Movies: Max von Sydow

Herr Sleeman kommer is a 1917 one-act play by the Swedish author Hjalmar Bergman. The main character is an orphaned young woman who is about to be married off to an unappealing but rich old man, Mr. Sleeman, at the instigation of her aunts who have t...

A documentary shot on the set of "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" by Cedric Brelet von Sydow....

In pre-WWI Austria-Hungary, a physician struggles with his decision about which woman will he marry....

In the old days, Norway used to be a safe haven for Trolls, but not anymore. One day three young goats decide to get rid of an old Troll who lives under a bridge. Little do they know that he is the last survivor of his species, the very last Troll of...

Poetic documentary about the polar expedition of S. A. Andrée which Troell had previously dramatized in "Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd" (1982)....

A judge on crusade to take down the Italian Mafia uses a gangster turned state's witness (a so-called "repenter") and a New York banker to do it. But things aren't quite what they seem....

On a TV tabloid show, Iya Zetnick exposes Joe Mueller as the Nazi war criminal who killed her family....

Anders and Sylvia are set to be married, but Sylvia says 'no' and runs away at the altar....

A tribute to Swedish film, which was made to celebrate the 100th anniversary of film in 1995 and consists of about a hundred clips from Swedish film history with many of its stars....

In desperation brought on by near-starvation, Helge Roos kills his master's ox to feed his wife and baby daughter, setting off a devastating and unexpected chain of events....

A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 films....

A devoted but controversial priest comes to a Swedish village. He encounters conflicts with the locals. The priest has some problems within his family as well. One is related to an orphan girl....

A soldier, returning home from war, chances upon a stranger who offers to buy his violin. The stranger is none other than the devil....

The story of Benvenuto Cellinin (1500-1571), a soldier and one of the most important craftsmen and artists of Renaissance Italy whose life was marked by many achievements and adventures, but also crimes. There is also the mini-series version consist...

Carl-Gustaf Nykvist's documentary about his father, Sven Nykvist. The film is based on Sven's memoirs with Sven himself as narrator. A journey to the place of birth, Moheda, constitutes the hub of the film and during the journey friends and memories ...

Priests who call sex education the devil's invention rage against the progressive doctor whose bigoted wife may regret when his teenage daughter comes home and wants an abortion. The subject of Mimi Pollack's only feature film was controversial. The ...

Portrait of Ingmar Bergman, made while he was working on The Touch, about his professional and private life in the early 1970s....

A philosophical swimming pool attendant lives his life at the bottom of a pool. (stockholmfilmfestival.se)...

Produced in 1968 for New York's WNET public television station and filmed by Gunnar Fischer, host Lewis Freedman visits director Ingmar Bergman during the production of SHAME. They discuss some of Bergman's major works leading up to SHAME as well as ...

A crash-landed crop-duster betrays a fugitive and his girlfriend to Mexican bounty hunters....