Bibi AnderssonFilmography

Arn the Knight Templar

Actors: Joakim Natterqvist, Sofia Helin, Stellan Skarsgård, Simon Callow, Bibi Andersson

Synopsis: In this lavish historical drama - set in the Middle Ages -Arn, the knightly son of a Swedish nobleman, must journey to the Holy Land on horseback as a sentence for taking up with a forbidden romantic partner. The voyage carries him through the heart of the medieval world and into the core of the Read More

When Darkness Falls

Actors: Oldoz Javidi, Lia Boysen, Reuben Sallmander, Per Graffman, Bahar Pars

Synopsis: Three stories of people whose lives have been thrown into chaos come together in this drama from Swedish filmmaker Anders Nilsson. Nina (Bahar Pars) is a teenage girl whose family has recently settled in Sweden from overseas. Nina and her younger sister Layla (Oldoz Javidi) are suddenly at odds Read More

Elina - Som Om Jag Inte Fanns

Actors: Natalie Minnevik, Bibi Andersson, Marjaana Maijala, Henrik Rafaelsen, Tind Soneby

Light Keeps Me Company

Actors: Woody Allen, Bibi Andersson, Harriet Andersson, Richard Attenborough

Synopsis: This moving, finely-wrought portrayal of legendary cinematographer Sven Nykvist was directed by his son Carl-Gustav Nykvist -- a noted filmmaker himself. Spanning from long forgotten kiddie flick in 1945 to Woody Allen's Celebrity (1997), Nykvist's career came to an abrupt end when he was Read More

Det Gar Aldrig Dom Man Tankt Sig

Actors: Josefin Nilsson, Marie Richardson, Jacob Ericksson, Bibi Andersson

Synopsis: Mans Herngren directs this quiet, sad family comedy about love and jealousy. The film focuses on a trio of sisters: Sophia (Josefin Nilsson), who is expecting a child with her significant other Freddie (Jacob Ericksson); Gina (Marie Richardson), who is married to Roffe (Peter Dalle) and remains Read More

I Rollerna Tre

Actors: Bibi Andersson, Harriet Andersson, Gunnel Lindblom

Synopsis: Those with a special love for Swedish films and who are familiar with actresses Harriet Andersson and Bibi Andersson and Gunnel Lindblom will be most delighted by this documentary interview held at the palatial French retreat of noted late filmmaker Mai Zetterling. The trio of actresses have Read More

Droemspel

Actors: Ingvild Holm, Bjorn Willberg Andersen, Björn Sundquist, Liv Ullmann, Bibi Andersson

Synopsis: This artistically produced Swedish philosophical drama, filmed in black-and-white, is adapted from Strindberg's 1902 play. Using a combination of Biblical reference, classic mythology, and poetry it depicts God's daughter as she reflects upon the state of humanity. Agnes descends from Heaven to Read More

Il Sogno Della Farfalla

Actors: Thierry Blanc, Simona Cavallari, Bibi Andersson, Roberto Herlitzka, Henry Arnold

Synopsis: This European existential drama utilizes complex symbols inspired by abstract psychological theories to explore the effects and reasons behind a young classical actor's decision to stop talking. No one knows why Massimo has vowed to stop talking. Other than speaking dialog from classical plays Read More

Una Estacion De Paso

Actors: Omero Antonutti, Joaquim de Almeida, Bibi Andersson

Synopsis: Antonio (Santiago Alonso) has been puzzled by a number of events which happened over a short period of time during a summer vacation outside of Madrid a decade earlier. They all concerned the family and household of a man he only knew as "the Nazi." With some persistence in pestering his family, a Read More

Fordringsagare

Actors: Bibi Andersson, Keve Hjelm

Synopsis: The prolific and highly celebrated Swedish playwright (August Strindberg (1849-1912) wrote a number of plays which have become standards in the repertory of European theater, including Miss Julie, which in 1950 was made into a classic film by Alf Sjoberg. This movie is a straightforward filming of Read More

Babette's Feast

Actors: Stéphane Audran, Jean-Philippe Lafont, Gudmar Wivesson, Jarl Kulle, Bibi Andersson, Bodil Kjer, Birgitte Federspiel

