Max von Sydow

Max von Sydow

Born: April 10, 1929
Died: March 8, 2020
in Lund, Skåne län, Sweden
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).

Movies for Max von Sydow...

Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist
Title: Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 5, 2023
Type: Movie
A lyrical and spiritual cinematic essay on The Exorcist, the last film of Alexandre O. Philippe explores the uncharted depths of William Friedkin’s mind’s eye, the nuances of his filmmaking process, and the mysteries of faith and fate that have shaped his life and filmography.
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Echoes of the Past
Title: Echoes of the Past
Character: Nikolas Andreou (Aged)
Released: November 11, 2021
Type: Movie
A lawyer, who represents the German government against the Greek reparation claims for Nazi crimes in World War II, travels to Greece and meets one of the remaining survivors of the Kalavryta massacre that took place in 1943.
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Kursk
Title: Kursk
Character: Admiral Vladimir Petrenko
Released: November 7, 2018
Type: Movie
Barents Sea, August 12th, 2000. During a Russian naval exercise, and after suffering a serious accident, the K-141 Kursk submarine sinks with 118 crew members on board. While the few sailors who are still alive barely manage to survive, their families push for accurate information and a British officer struggles to obtain from the Russian government a permit to attempt a rescue before it is late. But general incompetence are against all their efforts.
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Tuschinski's Dream
Title: Tuschinski's Dream
Released: June 1, 2017
Type: Movie
After 50 years of exile, an old man comes back to the cinema of his childhood. The Tuschinski Theater of Amsterdam was born from a foolish dream; the one of Abraham Icek Tuschinski who has left his shtetl from Poland, and settles in Rotterdam where he opens a canteen to welcome Jewish immigrants. He then opens three little cinema halls that become a fast success and that’s how he decides to built a real cathedral like cinema hall. Real Art Deco palace inaugurated in October 1920, the Tuschinski encounters a meteoric success. During 20 years of a brilliant activity and despite the rise of intolerance in the Netherlands, Abraham Tuschinski believes in his dream. And, though weakened by financial difficulties, Tuschinski will never give up his dream. It will be the Nazis, invading the Netherlands, organizing the deporting of Jews and despoiling the properties, that will make Tuschinski’s dream turning into a nightmare.
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Max von Sydow
Title: Max von Sydow
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: March 7, 2017
Type: Movie
One of the greatest actors of the twentieth century, von Sydow is best known for his long creative partnership with director Ingmar Bergman, whose psychologically probing dramas—including their most famous collaboration, THE SEVENTH SEAL—gave the actor freedom to bare his soul and showcase his unfailingly commanding screen presence. In addition to the string of masterpieces he made with the Swedish auteur, von Sydow embodied a wide range of characters in films by art-house titans such as Jan Troell, Lars von Trier, and Wim Wenders, leaving behind a body of work that spans more than six decades and a dozen different countries. He appeared in more than one hundred and fifty films and television series in multiple languages. Max von Sydow received his French citizenship in 2002 and lived in France for the last two decades of his life.
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The First, the Last
Title: The First, the Last
Character: Le croque-mort
Released: January 27, 2016
Type: Movie
Apocalyptic neo-western about two gangsters, a town full of crazy people and Jesus...
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Title: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Character: Lor San Tekka
Released: December 15, 2015
Type: Movie
Thirty years after defeating the Galactic Empire, Han Solo and his allies face a new threat from the evil Kylo Ren and his army of Stormtroopers.
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The Letters
Title: The Letters
Character: Celeste van Exem
Released: February 23, 2014
Type: Movie
Mother Teresa, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, is considered one of the greatest humanitarians of modern times. Her selfless commitment changed hearts, lives and inspired millions throughout the world. The Letters, as told through personal letters she wrote over the last 40 years of her life, reveal a troubled and vulnerable women who grew to feel an isolation and an abandonment by God.
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Dragons: Real Myths and Unreal Creatures
Title: Dragons: Real Myths and Unreal Creatures
Character: Dr. Alistair Conis
Released: June 28, 2013
Type: Movie
Audiences join two peculiar characters, an unusual dream therapist and his mysterious patient, as they dig up "live" spectacular reenacted classical myths with a variety of dragon species and incarnations in the search for the root of a recurring nightmare. By mixing a fantastic storyline and a substantial dose of documentary information about the myths and realities that surround dragons, the film provides an exciting voyage of discovery for audiences, as they learn about the benevolent dragons of China, the terrifying Wyverns of the British Isles, creation stories from Ancient cities of the Middle East and dangerous water monsters described in native North American legends.
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Branded
Title: Branded
Character: Marketing Guru
Released: September 6, 2012
Type: Movie
In a dystopian future, where corporate brands have created a disillusioned population, one man's effort to unlock the truth behind the conspiracy leads to an epic battle with hidden forces that control the world.
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Max Von Sydow: Dialogues with The Renter
Title: Max Von Sydow: Dialogues with The Renter
Character: Self
Released: March 27, 2012
Type: Movie
A documentary shot on the set of "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" by Cedric Brelet von Sydow.
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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Title: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Character: The Renter
Released: December 25, 2011
Type: Movie
A year after his father's death, Oskar, a troubled young boy, discovers a mysterious key he believes was left for him by his father and embarks on a scavenger hunt to find the matching lock.
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Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde
Title: Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde
Character: Intervenant
Released: October 25, 2011
Type: Movie
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Title: Game of Thrones
Character: Three-Eyed Raven
Released: April 17, 2011
Type: TV
Seven noble families fight for control of the mythical land of Westeros. Friction between the houses leads to full-scale war. All while a very ancient evil awakens in the farthest north. Amidst the war, a neglected military order of misfits, the Night's Watch, is all that stands between the realms of men and icy horrors beyond.
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The Last Norwegian Troll
Title: The Last Norwegian Troll
Character: The Last Norweigian Troll (voice)
Released: August 21, 2010
Type: Movie
In the old days, Norway used to be a safe haven for Trolls, but not anymore. One day three young goats decide to get rid of an old Troll who lives under a bridge. Little do they know that he is the last survivor of his species, the very last Troll of Norway...
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Robin Hood
Title: Robin Hood
Character: Sir Walter Loxley
Released: May 12, 2010
Type: Movie
When soldier Robin happens upon the dying Robert of Loxley, he promises to return the man's sword to his family in Nottingham. There, he assumes Robert's identity; romances his widow, Marion; and draws the ire of the town's sheriff and King John's henchman, Godfrey.
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Shutter Island
Title: Shutter Island
Character: Dr. Naehring
Released: February 14, 2010
Type: Movie
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by troubling visions and a mysterious doctor.
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The Wolfman
Title: The Wolfman
Character: Passenger on Train (Director's Cut) (uncredited)
Released: February 10, 2010
Type: Movie
Lawrence Talbot, an American man on a visit to Victorian London to make amends with his estranged father, gets bitten by a werewolf and, after a moonlight transformation, leaves him with a savage hunger for flesh.
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Behind the Moomins
Title: Behind the Moomins
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
Interviews with the English language voice cast of 'Moomins and the Comet Chase.'
