Harriet AnderssonFilmography

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

Gossip

Actors: Pernilla August, Helena Bergström, Lena Endre, Stina Ekblad, Ewa Fröling

Synopsis: Nine of Sweden's leading actresses are brought together in this unconventional comedy-drama about a group of actresses awaiting a casting announcement. A major American film producer is looking for a Swedish actress to play the title role in a big-budget remake of the classic Greta Garbo vehicle Read More

Happy End

Actors: Harriet Andersson, Stefan Norrthon, Roberto Jelinek, Alexander Skarsgård, Rebecka Hemse

Synopsis: A young man and an elderly woman forge an unusual friendship in this Swedish drama. Aspiring rock musician Lukas (Stefan Norrthon) has no desire to work in father's auto shop, so when he finds out that his family has an apartment on Sweden's west coast, he heads out there to take advantage of the 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

Love & Hate - European Stories 5: Open Doors

Synopsis: This anthology offers five vignettes from different directors and different countries. The fifth entry is "Open Doors," from Sweden. It follows the strange affinity felt between two unmarried middle-aged people who begin to discover each other after the doors to their respective apartments are Read More

Hoyere enn Himmelen

Actors: Harriet Andersson, Inger Lise Winjevoll

Synopsis: Mari (Inger Lise Winjevoll) can't get along with anybody either at home or at school, except for one teacher who is similarly an oddball. Mari is confrontative, and wears clothes which express her feelings of not fitting in. It upsets her to learn that the sympathetic teacher, Miss Kjaer (Harriet Andersson Read More

Blankt Vapen

Actors: Boman Oscarsson, Harriet Andersson

Synopsis: The dark recesses of a troubled psyche come to the light of day in this psychological thriller. In the story, Richard (Boman Oscarsson) is a young international art smuggler, who moves into the apartment of his cartoonist half-brother, who has disappeared. Once established there, increasingly Read More

Himmel Og Helvede

Actors: Karina Skands, Ole Lemmeke, Lise Ringheim, Harriet Andersson, Erik Mork

Synopsis: Maria (Karina Skands) is an 18-year-old, late-blooming woman who has for years been a gifted violinist. She live in the slums of Copenhagen and has led a sheltered life often marked by poverty and cruelty. Due to her consuming musical passions -- fueled by the expectations of her overprotective Read More

Brenda Brave

Synopsis: Pippi Longstocking author Astrid Lindgren pens this heartwarming story about a little girl named Brenda Brave who discovers the benefits of being benevolent, loving, and selfless. Brenda lives in a quaint village with her elderly grandmother. After Brenda's grandma slips and breaks her leg, the Read More

Sommarkvallar pa jorden

Actors: Sif Ruud, Margareta Byström, Per Mattsson, Harriet Andersson, Leif Ahrle

Synopsis: In this drama, based on a stage play by Agneta Pleijel, an entire family, including grandparents, their children, and the grandchildren (and their lovers, husbands and wives) have gathered to celebrate the family matriarch's birthday. In this dialogue-heavy production, the celebration provides the Read More

Blessed Ones

Raskenstam

Actors: Gunnar Hellstrom, Lena Nyman, Harriet Andersson, Gunvor Ponten

Synopsis: The real Rakenstam, the subject of this fictional treatment of his life from 1942-1945 before his imprisonment, had romantic liaisons with hundreds of women over a three-year period and managed to scam large amounts of money from 120 of them, thriving off each one and somehow managing to make each Read More

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

Fanny & Alexander

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

Linus Eller Tegelhusets Hemlighet

Actors: Harald Hamrell, Viveca Lindfors, Harriet Andersson

Synopsis: Set in the 1930s, in this story a 16-year-old boy is forced to come to grips with several of life's unpleasant realities. He lives in a large, rather grand house. The house is run by a member of the Swedish nobility (a Countess) as a bordello, and the boy's father is its manager. Calamity strikes Read More

La Sabina

Actors: Carol Kane, Jon Finch, Harriet Andersson, Simon Ward, Ángela Molina

Synopsis: A British writer goes to live in a Spanish village while he looks into the mysterious life of a 19th century wanderer who was allegedly slain by La Sabina, a mythical lady dragon. The writer becomes lovers with an American visitor and then falls in love with an enigmatic beauty from town. Things Read More

Hempas Bar

Actors: Harriet Andersson

Synopsis: In his appalling failure to communicate, the father of one teenaged and one nearly grown boy manages to inflate the tension in their relationships to tragic proportions. One boy has returned from study abroad in the U.S. with a suitcase full of Elvis and a whole host of notions which have no place Read More

Tvaa kvinnor

Actors: Harriet Andersson, Lena Nyman, Sven Wollter

Synopsis: Tvaa kvinnor is two separate shorter films gathered under one title. The first, "The White Wall," stars Harriet Andersson as a divorcee, with a son to raise, who finds her pleasure where she can. The movie shows her picking her son up at school and looking for (unskilled) office work. The second Read More

Monismanien 1995

Actors: Erland Josephson, Harriet Andersson, Holger Loewenadler

Synopsis: Despite having sponsored films by Ingmar Bergman, and many others, director Kenne Fant was subjected to an incredible amount of ad hominem abuse when he released this film. Fant, an actor and later a director, managed to offend many sensitive types during his chairmanship of the State Film Read More