Synopsis: The Danish/French Babette's Feast is based on a story by Isak Dinesen, also the source of the very different Out of Africa (1985). Stephane Audran plays Babette, a 19th century Parisian political refugee who seeks shelter in a rough Danish coastal town. Philippa (Bodil Kjer) and Martina (Birgitte Federspiel Read More

Los Dueños del silencio

Actors: Bibi Andersson, Thomas Hellberg, Peder Falk, Oscar Martinez, Arturo Bonín

Synopsis: In this political thriller, the disappearance in Argentina of a girl with dual Swedish/Argentine nationality is explored. The girl's probable extra-judicial murder by Argentina's military rulership is investigated by a Swedish journalist, whose efforts expose the widespread abduction and murder of Read More

Huomenna

Actors: Jukka Puotila, Katja Kiuru, Aake Kalliala, Heikki Luukas, Bibi Andersson

Synopsis: Human nature and the inhuman cruelties that come with war are the focus of this challenging, pensive, well-photographed drama. Lt. Leimu (Jukka Puotila) is in charge of a prison camp in an unnamed country. A civil war is drawing to a close; in fact, there are only two days left in the fighting. Read More

Wallenberg: A Hero's Story

Actors: Richard Chamberlain

Synopsis: Raoul Wallenberg: A Hero's Story is a perfection-plus TV biopic, scripted by Gerald Green (Holocaust) and directed by Lamont Johnson (who won an Emmy for his efforts). Richard Chamberlain plays Raoul Wallenberg, scion of a well-to-do family of Swedish bankers. Although he is a Christian "Aryan," Read More

Sista Leken

Actors: Sven Wollter, Bibi Andersson, Tomas Laustiola

Synopsis: In this somber, psychological drama about the conflict between a man's innermost feelings and a society that puts these feelings in a strait jacket, the mood is ruminative and depressing throughout. Alone, Viktor (Sven Wolter) heads off for his usual summer vacation to some islands where he can Read More

Berget På Månens Baksida

Actors: Gunilla Nyroos, Tommy Berggrren, Bibi Andersson, Ingvar Hirdvall

Synopsis: This flawed biographical drama captures the turbulent love affair between the famous Russian mathematician Sonya Kovalevsky (Gunilla Nyroos) and her (unrelated) compatriot Maxim Kovalevsky (Thommy Berggren), while both were teaching at a university in Sweden (she was Sweden's first female Read More

Sorte Fuger

Actors: Bibi Andersson, Björn Skagestad, Anouk Ferjac, Henri Serre

Synopsis: A physical attraction between Simone Cambrai (Bibi Andersson) an agent for a French press, and Steiner Carlsen (Bjoern Skagestad) a cover designer for a Norwegian firm turns into a sexual relationship when the two meet at a book fair in Frankfurt. Although they carry on an affair through letters Read More

Exposed

Actors: Nastassja Kinski, Rudolf Nureyev, Harvey Keitel, Ian McShane, Bibi Andersson

Synopsis: Exposed is the film in which concert violinist Rudolf Nureyev grabs his bow and "plays" the lissome body of Nastassja Kinski. This may well stand as the silliest bit of erotica in screen history, but in the context of the film it's a model of restraint. We're asked to believe that Kinski is Read More

Jag Rodnar

Actors: Gunnar Hellstrom, Bibi Andersson, Larry Hagman, Vic Silayan

Synopsis: Director Vilgot Sjoman of I Am Curious - Yellow fame, has created this film of a director named Gunnar Sjoeman (Gunnar Hellstrom) making a movie in the Philippines that is based on Joseph Conrad's book "Victory." After arriving on location, the director finds that his leading man has shafted him Read More

Barnfoergjudet

Actors: Ann Smith, Bibi Andersson, Rolf Skoglund, Annalisa Ericson

Synopsis: A little girl (Ann Smith) daydreams of being a grown-up in this sentimental drama. From her early days at kindergarten, she escapes reality with her fertile imagination. Although her mother (Bibi Andersson), father (Rolf Skoglund), and young grandmother (Annalisa Ericson) are thoughtful and Read More

