Max von Sydow
Max von Sydow (born Carl Adolf von Sydow; April 10, 1929 – March 8, 2020) was a Swedish actor. He also held French citizenship since 2002. He starred in many films and had supporting roles in dozens more. He performed in films filmed in many languages, including Swedish, Norwegian, English, Italian, German, Danish, French and Spanish. Some of his most memorable film roles include knight Antonius Block in Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal (the first of his eleven films with Bergman and the film that includes the iconic shot of his career in the scene where he plays chess with Death), Jesus in George Stevens's The Greatest Story Ever Told, Father Merrin in Friedkin's The Exorcist, Joubert the assassin in Three Days of the Condor, and Ming the Merciless in the 1980 version of Flash Gordon. He was twice nominated for the Academy Award - Best Leading Actor for Pelle the Conqueror (1988) and Best Supporting Actor for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2011).
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The Exorcist
as Father Lankester MerrinWhen a charming 12-year-old girl takes on the characteristics and voices of others, doctors say...
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Shutter Island
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as Lor San TekkaThirty years after defeating the Galactic Empire, Han Solo and his allies face a new threat from...
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Awakenings
as Peter InghamDr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic...
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The Wolfman
as Passenger on Train (Director's Cut) (uncredited)Lawrence Talbot, an American man on a visit to Victorian London to make amends with his...
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Robin Hood
as Sir Walter LoxleyWhen soldier Robin happens upon the dying Robert of Loxley, he promises to return the man's...
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Flash Gordon
as The Emperor MingA football player and his mates travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the...
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Kursk
as Admiral Vladimir PetrenkoBarents Sea, August 12th, 2000. During a Russian naval exercise, and after suffering a serious...
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A horde of rampaging warriors massacre the parents of young Conan and enslave the young child...
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Never Say Never Again
as Ernst Stavro BlofeldJames Bond returns as the secret agent 007 to battle the evil organization SPECTRE. Bond must...
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What Dreams May Come
as The TrackerChris Neilson dies to find himself in a heaven more amazing than he could have ever dreamed of....
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The Greatest Story Ever Told
as JesusFrom his birth in Bethlehem to his death and eventual resurrection, the life of Jesus Christ is...
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Solomon Kane
as Josiah KaneA nomadic 16th century warrior, condemned to hell for his brutal past, seeks redemption by...
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Exorcist II: The Heretic
as Father Lankester MerrinBizarre nightmares plague Regan MacNeil four years after her possession and exorcism. Has the...
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Escape to Victory
as Major Karl von SteinerA group of POWs in a German prison camp during World War II play the German National Soccer Team...
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The Seventh Seal
as Antonius BlockWhen disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his...
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Wild Strawberries
as Henrik ÅkermanCrotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and...
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Needful Things
as Leland GauntA mysterious new shop opens in a small town which always seems to stock the deepest desires of...
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Citizen X
as Dr. Alexandr BukhanovskyBased on the true story of a Russian serial killer who, over many years, claimed victim to over...
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The Final Inquiry
as TiberiusIt is the year 33 of the Vulgar Era. The Emperor Tiberius is troubled by strange phenomena, an...
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Hawaii
as Abner HaleAbner Hale, a rigid and humorless New England missionary, marries the beautiful Jerusha Bromley...
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Intacto
as SamuelAn enigmatic tale of four people whose lives are intertwined by destiny are subject to the laws...
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Dreamscape
as Doctor Paul NovotnyA government funded project looks into using psychics to enter people's dreams, with some...
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Oscar and the Lady in Pink
as Le docteur DusseldorfListening in to a conversation between his doctor and parents, 10-year-old Oscar learns what...
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The Virgin Spring
as TöreDevout Christians Töre and Märeta send their only daughter, the virginal Karin, and their foster...
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The Passion of Anna
as Andreas WinkelmanAndreas, a man struggling with the recent demise of his marriage and his own emotional...
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Shame
as Jan RosenbergIn the midst of a civil war, former violinists Jan and Eva Rosenberg, who have a tempestuous...
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The Magician
as Albert Emanuel VoglerWhen 'Vogler's Magnetic Health Theater' comes to town, there's bound to be a spectacle. Reading...
