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 »
Tag Archives: Sweden
Container (2006) Lukas Moodysson, Jena Malone, Peter Lorentzon, Mariha Åberg
Poetic, experimental and different, Container is described by Lukas Moodysson as “a black Read More »
Loving Couples AKA Älskande par (1964) Mai Zetterling, Harriet Andersson, Gunnel Lindblom, Gio Petré
Stockholm, 1915. Three women, Agda, Adele and Angela are about to give birth in a clinic. Read More »
People Meet and Sweet Music Fills the Heart AKA Människor möts och ljuv musik uppstår i hjärtat (1967) Henning Carlsen, Harriet Andersson, Preben Neergaard, Eva Dahlbeck
A dancer and a Danish student meet on a train; she is going on tour to Rio, and he decides to follow her. Read More »
Together AKA Tillsammans (2000) Lukas Moodysson, Lisa Lindgren, Michael Nyqvist, Emma Samuelsson
It is the 1970s and a group of very different individuals live together as a community. Read More »
The Bookseller Gave Up Bathing AKA Bokhandlaren som slutade bada (1969) Jarl Kulle, Allan Edwall, Margaretha Krook
A sleepy village around 1910. Jacob, the owner of a book store in a small town is a member Read More »
Gone AKA Försvunnen (2011) Mattias Olsson, Henrik JP Åkesson, Sofia Ledarp, Kjell Bergqvist, Björn Kjellman
After a recent family tragedy, Malin leaves in her car and rented hanger to start a new life at a new location. Read More »
Submarino (2010) Thomas Vinterberg, Gustav Fischer Kjærulff, Sebastian Bull Sarning, Mads Broe Andersen
As children, Nick and his little brother take care of their baby brother while their mother drinks herself senseless. Read More »
Europa (1991) Lars von Trier, Barbara Sukowa, Jean-Marc Barr, Udo Kier
An American of German descent arrives in post-war Germany 1945. His uncle gets him a job on the Zentropa train line as a sleeping car conductor. Read More »
About Endlessness AKA Om det oändliga (2019) Roy Andersson, Bengt Bergius, Anja Broms, Marie Burman
ABOUT ENDLESSNESS is a reflection on human life in all its beauty and cruelty, its splendor and banality. Read More »
Swan Lake: The Zone AKA Lebedyne ozero. Zona (1990) Yuri Ilyenko, Viktor Solovyov, Lyudmila Efimenko, Pylyp Ilyenko
This film tells what it was like to live in the USSR with brutal reality. Read More »
Girl with Hyacinths AKA Flicka och hyacinter (1950) Hasse Ekman, Eva Henning, Ulf Palme, Birgit Tengroth
The young Dagmar Brink commits suicide. Her belongings are inherited by the resident caretaker in the house she lived in. Read More »
Sons of Norway AKA Sønner av Norge (2011) Jens Lien, Sven Nordin, Åsmund Høeg, Sonja Richter
It’s not easy to rebel when your dad wants to join the party… One day (in 1979), Magnus and his son Nikolaj Read More »
Jeunesse perdue (1961) Akramzadeh, Anna Longlands, Saadoun Al-Ubaydi
Two Swedish girls fall in love with a Persian man in London. Read More »
Hagbard and Signe AKA Den røde kappe (1967) Gabriel Axel, Oleg Vidov, Gitte Hænning, Eva Dahlbeck
The story, based on an ancient legend, concerns Hagbard (Oleg Vidov), the son of a slain Norse king. Read More »