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Mauritz Stiller
Writer 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 →

Filmography

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7 titles
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.

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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