Max von Sydow

Max von Sydow

Birthday: 1929-04-10

Place of Birth: Lund, Skåne län, Sweden

Biography: Max von Sydow (born Carl Adolf von Sydow; April 10, 1929 – March 8, 2020) was a Swedish actor. He also held French citizenship since 2002. He starred in many films and had supporting roles in dozens more. He performed in films filmed in many languages, including Swedish, Norwegian, English, Italian, German, Danish, French and Spanish. Some of his most memorable film roles include knight Antonius Block in Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal (the first of his eleven films with Bergman and the film that includes the iconic shot of his career in the scene where he plays chess with Death), Jesus in George Stevens's The Greatest Story Ever Told, Father Merrin in Friedkin's The Exorcist, Joubert the assassin in Three Days of the Condor, and Ming the Merciless in the 1980 version of Flash Gordon. He was twice nominated for the Academy Award - Best Leading Actor for Pelle the Conqueror (1988) and Best Supporting Actor for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2011).

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Minority Report
Minority Report

John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes b...

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The Seventh Seal
The Seventh Seal

When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country ...

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Wild Strawberries
Wild Strawberries

Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unh...

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Hostile Waters
Hostile Waters

Based on true events, an American submarine collides into a Soviet sub of the coast of America and a...

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Snow Falling on Cedars
Snow Falling on Cedars

In the 1950s, a Japanese-American fisherman is suspected of killing his neighbour at sea. For Ishmae...

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Dune
Dune

In the year 10,191, the most precious substance in the universe is the spice Melange. The spice exte...

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Max von Sydow
Max von Sydow

One of the greatest actors of the twentieth century, von Sydow is best known for his long creative p...

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The Greatest Story Ever Told
The Greatest Story Ever Told

From his birth in Bethlehem to his death and eventual resurrection, the life of Jesus Christ is give...

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Until the End of the World
Until the End of the World

In 1999, a woman's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash with two bank robbers, who...

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Needful Things
Needful Things

A mysterious new shop opens in a small town which always seems to stock the deepest desires of each ...

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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor-in-chief of French fashion bible Elle magazine, has a devastating strok...

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Flash Gordon
Flash Gordon

A football player and his mates travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny ...

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Intacto
Intacto

An enigmatic tale of four people whose lives are intertwined by destiny are subject to the laws of f...

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Awakenings
Awakenings

Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic vic...

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Pelle the Conqueror
Pelle the Conqueror

In the late 19th century, two Swedish emigrants, Lasse Karlsson and his son Pelle, arrive on the Dan...

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Ring of the Nibelungs
Ring of the Nibelungs

In this swords-and-sorcery tale, good-hearted blacksmith Eyvind hides away infant Prince Siegfried a...

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Robin Hood
Robin Hood

When soldier Robin happens upon the dying Robert of Loxley, he promises to return the man's sword to...

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Hannah and Her Sisters
Hannah and Her Sisters

Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondri...

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Rush Hour 3
Rush Hour 3

After a botched assassination attempt, the mismatched duo finds themselves in Paris, struggling to r...

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Shutter Island
Shutter Island

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient f...

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Exorcist II: The Heretic
Exorcist II: The Heretic

Bizarre nightmares plague Regan MacNeil four years after her possession and exorcism. Has the demon ...

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Dance Around the Guldbaggen
Dance Around the Guldbaggen

Filmed during the first ever Guldbaggen (golden scarab) awards, it was edited and developed that nig...

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Through a Glass Darkly
Through a Glass Darkly

Karin hopes to recover from her recent stay at a mental hospital by spending the summer at her famil...

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Dreamscape
Dreamscape

In order to diagnose the psychic traumas suffered by his patients, Dr. Paul Novotny gets young Alex ...

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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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The Virgin Spring
The Virgin Spring

Devout Christians Töre and Märeta send their only daughter, the virginal Karin, and their foster dau...

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The Final Inquiry
The Final Inquiry

In 35 A.D., a Roman tribune is sent to Palestine to investigate the death and possible resurrection ...

