Gunnar Björnstrand
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Gunnar Björnstrand (November 13, 1909 – May 26, 1986) was a Swedish actor known for his frequent work with writer/director Ingmar Bergman. He was born in Stockholm. He appeared in over 120 films. Björnstrand at first had trouble finding... Read full bio →
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Dokument Fanny och Alexander
Shot during the making of Fanny and Alexander, this feature-length documentary presents extended behind-the-scenes material from rehearsals and filming sessions, with Bergman at work staging scenes and directing performances.
Fanny och Alexander
A widowed actress and her children suffer hardships when she marries a conservative church leader.
Höstsonaten
After a seven-year absence, Charlotte Andergast travels to Sweden to reunite with her daughter Eva. The pair have a troubled relationship: Charlotte sacrificed the responsibilities of motherhood for a career as a classical pianist. Over an emotional night, the pair reopen the wounds of the past.
Tabu
Investigates and sheds light on various sexual identities and sexual peculiarities outside the accepted sexual norms.
Ansikte mot ansikte
A psychiatrist temporarily separated from her family begins to experience severe psychological distress while working at a mental hospital and returning to her childhood home. As her professional responsibilities and personal relationships intersect, she undergoes a breakdown that forces her to confront long-suppressed memories and fears.
Riten
Called to court on obscenity charges, a theatre troupe are forced to expose their neuroses and inner psychological torments.
Skammen
In the midst of a civil war, former violinists Jan and Eva Rosenberg, who have a tempestuous marriage, run a farm on a rural island. In spite of their best efforts to escape their homeland, the war impinges on every aspect of their lives.
Flickorna
A theater company rehearses Aristophanes play "Lysistrata" in which the Athenian women revolt to force the men to suspend the war and make peace. The three leading female actresses, Liz, Marianne and Gunilla, all live in humiliating circumstances to their men.
Stimulantia
Eight vignettes on a variety of topics, including a baby growing up, Charlie Chaplin, Birgit Nilsson, the racing track at Le Mans, erotic cleanliness, French literature, and a black woman in a cupboard in the neighborhood of Farsta near Stockholm.
Träfracken
The beautiful Vivi Sander is living a hard life and is deeply in debt. She tries to force her family to sell the house. Vivi's car crash after a sabotage. She is injured and brought to a medical center where she meets the perverted Dr. Wester.
Syskonbädd 1782
Jacob returns home to Sweden after four years in Paris. Charlotte, his sister, plans to marry Baron Alsmeden, which arouses Jacob's jealousy. He flirts with Ebba to take revenge on his sister. Old suppressed feelings awaken between them.
Persona
Persona is a psychoanalytical film from Swedish director Ingmar Bergman and reputed as his greatest masterpiece. The film deals with a silent actress and her relationship with her nurse who narrates her story.
Här har du ditt liv
A working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving through a series of jobs and romances that gradually shape his future.
Äktenskapsbrottaren
Stockholm 1912. Site for the Olympic Games. Love entanglements and eroticism at hotel Eros.
Nattvardsgästerna
A Swedish pastor fails a loving woman, a suicidal fisherman and God.
Min kära är en ros
A middle aged doctor begins a relationship with a teenage girl. His best friend is dating the girls mother. A group of boys plan to blackmail the doctor or expose him as a pedophile.
Ingmar Bergman gör en film
The year is 1961 and Ingmar Bergman is making a movie. While planted on the scene as apprentice to Bergman, Vilgot Sjöman (director, I Am Curious–Yellow, 1967), suggests to Swedish Television that they take the opportunity to record with the acclaimed director.
Såsom i en spegel
Karin hopes to recover from her recent stay at a mental hospital by spending the summer at her family's cottage on a tiny island. Her husband, Martin, cares for her but is frustrated by her physical withdrawal. Her younger brother, Minus, is confused by Karin's vulnerability and his own budding sexuality.
Djävulens öga
Don Juan is sent from Hell to Earth with a mission: to seduce a virgin in order to spoil her pure wedding. The mission becomes frantic when Don Juan falls in love for the first time in centuries.
