Börje Ahlstedt

To my daughter if I 'd ever had one. The movie about Lena Nyman is a tender portrait of one of Sweden's most genuine actors.

Ingmar Bergman himself has often stressed how important the actors are to his work, and that they constitute his greatest source of inspiration. From this perspective it is therefore interesting to look at Bergman through their eyes. ”The Men and Bergman” is dedicated to the late Ingmar Bergman where several prominent Swedish actors; Thommy Berggren, Börje Ahlstedt, Thorsten Flinck and Erland Josephson discuss their work with Bergman in film and theater. We are given a unique portrait of Ingmar Bergman as a personal instructor and coach, as a human being, spanning from the earlier years in the 1950’s to his last theater productions fifty years later. We are treated to stories about Bergman the director as well as personal anecdotes about Bergman the man. Renowned Swedish film critic Nils Petter Sundgren, who has followed Ingmar Bergman throughout his career, hosts the program.

Helen, a priest, is approached by scientist Lisbeth with a desperate plea for help. A young man, who has been sent to a high security psychiatric ward after having killed an old couple, has attempted suicide while rambling about God. Having been part of an experiment attempting to humanize inmates by assigning them pets, the young man has suddenly gone ballistic. Fearing that he will attempt suicide again priest and scientist must now confront their mutual animosities while trying to grasp the truth. In a race against time the two women begin a shocking journey deeper and deeper into the sick mind of a young man's soul.

A drug addict becomes a mother and has to deal with responsibility and self-respect.

Thomas es un hombre que lo tiene todo: una familia y una carrera profesional prósperas. Pero, cuando el acuerdo más lucrativo de su empresa está a punto de cerrarse, algo irá terriblemente mal.

An overworked and stressed out man in the middle of his career causes the worst tragedy that can happen to a family...

Ulf think this is going to be an ordinary summer. Going to his grand parents and swim in the lake and tease his brother. But that's not the case, because this summer he will fall in love with Pia.

A documentary about the production of Ingmar Bergman's TV film "Saraband."

Treinta años después de divorciarse, Marianne, obedeciendo a un impulso repentino, visita a Johann, que ahora vive retirado en su casa de verano en la isla de Dalarna. Continuación de "Secretos de un matrimonio" (1973).

A documentary about the film, I am Curious-Yellow (1967), and how it made it into the USA and changed film in USA forever by breaking the USA Obscenity Codes.

Michael has a secret that he intends to announce during his birthday party. He has finally decided to propose to Catti, his girlfriend of many years. But Catti has other plans ...

A mysterious ship has sailed into Pippi's hometown and the Captain turns out to be her father...

A mysterious stranger, Meisner, arrives in a northern Swedish town in 1820, calling himself a magnetist - an amalgam of hypnotist and healer - and claiming he can cure diseases un-treatable by doctors. Ignoring the objections of his colleagues, Dr. Selander allows Meisner to cure his blind daughter, Maria, who not only regains her sight, but also falls in love with the charismatic magnetist. Dark secrets and repressed memories start to emerge, amidst the love between father and daughter, man and woman.

En 1925, el inventor Carl Åkerblom ingresa en un centro psiquiátrico de Upsala a causa de una violenta crisis nerviosa. Allí, con la colaboración de otros pacientes, se propone rodar la primera película sonora de la historia del cine, que trataría sobre los últimos días de la vida de Schubert. En el hospital recibe la inquietante visita de un ambiguo y extraño payaso. Aunque fue creada para la televisión, se exhibió en la sección "Un certain regard", del Festival de Cine de Cannes.

One hour making-of of Bergman's In The Presence of A Clown.

"All people with a tiny bit of sense get depressed in this country", says Patricia in "The Last Yankee". Two men - a carpenter and a successful self-employed business owner - visit their wives, who both are patients in a mental hospital. Why has life become so unbearable for them?

The war in former Yugoslavia is suddenly on the doorstep of 16-year-old computer freak Rasmus when he meets and falls in love with refugee girl Belma. Belma lives with her father and other refugees on Flotel Europe in Copenhagen. One day Belma’s father recognizes one of his torturers from prison camp among the refugees on the boat. The executioner is attacked and Belmas father gets arrested. Rasmus and Belma must prove his innocence.

