Per Olov Enquist

Сидя поздним зимним вечером у окна, мальчик и его дед слушали, как поет небо. Наступил час рыси — час, когда человек достигает самого счастливого момента в своей жизни. Мальчик и дедушка верили, что в дне бывает двадцать пятый час, именно он и является самым радостным в жизни. Но реальность острыми когтями врывается в красивую сказку, и жизнь окрашивается в черный цвет. Единственное желание у мальчика с тех пор только одно — чтобы наступил час рыси. Но наступит он нежданно…

Making of-documentary about Ingmar Bergman's The Image Makers, featuring behind the scenes footage and an interview with its writer, Per Olov Enquist.

Per Olov Enquist's play about Selma Lagerlöf and Victor Sjöström after the shooting of The Phantom Carriage, one of Bergman's favorite films of all time, seemed tailor-made for the director. Director Victor Sjöström has been shooting Selma Lagerlöf's novel The Phantom Carriage. He has invited the author to Stockholm to show her a number of scenes from the film in the presence of the talented cinematographer Julius Jaenzon and the young actress Tora Teje. The meeting between Lagerlöf, an older woman and world-famous author, and a young and talented actress becomes the focal point of the drama.

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.

The actress Johanne Heiberg and author Hans Christian Andersen bump into each other one night and nothing will ever be the same.

The actress Johanne Heiberg and author Hans Christian Andersen bump into each other one night and nothing will ever be the same.

История непростой семейной жизни выдающегося норвежского писателя и его жены, бывшей актрисы, Марии, рассказанная на фоне политических событий конца 30-х — начала 50-х, когда Гамсун из властителя дум и гордости нации превратился в предателя и был подвергнут остракизму. Как известно, писатель симпатизировал нацистам во время войны, за что был привлечен к суду и осужден за измену родине.

The film is based on a true occurrence in Sweden in 1988. A Finnish couple murdered a young boy and his parents when they prevented the theft of the son's bicycle. The film tries to describe the relationship between the dominant Jari, who calls himself "Il Capitano", and his more mature "soldier" Minna, that develops into mutual dependence.

Конец 19-го века. Полная шведских эмигрантов лодка прибывает на датский остров Борнхольм. Среди них Лассе и его сын Пелле. Они находят приют на ферме, но к ним все равно относятся, как к чужакам. Несмотря на это, отец и сын не сдаются в своем стремлении к поиску лучшей жизни.

Latvian soldiers seek political asylum in Sweden after their country falls under Russian control at the end of World War II. They had been forced into military service by the Nazis to fight against the Russians. Fearing reprisals from the Russians for fighting against them, they struggle desperately to stay in Sweden. After a hunger strike, suicides, and political intervention by Sweden fails to keep them from their former enemy, they are ultimately given over to the Russian authorities. The men are sentenced to hard labor in prison camps and later released, and Latvians are plunged into repression by the aftermath of the bloody war. The cycle of political unrest was still apparent more than 50 years after the conflict.