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Actors: Jan Malmsjö, Ghita Nørby, Erland Josephson, Simon Norrthon, Victoria Olmarker
Synopsis: Busted by authorities while attempting to gain entry into Stockholm's Royal Dramatic Theater and subsequently transported to a remote retirement community, senile former stage director Walter Jan Malmsjo) attempts to stage a geriatric production of Romeo and Juliet in hopes of impressing ageing Read More
Actors: Ingmar Bergman, Erland Josephson, Marie Nyreroed
Synopsis: After achieving international recognition in the 1950's with such films as Det Sjunde Inseglet (aka The Seventh Seal), Smultronstället (aka Wild Strawberries) and Sommarnattens Leende (aka Smiles of a Summer Night), Ingmar Berman became one of the world's best known filmmakers for his emotionally Read More
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
Actors: Mikael Persbrandt, Sam Kessel, Maria Bonnevie, Michael Nyqvist, Lena Endre
Actors: Lena Endre, Erland Josephson, Krister Henriksson, Thomas Hanzon
Synopsis: Renowned actress-turned-director Liv Ullmann helms this bleak, nuanced film about marriage and betrayal penned by legendary filmmaker Ingmar Bergman. The story is straightforward -- Marianne Vogler (Lena Endre) is a beautiful actress who is married to Markus (Thomas Hanzon), whose job as an Read More
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
Actors: Ingmar Bergman, Erland Josephson
Synopsis: 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 Read More
Actors: Ole Lemmeke, Rolf Lassgård, Johanna Sallstrom, Garb B. Eidsvold, Robert Skjærstad
Synopsis: Accepted practices and new ideas face off against each other in this historical drama about a father, his daughter, and a mysterious stranger. In Northern Sweden in 1820, the widowed Dr. Selander (Rolf Lassgard) lives with his 20-year-old daughter Maria (Johanna Sallstrom), who has been blind for Read More
Actors: Robert Mitchum, Cliff Robertson, Erland Josephson, Espen Skjønberg, Hanna Schygulla
Synopsis: Robert Mitchum's is seen in one of his last performances in this Norwegian drama about four lifelong friends. After Carl (Espen Skjonberg) collapses in an Oslo street, he awakens in the hospital to the grins of his buddies Ernest (Mitchum), Ted (Cliff Robertson), and August (Erland Josephson). The Read More
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
Actors: Harvey Keitel, Maia Morgenstern, Erland Josephson, Thanassis Vengos
Synopsis: Winner of the Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, this drama centers on the Balkan conflict as viewed through the eyes of a filmmaker named A (Harvey Keitel). Director Theo Angelopoulos wrote the screenplay, drawing from personal experiences. A is a Greek émigré director who returns to his Read More
Synopsis: In this violent Swedish action drama, based on the popular novels of Jan Guillou and filmed in Sicily, super-spy Carl Hamilton and his partner Lundwall must negotiate with the Mafia to ensure the release of two Swedish hostages. During talks, Lundwall is shot to death and Hamilton vows that he Read More
Synopsis: This medieval period drama from Norway is based on Scandinavian-author Sigrid Undset's classic novel. The story is set in Norway's Gudbrandsdal valley during the 14th century. The tale begins when Kristin is 7-years-old and living a peaceful, relatively happy life with her family. It has not Read More
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
Synopsis: Directed by Donya Feuer, The Dancer is a profile of Swedish ballet dancer Katja Bjorner. The film illuminates the dedication and patience required to participate at the top of the dance world. ~ Rose of Sharon Winter, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Stellan Skarsgård, Ewa Fröling, Max von Sydow, Lennart Hjulström, Liv Ullmann
Synopsis: Based on a true story, the bleak period piece Oxen was co-written and directed by Ingmar Bergman's longtime cinematographer Sven Nykvist. In the small village of Småland in the late 1860s, Helge Roos (Stellan Skarsgård) works as a farmer on an estate belonging to Svenning Gustafsson (Lennart Hjulström Read More
Actors: Jon Skolmen, Ulf Eklund
Synopsis: In this Swedish comedy and satire, a gentle and shy man is fired from his job by an obnoxious yuppie. When that same yuppie challenges him to learn golf in a week's time, the beleaguered man seeks the help of a friend, who takes him to Scotland to learn the game in its spiritual homeland. Along Read More
