Erland Josephson

Born: 1923-06-16

Erland Josephson (15 June 1923 – 25 February 2012) was a Swedish actor and author. He was best known by international audiences for his work in films directed by Ingmar Bergman, Andrei Tarkovsky and Theodoros Angelopoulos. Description above from the Wikipedia article Erland Josephson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia​.


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Nostalgia

as Domenico
Released: 1983-05-01

A Russian poet and his interpreter travel to Italy to research the life of an 18th-century composer.

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Fanny and Alexander

as Isak Jacobi
Released: 1982-12-17

As children in the loving Ekdahl family, Fanny and Alexander enjoy a happy life with their...

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being

as The Ambassador
Released: 1988-02-05

Successful surgeon Tomas leaves Prague for an operation, meets a young photographer named...

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The Sacrifice

as Alexander
Released: 1986-05-09

Alexander, a journalist, philosopher and retired actor, celebrates a birthday with friends and...

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The Passion of Anna

as Elis Vergerus
Released: 1969-11-10

Andreas, a man struggling with the recent demise of his marriage and his own emotional...

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Cries and Whispers

as David
Released: 1972-12-21

As Agnes slowly dies of cancer, her sisters are so deeply immersed in their own psychic pains...

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Autumn Sonata

as Josef
Released: 1978-10-08

After a seven-year absence, Charlotte Andergast travels to Sweden to reunite with her daughter...

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Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

as (archive footage)
Released: 2012-02-04

A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look,...

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The Magic Flute

as Man in Audience (uncredited)
Released: 1975-10-04

The Queen of the Night enlists a handsome prince named Tamino to rescue her beautiful kidnapped...

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Scenes from a Marriage

as Johan
Released: 1974-09-15

Johan and Marianne are married and seem to have it all. Their happiness, however, is a façade...

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Face to Face

as Dr. Tomas Jacobi
Released: 1976-04-05

Dr. Jenny Isaksson is a psychiatrist whose temporary position at a mental hospital offers only...

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Hour of the Wolf

as Baron von Merkens
Released: 1968-02-19

While vacationing on a remote German island with his pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional...

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Ulysses' Gaze

as Ivo Levy
Released: 1995-10-12

An exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions...

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Saraband

as Johan
Released: 2003-12-01

In this sequel to Scenes from a Marriage (1973), we revisit the characters of Johan and...

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Faithless

as Bergman
Released: 2000-09-15

Scripted by Ingmar Bergman, this very personal film is about a destructive affair which wrecks...

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The Magician

as Consul Egerman
Released: 1958-12-26

When 'Vogler's Magnetic Health Theater' comes to town, there's bound to be a spectacle. Reading...

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Brink of Life

as Anders Ellius
Released: 1958-03-31

Three women in a maternity ward reveal their lives and intimate thoughts to each other.

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Prospero's Books

as Gonzalo
Released: 1991-08-30

An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter...

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Saving Grace

as Monsignor Francesco Ghezzi
Released: 1986-05-02

A newly-elected Pope Leo XIV finds himself accidentally locked out of the Vatican. Unknown to...

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The Girls

as Carl, Mann von Liz
Released: 1968-09-16

A theater company rehearses Aristophanes play "Lysistrata" in which the Athenian women revolt to...

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Dreamplay

as Blind Man
Released: 1994-08-05

Hindu god Indra has a daughter Agnes, who visits Earth to find out if people have legitimate...

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The Ox

as Sigvard Silver
Released: 1991-11-22

In desperation brought on by near-starvation, Helge Roos kills his master's ox to feed his wife...

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To Joy

as Bertil
Released: 1950-02-20

After discovering that his wife has been killed in an accident, Stig looks back on their...

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Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg

as Rabbinen
Released: 1990-10-05

Swedish account of Raoul Wallenberg, the man responsible for the largest rescue of Jews during...

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I Am Afraid

as Judge Cancedda
Released: 1977-10-06

During a wave of political violence in Italy, a policeman who's already survived an...

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Montenegro

as Martin Jordan
Released: 1981-10-09

Marilyn Jordan, an American, lives in Stockholm with her Swedish husband and family. Her...

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It Rains on Our Love

as uncredited
Released: 1946-11-09

Maggi meets David after having missed her train, and they spend the night together. Penniless,...

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Minns ni?

as uncredited
Released: 1993-10-24

A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about...

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Beyond Good and Evil

as Friedrich Nietzsche
Released: 1977-10-05

The life and ideas of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. A love triangle unfolds as...

