Erland Josephson
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.
The Sacrifice
as AlexanderAlexander, a journalist, philosopher and retired actor, celebrates a birthday with friends and...
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
as The AmbassadorSuccessful surgeon Tomas leaves Prague for an operation, meets a young photographer named...
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Nostalgia
as DomenicoA Russian poet, Andrei and his interpreter, Eugenia travel to Italy to research the life of an...
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Cries and Whispers
as DavidAs Agnes slowly dies of cancer, her sisters are so immersed in their own psychic pains that they...
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Fanny and Alexander
as Isak JacobiAs children in the loving Ekdahl family, Fanny and Alexander enjoy a happy life with their...
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Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage)A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look,...
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Autumn Sonata
as JosefAfter a seven-year absence, Charlotte Andergast travels to Sweden to reunite with her daughter...
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Scenes from a Marriage
as JohanJohan and Marianne are married and seem to have it all. Their happiness, however, is a façade...
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Hour of the Wolf
as Baron von MerkensWhile vacationing on a remote German island with his pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional...
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Face to Face
as Dr. Tomas JacobiDr. Jenny Isaksson is a psychiatrist whose temporary position at a mental hospital offers only...
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Saraband
as JohanIn this sequel to Scenes from a Marriage (1973), we revisit the characters of Johan and...
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Ulysses' Gaze
as Ivo LevyAn exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions...
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Faithless
as BergmanScripted by Ingmar Bergman, this very personal film is about a destructive affair which wrecks...
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The Magician
as Consul EgermanWhen 'Vogler's Magnetic Health Theater' comes to town, there's bound to be a spectacle. Reading...
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The Accidental Golfer
as CriticI bet anyone can get better at golf than you are in one week, a golfer says to her golfing...
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Prospero's Books
as GonzaloAn exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter...
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Brink of Life
as Anders ElliusThree women in a maternity ward reveal their lives and intimate thoughts to each other.
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It Rains on Our Love
as Official at Pastor's Expedition (uncredited)Maggi meets David after having missed her train, and they spend the night together. Penniless,...
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The Passion of Anna
as Elis VergerusAndreas, a man struggling with the recent demise of his marriage and his own emotional...
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The Magic Flute
as Man in Audience (uncredited)The Queen of the Night enlists a handsome prince named Tamino to rescue her beautiful kidnapped...
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After the Rehearsal
as Henrik Vogler (older)Rational, exacting, and self-controlled theater director, Henrik Vogler, often stays after...
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To Joy
as Bertil (uncredited)After learning that his wife has been killed in an accident, a violinist looks back on their...
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Montenegro
as Martin JordanMarilyn Jordan, an American, lives in Stockholm with her Swedish husband and family. Her...
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The Girls
as Carl, Mann von LizA theater company rehearses Aristophanes play "Lysistrata" in which the Athenian women revolt to...
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Vendetta
as DGTwo Swedish business men are kidnapped in Rome by the Mob, and moved to Sicily. Carl Hamilton is...
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Hanussen
as Dr. BettelheimA man's story parallels Hitler's rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I,...
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In the Presence of a Clown
as Osvald VoglerInventor Carl Åkerblom is a rosy-cheeked 54 year-old admirer of Franz Schubert - and a patient...
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Dirty Story
as Gabriel BerggrenThe director of one of Finland's largest company, United Metal, discovers the company's Chairman...
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Bella Donna
as MaxThis film of a glitzy showbiz world by director Peter Keglevic in his first feature-length...
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I Am Afraid
as Judge CanceddaDuring a wave of political violence in Italy, a policeman who's already survived an...
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Variola Vera
as Dragutin KenigsmarkAn Albanian pilgrim, infected with an unknown disease, is on his way back to Belgrade from the...
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To Forget Venice
as NickyNicky and Marta, brother and sister, reunite in their childhood home in the Venetian...
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Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg
as RabbinenSwedish account of Raoul Wallenberg, the man responsible for the largest rescue of Jews during...
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Eva
as KarlMarine Bo Fredriksson is travelling home on a leave. He reminisce about an accident he caused as...
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Kristin Lavransdatter
as Broder EdvinThe daughter of a prominent medieval Norway landowner, Kristin grows up in total harmony with...
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Bergman Island
as Self - ActorThe desolate and mysterious island of Fårö, Sweden, Baltic Sea, 2004. Swedish master filmmaker...
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The Ox
as Sigvard SilverIn desperation brought on by near-starvation, Helge Roos kills his master's ox to feed his wife...
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Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
as NarratorThis documentary offers a rare glimpse of the legendary Soviet filmmaker, Andrei Tarkosvky, at...
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Games of Love and Loneliness
as DonckerThis co-production between Norway and Sweden is the first film that Anja Breien has made since...
