Screenplay: Jörn Donner

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Jörn Donner. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


En söndag i september

1963 · Movie · 101 min. · Sweden

Direction Jörn Donner

Cast Harriet Andersson · Thommy Berggren · Harry Ahlin · Britta Billsten

Plot About a young couple. They fall in love, marry and separate.

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Baksmälla

1973 · Movie · 83 min. · Sweden

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Dirty Story

1984 · Movie · 99 min. · Finland

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Anna

1970 · Movie · 82 min. · Finland

Direction Jörn Donner

Cast Harriet Andersson · Pertti Melasniemi · Marja Packallen · Tapio Rautavaara

Plot Anna (Harriet Andersson) is a forty year-old anesthesiologist who takes a vacation with her teenage daughter (Maarit Hyttinen) and their maid (Pertti Melasniemi). She turns down her lover's request to...

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Tvärbalk

1967 · Movie · 90 min. · Sweden

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Portraits of Women

1970 · Movie · 86 min. · Finland

Direction Jörn Donner

Cast Ritva Vepsä · Jörn Donner · Kirsti Wallasvaara · Aarre Elo

Plot In this self-ironic satire director Jörn Donner portrays Pertti, a pornographer returning home from America to shoot what he calls quality films about love. However, he finds himself constantly hampered...

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Black on White

1968 · Movie · 95 min. · Finland

Direction Jörn Donner

Cast Kristiina Halkola · Liisamaija Laaksonen · Jörn Donner · Jukka Virtanen

Plot Juha is a sales manager of a refrigerator company. His perfect-looking family and glittering array of modern kitchen appliances have just been featured in a magazine article, but in reality...

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Hellyys

1972 · Movie · 86 min. · Finland

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The Border

2007 · Movie · 114 min. · Finland

Direction Lauri Törhönen

Cast Martin Bahne · Hannu-Pekka Björkman · Minna Haapkylä · Tommi Korpela

Plot The film is set during the Finnish Civil War of 1918, a year after Finland had declared independence from Russia. In a nutshell, the war was between the "Whites" (the...

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69 - Sixtynine

1969 · Movie · 98 min. · Finland

Direction Jörn Donner

Cast Ritva Vepsä · Seija Tyni · Sven-Bertil Taube · Jörn Donner

Plot Tuula's husband Jukka takes care of all domestic chores. Tuula seems to have no idea that her husband spends his evenings working as a major league ice hockey referee. She...

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Girl on Finland

1967 · Movie · 90 min. · Finland

Direction Mikko Niskanen

Cast Kristiina Halkola · Kirsti Wallasvaara · Aulikki Oksanen · Pekka Laiho

Plot Film follows young students living in Helsinki with its focus on 3 couples. They celebrate Labor day, go to the lectures and discuss about social criticism, antiwar movement and radicalism....

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Angela's War

1984 · Movie · 97 min. · Finland

Direction Eija-Elina Bergholm

Cast Ida-Lotta Backman · Mathieu Carrière · Jörn Donner · Kim Gunell

Plot Angela serves during Finland's Continuation War (1941-1944) as a nurse at a war hospital. There she meets Thomas Schmidt, a German officer who, in part, lost his memory due to...

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Fuck Off! - Images of Finland

1971 · Documentary · 96 min. · Finland

Direction Jörn Donner

Cast Jörn Donner · Tapani Perttu · Jaakko Talaskivi

Plot A carefree, many-faceted, and brazen portrait of Finland thirty years ago. Made in a time when impoverished farmers were moving to the cities and poor Finns hired themselves out as...

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Här börjar äventyret

1965 · Movie · 84 min. · Sweden

Direction Jörn Donner

Cast Harriet Andersson · Senni Nieminen · Matti Oravisto · Claude Titre

Plot The fashion director Anne Englund has to choose between two men - the Finnish architect Toivo, or the French businessman Jacques.

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To Love

1964 · Movie · 90 min. · Sweden

Direction Jörn Donner

Cast Harriet Andersson · Zbigniew Cybulski · Isa Quensel · Thomas Svanfeldt

Plot Louise (Andersson) is a young Swedish widow, living with her mother and her young son. She meets foreigner Fredrik (Cybulski), and he soon moves into the family apartment. The two...

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