Svensk filmindustri
Series
Language
Swedish
Description
In medieval Sweden a knight returns from war only to find a ravaged homeland. He meets up with a group of traveling players and eventually confronts the embodiment of death with whom he engages in a game of chess for his life. The knight and Death play as the cultural turmoil envelopes the people around them as they try, in different ways, to deal with the upheaval the plague has caused.
2) Persona
Series
Criterion collection volume 701
Language
Swedish
Formats
Description
An actress has inexplicably gone mute; a young nurse cares for her in a remote island cottage. While isolated together there, the women perform a mysterious spiritual and emotional transference that would prove to be one of cinema₂s most influential ideas.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004, 1969]
Language
Swedish
Description
In this stark drama, Max Von Sydow plays Andreas, a flinty, dour loner who, despite himself, becomes involved with three of his island neighbors: a Machiavellian architect, his formless wife and the beautiful widow Anna (Liv Ullmann), a moralist who sustains herself with illusion. One of Bergman's first films to be photographed in color.
Series
Criterion collection volume 209
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
Swedish
Series
Criterion collection volume 139
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
Swedish
Description
A distinguished professor emeritus who lives alone with his housekeeper can only come to terms with his egocentricity by traveling back in time to his earliest youth, finding there the seeds of his failure as husband, lover, father. This film deals with the phenomena of old age wherein childhood memories return with ever-increasing clarity while great stretches of the prime of life vanish into obscurity. In Swedish with English subtitles.
6) The silence
Series
Criterion collection volume 211
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
Swedish
7) Winter light
Series
Criterion collection volume 210
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
Swedish
Series
Criterion collection volume 537
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Swedish
Description
A traveling magician bringing his potions and mystical items with him is challenged by the Minister of Health, who believes the magician to be a charlatan. Bonus features include an interview with the director regarding the film and various essays.
9) Shame
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Swedish
Description
"Shame probes the atrocities of war-both internal and external-as a young couple struggles to survive while the world around them crumbles into chaos"--Container.
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Swedish
Description
Sweet but lonesome Olof lives by himself on his family's farm after the death of his mother. Unable to read or write, he is forced to take people on trust. Olof must depend upon his younger friend Erik to help him with the farm work. Then one day, out of the blue, Olof places a personal ad in the paper. The ad attracks Ellen, a beautiful well-heeled city woman. Erik, also taken with Ellen, is determined to destroy her blossoming romance with Olof...
Publisher
Fox Lorber Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
Swedish
Description
Shipped off to live with his uncle for the summer, 12 year old Ingmar finds unexpected adventures with the help of the town's warmhearted eccentrics. These experiences give him a sustaining inner strength to accept his life and to eventually enjoy childhood.
Series
Criterion collection volume 579
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
None
Description
The last person to die on New Year's Eve before the clock strikes twelve is doomed to take the reins of Death's chariot and work tirelessly collecting fresh souls for the next year. So says the legend that drives the Phantom Carriage, about an alcoholic, abusive ne'er-do-well who is shown the error of his ways and the pure-of-heart Salvation Army sister who believes in his redemption.
Publisher
KaBOOM! Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Pippi's first Christmas on land proves to be a special one. Thunder Karlson and Bloom have nowhere to go for Christmas and even their attempts to get arrested are bungled. Pippi comes to their aid and helps them to understand the true meaning of Christmas.
14) Hour of the wolf
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004, 1968]
Language
Swedish
Description
A brooding artist accompanied by his wife travels to a remote island where he hopes to escape his demons.
Series
Criterion collection volume 321
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Swedish
Description
A peasant girl is raped and murdered in 14th century Sweden. When her killers seek shelter in her father's house, he kills them to avenge her death. Soon a spring appears from where the girl was killed and her father sees this as a sign from above.
Series
Criterion collection volume 321
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Swedish
Formats
Description
A peasant girl is raped and murdered in 14th century Sweden. When her killers seek shelter in her father's house, he kills them to avenge her death. Soon a spring appears from where the girl was killed and her father sees this as a sign from above.
17) Persona
Series
Criterion collection volume 701
Pub. Date
2014
Language
Swedish
Description
An actress has inexplicably gone mute; a young nurse cares for her in a remote island cottage. While isolated together there, the women perform a mysterious spiritual and emotional transference that would prove to be one of cinema's most influential ideas.
18) The seventh seal
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Swedish
Description
Antonius Block is a knight, who along with his squire, are returning home from the crusades. Black Death is sweeping their country. As they approach home, Death appears to the knight and tells him it is his time. Antonius challenges Death to a chess game for his life. Antonius and Death play as the cultural turmoil envelopes the people around them as they try, in different ways, to deal with the upheaval that the plague has caused.