Marmeladupproret

Actors: Erland Josephson, Bibi Andersson, Marie Goranzon, Jan Malmsjö, Kristina Adolphson

Synopsis: Eller (Erland Josephson) is a successful, middle-aged married man who becomes a celebrity when he woos the femme reporter Anna (Bibi Andersson) during his mid-life crisis. He goes on the lecture circuit where he encourages avid listeners to abandon the shackles of staid mediocrity and live life to Read More

Twee Vrouwen

Actors: Bibi Andersson, Anthony Perkins, Sandrine Dumas, Kitty Courbois

Synopsis: Laura (Bibi Andersson) has long been divorced from her theater-critic husband Alfred (Anthony Perkins), though they still see one another from time to time. One day, while working at the icon museum she directs, Laura strikes up a conversation with Sylvia (Sandra Dumas). The two take a shine to Read More

Quintet

Actors: Paul Newman, Vittorio Gassman, Fernando Rey, Bibi Andersson, Brigitte Fossey

Synopsis: Perhaps the least seen but most talked about film of Robert Altman's career, Quintet is a somber science fiction tale that takes place after a nuclear holocaust has thrown the world into another Ice Age. A man named Essex (Paul Newman) and his pregnant wife Vivia (Brigitte Fossey) are wandering Read More

Airport '79: Concorde

Actors: Alain Delon, Susan Blakely, Robert Wagner, Sylvia Kristel, George Kennedy

Synopsis: The fourth Airport film may be the silliest of them all, as George Kennedy returns, this time co-piloting with Alain Delon. The plane is on its way to the Moscow Olympics, has a bomb on board, and gets fired upon with missiles that necessitate flying upside-down. A look at the cast list resembles Read More

L'Amour En Question

Actors: Bibi Andersson, Annie Girardot, Michel Galabru, Jacques Morel, Michel Auclair, Georges Géret

Synopsis: In the French legal system, a judge-magistrate conducts criminal investigations. In this story, Suzanne Corbier (Annie Girardot) is one such magistrate who is called upon to determine whether Catherine, who has been having an affair with an Englishman, conspired with him to murder her impotent Read More

An Enemy of the People

Actors: Steve McQueen, Charles Durning, Bibi Andersson, Eric Christmas, Michael Cristofer

Synopsis: Steve McQueen served as both star and executive producer for this film version of the drama by Henrik Ibsen, which was adapted by Arthur Miller. When Dr. Thomas Stockmann (McQueen) discovers that a tannery has dangerously polluted a hot spring in his community, he feels that it is his duty to Read More

A Look at Liv

Actors: Ingmar Bergman, Liv Ullmann

Synopsis: This 1977 documentary feature closely examines the person, views and life of Norwegian actress Liv Ullman, perhaps best known for her many appearances in the famed Swedish director Ingmar Bergman's films. Clips of her films are included, as well as numerous interviews granted by her especially for Read More

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

Actors: Bibi Andersson, Kathleen Quinlan, Ben Piazza, Lorraine Gary, Martine Bartlett, Darlene Craviotto

Synopsis: Without ever revealing the diagnosis, this film chronicles the inner life and outer circumstances of Deborah Blake (Kathleen Quinlan), a young mental patient. As the film opens, she is being accompanied by her subdued parents to yet another mental hospital. This one looks clean and cheerful, at Read More

It's Raining on Santiago

Actors: Bibi Andersson, Maurice Garrel, John Abbey, Riccardo Cucciolla, André Dussollier, Annie Girardot

Synopsis: Salvador Allende was a Marxist who became the President of Chile. Forces within that country and from outside, including the U.S.'s CIA, conspired to bring about an end to his rule, and his life, on September 11, 1973. This French/Bulgarian drama explores the events leading up to his election and Read More

Blondie

Actors: Catherine Jourdan, Bibi Andersson, Mathieu Carrière, Rod Taylor, Hans Meyer

