
Flying Devils
A family of aerialists decides to go after the $250,000 prize being offered to any group that can execute a complicated trapeze maneuver. However,...
A family of aerialists decides to go after the $250,000 prize being offered to any group that can execute a complicated trapeze maneuver. However,...
A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 films.
The Scandinavian entry in the BFI's Century of Cinema series of documentaries
At the beginning of the 20th century, a junior resident takes an interest in a newly-arrived patient, a young Italian woman who has mysteriously...
After the death of his mother a man returns to his hometown Palermo in southern Italy in order to get hold of the legacy. Once there he is forced to...
A documentary about the life of Andrei Tarkovsky in exile in Western Europe including Italy, Sweden, Germany and France until his sad demise to a...
A small picturesque town at the turn of the century. The conservative views of the townspeople are shaken when they find out that the school teacher...
A couple have installed a new high tech television system in their children's room and become more and more vary of it.
Carl-Gustaf Nykvist's documentary about his father, Sven Nykvist. The film is based on Sven's memoirs with Sven himself as narrator. A journey to the...
A Professor comes home carrying a paper bag with food. Among the goods in the bag is apricot jam. His wife reacts strongly, since they always have...
A day in the life of a theater ensemble. The acting students are struggling to get one foot ahead of the others and the regular cast is fighting for...
An actress is interviewed in front of a studio audience by a "TV personality".
In a fictional future totalitarian society ruled as a one-party state. A teacher commits the crime to teach their students to think independently and...
The Ghost Sonata relates the adventures of a young student, who idealizes the lives of the inhabitants of a stylish apartment building in Stockholm....
A poetic and intimate scene-by-scene look into the filming of Tarkovsky's 'Nostalghia'.
A tribute to Swedish film, which was made to celebrate the 100th anniversary of film in 1995 and consists of about a hundred clips from Swedish film...
Documentary of the Swedish actor/director Victor Sjöström and his work - from Terje Vigen (1917) to Smultronstället (1957) Director...
Sven Nykvist, best known as Ingmar Bergman cinematographer, made this film as a tribute to his father who was a missionary in Kongo in the early 20th...
Physician Robert Briand (Robin Renucci) runs a leper colony in the 15th century that takes in new residents who suffer from the ravages of syphilis....
This co-production between Norway and Sweden is the first film that Anja Breien has made since Wives. She has adapted a novel by Hjalmar Soderberg....
Using original footage and interviews, family photos, and excepts from many of the actress's screen and stage performances, the film explores sources...
The film depicts the incredible metamorphosis of a clerk whose sense of identity and pride are reawakened by an unexpected development.