Liv Ullmann Filmography

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

Fate Did Not Let Me Go

Actors: Liv Ullmann, Martin Sheen

Synopsis: A long-lost letter transcends time and death in this moving tale of a mother's love and the strength of the human spirit. Days before her death in the Thereseinstadt concentration camp in World War II, Valli Ollendorf writes a heartfelt letter to her young son Ulrich, urging him to have faith in Read More

Chaplin Today: A Woman of Paris

Faithless

Crew: Director

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

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

Jerusalem: The City Touched By God

Enskilda Samtal

Crew: Director

Actors: Pernilla August, Samuel Fröler, Max von Sydow, Thomas Hanzon

Synopsis: Originally made for television and directed by distinguished Swedish actress-turned-director Liv Ullman, this provocative drama is a sequel to director-turned-screenwriter Ingmar Bergman's autobiographical Bille August-directed drama Best Intentions (1992). Returning to their roles of Bergman's Read More

Lumière and Company

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Lumière brothers' first films, filmmakers Sarah Moon and Philippe Poulet challenged 39 renowned international directors to each complete a 52-second film using the original Cinematographe camera under the conditions endured by the brothers. The result Read More

Kristin Lavransdatter

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

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

Droemspel

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

Zorn

Actors: Gunnar Hellstrom, Linda Kozlowski, Liv Ullmann, Stig Grybe, Rupert Frazer

Synopsis: This biography profiles the life and times of early 20th century Swedish painter Anders Zorn who gained notoriety for his nudes. His works are currently worth millions. The film is set in the time when Zorn, already respected for his art, was commissioned to paint a portrait of the Swedish king. Read More

The Ox

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

Long Shadow

Actors: Michael York, Liv Ullmann, Oded Teomi, Ava Haddad, Babi Neeman

Synopsis: Award-winning cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond made his directorial debut with this drama. Gabor (Michael York), a stage actor living in Eastern Europe, receives a message from his family -- his father Raphael (also played by York), a world-famous archeologist, has just died in Israel. Traveling to Read More

Sofie

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

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

Mindwalk

Actors: Liv Ullmann, Sam Waterston, John Heard, Ione Skye, Emmanuel Montes

Synopsis: A fictionalized depiction of the ecological and holistic teachings of the philosopher Fritjof Capra filmed by his brother Bernt, Mindwalk consists almost entirely of the verbal interplay between its three archetypal characters, physicist Sonia (Liv Ullmann), conservative politician Jack (Sam Waterston Read More

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes

Synopsis: Based on the book by Eleanor Coerr, this is the true story of Sadako Sasaki, a young Japanese girl stricken with leukemia after the bombing of Hiroshima. While in the hospital, Sadako learns about an ancient Japanese legend and begins folding paper cranes in the hope that when she completes 1,000 Read More

The Hollywood Collection: Ingrid Bergman - Portrait of a Star

Synopsis: Ingrid Bergman was both one of Hollywood's most sought after stars and a controversial public figure. Her bright and acclaimed acting career came to a halt after a very public scandal caused her to leave the country and live in Europe for a time. Resilient and strong, Ingrid Bergman did not let Read More

Der Rosengarten

Actors: Liv Ullmann, Maximilian Schell, Peter Fonda, Jan Niklas, Katarina Lena Muller

Synopsis: The US/German co-production The Rose Garden is based on an actual court case. Cast against type, Maximillian Schell plays a shabby old man who, without warning, attacks well-to-do Kurt Hubner at the Frankfurt airport. Hubner presses charges, and it looks like an open-and-shut case. But Read More

Ingrid

Synopsis: This documentary video looks at the life of actress Ingrid Bergman. Clips from her movies, home life and interviews are all included. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

La Amiga

Actors: Liv Ullmann, Cipe Lincovsky, Federico Luppi, Victor Laplace, Harry Baer

Synopsis: Maria (Liv Ullmann) and her actress friend Raquel (Cipe Lincovsky) react differently when both of their children are missing and presumed dead at the hands of military terrorists. Raquel moves to Berlin, while Maria continues the search for her missing child. She continues her search after the Read More

