Cast: Gunnar Björnstrand

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Bertil Guve · Pernilla Allwin · Gunn Wållgren · Ewa Fröling

Synopsis TV Miniseries. 4 Episodes. The story is set in 1907 Uppsala, Sweden, and deals with a young boy named Alexander, his sister Fanny, and their well-to-do family, the Ekdahls. The siblings' parents are both involved in theater and are happily...

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Liv Ullmann · Bibi Andersson · Margaretha Krook · Gunnar Björnstrand

Synopsis A nurse is put in charge of an actress who can't talk and finds that the actress's persona is melding with hers.

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Victor Sjöström · Bibi Andersson · Ingrid Thulin · Gunnar Björnstrand

Synopsis It explores the disillusionment of an elderly physician, Professor Isak Borg, as he reflects upon his life and begins to perceive his mortality. As he travels to Lund to receive an honorary award after 50 years of medical practice, he...

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Max von Sydow · Gunnar Björnstrand · Nils Poppe · Bibi Andersson

Synopsis The Seventh Seal (1957) follows a disillusioned knight, Antonius Block, returning from the Crusades to a plague-ridden medieval Sweden. As death personified challenges him to a chess game for his life, Block seeks meaning in a world filled with suffering...

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Ingrid Bergman · Liv Ullmann · Lena Nyman · Halvar Björk

Synopsis Autumn Sonata (1978) follows the tense reunion of Eva, a reserved housewife, and her estranged mother Charlotte, a celebrated pianist. After years of separation, Charlotte visits Eva's remote home, where buried emotions and unresolved conflicts surface. Through intimate conversations, Eva...

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Ingrid Thulin · Max von Sydow · Gunnar Björnstrand · Gunnel Lindblom

Synopsis This is the second in Bergman's trilogy that explores religious faith and doubts in a visceral, visual, and provocative manner. On a cold winter's Sunday, the pastor of a small rural church, Tomas Ericsson, performs service for a tiny congregation;...

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Bertil Guve · Pernilla Allwin · Gunn Wållgren · Ewa Fröling

Synopsis Fanny & Alexander (1982) follows the lives of the Ekdahl siblings, Fanny and Alexander, as they navigate a year of profound change in early 20th-century Sweden. The story begins during a joyous Christmas celebration in their warm, vibrant family home....

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Liv Ullmann · Max von Sydow · Sigge Fürst · Gunnar Björnstrand

Synopsis 'Shame' probes the atrocities of war -both internal and external- as a young couple struggles to survive while the world around them crumbles into chaos.

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Harriet Andersson · Gunnar Björnstrand · Max von Sydow · Lars Passgard

Synopsis A young woman, Karin, has recently returned to the family island after spending some time in a mental hospital. On the island with her is her lonely brother and kind, but increasingly desperate husband (Max von Sydow). They are joined...

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Max von Sydow · Ingrid Thulin · Gunnar Björnstrand · Ake Fridell

Synopsis When 'Vogler's Magnetic Health Theater' comes to town, there's bound to be a spectacle. Reading reports of a variety of supernatural disturbances at Vogler's prior performances abroad, the leading townspeople (including the police chief and medical examiner) request that their...

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Liv Ullmann · Erland Josephson · Aino Taube · Gunnar Björnstrand

Synopsis A sensitive exploration of the tragic irony of the psychiatrist suffering with mental illness. Dr. Jenny Isaksson (Liv Ullman) is a psychiatrist married to another psychiatrist; both are successful in their jobs but slowly, agonizingly, she succumbs to a breakdown....

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Eva Dahlbeck · Ulla Jacobsson · Harriet Andersson · Margit Carlqvist

Synopsis Distinguished lawyer Frederik Egerman lives with Anne, his picturesque, young wife, his son Henrik, a forlorn student of the cloth, and Petra, the flirtatious yet sensible maid. One summer evening Frederik takes Anne to see a play starring his former...

Direction Vilgot Sjöman

Cast Ingmar Bergman · Gunnar Björnstrand · Sven Nykvist · Vilgot Sjöman

Synopsis Vilgot Sjöman (I Am Curious -- Yellow 1967) and a crew from Swedish Television followed Ingmar Bergman during the filming of Winter Light and came away with a five-part documentary, including set construction, rehearsals, editing, and behind-the-camera conversations with Bergman...

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Ingmar Bergman · Gunnar Björnstrand · Erland Josephson · Allan Edwall

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Åke Grönberg · Harriet Andersson · Hasse Ekman · Gudrun Brost

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Ingrid Thulin · Gunnar Björnstrand · Anders Ek · Erik Hell

Synopsis A judge in an unnamed country interviews three actors, together and singly, provoking them while investigating a pornographic performance for which they may face a fine. Their relationships are complicated: Sebastian, volatile, a heavy drinker, in debt, guilty of killing...

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Jarl Kulle · Bibi Andersson · Nils Poppe · Gunnar Björnstrand

Synopsis The devil has a stye in his eye, caused by the purity of a vicar's daughter. To get rid of it, he sends Don Juan up from hell to seduce the 20 year old Britt-Marie and to rob her of...

Direction Jan Troell

Cast Eddie Axberg · Gudrun Brost · Ulla Akselson · Bo Wahlström

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Eva Dahlbeck · Gunnar Björnstrand · Yvonne Lombard · Harriet Andersson

Synopsis En Lektion i Kärlek constitutes one of Ingmar Bergman's more overtly entertaining films. In this highly engaging comedy, Bergman reunites Gunnar Bjornstrand and Eva Dahlbeck, who had already teamed to great effect in the final, comic episode of Secrets of...

Direction Mai Zetterling

Cast Harriet Andersson · Gunnel Lindblom · Gio Petré · Anita Björk

Synopsis Three expectant mothers think back over their sex lives.