Actors: Karen-Lise Mynster, Erland Josephson, Ghita Nørby, Jesper Christensen, Torben Zeller
Synopsis: Based on the 1932 novel Mendel Philipsen and Son by Henri Nathansen, Sofie was adapted for the screen by celebrated actress Liv Ullmann, making her directorial debut. Beginning in Copenhagen during the late 1880s, Sofie (Karen-Lise Mynster) is a devoted Jewish daughter who falls in love with the Read More
Actors: Glenn Close, Niels Arestrup, Erland Josephson, Macha Meril
Synopsis: Meeting Venus is based on a play cowritten by the film's director, Istvan Szabo. Glenn Close plays a celebrated Swedish opera star Karin Anderson who is slated to appear in an internationally-telecast production of Tannhauser. Ms. Anderson balks at the notion of working with obscure Hungarian Read More
Actors: John Gielgud, Michael Clark, Michel Blanc, Erland Josephson, Isabelle Pasco
Synopsis: Puzzle-master Peter Greenaway exposes another aspect of his peculiar obsessions to the filmgoing public. Prospero's Books uses Shakespeare as a foundation and then skips along to define its own lush territory. The books of the title are briefly referenced in The Tempest -- Prospero is a magician Read More
Actors: Julian Sands, Giuliana de Sio, Erland Josephson, Milena Vukotic, Flaminia Lizzani
Synopsis: This 1991 Italian period drama is not to be confused with the 1990 Australian vampire film with the same English-language title, Wicked. The entire story, a genuine psychological detective tale, concerns the attempt by a young doctor (Julian Sands) working early in the 20th century in a Swiss Read More
Actors: Stellan Skarsgård, Katharina Thalbach, Karoly Eperjes, Miklos B. Szekely, Erland Josephson
Synopsis: This historical drama chronicles the struggle of Swedish businessman Raoul Wallenberg (Stella Skarsgard), as he fought valiantly to save the lives of the Jewish residents of Nazi-occupied Budapest. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Jo Champa, Michael Paré, Phyllis Logan, Erland Josephson
Synopsis: The complex cross-currents of conflicting loyalties among the inhabitants of Palermo, Sicily, come across vividly in this romantic thriller. Wealthy young Ruggero is the American son of an Italian mother. He returns to Sicily for his mother's funeral and looks in on the reformatory for wayward Read More
Synopsis: In this film, Australian rodeo men Bronco and Rick pick up hitchhiker Lucy on their way to a rodeo. However, after taking a wrong turn, their car breaks down in a spooky town and they are forced to ask for help at the decrepit Terminus Manor. When they discover that the manor residents are Read More
Actors: Erland Josephson, Ildikó Bánsági, Walter Schmidinger, Karoly Eperjes
Synopsis: Based on a true story, Istvan Szabo's Hanussen centers on an Austrian soldier (Klaus Maria Brandauer) who becomes clairvoyant after he is shot in the head during World War I. He is able to read minds and predict the future. Before long, he has foreseen Hitler and the Nazis' rise to power, and he Read More
Actors: Erland Josephson, Senta Berger, Mario Scaccia, Paolo Bonacelli, Marina Berti
Synopsis: Based on a true story that happened in 1921, this drama features a frivolous opera company, their relationships with one another, and their rehearsals of Franz Lehar's "Mazurka Blu" just before their theater is bombed. While Greta, the leading lady (Senta Berger), is being romanced by Milan's Read More
Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche, Lena Olin, Derek de Lint, Erland Josephson
Synopsis: In Philip Kaufman's surprisingly successful film adaptation of Czech author Milan Kundera's demanding 1984 bestseller, Daniel Day-Lewis stars as Tomas, an overly amorous Prague surgeon, while Juliette Binoche plays Tereza, the waiflike beauty whom he marries. Even though he's supposedly committed Read More
Actors: Lea Massari, Erland Josephson, Jean-Luc Bideau, Marisa Mantovani, Consuelo Ferrara
Synopsis: Virginia (Lea Massati) is shocked to learn her 25-year marriage to Maurizio (Erland Josephson) is plagued by his philandering betrayal in this distaff tear-jerking drama. She finds solace in her two daughters and Silvano (Jean-Luc Consuelo), her longtime admirer, a cellist in the local symphony. Read More
Actors: Brian Cox, Erland Josephson
