Erland Josephson
Birthday: 1923-06-16
Place of Birth: Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
Biography: Erland Josephson (15 June 1923 – 25 February 2012) was a Swedish actor and author. He was best known by international audiences for his work in films directed by Ingmar Bergman, Andrei Tarkovsky and Theodoros Angelopoulos. Description above from the Wikipedia article Erland Josephson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Nostalgia
A Russian poet, Andrei and his interpreter, Eugenia travel to Italy to research the life of an 18th-...
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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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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Successful surgeon Tomas leaves Prague for an operation, meets a young photographer named Tereza, an...
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Season of Peace in Paris
A Yugoslavian man meets a woman in Paris, where he has come to do some research, and their mutual at...
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Prospero's Books
An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and ...
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Från regnormarnas liv
The actress Johanne Heiberg and author Hans Christian Andersen bump into each other one night and no...
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Fanny and Alexander
As children in the loving Ekdahl family, Fanny and Alexander enjoy a happy life with their parents, ...
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A Look at Liv
Using original footage and interviews, family photos, and excepts from many of the actress's screen ...
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Ulysses' Gaze
An exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions of hi...
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Foto: Sven Nykvist
A short documentary about the work of Swedish cinematographer and Ingmar Bergman collaborator, Sven ...
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The Sacrifice
Alexander, a journalist, philosopher and retired actor, celebrates a birthday with friends and famil...
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Autumn Sonata
After a seven-year absence, Charlotte Andergast travels to Sweden to reunite with her daughter Eva. ...
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After the Rehearsal
Rational, exacting, and self-controlled theater director, Henrik Vogler, often stays after rehearsal...
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The Magician
A traveling magician and his assistants are persecuted by authorities in 19th century Sweden. Their ...
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Face to Face
Two psychiatrists' marriage is tested when one suffers a mental breakdown....
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Hanussen
A man's story parallels Hitler's rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in...
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The Passion of Anna
A recently divorced man and an emotionally devastated widow begin a love affair....
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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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The Accidental Golfer
I bet anyone can get better at golf than you are in one week, a golfer says to her golfing businessm...
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Minns ni?
A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 ...
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To Joy
Two violinists in the same orchestra fall in love and get married, but they can't get along....
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Faithless
Scripted by Ingmar Bergman, this very personal film is about a destructive affair which wrecks the m...
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In the Presence of a Clown
54-year-old Franz Schubert fan Carl, admitted the psychiatric ward of Akademiska Hospital following ...
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Le Testament d'un poète juif assassiné
This somber drama chronicles the writings of Paltiel Kossover (Michel Jonasz), a Rumanian Jew who wa...
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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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The Tattooed Widow
Ester is the perfect grandmother everyone expects her to be. But she unexpectedly inherits an old au...
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Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg
Swedish account of Raoul Wallenberg, the man responsible for the largest rescue of Jews during World...
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Beyond Good and Evil
The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and his Jewish companion Paul Ree meet a beautiful young ...
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Montenegro
Marilyn Jordan, an American, lives in Stockholm with her Swedish husband and family. Her behavior is...
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Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
This documentary offers a rare glimpse of the legendary Soviet filmmaker, Andrei Tarkosvky, at work....
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Saraband
A follow-up to Scenes from a Marriage (1973); some thirty years after divorcing Johan, Marianne deci...
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To Forget Venice
Nicky and Anna, brother and sister, reunite in their childhood home in the Venetian countryside. Acc...
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I Am Afraid
During a wave of political violence in Italy, a policeman who's already survived an assassination is...
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The House of the Yellow Carpet
Franca and her husband Antonio decide to sell a yellow rug which was a gift of Franca's stepfather. ...
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Kristin Lavransdatter
The daughter of a prominent medieval Norway landowner, Kristin grows up in total harmony with the id...
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Savannen
A couple have installed a new high tech television system in their children's room and become more a...
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Un caso d'incoscienza
In Italy, set in the early 1930s, a missing Swedish millionaire (Erland Josephson) is the target of ...
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Vendetta
Two Swedish business men are kidnapped in Rome by the Mob, and moved to Sicily. Carl Hamilton is sen...
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Saving Grace
A newly-elected Pope Leo XIV finds himself accidentally locked out of the Vatican. Unknown to the ou...
