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.
(voice)
The old man tells of angels, growing olives and the daughter he lost.
Himself
In honor of the twentieth anniversary of Andrei Tarkovsky's death, student filmmaker Dmitry Trakovsky sets out in search of his favorite director's legacy. His journey leads him to fifteen moving interviews in California, Italy, Sweden, and finally, Russia as he attempts to come closer to the meaning of one of Tarkovsky's most enigmatic beliefs... that death doesn't exist.
Bengtsson
The Ghost Sonata relates the adventures of a young student, who idealizes the lives of the inhabitants of a stylish apartment building in Stockholm. He makes the acquaintance of the mysterious Jacob Hummel, who helps him to find his way into the apartment, only to find that it is a nest of betrayal and sickness. The world, the student learns, is hell and human beings must suffer to achieve salvation.
Self - Actor
A desolada e misteriosa ilha de Fårö, Suécia, Mar Báltico, 2004. O mestre cineasta sueco Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) relembra sua vida pessoal e artística; uma viagem por mais de sessenta anos dedicada ao cinema, peças de teatro e programas de televisão.
Joseph
In a sanatorium for people in their 60's Walter meets Virginia and falls in love. His boyish invites only upset her. In another attempt to capture her interest he directs "Romeo and Juliet" starring the residents of the sanatorium.
Self
Short documentary featuring interviews from the cast and crew of "Fanny and Alexander." Featured on the Criterion Collection box set of the film.
Narrator (voice)
DAY AND NIGHT is about people that love and want to be loved. It's the story of a father, his young son, his unfaithful wife, her secret lover, his young mistress, his lonely sister, his forgetful mother, a fanatic football coach, a pregnant whore and an angel disguised as an old man. They are all looking for the answer to the same question: "If love is the answer - what is the question?"
Self
A short documentary about Hour of the Wolf.
Himself
Rarely in the history of the cinema, a company films productions will have marked the history and the culture of its country like "Svensk Filmindustri". Since its creation in 1919 by Charles Magnusson, Svensk Filmindustri have produced 1200 films including the major works of Mauritz Stiller, Victor Sjöström and Ingmar Bergman. The uncontested talent of the actresses Greta Garbo and Ingrid Bergman have given Swedish cinema a world recognition, a cinema that celebrates the power of the forces of nature, and where the inner life of its characters remains in our memories.
A documentary about En Passion
Self
A documentary about the production of Ingmar Bergman's TV film "Saraband."
Johan
Trinta anos após o divorcio, Marianne decide visitar John no seu isolado retiro no interior e testemunha o relacionamento atormentado entre seu amargo ex-marido, seu filho, Henrik e uma neta de 19 anos. Ignorando os protestos do seu filho Johan oferece mandar a garota para um prestigiado conservatório de música, forçando-a escolher entre seu futuro promissor como uma violoncelista ou ficar com seu atormentado pai.
Jakob (old)
A man and a woman meet in 1960. They marry because that's what you are supposed to do. But something goes wrong on their wedding night. They have no idea what to do with each other. Sexually. Emotionally. The husband meets a man who knows what to do with his sexuality. Suddenly a hand can do something no hand has done before and lips something no lips have ever done. The two men have a secret love affair. But there is a problem: The woman. And she has something up her sleeve. Will she act? Yes, she will. What happens? Nobody knows. Until now.
Bergman
Um drama sobre um triângulo amoroso, a deslealdade consciente e suas conseqüências. Marianne (Lena Endre) é casada com o regente Markus (Thomas Hanzon), com quem tem uma filha. Tudo vai bem no casamento até que numa noite, David (Krister Henriksson), o melhor amigo do marido, faz uma visita. A partir desse encontro, ela o vê de forma diferente e fica atraída por David. Assim que surge a oportunidade, a paixão desata e os dois começam a ter um caso. Mas Markus descobre, iniciando um jogo de trágicas e inesperadas conseqüências. Os segredos são revelados, mostrando que todos são infiéis. Ingmar Bergman se inspirou em uma experiência própria para escrever o roteiro.
