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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
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: Kjell Bergqvist, Lickå Sjöman, Viveca Lindfors, Gunnar Björnstrand
Synopsis: Sexual minorities such as transvestites, transsexuals, necrophiliacs and sado-masochists are lumped together and are given a close examination in this film by director Victor Sjoman, who made I Am Curious, Yellow. Viveca Lindefors and Bunnar Bjornstrand are two of the featured performers. ~ Clarke Read More
Actors: Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, Gunnar Björnstrand, Kari Sylwan
Synopsis: Liv Ullmann plays Dr. Jenny Isakson, a psychiatrist who is taking a vacation while her husband Dr. Erik Isakson (Sven Lindberg) is elsewhere. Haunted by visions of an old woman, Jenny suffers from profound, inexplicable depression. Desperately in search of a escape from her doldrums, she has an Read More
Actors: Ingrid Thulin, Anders Ek, Gunnar Björnstrand, Erik Hell
Synopsis: The Ritual is an alternate English-language title for Ingmar Bergman's The Rite (Riten). Made for Swedish television in 1969, this short film was Bergman's revenge against those who opposed his management of the Royal Dramatic Theatre. The storyline involves three actors whose recent production Read More
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
Actors: Gitte Haenning, Oleg Vidov, Gunnar Björnstrand, Eva Dahlbeck
Synopsis: The mountain slopes of Iceland are shown to excellent advantage in the Scandinavian epic Hagbard and Signe. The story, based on an ancient legend, concerns Hagbard (Oleg Vidov), the son of a slain Norse king. Seeking revenge against the rival clan responsible for the killing, Hagbard calms down Read More
Actors: Liv Ullmann, Max von Sydow, Gunnar Björnstrand, Hans Alfredson, Birgitta Valberg
Synopsis: Shame demonstrates the futility of escaping the consequences of war. In 1971, the Rosenbergs, Jan (Max von Sydow) and Eva (Liv Ullmann), have retreated to an island off the coast of their unnamed country, which is embroiled in a civil conflict. Trained and employed as classical violinists, they Read More
Actors: Eddie Axberg, Ulla Sjöblom, Gunnar Björnstrand, Max von Sydow, Ulf Palme
Synopsis: Based on Eyvind Johnson's book Romanen om Olof, Here's Your Life is an epic drama considered a masterpiece in Sweden. Filmed in widescreen with black-and-white and color film stocks, it was released in 1966 in Sweden with a three-hour running time. In 1968, it was cut down considerably for the Read More
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
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
Actors: Gunn Wållgren, Gunnar Björnstrand, Tina Hedstrom
Synopsis: Edit (Tina Hedstrom) is a late-blooming teenage girl who asks her mother Helen (Gunn Wallgren) to get her an outfit designed for a model. After she gets the gown, she is disturbed when she has her first period, nearly three years after it was first anticipated. Gunna Bjornstrand plays Helmer Read More
Actors: Harriet Andersson, Gunnel Lindblom, Gio Petre, Anita Björk, Gunnar Björnstrand
Synopsis: In this drama set in a Scandinavian hospital in 1915, the individual stories of three pregnant women about to give birth are presented. The women come from a different social classes and have disparate views about the impending births. The middle-class woman married a servant of a wealthy family. Read More
Actors: Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Björnstrand, Max von Sydow, Gunnel Lindblom, Allan Edwall
Synopsis: The Winter Light is the second in a trilogy of dramas by acclaimed Swedish director Ingmar Bergman that explores religious faith and doubts in a visceral, visual, and provocative manner. The first, Through a Glass Darkly, was an international success and heralded this new phase in the director's Read More
Actors: Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Björnstrand, Max von Sydow, Lars Passgård
Synopsis: Ingmar Bergman won his second Best Foreign Film Oscar for the moody family drama Through a Glass Darkly. It is the first of what came to be called his "chamber dramas," which positioned four characters in one place where they could interact like a string quartet. It has also been referred to as Read More
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
Actors: Sven Lindberg, Yvonne Lombard, Gunnar Björnstrand, Karl-Arne Holmsten
Synopsis: Poking fun all the way at the critical housing shortage in Sweden, this standard comedy looks at the romance of Inga, a young jazz singer (Alice Babs) and Svante, an artist who restores paintings (Sven Lindberg). The two cannot marry because they cannot find an apartment to live in. After Inga Read More
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
Actors: Gunnar Björnstrand
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
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
Actors: Harriet Andersson, Eva Dahlbeck, Sven Lindberg, Gunnar Björnstrand
Synopsis: Not even Ingmar Bergman was prone to discuss his obscure 1955 production Dreams. While on vacation, photo agency owner Susanne (Eva Dahlbeck) hopes to rendezvous with her married lover. The man's wife puts the kibosh on this, whereupon Susanne enters into an affair with diplomat Sanderby Gunnar Bjornstrand Read More
Actors: Eva Dahlbeck, Ulla Jacobsson, Margit Carlquist, Harriet Andersson, 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
Actors: Gunnar Björnstrand, Eva Dahlbeck, Yvonne Lombard, Harriet Andersson, Åke Grönberg