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Hour of the Wolf
as Johan BorgWhile vacationing on a remote German island with his pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional...
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Three Days of the Condor
as G. JoubertA bookish CIA researcher finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until...
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Europa
as Narrator (voice)A young, idealist American gets a job as a train conductor for the Zentropa railway network in...
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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
as The RenterA year after his father's death, Oskar, a troubled young boy, discovers a mysterious key he...
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The Emigrants
as Karl OskarA Swedish peasant family, ravaged by poverty, privation and misery in mid-19th century Sweden,...
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Heidi
as Uncle AlpSwiss girl Adelheid 'Heidi' is orphaned young. Aunt Detie brings her to grandpa Alp and his...
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Strange Brew
as Brewmeister SmithSomething is rotten at the Elsinore Brewery. Bob and Doug McKenzie (as seen on SCTV) help the...
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Solomon
as DavideDavid, now an old man, is still king of Israel. Among his sons, the ambitious Adonijah and the...
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Hurricane
as Dr. DanielssonThe story of the desperate love affair between a young Samoan chief and a beautiful American...
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Branded
as Marketing GuruIn a dystopian future, where corporate brands have created a disillusioned population, one man's...
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March or Die
as François MarneauJust after World War I, Major Foster is incorporating new recruits into his French Foreign...
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Pelle the Conqueror
as Lasse Karlsson - FarmhandIn the late 19th century, two Swedish emigrants, Lasse Karlsson and his son Pelle, arrive on the...
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Hannah and Her Sisters
as FrederickBetween two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her...
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Winter Light
as Jonas PerssonA Swedish pastor fails a loving woman, a suicidal fisherman and God.
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
as PapinouThe true story of Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43,...
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Snow Falling on Cedars
as Nels GudmundssonIn the 1950s, a Japanese-American fisherman is suspected of killing his neighbour at sea. For...
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Emotional arithmetic
as Jakob BronskiAn emotionally scarred fifty-something female, a high-profile but haunted British novelist, and...
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Until the End of the World
as Henry FarberIn 1999, a woman's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash with two bank robbers,...
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Death Watch
as Gerald MortenhoeIn a future world where the disease has been finally defeated and everything can be sold, even...
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Ring of the Nibelungs
as EyvindIn this swords-and-sorcery tale, good-hearted blacksmith Eyvind hides away infant Prince...
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Illustrious Corpses
as Supreme Court PresidentA detective is assigned to investigate the mysterious murders of some Supreme Court judges.
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A Kiss Before Dying
as Thor CarlssonInfatuated with the idea of becoming rich, college student Jonathan Corliss secretly dates...
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The Letters
as Celeste van ExemMother Teresa, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, is considered one of the greatest...
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The Apple War
as Roy LindbergA German businessman wants to buy land in southern Sweden for a gigantic amusement park, his new...
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Hostile Waters
as Admiral ChernavinBased on true events, an American submarine collides into a Soviet sub of the coast of America...
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Brink of Life
as Harry AnderssonThree women in a maternity ward reveal their lives and intimate thoughts to each other.
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Sleepless
as MorettiAn elderly and retired police detective and a young amateur sleuth team up to find a serial...
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The Touch
as Andreas VergerusA Swedish housewife begins an adulterous affair with a foreign archaeologist. But he is an...
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The New Land
as Karl OskarA Swedish immigrant family struggles to adapt to their new life on the American frontier during...
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Steppenwolf
as Harry HallerIn the bourgeois circles of Europe after the Great War, can anything save the modern man? Harry...
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Black Journal
as Lisa Carpi / Carabinieri MarshalA mother so insanely overprotective of her grown son decides to make a deal with death by...
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Brass Target
as Shelley Martin WebberGeneral George S. Patton died in a car accident in 1945. But was his death actually a murder. ...
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Hamsun
as Knut HamsunKnut Hamsun is Norway's most famous and admired author. Ever since he was young he has hated the...
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The Repenter
as SpinolaA judge on crusade to take down the Italian Mafia uses a gangster turned state's witness (a...
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The Desert of the Tartars
as Cap. OrtizLieutenant Giovanni Drogo is assigned to the old Bastiani border fortress where he expects an...