Narrator (voice)
Carl-Gustaf Nykvist's documentary about his father, Sven Nykvist. The film is based on Sven's memoirs with Sven himself as narrator. A journey to the place of birth, Moheda, constitutes the hub of the film and during the journey friends and memories emerge. Written by Fredrik Klasson
Malou Von Sivers is the hostess of a popular Swedish talk show in which she quizzes famous people about their public and private lives. Through the noted Swedish actor Erland Josephson, Malou extended an invitation to the legendary -- and notoriously reclusive -- director Ingmar Bergman to appear on her show. To Malou's surprise, Bergman agreed, under the condition that Josephson appear on the show with him. In the course of this 52-minute interview, Bergman discusses his personal life rather than his films, shedding light on his temper, his mood swings, his problems with women, his marriage, and the trials of his advancing age. The interview was later re-edited into expanded form for international release as Malou Meets Ingmar Bergman and Erland Josephson. The documentary was screened at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.
Ernst Forsberg
The documentary director KG Forsberg makes a film about his dying father.
Mr. Hofverberg
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.
Osvald Vogler
Nos anos 20 em Uppsala na Suécia o inventor Carl Akerblom, obcecado admirador de Schubert, recebe alta do hospital, onde foi paciente psiquiátrico depois de ter tentado matar a sua namorada, e decide fazer um filme revolucionário. Um filme com som ao vivo, ou seja, com atores dando voz às personagens durante a projeção, sobre os últimos anos de vida de Schubert e de sua suposta relação amorosa com uma jovem condessa. A projeção corre de forma desastrosa e são os atores que acabam por salvar a situação lendo o texto à luz das velas.
Per Gunnarsson
Ester is the perfect grandmother everyone expects her to be. But she unexpectedly inherits an old aunt and gets a big apartment and a lot of money. She decides to leave her husband, children and grandchildren to start her life over. Before long, she has four men who court her and she feels young once again.
Johan Ludvig Heiberg
The actress Johanne Heiberg and author Hans Christian Andersen bump into each other one night and nothing will ever be the same.
Self
One hour making-of of Bergman's In The Presence of A Clown.
Self
The Scandinavian entry in the BFI's Century of Cinema series of documentaries
Ivo Levy
Um cineasta grego, exilado nos Estados Unidos, retorna à sua cidade natal para uma emocionante jornada. Da Albânia à Macedônia, de Bucareste a Constança (Romênia), do Danúbio a Belgrado e, finalmente, a Sarajevo. No caminho, ele encontra sua própria história, o passado dos Bálcãs, as mulheres que ele pode amar. Ele espera recuperar com essas imagens esquecidas a inocência do primeiro olhar...
A tribute to Swedish film, which was made to celebrate the 100th anniversary of film in 1995 and consists of about a hundred clips from Swedish film history with many of its stars.
Broder Edvin
Kristin Lavransdatter is a 1995 Norwegian film directed by Liv Ullman, featuring Elisabeth Matheson, Bjørn Skagestad, Jørgen Langhelle, Lena Endre and Sverre Anker Ousdal, based on Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset. It was the Norwegian entry to the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1996.
August Lind
Ernest, Ted and August fulfill their friend Carl's dying wish and take him to Heidelberg, where they all first met 45 years ago, to see his old girlfriend one last time. However, the locals won't talk about her, due to a WW2 secret.
John
Four generations of the same family meet in a summer cottage over a weekend.
DG
Two Swedish business men are kidnapped in Rome by the Mob, and moved to Sicily. Carl Hamilton is sent to Sicily on direct order from the Swedish Government. He is sent to negotiate for their release. Hamiltons partner and best friend, Lundwall, is murdered by the Mob. Hamilton is dragged into a bitter and brutal vendetta between himself and the Mob-leader Don Tommaso.
Hazainat
The film depicts the incredible metamorphosis of a clerk whose sense of identity and pride are reawakened by an unexpected development.
