Direction: Jan Troell

Direction Jan Troell

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

Synopsis 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. Tired of poverty, tyranny, social injustice, and religious persecution in...

Direction Jan Troell

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

Synopsis 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 arrive there, each family searches a place to build a...

Direction Jan Troell

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

Synopsis 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 Sigfrid, and marries him at a young age. Sigfrid can't...

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

Synopsis 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 with the shadow of Nazism quickly darkening Europe, Hamsun and...

Direction Jan Troell

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

Synopsis 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

Synopsis 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 balloon, together with two friends. The balloon, "The Eagle", takes...

Direction Jan Troell

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

Synopsis 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 1945.

Direction Jan Troell

Cast Gene Hackman · Liv Ullmann · Eileen Heckart · Susan Tyrrell

Synopsis Zandy Allan purchases a mail-order bride, Hannah Lund. He treats her as a possession, without respect or humanity, until their shared ordeal as they struggle to survive develops in him a growing love.

Direction Fatih Akin · Barbara Albert · Šarūnas Bartas · Andy Bausch

Cast Safia Aggoune · Abel Alves · Benzirar Baroudi · Ina-Marija Bartare

Synopsis The idea is simple: Twenty-five countries, twenty-five visions from respected film directors from each of the respective countries that form the new European Community. Each director will give a personal vision of current or future life in this coming cultural...

Direction Jan Troell

Cast Mia Farrow · Jason Robards · Dayton Ka'ne · Max von Sydow

Synopsis Filmed entirely on location on the remote South Seas island of Bora Bora, Dino De Laurentiis' epic adventure is a touching story of the desperate love affair between a young Samoan chief (Dayton Ka'ne) and a beautiful American painter (Mia...

Direction Jan Troell

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

Synopsis 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 farm and becoming an aviatrix.

Direction Jan Troell

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

Synopsis 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 and potential prosperity.

Direction Jan Troell

Synopsis 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. He has told about how much the pictures meant to...

Direction Jan Troell

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

Synopsis 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 bicycle. The film tries to describe the relationship between the...

Direction Jan Troell

Cast Max von Sydow · Allan Edwall · Karl Erik Flens

Synopsis 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 in the wilderness.

Direction Jan Troell · Bo Widerberg

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

Synopsis 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 son visit the mother in the hospital.

Direction Jan Troell

Synopsis 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 wakes up. When the schoolboy is about to leave for...

Direction Jan Troell

Synopsis 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 just started her life, and the whole world is there...

Direction Jan Troell

Synopsis 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 their belongings in their hands or on donkeys. As there...