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Oscar and the Lady in Pink
Title: Oscar and the Lady in Pink
Character: Le docteur Dusseldorf
Released: November 15, 2009
Type: Movie
Listening in to a conversation between his doctor and parents, 10-year-old Oscar learns what nobody has the courage to tell him. He only has a few weeks to live. Furious, he refuses to speak to anyone except straight-talking Rose, the lady in pink he meets on the hospital stairs. As Christmas approaches, Rose uses her fantastical experiences as a professional wrestler, her imagination, wit and charm to allow Oscar to live life and love to the full, in the company of his friends Pop Corn, Einstein, Bacon and childhood sweetheart Peggy Blue. Written by American Film Market
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Solomon Kane
Title: Solomon Kane
Character: Josiah Kane
Released: September 16, 2009
Type: Movie
A nomadic 16th century warrior, condemned to hell for his brutal past, seeks redemption by renouncing violence, but finds some things are worth burning for as he fights to free a young Puritan woman from the grip of evil.
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A Man and His Dog
Title: A Man and His Dog
Character: Le commandant
Released: January 14, 2009
Type: Movie
An elderly gentleman and his dog find themselves out of a home with little means.
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Emotional arithmetic
Title: Emotional arithmetic
Character: Jakob Bronski
Released: April 18, 2008
Type: Movie
An emotionally scarred fifty-something female, a high-profile but haunted British novelist, and a heroic dissident-cum-Soviet psychiatric hospital veteran, all reunite decades after bonding and surviving together in a detention camp during World War II.
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Rush Hour 3
Title: Rush Hour 3
Character: Varden Reynard
Released: August 8, 2007
Type: Movie
After a botched assassination attempt, the mismatched duo finds themselves in Paris, struggling to retrieve a precious list of names, as the murderous crime syndicate's henchmen try their best to stop them. Once more, Lee and Carter must fight their way through dangerous gangsters; however, this time, the past has come back to haunt Lee. Will the boys get the job done once and for all?
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Title: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Character: Papinou
Released: May 23, 2007
Type: Movie
The true story of Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind.
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Title: L'inchiesta - Anno Domini XXXIII
Character: Tiberio
Released: April 2, 2007
Type: TV
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The Final Inquiry
Title: The Final Inquiry
Character: Tiberius
Released: April 2, 2007
Type: Movie
It is the year 33 of the Vulgar Era. The Emperor Tiberius is troubled by strange phenomena, an earthquake and the sky turning black as an eclipse. His astrologers give him fair warning: their omens indicate that the world is in the throes of a great upheaval and that old gods have been annihilated. A new kingdom is about to rise in the East. The Emperor calls Tito Valerio Tauro, the most prominent
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Title: The Tudors
Character: Cardinal Von Waldburg
Released: April 1, 2007
Type: TV
The Tudors is a history-based drama series following the young, vibrant King Henry VIII, a competitive and lustful monarch who navigates the intrigues of the English court and the human heart with equal vigor and justifiable suspicion.
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Heidi
Title: Heidi
Character: Uncle Alp
Released: August 19, 2005
Type: Movie
Swiss girl Adelheid 'Heidi' is orphaned young. Aunt Detie brings her to grandpa Alp and his wife, who live isolated in the Alps since his murder charge. Heidi soon takes to the wild country, especially accompanying young goatherd Peter. Grandpa refuses to send her to school in the city, but aunt Detie returns and forces him to give in. She's sent to a posh lady in Frankfurt, where she'll be a companion for crippled daughter Clara after school hours.
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Title: Ring of the Nibelungs
Character: Eyvind
Released: November 29, 2004
Type: TV
The young blacksmith Siegfried, who, not knowing that he is heir to a conquered kingdom, becomes popular with the Burgunds by slaying their bane, the dragon Fafnir. When the reward seems to be a huge treasure, Siegfried ignores the curse that lies on the hoard - which now seems to endanger his love to beautiful Norse warrior queen Brunhild.
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Ring of the Nibelungs
Title: Ring of the Nibelungs
Character: Eyvind
Released: November 19, 2004
Type: Movie
In this swords-and-sorcery tale, good-hearted blacksmith Eyvind hides away infant Prince Siegfried after two malevolent kings murder his father. But a fiery meteor sent by the gods reveals Siegfried's destiny, sending him on the quest of a lifetime. To save a crumbling kingdom claim the heart of his true love, he'll have to slay the nefarious dragon, Fafnir.
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Hidden Children
Title: Hidden Children
Character: Valobra
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: Movie
This is a true story about forty Jewish children on their way to Palestine, who were blocked by the German and Italian occupation of Yugoslavia in 1941. Before finding a haven at Villa Emma in Nonantola in northern Italy, where they arrived on June 17, 1942, the children spent several adventurous months in Slovenia, caught up in the ongoing fight between the partisans and the Italian army. In April 1943, another 33 children, some from the Balkans, others from France, joined the original group. All were orphans who had lost their parents in concentration camps and had subsequently been smuggled out of Germany by Recha Freier, a well-known Zionist. The group ranged in age from six to twenty one and settled in at Villa Emma with their chaperones and teachers, Josef Indig, Marco Schoky and the pianist Boris Jochverdson.
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Minority Report
Title: Minority Report
Character: Director Lamar Burgess [Pre-Crime]
Released: June 20, 2002
Type: Movie
John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes before they're committed. But Anderton becomes the quarry when another investigator targets him for a murder charge.
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Title: The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones
Character: Sigmund Freud
Released: January 13, 2002
Type: TV
The boyhood adventures of the greatest action hero of all time: Indiana Jones. Young Indy travels the world, meeting some of the greatest figures of the early 20th century, and participating in the events that helped shape history.
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Intacto
Title: Intacto
Character: Samuel
Released: November 6, 2001
Type: Movie
An enigmatic tale of four people whose lives are intertwined by destiny are subject to the laws of fate. They discover that luck is something they cannot afford to be without as they gamble with the highest stakes possible in a deadly game from which only one of them will emerge intact.
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Druids
Title: Druids
Character: Guttuart
Released: January 24, 2001
Type: Movie
In the year 60 B.C. a group of Druids, including the arch-druid Guttuart (Max von Sydow), witness the passing of a comet and interpret it as the sign of the coming of a king for their country Gaul, which has not had a king for a long time. Guttuart goes to Gergovia, the capital of the Arvenes tribe, to attend a meeting of Gallic tribal chieftains. The young boy Vercingetorix, along with his friend the young girl Eponia, sneak into a large cavern where Celtill, Vercingetorix's father and chieftain of the Arvenes, hosts the meeting of chieftains with the intention of proclaiming himself king of all Gauls. When Celtill shows off the crown once worn by the old kings of Gaul, an arrow from two Roman spies (dressed as Gauls) hits Celtill in the back.
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Sleepless
Title: Sleepless
Character: Moretti
Released: January 5, 2001
Type: Movie
An elderly and retired police detective and a young amateur sleuth team up to find a serial killer whom has resumed a killing spree in Turin, Italy after a 17-year hiatus.
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid
Title: The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid
Character: Freud
Released: September 19, 2000
Type: Movie
In the third film in the series, in 1908, Henry Jones Sr. takes his wife, son and the boy's tutor to the world's first psycho-analytical conference in Viena, Austria. Young Indy meets Princess Sophie of Austia, daughter of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and develops deep feelings for her. He even asks Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung and Alfred Adler for love advice. On their next stop in Florence, Anna Jones becomes the object of affection for the persuasive opera composer Giacomo Puccini. With her husband away in Rome, Anna is torn between her feelings for her husband and the impulsive Italian.