The career of a classical ballet dancer is short and often riddled with injuries, and it takes a special kind of artist to submit to the discipline and strenuous regimen needed to dance with a world-class company. Follows the young and gifted Katja Björner through years of intensive training at the Royal Swedish Ballet School as she develops into an international ballet star.
Blind Man
Hindu god Indra has a daughter Agnes, who visits Earth to find out if people have legitimate complaints. She marries a lawyer from Bergen and has children, but is disillusioned by marriage and embarks on a journey among men.
Samuel Rosenbaum
At a Swedish company with international contacts, a bestial murder is committed. The murdered person has been employed by the company - everything indicates that the chairman of the board is guilty.
Samuel Rosenbaum
One of the students in a school, a young girl, is found strangled. Everything indicates that the gym teacher is guilty.
A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 films.
Samuel Rosenbaum
At a porn club in Stockholm, a brutal murder is committed - and one of the striptease dancers takes the blame.
Sofie's Father
Liv Ulmann's directorial debut also had her co-authoring the screenplay (with poet Peter Poulsen) as based on a Henri Nathansen's 1932 novel about an affluent late 19th century Jewish merchant family in Copenhagen. Ulmann focuses on strong-willed daughter Sofie's progress through life: a love affair with a gentile painter, an arranged marriage , childbirth and ever more fateful challenges.
Geiser
Adapted from the Max Frisch novel "Der Mensch erscheint im Holozän". It tells the story of an old man, isolated from the outside world in a little mountain village in Ticino, Switzerland, who fights against oblivion. From books that he has there he cuts out texts and images about geology and geological history to fix and arrange them on the walls of his cottage. Frisch adds these articles to his novel to assemble human history with individual decay.
Critic
I bet anyone can get better at golf than you are in one week, a golfer says to her golfing businessman for a boyfriend in a quarrel. Unfortunately Stig-Helmer is standing nearby when the boyfriend accepts the bet, and he is chosen to be the competitor. Stig-Helmer has never played the game before, but his Norwegian friend Ole promises to help him.
Sigvard Silver
In desperation brought on by near-starvation, Helge Roos kills his master's ox to feed his wife and baby daughter, setting off a devastating and unexpected chain of events.
Jorge Picabia
Celebrated Swedish opera star Karin Anderson is slated to appear in an internationally-telecast production of Tannhauser. Ms. Anderson balks at the notion of working with obscure Hungarian conductor Zoltan Szanto. The much-anticipated production may never get off the ground, thanks to labor-management difficulties, intramural jealousies, and clashing egos. Amidst all this chaos, the mismatched Anderson and Szanto fall in love.
Prof. Brokner
At the beginning of the 20th century, a junior resident takes an interest in a newly-arrived patient, a young Italian woman who has mysteriously developed schizophrenia. To identify the causes of her condition, he employs psychoanalytic methods to dig into her sexual past, despite objections by the old-fashioned chief physician.
Gonzalo
An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and the son of his chief enemy fall in love in this uniquely structured retelling of the 'The Tempest'.
Rabbinen
Swedish account of Raoul Wallenberg, the man responsible for the largest rescue of Jews during World War II.
Himself
Documentary on production designer Anna Asp's work with director Andrey Tarkovsky, during the shooting of his film Offret (The Sacrifice).
Attorney Belmonte
After the death of his mother a man returns to his hometown Palermo in southern Italy in order to get hold of the legacy. Once there he is forced to participate in various crimes commited by the mafia.
Episkop
Based on the famous novel of Milos Crnjanski, the story follows Serbian migrations from the Austro-Hungarian Empire during the XVIII century.
Narrator
This documentary offers a rare glimpse of the legendary Soviet filmmaker, Andrei Tarkosvky, at work. Tarkovsky made only seven films in his brief, but brilliant, career; Michal Leszczylowski's respectful movie chronicles him at work on his last film, The Sacrifice. Offering insight into Tarkovsky's working methods and transcendental aesthetics, the movie is a compelling account of the difficulties of film production. In the case of an uncompromising and visionary filmmaker like Tarkovsky, the practical problems of filmmaking are only magnified, as cast and crew struggle to realize the ambitious concepts in Tarkovsky's mind.