A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 films.

Little Pu spends a summer in Norrland with all his relatives. He and his brother get to hear the story about the watchmaker who hung himself, learns to shoot with a bow and follow his father on a bicycle trip.

Año 1909. En el transcurso de una huelga general, Henrik, un humilde estudiante de Teología, conoce a una chica de una familia de clase alta a la que todos adoran, sobre todo su padre. Entre ellos nacerá, a pesar de la oposición familiar, una larga historia de amor que encarna la lucha contra el rígido sistema de clases dominante. Se basa en la historia de los padres de Bergman.

Hans and Lollo just had their first child. Hans is a gym teacher and is constantly tormented by his pupils. Hans's dad Bengt, is a news reporter on TV9, the channel who shows "such as people want to see". Bengt's latest report series is about a rapist who likes little girls. Bengt begins to suspect Hans...

Magni is a farmer who is planning to marry Teresia who comes from a rich family. When his maid Lovisa finds out she gets furious, she has been working for him without pay for 12 years because of vague allusions to marriage, now she wants her pay! She calculates that her back pay is the same as the fortune Teresia would be bringing to the marriage.

Larry Pedersen, professor of psychology of religion, has just divorced when a student named Elisabeth student must take the exam before him. Later in the evening the same day, she is beaten by her boyfriend and then Pedersen offers her a bed for the night.

A charged power struggle between spouses. A tug of war to the death of an only child as ends and means. From an August Strindberg play.

La historia se basa en una niña de 12 años perteneciente a una familia de reconocida reputación afincada en Copenhague desde 1930. La niña se llama Emma, es una jovencita mimada por los padres, pero que a menudo se siente desplazada por su familia debido a las numerosas salidas y fiestas sociales que celebran. Emma pasa mucho tiempo a cargo de sus criados, tiempo suficiente como para que la niña viva intentando captar la atención de sus padres, aunque para ello deba recurrir a sistemas que aterrorizarán a la familia. (FILMAFFINITY)

About the Swedish author Agnes Von Krusenstjerna during the period of her marriage to David Sprengel. In the hallucinatory opening sequence she is brought in a straitjacket by her husband and two psychiatric nurses through the Venice Carnival nocturnal antics to a mental hospital in the city. With her is a manuscript of her autobiography, which she calls "her child". The book is Agnes showdown with her family, and in flashbacks presented, Agnes progress from the author of innocent girls' books to serious and self-consuming novelist.

Ronya vive feliz en el castillo de su padre hasta que se encuentra con un nuevo compañero de juegos, Birk, en el bosque oscuro cercano. Los dos exploran el desierto, desafiando a peligrosos Witchbirds y Rump-Gnomes. Pero cuando sus familias descubren que Birk y Ronja han estado jugando juntos, les prohíben volver a verse. De hecho, sus padres son competidores jefes de ladrones y enemigos amargos. Ahora los dos niños valientes deben intentar derribar las barreras que han mantenido a sus familias separadas durante tanto tiempo.

Widow Jelena has let it be known she does not want to meet any men and is upset when Grigorij shows up and wants to speak to her about something.

Limpan is an alcoholic who has been put into a caretaking home for alcoholics. He's promised a job on the 'outside', but he's not released from the home, so he runs away. He misses the job and gets caught and is brought back, but they won't accept him, since it's after closing time. During a couple of days, he wanders back and forth between the home and the world, meeting several different people who all have their different problems, which Limpan confronts and all the time, there's the question of alcohol; to drink or not to drink.

Fanny y Alexander son dos hermanos que pertenecen a la pintoresca familia Ekdahl, a principios de siglo XX. Sus padres, Oscar y Emilie, son el director y la actriz principal de la compañía local de teatro, respectivamente. Tras la repentina muerte de Oscar, Emilie se vuelve a casar con un predicador autoritario que les obliga a mantener una vida ascética. "Fanny y Alexander" fue mimada por la crítica y consiguió cuatro Oscars en la edición de 1984: dirección artística, fotografía, vestuario y película de habla no inglesa.

