Victor Sjöström

Born: 1879-09-21

Victor David Sjöström (20 September 1879 – 3 January 1960), sometimes known in the United States as Victor Seastrom, was a pioneering Swedish film director, screenwriter, and actor. He began his career in Sweden, before moving to Hollywood in 1924. Sjöström worked primarily in the silent era; his best known films include The Phantom Carriage (1921), He Who Gets Slapped (1924), and The Wind (1928). Sjöström was Sweden's most prominent director in the "Golden Age of Silent Film" in Europe. Later in life, he played the leading role in Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries (1957).


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Wild Strawberries

as Professor Isak Borg
Released: 1957-12-26

Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and...

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The Phantom Carriage

as David Holm
Released: 1921-01-01

An alcoholic, abusive ne'er-do-well is shown the error of his ways through a legend that dooms...

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A Man There Was

as Terje Vigen
Released: 1917-01-29

Terje Vigen, a sailor, suffers the loss of his family through the inflexibility of another man....

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To Joy

as Sönderby
Released: 1950-02-20

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

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The Outlaw and His Wife

as Ejvind a.k.a. Kári
Released: 1918-01-01

A stranger comes to work at widow Halla's farm. Halla and the stranger fall in love, but when he...

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Hård klang

as Klaus Willenhart
Released: 1952-09-15

A small Swedish village has transformed to an industrial center with exports to Germany. A...

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1925 Studio Tour

as Self
Released: 1925-04-09

A tour of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio in 1925 shows the people who make the movies there, and...

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Ordet

as Knut Borg Sr.
Released: 1943-12-26

Swedish film of the Kaj Munk play that was made into a far more famous film by Carl Dreyer in...

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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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Walpurgis Night

as Frederik Bergström
Released: 1935-10-23

Lena Bergström works in an office and is unhappily in love with her boss, Johan Borg. She...

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Farlig vår

as antikhandlare Bladh
Released: 1949-02-28

A young prostitute, Gullan Svan, is murdered one night. The police suspects that the murderer is...

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Behind the Scenes of 'Wild Strawberries'

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2013-06-11

A behind the scenes montage from Wild Strawberries on 16mm shot by Bergman himself, narrated by...

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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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Railroad Workers

as Stora Ballong
Released: 1947-12-26

The north of Sweden in 1902. A team of railroad men are building a rail road from Luleå at the...

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The Gardener

as The Gardener
Released: 1912-10-16

A gardener's son has fallen in love with the daughter of one of the workers at the nursery, and...

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The Emperor of Portugallia

as Jan i Skrolycka
Released: 1944-12-26

The poor farmer Jan is getting very old when he becomes father to the girl, Klara Gulla. First,...

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Högfjällets dotter

as uncredited
Released: 1914-11-16

A young doctor is found unconscious in the mountains and is brought to a Sami village.

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Sons of Ingmar

as Lill Ingmar Ingmarsson
Released: 1919-01-01

Part one of an ambitious screen adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf's book Jerusalem.

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Kärlek

as uncredited
Released: 1952-12-22

A new young priest begins his duty on a small island. He assumes that the service should not be...

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Synnöve Solbakken

as Sämund Granliden
Released: 1934-10-21

Swedish version of Norwegian National Author Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson's novel.

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Fröken, Ni liknar Greta Garbo!

as Self
Released: 1931-09-18

Snippets of Greta Garbo movies interspersed with provincial gigs of girls resembling Garbo. The...

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I prövningens stund

as uncredited
Released: 1915-11-08

Sven Nilsson has a wife and a little child. One day the child gets very sick and Sven has to...

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Father and Son

as Hilding Harald Markurell
Released: 1931-02-16

About the wealthy Mr Markurell and his son, Johan, who is closing in on his graduation, and...

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Mot nya tider

as Hjalmar Branting
Released: 1939-11-06

A Swedish drama from 1939 about the social and political developments in Sweden from 1885 until...

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Strejken

as uncredited
Released: 1915-01-04

An old poor man steals some wood and gets sentenced to 1 1/2 years of hard labor.

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Karin, Daughter of Ingmar

as Stor Ingmar
Released: 1920-02-02

Karin Daughter of Ingmar is a 1920 Swedish silent drama film directed by Victor Sjöström. It is...

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There Burns a Fire

as Henrik Falkman
Released: 1943-08-23

An allegory of Germany's WWII occupation of Norway. Members of a theater ensemble join the...

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Männen i mörker

as Gustaf Landberg
Released: 1955-02-06

When the men in the small mining community go to work, it is like any other day. They do not yet...

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The House Surrounded

as uncredited
Released: 1922-10-23

Young Lieutenant Jeff Gordon is placed in an English town and he meets his loved one Mary. When...

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When Love Kills

as Oscar Falck
Released: 1913-03-31

After a harsh argument between her and her father, a young girl with artistic talent leaves home...

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Gubben kommer

as uncredited
Released: 1939-01-16

The old man, Carl-Henrik de Grévy, left his family many years ago, when the stock market...

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A Lover in Pawn

as Sammel Eneman
Released: 1920-10-11

About loaner Master Samuel, based on a writings by Hjalmar Bergman

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The Voice of Passion

as Daniel Barkner
Released: 1913-09-22

A man undergoing a mid-life crises suddenly becomes irresponsible and behaves in reckless...

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The Great John Ericsson

as uncredited
Released: 1937-12-13

In 1803 the Swedish inventor John Ericsson is born. After a military career he went to England...

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Livets konflikter

as uncredited
Released: 1913-11-10

The old friends Otto Berner and Charles Von Barton stands on separate sides in a political conflict.

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Striden går vidare

as Andreas Berg
Released: 1941-10-20

Georg Hammar works at the General Hospital and is engaged to the famous professor Berg's...

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The Springtime of Life

as Cyril Alm
Released: 1912-12-16

A motherless child has a tumultuous existence, but she eventually becomes a famous international...

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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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The Black Masks

as uncredited
Released: 1912-10-21

"The Black Masks", a secret political society, involves the beautiful agent Lydia to apprehend...

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Hon segrade

as uncredited
Released: 1916-03-13

Doctor Arthur Born tries to produce a cure for the plague.

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Barnet

as uncredited
Released: 1913-01-13

Mary and Georg love each other, but he is rejected by Mary's father who has suffered insecurity...

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Scattered Pages

as uncredited
Released: 1931-01-01

Vera Nilsson is friendly with the poor neighbor boy Håkan, this is not seen kindly by Vera's...

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Kvartetten som sprängdes

as Gustaf Borg
Released: 1950-12-26

A small Swedish town just after WW1. An accountant and his two journalist friends have entered...

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Vampire

as uncredited
Released: 1913-02-17

A lieutenant in love with a woman cheat on his money and forces him to forge a bill of exchange....

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För sin kärleks skull

as uncredited
Released: 1914-03-09

The stock broker Franz Von Bierman has been speculating on the stock market and lost a lot of money.

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Jag är med eder...

as uncredited
Released: 1948-01-05

Together with his wife Carin and their little son Lasse, Helge Tellberg is in the position of...

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