Scenes From a Marriage, is by far, Bergman’s greatest creation. Following 2 characters, Marianne and Johan, the film, in typical Bergman exquisite style Read More »
Tag Archives: Sweden
Music in Darkness (1948) Ingmar Bergman, Mai Zetterling, Birger Malmsten, Olof Winnerstrand
Because of an accident at a military drill the recruit Bengt loses his eyesight and becomes blind. Read More »
Cyclomania (2001) Simo Halinen, Lauri Nurkse, Tommi Mujunen, Elena Leeve
C (Lauri Nurkse) and Eetu (Tommi Mujunen) are the best friends. They work together as bike couriers in the center of Helsinki Read More »
Field of Dogs (2014) Lech Majewski, Michael Tatarek, Elzbieta Okupska, Jacenty Jedrusik
Father ploughs a supermarket with oxen, the plough ripping the tiles. A forest full of dead and Niagara falling onto a cathedral altar. Read More »
A Cottage on Dartmoor (1929) Anthony Asquith, Hans Adalbert Schlettow, Uno Henning, Norah Baring
Flashback story of an escape from the lonely, high-security Dartmoor Prison. Read More »
Night Games (1966) Mai Zetterling, Ingrid Thulin, Keve Hjelm, Jörgen Lindström
The story about a man who’s trying to get rid of his memories from his past. Read More »
One Swedish Summer (1968) Gunnar Höglund, Hans Gustafsson, Lillemor Ohlsson, Barbro Hiort af Ornäs
A young, shy and inexperienced man travels back to Sweden, to spend the summer at his mother’s house. Read More »
The Paradise Suite (2015) Joost van Ginkel, Anjela Nedyalkova, Boris Isakovic, Erik Adelöw
The Paradise Suite is a story about six people finding each other and, sometimes with just one glance, influencing each other’s lives irreversibly. Read More »
The Great Adventure (1953) Arne Sucksdorff, Anders Nohrborg, Kjell Sucksdorff
A vixen mother invades a chicken coop to provide food for her cubs. She continues to raid the coop until she is shot by a farmer. Read More »
Karin Mansdotter (1954) Alf Sjöberg, Ulla Jacobsson, Jarl Kulle, Ulf Palme
The movie starts with a silent section of slapsticks in BLUE and white and with piano music, giving an outline of Karin’s rise and fall. Read More »
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky (1988) Michal Leszczylowski, Brian Cox, Erland Josephson, Andrei Tarkovsky
During the shooting of Andrei Tarkovsky’s last film Offret, cameraman Arne Carlsson taped around 50 hours of behind the scenes footage. Read More »
Montenegro (1981) Dusan Makavejev, Susan Anspach, Erland Josephson, Per Oscarsson
Marilyn Jordan, an American, lives in Stockholm with her Swedish husband and family. Read More »
Song Of The Scarlet Flower (1919) Mauritz Stiller, Lars Hanson, Greta Almroth, Lillebil Ibsen
Olof is the restless son of a wealthy farmer. He meets Annikki and brings her to the evening dance. Read More »
Smiles of a Summer Night (1955) Ingmar Bergman, Ulla Jacobsson, Eva Dahlbeck, Harriet Andersson, Comedy, Romance
It’s late nineteenth century Sweden. Middle aged lawyer Fredrik Egerman and his nineteen year old current wife Anne Egerman’s two-year marriage has not yet been consummated. Read More »
Hamsun (1996) Jan Troell, Max von Sydow, Ghita Nørby, Anette Hoff, Biography, Drama, War
Knut Hamsun is Norway’s most famous and respected writer. Ever since he was young he’s despised the English because of the starvation that they caused Norway through WWI. Read More »