Direction: Arne Sucksdorff
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Arne Sucksdorff. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Titles found: 20
The Boy in the Tree
1961 · Movie · 82 min. · Sweden
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...
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Ett hörn i norr (S)
1951 · Documentary · 23 min. · Sweden
Direction Arne Sucksdorff
Synopsis Shows images from the industries in the Scandinavian countries and highlights the affinity between those countries.
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Shadow of the Hunter (S)
1944 · Documentary · 8 min. · Sweden
Direction Arne Sucksdorff
Synopsis A hunter tracks down various animals in the forest.
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My Home Is Copacabana
1965 · Movie · 88 min. · Sweden
Direction Arne Sucksdorff
Cast Leila Santos de Sousa · Cosme dos Santos · Josafá Da Silva Santos · Toninho Carlos de Lima
Synopsis Jorginho, his white friend Rico, Lici and Paulinho are homeless best friends living in a slum in a hill in Copacabana. They spend their hopeless life playing with kite; trying to survive getting food from the street market or the...
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The Wind from the West (S)
1942 · Documentary · 18 min. · Sweden
Direction Arne Sucksdorff
Synopsis A short drama documentary about the life of a Sami family in the northernmost part of Sweden, Lappland.
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Den drömda dalen - Soria Moria (S)
1947 · Documentary · 11 min. · Sweden
Direction Arne Sucksdorff
Cast Gustaf Molander
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Indian Village
1951 · Documentary · 27 min. · Sweden
Direction Arne Sucksdorff
Cast Hans Lagerkvist · Ulf Palme
Synopsis A depiction of village life in India.
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The Wind and the River (S)
1952 · Documentary · 10 min. · Sweden
Direction Arne Sucksdorff
Synopsis Short documentary about people who live and work by the river Jhelum in Kashmir.
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Shadows on the Snow (S)
1946 · Documentary · 10 min. · Sweden
Direction Arne Sucksdorff
Cast Olof Molander
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The Gulls (S)
1944 · Documentary · 17 min. · Sweden
Direction Arne Sucksdorff
Synopsis A nature documentary about the gulls, who are terrorizing other birds by killing their kids and raiding their nests for eggs. Often interpreted as an allegory of Nazism.
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The Flute and the Arrow
1957 · Documentary · 75 min. · Sweden
Direction Arne Sucksdorff
Cast Chendru · Martin Held · Ginjo · Riga
Synopsis After mainly having explored the nature and wild-life of his own Sweden, Sucksdorff this time took his cameras (for the first time loaded with colour film), his hand-picked crew and his imagination to Bastar, a little jungle village in the...
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The Great Adventure (Det stora äventyret)
1953 · Documentary · 94 min. · Sweden
Direction Arne Sucksdorff
Synopsis Cited by many as the most "personal" effort of Swedish filmmaker Arne Sucksdorff, The Great Adventure is also one of his few films to tie together its magnificent images with a dramatic narrative. "Adventure" means "life" to Sucksdorff, and that...
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Uppbrott (S)
1948 · Documentary · 8 min. · Sweden
Direction Arne Sucksdorff
Synopsis Katarina Taikon dances by the camp fire under the Årsta bridge in Stockholm. In choreography by Birgit Cullberg.
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Time for Common Rudd (S)
1942 · Documentary · 9 min. · Sweden
Direction Arne Sucksdorff
Synopsis Film about the Sami's move back to the forest country in autumn.
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