Synopsis: This French film has nothing to do with Chick Young's cartoon series about the Bumstead family; neither does it relate to the 1980's pop group Blondie. In this political drama, Rod Taylor appears as a United Nations official, active in the effort to ban chemical weapons and to promote the use of Read More

Germicide

Synopsis: Though Rod Taylor chooses to leave Germicide off his official resume, the film isn't really that bad. Taylor plays a dedicated scientist who learns that a bacterial weapon is at the ready to wipe out most of mankind. He tries to warn the authorities, but is thwarted at every turn by terrorists and Read More

La Rivale

Actors: Jean Piat, Bibi Andersson, Geneviève Fontanel, Maurice Biraud

Synopsis: In this comedy, a loving wife (Bibi Andersson) recovers the attentions of her husband after he takes a mistress. She does this by making friends with the mistress then subtly sabotaging her husband's romantic excursions. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

My Husband, His Mistress and I

Scenes from a Marriage

Actors: Liv Ullmann, Bibi Andersson, Erland Josephson, Jan Malmsjö, Anita Wall

Synopsis: Originally created as a six-part series for television, this film -- widely regarded as one of Ingmar Bergman's most powerful later works -- offers a close-up examination of a relationship as it slowly falls apart, and investigates the toll it takes on both parties. Johan and Marianne (Erland Josephson Read More

Vortex

Synopsis: In this suspenseful drama, a UN official tries to warn the world that a newly developed weapon is going to be misappropriated by international terrorists. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Afskedens Time

Actors: Bibi Andersson

Synopsis: Well-known Danish film producer Per Holst turned director for this muddled psychological melodrama about a civil servant (Ove Sprogøe) who cannot admit to his unfaithful wife (Bergman regular Bibi Andersson) that he has just lost his job. In desperation, the quiet clerk murders the entire family. Read More

Scenes from a Marriage

Actors: Liv Ullmann, Bibi Andersson, Erland Josephson, Jan Malmsjö, Anita Wall

Chelovek S Drugoy Storony

Actors: Bibi Andersson, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Patrick Wymark, Igor Yasulovich, Valentin Gaft

The Touch

Actors: Bibi Andersson, Elliott Gould, Max von Sydow, Sheila Reid, Staffan Hallerstam

Synopsis: This was famed Swedish director Ingmar Bergman's first English-language film, the story of a contented young wife and mother whose marriage is disrupted by an inexplicable attraction. Bergman regular Bibi Andersson plays Karin Vergerus, who is married to a prominent but stodgy surgeon, Andreas (Max Von Sydow Read More

The Kremlin Letter

Actors: Bibi Andersson, Richard Boone, Nigel Green, Dean Jagger, Lila Kedrova

Synopsis: When American agents in Moscow try to recover a stolen letter implicating America in an anti-Red China plot, they discover a hornet's nest of treason, double agents, murder, and betrayal. The plot has as many switchbacks as a Formula One racetrack, and a pad and paper to keep track of the agents Read More

O Lyubvi

Actors: Viktoriya Fedorova, Sergei Dreyden, Eleonora Shashkova, Vladimir Tikhonov, Valentin Gaft

The Passion of Anna

Actors: Liv Ullmann, Bibi Andersson, Max von Sydow, Erland Josephson, Erik Hell

Synopsis: Liv Ullmann plays the widowed, crippled Anna Fromm, who while traveling on a remote island calls upon reclusive ex-convict Andreas (Max von Sydow) in order to use his telephone. After Anna leaves, Andreas discovers she's left her purse behind; he opens it, hoping to find some identification. A Read More

Storia di una Donna

Actors: Bibi Andersson, Robert Stack, James Farentino, Annie Girardot, Didi Perego

Synopsis: This routine melodrama finds an Italian woman torn between her old lover and her husband. Karin (Bibi Andersson) is the resident of Rome who literally bumps into Bruno (James Farentino) after her piano lesson. The married man is immediately taken by her beauty and the two begin a passionate love Read More

Tænk på et tal

Actors: Bibi Andersson, Henning Moritzen, Kirsten Peuliche

Synopsis: This offbeat crime drama finds a bank teller being approached by a robber to hand over the money. He would, but much of the daily deposits are hidden in his own lunch box, making the robber's take a small one. The robber escapes but calls the police on the crooked teller after he discovers his Read More

