Liv Ullmann

Liv Ullmann

Birthday: 1938-12-16

Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan

Biography: Liv Johanne Ullmann (born 16 December 1938) is a Norwegian actress and film director. Recognised as one of the greatest European actresses, Ullmann is known for her numerous acclaimed collaborations with filmmaker Ingmar Bergman. Ullmann won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama in 1972 for the film The Emigrants (1971), and has been nominated for another four. In 2000, she was nominated for the Palme d'Or for her second directorial feature film, Faithless. She has also received two BAFTA Award nominations, for her performances in Scenes from a Marriage (1973) and Face to Face (1976), and two Academy Award nominations, for The Emigrants and Face to Face. On March 25, 2022, Ullmann was presented with an Honorary Academy Award in recognition of her "bravery and emotional transparency that has gifted audiences with deeply affecting screen portrayals". Description above from the Wikipedia article Liv Ullmann, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Persona
Persona

A young nurse, Alma, is put in charge of Elisabeth Vogler: an actress who is seemingly healthy in al...

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Cries and Whispers
Cries and Whispers

As Agnes slowly dies of cancer, her sisters are so immersed in their own psychic pains that they are...

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Ingrid Bergman Remembered
Ingrid Bergman Remembered

Her name conjures up beauty, grace, talent and style. One of the greatest actresses of her time, she...

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A Bridge Too Far
A Bridge Too Far

The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII to ...

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A Look at Liv
A Look at Liv

Using original footage and interviews, family photos, and excepts from many of the actress's screen ...

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Foto: Sven Nykvist
Foto: Sven Nykvist

A short documentary about the work of Swedish cinematographer and Ingmar Bergman collaborator, Sven ...

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Shame
Shame

In the midst of a civil war, a pair of former violinists in a tempestuous marriage oversee a farm on...

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Autumn Sonata
Autumn Sonata

After a seven-year absence, Charlotte Andergast travels to Sweden to reunite with her daughter Eva. ...

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Through a Glass, Darkly
Through a Glass, Darkly

A moving, magic and playful story about a young girl who, at the end of her life, learns to accept d...

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The Emigrants
The Emigrants

Karl and Kristina Nilsson work on a farm in a cold and desolate area of 19th century rural Sweden. G...

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Face to Face
Face to Face

Two psychiatrists' marriage is tested when one suffers a mental breakdown....

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Cold Sweat
Cold Sweat

During the Korean War, Joe Moran, is convicted for striking a colonel. Imprisoned in Germany he enco...

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40 Carats
40 Carats

After an overnight fling with a man nearly 20 years her junior while vacationing in Greece, Ann Stan...

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The New Land
The New Land

A Swedish immigrant family struggles to adapt to their new life on the American frontier during the ...

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The Passion of Anna
The Passion of Anna

A recently divorced man and an emotionally devastated widow begin a love affair....

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Minns ni?
Minns ni?

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

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Dangerous Moves
Dangerous Moves

During the Cold War, the World Chess Championship clashed complete opposites - personal and politica...

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Pope Joan
Pope Joan

Based on the medieval legend of Pope Joan, who was made Pope for a brief period around 855 A.D. The ...

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The Serpent's Egg
The Serpent's Egg

In 1923 Berlin, following the suicide of his brother, an American acrobat struggles to survive while...

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Mindwalk
Mindwalk

On the French island of Mont Saint-Michel, Sonia meets Jack and Tom. Sonia is a Norwegian physicist ...

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Hour of the Wolf
Hour of the Wolf

While vacationing on a remote German island with his younger pregnant wife, an artist has an emotion...

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Prejudice and Pride: Swedish Film Queer
Prejudice and Pride: Swedish Film Queer

A journey through Swedish queer film history....

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The Bay Boy
The Bay Boy

A Roman Catholic teenage boy in Glace Bay, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia during the 1930s faces va...

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The Night Visitor
The Night Visitor

An insane Swedish farmer escapes from an asylum to get revenge on his sister, her husband and others...

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The Lady from the Sea
The Lady from the Sea

Norwegian TV-Drama based on Henrik Ibsen's play. All the choices you take, have consequences for bot...

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Saraband
Saraband

A follow-up to Scenes from a Marriage (1973); some thirty years after divorcing Johan, Marianne deci...

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The Wayward Girl
The Wayward Girl

Gerd, considered a woman of dubious morals, falls in love with a boy whose family does not accept th...

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Let's Hope It's a Girl
Let's Hope It's a Girl

A multifaceted exploration of the pointlessness of sexual stereotypes. Liv Ullmann is a countess who...

