Movies: Gunnar Björnstrand

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 ...

Swedish comedy from 1940. Kurre Karlsson, a simple man of the people, will be called up for military training given by an anti-aircraft units at sea. He does not like the military and will do anything to get away. One day he steals a wallet and in it...

In a small town called Skrabbarp in Southern Sweden lives the school teacher Sebastian Pettersson, an amateur detective and one of the most diligent correspondents of the Stockholm police....

A classic melodrama about the famous pianist Thomas Dahlhoff....

Stockholm 1912. Site for the Olympic Games. Love entanglements and eroticism at hotel Eros....

"Seventh Heaven" - Famous radio personality Willy Lorens has a big success with the radio series "Seventh Heaven." The amount of fan mail and attention eventually becomes too much for Willy, who suffers a minor collapse. Taken to a hospital where he ...

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 the French in breach of orders by the crown prince. At the court martial he is sentenced to death but is par...

Two journalists marry but the husband grows unhappy when he is left to take care of their child and she focuses on her career....

High school student Margareta fall head over heels in love with a young doctor and announce her engagement to him to her parents. She quits school and move in with him in a large house. However, the life of a housewife soon becomes tedious. Her husba...

Lilian is engaged to engineer Arne. To make him more interested in her, she meets a few other men....

The Ghost Sonata relates the adventures of a young student, who idealizes the lives of the inhabitants of a stylish apartment building in Stockholm. He makes the acquaintance of the mysterious Jacob Hummel, who helps him to find his way into the apar...

The actor Robert Berg is just about to get his dream role on the big stage in Stockholm when he gets called to the military service....

A secretary transforms their defunct legal agency into a service where you can get anything, from childcare to gardening to even a fiancée....

Love triangle between Svante, his fiancee Inga and Sophie, a girl from a rich family....

A man and a woman are cheated on by their respective partners and decide to get their revenge....

The tailor Tosse is ordered to return to his old regiment to practice what he learned many years ago. But he asks his assistant Loffe to go there instead of himself. Everything is fine until Loffe gets the same order - at the same regiment. When Toss...

Erik Andersson marries Brita Blomstedt. During the wedding party he drinks alcohol which he is not used to. Later that evening Erik is involved in a brawl that end with a policeman getting a knife in the back....

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

The plot revolves around a sadistic doctor, a macabre gravedigger, an innocent girl, sabotage, sex and violent death. The beautiful Vivi Sander is living a rough life and is deeply in debt. She tries to force her family to sell the house to make ends...

"I Slew" - Hospital drama of a doctor who thinks that he killed a patient on the operating table....