Cinematography: Jan Troell

Direction Jan Troell

Cast Max von Sydow · Liv Ullmann · Eddie Axberg · Svenolof Bern

Plot A profoundly touching celebration of the American experience, this landmark epic film was made in Sweden and recounts the dramatic and resourceful Swedish emigration to America in the 19th century....

Direction Jan Troell

Cast Max von Sydow · Liv Ullmann · Eddie Axberg · Pierre Lindstedt

Plot Continuation from "The Emigrants" - Utvandrarna (1971): The Swedes arrive in the USA. They still have a long journey to Minnesota where they expect to find other Swedes. When they...

Direction Jan Troell

Cast Maria Heiskanen · Jesper Christensen · Mikael Persbrandt · Amanda Ooms

Plot Set in the early XXth century, the Ulm is based on the real life story of the grandmother of Jan Troell's wife. Maria is swept away by the loutish rake...

Direction Jan Troell

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

Direction Jan Troell

Cast Max von Sydow · Ghita Nørby · Anette Hoff · Gard B. Eidsvold

Plot In this epic story of love and treason, Max von Sydow gives a career-crowning performance as Knut Hamsun, Norways controversial Nobel Laureate. Hamsun is his countrys most beloved writer. But...

Direction Jan Troell

Cast Per Oscarsson · Ann-Marie Gyllenspetz · Kerstin Tidelius · Bengt Ekerot

Plot A weak and tormented teacher is pushed to the limit by his obnoxious students.

Direction Jan Troell

Cast Max von Sydow · Sverre Anker Ousdal · Goran Stangertz · Eva von Hanno

Plot The Swedish 19th century engineer S. A. Andrée sets out to become the first man on the north pole. His idea is to launch a polar expedition using a hydrogen...

Direction Jan Troell

Cast Jesper Christensen · Pernilla August · Ulla Skoog · Björn Granath

Plot Torgny Segerstedt was one of the leading journalists in Sweden in the 20th century. He fought a one man battle against Hitler and the Nazi regime until his death in...

Direction Jan Troell

Cast Amanda Ooms · Rikard Wolff · Björn Granath · Björn Kjellman

Plot Inspired by real-life Elsa Andersson, this mostly fictional movie tells the story of her upbringing as a farmer's daughter, in the early 1900s, who dreams of getting away from the...

Direction Jan Troell

Cast Ingvar Carlsson · Tage Erlander · Timo Nilsson · Olof Palme

Plot When the daughter Johanna is born in 1983, Jan Troell tells the story about his childhood Sweden and how things were when he grow-up in the land of fairy tales...

Direction Jan Troell

Plot Troell is one of the few directors in the world who photographs his films himself. When he was young, he received Arne Sucksdorff's photo book Gryning [Dawn] as a gift....

Direction Jan Troell

Cast Antti Reini · Maria Heiskanen · Berto Marklund · Antti Vierikko

Plot The film is based on a true occurrence in Sweden in 1988. A Finish couple murdered a young boy and his parents when they prevented the theft of the son's...

Direction Jan Troell

Cast Max von Sydow · Allan Edwall · Karl Erik Flens

Plot A long iron ore train passes across a vast marshland in Lapland. The steam locomotive needs some lubrication, so the train makes a short stop at a small station out...

Direction Bo Widerberg

Cast Inger Taube · Thommy Berggren · Lars Passgard · Ulla Akselson

Direction Jan Troell · Bo Widerberg

Cast Ale Möller · Bodil Mathiasson · Ulla-Greta Starck · Rune Turesson

Plot It is Arild's birthday, but his father has forgotten this and goes to work as usual. The mother is in the hospital to give birth. In the afternoon father and...

Direction Jan Troell

Plot Early morning. The first sunbeams reach a city that is still asleep. A schoolboy hikes up a roller blind. In the harbor, behind a pile of goods, a homeless man...

Direction Jan Troell

Plot A train passes the village Stångby in the countryside. Three-year-old Åsa comes running naked along a street and into a modern villa, located close to the railway track. She has...

Direction Jan Troell

Plot From 1957 to 1961 170.000 Algerians flee to Tunisia because of the war. Most of them walk by feet across the mountains and the desert, carrying only a few of...

Direction Jan Troell

Cast Håkan Serner · Susan Hampshire · Yvonne Lombard · Ulf Palme

Plot Hinder (Håkan Serner) is a middle-aged music teacher who has suddenly realized that time is passing him by. He has two unfulfilled dreams in life: to finish his major symphonic...