Himmel och pannkaka
Since Seventh Heaven (1956) Dr. Lovisa Sundelius (Sickan Carlsson) and radio host Villy Lorens (Hasse Ekman) have married, but when Villy becomes a TV host with cutie Suss (Lena Granhagen) by his side, things start to fall apart.
Det svänger på slottet
Love triangle between Svante, his fiancee Inga and Sophie, a girl from a rich family.
Brott i paradiset
While four men blow up a safe, a night watchman is accidentally killed. They get away with the loot. Ten years later, the stepson of the dead night watchman receives vital information.
Fröken April
The banker Marcus falls in love with the young ballet-dancer Maj who works at the opera. To meet her he takes a job there but Maj is in love with Osvald Berg, the big star of the opera. To wake Osvald's interest for her she asks Marcus if he could play deeply in love with her. Plot summary by nL.
Ansiktet
A traveling magician and his troupe arrive in a Swedish town in the 1840s, where their act is scrutinized by local authorities and a skeptical medical official. Their stay leads to a series of confrontations that test the boundaries between performance, belief, and deception.
Sommarnöje sökes
Married couple have romantic interludes in the summer, she at their summer cottage, him in the apartment in town.
Smultronstället
Wild Strawberries is a drama from Swedish director Ingmar Bergman. He tells the story of one day in the life of medicine professor, Borg, who while on a trip to another university reviews over his life in a dream.
Nattens ljus
Sixteen year old Maria arrives in Stockholm. She is going to stay with her aunt. Already at the Central station events occur that change her route.
Det sjunde inseglet
When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life.
Sjunde himlen
Famous radio personality Willy Lorens has a big success with the radio series "Seventh Heaven." The amount of fan mail and attention eventually becomes too much for Willy, who suffers a minor collapse. Taken to a hospital where he meets Dr. Lovisa Sundelius, virtually the only woman in Sweden who do not admire the radio idol.
Stampen
Pawnshop assistant Patrick and maid Viveka meet by chance and become fond of each other, but none of them want to reveal his real profession for the other.
Sommarnattens leende
In Sweden at the turn of the century, members of the upper class and their servants find themselves in a romantic tangle that they try to work out amidst jealousy and heartbreak.
Kvinnodröm
The film consists of several dreams based on Kurosawa's own, throughout his life. The dreams are eight separate segments in the following order: Sunshine Through The Rain The Peach Orchard The Blizzard The Tunnel Crows Mount Fuji in Red The Weeping Demon Village of the Watermills
Gabrielle
While Bertil Lindström works at the Swedish embassy in Paris, his wife Gabrielle spends the summer alone in Sweden. After a phone call to her, he starts to think of all the things she can possibly be doing separated from him.
En lektion i kärlek
After fifteen years of marriage and mutual infidelity, a couple on the brink of divorce unexpectedly confront their unresolved love during a journey to Copenhagen. Blending farce with emotional reflection, the film is Ingmar Bergman’s first sustained venture into marital comedy.
Vi tre debutera
Three debuting poets, Lo, Ludvig and Lillebror merge when a collection of poems with their works is published. But the trio's time together is short. Love gets in the way.
Gycklarnas afton
A number of complicated relationships develop between a circus ringmaster, his estranged wife and his lover.
Kvinnors väntan
The four wives of four brothers share stories of their marriages as they each wait for their husbands in a small, secluded cottage.
Flyg-Bom
More of the same thing when Fabian Bom returns to the military, this time it is the air force who has to deal with his antics and meticulousness. He falls in love with a sami girl, Lisa, but has trouble finding her.
Tull-Bom
Comedy with Nils Poppe as Fabian Bom, chief inspector in the customs service and the fear of all smugglers. He is a zealous and dutiful official who always checks every 20th person, regardless of whether it is the customs director himself.
Min syster och jag
The rich, aristocratic Katarina Hassel decides to let an architect renovate her mansion. Katarina falls in love with the young architect, Gunnar Stenwall. Alas, he doesn't fall in love with her. But perhaps if Gunnar would meet her identical sister, who works in Stockholm, he would fall in love with her.
Fästmö uthyres
The staff at a legal agency in Stockholm are suddenly unemployed. On the initiative of secretary Margit Berg, a service company is started. From that you can order childcare, flower watering etc.
