Vilgot Sjöman

Vilgot Sjöman

Born: December 2, 1924
Died: April 9, 2006
in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
David Harald Vilgot Sjöman was a Swedish writer and film director. His films deal with controversial issues of social class, morality, and sexual taboos, combining the emotionally-tortured characters of Ingmar Bergman with the avant garde style of the French New Wave. He is best known as the director of the films 491 (1964), I Am Curious (Yellow) (in Swedish, "Jag är nyfiken - gul") (1967), and I Am Curious (Blue) ("Jag är nyfiken - blå") (1968), which stretched the boundaries of acceptability of what could then be shown on film, deliberately treating their subjects in a provocative and explicit manner.

Movies for Vilgot Sjöman...

Lena
Title: Lena
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 17, 2021
Type: Movie
Follows the story of the beloved and internationally acclaimed Swedish actress Lena Nyman, based on 17 paper bags with diaries that she left behind.
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Feature 136
Title: Feature 136
Character: Himself (archival footage)
Released: November 17, 2018
Type: Movie
Ingmar Bergman's film Winter Light from 1963 is one of the most mythical and discussed films in Swedish history. In this documentary, director Kristian Petri uses unique archival footage to tell about the making of the film and, together with two actors bringing Bergman and Vilgot Sjöman to life, he tells about creativity, friendship, power and fear.
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Palme
Title: Palme
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 14, 2012
Type: Movie
Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was openly shot to death on a February evening 1986 on the streets of Stockholm. In one night, the country of Sweden was transfigured. “Palme” is about his life, his time, and about the Sweden he had created. About a man who altered history.
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Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
Title: Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
Character: Self
Released: July 17, 2005
Type: Movie
How the cinema industry does not respect the author's work as it was conceived, how manipulates the motion pictures in order to make them easier to watch by an undemanding audience or even how mutilates them to adapt the original formats and runtimes to the restrictive frame of the television screen and the abusive requirements of advertising. (Followed by “Filmmakers in Action.”)
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Filmstaden
Title: Filmstaden
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
'Filmstaden', a film studio in Stockholm where directors Victor Sjöström, Mauritz Stiller, Ingmar Bergman among others worked - as well as many prominent actors - was built 1919-1920. This documentary tells its rich history featuring many of the people involved.
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Self Portrait '92
Title: Self Portrait '92
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
This is a sort of documentary made by Vilgot Sjoman about Vilgot Sjoman as a sort of cinematic autobiography aired on Swedish television originally in 1992.
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Till Sex Do Us Part
Title: Till Sex Do Us Part
Character: Man
Released: October 25, 1971
Type: Movie
This Swedish sex-comedy/drama explores the complications in the relationship of a couple who believe that if they make love to each other, they will die. They neck and are physically affectionate in public as well as in private, but have a big taboo against sexual consummation. Their situation drives them to distraction, and they unsuccessfully seek various extramarital outlets for their frustrations.
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You're Lying!
Title: You're Lying!
Released: October 26, 1969
Type: Movie
About an alcohol-damaged young man, his life in and out of prison, his friend the art teacher and his difficulties reintegrating into society.
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Shame
Title: Shame
Character: TV Interviewer
Released: September 29, 1968
Type: Movie
In the midst of a civil war, former violinists Jan and Eva Rosenberg, who have a tempestuous marriage, run a farm on a rural island. In spite of their best efforts to escape their homeland, the war impinges on every aspect of their lives.
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I Am Curious (Blue)
Title: I Am Curious (Blue)
Character: Vilgot Sjöman
Released: March 11, 1968
Type: Movie
The same movie with the same characters, cast and crew as I am Curious (Yellow), but with some different scenes and a different political slant. The political focus in Blue is personal relationships, religion, prisons and sex. Blue omits much of the class consciousness and non-violence interviews of the first version. Yellow and Blue are the colors of the Swedish flag.
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Stimulantia
Title: Stimulantia
Released: March 28, 1967
Type: Movie
Stimulantia is a 1967 Swedish anthology film comprising eight episodes by eight different directors including Ingmar Bergman, Jörn Donner, Gustaf Molander and Vilgot Sjöman and starring among others Ingrid Bergman, Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Björnstrand, Lars Ekborg and Inga Landgré.
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I Am Curious (Yellow)
Title: I Am Curious (Yellow)
Character: Vilgot Sjöman
Released: March 10, 1967
Type: Movie
Lena, aged twenty, wants to know all she can about life and reality. She collects information on everyone and everything, storing her findings in an enormous archive. She experiments with relationships, political activism, and meditation. Meanwhile, the actors, director and crew are shown in a humorous parallel plot about the making of the film and their reactions to the story and each other. Nudity, explicit sex, and controversial politics kept this film from being shown in the US while its seizure by Customs was appealed.
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Dance Around the Guldbaggen
Title: Dance Around the Guldbaggen
Character: Self
Released: September 25, 1964
Type: Movie
Filmed during the first ever Guldbaggen (golden scarab) awards, it was edited and developed that night and shown for the first time to the guests at the after party.
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A Testimony About Her
Title: A Testimony About Her
Character: the reporter
Released: April 21, 1963
Type: Movie
"A testimony about her." Her being the actor and vocalist Monica Zetterlund. At 25 in the beginning of her career. Monica sings with a trio at a concert. Returns to her empty home in Stockholm. Relaxes in loneliness. Next morning. An interview with writer Vilgot Sjöman. Then off to recording at a studio with the Phillips Recording Orchestra, featuring Jan Johansson on piano. Later a concert at Nalen in Stockholm.
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Ingmar Bergman Makes a Movie
Title: Ingmar Bergman Makes a Movie
Character: Self
Released: January 27, 1963
Type: Movie
The year is 1961 and Ingmar Bergman is making a movie. While planted on the scene as apprentice to Bergman, Vilgot Sjöman (director, I Am Curious–Yellow, 1967), suggests to Swedish Television that they take the opportunity to record with the acclaimed director. In August, Sjöman and the television crew begin to capture what would become a comprehensive five-part documentary on the making of Winter Light, offering views of script development, set construction and lighting, rehearsals and editing, as well as intimate conversations with Bergman and members of his cast and crew. Footage from the film’s Swedish premiere delivers immediate audience reactions and the critics’ reviews the following day.
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Inför Markisinnan de Sade
Title: Inför Markisinnan de Sade
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie