Screenplay: Arne Sucksdorff

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


The Boy in the Tree

1961 · Movie · 82 min. · Sweden

Direction Arne Sucksdorff

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

Plot 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...

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Ett hörn i norr (S)

1951 · Documentary · 23 min. · Sweden

Direction Arne Sucksdorff

Plot Shows images from the industries in the Scandinavian countries and highlights the affinity between those countries.

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En sommarsaga (S)

1941 · Documentary · 13 min. · Sweden

Direction Arne Sucksdorff

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Shadow of the Hunter (S)

1944 · Documentary · 8 min. · Sweden

Direction Arne Sucksdorff

Plot A hunter tracks down various animals in the forest.

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Rhythm of a City (S)

1947 · Documentary · 20 min. · Sweden

Direction Arne Sucksdorff

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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

Plot 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...

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En augustirapsodi (S)

1940 · Documentary · 6 min. · Sweden

Direction Arne Sucksdorff

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The Wind from the West (S)

1942 · Documentary · 18 min. · Sweden

Direction Arne Sucksdorff

Plot 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

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Strandhugg (S)

1950 · Documentary · 15 min. · Sweden

Direction Arne Sucksdorff

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Indian Village

1951 · Documentary · 27 min. · Sweden

Direction Arne Sucksdorff

Cast Hans Lagerkvist · Ulf Palme

Plot 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

Plot 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

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The Gulls (S)

1944 · Documentary · 17 min. · Sweden

Direction Arne Sucksdorff

Plot 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

Plot 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...

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The Great Adventure (Det stora äventyret)

1953 · Documentary · 94 min. · Sweden

Direction Arne Sucksdorff

Plot 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...

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A Divided World (S)

1948 · Documentary · 8 min. · Sweden

Direction Arne Sucksdorff

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Uppbrott (S)

1948 · Documentary · 8 min. · Sweden

Direction Arne Sucksdorff

Plot Katarina Taikon dances by the camp fire under the Årsta bridge in Stockholm. In choreography by Birgit Cullberg.

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Litsälven (S)

1948 · Documentary · 8 min. · Sweden

Direction Arne Sucksdorff

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Time for Common Rudd (S)

1942 · Documentary · 9 min. · Sweden

Direction Arne Sucksdorff

Plot Film about the Sami's move back to the forest country in autumn.

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