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Light Keeps Me Company
Title: Light Keeps Me Company
Character: Self
Released: August 26, 2000
Type: Movie
Carl-Gustaf Nykvist's documentary about his father, Sven Nykvist. The film is based on Sven's memoirs with Sven himself as narrator. A journey to the place of birth, Moheda, constitutes the hub of the film and during the journey friends and memories emerge. Written by Fredrik Klasson
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Title: Nuremberg
Character: Samuel Rosenman
Released: July 16, 2000
Type: TV
Justice Robert H. Jackson leads Allied prosecutors in trying 21 Germans for Nazi war crimes after World War II.
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Conan Unchained: The Making of 'Conan'
Title: Conan Unchained: The Making of 'Conan'
Character: Self
Released: May 30, 2000
Type: Movie
Nearly all the cast and crew are on hand to give stories and memories about the making of the film. Plenty of detail on every aspect of the film from pre-production to opening night is covered.
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Snow Falling on Cedars
Title: Snow Falling on Cedars
Character: Nels Gudmundsson
Released: December 22, 1999
Type: Movie
In the 1950s, a Japanese-American fisherman is suspected of killing his neighbour at sea. For Ishmael, a local reporter, the trial strikes a deep emotional chord when he finds his ex-lover is linked to the case. As he investigates the killing, he uncovers some startling clues that lead him to a shocking discovery.
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What Dreams May Come
Title: What Dreams May Come
Character: The Tracker
Released: October 2, 1998
Type: Movie
Chris Neilson dies to find himself in a heaven more amazing than he could have ever dreamed of. There is one thing missing: his wife. After he dies, his wife, Annie killed herself and went to hell. Chris decides to risk eternity in hades for the small chance that he will be able to bring her back to heaven.
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The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist
Title: The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist
Character: Self / Father Merrin
Released: June 13, 1998
Type: Movie
A behind-the-scenes retrospective made for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the classic horror film, The Exorcist. Includes interviews with Linda Blair and the other stars of the film, along with commentary from the director and writer on some of the deeper meanings behind the elements they used to terrify their audiences, and previously unreleased footage including make-up tests and deleted scenes.
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Title: Professione fantasma
Character: Psicoanalista dell’aldilà
Released: February 6, 1998
Type: TV
Professione fantasma is an Italian television series.
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Solomon
Title: Solomon
Character: Davide
Released: December 15, 1997
Type: Movie
David, now an old man, is still king of Israel. Among his sons, the ambitious Adonijah and the clever Solomon, fierce rivals, since both are prospective heirs to the throne and only one can be.
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Title: La principessa e il povero
Character: Epos
Released: December 2, 1997
Type: TV
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The Princess and the Pauper
Title: The Princess and the Pauper
Character: Epos
Released: December 2, 1997
Type: Movie
A fairy tale about a twin princess and a prince who where seperated after their birth.
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Hostile Waters
Title: Hostile Waters
Character: Admiral Chernavin
Released: October 18, 1997
Type: Movie
Based on true events, an American submarine collides into a Soviet sub of the coast of America and an ensuing standoff occurs that could lead to total annihilation.
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Their Frozen Dream
Title: Their Frozen Dream
Character: S.A. Andrée (voice)
Released: October 3, 1997
Type: Movie
Poetic documentary about the polar expedition of S. A. Andrée which Troell had previously dramatized in "Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd" (1982).
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Private Confessions
Title: Private Confessions
Character: Jacob
Released: December 25, 1996
Type: Movie
Five conversations frame a flawed marriage in this film written by Ingmar Bergman about his parents. Guilt-ridden wife Anna (Pernilla August) divulges an extramarital affair to a priest, her uncle Jacob (Max von Sydow). He presses her to confess her sins to her husband, Henrik. As the film moves back and forth in time, the notion of truth is tested. Tomas, the lover, and Henrik will find that Anna's confessions do not absolve anyone, and have the power to inflict more pain.
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Samson and Delilah
Title: Samson and Delilah
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Released: December 8, 1996
Type: Movie
Biblical strongman Samson falls prey to the voluptuous Philistine temptress Delilah.
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Jerusalem
Title: Jerusalem
Character: Vicar
Released: September 6, 1996
Type: Movie
Members of a devout Christian congregation try to start a new life in Palestine.
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Hamsun
Title: Hamsun
Character: Knut Hamsun
Released: April 19, 1996
Type: Movie
Knut Hamsun is Norway's most famous and admired author. Ever since he was young he has hated the English for the starvation they caused Norway during WWI. When the Germans occupy Norway 9 April 1940 he welcomes them and the protection they can give from Great Britain. He supports the national socialist ideals, but opposes the way these ideals are turned into action - that Norwegians are jailed and executed. His wife Marie travels in Germany during the war as a sign of support from Knut and herself.
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Delblanc
Title: Delblanc
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: January 5, 1996
Type: Movie
Portrait of the Swedish writer Sven Delblanc made up of interviews with friends and family along with excerpts of his writing read by Max von Sydow.
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Title: Radetzky March
Character: Baron Franz von Trotta und Sipolje
Released: December 27, 1995
Type: TV
At the battle of Solferino Joseph von Trotta, a lieutenant in the Slovenian infantry, is wounded while saving the life of the young Austrian Emperor Franz-Joseph I. The Emperor rewards him by elevating him in society to a position quite out of keeping with his social rank, and which entirely alienates him from his farming background: Joseph gets promoted to the rank of captain, and is made a member of the nobility. Years later Joseph von Trotta accidentally finds a description of the battle that changed his life in a text-book belonging to his son Franz. Enraged at the over-emotional, patriotic and sentimental way in which the Emperor's rescue at the hands of "the Hero of Solferino" is depicted, he lodges a complaint at the Imperial Court.
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Captured: Meet Robert A. Robinson Photographer
Title: Captured: Meet Robert A. Robinson Photographer
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: November 26, 1995
Type: Movie
Bob Robinson (1927-1996) and American photographer living and working in many parts of the world. Norway was one place. His book "Captured by the Norwegians" was published in 1958. Founding member of Manité - a photographic collective. Made the film about Sylvie Becker from East Berlin.
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Stjärnbilder
Title: Stjärnbilder
Character: Self
Released: September 10, 1995
Type: Movie
A tribute to Swedish film, which was made to celebrate the 100th anniversary of film in 1995 and consists of about a hundred clips from Swedish film history with many of its stars.
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Judge Dredd
Title: Judge Dredd
Character: Chief Justice Fargo
Released: June 30, 1995
Type: Movie
In a dystopian future, Dredd, the most famous judge (a cop with instant field judiciary powers) is convicted for a crime he did not commit while his murderous counterpart escapes.
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The Atlantic
Title: The Atlantic
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: April 7, 1995
Type: Movie
Spectacular documentary, shot on and around Atlantic Islands from Iceland to South Georgia.
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Citizen X
Title: Citizen X
Character: Dr. Alexandr Bukhanovsky
Released: February 25, 1995
Type: Movie
Based on the true story of a Russian serial killer who, over many years, claimed victim to over 50 people. His victims were mostly under the age of 17. In what was then a communists state, the police investigations were hampered by bureaucracy, incompetence and those in power. The story is told from the viewpoint of the detective in charge of the case.
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Depth Solitude
Title: Depth Solitude
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
A philosophical swimming pool attendant lives his life at the bottom of a pool. (stockholmfilmfestival.se)
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Onkel Vanja
Title: Onkel Vanja
Character: The Professor
Released: December 26, 1994
Type: Movie
A retired professor has returned to his estate to live with his beautiful young wife, Yelena. The estate originally belonged to his first wife, now deceased; her mother and brother still live there and manage the farm.
