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Roy Andersson
Writer 83 years old

Roy Andersson

Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden

Roy Arne Lennart Andersson is a Swedish film director, best known for his distinctive style of absurdist humor and melancholic depictions of human life. His personal style is characterized by long takes, and stiff caricaturing of Swedish culture and grotesque. Over his career... Read full bio →

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Om det oändliga

Om det oändliga

Roy Andersson 2019 1h 16m 10.0

Inspired by “One Thousand and One Nights,” the celebrated collection of Middle Eastern and Indian folk tales, “About Endlessness,” in its juxtaposition of tableaux capturing moments in life, explores the preciousness and beauty of our existence, awakening in us the wish to maintain this eternal treasure and pass it on.

En duva satt på en gren och funderade på tillvaron

En duva satt på en gren och funderade på tillvaron

Roy Andersson 2014 1h 41m 6.8

An absurdist, surrealistic and shocking pitch-black comedy, which moves freely from nightmare to fantasy to hilariously deadpan humour as it muses on man’s perpetual inhumanity to man.

Du levande

Du levande

Roy Andersson 2007 1h 33m 8.5

You, the Living is a film about humankind, its greatness and its baseness, joy and sorrow, its self-confidence and anxiety, its desire to love and be loved.

Sånger från andra våningen

Sånger från andra våningen

Roy Andersson 2000 1h 39m 8.4

A monumental traffic jam serves as the backdrop for the lives of the inhabitants of a Swedish city.

Giliap

Giliap

Roy Andersson 1975 2h 10m

In a minor town the morose manager is primarily responsible for the bad atmosphere of a restaurant. But central for the plot are three persons: a male waiter who is never named (here called W), the female waiter Anna, and "the count", a self-invented nickname by a man cleaning plates. The count is skilled in making others do what he wants.

En kärlekshistoria

En kärlekshistoria

Roy Andersson 1970 1h 59m 7.0

The puppy love of two teenagers is set against a backdrop of adults struggling with their own lives. As a couple in love, they don't care about anything but themselves and seem totally unaware about everything that surrounds them.

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