Dr. Bettelheim
A man's story parallels Hitler's rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in the care of Dr. Emil Bettleheim. Bettleheim discovers that Schneider possesses powers of empathy and of clairvoyance, such that could aid suicidal patients. After the war, with one friend as his manager and another as his lover, Schneider changes his name to Eric Jan Hanussen and goes to Berlin, as a hypnotist and clairvoyant performing in halls and theaters. He always speaks the truth, which brings him to the attention of powerful Nazis. He predicts their rise (good propaganda for them) and their violence (not so good). He's in pain and at risk. What is Hanussen's future?
Zupanev
This somber drama chronicles the writings of Paltiel Kossover (Michel Jonasz), a Rumanian Jew who was incarcerated in a Stalinist prison. Zupanev (Erland Josephson) is a sympathetic court registrar who smuggles the documents and later presents them to the poet's son Grisha (Vincent David).
Self
A documentary about the life of Andrei Tarkovsky in exile in Western Europe including Italy, Sweden, Germany and France until his sad demise to a fatal cancer.
The Ambassador
Em meados dos anos 60, em Praga, Tomas conhece a inocente Tereza e os dois se apaixonam. Porém, o médico também mantém relações com Sabina, uma mulher refinada. Mas a vida deste triângulo amoroso será afetada pelos acontecimentos deste período.
Himself
A documentary on Sven Nykvist lighting the movie-set during the shooting of Andrei Tarkovsky's film "The Sacrifice."
Clarence Hemingway
Larger-than-life American author Ernest Hemingway is the subject of this biopic that chronicles the famous writer's life from childhood to his suicide at age 61. Haunted by various inner demons -- including his father's suicide -- Hemingway serves in World War I, marries four times, and finds creative support from Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein and other expatriates living in 1920s Paris.
Swanson
An experiment of psychological effects under stressful conditions in a shelter. When fifteen strangers are put into a nuclear shelter to see how long they can survive without interaction with the outside, things work out fine.
Robert's Father
Physician Robert Briand (Robin Renucci) runs a leper colony in the 15th century that takes in new residents who suffer from the ravages of syphilis. When the beautiful Marie-Blanche (Isabelle Pasco) is brought to the grim, prison-like facility, Robert finds she displays no apparent signs of disease. He risks everything when he falls in love with the woman and makes plans to run away with her. Erland Josephson plays Robert's father, with Piera Degli Esposti as Robert's faithful assistant Terese.
Serra
Alexander
No dia de seu aniversário, enquanto comemora com sua família, Alexander e todos recebem através da televisão uma notícia inesperada: a Terceira Guerra Mundial, e consequentemente um holocausto nuclear haviam começado. Em desespero, mesmo tendo antes revelado não sentir mais fé em Deus, Alexander implora aos céus que aquilo não aconteça, e oferece tudo o que tem para que um milagre afaste o horror da guerra.
Monsignor Francesco Ghezzi
A newly-elected Pope Leo XIV finds himself accidentally locked out of the Vatican. Unknown to the outside world, he winds up in an impoverished Italian village, where his adventures ultimately teach the Pope and his new friends some important lessons about friendship and self-esteem. Written by Chris DeSantis
David Sprengel
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.
Oscar
A family of aerialists decides to go after the $250,000 prize being offered to any group that can execute a complicated trapeze maneuver. However, personal dramas and financial difficulties soon threaten to overtake the flyers' pursuit of the elusive quadruple somersault. The film received a Robert Award as the best Danish film of 1985.
In Italy, set in the early 1930s, a missing Swedish millionaire (Erland Josephson) is the target of a journalist (Rüdiger Vogler) who sets out to discover exactly what happened to the man and whether or not he is still alive. The biggest lead he has is the millionaire's attractive mistress (Brigitte Fossey), and the story takes off from there.
