Sven Nykvist

Using original footage and interviews, family photos, and excepts from many of the actress's screen and stage performances, the film explores sources...

A short documentary about the work of Swedish cinematographer and Ingmar Bergman collaborator, Sven Nykvist,, emphasizing his style of lighting and...

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...

Cameramen and women discuss the craft and art of cinematography and of the "DP" (the director of photography), illustrating their points with clips...

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...

Guided by Liv Ullmann and with commentaries from a number of prominent filmmakers for whom Bergman is and remains an important influence - such as...

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

The Queen of the Night enlists a handsome prince named Tamino to rescue her beautiful kidnapped daughter, Princess Pamina, in this screen adaptation...

The Making of Fanny and Alexander is a fascinating look at the creation of a masterpiece. Directed by Ingmar Bergman himself, this feature-length...

The year is 1961 and Ingmar Bergman is making a movie. While planted on the scene as apprentice to Bergman, Vilgot Sjöman (director, I Am...

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

A documentary about the Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky. The film was an episode of the French documentary film series Filmmakers of our time. The...

A docudrama based on stills from the film "The Sacrifice" (Offret) by Andrei Tarkovsky. Sven Nykvist and Andrei Tarkovsky meet in a final...

40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under...

On-set documentary on the making of Ingmar Bergman's The Touch.

A documentary behind the scenes of Ingmar Bergman's The Magic Flute.

Documentary on production designer Anna Asp's work with director Andrey Tarkovsky, during the shooting of his film Offret (The Sacrifice).

This documentary offers a rare glimpse of the legendary Soviet filmmaker, Andrei Tarkosvky, at work. Tarkovsky made only seven films in his brief,...

A 1988 documentary film directed by Alexander Sokurov, about the later life and death of Soviet Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky. The film was...

Filmed around the time of the 1989 Oscars this documentary includes interviews with foreign filmmakers from a variety of disciplines about their...

A behind the scenes documentary of Ingmar Bergman's Autumn Sonata (1978), detailing every aspect of the production.

A young nurse, Alma, is put in charge of Elisabeth Vogler: an actress who is seemingly healthy in all respects, but will not talk. As they spend time...

After the death of his mother, a young boy calls a radio station in an attempt to set his father up on a date. Talking about his father’s...

An aged Charlie Chaplin narrates his life to his autobiography's editor, including his rise to wealth and comedic fame from poverty, his turbulent...

Fact-based drama about the life of Marie Balter, who spent most of her young life in mental institutions. At age 16, she first attempted suicide and...

As Agnes slowly dies of cancer, her sisters are so immersed in their own psychic pains that they are unable to offer her the support she needs.

The sensuous wife of a lunch wagon proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordidly steamy affair and conspire to murder her Greek husband.

As children in the loving Ekdahl family, Fanny and Alexander enjoy a happy life with their parents, who run a theater company. After their father...

A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in France where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.

Paul Snider is a narcissistic, small time hustler who fancies himself a ladies man. His life changes when he meets Dorothy Stratten working behind...

Traveling through an unnamed European country on the brink of war, sickly, intellectual Ester, her sister Anna and Anna's young son, Johan, check...

Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book, but by some...

A renowned ophthalmologist is desperate to cut off an adulterous relationship…which ends up in murder; and a frustrated documentary filmmaker...

Karin hopes to recover from her recent stay at a mental hospital by spending the summer at her family's cottage on a tiny island. Her husband,...

Devout Christians Töre and Märeta send their only daughter, the virginal Karin, and their foster daughter, the unrepentant Ingeri, to...

Two childhood paranormal incidents have convinced schoolteacher Faith Corvatch that her true love is a guy named "Damon Bradley," but she has yet to...

The events of a crisis hotline business on one crazy night during the Christmas holidays.

After a seven-year absence, Charlotte Andergast travels to Sweden to reunite with her daughter Eva. The pair have a troubled relationship: Charlotte...

The career and personal life of writer Lee are at a standstill, so he divorces his bashful wife, Robin, and dives into a new job as an entertainment...

There is a war in the world between the men and the women. A young girl tries to escape this reality and comes to a hidden place where a strange...

16-year-old Robin Lee Graham aims to become the youngest person to sail around the world in a 23-foot sloop named "The Dove". On his journey, he...