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Three Days of the Condor
Three Days of the Condor

When bookish CIA researcher Joe Turner finds all his co-workers dead, he, together with a woman he h...

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A Kiss Before Dying
A Kiss Before Dying

Infatuated with the idea of becoming rich, college student Jonathan Corliss secretly dates Dorothy C...

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The Ultimate Warrior
The Ultimate Warrior

Only a few people still live in New York in 2012. They are organized in gangs with their own turf. O...

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What Dreams May Come
What Dreams May Come

Chris Nielsen dies to find himself in a heaven more amazing than he could have ever dreamed of. Ther...

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March or Die
March or Die

Just after World War I, Major Foster is incorporating new recruits into his French Foreign Legion pl...

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Citizen X
Citizen X

Based on the true story of a Russian serial killer who, over many years, claimed victim to over 50 p...

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Europa
Europa

Just after World War II, an American takes a railway job in Germany, but finds his position politica...

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Judge Dredd
Judge Dredd

In a dystopian future, Dredd, the most famous judge (a cop with instant field judiciary powers) is c...

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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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The Exorcist
The Exorcist

When a mysterious entity possesses a young girl, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests t...

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Druids
Druids

In the year 60 B.C. a group of Druids, including the arch-druid Guttuart (Max von Sydow), witness th...

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Strange Brew
Strange Brew

Something is rotten at the Elsinore Brewery. Bob and Doug McKenzie (as seen on SCTV) help the orphan...

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Conan the Barbarian
Conan the Barbarian

A horde of rampaging warriors massacre the parents of young Conan and enslave the young child for ye...

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Solomon Kane
Solomon Kane

A nomadic 16th century warrior, condemned to hell for his brutal past, seeks redemption by renouncin...

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Emotional Arithmetic
Emotional Arithmetic

An emotionally scarred fifty-something female, a high-profile but haunted British novelist, and a he...

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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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A Man and His Dog
A Man and His Dog

An elderly gentleman and his dog find themselves out of a home with little means....

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The Best Intentions
The Best Intentions

In this film about Ingmar Bergman's parents, Henrik Bergman is studying for the priesthood and tryin...

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The Magician
The Magician

A traveling magician and his assistants are persecuted by authorities in 19th century Sweden. Their ...

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Winter Light
Winter Light

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

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Never Say Never Again
Never Say Never Again

James Bond returns as the secret agent 007 to battle the evil organization SPECTRE. Bond must defeat...

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Tuschinski's Dream
Tuschinski's Dream

After 50 years of exile, an old man comes back to the cinema of his childhood. The Tuschinski Theate...

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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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Hawaii
Hawaii

Abner Hale, a rigid and humorless New England missionary, marries the beautiful Jerusha Bromley and ...

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Brink of Life
Brink of Life

Three women in a maternity ward share their lives and intimate thoughts, and face the choice of keep...

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Heidi
Heidi

Swiss girl Adelheid 'Heidi' is orphaned young. Aunt Detie brings her to grandpa Alp and his wife, wh...

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Illustrious Corpses
Illustrious Corpses

A detective is assigned to investigate the mysterious murders of some Supreme Court judges....

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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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The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute
The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute

In this made-for-TV production, Vincent Price and his hunchback sidekick (Billy Van) host a pun-fill...

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Private Confessions
Private Confessions

Five conversations frame a flawed marriage in this film written by Ingmar Bergman about his parents....

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Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde
Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde

A profile of Jean-Paul Belmondo by his peers. Besides appearing in over eighty films, the actor also...

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The Kremlin Letter
The Kremlin Letter

After an unauthorized letter suggesting U.S. support for a Russian attack on China is sent to Moscow...

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The Apple War
The Apple War

A German businessman wants to buy land in southern Sweden for a gigantic amusement park, his new pro...

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The Quiller Memorandum
The Quiller Memorandum

After two British Secret Intelligence Service agents are murdered at the hands of a cryptic neo-Nazi...

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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

A year after his father's death, Oskar, a troubled young boy, discovers a mysterious key he believes...