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Miss Julie
as GroomBased on the play by August Strindberg, Miss Julie vividly depicts the battle of the sexes and...
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The Ox
as VicarIn desperation brought on by near-starvation, Helge Roos kills his master's ox to feed his wife...
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Voyage of the Damned
as Captain SchroederA luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival.
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The Reward
as Scott SwensonA crash-landed crop-duster betrays a fugitive and his girlfriend to Mexican bounty hunters.
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Through a Glass Darkly
as MartinKarin hopes to recover from her recent stay at a mental hospital by spending the summer at her...
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The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist
as Self / Father MerrinA behind-the-scenes retrospective made for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the classic horror...
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Private Confessions
as JacobFive conversations frame a flawed marriage in this film written by Ingmar Bergman about his...
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The Silent Touch
as Henry KesdiHenry Kesdi is a silenced classical composer and a survivor of the Holocaust. He is coaxed out...
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Minns ni?
as uncreditedA quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about...
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Druids
as GuttuartIn the year 60 B.C. a group of Druids, including the arch-druid Guttuart (Max von Sydow),...
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Samson and Delilah
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)Biblical strongman Samson falls prey to the voluptuous Philistine temptress Delilah.
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Jerusalem
as VicarMembers of a devout Christian congregation try to start a new life in Palestine.
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The Wolf at the Door
as August StrindbergChronicling a period of time in Paul Gauguin's life, this film follows him through his struggles...
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Foxtrot
as LarsenA Romanian aristocrat retreats to a desert isle with his wife and servants on the eve of World...
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Venetian Lies
as Marcello HerrigheA lonely 17 year old boy is looking for a couple who is ready to adopt him.
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The Ultimate Warrior
as BaronOnly a few people still live in New York in 2012. They are organized in gangs with their own...
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Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist
as Self (archive footage)A lyrical and spiritual cinematic essay on The Exorcist, the last film of Alexandre O. Philippe...
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Terror in the Aisles
as Father Merrin (archive footage) (uncredited)A non-stop roller coaster ride through the scariest moments of the greatest terror films of all...
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The Kremlin Letter
as Colonel KosnovWhen an unauthorized letter is sent to Moscow alleging the U.S. government's willingness to help...
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The Quiller Memorandum
as OktoberAfter two British Secret Intelligence Service agents are murdered at the hands of a cryptic...
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Heart of a Dog
as Professor Filipp Filippovich PreobrazenskiProfessor Preobrazhensky puts courageous experiences, trying to turn a dog in equal to in all of...
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Father
as Joe MuellerOn a TV tabloid show, Iya Zetnick exposes Joe Mueller as the Nazi war criminal who killed her...
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The Night Visitor
as SalemAn insane Swedish farmer escapes from an asylum to get revenge on his sister, her husband and...
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The Mistress
as The ManA young woman, living in a relationship, falls in love with a married man.
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The Best Intentions
as Johan ÅkerblomIn this film about Ingmar Bergman's parents, Henrik Bergman is studying for the priesthood and...
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The First, the Last
as Le croque-mortApocalyptic neo-western about two gangsters, a town full of crazy people and Jesus...
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Ingmar Bergman
as SelfOn-set documentary on the making of Ingmar Bergman's The Touch.
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid
as FreudIn the third film in the series, in 1908, Henry Jones Sr. takes his wife, son and the boy's...
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Code Name: Emerald
as Jürgen BrauschIn preparation for Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Nazi occupied territory, the...
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Embassy
as GorenkoA KGB assassin infiltrates the American embassy in Beirut in an attempt to eliminate a Russian...
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Egg! Egg! A Hardboiled Story
as The FatherA fairy tale and satire about a wealthy industrialist, whose son has been subdued and oppressed...
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Black Palm Trees
as Gustav OlofssonFour sailors stranded in Rio are about to retrieve their salary for a salvage. The only...
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The Fascination
as uncreditedA photographer is irresistibly attracted to a young Japanese girl.
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The Wedding Day
as Anders FrostAnders and Sylvia are set to be married, but Sylvia says 'no' and runs away at the altar.