Albert Engström's anecdotes of Småland have been put together to make a comedy film about Johannes and Cornelius, two smallholding farmers...

Bertil Lund works at the wholesaling company Everything for the Baby. The supervisor Fredriksson is considering promoting him to vice-president but...

The Swedish/American actor Jack Harris visits the old country for the first time in his life. One of the journalist, Ingrid Billberg, is particularly...

Portrait of the Swedish poet Dan Andersson (1888-1920). Brought up during poor conditions he finds work as a temperance preacher and educator. Bored...

The married detective couple John and Kajsa Hillman goes on a vacation to Holmfors mill where a friend of Kajsa's lives with her husband. When a...

Anna and Karl are a young couple in Stockholm, unable to find an apartment of their own. However, they play matchmakers to make their friends Fredrik...

Pretentious critic Cornelius is writing a biography on a famous cellist and to do some research he stays in the critic's house for a few days. He...

Karin does not belong to the nobility but nevertheless marries the mentally ill king Erik XIV and becomes queen of Sweden. The king's skilled...

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...

The 1880s. Abandoned by his middle class parents in Stockholm, Johannes grows up in the countryside with a cobbler who regularly beats him up. Also...

Set in 1860s Holland along the famed Zeider Zee — young Hans Brinker finds himself responsible for supporting his family after his father...

1813. The Swedish army is fighting in the War of the Sixth Coalition. The popular general Von Döbeln is arrested for sending the army against...

Eva Dahl, a doctor's wife, starts an affair with a younger man.

A young American girl is found dead in Gota Kanal, Swedens largest channel. Since there are hardly any clues or evidence at all it seems as if the...

A con artist arrives to a small island to swingle money from the fishermen.

Karl Oskar Bohm looks back at his life, his estranged daughter Augusta and his wife Sofia.

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...

Sven Nykvist, best known as Ingmar Bergman cinematographer, made this film as a tribute to his father who was a missionary in Kongo in the early 20th...

Eric and Clarence are friends from the same class in school - but from different social classes. Eric comes from the working class, Clarence from the...

The singing vagabond Loffe suddenly becomes a man of the law.

A young woman who is obsessed with Buster Keaton stays in the sanatorium where the actor was once a patient.

The stingy fisherman Ericsson lives on a small island north of Stockholm with his wife Johanna och her father Isak.

In this adventure, set deep within the Belgian Congo, a local witch doctor decides the only way to stop a rampaging gorilla from terrorizing his...

From Bjørnson's novels about romance in 19th century Norway. Thorbjörn Granliden is raised severely by his parents who notice that he is...

A comedy directed by Kurt Hoffmann.

A Swedish housewife begins an adulterous affair with a foreign archaeologist. But he is an emotionally scarred man, a Jewish survivor from a...

Five conversations frame a flawed marriage in this film written by Ingmar Bergman about his parents. Guilt-ridden wife Anna (Pernilla August)...

Land owner Bill Bärnfelt sees a beautiful woman when he is out riding and immediately falls in love. But then his former fiancee turns up and...

Based on the classic children’s story, seven orphan siblings and their goat make a difficult journey over the mountains to find new parents.

In this adventure, set deep within the Belgian Congo, a local witch doctor decides the only way to stop a rampaging gorilla from terrorizing his...

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...

Grace King Bichon, who is managing her father's riding-stable, discovers that her husband Eddie is deceiving her with another woman. After...

Edit is pleased that her mother agrees to let her buy a dress she loves, but which in fact is made for an adult woman.

The story of the desperate love affair between a young Samoan chief and a beautiful American painter, against the will of her father, the powerful...

When a dead newborn is found, wrapped in bloody sheets, in the bedroom wastebasket of a young novice, psychiatrist Martha Livingston is called in to...

Siddhartha is the story of a young Brahmin and his search for a meaningful way of life. His journey takes him through periods of harsh asceticism,...

Krister and his fiancé Brita return to Stockholm after a stay in Italy. Shortly upon their return Krister learns that all his assets left to...

Andreas, a man struggling with the recent demise of his marriage and his own emotional isolation, befriends a married couple also in the midst of...

