night she knocks on his door.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1984-09-26
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The Swedish General Strike 1909
1959-01-01
The Swedish General Strike 1909
Overview: The struggle between the LO and SAF and history of the labor movement
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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Eva
1983-03-17
Eva
Overview: Eva is a widow bored with life, with her job as an architect, with her younger lover, and with her two teenage offspring. She is eventually assigned the job of redesigning the cells of a new prison, but even when her enthusiasm returns a little with the assignment, she is discouraged by the pseudo-intellectual stance of the prison warden and a non-communicative visit to her father. In an act of desperation, she steals some money and a gun - and fully intends to use them both.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sl
Release Date: 1983-03-17
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The Vocation
1974-04-02
The Vocation
Overview: Sven Nykvist, best known as Ingmar Bergman cinematographer, made this film as a tribute to his father who was a missionary in Kongo in the early 20th century. The story of his father Gustav Natanael Nykvist is told through his own photos, letters, and films. Director & cinematographer: Sven Nykvist. Narrators in the English dubbed version: Liv Ullmann & Sean Connery. Produced by Ingmar Bergman (Cinematograph AB). Digitally restored in 2022.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1974-04-02
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Alf Sjöberg - mästaren
1983-12-22
Alf Sjöberg - mästaren
Overview: Alf Sjöberg (1903-1980) was Swedens greatest theater director of the 20th century and as a film director the first of international importance since the silent film era. He won the Grand Prix du Festival at the Cannes Film Festival twice.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1983-12-22
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The Dark Sun
1990-02-04
The Dark Sun
Overview: After the death of his mother a man returns to his hometown Palermo in southern Italy in order to get hold of the legacy. Once there he is forced to participate in various crimes commited by the mafia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-02-04
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Scener ur ett vardagsliv
2009-09-27
Scener ur ett vardagsliv
Overview: "Scenes from everyday life" is about a few weeks in the life of actor Erland Josephson. Once constantly out around the world, now 86 years old, the world comes to visit his home. A film about art and aging, life, love and death.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2009-09-27
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Bergmans början: Ilska. Kärlek. Magknip.
2018-03-03
Bergmans början: Ilska. Kärlek. Magknip.
Overview: Documentary relating Ingmar Bergman's life, from his high school graduation up until he became an established filmmaker in the latter half of the 40's.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2018-03-03
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Sofie
1992-09-25
Sofie
Overview: Liv Ulmann's directorial debut also had her co-authoring the screenplay (with poet Peter Poulsen) as based on a Henri Nathansen's 1932 novel about an affluent late 19th century Jewish merchant family in Copenhagen. Ulmann focuses on strong-willed daughter Sofie's progress through life: a love affair with a gentile painter, an arranged marriage , childbirth and ever more fateful challenges.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1992-09-25
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Games of Love and Loneliness
1977-08-29
Games of Love and Loneliness
Overview: This co-production between Norway and Sweden is the first film that Anja Breien has made since Wives. She has adapted a novel by Hjalmar Soderberg. who also wrote 'Gertrud' from which Carl Dreyer's last film was made, and Doctor Glas' (made into a film by Mai Zetterhng) Games of Love and Loneliness, concerns the manners and mores of Scandinavian society between the years 1897 and 1912. A young journalist, Arvid, falls in love with a girl but won't commit himself to marrying her. She marries an older and richer man and he's pushed into marrying the girl he's been sleeping with. He meets his first love again, and she leaves her husband to have an affair with him, but he still cannot bring himself to leave his wife. Although Anja Breien has changed the character of the girl to make her less of a femme fatale and more of an emancipated woman, the film's central concern is the young man who cannot make up his mind what to do with his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1977-08-29
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You Love Only Once
1981-02-14
You Love Only Once
Overview: Tomislav is a former Partizan who continues his struggle after the war as a dedicated member of Tito's secret police. He meets and falls in love with a ballet dancer from a bourgeois family. His love affair with the class enemy and his slow adaptation to the post-war realities could seal his doom.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1981-02-14
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Ingmar Bergman: Reflections on Life, Death, and Love
2000-03-13
Ingmar Bergman: Reflections on Life, Death, and Love
Overview: Malou Von Sivers is the hostess of a popular Swedish talk show in which she quizzes famous people about their public and private lives. Through the noted Swedish actor Erland Josephson, Malou extended an invitation to the legendary -- and notoriously reclusive -- director Ingmar Bergman to appear on her show. To Malou's surprise, Bergman agreed, under the condition that Josephson appear on the show with him. In the course of this 52-minute interview, Bergman discusses his personal life rather than his films, shedding light on his temper, his mood swings, his problems with women, his marriage, and the trials of his advancing age. The interview was later re-edited into expanded form for international release as Malou Meets Ingmar Bergman and Erland Josephson. The documentary was screened at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2000-03-13
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Dubbelsvindlarna
1982-01-01
Dubbelsvindlarna
Overview: Principal Bertilsson live a peaceful small-town life in Kalmar. No one knows that in his basement waits a million kronor. The result of a successful bank robbery.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Swedish and Underage