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Title: A che punto è la notte
Character: Arcivescovo di Torino
Released: December 14, 1994
Type: TV
In Turin, a priest is killed by the explosion of a candle and Commissioner Santamaria has to unravel the problem.
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Time is Money
Title: Time is Money
Character: Joe Kaufman
Released: October 19, 1994
Type: Movie
A grumpy writer resists his wife's and agent's attempts to goad him into completing his latest novel.
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A che punto è la notte
Title: A che punto è la notte
Character: Arcivescovo di Torino
Released: April 7, 1994
Type: Movie
In Turin, a fanatic priest dies falling from the pulpit, killed by the explosion of a candle. A second assassination, that of a Carabinieri Marshal, complicates the investigation - but before he died, the Marshal managed to wrote down the word "Topos". Commissioner Santamaria now has to unravel the problem.
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Minns ni?
Title: Minns ni?
Released: October 24, 1993
Type: Movie
A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 films.
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Needful Things
Title: Needful Things
Character: Leland Gaunt
Released: August 27, 1993
Type: Movie
A mysterious new shop opens in a small town which always seems to stock the deepest desires of each shopper, with a price far heavier than expected.
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Morfars resa
Title: Morfars resa
Character: Simon S.L. Fromm
Released: January 29, 1993
Type: Movie
Film by Staffan Lamm.
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Och ge oss skuggorna
Title: Och ge oss skuggorna
Character: Eugene O'Neill
Released: January 6, 1993
Type: Movie
It is the 61st birthday of the American author Eugene O'Neill. He is sick, old and his name has started to fade from the public consciousness. His wife Carlotta Monterey is far from supporting, in fact she constantly reminds him of his shortcomings and unfulfilled dreams. Their sons, Eugene Jr. and Shane come to congratulate him (and perhaps expecting to get some money). But they are unable to help their father, since they have their own problems: Eugene Jr. is an alcoholic, Shane is doing drugs.
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The Silent Touch
Title: The Silent Touch
Character: Henry Kesdi
Released: September 30, 1992
Type: Movie
Henry Kesdi is a silenced classical composer and a survivor of the Holocaust. He is coaxed out from retirement by an inspired musicologist, Stefan, who convinces him to compose a complex symphony on his neglected piano. As a help Kesdi gets his new musical secretary. His loyal wife reluctantly accepts her as his young lover.
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The Best Intentions
Title: The Best Intentions
Character: Johan Åkerblom
Released: May 24, 1992
Type: Movie
In this film about Ingmar Bergman's parents, Henrik Bergman is studying for the priesthood and trying to make ends meet when he encounters the lovely, affluent Anna. Despite their social differences, Henrik and Anna fall in love, wed and move to the country. They lead a quiet life as Henrik works as a priest, but it isn't long before the simple people and plain surroundings make Anna long for a more lavish lifestyle, which causes marital stress.
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Title: The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
Character: Sigmund Freud
Released: March 4, 1992
Type: TV
At the dawn of the 20th century, Indiana Jones discovered the world. From globetrotting family expeditions as a 9-year-old to the battlefields of World War I as a teenager, Indy’s experiences shaped the heroic, whip-cracking archaeologist he would become. At every turn, Indy encounters history in the making, meeting true-life activists, soldiers, writers, artists, and thinkers who helped influence the world we live in today.
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The Ox
Title: The Ox
Character: Vicar
Released: November 22, 1991
Type: Movie
In desperation brought on by near-starvation, Helge Roos kills his master's ox to feed his wife and baby daughter, setting off a devastating and unexpected chain of events.
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Until the End of the World
Title: Until the End of the World
Character: Henry Farber
Released: September 12, 1991
Type: Movie
In 1999, a woman's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash with two bank robbers, who enlist her help to take the money to a drop in Paris. On the way, she runs into another fugitive from the law — an American doctor on the run from the CIA. They want to confiscate his father's invention – a device which allows anyone to record their dreams and visions.
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Europa
Title: Europa
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: June 27, 1991
Type: Movie
A young, idealist American gets a job as a train conductor for the Zentropa railway network in postwar, US-occupied Frankfurt. As various people try to take advantage of him, he soon finds his position politically sensitive, and gets caught up in a whirlpool of conspiracies and Nazi sympathisers.
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A Kiss Before Dying
Title: A Kiss Before Dying
Character: Thor Carlsson
Released: April 26, 1991
Type: Movie
Infatuated with the idea of becoming rich, college student Jonathan Corliss secretly dates Dorothy Carlsson to gain the approval of her wealthy father. When Dorothy tells Jonathan that she is pregnant and that her father will deny her inheritance if he finds out, Jonathan murders her, but he stages her death as a suicide. As Jonathan works his way onto Mr. Carlsson's payroll, Dorothy's twin sister, Ellen, investigates the apparent suicide.
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Awakenings
Title: Awakenings
Character: Peter Ingham
Released: December 4, 1990
Type: Movie
Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. Leonard is the first patient to receive the controversial treatment. His awakening, filled with awe and enthusiasm, proves a rebirth for Sayer too, as the exuberant patient reveals life's simple but unutterably sweet pleasures to the introverted doctor.
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Father
Title: Father
Character: Joe Mueller
Released: August 16, 1990
Type: Movie
On a TV tabloid show, Iya Zetnick exposes Joe Mueller as the Nazi war criminal who killed her family.
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Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes
Title: Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes
Character: Father Siemes
Released: August 6, 1990
Type: Movie
The movie follows the perspective of several characters (such as Japanese victims, soldiers, American prisoners of war and others) and how they lived or tried to survive the effects felt during the aftermath of the Atomic Bomb dropping by the Enola Gay at Hiroshima, during World War II.
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Cellini: A Violent Life
Title: Cellini: A Violent Life
Character: Papa Clemente VII
Released: May 2, 1990
Type: Movie
The story of Benvenuto Cellinin (1500-1571), a soldier and one of the most important craftsmen and artists of Renaissance Italy whose life was marked by many achievements and adventures, but also crimes. There is also the mini-series version consisted of three 90 minutes episodes, broadcasted by RaiDue.
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The Bachelor
Title: The Bachelor
Character: Von Schleheim
Released: March 29, 1990
Type: Movie
In pre-WWI Austria-Hungary, a physician struggles with his decision about which woman will he marry.
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Title: The Simpsons
Character: Klaus Ziegler (voice)
Released: December 17, 1989
Type: TV
Set in Springfield, the average American town, the show focuses on the antics and everyday adventures of the Simpson family; Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie, as well as a virtual cast of thousands. Since the beginning, the series has been a pop culture icon, attracting hundreds of celebrities to guest star. The show has also made name for itself in its fearless satirical take on politics, media and American life in general.
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Red King, White Knight
Title: Red King, White Knight
Character: Szaz
Released: November 25, 1989
Type: Movie
The CIA hears of a KGB scheme to assassinate the Soviet General Secretary and enlists Stoner, an agent retired for 10 years, to go to Russia to investigate. He verifies the plot, but then has trouble leaving the country. In the meantime, the U.S. policy makers struggle over whether or not to inform the Soviets of the plot. Stoner's problems are complicated by the renewal of an affair with Anna, a Russian, as he tries to convince her to defect.