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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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Variola Vera
An Albanian pilgrim, infected with an unknown disease, is on his way back to Belgrade from the Middl...
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Sceningång
A day in the life of a theater ensemble. The acting students are struggling to get one foot ahead of...
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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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Meeting Venus
Celebrated Swedish opera star Karin Anderson is slated to appear in an internationally-telecast prod...
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On the Last Verse - A Small Film About Death
The documentary director KG Forsberg makes a film about his dying father....
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The Wicked
At the beginning of the 20th century, a junior resident takes an interest in a newly-arrived patient...
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The Girls
As they tour Sweden in a theatrical production of "Lysistrata", performing to often uncomprehending ...
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Flying Devils
A family of aerialists decides to go after the $250,000 prize being offered to any group that can ex...
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Now
A man and a woman meet in 1960. They marry because that's what you are supposed to do. But something...
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Dubbelsvindlarna
Principal Bertilsson live a peaceful small-town life in Kalmar. No one knows that in his basement wa...
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The Magnetist’s Fifth Winter
A mysterious stranger, Meisner, arrives in a northern Swedish town in 1820, calling himself a magnet...
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I Am Curious, Film
The Scandinavian entry in the BFI's Century of Cinema series of documentaries...
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Dreamplay
Hindu god Indra has a daughter Agnes, who visits Earth to find out if people have legitimate complai...
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The Making of Fanny and Alexander
The Making of Fanny and Alexander is a fascinating look at the creation of a masterpiece. Directed b...
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Amorosa
About the Swedish author Agnes Von Krusenstjerna during the period of her marriage to David Sprengel...
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Control
An experiment of psychological effects under stressful conditions in a shelter. When fifteen strange...
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The Sunset Boys
Ernest, Ted and August fulfill their friend Carl's dying wish and take him to Heidelberg, where they...
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Day and Night
Thomas has decided to die, and spends his last day driving around to say good-bye to everybody, his ...
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Stjärnbilder
A tribute to Swedish film, which was made to celebrate the 100th anniversary of film in 1995 and con...
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Bergmans Hushållerska
Anita Haglöf was Ingmar Bergman's housekeeper for eight years, in his home at Karlaplan in Stockholm...
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Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky
In honor of the twentieth anniversary of Andrei Tarkovsky's death, student filmmaker Dmitry Tarkovsk...
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The Ghost Sonata
The Ghost Sonata relates the adventures of a young student, who idealizes the lives of the inhabitan...
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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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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
In desperation brought on by near-starvation, Helge Roos kills his master's ox to feed his wife and ...
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Bergman Island
The desolate and mysterious island of Fårö, Sweden, Baltic Sea, 2004. Swedish master filmmaker Ingma...
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The Malady of Love
Physician Robert Briand (Robin Renucci) runs a leper colony in the 15th century that takes in new re...
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The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway
Larger-than-life American author Ernest Hemingway is the subject of this biopic that chronicles the ...
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Lighting
A documentary on Sven Nykvist lighting the movie-set during the shooting of Andrei Tarkovsky's film ...
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Migrations
Based on the famous novel of Milos Crnjanski, the story follows Serbian migrations from the Austro-H...
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Som man bäddar...
Peter Kallander and Johannes Nord are childhood friends and close to each other's opposites. Peter i...
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Bakom jalusin
A Swedish writer is visiting Morocco. At his hotel, he stays next door to an Italian couple. He beco...
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The Swedish General Strike 1909
The struggle between the LO and SAF and history of the labor movement...
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Eva
Eva is a widow bored with life, with her job as an architect, with her younger lover, and with her t...
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The Vocation
Sven Nykvist, best known as Ingmar Bergman cinematographer, made this film as a tribute to his fathe...
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Alf Sjöberg - mästaren
Alf Sjöberg (1903-1980) was Swedens greatest theater director of the 20th century and as a film dire...
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The Dark Sun
After the death of his mother a man returns to his hometown Palermo in southern Italy in order to ge...
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Scener ur ett vardagsliv
"Scenes from everyday life" is about a few weeks in the life of actor Erland Josephson. Once constan...
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Bergmans början: Ilska. Kärlek. Magknip.