Den vita katten
A man comes to Stockholm's central station. He does not know who he is or where he has been. He has some keys and a phone number. Perhaps he is the escaped sex maniac the police are searching for. A waitress at a café tries to help him.
Skolka skolan
Newly married high school student return to school without informing her husband.
Pappa Bom
One-day auctioneer Fabian Bom finds a little child in a cradle that is about to be called out. He leaves for the orphanage, but there they don't want to take the boy. Bom thinks about adoption but that requires some qualifications. The boy needs a mother and that means that Fabian Bom have to get married.
Flickan från tredje raden
Is man's existence really meaningful and hopeful? As a reply to Ingmar Bergman's Prison (1949), this movie claims that it is. A ring passes between a lot of different people, giving the bearer or someone close a new meaning to life. Actors, embezzlers, old ladies, and cheated husbands all seem to gain temporary hope from misery and disillusionment.
Var sin väg
A drama about a doctor and his wife. She used to be an actress, but became a housewife when she married. When she resumes her acting career the marriage crashes.
Soldat Bom
The station-master Fabian Bom is a very meticulous person, and he makes sure that the train leaves exactly - on the second. To him, nothing could be more important than duty, efficiency and punctuality, in fact, his sense of duty is clearly perverted. His beloved Plum-Plum, the major's daughter, is infatuated with army officers.
Musik i mörker
Because of an accident at a military drill the recruit Bengt loses his eyesight and becomes blind. He gets to live with relatives in the countryside and meets the young Ingrid. She falls in love with him but Bengt's bitterness also makes him blind to her attentions.
Lilla Märta kommer tillbaka eller Grevinnans snedsteg eller Den vilda jakten efter det hemliga dokumentet
Sture Letterström and Kurre Svensson take the task of saving secret documents from Swedish Nazis. Since both of them are known by the local Nazis, Sture has the role of Miss Märta Letterström.
Pappa sökes
The spoiled son of a weapons manufacturer falls in love with a manicurist, to the horror of his parents. Class limits may not be exceeded.
Rötägg
Olga Sundblom, after the divorce, has sole custody of the son Krister, who has trouble controlling himself. He cheats in school, smokes in bed and is generally unbearable. He is sent to Granberga boarding school and soon starts turning everything upside down.
Medan porten var stängd
About a number of people in an apartment building during a night full of dramatic events and entanglements.
Kristin kommenderar
Marianne and Harald are busy with their jobs and three children. They are lucky to find a mysterious house maid to employ who have her own reasons for helping them.
Det regnar på vår kärlek
David, a unemployed man and Maggi, a country lady meet in a train station in a rainy afternoon and get in love. But they will have to face the society's injustice, arrogance and envy to stay together. In thi fascinating drama Bergman shows the stupidness of Swedish society on 40's.
Vad vet ni om Sussie
A young, recently divorced writer attacks in bitterness "the woman" in his new book called - An unhappy marriage. This raises media attention.
Nyordning på Sjögårda
Major Grasser lives on his estate with his twin daughters Britta and Stina. Stina is studying at the university and Britta wants to work with farming. The major wants to put Britta in a school of commerce and hires a tutor to prepare her for higher education.
Lev farligt
Iben Holt, a rich bohemian, lives in an occupied country. On his way home from a party he hears an explosion and sees flames rising from a factory. At home awaits another surprise.
Hets
An idealistic adolescent, suffering under the thumb of a sadistic schoolmaster, falls in love with a loose girl who is bullied and tormented by another lover.
Appassionata
A classic melodrama about the famous pianist Thomas Dahlhoff.
Snapphanar
It is 1676 and Denmark declares war on Sweden. The intention is to recapture the region Skåne. The Danes have on their side a number of sympathizers, called Snapphanar.
Juninatten
A woman flees to avoid rumors of promiscuity, but is trailed by a reporter who wants to expose her dark past.
Panik
About the conspiracy against the Swedish entrepeneur Ivar Kreuger. Presented through his secretary as a strictly busy, very wealthy man, involved in important international transactions. Ministers from all over the world stand in line to visit him. The Kreuger shares are in high demand. Germany needs a $ 125 million loan.