Gabriel Berggren
The director of one of Finland's largest company, United Metal, discovers the company's Chairman dead in the office. A chain of bribes unravels.
Daniel Brenner
A Swedish writer is visiting Morocco. At his hotel, he stays next door to an Italian couple. He becomes obsessed with the woman, spying and following her. One night she knocks on his door.
Self
The Making of Fanny and Alexander is a fascinating look at the creation of a masterpiece. Directed by Ingmar Bergman himself, this feature-length documentary chronicles the methods of one of cinema’s true luminaries as he labors to realize his crowning production.
Anton Goldberg
In this melodrama about love in wartime, Angela (Ida-Lotta Backman) is a Finnish nurse in Lapland who begins a torrid affair with Thomas Schmidt (Mathieu Carriere), a wounded German army captain. Their love for each other is verboten in Finland, where the Germans occupy northern Lapland until the end of the war. Finland had formed a brief alliance with Germany to fight an invading Russia in the winter of 1939, but when the Russians won that battle and took more than 16,000 square miles of land away from Finland, it was too late to successfully rout the Germans from Finnish soil. So for the entire war, the Finns were fighting Germany on their own national territory -- which makes the love affair between a Finnish nurse and German soldier a very complex issue. While Angela receives different reactions from her friends, acquaintances, and relatives, she continues on with her love for the German, against odds which are greater as time goes by.
Henrik Vogler (older)
Rational, exacting, and self-controlled theater director, Henrik Vogler, often stays after rehearsal to think and plan. On this day, Anna comes back, ostensibly looking for a bracelet. She is the lead in his new production of Strindberg's A Dream Play. She talks of her hatred for her mother, now dead, an alcoholic actress, who was Vogler's star and lover.
Self
A poetic and intimate scene-by-scene look into the filming of Tarkovsky's 'Nostalghia'.
The Professor
Franca and her husband Antonio decide to sell a yellow rug which was a gift of Franca's stepfather. One day, while Antonio is out, a strange man rings saying he wishes to buy the rug. But the man's visit becames a nightmare. He kidnaps Franca and says he killed his wife on that same yellow rug. Then Franca kills the man. But is that really all that has happened? And who was that strange man?
Domenico
Andrei está escrevendo um livro sobre um compositor russo do século XVIII, refazendo seu caminho pela Europa para entender sua vida. Ao chegar a uma pequena e arcaica cidade italiana Andrei conhece Domenico, um homem que trancou a família em casa por 7 anos para protegê-los dos males do mundo; o homem é considerado louco por todos, mas Andrei vê algum sentido no que ele fez e cria uma certa obsessão por entendê-lo.
Max
This film of a glitzy showbiz world by director Peter Keglevic in his first feature-length effort recounts the saga of a married torch singer whose numerous lovers are meant to steady her nerves and a saxophone player who loves her but cannot get his own act together. Singing and cinematography are pluses.
Eva is a widow bored with life, with her job as an architect, with her younger lover, and with her two teenage offspring. She is eventually assigned the job of redesigning the cells of a new prison, but even when her enthusiasm returns a little with the assignment, she is discouraged by the pseudo-intellectual stance of the prison warden and a non-communicative visit to her father. In an act of desperation, she steals some money and a gun - and fully intends to use them both.
Isak Jacobi
Alexander tem apenas dez anos e sua irmã, Fanny, seis, quando seu pai morre de um mal súbito. Alexander começa a ver o fantasma do pai frequentemente até que sua mãe se casa com um Pastor de hábitos muito severos e vai morar em sua casa. Lá as duas crianças sofrerão muito, sendo tratadas como prisioneiras. [Esta é a versão original de Fanny & Alexander, que foi concebido como uma série de TV e depois reduzido para o formato de filme]
Dragutin Kenigsmark
An Albanian pilgrim, infected with an unknown disease, is on his way back to Belgrade from the Middle East. When doctors realize that it is a disease that has been considered eradicated, it is already too late - variola vera begins to languish and the hospital is quarantined.