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Control

as Swanson
Released: 1987-02-14

An experiment of psychological effects under stressful conditions in a shelter. When fifteen...

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To Forget Venice

as Nicky
Released: 1979-04-14

Nicky and Marta, brother and sister, reunite in their childhood home in the Venetian...

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The Making of 'Autumn Sonata'

as Self
Released: 1978-10-18

On-set documentary of the making of Ingmar Bergman's 1977 film Autumn Sonata starring Ingrid...

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Vendetta

as DG
Released: 1995-02-10

Two Swedish business men are kidnapped in Rome by the Mob, and moved to Sicily. Carl Hamilton is...

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Hanussen

as Dr. Bettelheim
Released: 1988-05-20

A man's story parallels Hitler's rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I,...

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The Accidental Golfer

as Critic
Released: 1991-12-25

I bet anyone can get better at golf than you are in one week, a golfer says to her golfing...

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You Love Only Once

as Rudolf
Released: 1981-02-14

Tomislav is a former Partizan who continues his struggle after the war as a dedicated member of...

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Bella Donna

as Max
Released: 1983-03-26

This film of a glitzy showbiz world by director Peter Keglevic in his first feature-length...

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Swedish and Underage

as uncredited
Released: 1969-09-07

A girl of 14 is embarrassing her foster parents. She exposes herself to a homeless and police....

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In the Presence of a Clown

as Osvald Vogler
Released: 1998-10-01

Inventor Carl Åkerblom is a rosy-cheeked 54 year-old admirer of Franz Schubert - and a patient...

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After the Rehearsal

as Henrik Vogler (older)
Released: 1984-06-21

Rational, exacting, and self-controlled theater director, Henrik Vogler, often stays after...

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On the Last Verse - A Small Film About Death

as Ernst Forsberg
Released: 1999-04-15

The documentary director KG Forsberg makes a film about his dying father.

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The Wicked

as Prof. Brokner
Released: 1991-10-07

At the beginning of the 20th century, a junior resident takes an interest in a newly-arrived...

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The Making of Fanny and Alexander

as Self
Released: 1984-09-16

The Making of Fanny and Alexander is a fascinating look at the creation of a masterpiece....

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Meeting Venus

as Jorge Picabia
Released: 1991-11-15

Celebrated Swedish opera star Karin Anderson is slated to appear in an internationally-telecast...

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The House of the Yellow Carpet

as The Professor
Released: 1983-09-09

Franca and her husband Antonio decide to sell a yellow rug which was a gift of Franca's...

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Rosenbaum - Bländverk

as Samuel Rosenbaum
Released: 1993-09-13

At a porn club in Stockholm, a brutal murder is committed - and one of the striptease dancers...

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Welcome to Verona

as Joseph
Released: 2006-04-07

In a sanatorium for people in their 60's Walter meets Virginia and falls in love. His boyish...

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Kristin Lavransdatter

as Broder Edvin
Released: 1995-08-25

Kristin Lavransdatter is a 1995 Norwegian film directed by Liv Ullman, featuring Elisabeth...

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Light Keeps Me Company

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 2000-08-26

Carl-Gustaf Nykvist's documentary about his father, Sven Nykvist. The film is based on Sven's...

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Now

as Jakob (old)
Released: 2003-01-27

A man and a woman meet in 1960. They marry because that's what you are supposed to do. But...

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Variola Vera

as Dragutin Kenigsmark
Released: 1982-07-09

An Albanian pilgrim, infected with an unknown disease, is on his way back to Belgrade from the...

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The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway

as Clarence Hemingway
Released: 1988-01-01

Larger-than-life American author Ernest Hemingway is the subject of this biopic that chronicles...

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The Vocation

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 1974-04-02

Sven Nykvist, best known as Ingmar Bergman cinematographer, made this film as a tribute to his...

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Bergman Island

as Self - Actor
Released: 2006-12-06

The desolate and mysterious island of Fårö, Sweden, Baltic Sea, 2004. Swedish master filmmaker...

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Stjärnbilder

as Self
Released: 1995-09-10

A tribute to Swedish film, which was made to celebrate the 100th anniversary of film in 1995 and...

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A Dream Play

as Diktaren
Released: 1980-11-30

"A Dream Play" - Agnes, a daughter of the Vedic god Indra, descends to Earth to bear witness to...