Last Summer

Actors: Barbara Hershey, Richard Thomas, Bruce Davison, Cathy Burns, Ralph Waite

Synopsis: Last Summer is a frank coming-of-age tale that refuses to prettify its young characters or their activities. A group of aimless teens get together for sex, drugs and rock-and-roll on Fire Island. Timid, overweight Rhonda (Catherine Burns) is goaded into aberrant behavior by her peers, especially Read More

Le Viol

Actors: Bibi Andersson, Bruno Cremer, Frederic de Pasquale

Synopsis: In this drama, a young wife stays alone in her opulent apartment after her husband and her maid leave. Suddenly the doorbell rings. She opens it to find a strange gun-toting man who bursts in and chloroforms her. She later awakens and finds herself tied to the couch. The stranger warns her not to Read More

Svarta Palmkronor

Actors: Bibi Andersson, Tommy Berggren, Toralv Maurstad, Roland Hedlund

Synopsis: In this Swedish feature, the bright and colorful carnival atmosphere of Rio is contrasted by life in the neighboring town of Niteroi. The poor town festers with poverty, prostitution and hopelessness and serves as a gathering place for derelict alcoholics who jump ship from many countries. The Read More

The Girls

Actors: Bibi Andersson, Harriet Andersson, Gunnel Lindblom

Synopsis: This Swedish feminist drama focuses upon three women in a traveling troupe of thespians performing Aristophanes' Lysistrata. Each of the women has some serious problems and fears to overcome. The husband of one has two lovers. The lover of another will not marry her, and the third's husband stays Read More

Scusi, Lei E Favorevole O Contrario?

Syskonbadd

Actors: Bibi Andersson, Per Oscarsson, Jarl Kulle, Gunnar Björnstrand

Synopsis: A sister (Bibi Andersson) and brother (Per Oscarsson) become lovers in this incestuous costume drama set in 18th-century Sweden. The sex-starved siblings carry on their tawdry and illicit affair at a time when moral debauchery and decadence ran rampant. The literal translation of the Swedish title Read More

On

Actors: Per Myrberg, Bibi Andersson, Karin Kavli, Marian Grans

Synopsis: In this somber drama, residents of a small island accuse a nobleman of killing a priest when the man of the cloth disappears. The two were seen arguing, and the nobleman is the main suspect. The priest is only away on a sabbatical trying to regain his faith, but the islanders continue to put Read More

Duel at Diablo

Actors: James Garner, Sidney Poitier, Bibi Andersson, Dennis Weaver, Bill Travers

Synopsis: Frontier scout Jess Remsberg (James Garner) is crossing the desert when he spots a dead army scout and group of Apaches pursuing someone -- it turns out to be a white woman, Ellen Grange (Bibi Andersson); he gets her away from them and returns her to her home and her husband Willard (Dennis Read More

Persona

Actors: Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Margareta Krook, Gunnar Björnstrand, Jörgen Lindström

Synopsis: Persona is difficult to characterize in simple terms, but it may be helpful to describe this complex film as being an exploration of identity that combines elements of drama, visual poetry, and modern psychology. The central story revolves around a young nurse named Alma (Bibi Andersson) and her Read More

För Att Inte Tala Om Alla Dessa Kvinnor

Actors: Bibi Andersson, Carl Billquist, Harriet Andersson, Jarl Kulle, Eva Dahlbeck, Karin Kavli

Synopsis: What is so rare, and cherishable, as an Ingmar Bergman comedy? All These Women concerns the sexual misadventures of cello-playing Jarl Kulle. Amidst his many romantic pursuits, the egotistical Kulle endeavors to get his life story published, "bribing" a writer by agreeing to perform the latter's Read More

Älskarinnan

Actors: Bibi Andersson, Per Myrberg, Max von Sydow

Synopsis: In this drama, a young scientist goes to a Stockholm convention and ends up having an affair with a married man much older than she. The trouble begins when he refuses to throw over his wife for her. The distraught woman returns home and confesses the affair to her lover and then heads for Rome to Read More