1969-09-07
Swedish and Underage
Overview: A girl of 14 is embarrassing her foster parents. She exposes herself to a homeless and police. It turns out that the girl has had sex with various men in exchange for a little kindness and chocolate. At fornication trial she has to face the city's municipal chief, who also has abused the girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1969-09-07
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Directed by Bergman (The Making of Saraband)
2003-12-03
Directed by Bergman (The Making of Saraband)
Overview: A documentary about the production of Ingmar Bergman's TV film "Saraband."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2003-12-03
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Monismanien 1995
1975-05-05
Monismanien 1995
Overview: In a fictional future totalitarian society ruled as a one-party state. A teacher commits the crime to teach their students to think independently and is therefore being stalked. The fictional Monismania also appeared in Astrid Lindgren's saga about the witch Pomperipossa in the Monismanian 1976.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-05
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The Lie
1970-10-28
The Lie
Overview: A Swedish couple are trapped in their marriage and way of life. Locked up in their bourgeois inferno.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1970-10-28
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Dirty Story
1984-12-21
Dirty Story
Overview: The director of one of Finland's largest company, United Metal, discovers the company's Chairman dead in the office. A chain of bribes unravels.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1984-12-21
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The Dancer
1994-09-09
The Dancer
Overview: The career of a classical ballet dancer is short and often riddled with injuries, and it takes a special kind of artist to submit to the discipline and strenuous regimen needed to dance with a world-class company. Follows the young and gifted Katja Björner through years of intensive training at the Royal Swedish Ballet School as she develops into an international ballet star.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1994-09-09
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One on One
1978-03-19
One on One
Overview: After years of ignoring the shy cousin whom she and her peers taunted mercilessly as a child, a middle-aged woman (Ingrid Thulin) wrenches the poor man (Erland Josephson) out of his self-chosen solitude to accompany her on a trip. Despite developments which deepen their knowledge of one another, the communication between them does not portend long-lasting intimacy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1978-03-19
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Angela's War
1984-09-07
Angela's War
Overview: In this melodrama about love in wartime, Angela (Ida-Lotta Backman) is a Finnish nurse in Lapland who begins a torrid affair with Thomas Schmidt (Mathieu Carriere), a wounded German army captain. Their love for each other is verboten in Finland, where the Germans occupy northern Lapland until the end of the war. Finland had formed a brief alliance with Germany to fight an invading Russia in the winter of 1939, but when the Russians won that battle and took more than 16,000 square miles of land away from Finland, it was too late to successfully rout the Germans from Finnish soil. So for the entire war, the Finns were fighting Germany on their own national territory -- which makes the love affair between a Finnish nurse and German soldier a very complex issue. While Angela receives different reactions from her friends, acquaintances, and relatives, she continues on with her love for the German, against odds which are greater as time goes by.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-07
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Bella Donna
1983-03-26
Bella Donna
Overview: This film of a glitzy showbiz world by director Peter Keglevic in his first feature-length effort recounts the saga of a married torch singer whose numerous lovers are meant to steady her nerves and a saxophone player who loves her but cannot get his own act together. Singing and cinematography are pluses.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-03-26
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Holocene
1992-08-01
Holocene
Overview: Adapted from the Max Frisch novel "Der Mensch erscheint im Holozän". It tells the story of an old man, isolated from the outside world in a little mountain village in Ticino, Switzerland, who fights against oblivion. From books that he has there he cuts out texts and images about geology and geological history to fix and arrange them on the walls of his cottage. Frisch adds these articles to his novel to assemble human history with individual decay.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1992-08-01
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Victor Sjöström - A Portrait
1981-01-01
Victor Sjöström - A Portrait
Overview: Documentary of the Swedish actor/director Victor Sjöström and his work - from Terje Vigen (1917) to Smultronstället (1957) Director Ingmar Bergman is interviewed about his memories of and experiences of Sjöström.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Passion of Anna: Disintegration of Passion
2004-01-01
Passion of Anna: Disintegration of Passion
Overview: A documentary about En Passion
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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The Search for Sanity
2004-04-20
The Search for Sanity
Overview: A short documentary about Hour of the Wolf.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-04-20
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I sällskap med en clown
1997-11-07
I sällskap med en clown
Overview: One hour making-of of Bergman's In The Presence of A Clown.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1997-11-07
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Som löven i Vallombrosa
1995-04-16
Som löven i Vallombrosa
Overview: Four generations of the same family meet in a summer cottage over a weekend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-16
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A Dream Play
1980-11-30
A Dream Play
Overview: "A Dream Play" - Agnes, a daughter of the Vedic god Indra, descends to Earth to bear witness to problems of human beings. She meets about 40 symbolical characters.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1980-11-30
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Fanny & Alexander: A Bergman Tapestry
2004-12-04