Gaby: A True Story

Actors: Liv Ullmann, Norma Aleandro, Rachel Levin, Robert Loggia, Lawrence Monoson

Synopsis: Gaby: A True Story is about a young woman -- the child of rich European refugees living in Mexico -- who was stricken with cerebral palsy at birth. Though her body is completely paralyzed, her mind is unaffected, and she is able to become a college graduate and an acclaimed author. Rachel Levin Read More

Mosca Addio

Actors: Liv Ullmann, Daniel Olbrychski, Aurore Clément, Francesca Ciardi, Anna Galiena

Synopsis: Liv Ullmann plays real-life Jewish dissident and astronomer Ida Nudel in this historical biography. Ida is denied papers to emigrate after her lover Yuli (Daniel Olbrychski) is release from a labor camp. When Yuli and Ida's sister Elena (Aurore Clement) receive their papers, Ida rides with them on Read More

Speriamo Che Sia Femmina

Actors: Liv Ullmann, Catherine Deneuve, Philippe Noiret, Bernard Blier, Giuliana de Sio

Synopsis: Originally titled Speriamo che sia Femmina, Let's Hope It's a Girl is a multifaceted exploration of the pointlessness of sexual stereotypes. Liv Ullmann is a countess who, after her divorce, takes over the family farm. Realizing that she can't rely on the patriarchal society structure for Read More

Un Printemps Sous La Neige

Actors: Liv Ullmann, Mathieu Carrière, Kiefer Sutherland, Alan Scarfe

Dangerous Moves

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Alexandre Arbatt, Leslie Caron, Liv Ullmann, Daniel Olbrychski

Synopsis: Michel Piccoli plays Akiva Liebskind, a Russian chess genius in the Swiss-filmed Dangerous Moves. He is pitted against Soviet exile Pavius Fromm (Alexandre Arbatt), who, since childhood, has dreamed of nothing but defeating Liebskind. Both men soon become obsessed with winning. Already suffering Read More

The Bay Boy

Actors: Liv Ullmann, Kiefer Sutherland, Alan Scarfe, Mathieu Carrière, Peter Donat

Synopsis: Kiefer Sutherland won the Canadian equivalent of the Academy Award for his performance in Bay Boy. In 1937 Nova Scotia, Donald Campbell (Sutherland) lives with his dirt-poor parents (Liv Ullmann and Peter Donat). His folks hope that Donald will enter the priesthood, but he isn't keen on this. For Read More

Jacobo Timerman: Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number

Actors: Roy Scheider

Synopsis: Though purportedly set in Argentina, Jacobo Timerman: Prisoner Without a Name, Call Without a Number was rather obviously filmed in and around New York. Roy Scheider stars as the real-life Timerman, a Jewish Argentinian journalist who speaks out against the repressive government. In response, the Read More

The Wild Duck

Actors: Liv Ullmann, Jeremy Irons, Lucinda Jones, John Meillon, Arthur Dignam

Synopsis: Director Henri Safran adapts Henrik Ibsen's stage play to an Australian setting and a turn-of-the-century ambience in this uneven presentation of an illicit love and its consequences. Harold (Jeremy Irons) is a somewhat over-the-edge photographer who has lost out at a career in the sciences. His Read More

Love

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Gordon Thomson, Joni Mitchell, Winston Rekert, Nicholas Campbell, Toni Kalem, Lawrence Z. Dane

Synopsis: This anthology film is comprised of six segments shot by four female directors. "Love from the Marketplace," explores the way food relates to love. "The Black Cat in the Black Mouse Socks" stars singer Joni Mitchell, who also wrote it and its music. "Julia" tells the tail of a vanquished affair Read More

Richard's Things

Actors: Liv Ullmann, Amanda Redman, Elizabeth Spriggs, Michael Maloney

Synopsis: In this grim drama, a grieving widow finds herself seeking solace in the arms of her late husband's lover, a woman. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Players

Actors: Ali MacGraw, Dean Paul Martin, Maximilian Schell, Pancho Gonzales, Steve Guttenberg