Alexander, a journalist, philosopher and retired actor, celebrates a birthday with friends and family when it is announced that nuclear war has begun.

Zharko, leader of the Romanis in NYC, passes his position of leadership on to his unwilling grandson, Dave, leading to infighting between Dave and...

After she's been attacked in her apartment, Cathy starts reliving the event in her dreams. She seeks help at a sleep disorder research center, but in...

Successful surgeon Tomas leaves Prague for an operation, meets a young photographer named Tereza, and brings her back with him. Tereza is surprised...

A Swedish scientist couple comes to a small African village to fight malaria.

Rational, exacting, and self-controlled theater director, Henrik Vogler, often stays after rehearsal to think and plan. On this day, Anna comes back,...

After years of ignoring the shy cousin whom she and her peers taunted mercilessly as a child, a middle-aged woman (Ingrid Thulin) wrenches the poor...

The complicated relationships between a circus ringmaster, his estranged wife and his lover.

In the midst of a civil war, former violinists Jan and Eva Rosenberg, who have a tempestuous marriage, run a farm on a rural island. In spite of...

Peter and Katarina are at a marital crossroads, but, when he brutally kills a burlesque dancer, their domestic squabbles are rendered trivial by...

While vacationing on a remote German island with his pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.

Convinced he'll graduate with honors because of his thesis paper, a stuffy Harvard student finds his paper being held hostage by a homeless man, who...

Johan and Marianne are married and seem to have it all. Their happiness, however, is a façade for a troubled relationship, which becomes even...

A Swedish pastor fails a loving woman, a suicidal fisherman and God.

A new foreman, Huus, arrives in a sleepy Danish village, much to the delight of the unmarried women there. However, Huus becomes very friendly with...

Alan Kennebeck is unable to accept a brief, realistic romance for what it is. Eventually it leads to his complete moral downfall. Triggered by the...

A former mob getaway driver from Chicago has retired to a peaceful life in a Portuguese fishing village. He is asked to pull off one last job - to...

A divorced woman in her thirties fights a losing battle in Munich to attain belated self-fulfillment. The die is cast in a briskly impersonal society...

it's the 1840s and a rural parish plagued by drinking and fighting gets a new vicar who has decided to instill law, order and fear of God into the...

Sven Nykvist, best known as Ingmar Bergman cinematographer, made this film as a tribute to his father who was a missionary in Kongo in the early 20th...

In 19th-century Paris, Charles Swann risks his social standing in his obsessive pursuit of prostitute Odette. His overwhelming desire for her comes,...

Dr. Jenny Isaksson is a psychiatrist whose temporary position at a mental hospital offers only modest responsibilities. With her husband out of the...

A judge in an unnamed country interviews three actors, together and singly, provoking them while investigating a pornographic performance for which...

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...

A documentary film about the German musician, philosopher, doctor and peace prize winner Albert Schweitzer, his life and work.

A documentary film about the German musician, philosopher, doctor and peace prize winner Albert Schweitzer, his life and work.

Promotional film for the CinemaScope format. Dachshund Piccolo is the speaker, Evert Taube participates.

Promotional film for the CinemaScope format. Dachshund Piccolo is the speaker, Evert Taube participates.

A missionary film by photographer Sven Nykvist.

Nisse Holm start marketing coffee made of tree cones.

Mattsson is a fisherman and widower in the Stockholm archipelago. He has two adult daughters that help run the household, Magda and Lena. Lena...

Life imitates art when two Manhattanites — pompous teacher Willie and quiet photographer Phil — become friends after a thought-provoking...

A Professor comes home carrying a paper bag with food. Among the goods in the bag is apricot jam. His wife reacts strongly, since they always have...

A bachelor afraid of marriage angers his long-time girlfriend by buying a splendid townhouse just for himself, only to find it haunted by the ghosts...

The Queen of the Night enlists a handsome prince named Tamino to rescue her beautiful kidnapped daughter, Princess Pamina, in this screen adaptation...

Berlin, 1923. Following the suicide of his brother, American circus acrobat Abel Rosenberg attempts to survive while facing unemployment, depression,...

Bergman interviews the locals of Fårö in this fascinating documentary. An expression of personal and political solidarity with the fellow...