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The Desert of the Tartars
The Desert of the Tartars

Lieutenant Giovanni Drogo is assigned to the old Bastiani border fortress where he expects an immine...

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Sleepless
Sleepless

An elderly and retired police detective and a young amateur sleuth team up to find a serial killer w...

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Miss Julie
Miss Julie

Based on the play by August Strindberg, Miss Julie vividly depicts the battle of the sexes and class...

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Escape to Victory
Escape to Victory

A group of POWs in a German prison camp during World War II play the German National Soccer Team in ...

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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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Oscar and the Lady in Pink
Oscar and the Lady in Pink

Listening in to a conversation between his doctor and parents, 10-year-old Oscar learns what nobody ...

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Delblanc
Delblanc

Portrait of the Swedish writer Sven Delblanc made up of interviews with friends and family along wit...

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Duet for One
Duet for One

When Stephanie, a famous violinist, contracts multiple sclerosis her life begins to fall apart. Her ...

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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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Brass Target
Brass Target

General George S. Patton died in a car accident in 1945. But was his death actually a murder. Is he...

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The Flight of the Eagle
The Flight of the Eagle

The Swedish 19th century engineer Salomon August Andrée sets out to become the first man on the nort...

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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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Steppenwolf
Steppenwolf

In the bourgeois circles of Europe after the Great War, can anything save the modern man? Harry Hall...

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Code Name: Emerald
Code Name: Emerald

In preparation for Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Nazi occupied territory, the 'overlord...

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Hidden Children
Hidden Children

This is a true story about forty Jewish children on their way to Palestine, who were blocked by the ...

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Voyage of the Damned
Voyage of the Damned

A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival....

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Och ge oss skuggorna
Och ge oss skuggorna

It is the 61st birthday of the American author Eugene O'Neill. He is sick, old and his name has star...

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Black Journal
Black Journal

A mother so insanely overprotective of her grown son decides to make a deal with death by offering a...

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Solomon
Solomon

David, now an old man, is still king of Israel. Among his sons, the ambitious Adonijah and the cleve...

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Hamsun
Hamsun

Knut Hamsun is Norway's most famous and admired author. Ever since he was young he has hated the Eng...

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Heart of a Dog
Heart of a Dog

Professor Preobrazhensky puts courageous experiences, trying to turn a dog in equal to in all of the...

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The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist
The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist

A behind-the-scenes retrospective made for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the classic horror film, ...

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Ghostbusters II
Ghostbusters II

The discovery of a massive river of ectoplasm and a resurgence of spectral activity allows the staff...

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The Touch
The Touch

A Swedish housewife begins an adulterous affair with an American archaeologist, unaware of his emoti...

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The Reward
The Reward

A crash-landed crop-duster betrays a fugitive and his girlfriend to Mexican bounty hunters....

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The Soldier's Tale
The Soldier's Tale

A soldier, returning home from war, chances upon a stranger who offers to buy his violin. The strang...

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Conan Unchained: The Making of 'Conan'
Conan Unchained: The Making of 'Conan'

Nearly all the cast and crew are on hand to give stories and memories about the making of the film. ...

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Depth Solitude
Depth Solitude

A philosophical swimming pool attendant lives his life at the bottom of a pool. (stockholmfilmfestiv...

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Branded
Branded

In a dystopian future, where corporate brands have created a disillusioned population, one man's eff...

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Foxtrot
Foxtrot

A Romanian aristocrat retreats to a desert isle with his wife and servants on the eve of World War I...

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Egg! Egg! A Hardboiled Story
Egg! Egg! A Hardboiled Story

A fairy tale and satire about a wealthy industrialist, whose son has been subdued and oppressed and ...

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The Bachelor
The Bachelor

In pre-WWI Austria-Hungary, a physician struggles with his decision about which woman will he marry....

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The Wolf at the Door
The Wolf at the Door

Chronicling a period of time in Paul Gauguin's life, this film follows him through his struggles in ...

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The Silent Touch
The Silent Touch

Henry Kesdi is a silenced classical composer and a survivor of the Holocaust. He is coaxed out from ...