Fanny & Alexander: A Bergman Tapestry
Overview: Short documentary featuring interviews from the cast and crew of "Fanny and Alexander." Featured on the Criterion Collection box set of the film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-12-04
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Welcome to Verona
2006-04-07
Welcome to Verona
Overview: In a sanatorium for people in their 60's Walter meets Virginia and falls in love. His boyish invites only upset her. In another attempt to capture her interest he directs "Romeo and Juliet" starring the residents of the sanatorium.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2006-04-07
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Men and Bergman
2008-07-14
Men and Bergman
Overview: Ingmar Bergman himself has often stressed how important the actors are to his work, and that they constitute his greatest source of inspiration. From this perspective it is therefore interesting to look at Bergman through their eyes. ”The Men and Bergman” is dedicated to the late Ingmar Bergman where several prominent Swedish actors; Thommy Berggren, Börje Ahlstedt, Thorsten Flinck and Erland Josephson discuss their work with Bergman in film and theater. We are given a unique portrait of Ingmar Bergman as a personal instructor and coach, as a human being, spanning from the earlier years in the 1950’s to his last theater productions fifty years later. We are treated to stories about Bergman the director as well as personal anecdotes about Bergman the man. Renowned Swedish film critic Nils Petter Sundgren, who has followed Ingmar Bergman throughout his career, hosts the program.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2008-07-14
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Building Images: Anna Asp on Scenography
1990-09-09
Building Images: Anna Asp on Scenography
Overview: Documentary on production designer Anna Asp's work with director Andrey Tarkovsky, during the shooting of his film Offret (The Sacrifice).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1990-09-09
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Rosenbaum - Bländverk
1993-09-13
Rosenbaum - Bländverk
Overview: At a porn club in Stockholm, a brutal murder is committed - and one of the striptease dancers takes the blame.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1993-09-13
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Rosenbaum - Målbrott
1993-10-29
Rosenbaum - Målbrott
Overview: One of the students in a school, a young girl, is found strangled. Everything indicates that the gym teacher is guilty.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1993-10-29
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Rosenbaum - Det sista vittnet
1993-11-05
Rosenbaum - Det sista vittnet
Overview: At a Swedish company with international contacts, a bestial murder is committed. The murdered person has been employed by the company - everything indicates that the chairman of the board is guilty.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1993-11-05
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Andrey Tarkovsky in Nostalghia
1984-05-05
Andrey Tarkovsky in Nostalghia
Overview: A poetic and intimate scene-by-scene look into the filming of Tarkovsky's 'Nostalghia'.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1984-05-05
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Eva
1948-12-26
Eva
Overview: Marine Bo Fredriksson is travelling home on a leave. He reminisce about an accident he caused as a 12-year old which killed a young girl, an event that has made him feel revulsion for death. Back home he meets Eva, a girl he fancies and they move together to Stockholm to start a life together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1948-12-26
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Svensk Filmindustri: La grande aventure du cinéma Suédois
2004-03-15
Svensk Filmindustri: La grande aventure du cinéma Suédois
Overview: Rarely in the history of the cinema, a company films productions will have marked the history and the culture of its country like "Svensk Filmindustri". Since its creation in 1919 by Charles Magnusson, Svensk Filmindustri have produced 1200 films including the major works of Mauritz Stiller, Victor Sjöström and Ingmar Bergman. The uncontested talent of the actresses Greta Garbo and Ingrid Bergman have given Swedish cinema a world recognition, a cinema that celebrates the power of the forces of nature, and where the inner life of its characters remains in our memories.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-03-15
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The Exile and Death of Andrei Tarkovsky
1988-02-14
The Exile and Death of Andrei Tarkovsky
Overview: A documentary about the life of Andrei Tarkovsky in exile in Western Europe including Italy, Sweden, Germany and France until his sad demise to a fatal cancer.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1988-02-14
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Marmalade Revolution
1980-02-11
Marmalade Revolution
Overview: A Professor comes home carrying a paper bag with food. Among the goods in the bag is apricot jam. His wife reacts strongly, since they always have eaten orange marmalade. The Professor leaves his house and checks into a hotel.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1980-02-11
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The Forbidden Fruit
1994-10-28
The Forbidden Fruit
Overview: The film depicts the incredible metamorphosis of a clerk whose sense of identity and pride are reawakened by an unexpected development.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1994-10-28
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It Rains on Our Love
1946-11-09
It Rains on Our Love
Overview: Maggi meets David after having missed her train, and they spend the night together. Penniless, the young lovers break into a summer cottage. The owner, Håkansson, offers to rent it to them, but he has an ulterior motive. By living together, they have to face their pasts and deal with the meddling neighbors and authorities.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1946-11-09
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Una donna spezzata
1988-08-06
Una donna spezzata
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1988-08-06
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The Making of Autumn Sonata
1978-01-01
The Making of Autumn Sonata
Overview: A behind the scenes documentary of Ingmar Bergman's Autumn Sonata (1978), detailing every aspect of the production.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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