Börje AhlstedtFilmography

Saraband

Actors: Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson

Synopsis: As the final masterwork of Ingmar Bergman, the world's most revered cinematic craftsperson, Saraband (2003) embodies the sequel to the director's 5-hour Scenes from a Marriage, produced and directed 30 years after that original epic. Here, Bergman revisits the two characters from that film Read More

Percy, Buffalo Bill & Me

Actors: Börje Ahlstedt, Daniel Bragderyd, Hampus Nystrom, Lena Stromdahl, Lisa Lindgren

Synopsis: A young boy's yearly routine of traveling to a Western Sweden island to spend the summer with his grandparents is suddenly shaken up when his schoolyard "blood brother" mistakes a casual comment about the trip as an open invitation to tag along in director Anders Gustafsson's playful tale of peer Read More

Fodelsedagen

Actors: Börje Ahlstedt, Pernilla August, Mats Bergman, Helena Brodin, Jakob Eklund

Synopsis: Swedish director Richard Hobert rounds out his series on the seven deadly sins by inviting most of the main characters from his previous films for a big ol' birthday party. Amid the streamers, party favors, and animal balloons, failed rock star and circus performer Mikael (Goran Stangertz) Read More

Larmar och Gor Sig Till

Actors: Börje Ahlstedt, Marie Richardson, Erland Josephson, Pernilla August, Anita Björk

Synopsis: Ingmar Bergman, at age 80, wrote and directed this Swedish TV movie based on his own family. The original Swedish title is a reference to Act V, Scene V of Macbeth. Divided into four parts and featuring a white-faced clown (Agneta Ekmanner) throughout, the drama begins in 1925 at Uppsala Read More

Belma

Synopsis: In this Danish drama, a Bosnian refugee's teenage daughter displeases her father when she becomes friends with an adoring Copenhagen boy. Josip Papic, lost most everything in the Balkan conflict, including his wife. Belma is all he has left. He is mistrustful of her new friend Rasmus, the Read More

Host I Paradiset

Synopsis: This touching Swedish romance chronicles the youthful love affair between a septuagenarian widower and a woman in her 60s and runs it parallel to a rising rock star and his pregnant punk girl friend. The film is director Richard Hobert's sequel to Spring of Joy and is also the third entry in his Seven Deadly Sins Read More

The Best Intentions

Actors: Samuel Fröler, Pernilla August, Max von Sydow, Ghita Nørby, Lennart Hjulström

Synopsis: Scripted (but not directed) by Ingmar Bergman, Best Intentions is a multilayered backwards glance at the courtship of Bergman's own parents. Henrik Bergman (Samuel Froler) is a struggling theology student in the year 1909. His intended, Anna Aakerbloom (Pernilla August, who married director Bille Read More

Soendagsbarn

Actors: Tommy Berggren, Lena Endre

Synopsis: Written by pantheon Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, Sunday's Children was directed by Bergman's son Daniel. This intensely autobiographical film takes place when the elder Bergman was a child of eight. In a near-cathartic fashion, the story illustrates the strained relationship between young Read More

Kaninmannen

Actors: Börje Ahlstedt, Leif Andree, Stina Ekblad

Synopsis: The rabbit-like man in this story is a teacher, who is regularly abused by his students, is humiliated by the school administration, and is routinely ignored by his television newscaster father. His wife, however, wonders what he has been doing with the suspiciously long time between the end of Read More

Fallgropen

Actors: Börje Ahlstedt, Ewa Fröling

Synopsis: The maker of the highly symbolic sex drama I Am Curious (Yellow) returns to the screen with this highly symbolic "love mystery." Professor Larry Pedersen is kind of foggy about what happened the night before, but wakes up quickly when he discovers a student he had rescued the night before from her Read More

Skyggen Af Emma

Actors: Line Kruse, Börje Ahlstedt, Henrik Larsen, Inge Sofie Skovbo, Ulla Henningsen

Synopsis: Virtually unknown in English-speaking countries, Emma's Shadow was one of the most popular Danish films of the 1980s, and a winner of several awards in the bargain. Emma, an impulsive 11-year-old girl, is portrayed by Line Kruse. Tired of being neglected by her wealthy parents, Emma fakes her own Read More

Amorosa

Actors: Stina Ekblad, Erland Josephson, Philip Zandén, Peter Schildt, Olof Thunberg

Synopsis: This well-executed biographical docudrama is a plunge into the madness (and the sanity) of a writer living life on its rawest edges. Agnes Von Krusenstjarna (Stina Ekbland) was a Swedish novelist (1894-1940) whose works ranged from the idyllically romantic to crushingly sardonic, sexually explicit Read More

Limpan

Actors: Allan Edwall, Börje Ahlstedt, Ove Sprogøe

Synopsis: Based on the lead actor's own novel, Limpan may take itself too seriously while proposing to be a comedic satire on the nature of bureaucracy. The basic story is that "Loafie" Lindberg Allan Edwall is an alcoholic who manages to escape from his treatment center, but when he changes his mind and Read More

Fanny & Alexander

Actors: Pernilla Allwin, Bertil Guve, Gunn Wållgren, Börje Ahlstedt, Allan Edwall

Fanny & Alexander

Actors: Pernilla Allwin, Bertil Guve, Gunn Wållgren, Börje Ahlstedt, Allan Edwall

Synopsis: Though he made allusions to his own life in all of his films, Fanny and Alexander was the first overtly autobiographical film by Ingmar Bergman. Taking his time throughout (188 minutes to be exact), Bergman recreates several episodes from his youth, using as conduits the fictional Ekdahl family. Read More

Kristoffers hus

Actors: Tommy Berggren, Agneta Eckemyr, Mimi Pollak, Gunnel Broström, Börje Ahlstedt

Synopsis: Kristoffer lives on the verge of poverty, just barely supporting himself on his photographic work and an allowance given him by his ex-wife to support their child. He is staying in his absentee mother's large old house, which she is preparing to sell. When he takes a photograph of a man who died Read More

Troll

Synopsis: This Swedish sex farce/drama (by Vilgot Sjoman, who made a splash with I Am Curious, Yellow), explores the complications in the relationship of a couple who believe that if they make love to each other, they will die. They neck and are physically affectionate in public as well as in private, but Read More

Ni Ljuger

Actors: Stig Engstrom, Börje Ahlstedt, Sif Ruud

Synopsis: Director Vilgot Sjoman draws on his experience as a former prison guard to illustrate the problems of the penal system. Filming was done a Langholm prison, where inmates and officials are interviewed. Using a combination of documentary and fictional styles, the film illustrates the sordid life and Read More

Made in Sweden

Actors: Lena Granhagen, Per Myrberg, Max von Sydow, Karl-Birger Blomdahl, Börje Ahlstedt

Synopsis: Joergen (Per Myberg) is the Swedish journalist who uncovers a gun-running operation on the borders of Vietnam. The trail leads to a financial group of wealthy industrialists lead by Magnus Rud (Max von Sydow). He refuses to bury the story, leading to trouble for the idealistic reporter and his Read More

I Am Curious (Blue)

Synopsis: One of the most popular and controversial films in Swedish history, I Am Curious brought the sexual revolution to Sweden's silver screen. While much of the media hype centered on the film's scandalous content, the film's blending of documentary and fictional footage was equally shocking for Read More

I Am Curious (Yellow)

Actors: Lena Nyman, Peter Lindgren, Börje Ahlstedt

Synopsis: Vilgot Sjoman's film, an account of a female sociologist undertaking a sex survey, was a huge scandal in its day thanks to its frontal nudity and frank portrayal of sexual issues. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More