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.

There is a thin line between money and loyalty. Thomas Skepphult runs an investment company, and is arrested for the murder of his business partner when his fingerprint is found on the murder weapon. When he tries to call his lawyer, the phone is answered by someone who he thought had committed suicide years ago.

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."

'결혼 풍경'(1973)의 커플 요한과 마리안이 30여 년 만에 재회한다. 요한과 원수 지간인 아들 헨릭과 그의 아름다운 딸 카린이 불러일으키는 긴장감, 그리고 2년 전에 죽은 헨릭의 아내 안나의 존재가 계속 그들 주위를 떠돈다.

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.

Inventor Carl Åkerblom is a rosy-cheeked 54 year-old admirer of Franz Schubert - and a patient in the psychiatric ward of Akademiska Hospital in Uppsala, after having attempted to beat to death his fiancée, Pauline Thibault. Together with another patient, Professor Osvald Vogler, they set up a film project: the living talkie. Before long, they set off on a frantic tour with their film, "The Joy of the Joyous Girl"... Written by Fredrik Klasson

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.

1909년, 스웨덴 웁살라. 가난했지만 매우 엄격한 기독교의 교리에 따라 키워진 헨릭 베르히만(사뮤엘 프릴러 분)은 웁살라에서 신학공부를 한다. 비참하고 어려운 그의 생활에서 유일한 낙은 여급인 프리다를 만나는 것. 어느날 헨릭은 부유한 집안의 친구 어니스트의 일요일 만찬에 초대된다. 헨릭은 그 만찬에서 어니스트의 여동생 안나를 만나게 된다.

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.

Emma (Line Kruse) is an eleven year-old only child from a wealthy Danish family. Emma's parents seem more interested in their own interests than in her. One evening when Emma overhears her mother talking about how tragic it must be to have your child kidnapped, Emma decides to stage her own kidnapping. She soon meets Malthe, a kind-hearted, child-like, naïve sewer cleaner who literally stumbles on to her. She convinces Malthe that she is a Russian princess whose family is being chased by Bolsheviks, so Malthe lets Emma stay with him in his very modest abode. After being "kidnapped" for a few days, Emma decides to return home. But, just as she is about to return, she overhears a couple of servants talking about how her parents don't seem to be very upset over her dilemma....

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.

마티스는 드넓은 숲속을 지나가는 사람들에게 약탈을 일삼는 산적들의 두목이다. 비바람이 몰아치는 밤, 마티스의 딸이 태어나고 마티스의 아내는 아이에게 로냐라는 이름을 붙여준다. 그런데 산적 일당들이 한바탕 축하 잔치를 벌이는 도중에 천둥이 울리고 땅이 갈라지면서 이들이 살던 성도 두 쪽으로 갈라진다. 세월이 흘러 로냐는 산적 패거리들의 사랑을 받으며 씩씩하고 용감한 소녀로 성장한다. 그런데 갈라진 성의 나머지 한쪽에 보르카가 이끄는 산적 패거리가 들어와 살면서 마티스 패거리와 갈등을 빚는다. 어느 날 로냐는 보르카의 아들 비르크와 우연히 만난다. 처음에는 아빠의 원수지간인 보르카의 아들이라는 이유로 비르크를 적대시했지만 이내 둘은 서로에게 마음을 열고 좋은 친구가 된다. 하지만 원수의 자식과 친구처럼 지내는 로냐가 못마땅한 마티스는 비르크를 인질로 잡고 보르카 패거리에게 성에서 당장 떠나라고 요구한다. 아빠의 행동이 원망스러운 로냐는 자진해서 보르카 패거리의 인질이 된다. 결국 두 아이를 맞교환하면서 소동은 마무리되지만 어른들에게 실망한 로냐와 비르크는 성에서 뛰쳐나와 온갖 위험이 도사리고 있는 숲속으로 들어가는데... (EBS)

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.

극장을 운영하고 있는 에카달 가족의 집에서 크리스마스 파티가 열리고 있다. 화니와 알렉산더는 이 집의 첫째 아들인 오스카 에카달의 자녀로 할머니 헬레나의 사랑을 독차지하고 있다. 그러나 어느날 가족들이 지켜보는 가운데 연극 무대에서 연습중이던 오스카가 갑자기 쓰러져 숨을 거두고 만다. 이후 시간이 흘러, 수업을 마치고 집에 돌아온 화니와 알렉산더에게 에밀리가 목사와 결혼한다는 놀라운 사실을 발표한다. 이에 화니와 알렉산더는 엄마를 따라 목사의 집으로 들어간다. 그러나 목사는 화니와 알렉산더의 생활을 하나하나 억압하며 간섭을 한다. 에밀리는 목사의 횡포에 질려 이혼을 요구하나 아이들을 빼앗겠다는 협박만을 받는데...

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.

The same movie with the same characters, cast and crew as I am Curious (Yellow), but with some different scenes and a different political slant. The political focus in Blue is personal relationships, religion, prisons and sex. Blue omits much of the class consciousness and non-violence interviews of the first version. Yellow and Blue are the colors of the Swedish flag.

Lena, aged twenty, wants to know all she can about life and reality. She collects information on everyone and everything, storing her findings in an enormous archive. She experiments with relationships, political activism, and meditation. Meanwhile, the actors, director and crew are shown in a humorous parallel plot about the making of the film and their reactions to the story and each other. Nudity, explicit sex, and controversial politics kept this film from being shown in the US while its seizure by Customs was appealed.

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