Synopsis: This documentary of Andrei Tarkovsky was done by the co-editor of his last movie The Sacrifice. Michal Lecszylowski interviews Tarkovsky, considered the most important and influential Soviet director of the post-World War II era. Interviews with his widow in addition to television interviews of Read More
Actors: Michel Jonasz, Erland Josephson, Philippe Léotard, Wojciech Pszoniak
Synopsis: 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). ~ Dan Read More
Actors: Burt Lancaster, Kate Nelligan, Ben Gazzara, Kate Reid
Synopsis: Fifteen strangers who have volunteered for an experiment in isolation are forced to deal with an even larger problem in this film from Italian director Giuliano Montaldo. A research group in Germany wants to study the effects of isolation in a nuclear shelter on human subjects and assembles a Read More
Actors: Erland Josephson, Susan Fleetwood, Allan Edwall, Gudrún Gísladóttir, Valérie Mairesse
Synopsis: The Sacrifice, director Andrei Tarkovsky's final film, begins in Bergmanesque fashion on a small, remote island, where friends and family gather for drama critic Alexander's (Erland Josephson) birthday celebration. The revelry is interrupted by a radio announcement: World War III has begun, and Read More
Actors: Tom Conti, Fernando Rey, Erland Josephson, Giancarlo Giannini, Donald Hewlett
Synopsis: This is an Italian comedy about a runaway, incognito Pope who makes his way to a village for a temporary stay and tries to bring a few good works to fruition while there. After Pope Leo XIV gets locked out of the Vatican garden one day, he opts for taking off on a small escape from official and Read More
Actors: Robin Renucci, Isabelle Pasco, Carole Bouquet, Piera Degli Esposti, Erland Josephson
Synopsis: 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 Read More
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
Actors: Mario David, Senta Berger
Actors: Erland Josephson, Charlotta Larsson, Nils Brandt, Agneta Ekmanner, Lilga Kovanko
Synopsis: In a fast-paced but unemotional tale of woe with an abrupt closure, a 60-year-old businessman faces first one crisis and then another, with no obvious escape hatch in sight. Gabriel Berggren (Erland Josephson) has rivals in the business world, given that he is an executive in a large company. At Read More
Actors: Erland Josephson, Brigitte Fossey, Rüdiger Vogler, John Steiner, Claudio Cassinelli
Synopsis: In this made-for-television detective story set in the early 1930s, a missing Swedish millionaire is the target of a journalist 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, and the Read More
Actors: Mathieu Carrière, Jörn Donner, Erland Josephson
Synopsis: 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 Read More
Actors: Erland Josephson, Domiziana Giordano, Gunnel Lindblom, Lotte Tarp
Synopsis: Director Stig Bjorkman has created a labyrinthian mix of fantasy and reality, reminiscent of the style of Last Year at Marienbad, in this story about a writer (Erland Josephson) who escapes to North Africa to patch his emotional life back together after virulent jealousy has jeopardized his Read More
Actors: Lena Olin, Ingrid Thulin, Erland Josephson
Synopsis: Ingmar Bergman's After the Rehearsal stars Erland Josephson as a theater director named Henrik Volger. He is in the midst of mounting a production of a Strindberg play when he is visited by Anna Egerman (Lena Olin), an actress whom he has cast in the play. Volger was involved with Anna's mother Read More
Actors: Oleg Yankovsky, Domiziana Giordano, Erland Josephson
Synopsis: Nostalghia is Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky's enigmatic work about a writer (Oleg Yankovsky) who, trapped by his fame and an unhappy marriage, seeks out his cultural past in Italy. Here he meets Erland Josephson, a local pariah who declares that the world is coming to an end. The writer finds Read More
Actors: Béatrice Romand, Erland Josephson, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Milena Vukotic
Synopsis: Director Carlo Lizzani left behind his typically political interests in favor of pure sex and violence in this convoluted thriller. A married woman selling the title carpet, which a Persian legend holds to be yellow only to highlight the color of blood, is visited by an older man while her husband Read More
Actors: Friedrich Karl Praetorius, Krystyna Janda, Erland Josephson, Brigitte Horney
Synopsis: 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 Read More