Documentary relating Ingmar Bergman's life, from his high school graduation up until he became an es...
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Sofie
Liv Ulmann's directorial debut also had her co-authoring the screenplay (with poet Peter Poulsen) as...
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Games of Love and Loneliness
Arvid falls in love with Lydia but puts the budding romance on hold to pursue a career and material ...
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You Love Only Once
Tomislav is a former Partizan who continues his struggle after the war as a dedicated member of Tito...
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Ingmar Bergman: Reflections on Life, Death, and Love
Malou Von Sivers is the hostess of a popular Swedish talk show in which she quizzes famous people ab...
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Dubbelsvindlarna
Principal Bertilsson live a peaceful small-town life in Kalmar. No one knows that in his basement wa...
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Swedish and Underage
A girl of 14 is embarrassing her foster parents. She exposes herself to a homeless and police. It tu...
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Directed by Bergman (The Making of Saraband)
A documentary about the production of Ingmar Bergman's TV film "Saraband."...
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Monismanien 1995
In a fictional future totalitarian society ruled as a one-party state. A teacher commits the crime t...
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The Lie
A Swedish couple are trapped in their marriage and way of life. Locked up in their bourgeois inferno...
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Dirty Story
The director of one of Finland's largest company, United Metal, discovers the company's Chairman dea...
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The Dancer
The career of a classical ballet dancer is short and often riddled with injuries, and it takes a spe...
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One on One
After years of ignoring the shy cousin whom she and her peers taunted mercilessly as a child, a midd...
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Angela's War
In this melodrama about love in wartime, Angela (Ida-Lotta Backman) is a Finnish nurse in Lapland wh...
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Bella Donna
This film of a glitzy showbiz world by director Peter Keglevic in his first feature-length effort re...
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Holocene
Adapted from the Max Frisch novel "Der Mensch erscheint im Holozän". It tells the story of an old ma...
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Victor Sjöström - A Portrait
Documentary of the Swedish actor/director Victor Sjöström and his work - from Terje Vigen (1917) to ...
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Som löven i Vallombrosa
Four generations of the same family meet in a summer cottage over a weekend....
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A Dream Play
"A Dream Play" - Agnes, a daughter of the Vedic god Indra, descends to Earth to bear witness to prob...
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Fanny & Alexander: A Bergman Tapestry
Short documentary featuring interviews from the cast and crew of "Fanny and Alexander." Featured on ...
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Welcome to Verona
In a sanatorium for people in their 60's Walter meets Virginia and falls in love. His boyish invites...
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Men and Bergman
Ingmar Bergman himself has often stressed how important the actors are to his work, and that they co...
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Building Images: Anna Asp on Scenography
Documentary on production designer Anna Asp's work with director Andrey Tarkovsky, during the shooti...
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Rosenbaum - Bländverk
At a porn club in Stockholm, a brutal murder is committed - and one of the striptease dancers takes ...
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Rosenbaum - Målbrott
One of the students in a school, a young girl, is found strangled. Everything indicates that the gym...
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Rosenbaum - Det sista vittnet
At a Swedish company with international contacts, a bestial murder is committed. The murdered person...
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Andrey Tarkovsky in Nostalghia
A poetic and intimate scene-by-scene look into the filming of Tarkovsky's 'Nostalghia'....
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Eva
Marine Bo Fredriksson is travelling home on a leave. He reminisce about an accident he caused as a 1...
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Svensk Filmindustri: La grande aventure du cinéma Suédois
Rarely in the history of the cinema, a company films productions will have marked the history and th...
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The Exile and Death of Andrei Tarkovsky
A documentary about the life of Andrei Tarkovsky in exile in Western Europe including Italy, Sweden,...
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Marmalade Revolution
A Professor comes home carrying a paper bag with food. Among the goods in the bag is apricot jam. Hi...
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The Forbidden Fruit
The film depicts the incredible metamorphosis of a clerk whose sense of identity and pride are reawa...
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It Rains on Our Love
A young couple, penniless, break into a summer cottage; the owner offers to rent to them but he has ...
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Well Tempered Corpses
A couple of morticians entertain themselves by betting on how many cold customers will come in that ...
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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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The First Polka
The intertwined lives of people of both Polish and German extraction who live on the pre-World War I...
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