Martin Jordan
Marilyn Jordan, é uma americana que vive em Estocolmo com seu marido sueco e família. Reprimida e insatisfeita com seu casamento, seu comportamento por vezes chega a ser bizarro, talvez até mesmo louco. Devido a uma confusão no aeroporto, se desencontra de seu marido e acaba perdendo seu vôo. Em meio a tudo isso, acaba se envolvendo com um grupo de imigrantes iuguslavos que celebram o Ano Novo. Montenegro, o carismático e jovem zelador do zoológico, se torna amante de Marilyn. Porém, para ela nada dura para sempre e acaba retornando para seu marido. Mas, após saborear o prazer da liberdade, será que ela vai ficar para sempre?
A Yugoslavian man meets a woman in Paris, where he has come to do some research, and their mutual attraction leads to a liaison and shared adventures, not many good.
Rudolf
Tomislav is a former Partizan who continues his struggle after the war as a dedicated member of Tito's secret police. He meets and falls in love with a ballet dancer from a bourgeois family. His love affair with the class enemy and his slow adaptation to the post-war realities could seal his doom.
Documentary of the Swedish actor/director Victor Sjöström and his work - from Terje Vigen (1917) to Smultronstället (1957) Director Ingmar Bergman is interviewed about his memories of and experiences of Sjöström.
Diktaren
"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.
Producer
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.
Writer
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.
Director
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.
Karl Henrik Eller
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.
Nicky
A brother, Earland Josephson, returns to his family home to visit his sister in the Italian countryside. He brings with him his young male lover. In the house with the sister are two women, one of whom, Mariangela Melato, takes care of the farm. The two women are friends and lovers since childhood and one senses that Melato's relationship is shadowed by the relationship she had with her mother shown through wonderful flashbacks. The brother also has wonderful memories of his and his sister's childhood in that same house with their father who was a magician. Following a night out at a lovely restaurant in the woods, other memories of the past are aroused in the Brother. The next day they all plan to drive to Venice where his sister sang opera in her youth for a holiday. Fate intervenes.
Using original footage and interviews, family photos, and excepts from many of the actress's screen and stage performances, the film explores sources of Liv Ullman's creativity, the influence of her Norwegian heritage, her relationship with Ingmar Bergman, her views on being a woman and mother in contemporary society, and the writing of her autobiography,
Josef
Após ter sido uma mãe ausente por anos, Charlotte (Ingrid Bergman), uma renomada pianista, vai até a casa de sua filha Eva (Liv Ullmann) para lhe fazer uma visita. Ela se surpreende ao encontrar sua outra filha, Helena (Lena Nyman), que tem problemas mentais. Eva tirou Helena da instituição que Charlotte a havia internado para cuidar dela em casa. A tensão entre mãe e filha começa a crescer devagar até elas colocarem tudo em panos limpos, dizendo tudo que sempre gostariam de dizer.
Writer
An actress is interviewed in front of a studio audience by a "TV personality".
Director
An actress is interviewed in front of a studio audience by a "TV personality".
Writer
After years of ignoring the shy cousin whom she and her peers taunted mercilessly as a child, a middle-aged woman (Ingrid Thulin) wrenches the poor man (Erland Josephson) out of his self-chosen solitude to accompany her on a trip. Despite developments which deepen their knowledge of one another, the communication between them does not portend long-lasting intimacy.
Uncle Dan
After years of ignoring the shy cousin whom she and her peers taunted mercilessly as a child, a middle-aged woman (Ingrid Thulin) wrenches the poor man (Erland Josephson) out of his self-chosen solitude to accompany her on a trip. Despite developments which deepen their knowledge of one another, the communication between them does not portend long-lasting intimacy.
Director
After years of ignoring the shy cousin whom she and her peers taunted mercilessly as a child, a middle-aged woman (Ingrid Thulin) wrenches the poor man (Erland Josephson) out of his self-chosen solitude to accompany her on a trip. Despite developments which deepen their knowledge of one another, the communication between them does not portend long-lasting intimacy.
