Cinematography: Gunnar Fischer

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 Harriet Andersson · Lars Ekborg · John Harryson · Georg Skarstedt

Synopsis Harry Lund, 19 years old, works at a stock-room for glass and porcelain. In the vicinity works 17 year old Monika at a stock-room for vegetables. Monika is a cheerful and happy young woman and when she sees Harry at...

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 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 Ingmar Bergman

Cast Maj-Britt Nilsson · Birger Malmsten · Alf Kjellin · Mimi Pollak

Synopsis While waiting for the night rehearsal of the ballet Swan Lake, the lonely twenty-eight year-old ballerina Marie receives a diary through the mail. She travels by ferry to an island nearby Stockholm, where she recalls her first love Henrik. Thirteen...

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Maj-Britt Nilsson · Stig Olin · Victor Sjöström · Birger Malmsten

Synopsis This relatively minor film by legendary filmmaker Ingmar Bergman examines the progress of the marriage of two violinists. The film's title, To Joy, refers to the last movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, the "Ode to Joy," and the film itself...

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 Carl Theodor Dreyer

Cast Georg Rydeberg · Wanda Rothgardt · Gabriel Alw · Stig Olin

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Anita Björk · Eva Dahlbeck · Maj-Britt Nilsson · Birger Malmsten

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Eva Henning · Birger Malmsten · Birgit Tengroth · Hasse Ekman

Synopsis A couple traveling across a war-ravaged Europe. A disintegrating marriage. A ballet dancer’s scarred past. Her friend’s psychological agony. Elliptically told in flashbacks and multiple narrative threads, Ingmar Bergman’s Thirst shows people enslaved to memory and united in isolation.

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Nine-Christine Jönsson · Bengt Eklund · Mimi Nelson · Berta Hall

Synopsis Berit is a young woman with problems. She is suicidal and depressed. Since it has been impossible for her to live with her mother, she has spent many years in institutions. She has now gotten a job in an industry...

Direction Jacques Tati

Cast Jacques Tati · Karl Kossmayer · Pierre Bramma · Michèle Brabo

Synopsis Two children go behind the scenes of a small circus.

Direction Vilgot Sjöman

Cast Lars Lind · Leif Nymark · Stig Törnblom · Lars Hansson

Synopsis It is written that 490 times you can sin and be forgiven...

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Signe Hasso · Alf Kjellin · Ulf Palme · Gösta Cederlund

Direction Arne Sucksdorff

Cast Tomas Bolme · Heinz Hopf · Björn Gustafson · Anders Henrikson

Synopsis Gote is a young teen who seems to be at odds with his family and may not know his own mind that well either. Discontented and rebellious, Gote joins up with two mean-spirited game poachers in spite of the fact...

Direction Alf Kjellin

Cast Sickan Carlsson · Gunnar Björnstrand · Bibi Andersson · Per Myrberg

Direction Norman Foster

Cast Rony Zeander · Carin Rossby · Gunilla Jelf · Erik Strandmark

Synopsis Set in 1860s Holland along the famed Zeider Zee — young Hans Brinker finds himself responsible for supporting his family after his father becomes injured in an accident. He and his sister, Gretel, travel to Amsterdam in search of funds...

Direction Anders Henrikson · Tancred Ibsen

Cast Allan Bohlin · Tutta Rolf · Oscar Egede-Nissen · Hauk Aabel

Synopsis A filmed record of the final whaling expedition in the Arctic before the outbreak of World War 2.

Direction Hasse Ekman

Cast Maj-Britt Nilsson · Sven-Eric Gamble · Per Oscarsson · Karl-Gerhard