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Ghostbusters II
Title: Ghostbusters II
Character: Vigo (voice) (uncredited)
Released: June 16, 1989
Type: Movie
Five years after they defeated Gozer, the Ghostbusters are out of business. When Dana begins to have ghost problems again, the boys come out of retirement to aid her and hopefully save New York City from a new paranormal threat.
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Foreign Filmmakers in Hollywood
Title: Foreign Filmmakers in Hollywood
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
Filmed around the time of the 1989 Oscars this documentary includes interviews with foreign filmmakers from a variety of disciplines about their experiences working and living in Hollywood.
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Ingmar Bergman: The Magic Lantern
Title: Ingmar Bergman: The Magic Lantern
Character: Voice
Released: May 24, 1988
Type: Movie
The first of two documentaries about Ingmar Bergman produced to mark his 70th birthday. Includes behind the scenes "home movies" from Bergman's personal archive, interviews with Bergman recorded over his 40 years in the film industry and passages from his autobiography read by Max von Sydow and Bergman himself.
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Pelle the Conqueror
Title: Pelle the Conqueror
Character: Lasse Karlsson - Farmhand
Released: December 21, 1987
Type: Movie
In the late 19th century, two Swedish emigrants, Lasse Karlsson and his son Pelle, arrive on the Danish island of Bornholm hoping to find work on a farm and save enough money to travel to the United States of America.
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The Second Victory
Title: The Second Victory
Character: Dr. Huber
Released: June 4, 1987
Type: Movie
After the end of Word War II, a lone and elusive skier from the German Mountain Troops continues to kill British Occupation Forces personnel, prompting a joint British-German manhunt operation to capture him.
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Duet for One
Title: Duet for One
Character: Dr. Louis Feldman
Released: December 25, 1986
Type: Movie
When Stephanie, a famous violinist, contracts multiple sclerosis her life begins to fall apart. Her career ends, her husband leaves her for another woman and her favorite pupil leave the country. Unable to bear all this loss, Stephanie attempts suicide.
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The Wolf at the Door
Title: The Wolf at the Door
Character: August Strindberg
Released: September 5, 1986
Type: Movie
Chronicling a period of time in Paul Gauguin's life, this film follows him through his struggles in love and the financial problems caused by the inability to sell his artwork.
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Title: Gösta Berlings saga
Character: Melchior Sinclaire
Released: March 10, 1986
Type: TV
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Hannah and Her Sisters
Title: Hannah and Her Sisters
Character: Frederick
Released: February 7, 1986
Type: Movie
Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.
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The Repenter
Title: The Repenter
Character: Spinola
Released: November 15, 1985
Type: Movie
A judge on crusade to take down the Italian Mafia uses a gangster turned state's witness (a so-called "repenter") and a New York banker to do it. But things aren't quite what they seem.
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Code Name: Emerald
Title: Code Name: Emerald
Character: Jürgen Brausch
Released: September 7, 1985
Type: Movie
In preparation for Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Nazi occupied territory, the 'overlords' were the few Allied agents who knew the details of the operation. When one them is captured by the Germans, a double agent must infiltrate occupied Paris, with the help of a high level German officer and the French resistance.
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Title: Christopher Columbus
Character: Re Giovanni del Portogallo
Released: March 7, 1985
Type: TV
After his proposal to sail west to the East Indies is rejected by Portugal, Columbus overcomes court intrigue in Spain to gain support for his expedition.
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George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
Title: George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
Character: Self
Released: March 3, 1985
Type: Movie
Biography of the legendary filmmaker directed by his son.
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Title: Quo Vadis?
Character: Petrus
Released: February 24, 1985
Type: TV
Drama about love and intrigues in ancient Rome during the times of Nero.
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Title: The Last Place on Earth
Character: Fridtjof Nansen
Released: February 18, 1985
Type: TV
The Last Place on Earth is a 1985 Central Television seven part serial, written by Trevor Griffiths based on the book Scott and Amundsen by Roland Huntford. The book is an exploration of the expeditions of Captain Robert F. Scott and his Norwegian rival in polar exploration, Roald Amundsen in their attempts to reach the South Pole. The series ran for seven episodes and starred a wide range of UK and Norwegian character actors as well as featuring some famous names, such as Max von Sydow, Richard Wilson, Sylvester McCoy and Pat Roach. It also featured performances early in their careers by Bill Nighy and Hugh Grant. Subsequently Huntford's book was republished under the same name. The book put forth the point of view that Amundsen's success in reaching the South Pole was abetted by much superior planning, whereas errors by Scott ultimately resulted in the death of him and his companions.
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Kojak: The Belarus File
Title: Kojak: The Belarus File
Character: Peter Barak
Released: February 16, 1985
Type: Movie
Lt. Theo Kojak uncovers a Nazi conspiracy.
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The Fascination
Title: The Fascination
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
A photographer is irresistibly attracted to a young Japanese girl.
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Dune
Title: Dune
Character: Doctor Kynes
Released: December 14, 1984
Type: Movie
In the year 10,191, the most precious substance in the universe is the spice Melange. The spice extends life. The spice expands consciousness. The spice is vital to space travel. The spice exists on only one planet in the entire universe, the vast desert planet Arrakis, also known as Dune. Its native inhabitants, the Fremen, have long held a prophecy that a man would come, a messiah who would lead them to true freedom.
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Le dernier civil
Title: Le dernier civil
Character: Gérard Bauerle
Released: November 4, 1984
Type: Movie
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Terror in the Aisles
Title: Terror in the Aisles
Character: Father Merrin (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: October 26, 1984
Type: Movie
A non-stop roller coaster ride through the scariest moments of the greatest terror films of all time.
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Dreamscape
Title: Dreamscape
Character: Doctor Paul Novotny
Released: August 15, 1984
Type: Movie
A government funded project looks into using psychics to enter people's dreams, with some mechanical help. When a subject dies in their sleep from a heart attack, Alex Gardner becomes suspicious that another of the psychics is killing people in the dreams somehow and that is causing them to die in real life. He must find a way to stop the abuse of the power to enter dreams.
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Samson and Delilah
Title: Samson and Delilah
Character: Sidka
Released: March 31, 1984
Type: Movie
A tale of passion and betrayal in which Samson, a judge of Israel who fled with his tribe during the Great Exodus from Egypt, uses his herculean strength in the fight against the Philistine oppressors. He is seduced by Delilah, a Philistine courtesan, who uses her cunning to discover the secret of her lover's great power and then betrays him.
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The Soldier's Tale
Title: The Soldier's Tale
Character: The Devil
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
A soldier, returning home from war, chances upon a stranger who offers to buy his violin. The stranger is none other than the devil.
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Never Say Never Again
Title: Never Say Never Again
Character: Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Released: October 7, 1983
Type: Movie
James Bond returns as the secret agent 007 to battle the evil organization SPECTRE. Bond must defeat Largo, who has stolen two atomic warheads for nuclear blackmail. But Bond has an ally in Largo's girlfriend, the willowy Domino, who falls for Bond and seeks revenge.
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Strange Brew
Title: Strange Brew
Character: Brewmeister Smith
Released: August 26, 1983
Type: Movie
Something is rotten at the Elsinore Brewery. Bob and Doug McKenzie (as seen on SCTV) help the orphan Pam regain the brewery founded by her recently-deceased father. But to do so, they must confront the suspicious Brewmeister Smith and two teams of vicious hockey players.
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Circle of Passions
Title: Circle of Passions
Character: Carlo di Vilalfratti
Released: July 6, 1983
Type: Movie
An aristocratic Sicilian family living in the 1950s. Count Villafratti has sex one night with his nymphomaniac daughter because he thinks she is his wife.