Self
On-set documentary of the making of Ingmar Bergman's 1977 film Autumn Sonata starring Ingrid Bergman and Liv Ullman, examining every aspect of the production. Unusual for this kind of documentary, there is no post-production commentary or interviews.
Judge Cancedda
During a wave of political violence in Italy, a policeman who's already survived an assassination is assigned to act as a bodyguard to a morally upright judge. He feels increasingly fearful as the links of the upper echelons of police and government to the violence become clear.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The life and ideas of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. A love triangle unfolds as Nietzsche and his best friend decides to live with a Jewish woman. According to Nietzsche's philosophy, that is beyond all morality. Depicting Nietzsche's opium addiction and madness meritorious.
Doncker
This co-production between Norway and Sweden is the first film that Anja Breien has made since Wives. She has adapted a novel by Hjalmar Soderberg. who also wrote 'Gertrud' from which Carl Dreyer's last film was made, and Doctor Glas' (made into a film by Mai Zetterhng) Games of Love and Loneliness, concerns the manners and mores of Scandinavian society between the years 1897 and 1912. A young journalist, Arvid, falls in love with a girl but won't commit himself to marrying her. She marries an older and richer man and he's pushed into marrying the girl he's been sleeping with. He meets his first love again, and she leaves her husband to have an affair with him, but he still cannot bring himself to leave his wife. Although Anja Breien has changed the character of the girl to make her less of a femme fatale and more of an emancipated woman, the film's central concern is the young man who cannot make up his mind what to do with his life.
Dr. Tomas Jacobi
A psiquiatra Jenny Isaksson tem o casamento e a saúde mental abalados por visões de uma mulher idosa. Para tentar fugir das alucinações, ela começa um caso com o médico Tomas. Ainda atormentada, porém, a mulher entra em uma jornada de autoconhecimento enquanto sua sanidade deteriora.
Man in Audience (uncredited)
Neste filme mágico, Bergman filma a ópera "A Flauta Mágica" de Mozart em Estocolmo, no belo teatro de Drottningholm do século XVIII numa conjugação perfeita entre drama, música e cinema. O olhar de Bergman transforma "A Flauta Mágica" num espetáculo completo com uma simbologia sutil mas poderosa, tornando a ópera de Mozart, se é que isso é possível, numa obra ainda mais bela.
Teacher
In a fictional future totalitarian society ruled as a one-party state. A teacher commits the crime to teach their students to think independently and is therefore being stalked. The fictional Monismania also appeared in Astrid Lindgren's saga about the witch Pomperipossa in the Monismanian 1976.
Johan
Cenas de um Casamento é o retrato de dez anos conturbados da vida de um casal. No aniversário de dez anos juntos eles acreditam que tem o relacionamento perfeito, mas as rotinas do dia-a-dia e suas emoções começam a criar complicações.
A short documentary about the work of Swedish cinematographer and Ingmar Bergman collaborator, Sven Nykvist,, emphasizing his style of lighting and sense of humanity through interviews and film clips from key Bergman and Nykvist productions.
David
Em uma casa no campo uma mulher está bastante enferma e recebe cuidados de suas duas irmãs e de uma empregada da família, que precocemente perdeu sua filha e por isso extravaza seu amor de mãe dando o maior carinho possível para aquela moça tão debilitada. Dentro deste contexto lembranças, frustrações e imaginações em um misto de amor e ódio surgem no interior de cada pessoa.
Elis, Anna's lover
A Swedish couple are trapped in their marriage and way of life. Locked up in their bourgeois inferno.
Elis Vergerus
Andreas, um homem lutando contra o recente fim de seu casamento e seu próprio isolamento emocional, faz amizade com um casal também em meio a uma turbulência psicológica. Por sua vez, ele conhece Anna, que está de luto pelas recentes mortes de seu marido e filho. Ela parece zelosa em sua fé e firme em sua busca pela verdade, mas gradualmente suas ilusões vêm à tona. Andreas e Anna perseguem um caso de amor, mas ele não consegue superar seus sentimentos de profunda humilhação e permanece desconectado. Enquanto isso, a comunidade da ilha é vitimada por uma pessoa desconhecida cometendo atos de crueldade animal.