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The Making of Fanny and Alexander
as SelfThe Making of Fanny and Alexander is a fascinating look at the creation of a masterpiece....
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Amorosa
as David SprengelAbout the Swedish author Agnes Von Krusenstjerna during the period of her marriage to David...
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Now
as Jakob (old)A man and a woman meet in 1960. They marry because that's what you are supposed to do. But...
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Saving Grace
as Monsignor Francesco GhezziA newly-elected Pope Leo XIV finds himself accidentally locked out of the Vatican. Unknown to...
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The Exile and Death of Andrei Tarkovsky
as SelfA documentary about the life of Andrei Tarkovsky in exile in Western Europe including Italy,...
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Meeting Venus
as Jorge PicabiaCelebrated Swedish opera star Karin Anderson is slated to appear in an internationally-telecast...
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Day and Night
as Narrator (voice)Thomas has decided to die, and spends his last day driving around to say good-bye to everybody,...
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Beyond Good and Evil
as Friedrich NietzscheThe German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and his Jewish companion Paul Ree meet a beautiful...
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Flying Devils
as OscarA family of aerialists decides to go after the $250,000 prize being offered to any group that...
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Swedish and Underage
as uncreditedA girl of 14 is embarrassing her foster parents. She exposes herself to a homeless and police....
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Control
as SwansonAn experiment of psychological effects under stressful conditions in a shelter. When fifteen...
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On the Last Verse - A Small Film About Death
as Ernst ForsbergThe documentary director KG Forsberg makes a film about his dying father.
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The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway
as Clarence HemingwayLarger-than-life American author Ernest Hemingway is the subject of this biopic that chronicles...
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Le Testament d'un poète juif assassiné
as ZupanevThis somber drama chronicles the writings of Paltiel Kossover (Michel Jonasz), a Rumanian Jew...
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Light Keeps Me Company
as Narrator (voice)Carl-Gustaf Nykvist's documentary about his father, Sven Nykvist. The film is based on Sven's...
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The Wicked
as Prof. BroknerAt the beginning of the 20th century, a junior resident takes an interest in a newly-arrived...
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Marmalade Revolution
as Karl Henrik EllerA Professor comes home carrying a paper bag with food. Among the goods in the bag is apricot...
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Minns ni?
as (archive footage)A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about...
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You Love Only Once
as RudolfTomislav is a former Partizan who continues his struggle after the war as a dedicated member of...
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Sofie
as Sofie's FatherLiv Ulmann's directorial debut also had her co-authoring the screenplay (with poet Peter...
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The Malady of Love
as Robert's FatherPhysician Robert Briand (Robin Renucci) runs a leper colony in the 15th century that takes in...
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The Sunset Boys
as August LindErnest, Ted and August fulfill their friend Carl's dying wish and take him to Heidelberg, where...
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The Tattooed Widow
as Per GunnarssonEster is the perfect grandmother everyone expects her to be. But she unexpectedly inherits an...
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Sceningång
as BergkvistA day in the life of a theater ensemble. The acting students are struggling to get one foot...
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The Magnetist’s Fifth Winter
as Mr. HofverbergA mysterious stranger, Meisner, arrives in a northern Swedish town in 1820, calling himself a...
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Monismanien 1995
as TeacherIn a fictional future totalitarian society ruled as a one-party state. A teacher commits the...
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I Am Curious, Film
as SelfThe Scandinavian entry in the BFI's Century of Cinema series of documentaries
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Season of Peace in Paris
as uncreditedA Yugoslavian man meets a woman in Paris, where he has come to do some research, and their...
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The House of the Yellow Carpet
as The ProfessorFranca and her husband Antonio decide to sell a yellow rug which was a gift of Franca's...
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Directed by Bergman (The Making of Saraband)
as SelfA documentary about the production of Ingmar Bergman's TV film "Saraband."
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Andrey Tarkovsky in Nostalghia
as SelfA poetic and intimate scene-by-scene look into the filming of Tarkovsky's 'Nostalghia'.
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Migrations
as EpiskopBased on the famous novel of Milos Crnjanski, the story follows Serbian migrations from the...
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The Lie
as Elis, Anna's loverA Swedish couple are trapped in their marriage and way of life. Locked up in their bourgeois...
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The Vocation
as Narrator (voice)Sven Nykvist, best known as Ingmar Bergman cinematographer, made this film as a tribute to his...
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The Ghost Sonata
as BengtssonThe Ghost Sonata relates the adventures of a young student, who idealizes the lives of the...
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The Dark Sun
as Attorney BelmonteAfter the death of his mother a man returns to his hometown Palermo in southern Italy in order...
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Bergmans Hushållerska
as SelfAnita Haglöf was Ingmar Bergman's housekeeper for eight years, in his home at Karlaplan in...
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Stjärnbilder
as (archive footage)A tribute to Swedish film, which was made to celebrate the 100th anniversary of film in 1995 and...
