Jörn DonnerFilmography

Hylätyt talot, autiot pihat

Crew: Producer

Ingmar Bergman on Life and Work

Crew: Director

Actors: Ingmar Bergman

Mannen Utan Anisikte

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: This suspenseful drama is based on the true story of a bank robbery and hostage situation that occurred in Finland during 1986. The face of the mentally disturbed robber are never seen. He is going through a breakdown after he and his wife and family are separated. He is bankrupt and without hope. Read More

Ameriikan raitti

Crew: Producer

Actors: Kari Sorvali, Ake Lindman, Markku Huhtamo

Synopsis: In this antic comedy, Errki and Taisto are Finnish businessmen who are in trouble with the tax authorities. Consequently, they have run away with some of the loot they failed to properly report, to the supposed paradise of Florida, in the U.S. They have plenty of money, but soon tire of boozing Read More

Riisuminen

Crew: Producer

Actors: Eeva Eloranta, Erkki Saarela, Aarno Laitinen, Alp Suhonen

Synopsis: Raising one controversial political question after another while taking on the issues of feminism and ethics in personal relationships, this riveting drama is set in one hotel room and focuses on one couple. A left-wing minister in the Finnish government meets an old lover, and the two quickly Read More

Dirty Story

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

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

After the Rehearsal

Crew: Producer

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

Angelan Sota

Crew: Book Author, Executive Producer, Producer, Screen Story

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

Eishockey-Fieber

Actors: Jörn Donner

Synopsis: This conventional sports film is about an ice hockey team brought up from the basement of their league to playoff status by a coach who favors praise and good doses of self-confidence, over the tactics of the unscrupulous manager who feels any dirty tricks that work are fine. Caught in the Read More

Yhdeksan Tapaa Lahestya Helsinkia

Crew: Commentary, Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: This particular documentary on "nine ways" to approach the Finnish capital of Helsinki -- that is to say, the viewpoints and perspectives of nine completely different individuals -- is one of several such documentaries that European filmmakers created on major cities in that part of the globe. Read More

Fanny & Alexander

Crew: Executive Producer

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

Crew: Executive Producer

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

Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd

Crew: Producer

Actors: Max von Sydow, Göran Stangertz, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Clement Harari, Eva von Hanno

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Per Olaf Sundman, Ingenjör Andrées Luftfärd (Flight of the Eagle) tells the real-life story of a Swedish engineer's attempted expedition to the North Pole in a hot air balloon. Jan Troell directs this over two-hour adventure drama set in 1897. Max Von Sydow stars as Salomon Read More

Frihetens murar

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Marianne Stjernqvist, Annika Kronberg

Synopsis: When a political situation in his native Argentina makes it unhealthy for him to continue to live there, Sergio goes to Sweden as a political refugee. Despite the fact that he finds the city cold and inhospitable by his standards, he is a warm and engaging fellow, and manages to charm and cheer up Read More

Bluff Stop

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Bjorn Andresen, Keve Hjelm, Maj-Britt Nilsson, Agneta Ekmanner

Synopsis: Stefan (Bjorern Andressen) is in his last year of school before going to college. He still can't quite make sense out of the shenanigans of adults and shares this confusion with his friends. Stefan makes an agreement with his girlfriend to run away to someplace where people are living more Read More

Black Sun

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Helmut Griem, Slobodan Dimitrijevic, John Hamill, Gunnel Fred, Richard Warwick

Synopsis: While living in a Spanish fishing village, a German painter kills a fisherman in revenge, ostensibly, for the violation and killing of a Scandinavian girl who has been his boarder. The locals more or less felt that the girl had the rape coming to her, because she spent so much of her time parading Read More

Män kan inte våldtas

Crew: Director, Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Gösta Bredefeldt

Synopsis: Anna, a fortyish librarian who is recently divorced, goes on a date with Martin, a middle-aged perpetual bachelor. After a little sexual groping, she is ready to call it quits. Instead, he rapes her. As she recovers from her shock over the incident, she contemplates what would constitute a Read More

Hemåt i natten

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: Lasse Hjelt, Gunnel Fred, Rita Holst

Synopsis: Harri (Lasse Hjelt) is one of Sweden's many Finnish immigrant-workers. While in Sweden, the illiterate Harri marries and has a child. After accidentally killing a man in a fight, he flees back across the border to Finland and begins to pick up the pieces of his life, but soon, the police come Read More

Droemmen om Amerika

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Hans Klinga, Janne Carlsson

Synopsis: The true story of the last two criminals to suffer capital punishment in Sweden is the basis for this historical drama. In 1876, Tector and Hjert (Janne Calsson and Hans Klinga) had come to the end of their liberty and awaited execution for an accidental murder they committed. For years before Read More

Tre Scener Med Ingmar Bergman

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: This Finnish documentary explores the life and work of the Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, whose films, including Wild Strawberries and The Seventh Seal are recognized worldwide as artistic masterpieces. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

Marja Pieni!

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: This Finnish film is the tragic tale of a woman who longs to be free, but who has neither the strength nor the street-smarts to pull it off. As the film opens, Marja has a job and a boyfriend. The boyfriend kicks her out for clinginess when she objects to his making love to another woman in their Read More

Perkele! Kuvia Suomesta

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Anna

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

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

69

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Sven-Bertil Taube, Jörn Donner

Synopsis: This romantic comedy finds a married couple whose sex life is not what it used to be. When the woman sees her husband referee a hockey game, she is stirred by his authoritarian demeanor. She sees him meeting with and kissing a strange woman which only adds to her renewed affections. She has an Read More

Naisenkuvia

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Jörn Donner

Synopsis: This risque comedy finds a pornographer returning to Finland after working in the United States. Pertti (Jorn Donner) stays with a married couple and has an affair with the man's wife. Another woman corners him when he tries to escape being served legal papers for filming a sex scene. The woman Read More

Kuuma Kissa?

Crew: Producer

Actors: Eero Melasniemi

Synopsis: This love story finds a lonely teacher resisting the advances of an interested co-worker. She is fearful of affection and relationships due to a previous romance that did not work out. The small-town school marm tries to help a male student who has been suspended for drunkenness. She tutors the Read More

Mustaa Valkoisella

Crew: Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Jörn Donner, Liisamaija Laadsonenen, Lasse Martenson

Synopsis: A supposedly happily married family man willfully engages in an affair with his beautiful secretary. His free-spirited employee wants nothing more from her boss than sex, opting for a relationship on her own terms without the ties to a long-time commitment. While he drifts further away from his Read More

Stimulantia

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Tvarbalk

Crew: Director

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

Har Borjar Aventuret

Crew: Director

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

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

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

En Söndag i September

Crew: Director

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