Tag Archives: Jan Troell

Inspired by real-life Elsa Andersson, this mostly fictional movie tells the story of her upbringing as a farmer’s daughter Read More »

It’s the late nineteenth century. Trying to develop a ranch on an isolated and rugged property Read More »

Triple murders are rare enough in Sweden that they qualify as headline-grabbing national news for prolonged periods of time. Read More »

Based on the novel by Per Olaf Sundman, Ingenjör Andrées Luftfärd (Flight of the Eagle) Read More »

Sören Mårtensson is a middle school teacher. Schoolwork is a torment for him Read More »

Torgny Segerstedt was one of the leading journalists in Sweden in the 20th century. Read More »

This film continues from where The Emigrants / Utvandrarna (1971) left off. Starting a new life in the New World from almost nothing is not easy. Read More »

The desperate love affair between a young Samoan chief and an American painter, against the will of her father. Read More »

Poetic documentary about the polar expedition of S. A. Andrée (1897) which Troell had dramatized in “Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd” (1982). Read More »

Based on a semi-autobiographical novel by Nobel Prize-winning novelist Eyvind Johnson Read More »

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 »

This monumental mid-nineteenth-century epic from Jan Troell charts, over the course of two films, a Swedish farming family’s voyage to America Read More »