Synopsis: En Lektion i Kärlek constitutes one of Ingmar Bergman's more overtly entertaining films. In this highly engaging comedy, Bergman reunites Gunnar Bjornstrand and Eva Dahlbeck, who had already teamed to great effect in the final, comic episode of Secrets of Women (1952), and he once again casts them Read More
Actors: Harriet Andersson, Åke Grönberg, Anders Ek, Gudrun Brost, Hakke Ekman, Annika Tretow
Synopsis: This rich, powerful Ingmar Bergman film charts the frustrations and humiliations of several circus performers. The circus's portly owner, Albert (Ake Gronberg), recalls a humiliating incident involving the company's clown, Frost (Anders Ek), who discovered his wife, Alma (Gudrun Brost), swimming Read More
Actors: Eva Dahlbeck, Maj-Britt Nilsson, Anita Björk, Gunnar Björnstrand, Birger Malmsten
Synopsis: In this multi-faceted Ingmar Bergman film, rich in dramatic and comic elements, three wives pass time in a summer house, awaiting the returns of their husbands, by entertaining each other with recollections of past marital traumas. In the first recollection, the sexually unfulfilled Rakel (Anita Bjork Read More
Actors: Hasse Ekman, Eva Henning, Hilda Borgström, Maj-Britt Nilsson, Sven Lindberg
Synopsis: Swedish director Hasse Ekman might have seen the multistoried Hollywood film Tales from Manhattan before embarking on his own Flickan Fran Tredje Raden. In Manhattan, the prop common to all of the stories was a dress suit. In Flickan, a valuable ring passes from one owner to the next. The title Read More
Actors: Nils Poppe, Inga Landgr_, Douglas Håge, Gunnel Wadner
Synopsis: Military comedies were as popular in Scandinavia in the postwar era as they were in America -- perhaps even more so. Soldat Bom stars comedian Nils Poppe, who also penned the script. The film traces his various misadventures in uniform, his frequent tiltings with the "brass" and civilian authority Read More
Synopsis: En Svensk Tiger (A Swedish Tiger) is an entertaining espionage drama set during WW2. The story is predicated on the intelligence efforts to keep General Montgomery's maneuvers secret from the Nazis. To this end, a Swedish actor named Johan Tiger (Edvin Adolphson) is engaged to impersonate "Monty" Read More
Actors: Eva Dahlbeck, Gunnar Björnstrand, Georg Rydeberg, Arnold Sjostrand
Synopsis: Tva Kvinnor (Two Women) was based on the prewar French film Prison de Femmes. The plot eschews the usual babes-behind-bars cliches to make an ironic comment on a bitter truth of life. To wit: A criminal is a criminal only if he (or she) is caught; otherwise, society is quick to forgive. One of the Read More
Actors: Mai Zetterling, Birger Malmsten, Olof Winnerstrand, Naima Wifstrand, Bibi Skoglund
Synopsis: Originally released in Sweden as Musik I Morker, Night is My Future is a seminal effort from director Ingmar Bergman. Blinded during a wartime training accident, aspiring-musician Birger Malmstein refuses all efforts by well-meaning outsiders to help him. Malmstein hires Mai Zetterling as his Read More
Actors: Sture Lagerwall, Gunnar Björnstrand, Sigge Fyrst, Marianne Aminoff, Fritjof Billquist
Synopsis: Her Kommer Vi stars Sture Lagervall, who co-directed the film with John Zacharias (seemingly everyone's collaborator in the Swedish film industry). The title translates as Here We Are Coming, a reference to the military troops depicted herein. This being a musical comedy, rest assured that the Read More
Synopsis: The English-language title of this Swedish wartime drama is Soldiers Reminder. Elof Jahrle stars as Jocke, a young conscript trying to make the best of things in the turbulent year of 1940. Jocke's duty to his country makes almost as many demands on his time than his duty to his true love, well Read More
Actors: Hasse Ekman, Tollie Zellman, Olof Winnerstrand, Gösta Cederlund, Douglas Håge
Synopsis: Swedish filmmaker Hasse Ekman thrived on wearing several different production hats while working on his films, and Medan Porten Varstangd (While the Doors Were Closed) is no exception. In addition to producing, directing and writing the film, Ekman also essayed the leading role. Per the title, the Read More
Actors: Stig Olin, Stig Järrel, Marianne Loefgren, Ingrid Backlin, Arnold Sjostrand
Synopsis: Arne Mattson's Rotagg was released variously in English-speaking countries as Failure, Incorrigible and Bad Eggs. All of these opprobriums refer to the wastrelly protagonist played by Stig Olin. Expelled from college, Olin shows no remorse, causing even more disgrace and heartache for his wealthy Read More
Actors: Barbro Kollberg, Birger Malmsten, Gösta Cederlund, Ludde Gentzel, Douglas Håge
Synopsis: Literally translated, the title of this early Ingmar Bergman effort is It's Raining on Our Love. Though hardly representative of the best that Bergman would have to offer, the film was highly regarded by critics and moviegoers alike when it first appeared in 1947. Put simply, the story theorizes Read More
Actors: Stig Järrel, Alf Kjellin, Mai Zetterling, Olof Winnerstrand, Gösta Cederlund
Synopsis: The Swedish-language picture Torment (AKA Hets, 1944) marked one of the first credited screenwriting efforts of the then 26-year-old scenarist Ingmar Bergman, and one of the broadest international successes of the gifted Swedish director Alf Sjöberg; it also launched the onscreen efforts of two Read More
Synopsis: The Swedish Hennes Melodi (Her Melody) is a showcase for one of Scandanavia's finest actresses, Sonja Wigert. The star is cast as Sonja Larsen, a poor girl pretending to be rich so that she can snag a wealthy husband. She falls in love with Curt Strange (Sture Lagerwall), who like Sonja is a Read More
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