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Zandy's Bride
Zandy's Bride

Zandy Allan purchases a mail-order bride, Hannah Lund. He treats her as a possession, without respec...

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An-Magritt
An-Magritt

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

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Lost Horizon
Lost Horizon

While escaping war-torn China, a group of Europeans crash in the Himalayas, where they are rescued a...

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Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, a...

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Leonor
Leonor

Richard is a medieval nobleman. After his first wife dies in an accident and is buried in the family...

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Liv Ullmann - Eine Nahaufnahme
Liv Ullmann - Eine Nahaufnahme

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Liv Ullmann Scener Fra Et Liv
Liv Ullmann Scener Fra Et Liv

The film is a portrait of Liv Ullmann as an actress, director, human rights activist and a private p...

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Light Keeps Me Company
Light Keeps Me Company

Carl-Gustaf Nykvist's documentary about his father, Sven Nykvist. The film is based on Sven's memoir...

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Scenes from a Marriage
Scenes from a Marriage

Johan and Marianne are married and seem to have it all. Their happiness, however, is a façade for a ...

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Liv & Ingmar
Liv & Ingmar

The 42 year long relationship between legendary actress Liv Ullmann and master filmmaker Ingmar Berg...

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Two Lives
Two Lives

Europe 1990, the Berlin wall has just crumbled: Katrine, raised in East Germany, but now living in N...

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Zorn
Zorn

Swedish painter Anders Zorn gained notoriety for his nudes. His works are currently worth millions. ...

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Pictures of Europe
Pictures of Europe

What makes European cinema so special? Find out in Paul Joyce’s feature-length documentary, Pictures...

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Gaby: A True Story
Gaby: A True Story

The life of Gaby Brimmer, a girl physically handicapped, who finally gets her goals of study and tri...

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Løven - Henrik Ibsen
Løven - Henrik Ibsen

We follow Henrik Ibsen throughout his life. From early shame over his father's bankruptcy, via bitte...

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The Wild Duck
The Wild Duck

Ibsen's play, adapted to Australia, concerns a couple forced to answer for their daughter's legitima...

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The Rose Garden
The Rose Garden

In Germany, an old man attacks another old man and is arrested. The attacker refuses to speak. A fem...

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Tonny
Tonny

Tonny is a school boy in foster care who serves his first sentence in jail. We follow him 24 hours b...

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… But Film Is My Mistress
… But Film Is My Mistress

Guided by Liv Ullmann and with commentaries from a number of prominent filmmakers for whom Bergman i...

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I Am Curious, Film
I Am Curious, Film

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

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Farewell Moscow
Farewell Moscow

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Chaplin Today: A Woman of Paris
Chaplin Today: A Woman of Paris

"A Woman of Paris" (1923) was the first film Chaplin made for United Artists Film Corporation, which...

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Stjärnbilder
Stjärnbilder

A tribute to Swedish film, which was made to celebrate the 100th anniversary of film in 1995 and con...

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The Danish Poet
The Danish Poet

A woman ponders over the strange coincidences that made her forefathers and -mothers meet and create...

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Night of 100 Stars III
Night of 100 Stars III

A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy....

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The Human Voice
The Human Voice

After “five years of happiness,” a love affair is ending. The woman uses the telephone as the last r...

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The Nix
The Nix

Set in the mountains of Northern Sweden, The Nix is a nightmarish fable about a family of three wome...

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Forever as the End – Fate
Forever as the End – Fate

Following Kristallnacht in 1938, Ulrich Ollendorff’s family flees Berlin as to avoid the horrific de...

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Fools in the Mountains
Fools in the Mountains

At a high mountain hotel in Norway, porter Poppe tries to do the best he can for the guests with an ...

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The Magic Flute
The Magic Flute

The Queen of the Night enlists a handsome prince named Tamino to rescue her beautiful kidnapped daug...

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The Ox
The Ox

In desperation brought on by near-starvation, Helge Roos kills his master's ox to feed his wife and ...

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Richard's Things
Richard's Things

Following her husband's death, a wife discovers and confronts her husband's lover. Their mutual pain...

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The Girlfriend
The Girlfriend

Since childhood, Raquel and Maria have been close friends. Now all grown-up, Raquel has fulfilled he...

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Time of Indifference
Time of Indifference

A penniless countess falls in love with a cad, unaware that he is also involved on the side with her...

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Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words
Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words

A personal and captivating account of the extraordinary life and work of Ingrid Bergman (1915-82), a...

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The Abdication
The Abdication

Queen Christina of Sweden abdicates and travels to Rome to embrace the Catholic church....