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Le Testament d'un poète juif assassiné

as Zupanev
Released: 1988-02-26

This somber drama chronicles the writings of Paltiel Kossover (Michel Jonasz), a Rumanian Jew...

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The Lie

as Elis, Anna's lover
Released: 1970-10-28

A Swedish couple are trapped in their marriage and way of life. Locked up in their bourgeois...

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Season of Peace in Paris

as uncredited
Released: 1981-07-01

A Yugoslavian man meets a woman in Paris, where he has come to do some research, and their...

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Day and Night

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 2004-08-06

DAY AND NIGHT is about people that love and want to be loved. It's the story of a father, his...

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The Dark Sun

as Attorney Belmonte
Released: 1990-02-04

After the death of his mother a man returns to his hometown Palermo in southern Italy in order...

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The Sunset Boys

as August Lind
Released: 1995-08-04

Ernest, Ted and August fulfill their friend Carl's dying wish and take him to Heidelberg, where...

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Flying Devils

as Oscar
Released: 1985-08-16

A family of aerialists decides to go after the $250,000 prize being offered to any group that...

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Dirty Story

as Gabriel Berggren
Released: 1984-12-21

The director of one of Finland's largest company, United Metal, discovers the company's Chairman...

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The Malady of Love

as Robert's Father
Released: 1986-12-03

Physician Robert Briand (Robin Renucci) runs a leper colony in the 15th century that takes in...

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The Tattooed Widow

as Per Gunnarsson
Released: 1998-03-10

Ester is the perfect grandmother everyone expects her to be. But she unexpectedly inherits an...

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Monismanien 1995

as Teacher
Released: 1975-05-05

In a fictional future totalitarian society ruled as a one-party state. A teacher commits the...

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Eva

as Karl
Released: 1948-12-26

Marine Bo Fredriksson is travelling home on a leave. He reminisce about an accident he caused as...

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The Magnetist’s Fifth Winter

as Mr. Hofverberg
Released: 1999-03-04

A mysterious stranger, Meisner, arrives in a northern Swedish town in 1820, calling himself a...

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Rosenbaum - Det sista vittnet

as Samuel Rosenbaum
Released: 1993-11-05

At a Swedish company with international contacts, a bestial murder is committed. The murdered...

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Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky

as Narrator
Released: 1988-09-23

This documentary offers a rare glimpse of the legendary Soviet filmmaker, Andrei Tarkosvky, at...

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Andrey Tarkovsky in Nostalghia

as Self
Released: 1984-05-05

A poetic and intimate scene-by-scene look into the filming of Tarkovsky's 'Nostalghia'.

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Hr. Boe & Co.’s Anxiety

as uncredited
Released: 2001-01-01

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Amorosa

as David Sprengel
Released: 1986-03-14

About the Swedish author Agnes Von Krusenstjerna during the period of her marriage to David...

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Rosenbaum - Målbrott

as Samuel Rosenbaum
Released: 1993-10-29

One of the students in a school, a young girl, is found strangled. Everything indicates that the...

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Games of Love and Loneliness

as Doncker
Released: 1977-08-29

This co-production between Norway and Sweden is the first film that Anja Breien has made since...

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Migrations

as Episkop
Released: 1989-05-21

Based on the famous novel of Milos Crnjanski, the story follows Serbian migrations from the...

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Sofie

as Sofie's Father
Released: 1992-09-25

Liv Ulmann's directorial debut also had her co-authoring the screenplay (with poet Peter...

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Spelar du ikväll?

as uncredited
Released: 2006-09-09

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The Ghost Sonata

as Bengtsson
Released: 2007-12-25

The Ghost Sonata relates the adventures of a young student, who idealizes the lives of the...

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Lighting

as Himself
Released: 1988-01-01

A documentary on Sven Nykvist lighting the movie-set during the shooting of Andrei Tarkovsky's...

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Marmalade Revolution

as Karl Henrik Eller
Released: 1980-02-11

A Professor comes home carrying a paper bag with food. Among the goods in the bag is apricot...

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Sceningång

as Bergkvist
Released: 1956-12-03

A day in the life of a theater ensemble. The acting students are struggling to get one foot...

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Holocene

as Geiser
Released: 1992-08-01

Adapted from the Max Frisch novel "Der Mensch erscheint im Holozän". It tells the story of an...

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Ingmar Bergman: Reflections on Life, Death, and Love

as uncredited
Released: 2000-03-13

Malou Von Sivers is the hostess of a popular Swedish talk show in which she quizzes famous...