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Only a Mother
Only a Mother

A poor woman in a Swedish farming community struggles to feed her large family and is torn by her pa...

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The Mistress
The Mistress

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

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Jerusalem
Jerusalem

Members of a devout Christian congregation try to start a new life in Palestine....

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Target Eagle
Target Eagle

A Spanish police chief hires an undercover agent, Eagle, to infiltrate a gang of heroin smugglers. I...

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Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Thirty years after defeating the Galactic Empire, Han Solo and his allies face a new threat from the...

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Father
Father

On a TV tabloid show, Iya Zetnick exposes Joe Mueller as the Nazi war criminal who killed her family...

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Red King, White Knight
Red King, White Knight

The CIA hears of a KGB scheme to assassinate the Soviet General Secretary and enlists Stoner, an age...

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Max Von Sydow: Dialogues with The Renter
Max Von Sydow: Dialogues with The Renter

A documentary shot on the set of "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" by Cedric Brelet von Sydow....

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The Right to Love
The Right to Love

Priests who call sex education the devil's invention rage against the progressive doctor whose bigot...

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Ingen mans kvinna
Ingen mans kvinna

Imber has a child with the dubious fiancé Erland. He is destructive and his unhealthy lifestyle subj...

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Wonderful Adventures of Nils
Wonderful Adventures of Nils

A film adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf's classic book about Nils Holgersson, who is a real rascal. As p...

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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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Samson and Delilah
Samson and Delilah

A tale of passion and betrayal in which Samson, a judge of Israel who fled with his tribe during the...

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Here Is Your Life
Here Is Your Life

A working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving through a series of jobs and rom...

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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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Black Palm Trees
Black Palm Trees

Four sailors stranded in Rio are about to retrieve their salary for a salvage. The only requirement ...

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Venetian Lies
Venetian Lies

A lonely 17 year old boy is looking for a couple who is ready to adopt him....

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Interlude in the Marshland
Interlude in the Marshland

It's the mid-1930s, and brakeman Kvist has had enough of working on the train, jumped off, and start...

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Let Poland Be Poland
Let Poland Be Poland

Broadcast live via satellite around the world on January 31, 1982, this special produced by the US I...

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Mr. Sleeman Is Coming
Mr. Sleeman Is Coming

Herr Sleeman kommer is a 1917 one-act play by the Swedish author Hjalmar Bergman. The main character...

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Spion 503
Spion 503

The German agent, 503 June Harvey, has caused serious losses to the Danish resistance movement durin...

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The Letters
The Letters

Mother Teresa, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, is considered one of the greatest humanitarians o...

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The Second Victory
The Second Victory

After the end of Word War II, a lone and elusive skier from the German Mountain Troops continues to ...

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Hurricane
Hurricane

The story of the desperate love affair between a young Samoan chief and a beautiful American painter...

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The First, the Last
The First, the Last

Apocalyptic neo-western about two gangsters, a town full of crazy people and Jesus......

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Rabies
Rabies

A relay race of "scenes from human life". Depicts the human characters inferior traits are spreading...

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The Human Factor
The Human Factor

The film is based on some metaphors written by Hans Viksten and recited by Max von Sydow, supplemen...

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Le dernier civil
Le dernier civil

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Their Frozen Dream
Their Frozen Dream

Poetic documentary about the polar expedition of S. A. Andrée which Troell had previously dramatized...

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She Dances Alone
She Dances Alone

Director Robert Dornhelm casts Bud Cort for alter-ego purposes in She Dances Alone. Cort plays a doc...

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Cellini: A Violent Life
Cellini: A Violent Life

The story of Benvenuto Cellinin (1500-1571), a soldier and one of the most important craftsmen and a...

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Starring Sigmund Freud
Starring Sigmund Freud

Starring Sigmund Freud is a video memento for Sigmund Freud's little-known film career. Based on an ...

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Kojak The Belarus File
Kojak The Belarus File

Lt. Theo Kojak uncovers a Nazi conspiracy....

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Made in Sweden
Made in Sweden

Joergen (Per Myberg) is the Swedish journalist who uncovers a gun-running operation on the borders o...