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Echoes of the Past
as Nikolas Andreou (Aged)A lawyer, who represents the German government against the Greek reparation claims for Nazi...
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The Princess and the Pauper
as EposA fairy tale about a twin princess and a prince who where seperated after their birth.
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Stjärnbilder
as SelfA tribute to Swedish film, which was made to celebrate the 100th anniversary of film in 1995 and...
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Samson and Delilah
as SidkaA tale of passion and betrayal in which Samson, a judge of Israel who fled with his tribe during...
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Here Is Your Life
as Smålands-PelleA working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving through a series of jobs and...
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George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
as SelfBiography of the legendary filmmaker directed by his son.
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Rabies
as Bo Stensson SvenningsonA relay race of "scenes from human life". Depicts the human characters inferior traits are...
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Wonderful Adventures of Nils
as The FatherNils lives with his parents in the south of Sweden. He is a naughty boy and teases like the...
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Hidden Children
as ValobraThis is a true story about forty Jewish children on their way to Palestine, who were blocked by...
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Circle of Passions
as Carlo di VilalfrattiAn aristocratic Sicilian family living in the 1950s. Count Villafratti has sex one night with...
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Cellini: A Violent Life
as Papa Clemente VIIThe story of Benvenuto Cellinin (1500-1571), a soldier and one of the most important craftsmen...
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Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes
as Father SiemesThe movie follows the perspective of several characters (such as Japanese victims, soldiers,...
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The Flight of the Eagle
as Salomon August AndréeThe Swedish 19th century engineer Salomon August Andrée sets out to become the first man on the...
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A Man and His Dog
as Le commandantAn elderly gentleman and his dog find themselves out of a home with little means.
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The Last Norwegian Troll
as The Last Norweigian Troll (voice)In the old days, Norway used to be a safe haven for Trolls, but not anymore. One day three young...
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The Diary of Anne Frank
as Otto FrankDuring World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into...
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The Bachelor
as Von SchleheimIn pre-WWI Austria-Hungary, a physician struggles with his decision about which woman will he marry.
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Behind the Moomins
as Narrator (voice)Interviews with the English language voice cast of 'Moomins and the Comet Chase.'
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Conan Unchained: The Making of 'Conan'
as SelfNearly all the cast and crew are on hand to give stories and memories about the making of the...
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Kojak: The Belarus File
as Peter BarakLt. Theo Kojak uncovers a Nazi conspiracy.
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Onkel Vanja
as The ProfessorA retired professor has returned to his estate to live with his beautiful young wife, Yelena....
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Duet for One
as Dr. Louis FeldmanWhen Stephanie, a famous violinist, contracts multiple sclerosis her life begins to fall apart....
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A che punto è la notte
as Arcivescovo di TorinoIn Turin, a fanatic priest dies falling from the pulpit, killed by the explosion of a candle. A...
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Target Eagle
as Coronel O'DonnellA Spanish police chief hires an undercover agent, Eagle, to infiltrate a gang of heroin...
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The Second Victory
as Dr. HuberAfter the end of Word War II, a lone and elusive skier from the German Mountain Troops continues...
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The Atlantic
as Narrator (voice)Spectacular documentary, shot on and around Atlantic Islands from Iceland to South Georgia.
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Light Keeps Me Company
as SelfCarl-Gustaf Nykvist's documentary about his father, Sven Nykvist. The film is based on Sven's...
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Dance Around the Guldbaggen
as SelfFilmed during the first ever Guldbaggen (golden scarab) awards, it was edited and developed that...
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Depth Solitude
as Narrator (voice)A philosophical swimming pool attendant lives his life at the bottom of a pool....
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Red King, White Knight
as SzazThe CIA hears of a KGB scheme to assassinate the Soviet General Secretary and enlists Stoner, an...
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The Minister of Uddarbo
as Gustaf ÖmarkA devoted but controversial priest comes to a Swedish village. He encounters conflicts with the...
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Let Poland Be Poland
as Self - Co-HostBroadcast live via satellite around the world on January 31, 1982, this special produced by the...
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She Dances Alone
as Nijinsky's voiceDirector Robert Dornhelm casts Bud Cort for alter-ego purposes in She Dances Alone. Cort plays a...