Kort Ar Sommaren

Actors: Jarl Kulle, Bibi Andersson, Claes Gill

Synopsis: In this Scandinavian melodrama, a Swedish lieutenant journeys to a lonely island off the coast of Lapland for a summer of badly needed rest and relaxation. Once there, the soldier rents a hunting lodge from an aging local. Soon he encounters his landlord's lovely daughter who, while finding the Read More

Nasilje Na Trgu

Actors: Broderick Crawford, Branko Plesa, Valentina Cortese, Bibi Andersson

Synopsis: This engaging World War II drama is a joint American-Yugoslav effort and although set in a Yugoslav town, the actual incident on which the story is based happened in Rome. Broderick Crawford plays the married Doctor Bernardi, a member of the resistance movement. As a part of the movement's Read More

Square of Violence

Actors: Broderick Crawford, Valentina Cortese, Branko Plesa, Anita Björk, Bibi Andersson

Synopsis: Even into the 1960s, Yugoslavian films played up the contributions of their partisan underground during World War II. Square of Violence is a loose, unacknowledged reworking of the 1943 film Hostages. When partisans kill 30 Nazi officers in a bombing, the Germans respond by taking 300 Yugoslav Read More

The Devil's Eye

Actors: Bibi Andersson, Jarl Kulle, Nils Poppe, Gertrud Fridh, Sture Lagerwall

Synopsis: Acceding to the literal interpretation of the folk-saying "A virgin is a sty in the devil's eye," Satan employs a reincarnated Don Juan (Jarl Kulle) to seduce Britt-Marie, the young daughter (Bibi Andersson) of a country parson. Poor Don Juan falls in love with the girl, however, while his servant Read More

Nära Livet

Actors: Ingrid Thulin, Eva Dahlbeck, Bibi Andersson, Erland Josephson, Max von Sydow

Synopsis: Brink of Life (original Swedish title: Nara Livet) can be described as an Ingmar Bergman potboiler--keeping in mind that a potboiler from Bergman is better than a major production from almost anyone else. Eva Dahlbeck, Ingrid Thulin and Bibi Andersson portray three mothers in a maternity ward. In Read More

Ansiktet

Actors: Max von Sydow, Ingrid Thulin, Naima Wifstrand, Bengt Ekerot, Bibi Andersson

Synopsis: Much better known in the U.S. as The Magician, this award-winning, surreal, evocative drama stars Max von Sydow as the title character and features several of Sweden's top performers. Set in the 1840s in Stockholm, the mystery and enigma of life and death itself are embodied in Vogler, the Read More

The Seventh Seal

Actors: Max von Sydow, Gunnar Björnstrand, Bengt Ekerot, Nils Poppe, Bibi Andersson

Synopsis: Endlessly imitated and parodied, Ingmar Bergman's landmark art movie The Seventh Seal (Det Sjunde Inseglet) retains its ability to hold an audience spellbound. Bergman regular Max von Sydow stars as a 14th century knight named Antonius Block, wearily heading home after ten years' worth of combat. Read More

Wild Strawberries

Actors: Victor Sjöström, Bibi Andersson, Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Björnstrand, Folke Sundquist

Synopsis: After exploring his disillusionment with religion in his previous films, Ingmar Bergman adopted a humanistic approach for this classic study in isolationism. Legendary Scandinavian director Victor Sjöström stars as Isak Borg, an aging medical professor who reassesses his life while journeying to Read More

Sista Paret Ut

Flickan I Regnet

Smiles of a Summer Night

Actors: Eva Dahlbeck, Ulla Jacobsson, Harriet Andersson, Margit Carlquist, Gunnar Björnstrand, Jarl Kulle

Synopsis: Bergman's comic masterpiece opens with middle-aged lawyer Frederik Egerman (Gunnar Bjornstrand) again failing to consummate his marriage with the much younger Anne (Ulla Jacobsson). While visiting a former lover, actress Desiree Armfeldt (Eva Dahlbeck), he crosses swords with her current lover Read More

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