Doc, who has just moved to Cannery Row, realizes that the only entertainment is the brothel. There he meets the spunky Suzy and they fall in love,...

The film shows four women moving in a crowded, closed room to the music of Monteverdi. They represent women living by passing on a role that is...

On his death-bed, Per Henrik Pistolekors must promise his father two things: first of all to kill king Gustav III, which his father hates. Second, to...

A young man,Erik, breaks into a photo store. But he is discovered by the night watchman and has to fly. During the flight he is picked up by cabaret...

A coming of age story about young Salka Valka who lives in the small fishing village of Íseyri. She is doing well for herself as a partner in...

After years of ignoring the shy cousin whom she and her peers taunted mercilessly as a child, a middle-aged woman (Ingrid Thulin) wrenches the poor...

The Troubadour sits at a rock beside his summerhouse Sjösala in the Stockholm archipelago. He is composing a new ballad, when his son Sven...

Filip Palm works as a clerk. His hobby is creating inventions of different sorts. He has just received a big inheritance and has fallen in love with...

A man meets prisoner Nils Gustaf Boman and asks him why he strayed from the straight and narrow. The prisoner says: "Put yourself in my position."...

Princess Caroline travels incognito to Stockholm and meets the Prince Birger, who also uses a fake name.

A documentary film about the German musician, philosopher, doctor and peace prize winner Albert Schweitzer, his life and work.

A chronicle about the past and present of Gotland, Sweden, and preparedness in the event of war.

From Bern's salons at Berzelii Park in Stockholm. Exterior and interior from early morning until dawn the next day. Lunch and dinner. Entertainment...

Sven Nykvist, best known as Ingmar Bergman cinematographer, made this film as a tribute to his father who was a missionary in Kongo in the early 20th...

The night before her wedding, a nervous bride examines her gifts and picks out a book of romantic short stories. Hoping to while away the evening,...

A widowed woman undergoes a true sexual awakening in this provocative drama. The change comes after her husband of 10 years suddenly dies. During...

Love triangle between the big farmer, a farmhand and his sweetheart.

A missionary film by photographer Sven Nykvist.

About a love triangle between the soldiers 32 Svensson and 58 Jönsson and the girl Blenda. Both men ends up in jail, for different reasons....

Winter in Lapland, a settler and his wife just had their newborn daughter baptized. On the way home through the wilderness, they are chased by a pack...

Adaptation of a story by Henry James.

The beautiful student Katja shocks the conservative and rigid city of Wadköping by appearing in tail-coat on the big prom.

In a fictional future totalitarian society ruled as a one-party state. A teacher commits the crime to teach their students to think independently and...

A 19-year-old boy, after his mother's death, starts a relationship with his father's mistress, although he is engaged. The relationship continues...

Get ready for a wildly diverse, star-studded trilogy about life in the big city. One of the most-talked about films in years, New York Stories...

Gilbert Grape is a small-town young man with a lot of responsibility. Chief among his concerns are his mother, who is so overweight that she can't...

The daughter of a prominent medieval Norway landowner, Kristin grows up in total harmony with the ideals of the time: strong family ties, social...

In the beginning of WW II a Swedish ship in a northern French port is exposed to German air raids. The captain take a chance to leave the port...

Following a series of bomb attacks in London, a group of terrorists seize Britain's ambassador to Scandinavia. With the ambassador now a hostage in...

The story of two young lovers takes a tragic turn as the girl falls in love with the boy's father.

Bolle gets tired of working at the cigar factory and because of his desire for freedom he takes to the road. He and the other hobos have only one...

All living things on earth have a common past far back in time. Evolution has made us who we are. In the first part of Life's Miracle, we get to...

In Norway in the 1600s, An-Magritt is born as the result of a rape.

As three pregnant women wait to have their babies in a hospital in Stockholm at the outbreak of the Great War, they relive their childhood and...

The story about the thief who didn't get crucified because Jesus was choosen to take his place.

Hattie, a New Orleans prostitute, meets a photographer named Bellocq at her brothel one night and, after he photographs her, he befriends her...

A Professor comes home carrying a paper bag with food. Among the goods in the bag is apricot jam. His wife reacts strongly, since they always have...

40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under...

After divorcing his ambitious singer wife, a middle-aged man begins a new relationship with a teacher.