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Interlude in the Marshland
as Alex KvistIt's the mid 1930s and brakeman Kvist had enough of working on the train, jumps off and starts...
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Delblanc
as Narrator (voice)Portrait of the Swedish writer Sven Delblanc made up of interviews with friends and family along...
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Their Frozen Dream
as S.A. Andrée (voice)Poetic documentary about the polar expedition of S. A. Andrée which Troell had previously...
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The Broken Mirror
as Matthew LawrenceAnne lives with her husband in Belgium where she works as a restorer of paintings. When she...
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4 x 4
as KvistFour short stories from Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland.
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Dragons: Real Myths and Unreal Creatures
as Dr. Alistair ConisAudiences join two peculiar characters, an unusual dream therapist and his mysterious patient,...
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Time is Money
as Joe KaufmanA grumpy writer resists his wife's and agent's attempts to goad him into completing his latest...
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Ingen mans kvinna
as OlofImber has a child with the dubious fiancé Erland. He is destructive and his unhealthy lifestyle...
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Only a Mother
as NilsA poor woman in a Swedish farming community struggles to feed her large family and is torn by...
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An Introduction to Ingmar Bergman
as SelfProduced in 1968 for New York's WNET public television station and filmed by Gunnar Fischer,...
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Och ge oss skuggorna
as Eugene O'NeillIt is the 61st birthday of the American author Eugene O'Neill. He is sick, old and his name has...
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Mr. Sleeman Is Coming
as HunterHerr Sleeman kommer is a 1917 one-act play by the Swedish author Hjalmar Bergman. The main...
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The Right to Love
as BergmanPriests who call sex education the devil's invention rage against the progressive doctor whose...
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The Soldier's Tale
as The DevilA soldier, returning home from war, chances upon a stranger who offers to buy his violin. The...
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Tuschinski's Dream
as uncreditedAfter 50 years of exile, an old man comes back to the cinema of his childhood. The Tuschinski...
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Max Von Sydow: Dialogues with The Renter
as SelfA documentary shot on the set of "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" by Cedric Brelet von Sydow.
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Max von Sydow
as Self (archive footage)One of the greatest actors of the twentieth century, von Sydow is best known for his long...
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Ingmar Bergman: The Magic Lantern
as VoiceThe first of two documentaries about Ingmar Bergman produced to mark his 70th birthday. Includes...
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Game of Thrones
as Three-Eyed RavenSeven noble families fight for control of the mythical land of Westeros. Friction between the...
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The Simpsons
as Klaus Ziegler (voice)Set in Springfield, the average American town, the show focuses on the antics and everyday...
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The Tudors
as Cardinal Von WaldburgThe Tudors is a history-based drama series following the young, vibrant King Henry VIII, a...
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The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
as Sigmund FreudAt the dawn of the 20th century, Indiana Jones discovered the world. From globetrotting family...
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones
as Sigmund FreudThe boyhood adventures of the greatest action hero of all time: Indiana Jones. Young Indy...
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Nuremberg
as Samuel RosenmanJustice Robert H. Jackson leads Allied prosecutors in trying 21 Germans for Nazi war crimes...
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The Last Place on Earth
as Fridtjof NansenThe Last Place on Earth is a 1985 Central Television seven part serial, written by Trevor...
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Radetzky March
as Baron Franz von Trotta und SipoljeAt the battle of Solferino Joseph von Trotta, a lieutenant in the Slovenian infantry, is wounded...
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Christopher Columbus
as Re Giovanni del PortogalloAfter his proposal to sail west to the East Indies is rejected by Portugal, Columbus overcomes...
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Quo Vadis?
as PetrusDrama about love and intrigues in ancient Rome during the times of Nero.
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Ring of the Nibelungs
as EyvindThe young blacksmith Siegfried, who, not knowing that he is heir to a conquered kingdom, becomes...
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A che punto è la notte
as Arcivescovo di TorinoIn Turin, a priest is killed by the explosion of a candle and Commissioner Santamaria has to...
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Professione fantasma
as Psicoanalista dell’aldilàProfessione fantasma is an Italian television series.
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