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The Cinema of Carl Th. Dreyer
The Cinema of Carl Th. Dreyer

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Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes
Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes

The movie follows the perspective of several characters (such as Japanese victims, soldiers, America...

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Kursk
Kursk

Barents Sea, August 12th, 2000. During a Russian naval exercise, and after suffering a serious accid...

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The Repenter
The Repenter

A judge on crusade to take down the Italian Mafia uses a gangster turned state's witness (a so-calle...

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4 x 4
4 x 4

Four short stories from Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland....

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The Princess and the Pauper
The Princess and the Pauper

A fairy tale about a twin princess and a prince who where seperated after their birth....

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Dragons: Real Myths and Unreal Creatures
Dragons: Real Myths and Unreal Creatures

Audiences join two peculiar characters, an unusual dream therapist and his mysterious patient, as th...

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The Diary of Anne Frank
The Diary of Anne Frank

During World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in...

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Morfars resa
Morfars resa

Shortly after the end of the war Göran is forced to take care of his somewhat delirious grandfather ...

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Onkel Vanja
Onkel Vanja

A retired professor has returned to his estate to live with his beautiful young wife, Yelena. The es...

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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid

First love - or first infatuation - overwhelms Indy in Vienna, where he is smitten with the daughter...

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The Last Norwegian Troll
The Last Norwegian Troll

In the old days, Norway used to be a safe haven for Trolls, but not anymore. One day three young goa...

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The Atlantic
The Atlantic

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

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Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman

Portrait of Ingmar Bergman, made while he was working on The Touch, about his professional and priva...

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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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Captured: Meet Robert A. Robinson Photographer
Captured: Meet Robert A. Robinson Photographer

Bob Robinson (1927-1996) and American photographer living and working in many parts of the world. No...

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Embassy
Embassy

A KGB assassin infiltrates the American embassy in Beirut in an attempt to eliminate a Russian defec...

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The Wolfman
The Wolfman

Lawrence Talbot, an American man on a visit to Victorian London to make amends with his estranged fa...

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Circle of Passions
Circle of Passions

An aristocratic Sicilian family living in the 1950s. Count Villafratti has sex one night with his ny...

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George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey

Biography of the legendary filmmaker directed by his son....

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The Wedding Day
The Wedding Day

Anders and Sylvia are set to be married, but Sylvia says 'no' and runs away at the altar....

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Behind the Moomins
Behind the Moomins

Interviews with the English language voice cast of 'Moomins and the Comet Chase.'...

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Death Watch
Death Watch

In a future world where the disease has been finally defeated and everything can be sold, even the c...

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Time is Money
Time is Money

A grumpy writer resists his wife's and agent's attempts to goad him into completing his latest novel...

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The Broken Mirror
The Broken Mirror

Anne lives with her husband in Belgium where she works as a restorer of paintings. When she becomes ...

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Foreign Filmmakers in Hollywood
Foreign Filmmakers in Hollywood

Filmed around the time of the 1989 Oscars this documentary includes interviews with foreign filmmake...

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Echoes of the Past
Echoes of the Past

A lawyer, who represents the German government against the Greek reparation claims for Nazi crimes i...

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Ingmar Bergman: The Magic Lantern
Ingmar Bergman: The Magic Lantern

The first of two documentaries about Ingmar Bergman produced to mark his 70th birthday. Includes beh...

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The Minister of Uddarbo
The Minister of Uddarbo

A devoted but controversial priest comes to a Swedish village. He encounters conflicts with the loca...

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East of the Sun, West of the Moon
East of the Sun, West of the Moon

Hidden deep in the blue forest of Norway, there lived a peasant farmer and his family. In a fierce s...

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Destination Dune
Destination Dune

A short documentary that was originally produced to promote the film at conventions and publicity ev...

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Palme
Palme

Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was openly shot to death on a February evening 1986 on the streets...

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Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies

Dive into 60 minutes of blood, bravado and brilliant scares as we trace the evolution of horror cine...

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Lumière & Company
Lumière & Company

40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invente...

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