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Target Eagle
Title: Target Eagle
Character: Coronel O'Donnell
Released: September 10, 1982
Type: Movie
A Spanish police chief hires an undercover agent, Eagle, to infiltrate a gang of heroin smugglers. Infiltrating the gang, he uses a female agent as a point of contact. However he discovers that there bigger goings-on than dope. The gang is involved in the transportation of smuggled uranium for the manufacture of nuclear arms for sale to Libya and other aspiring third world countries.
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The Flight of the Eagle
Title: The Flight of the Eagle
Character: Salomon August Andrée
Released: August 26, 1982
Type: Movie
The Swedish 19th century engineer Salomon August Andrée sets out to become the first man on the north pole. His idea is to launch a polar expedition using a hydrogen balloon, together with two friends. The balloon, "The Eagle", takes off from Svalbard in 1897, but the three men are not heard of again.
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The Cinema of Carl Th. Dreyer
Title: The Cinema of Carl Th. Dreyer
Released: May 30, 1982
Type: Movie
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Conan the Barbarian
Title: Conan the Barbarian
Character: King Osric
Released: April 2, 1982
Type: Movie
A horde of rampaging warriors massacre the parents of young Conan and enslave the young child for years on The Wheel of Pain. As the sole survivor of the childhood massacre, Conan is released from slavery and taught the ancient arts of fighting. Transforming himself into a killing machine, Conan travels into the wilderness to seek vengeance on Thulsa Doom, the man responsible for killing his family. In the wilderness, Conan takes up with the thieves Valeria and Subotai. The group comes upon King Osric, who wants the trio of warriors to help rescue his daughter who has joined Doom in the hills.
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Let Poland Be Poland
Title: Let Poland Be Poland
Character: Self - Co-Host
Released: January 31, 1982
Type: Movie
Broadcast live via satellite around the world on January 31, 1982, this special produced by the US International Communication Agency protesting the then recent imposition of martial law in Poland. Hosted by Charlton Heston, Max von Sydow, and Glenda Jackson, the program features multiple celebrity appearances, speeches by 21 world leaders, and several contributions Polish artists and intellectuals.
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Title: The Guldbagge Awards
Character: Self - Best Actor winner
Released: October 30, 1981
Type: TV
The Guldbagge Awards is an official and annual Swedish film awards ceremony honoring achievements in the Swedish film industry. Winners are awarded a statuette depicting a rose chafer, better known by the name Guldbaggen. The awards, first presented in 1964 at the Grand Hôtel in Stockholm, are overseen by the Swedish Film Institute. It is described as the Swedish equivalent of the Academy Awards. The awards ceremony was first televised in 1981.
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Title: The Guldbagge Awards
Character: Self - Best Director winner
Released: October 30, 1981
Type: TV
The Guldbagge Awards is an official and annual Swedish film awards ceremony honoring achievements in the Swedish film industry. Winners are awarded a statuette depicting a rose chafer, better known by the name Guldbaggen. The awards, first presented in 1964 at the Grand Hôtel in Stockholm, are overseen by the Swedish Film Institute. It is described as the Swedish equivalent of the Academy Awards. The awards ceremony was first televised in 1981.
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Title: The Guldbagge Awards
Character: Self - Host
Released: October 30, 1981
Type: TV
The Guldbagge Awards is an official and annual Swedish film awards ceremony honoring achievements in the Swedish film industry. Winners are awarded a statuette depicting a rose chafer, better known by the name Guldbaggen. The awards, first presented in 1964 at the Grand Hôtel in Stockholm, are overseen by the Swedish Film Institute. It is described as the Swedish equivalent of the Academy Awards. The awards ceremony was first televised in 1981.
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She Dances Alone
Title: She Dances Alone
Character: Nijinsky's voice
Released: September 19, 1981
Type: Movie
Director Robert Dornhelm casts Bud Cort for alter-ego purposes in She Dances Alone. Cort plays a documentary director, seeking to produce a film on the life of controversial ballet star Vaslav Nijinsky. He finds his goal of objectivity blocked by Nijinsky's elderly real-life daughter Kyra, who is as stocky as her father was sylph-like. Kyra's uncompromising insistence on total control over the project literally shapes (and frequently distorts) the film before our eyes. Adding to the Pirandellian atmosphere of the Australian-produced She Dances Alone is Max Von Sydow, also playing "himself."
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Venetian Lies
Title: Venetian Lies
Character: Marcello Herrighe
Released: June 25, 1981
Type: Movie
A lonely 17 year old boy is looking for a couple who is ready to adopt him.
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Escape to Victory
Title: Escape to Victory
Character: Major Karl von Steiner
Released: June 17, 1981
Type: Movie
A group of POWs in a German prison camp during World War II play the German National Soccer Team in this powerful film depicting the role of prisoners during wartime.
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Flash Gordon
Title: Flash Gordon
Character: The Emperor Ming
Released: September 1, 1980
Type: Movie
A football player and his mates travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth.
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Death Watch
Title: Death Watch
Character: Gerald Mortenhoe
Released: January 23, 1980
Type: Movie
In a future world where the disease has been finally defeated and everything can be sold, even the crude spectacle of death, the rare case of a dying woman becomes the morbid theme of a revolutionary reality show, broadcast through the curious eyes of a peculiar camera.
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Hurricane
Title: Hurricane
Character: Dr. Danielsson
Released: April 12, 1979
Type: Movie
The story of the desperate love affair between a young Samoan chief and a beautiful American painter, against the will of her father, the powerful governor of the island. Amid this man-made tension comes a powerful hurricane so devastating, the lives of the lovers and the entire island are imperiled.
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A Look at Liv
Title: A Look at Liv
Character: Self
Released: January 31, 1979
Type: Movie
Using original footage and interviews, family photos, and excepts from many of the actress's screen and stage performances, the film explores sources of Liv Ullman's creativity, the influence of her Norwegian heritage, her relationship with Ingmar Bergman, her views on being a woman and mother in contemporary society, and the writing of her autobiography,
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Brass Target
Title: Brass Target
Character: Shelley Martin Webber
Released: December 22, 1978
Type: Movie
General George S. Patton died in a car accident in 1945. But was his death actually a murder. Is he targeted by Nazis angered by Germany's defeat? Or by Russians who knew that Patton had argued in favor of invading the Soviet Union towards the end of the war? Or is it because Patton is investigating the theft of a quarter of a billion dollars of Nazi gold? Or is it because his subordinate Colonels - the flamboyantly gay Colonel and his worried lover are fearful that he is getting too close to discovering the truth.
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Black Journal
Title: Black Journal
Character: Lisa Carpi / Carabinieri Marshal
Released: November 24, 1977
Type: Movie
A mother so insanely overprotective of her grown son decides to make a deal with death by offering alternate victims plucked from among her fellow tenants in a 1938 Italian apartment building.
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March or Die
Title: March or Die
Character: François Marneau
Released: September 8, 1977
Type: Movie
Just after World War I, Major Foster is incorporating new recruits into his French Foreign Legion platoon when he is sent to his former remote outpost located in the French Morocco to protect an archaeological excavation from El Krim, a Rifian leader who intends to unite all local tribes to fight the colonial government…
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Exorcist II: The Heretic
Title: Exorcist II: The Heretic
Character: Father Lankester Merrin
Released: June 17, 1977
Type: Movie
Bizarre nightmares plague Regan MacNeil four years after her possession and exorcism. Has the demon returned? And if so, can the combined faith and knowledge of a Vatican investigator and a research specialist free her from its grasp?
