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Mauritz Stiller
Director 1883 - 1928

Mauritz Stiller

Helsinki, Finland

Mauritz Stiller (Moshe Stiller) was a Finnish-Swedish film director, actor and writer, probably best known for discovering Greta Garbo and bringing her to America. With Victor Sjöström he created the production company AB Svensk Filminspelning in 1922. Stiller was a major... Read full bio →

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

9 titles
Hotel Imperial

Hotel Imperial

Mauritz Stiller 1927 1h 25m

During World War I, an Austrian officer is trapped behind the Russian lines. He tries to sneak through to his own lines, but is forced to take refuge in a small hotel, where he is hidden by the establishment's chambermaid. The two fall in love, but a Russian general makes the hotel his headquarters and sets his sights on the maid.

Gösta Berlings saga

Gösta Berlings saga

Mauritz Stiller 1924 3h 26m 7.5

Gösta Berling is a young and attractive minister. Because of his alcoholism and his daring preaches, he is finally defrocked. He becomes a tutor of countess Marta's stepdaughter and the fell in love. But the countess has a plan of her own ...

Gunnar Hedes saga

Gunnar Hedes saga

Mauritz Stiller 1923 1h 41m 5.0

Gunnar Hede, a young Swedish man, wants to become a professional musician, but when his father suddenly dies he is pressured by his family to take over the family business of raising and selling reindeer.

Johan

Johan

Mauritz Stiller 1921 1h 50m

On a farm in up-country Sweden, an enigmatic stranger comes to a conservative peasant community and seduces a farmer's wife.

Erotikon

Erotikon

Mauritz Stiller 1920 1h 46m 5.5

Erotikon is a 1920 Swedish romantic comedy film directed by Mauritz Stiller, starring Tora Teje, Karin Molander, Anders de Wahl and Lars Hanson. It is based on the 1917 play A kék róka by Ferenc Herczeg. The story revolves around an entomology professor obsessed with the sexual life of bugs, and his easygoing wife who is courted by two suitors.

Sången om den eldröda blomman

Sången om den eldröda blomman

Mauritz Stiller 1919 1h 40m

The son of a wealthy farmer loves a simple maid, for which he's booted out of the house by his father.

Herr Arnes pengar

Herr Arnes pengar

Mauritz Stiller 1919 1h 46m 8.0

Three Scottish officers, including Sir Archi, murder Sir Arne and his household for a coffin filled with gold. The only survivor is Elsalill, who moves to relatives in Marstrand. There she meets a charming young officer- Sir Archi- and she soon understands that he was one of the murderers.

Thomas Graals bästa film

Thomas Graals bästa film

Mauritz Stiller 1917 1h 30m

Thomas Graal's a screenwriter, is very fond of his secretary Bessie. Overtaken by a kiss by Thomas she runs away. In his misfortune Thomas writes a screenplay inspired by Bessie. But she has not been really honest with him. 31 minutes of runtime are missing and presumed lost.

Vingarne

Vingarne

Mauritz Stiller 1916 50m

The story is that of a conniving countess coming between a gay sculptor, Claude Zoret, and his bisexual model and lover, Mikaël, ultimately leading to Zoret's death in a raging storm at the base of a statue of Mikaël as the mythological Icarus. The film is missing 19 minutes of run time.

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