Synopsis: A young man and an older woman wonder if tennis is the only place where love means nothing in this romantic drama. Twenty-something Chris (Dean Paul Martin) is a rising star on the professional tennis circuit. Nicole (Ali MacGraw) is an artist in her early 40s who's involved with a wealthy man. Read More

Autumn Sonata

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

A Look at Liv

Actors: Ingmar Bergman, Liv Ullmann

Synopsis: This 1977 documentary feature closely examines the person, views and life of Norwegian actress Liv Ullman, perhaps best known for her many appearances in the famed Swedish director Ingmar Bergman's films. Clips of her films are included, as well as numerous interviews granted by her especially for Read More

A Bridge Too Far

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Edward Fox

Synopsis: It's late 1944, and the Allied armies are confident they'll win the World War II and be home in time for Christmas. What's needed, says British general Bernard Law Montgomery, is a knockout punch, a bold strike through Holland, where German troops are spread thin, that will put the Allies into Read More

The Serpent's Egg

Actors: Liv Ullmann, David Carradine, Gert Fröbe, Heinz Bennent, James Whitmore

Synopsis: The Serpent's Egg, or Das Schlangenei is director Ingmar Bergman's second English language production (The Touch was his first). It is, however, his first completely non-Swedish production, made after his voluntary self-exile from Sweden over taxation issues. Set in Berlin in the early 1920s, it Read More

Ansikte mot Ansikte

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

Leonor

Actors: Liv Ullmann, Michel Piccoli, Ornella Muti, Antonio Ferrandis, Jose Maria Caffarel

Synopsis: Richard (Michel Piccolo) is a medieval nobleman. After his first wife dies in an accident and is buried in the family vault, he remarries and has children by his second wife. A mad longing for his first wife Leonor (Liv Ullmann) comes over him, and he sells his soul to the devil for a chance to Read More

Scenes from a Marriage

Actors: Liv Ullmann, Bibi Andersson, Erland Josephson, Jan Malmsjö, Anita Wall

Synopsis: Originally created as a six-part series for television, this film -- widely regarded as one of Ingmar Bergman's most powerful later works -- offers a close-up examination of a relationship as it slowly falls apart, and investigates the toll it takes on both parties. Johan and Marianne (Erland Josephson Read More

Zandy's Bride

Actors: Gene Hackman, Liv Ullmann, Eileen Heckart, Susan Tyrrell, Samuel Bottoms

Synopsis: Based on Lillian Bos Ross' novel The Stranger and adapted by screenwriter Marc Norman 25 years before he would win the Best Original Screenplay Academy Award for 1999's Shakespeare in Love (along with Tom Stoppard), Zandy's Bride is a romantic Western starring (Gene Hackman) as gruff rural rancher Read More

The Abdication

Actors: Franz Drago, Suzanne Huddart, Liv Ullmann, Peter Finch, Cyril Cusack, Graham Crowden

Synopsis: In this historical drama based on actual events, Sweden's Queen Christina (Liv Ullmann) decides in 1654 to give up her throne in order to embrace Catholicism. However, as she studies the faith, she falls in love with Cardinal Azzolino (Peter Finch), a cleric being considered for the papacy. Greta Garbo Read More

Scenes From a Marriage

Actors: Liv Ullmann, Bibi Andersson, Erland Josephson, Jan Malmsjö, Anita Wall

40 Carats

Actors: Liv Ullmann, Edward Albert, Gene Kelly, Deborah Raffin

Synopsis: Adapted by Jay Presson Allen from the French farce by Pierre Barillet and Jean-Pierre Gredy, Forty Carats is a standard-issue sex comedy elevated by the performances of its stars. Fortyish Realtor Ann Stanley (Liv Ullman) finds herself attracted to Peter Latham (Edward Albert) - a man literally Read More

Lost Horizon

Actors: Peter Finch, Liv Ullmann, Sally Kellerman, George Kennedy, Michael York

Synopsis: James Hilton's beloved fantasy novel about the land of Shangri-La was given an awkward musical treatment in this extravagantly produced flop. Larry Kramer's screenplay stays close to the 1937 Frank Capra original, as a plane fleeing China crashes in the Himalayas and a mixed group of survivors Read More

