When his wife dies, Lassefar takes his 12-year-old son Pelle from their home in Sweden to Denmark in search of a better life. Signing on as laborers at a large farm, father and son undergo numerous trials, including prejudice against immigrants and run-ins with those more powerful than themselves in both the physical and the social sense. Over the course of a year, young Pelle learns what it takes to survive in a harsh and unforgiving world.Read More »
Max von Sydow
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Bille August – Pelle erobreren AKA Pelle the Conqueror (1987)
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Jan Troell – Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd AKA The Flight of the Eagle (1982)
Drama1981-1990AdventureJan TroellSwedenThe Swedish 19th century engineer S. A. Andrée sets out to become the first man on the north pole. His idea is to launch a polar expedition using a hydrogen balloon, together with two friends. The balloon, “The Eagle”, takes off from Svalbard in 1897, but the three men are not heard of again.Read More »
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Ingmar Bergman – Såsom i en Spegel AKA Through a Glass Darkly (1961) (HD)
1961-1970ArthouseDramaIngmar BergmanSwedenSynopsis:
Recently released from a mental hospital; Karin rejoins her emotionally disconnected family and their island home, only to slip from reality as she begins to believe she is being visited by God.Read More »
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Ingmar Bergman – Det sjunde inseglet AKA The Seventh Seal (1957)
1951-1960DramaFantasyIngmar BergmanSwedenQuote:
In recent years, The Seventh Seal has often been honored more for its historical stature than its prevailing vitality. Those who attended its first international rollout and were changed forever by the experience are now second-guessing their attachment to a work so firmly ensconced in the realm of middlebrow clichés. Its Eisenhower look-alike Reaper, emblematic chess game, and Dance of Death have been endlessly emulated and parodied. Worse, The Seventh Seal quickly assumed, and has never quite shaken, the reputation, formerly attributed to castor oil, of something good for you—a true kiss of death. A movie that’s good for you is, by definition, not good for you.Read More » -
Various – Lumière et compagnie AKA Lumière and Company (1995)
1991-2000ExperimentalFranceSilentVarious40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière brothers.Read More »
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Ingmar Bergman – Rabies (1958)
1951-1960DramaIngmar BergmanSweden“This made-for-television film was based on Olle Hedberg’s script, which Ingmar Bergman had directed for the City Theatre of Hälsingborg as early as in 1945, and as a radio play the following year. Bergman, who called the play ‘an unpleasant piece’, used stage actors from Malmö. The scarce reviews of the film focused on Bergman’s faiblesse for the puppet theatre and the morality play, with the result that the characters functioned as types.”Read More »
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Dario Argento – Non ho sonno AKA Sleepless (2001)
2001-2010Dario ArgentoGialloItalyThrillerIMDB plot summary:
“Turin, 1983. Commissioner Moretti (Max von Sydow) tells to a boy: “I’ll catch the killer of your mother, I’ll catch him for all my life”. Same town, 17 years later. The murderer is back (he is not dead, as people thought for a long time), he attacks two girls and a long strip of blood begins. The boy now is an adult and when he meets the old Moretti they decide to close the case forever. To do it they must solve the puzzles of the killer, nicknamed The Dwarf: where the corpses are found, there is always a piece of paper with the form of an animal. And in a mysterious house is hidden a poem titled “The animal farm” but it’s not the Orwell novel… it’s a clue.”Read More » -
Ingmar Bergman – Såsom i en Spegel AKA Through a Glass Darkly (1961) (HD)
1961-1970ArthouseDramaIngmar BergmanSwedenA young woman, Karin, has recently returned to the family island after spending some time in a mental hospital. On the island with her is her lonely brother and kind, but increasingly desperate husband (Max von Sydow). They are joined by Karin’s father (Gunnar Björnstrand), who is a world-traveling author that is estranged to his children. The film depicts how Karin’s grip on reality slowly slips away and how the bonds between the family members are changing in light of this fact.Read More »
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Vilgot Sjöman – Älskarinnan AKA The Mistress (1962)
1961-1970ArthouseDramaSwedenVilgot SjömanA love triangle through the four seasons. A young woman, living in a relationship, falls in love with a married man. If someone had told her that she in a few months should be the man’s mistress, she would become aggrieved and indignant. She was certainly not a woman who would mess with married men.Read More »