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
Synopsis: Victor Sjostrom (1879-1960) was one of the better-known Swedish actors and directors, and this is a well-balanced documentary on his film work, his general artistic history, and his relationships with colleagues such as Ingmar Bergman. Scenes from his early silents (Terje Vigen, Phantom Carriage ) Read More
Actors: Susan Anspach, Erland Josephson, Per Oscarsson, John Zacharias, Svetozar Cvetkovic
Synopsis: Marilyn Jordan (Susan Anspach), an American-born housewife, mother, and socialite living in Sweden, is crumbling under the weight of her own existence. She deeply resents her husband Martin's (Erland Josephson) frequent holiday absences and his indifferent attitude toward their two children ("If Read More
Actors: Maria Schneider, Dragan Nikolic, Alain Noury, Alida Valli, Erland Josephson
Synopsis: 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. They are both survivors from Nazi concentration camps which automatically gives them a kindred understanding. Their past comes back Read More
Actors: Predrag Manojlovic, Zijah Sokolovic, Erland Josephson
Synopsis: Tomislav (Predrag Manojlovic) is a dedicated leader in the early years of the socialist state in Yugoslavia - he has been through the war, has an ardent belief in socialism, and is not too patient with anyone lacking his moral discipline and dedication. Unlike many, he is disgusted when a Read More
Actors: Rade Serbedzija, Rade Markovic
Synopsis: A Yugoslavian tourist in Africa buys a flute from a very sick man at a bazaar, unwittingly picking up the dread disease of smallpox in the process. When the tourist passes through the controls at Belgrade airport, he is already feeling the effects of the sickness and ends up in a ward at a Read More
Actors: Per Ragnar, Lena Olin, Mathias Henrikson
Synopsis: This uneven drama, uneven perhaps because of budget problems, looks at the dilemma of Erich Nussbaum (Gedalia Besser) a German Jew who has lived in Tel Aviv for several decades. Erich is separated from his wife and his inner turmoil keeps him apart from his son Michael (Yair Elazar) and from his Read More
Actors: John Saxon, Lynda Day George, Michael Dante, Mario Milano, Janice Lynde
Synopsis: Middle-aged newlyweds Larry (John Saxon) and Barbara (Lynda Day George) spend their honeymoon at a palatial Caribbean mansion, unaware that it is inhabited by the vengeful spirit of a notorious voodoo witch queen who was murdered a century ago. The woman's evil spirit promptly begins precipitating Read More
Actors: Erland Josephson, Mariangela Melato, Eleonora Giorgi, David Pontremoli, Hella Petri
Synopsis: This effective drama about crisis and change in an unorthodox family is directed by Franco Brusati, best known for his earlier Bread and Chocolate. Marta (Hella Petri) lives in a large country estate after retiring from her career as an opera singer. She is not alone. Two women live with her Read More
Actors: Maria Schell, Erland Josephson, Guido Wieland, Ernst Stankovski
Synopsis: The intertwined lives of people of both Polish and German extraction who live on the pre-World War II border between the two countries are explored in this drama. Valeska is the Polish/German matriarch of a family living on the German side of the border. Her son is involved with the Hitler youth Read More
Crew: Director, Screenwriter
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
Crew: Director, Screen Story, Screenwriter
Actors: Erland Josephson, Ingrid Thulin
Synopsis: 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 Read More
Actors: Ingrid Bergman, Liv Ullmann, Lena Nyman, Halvar Björk, Georg Lökkeberg, Erland Josephson
Synopsis: Ingrid Bergman, the Swedish expatriate who became one of Hollywood's greatest stars, and Ingmar Bergman, one of the world's most acclaimed filmmakers and Sweden's most honored director, worked together for the first and only time in this intensely personal drama about the troubled relationship Read More
Actors: Dominique Sanda, Erland Josephson, Robert Powell, Virna Lisi, Philippe Leroy
Synopsis: A misguided attempt to dramatize the psychological triad formed by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (Erland Josephson), his Jewish friend Paul Rees (Robert Powell), and a Russian girl named Lou Von Salome (Dominique Sanda), this overbearing drama fails mightily. Nietzsche is portrayed as a Read More