Cries and Whispers

Actors: Harriet Andersson, Kari Sylwan, Ingrid Thulin, Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson

Synopsis: Cries and Whispers stars Liv Ullman and Ingrid Thulin as the sisters of dying cancer patient Harriet Andersson. Both sisters have already had brushes with death: Ullman has had an affair which prompted her husband's suicide, while Thulin has long wanted to do away with herself, at one point Read More

Anna

Actors: Harriet Andersson

Synopsis: Anna (Harriet Andersson) is a 40-year-old anesthesiologist who takes a working vacation with her teenage daughter (Maarit Hyttinen) and their maid (Pertti Melasniemi). She turns down her lover's request to marry because she believes the union will not maintain their status as equals. Next door to 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

Der Kampf um Rom I

Actors: Laurence Harvey, Orson Welles, Sylva Koscina, Honor Blackman, Robert Hoffman

Synopsis: This 99-minute film constitutes the first half of Robert Siodmak's mammoth two-part epic Der Kampf um Rom (Fight for Rome). The film depicts the Goths' sacking of Rome in 526 AD. No expense was spared in bringing this story to the screen: for example, Siodmak utilized six companies of Rumanian Read More

Jag Alskar, Du Alskar

Actors: Agneta Ekmanner, Dexter Gordon

Synopsis: Old morals fall by the wayside as a young couple agrees to have a child out of wedlock. The woman is a young veterinarian who is drifting apart from her lover. She agrees to have his baby even though their future as a couple is clouded, and they vow to stay together at least until the baby is Read More

Stimulantia

Mennesker Mødes og Sød Musik Opstår I Hjertet

Actors: Harriet Andersson, Erick Wedersøe, Preben Neergaard

Synopsis: In this heavy drama, a woman goes on a tumultuous train ride to South America, has a number of affairs, get involved in a murder and finds herself in a brothel. Later she finds herself pursued by one of her train conquests as she returns to New York to become a star dancer. Time passes and she Read More

Tvarbalk

Actors: Harriet Andersson, Ulf Palme, Ernst-Hugo Järegård, Gunnel Broström

Synopsis: Noomi Harriet Andersson is a Jewish woman who survived the Nazi concentration camps of World War II. Although she has married an artist, she carries on an affair with her husband's friend. Noomi can't seem to shake her label as a victim, as people have willfully taken advantage of her all her Read More

The Deadly Affair

Actors: James Mason, Simone Signoret, Maximilian Schell, Harriet Andersson, Lynn Redgrave, Harry Andrews

Synopsis: John LeCarre's Call for the Dead was the basis for this gloomy, complex spy story. James Mason plays a British secret agent puzzled by the sudden suicide of Foreign Office higher-up Robert Flemyng. Mason had worked on Flemyng's security clearance himself, and can't fathom what personality quirk he Read More

Har Borjar Aventuret

Actors: Harriet Andersson

Synopsis: Anne (Harriet Andersson), a buyer for a Finnish company travels to Stockholm on a business venture. There she is reunited with her former French lover after she has an affair with a Swedish architect. Anne turns down the Frenchman and consoles the other man who believes he may be plagued by an old Read More

Att Alska

Actors: Harriet Andersson

Synopsis: A widowed woman undergoes a true sexual awakening in this provocative drama. The change comes after her husband of 10 years suddenly dies. During their marriage she never felt a thing during sex. Then she meets a lively Pole and begins an affair. Suddenly she finds herself feeling a great deal 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

Loving Couples

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

En Söndag i September

Actors: Harriet Andersson, Tommy Berggren, Barbro Kollberg, Harry Ahlin, Axel Duberg

Through a Glass Darkly

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

Brott I Paradiset

Kvinna I Leopard

Actors: Harriet Andersson, Ulf Palme, Erik Strandmark

Synopsis: Harriet Andersson stars as Marianne Croneman, the bored wife of bourgeois Arvid Croneman (Ulf Palme). Marianne prefers the company of family doctor Lennart Hagg (Erik Strandmark), who reciprocates her feelings. Together, Marianne and Lennart plot the murder of Arvid, making it look like natural Read More

Synnove Solbakken

Actors: Gunnar Hellstrom, Harriet Andersson, Edvin Adolphson

Synopsis: Synnove Solbakken (The Girl of Solbakken) stars Synnove Strigen as the title character. Set at the turn of the century, the story focuses on a drunken lout (played by director Gunnar Hellstrom) who takes out his frustrations on everyone around him. He relents only upon finding out that someone Read More

Sista Paret Ut

Kvinnodröm

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

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

En Lektion i Kärlek

Actors: Gunnar Björnstrand, Eva Dahlbeck, Harriet Andersson, Yvonne Lombard, 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

Gycklarnas Afton

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

Trots

Sommaren med Monika

Actors: Harriet Andersson, Lars Ekborg, John Harryson, Georg Skarstedt, Åke Fridell

Synopsis: An innocent youth finds love and, eventually, heartbreak in this film, which ranks among Ingmar Bergman's simplest and most unaffected. Harry (Lars Ekborg), the unworldly, unhappy hero, suffers at his job and in his personal life. Then he falls in love with the superficial Monika (Harriet Andersson Read More

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