Newland Nybyggarna

Nybyggarna

Actors: Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Eddie Axberg, Hans Alfredson, Monica Zetterlund

Synopsis: This is the second installment of the Swedish epic which began with The Emigrants. Nybyggarna is a chronicle of the life and times of the Swedish immigrants in Minnesota, covering the time period up to and beyond the Civil War. Even though they did not come to America to become Americans, they are 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

Pope Joan

Actors: John Arineri, Neville Aurelius, Lorain Bertorelli, Ion Grafini, Sheelah Wilcocks, Liv Ullmann, Trevor Howard, Lesley-Anne Down, Franco Nero, Olivia de Havilland

Synopsis: Liv Ullman portrays a female pope -- based on a long-held rumor that the papacy was held by a woman between the reigns of Leo IV and Benedict III -- in this rambling saga directed by Michael Anderson. The British version of the film has been cut, not only removing twenty-one minutes of the film Read More

The Emigrants

Actors: Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Jan Troell, Eddie Axberg, Allan Edwall

Synopsis: Director/writer Jan Troell's expansive saga deals with the Larsen family, who during the 19th century famine in Sweden emigrate to the more fertile fields of Minnesota. With painstaking detail, the director follows the Larsens as they make the perilous (and, to some of their fellow immigrants Read More

Cold Sweat

Actors: Charles Bronson, Liv Ullmann, Jill Ireland, Michel Constantin

Synopsis: From Dr. No director Terence Young comes this action thriller starring Charles Bronson as Joe Moran, an ex-con whose old gang of drug dealers has just been released from prison. When it turns out the thugs have been holding a grudge against him, they kidnap Moran's wife, played by Liv Ullmann. In Read More

The Passion of Anna

Actors: Liv Ullmann, Bibi Andersson, Max von Sydow, Erland Josephson, Erik Hell

Synopsis: Liv Ullmann plays the widowed, crippled Anna Fromm, who while traveling on a remote island calls upon reclusive ex-convict Andreas (Max von Sydow) in order to use his telephone. After Anna leaves, Andreas discovers she's left her purse behind; he opens it, hoping to find some identification. A Read More

The Night Visitor

Actors: Hanne Bork, Lottie Freddie, Jim Kennedy

Synopsis: In this suspense thriller, Max von Sydow is Selem, who inconveniences his sister Esther (Liv Ullman) and her husband, Dr. Anton Jenks (Per Oscarsson) by being accused of murder. They rid themselves of the inconvenience by having him committed to a mental hospital. This situation drives him into Read More

An-Magritt

Shame

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

Hour of the Wolf

Actors: Liv Ullmann, Max von Sydow, Erland Josephson, Gertrud Fridh, Bertil Anderberg

Synopsis: The Hour of the Wolf (original Swedish title: Vargtimmen) is Ingmar Bergman's spin on the demons that plague his fellow creative artists. Max von Sydow plays a painter who, while spending a summer in seclusion with his pregnant wife Liv Ullmann, is visited by bizarre and disturbing visions. Before Read More

Persona

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

Kort Ar Sommaren

Actors: Jarl Kulle, Bibi Andersson, Claes Gill

Synopsis: In this Scandinavian melodrama, a Swedish lieutenant journeys to a lonely island off the coast of Lapland for a summer of badly needed rest and relaxation. Once there, the soldier rents a hunting lodge from an aging local. Soon he encounters his landlord's lovely daughter who, while finding the Read More

Tonny on the Wrong Road

Actors: Per Christensen, Liv Ullmann

Synopsis: This conventional drama by Norwegian director Nils R. Muller examines the mentality, emotions, and life of an unfortunate child, Tonny, born out of wedlock to a mother who is a hooker and a father who is an alcoholic. Neither parent is the type to give an unwanted or even a wanted child a loving Read More

The Wayward Girl

Synopsis: In this romance, two young lovers on the lam seek shelter on a seemingly deserted farm and end up entangled with the returning owner. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Rescue in Scandinavia

Actors: Liv Ullmann