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Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky
as SelfIn honor of the twentieth anniversary of Andrei Tarkovsky's death, student filmmaker Dmitry...
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Rosenbaum - Bländverk
as Samuel RosenbaumAt a porn club in Stockholm, a brutal murder is committed - and one of the striptease dancers...
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Rosenbaum - Det sista vittnet
as Samuel RosenbaumAt a Swedish company with international contacts, a bestial murder is committed. The murdered...
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Som man bäddar...
as uncreditedPeter Kallander and Johannes Nord are childhood friends and close to each other's opposites....
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The Dancer
as uncreditedThe career of a classical ballet dancer is short and often riddled with injuries, and it takes a...
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A Dream Play
as Diktaren"A Dream Play" - Agnes, a daughter of the Vedic god Indra, descends to Earth to bear witness to...
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Bakom jalusin
as Daniel BrennerA 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 HazainatThe film depicts the incredible metamorphosis of a clerk whose sense of identity and pride are...
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Som löven i Vallombrosa
as JohnFour generations of the same family meet in a summer cottage over a weekend.
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Building Images: Anna Asp on Scenography
as SelfDocumentary on production designer Anna Asp's work with director Andrey Tarkovsky, during the...
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Rosenbaum - Målbrott
as Samuel RosenbaumOne of the students in a school, a young girl, is found strangled. Everything indicates that the...
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Dreamplay
as Blind ManHindu god Indra has a daughter Agnes, who visits Earth to find out if people have legitimate...
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Men and Bergman
as uncreditedIngmar Bergman himself has often stressed how important the actors are to his work, and that...
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The Making of Autumn Sonata
as SelfA behind the scenes documentary of Ingmar Bergman's Autumn Sonata (1978), detailing every aspect...
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Bergmans början: Ilska. Kärlek. Magknip.
as SelfDocumentary relating Ingmar Bergman's life, from his high school graduation up until he became...
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Angela's War
as Anton GoldbergIn this melodrama about love in wartime, Angela (Ida-Lotta Backman) is a Finnish nurse in...
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One on One
as Uncle DanAfter years of ignoring the shy cousin whom she and her peers taunted mercilessly as a child, a...
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Lighting
as SelfA documentary on Sven Nykvist lighting the movie-set during the shooting of Andrei Tarkovsky's...
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I sällskap med en clown
as SelfOne hour making-of of Bergman's In The Presence of A Clown.
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Holocene
as GeiserAdapted from the Max Frisch novel "Der Mensch erscheint im Holozän". It tells the story of an...
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Un caso d'incoscienza
as Erik SanderIn Italy, set in the early 1930s, a missing Swedish millionaire (Erland Josephson) is the target...
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Svensk Filmindustri: La grande aventure du cinéma Suédois
as HimselfRarely in the history of the cinema, a company films productions will have marked the history...
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Alf Sjöberg - mästaren
as uncreditedAlf Sjöberg (1903-1980) was Swedens greatest theater director of the 20th century and as a film...
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Victor Sjöström - A Portrait
as uncreditedDocumentary of the Swedish actor/director Victor Sjöström and his work - from Terje Vigen (1917)...
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Welcome to Verona
as JosephIn a sanatorium for people in their 60's Walter meets Virginia and falls in love. His boyish...
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Från regnormarnas liv
as Johan Ludvig HeibergThe actress Johanne Heiberg and author Hans Christian Andersen bump into each other one night...
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The Search for Sanity
as SelfA short documentary about Hour of the Wolf.
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Ingmar Bergman: Reflections on Life, Death, and Love
as uncreditedMalou Von Sivers is the hostess of a popular Swedish talk show in which she quizzes famous...
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Dubbelsvindlarna
as FörläggarenPrincipal Bertilsson live a peaceful small-town life in Kalmar. No one knows that in his...
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Dubbelsvindlarna
as uncreditedPrincipal Bertilsson live a peaceful small-town life in Kalmar. No one knows that in his...
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as uncreditedThe struggle between the LO and SAF and history of the labor movement
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Fanny & Alexander: A Bergman Tapestry
as SelfShort documentary featuring interviews from the cast and crew of "Fanny and Alexander." Featured...
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Fanny and Alexander
as Isak JacobiThrough 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 JohanJohan and Marianne are married and seem to have it all. Their happiness, however, is a façade...
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Ingmar Bergman Complete
as Self - ActorThe desolate and mysterious island of Fårö, Sweden, Baltic Sea, 2004. Swedish master filmmaker...
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Face to Face
as Dr. Tomas JacobiDr. Jenny Isaksson is a psychiatrist married to another psychiatrist; both are successful in...
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The Red Room
as Von DardelA young idealistic civil servant, Arvid Falk, leaves the drudgery of bureaucracy to become a...
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