Movies: Max von Sydow

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...

Imber has a child with the dubious fiancé Erland. He is destructive and his unhealthy lifestyle subjects his family to starvation and the death of their child. Imber falls in love with Arne and a settlement between Arne and Erland unfolds....

A poor woman in a Swedish farming community struggles to feed her large family and is torn by her passion for two different men....

A young woman, living in a relationship, falls in love with a married man....

Director Robert Dornhelm casts Bud Cort for alter-ego purposes in She Dances Alone. Cort plays a documentary director, seeking to produce a film on the life of controversial ballet star Vaslav Nijinsky. He finds his goal of objectivity blocked by Nij...

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Portrait of the Swedish writer Sven Delblanc made up of interviews with friends and family along with excerpts of his writing read by Max von Sydow....

An aristocratic Sicilian family living in the 1950s. Count Villafratti has sex one night with his nymphomaniac daughter because he thinks she is his wife....

After 50 years of exile, an old man comes back to the cinema of his childhood. The Tuschinski Theater of Amsterdam was born from a foolish dream; the one of Abraham Icek Tuschinski who has left his shtetl from Poland, and settles in Rotterdam where h...

Four sailors stranded in Rio are about to retrieve their salary for a salvage. The only requirement is that they ALL must be sober....

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...

Starring Sigmund Freud is a video memento for Sigmund Freud's little-known film career. Based on an essay John Menick published in Frieze in 2011, the video collects the dozens of appearances that the character of Sigmund Freud has made on small and ...

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

Anne lives with her husband in Belgium where she works as a restorer of paintings. When she becomes pregnant, she finds herself remembering a picture she did some time ago and of which she has no memory, no recollection of what happened to it. It bec...

Filmed around the time of the 1989 Oscars this documentary includes interviews with foreign filmmakers from a variety of disciplines about their experiences working and living in Hollywood....

A photographer is irresistibly attracted to a young Japanese girl....

The film is based on some metaphors written by Hans Viksten and recited by Max von Sydow, supplemented by speakerless image sequences that appeal to the viewer's own imagination and emotions....

A documentary about the islands in the Atlantic, about the islanders and their stories....

Film by Staffan Lamm....

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