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Voyage of the Damned
Title: Voyage of the Damned
Character: Captain Schroeder
Released: December 22, 1976
Type: Movie
A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival.
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The Desert of the Tartars
Title: The Desert of the Tartars
Character: Cap. Ortiz
Released: October 29, 1976
Type: Movie
Lieutenant Giovanni Drogo is assigned to the old Bastiani border fortress where he expects an imminent attack by nomadic fearsome Tartars.
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Foxtrot
Title: Foxtrot
Character: Larsen
Released: March 1, 1976
Type: Movie
A Romanian aristocrat retreats to a desert isle with his wife and servants on the eve of World War II.
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Illustrious Corpses
Title: Illustrious Corpses
Character: Supreme Court President
Released: February 12, 1976
Type: Movie
A detective is assigned to investigate the mysterious murders of some Supreme Court judges.
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Heart of a Dog
Title: Heart of a Dog
Character: Professor Filipp Filippovich Preobrazenski
Released: January 23, 1976
Type: Movie
Professor Preobrazhensky puts courageous experiences, trying to turn a dog in equal to in all of the person. As a result somebody turns out Doggies. Unfortunately, experience proves that it is better for dog to remain a dog.
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The Ultimate Warrior
Title: The Ultimate Warrior
Character: Baron
Released: October 2, 1975
Type: Movie
Only a few people still live in New York in 2012. They are organized in gangs with their own turf. One of them is led by Baron, another one by Carrot, and they are constantly at war with each other.
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Three Days of the Condor
Title: Three Days of the Condor
Character: G. Joubert
Released: August 1, 1975
Type: Movie
A bookish CIA researcher finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust.
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The Broken Mirror
Title: The Broken Mirror
Character: Matthew Lawrence
Released: April 2, 1975
Type: Movie
Anne lives with her husband in Belgium where she works as a restorer of paintings. When she becomes pregnant, she finds herself remembering a picture she did some time ago and of which she has no memory, no recollection of what happened to it. It becomes her goal to discover and clarify the mystery behind this painting, at the same time she notices that a strange man is following all of her moves.
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Egg! Egg! A Hardboiled Story
Title: Egg! Egg! A Hardboiled Story
Character: The Father
Released: March 17, 1975
Type: Movie
A fairy tale and satire about a wealthy industrialist, whose son has been subdued and oppressed and totally uninterested in his father's business.
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Steppenwolf
Title: Steppenwolf
Character: Harry Haller
Released: December 18, 1974
Type: Movie
In the bourgeois circles of Europe after the Great War, can anything save the modern man? Harry Haller, a solitary intellectual, has all his life feared his dual nature of being human and being a beast. He's decided to die on his 50th birthday, which is soon. He's rescued from his solipsism by the mysterious Hermine, who takes him dancing, introduces him to jazz and to the beautiful and whimsical Maria, and guides him into the hallucinations of the Magic Theater, which seem to take him into Hell. Can humour, sin, and derision lead to salvation?
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The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute
Title: The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: February 20, 1974
Type: Movie
In this made-for-TV production, Vincent Price and his hunchback sidekick (Billy Van) host a pun-filled salute to the horror film genre from its earliest beginnings all the way up to The Exorcist. Featuring clips from classic horror films and interviews with genre greats like Frank Gorshin, John Carradine, John Astin and SFX legend Bill Tuttle, among others.
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The Exorcist
Title: The Exorcist
Character: Father Lankester Merrin
Released: December 26, 1973
Type: Movie
When a charming 12-year-old girl takes on the characteristics and voices of others, doctors say there is nothing they can do. As people begin to die, the girl's mother realizes her daughter has been possessed by the devil--and that her daughter's only possible hope lies with two priests and the ancient rite of demonic exorcism.
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Ingmar Bergman
Title: Ingmar Bergman
Character: Self
Released: March 17, 1972
Type: Movie
On-set documentary on the making of Ingmar Bergman's The Touch.
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Embassy
Title: Embassy
Character: Gorenko
Released: March 2, 1972
Type: Movie
A KGB assassin infiltrates the American embassy in Beirut in an attempt to eliminate a Russian defector being protected by the CIA.
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The New Land
Title: The New Land
Character: Karl Oskar
Released: February 26, 1972
Type: Movie
A Swedish immigrant family struggles to adapt to their new life on the American frontier during the second half of the 19th century amidst civil war, native uprising and the lure of gold in California.
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The Apple War
Title: The Apple War
Character: Roy Lindberg
Released: December 18, 1971
Type: Movie
A German businessman wants to buy land in southern Sweden for a gigantic amusement park, his new project called "Deutschneyland" (a wordplay of Deutschland and Disneyland). Some of the locals dislike the idea, including the magically talented Lindberg family, and work to frustrate the development plans.
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The Touch
Title: The Touch
Character: Andreas Vergerus
Released: July 14, 1971
Type: Movie
A Swedish housewife begins an adulterous affair with a foreign archaeologist. But he is an emotionally scarred man, a Jewish survivor from a concentration camp, consequently, their relationship will be painfully difficult.
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The Emigrants
Title: The Emigrants
Character: Karl Oskar
Released: March 8, 1971
Type: Movie
A Swedish peasant family, ravaged by poverty, privation and misery in mid-19th century Sweden, set out on a perilous journey to America in hope of a better life.
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The Night Visitor
Title: The Night Visitor
Character: Salem
Released: February 10, 1971
Type: Movie
An insane Swedish farmer escapes from an asylum to get revenge on his sister, her husband and others.
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The Kremlin Letter
Title: The Kremlin Letter
Character: Colonel Kosnov
Released: February 1, 1970
Type: Movie
When an unauthorized letter is sent to Moscow alleging the U.S. government's willingness to help Russia attack China, former naval officer Charles Rone and his team are sent to retrieve it. They go undercover, successfully reaching out to Erika Kosnov, the wife of a former agent, now married to the head of Russia's secret police. Their plans are interrupted, however, when their Moscow hideout is raided by a cunning politician.
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The Passion of Anna
Title: The Passion of Anna
Character: Andreas Winkelman
Released: November 10, 1969
Type: Movie
Andreas, a man struggling with the recent demise of his marriage and his own emotional isolation, befriends a married couple also in the midst of psychological turmoil. In turn he meets Anna, who is grieving the recent deaths of her husband and son. She appears zealous in her faith and steadfast in her search for truth, but gradually her delusions surface. Andreas and Anna pursue a love affair, but he is unable to overcome his feelings of deep humiliation and remains disconnected. Meanwhile, the island community is victimized by an unknown person committing acts of animal cruelty.
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Made in Sweden
Title: Made in Sweden
Character: Magnus Rud
Released: March 17, 1969
Type: Movie
Joergen (Per Myberg) is the Swedish journalist who uncovers a gun-running operation on the borders of Vietnam. The trail leads to a financial group of wealthy industrialists lead by Magnus Rud (Max von Sydow). He refuses to bury the story, leading to trouble for the idealistic reporter and his girlfriend Christine (Lena Granhagen) in this political drama about the war machine and freedom of the press.
