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Vilgot Sjöman
Writer 1924 - 2006

Vilgot Sjöman

Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden

David Harald Vilgot Sjöman was a Swedish writer and film director. His films deal with controversial issues of social class, morality, and sexual taboos, combining the emotionally-tortured characters of Ingmar Bergman with the avant garde style of the French New Wave. He is... Read full bio →

Filmography

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7 titles
Tabu

Tabu

Vilgot Sjöman 1977 1h 55m 4.0

Investigates and sheds light on various sexual identities and sexual peculiarities outside the accepted sexual norms.

En handfull kärlek

En handfull kärlek

Vilgot Sjöman 1974 2h 22m

Set against the backdrop of the 1909 general strike, Hjördis is employed as a housemaid in a wealthy Stockholm family.

Jag är nyfiken - en film i blått

Jag är nyfiken - en film i blått

Vilgot Sjöman 1968 1h 47m 6.0

The same movie with the same characters, cast and crew as I am Curious (Yellow), but with some different scenes and a different political slant. The political focus in Blue is personal relationships, religion, prisons and sex. Blue omits much of the class consciousness and non-violence interviews of the first version.

Stimulantia

Stimulantia

Hans Alfredson, Vilgot Sjöman 1967 1h 45m 5.0

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.

Jag är nyfiken - en film i gult

Jag är nyfiken - en film i gult

Vilgot Sjöman 1967 2h 2m 5.6

Lena, aged twenty, wants to know all she can about life and reality. She collects information on everyone and everything, storing her findings in an enormous archive. She experiments with relationships, political activism, and meditation.

Syskonbädd 1782

Syskonbädd 1782

Vilgot Sjöman 1966 1h 37m 9.0

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.

Älskarinnan

Älskarinnan

Vilgot Sjöman 1962 1h 17m 6.0

If someone just then had told her that she in a few months would be the mistress of her boss, she would have become aggrieved and indignant. Women who tangled with married men were not acceptable to her.

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