35-year old Erik Engman, aka Pinnen, is the local fool. He picks up garbage and eats at the old people's home. One day he is asked to try the high-jump at the sport's field. He becomes fascinated and starts to train every day. Being fool-hardy, it doesn't take long before he is one of the best in the country and is asked to compete at the Stockholm Stadion.

Reine is supposed to go to a summer camp called Children's Island but decides to remain in Stockholm over the summer while his mother is working at a hospital. She thinks he is at the camp, and he tells her he is. We then follow him around Stockholm that summer and see what he encounters on the path of life.

"A Dream Play" - Agnes, a daughter of the Vedic god Indra, descends to Earth to bear witness to problems of human beings. She meets about 40 symbolical characters.

A Professor comes home carrying a paper bag with food. Among the goods in the bag is apricot jam. His wife reacts strongly, since they always have eaten orange marmalade. The Professor leaves his house and checks into a hotel.

Films the process of making Bo Widerberg's film "Death of a Salesman'.

Willy Loman is an over-the-hill salesman who faces a personal turning point when he loses his job and attempts to make peace with his family: Willy's long-suffering wife Linda, and Biff and Happy, his troubled sons and his life.

Kristoffer lives on the verge of poverty, just barely supporting himself on his photographic work and an allowance given him by his ex-wife to support their child. He is staying in his absentee mother's large old house, which she is preparing to sell. When he takes a photograph of a man who died by his own hand, the image fascinates him. He grows obsessed with the dead man's story and pushes his research as far as it will go.

When Dante's parents go on vacation, Dante and his buddy Tvärsan get the chance to play detectives.

Hypochondriac Lasse has finished his education but has trouble finding a job, instead he goes out trying to pick up girls. One morning he meets Lena in the stairwell.

A fairy tale and satire about a wealthy industrialist, whose son has been subdued and oppressed and totally uninterested in his father's business.

Steve works as a locksmith and one day he meets Lotta in his work. After helping her get back into her apartment they decide to see each other again. Though they are dating Steve still goes out with other girls, and in situations like this a big city quickly becomes a small town.

This Swedish sex-comedy/drama explores the complications in the relationship of a couple who believe that if they make love to each other, they will die. They neck and are physically affectionate in public as well as in private, but have a big taboo against sexual consummation. Their situation drives them to distraction, and they unsuccessfully seek various extramarital outlets for their frustrations.

A Swedish couple are trapped in their marriage and way of life. Locked up in their bourgeois inferno.

About an alcohol-damaged young man, his life in and out of prison, his friend the art teacher and his difficulties reintegrating into society.

Joergen (Per Myberg) is the Swedish journalist who uncovers a gun-running operation on the borders of Vietnam. The trail leads to a financial group of wealthy industrialists lead by Magnus Rud (Max von Sydow). He refuses to bury the story, leading to trouble for the idealistic reporter and his girlfriend Christine (Lena Granhagen) in this political drama about the war machine and freedom of the press.

Soy Curiosa - Azul se desarrolla en paralelo a Soy Curiosa - Amarillo. Continúan los esfuerzos de Lena por comprender la sociedad sueca. En esta ocasión sus preocupaciones giran alrededor de asuntos como la religión, la sexualidad y el sistema de prisiones, a la vez que mantiene la exploración de sus propias relaciones personales. De la misma forma que en Amarillo, Azul atraviesa libremente las líneas que separan realidad y ficción, empleando una mezcla de técnicas propias del drama y del documental. (FILMAFFINITY)

La película es una mezcla entre ficción y documental en la que se nos muestra a una joven, Lena, que analiza la sociedad sueca de los años sesenta. Lena quiere comprender la sociedad en la que vive, sus contradicciones y sus cambios, y se esfuerza por obtener respuestas sobre todas las cosas. Hace preguntas a la gente de la calle, líderes sindicales y políticos sobre temas como la posición de Suecia ante la guerra del Vietnam o ante la dictadura de Franco, sobre la no-violencia o sobre el sistema de clases. Organiza demostraciones públicas y funda un instituto en su propia habitación con el único fin de encontrar respuestas a sus preguntas.

Two pilots must fly together in spite of the strong dislike of each other. At a training mission the aircraft wrecks over open water and they have to save themselves by parachute.

Swedish TV movie based on the Hjalmar Bergman play.

The Boss Mrs Ingeborg