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Det hender ikke meg
Det hender ikke meg

Interviews with Kjell who is a cancer patient, children who smoke and various celebrities on their v...

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A Poem in Images
A Poem in Images

A featurette on Ingmar Bergman's Persona....

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The Long Shadow
The Long Shadow

Upon his father's death, a Hungarian stage actor travels to Israel for the funeral and meets his ste...

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Players
Players

A rising tennis star falls for an older woman engaged with a wealthy man she doesn't love....

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Cocktailparty
Cocktailparty

Lavinia has left her husband before a cocktail party. They have both had relationships. A foreign gu...

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Arne Skouen - en mann for sin tid
Arne Skouen - en mann for sin tid

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Directed by Bergman (The Making of Saraband)
Directed by Bergman (The Making of Saraband)

A documentary about the production of Ingmar Bergman's TV film "Saraband."...

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Citizen Schein
Citizen Schein

Harry Schein was an anomaly in Swedish cultural society. Equal parts playboy, intellectual, and poli...

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Did you leave us, Blake?
Did you leave us, Blake?

Short documentary...

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Dreamplay
Dreamplay

Hindu god Indra has a daughter Agnes, who visits Earth to find out if people have legitimate complai...

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To Paint With Pictures
To Paint With Pictures

Documentary about the making of Swedish film director Jan Troell's "The New Land" (1971) and "The Em...

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Jacobo Timerman: Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number
Jacobo Timerman: Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number

An Argentinian newspaper publisher is imprisoned by his government for dissent....

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De kalte ham Skarven
De kalte ham Skarven

About a fisherman who has to face judgement on his life after an accident....

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Kort är sommaren
Kort är sommaren

Lieutenant Glahn arrives in a small village in northern Norway. He wants to live in peace in the com...

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Home Town
Home Town

Who are we? Where do we come from? With private recordings, unique archive footage and stories from ...

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Persona: The Film That Saved Ingmar Bergman
Persona: The Film That Saved Ingmar Bergman

In 1965 Ingmar Bergman filmed “Persona”, the cult film that brought together all of the Swedish film...

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Bergman: A Year in a Life
Bergman: A Year in a Life

The year 1957 was one of the most prolific for the Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman: he shot two fil...

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Passion of Anna: Disintegration of Passion
Passion of Anna: Disintegration of Passion

A documentary about En Passion...

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Shame: The Search for Humanity
Shame: The Search for Humanity

A short documentary about Skammen...

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The Search for Sanity
The Search for Sanity

A short documentary about Hour of the Wolf....

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Searching for Ingmar Bergman
Searching for Ingmar Bergman

A meaningful account of the personal and professional life of the great Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Ber...

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An Introduction to Ingmar Bergman
An Introduction to Ingmar Bergman

Produced in 1968 for New York's WNET public television station and filmed by Gunnar Fischer, host Le...

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Away from Home
Away from Home

A documentary about the making of Ingmar Bergman's 1977 film "The Serpent's Egg."...

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Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons

How the cinema industry does not respect the author's work as it was conceived, how manipulates the ...

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Viaggio in Bergmania
Viaggio in Bergmania

This is a cinematic pilgrimage by two young Turkish directors to their biggest source of inspiration...

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Wars Don't End
Wars Don't End

During World War II, 12 000 children were born to Norwegian mothers and German soldiers. In WARS DON...

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Norwegian Seamen
Norwegian Seamen

The history of Norwegian seamen goes from the Viking Age, and over to the present time when young pe...

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Die Frauen in Ingmar Bergmans Filmen
Die Frauen in Ingmar Bergmans Filmen

Documentary about the Woman in Ingmar Bergman's Movies...

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Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes

True story (based on the book by Eleanor Coerr) about a Japanese girl named Sadako Sasaki, who was t...

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Night of 100 Stars
Night of 100 Stars

The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place ...

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The Trigon
The Trigon

Two old friends live together and live in their own happy but real world. Both dream of conquering M...

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Møte med "Pæra"
Møte med "Pæra"

Schoolmates 20 years later....

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Onkel Vanja
Onkel Vanja

A retired professor has returned to his estate to live with his beautiful young wife, Elena....

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The Vocation
The Vocation

Sven Nykvist, best known as Ingmar Bergman cinematographer, made this film as a tribute to his fathe...

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The Making of Autumn Sonata
The Making of Autumn Sonata

This documentary, shot by Arne Carlsson on the set of AUTUMN SONATA, charts the process of bringing ...

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Oslofilm: Bak kulissene
Oslofilm: Bak kulissene

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