A girl of 14 is embarrassing her foster parents. She exposes herself to a homeless and police. It turns out that the girl has had sex with various men in exchange for a little kindness and chocolate. At fornication trial she has to face the city's municipal chief, who also has abused the girl.
Carl, Mann von Liz
A theater company rehearses Aristophanes play "Lysistrata" in which the Athenian women revolt to force the men to suspend the war and make peace. The three leading female actresses, Liz, Marianne and Gunilla, all live in humiliating circumstances to their men.
Baron von Merkens
Um pintor e sua esposa vão morar em uma ilha afastada de tudo e conhecem um misterioso grupo de pessoas que passam a trazer angústias ainda maiores à vida do casal, que já estava atormentado pelos pesadelos do pintor e por conflitos psicológicos. Durante a hora do lobo, entre a meia-noite e a aurora, ele conta para sua esposa suas memórias mais dolorosas, e começa a questionar a própria lucidez.
Writer
Stimulantia is a 1967 Swedish anthology film comprising eight episodes by eight different directors including Ingmar Bergman, Jörn Donner, Gustaf Molander and Vilgot Sjöman and starring among others Ingrid Bergman, Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Björnstrand, Lars Ekborg and Inga Landgré.
Screenplay
O pretensioso crítico Cornelius está a escrever uma biografia sobre um violoncelista famoso e para fazer essa pesquisa, ele fica na casa do violoncelista por alguns dias. Ele não consegue uma entrevista com o homem, mas falando com todas as mulheres que moram com ele, aprende muito sobre a vida privada do músico. Cornelius então decide usar essa informação e tenta chantagear o violoncelista para que faça uma composição que ele, Cornelius, escreveu.
Writer
In a magnificent villa a 25-year-old son of Count lives with his family. He falls in love with an elementary school teacher. So does even his father the Count.
Writer
A small picturesque town at the turn of the century. The conservative views of the townspeople are shaken when they find out that the school teacher Franzén published his own poetry anonymously many years ago. At the same time he acknowledges his love affair with a waitress at the city hotel, Fanny. What is most upsetting is the fact that Fanny has a grownup daughter, Anna, with no known father. Could their poet teacher be the father although he and Fanny are not married?
Consul Egerman
When 'Vogler's Magnetic Health Theater' comes to town, there's bound to be a spectacle. Reading reports of a variety of supernatural disturbances at Vogler's prior performances abroad, the leading townspeople (including the police chief and medical examiner) request that their troupe provide them a sample of their act, before allowing them public audiences. The scientific-minded disbelievers try to expose them as charlatans, but Vogler and his crew prove too clever for them.
Anders Ellius
Three women in a maternity ward reveal their lives and intimate thoughts to each other.
Bergkvist
A day in the life of a theater ensemble. The acting students are struggling to get one foot ahead of the others and the regular cast is fighting for the good parts.
Writer
A day in the life of a theater ensemble. The acting students are struggling to get one foot ahead of the others and the regular cast is fighting for the good parts.
Bertil
After discovering that his wife has been killed in an accident, Stig looks back on their relationship, beginning with when he and Marta were starting out as violinists together in an orchestra overseen by conductor Sonderby.
Karl
Marine Bo Fredriksson is travelling home on a leave. He reminisce about an accident he caused as a 12-year old which killed a young girl, an event that has made him feel revulsion for death. Back home he meets Eva, a girl he fancies and they move together to Stockholm to start a life together.
Maggi meets David after having missed her train, and they spend the night together. Penniless, the young lovers break into a summer cottage. The owner, Håkansson, offers to rent it to them, but he has an ulterior motive. By living together, they have to face their pasts and deal with the meddling neighbors and authorities.
