Allan Edwall

  • Andrei Tarkovsky – Offret AKA The Sacrifice (1986) (HD)

    Andrei Tarkovsky1981-1990ArthouseDramaSweden
    Offret (1986) (HD)
    Offret (1986) (HD)

    News of nuclear war breaks during the festivities of drama critic Alexander’s birthday celebration. With the end of the world nigh, he turns to God and vows to renounce everything near and dear to him, if the war is averted. For Alexander, a philosopher troubled by man’s lack of spirituality, the prospect of certain extinction compels the ultimate sacrifice, and he enters into a Faustian bargain with God to save his loved ones from the fear which grips them.Read More »

  • Ingmar Bergman – Ett drömspel AKA A Dream Play (1963)

    Ingmar Bergman1961-1970DramaFantasySweden
    Ett drömspel (1963)
    Ett drömspel (1963)

    Agnes (Ingrid Thulin), daughter of the goddess Indra, has come to Earth to learn about what it means to be human. She meets many people in her journey. The figures that guide her most are Alfred (Uno Henning), an officer who becomes a doctor; Axel (Allan Edwall), the lawyer that she weds, and the poet (Olof Widgren) who may be the author of her dreams. What she observes and experiences makes her pity mankind.Read More »

  • Jan Troell – Uppehåll i myrlandet AKA Interlude in the Marshland (1965)

    Jan Troell1961-1970DramaShort FilmSweden

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    It’s the mid 1930s and brakeman Kvist had enough of working on the train, jumps off and starts to walk on the train tracks in the middle of nowhere in Lapland, Northern Sweden, hoping to find new work and adventures. Based on the novella by famous Swedish author Eyvind Johnson.Read More »

  • Staffan Roos – Limpan (1983)

    Drama1981-1990ComedyStaffan RoosSweden

    Charles Lindberg is an alcoholic, through and true. Always on the butt-end of the authorities he is only trying to make a decent living, and get some drink aswell…Read More »

  • Andrei Tarkovsky – Offret (1986)

    1981-1990Andrei TarkovskyArthouseDramaSwedenUSSR

    The Sacrifice, director Andrei Tarkovsky’s final film, begins in Bergmanesque fashion on a small, remote island, where friends and family gather for drama critic Alexander’s (Erland Josephson) birthday celebration.

    The revelry is interrupted by a radio announcement: World War III has begun, and Mankind is only hours away from utter annihilation. Each of the guests reacts differently to the news: the most dramatic response is Alexander’s, who promises God that he’ll give up everything he holds dear – including his beloved 6-year-old son – if war is averted. Allan Edwall, a local mailman with purported mystical powers, offers to intervene with the Creator on Josephson’s behalf.Read More »

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