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The Exile and Death of Andrei Tarkovsky

as Self
Released: 1988-02-14

A documentary about the life of Andrei Tarkovsky in exile in Western Europe including Italy,...

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Directed by Bergman (The Making of Saraband)

as Self
Released: 2003-12-03

A documentary about the production of Ingmar Bergman's TV film "Saraband."

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Som löven i Vallombrosa

as John
Released: 1995-04-16

Four generations of the same family meet in a summer cottage over a weekend.

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One on One

as Uncle Dan
Released: 1978-03-19

After years of ignoring the shy cousin whom she and her peers taunted mercilessly as a child, a...

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Dubbelsvindlarna

as uncredited
Released: 1982-01-01

Principal Bertilsson live a peaceful small-town life in Kalmar. No one knows that in his...

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Angela's War

as Anton Goldberg
Released: 1984-09-07

In this melodrama about love in wartime, Angela (Ida-Lotta Backman) is a Finnish nurse in...

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I Am Curious, Film

as Self
Released: 1995-10-28

The Scandinavian entry in the BFI's Century of Cinema series of documentaries

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Som man bäddar...

as uncredited
Released: 1957-05-31

Peter Kallander and Johannes Nord are childhood friends and close to each other's opposites....

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The Search for Sanity

as Self
Released: 2004-04-20

A short documentary about Hour of the Wolf.

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The Dancer

as uncredited
Released: 1994-09-09

The career of a classical ballet dancer is short and often riddled with injuries, and it takes a...

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Building Images: Anna Asp on Scenography

as Himself
Released: 1990-09-09

Documentary on production designer Anna Asp's work with director Andrey Tarkovsky, during the...

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Un caso d'incoscienza

as uncredited
Released: 1985-07-10

In Italy, set in the early 1930s, a missing Swedish millionaire (Erland Josephson) is the target...

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Bergmans Hushållerska

as Self
Released: 2009-01-01

Anita Haglöf was Ingmar Bergman's housekeeper for eight years, in his home at Karlaplan in...

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Fanny & Alexander: A Bergman Tapestry

as Self
Released: 2004-12-04

Short documentary featuring interviews from the cast and crew of "Fanny and Alexander." Featured...

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Men and Bergman

as uncredited
Released: 2008-07-14

Ingmar Bergman himself has often stressed how important the actors are to his work, and that...

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Bakom jalusin

as Daniel Brenner
Released: 1984-09-26

A Swedish writer is visiting Morocco. At his hotel, he stays next door to an Italian couple. He...

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The Forbidden Fruit

as Hazainat
Released: 1994-10-28

The film depicts the incredible metamorphosis of a clerk whose sense of identity and pride are...

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I sällskap med en clown

as Self
Released: 1997-11-07

One hour making-of of Bergman's In The Presence of A Clown.

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Storstrejken 1909

as uncredited
Released: 1959-01-01

About the 1909 Swedish general strike

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Svensk Filmindustri: La grande aventure du cinéma Suédois

as Himself
Released: 2004-03-15

Rarely in the history of the cinema, a company films productions will have marked the history...

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Victor Sjöström - A Portrait

as uncredited
Released: 1981-01-01

Documentary of the Swedish actor/director Victor Sjöström and his work - from Terje Vigen (1917)...

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Från regnormarnas liv

as Johan Ludvig Heiberg
Released: 1998-02-04

The actress Johanne Heiberg and author Hans Christian Andersen bump into each other one night...

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Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky

as Self
Released: 2008-10-17

In honor of the twentieth anniversary of Andrei Tarkovsky's death, student filmmaker Dmitry...

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Fanny and Alexander

as Isak Jacobi
First aired: 1984-12-26

Through the eyes of ten-year-old Alexander, we witness the delights and conflicts of the Ekdahl...

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Scenes from a Marriage

as Johan
First aired: 1973-04-11

Johan and Marianne are married and seem to have it all. Their happiness, however, is a façade...

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Face to Face

as Dr. Tomas Jacobi
First aired: 1976-04-28

Dr. Jenny Isaksson is a psychiatrist married to another psychiatrist; both are successful in...

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Ingmar Bergman Complete

as Self - Actor
First aired: 2004-04-08

The desolate and mysterious island of Fårö, Sweden, Baltic Sea, 2004. Swedish master filmmaker...

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Rosenbaum

as Samuel Rosenbaum
First aired: 1993-10-23

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