
Skipper Larsen and his assistant Ole, are planning the season’s seal and bear-hunting trip to Spetzbergen with the ship “Viking”. Read More »
Tag Archives: Sweden
Elvira Madigan (1967) Bo Widerberg, Pia Degermark, Thommy Berggren, Lennart Malmer

Hedvig Jensen is a famous ropewalker and is known to her public as Elvira Madigan. Read More »
The Girls AKA Flickorna (1968) Mai Zetterling, Bibi Andersson, Harriet Andersson, Gunnel Lindblom

Three actresses prepare to go on the road in a theater production of Lysistrata, Aristophanes’ classic comic play about women and war. Read More »
One Summer of Happiness AKA Hon dansade en sommar (1951) Arne Mattsson, Edvin Adolphson, Ulla Jacobsson, John Elfström

After graduating from high school 19 year old Göran goes to his uncle Anders’s farm in the countryside for recreation. Read More »
House of Angels AKA Änglagård (1992) Colin Nutley, Helena Bergström, Rikard Wolff, Sven Wollter

A small village in Västergötland, Sweden. Everything is turned upside-down when the local loner dies Read More »
The New Land AKA Nybyggarna (1972) Jan Troell, Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Eddie Axberg

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 »
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 »