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Shame
Title: Shame
Character: Jan Rosenberg
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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Black Palm Trees
Title: Black Palm Trees
Character: Gustav Olofsson
Released: September 26, 1968
Type: Movie
Four sailors stranded in Rio are about to retrieve their salary for a salvage. The only requirement is that they ALL must be sober.
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An Introduction to Ingmar Bergman
Title: An Introduction to Ingmar Bergman
Character: Self
Released: April 14, 1968
Type: Movie
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 the just-released HOUR OF THE WOLF.
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Hour of the Wolf
Title: Hour of the Wolf
Character: Johan Borg
Released: February 19, 1968
Type: Movie
While vacationing on a remote German island with his pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.
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The Diary of Anne Frank
Title: The Diary of Anne Frank
Character: Otto Frank
Released: November 26, 1967
Type: Movie
During World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.
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Here Is Your Life
Title: Here Is Your Life
Character: Smålands-Pelle
Released: December 26, 1966
Type: Movie
A working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving through a series of jobs and romances that gradually shape his future.
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The Quiller Memorandum
Title: The Quiller Memorandum
Character: Oktober
Released: November 10, 1966
Type: Movie
After two British Secret Intelligence Service agents are murdered at the hands of a cryptic neo-Nazi group known as Phoenix, the suave agent Quiller is sent to Berlin to investigate.
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Hawaii
Title: Hawaii
Character: Abner Hale
Released: October 10, 1966
Type: Movie
Abner Hale, a rigid and humorless New England missionary, marries the beautiful Jerusha Bromley and takes her to the exotic island kingdom of Hawaii, intent on converting the natives. But the clash between the two cultures is too great and instead of understanding there comes tragedy.
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The Reward
Title: The Reward
Character: Scott Swenson
Released: September 15, 1965
Type: Movie
A crash-landed crop-duster betrays a fugitive and his girlfriend to Mexican bounty hunters.
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The Greatest Story Ever Told
Title: The Greatest Story Ever Told
Character: Jesus
Released: April 9, 1965
Type: Movie
From his birth in Bethlehem to his death and eventual resurrection, the life of Jesus Christ is given the all-star treatment in this epic retelling. Major aspects of Christ's life are touched upon, including the execution of all the newborn males in Egypt by King Herod; Christ's baptism by John the Baptist; and the betrayal by Judas after the Last Supper that eventually leads to Christ's crucifixion and miraculous return.
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4 x 4
Title: 4 x 4
Character: Kvist
Released: February 25, 1965
Type: Movie
Four short stories from Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland.
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Interlude in the Marshland
Title: Interlude in the Marshland
Character: Alex Kvist
Released: February 22, 1965
Type: Movie
It's the mid 1930s and brakeman Kvist had enough of working on the train, jumps off and starts to walk on the train tracks in the middle of nowhere in Lapland, Northern Sweden, hoping to find new work and adventures. Based on the novella by famous Swedish author Eyvind Johnson.
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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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Title: Grimme-Preis-Verleihung
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1964
Type: TV
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Winter Light
Title: Winter Light
Character: Jonas Persson
Released: February 11, 1963
Type: Movie
A Swedish pastor fails a loving woman, a suicidal fisherman and God.
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Wonderful Adventures of Nils
Title: Wonderful Adventures of Nils
Character: The Father
Released: September 12, 1962
Type: Movie
Nils lives with his parents in the south of Sweden. He is a naughty boy and teases like the animals on the farm. They should not have him and be happy if he is bewitched one day with his hamster Crumb for punishment by a gnome.
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The Mistress
Title: The Mistress
Character: The Man
Released: February 19, 1962
Type: Movie
A young woman, living in a relationship, falls in love with a married man.
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Through a Glass Darkly
Title: Through a Glass Darkly
Character: Martin
Released: October 16, 1961
Type: Movie
Karin hopes to recover from her recent stay at a mental hospital by spending the summer at her family's cottage on a tiny island. Her husband, Martin, cares for her but is frustrated by her physical withdrawal. Her younger brother, Minus, is confused by Karin's vulnerability and his own budding sexuality. Their father, David, cannot overcome his haughty remoteness. Beset by visions, Karin descends further into madness.
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The Wedding Day
Title: The Wedding Day
Character: Anders Frost
Released: October 3, 1960
Type: Movie
Anders and Sylvia are set to be married, but Sylvia says 'no' and runs away at the altar.
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The Virgin Spring
Title: The Virgin Spring
Character: Töre
Released: February 8, 1960
Type: Movie
Devout Christians Töre and Märeta send their only daughter, the virginal Karin, and their foster daughter, the unrepentant Ingeri, to deliver candles to a distant church. On their way through the woods, the girls encounter a group of savage goat herders who brutally rape and murder Karin as Ingeri remains hidden. When the killers unwittingly seek refuge in the farmhouse of Töre and Märeta, Töre plots a fitting revenge.
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The Magician
Title: The Magician
Character: Albert Emanuel Vogler
Released: December 26, 1958
Type: Movie
When 'Vogler's Magnetic Health Theater' comes to town, there's bound to be a spectacle. Reading reports of a variety of supernatural disturbances at Vogler's prior performances abroad, the leading townspeople (including the police chief and medical examiner) request that their troupe provide them a sample of their act, before allowing them public audiences. The scientific-minded disbelievers try to expose them as charlatans, but Vogler and his crew prove too clever for them.
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Rabies
Title: Rabies
Character: Bo Stensson Svenningson
Released: November 7, 1958
Type: Movie
A relay race of "scenes from human life". Depicts the human characters inferior traits are spreading like a disease: the person who gets rejected / humiliated / oppressed takes it out on someone else.
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Spion 503
Title: Spion 503
Character: Horst, Gestapo-mand
Released: August 29, 1958
Type: Movie
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Brink of Life
Title: Brink of Life
Character: Harry Andersson
Released: March 31, 1958
Type: Movie
Three women in a maternity ward reveal their lives and intimate thoughts to each other.
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Wild Strawberries
Title: Wild Strawberries
Character: Henrik Åkerman
Released: December 26, 1957
Type: Movie
Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. Along the way, they encounter a series of hitchhikers, each of whom causes the elderly doctor to muse upon the pleasures and failures of his own life. These include the vivacious young Sara, a dead ringer for the doctor's own first love.
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The Minister of Uddarbo
Title: The Minister of Uddarbo
Character: Gustaf Ömark
Released: December 26, 1957
Type: Movie
A devoted but controversial priest comes to a Swedish village. He encounters conflicts with the locals. The priest has some problems within his family as well. One is related to an orphan girl.
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Mr. Sleeman Is Coming
Title: Mr. Sleeman Is Coming
Character: Hunter
Released: April 18, 1957
Type: Movie
Herr Sleeman kommer is a 1917 one-act play by the Swedish author Hjalmar Bergman. The main character is an orphaned young woman who is about to be married off to an unappealing but rich old man, Mr. Sleeman, at the instigation of her aunts who have taken charge of her. Bergman infuses the situation with overtones of rueful pessimism concerning life in general.
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The Seventh Seal
Title: The Seventh Seal
Character: Antonius Block
Released: February 16, 1957
Type: Movie
When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Block sets off on a journey, meeting up with traveling players Jof and his wife, Mia, and becoming determined to evade Death long enough to commit one redemptive act while he still lives.
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The Right to Love
Title: The Right to Love
Character: Bergman
Released: February 27, 1956
Type: Movie
Priests who call sex education the devil's invention rage against the progressive doctor whose bigoted wife may regret when his teenage daughter comes home and wants an abortion. The subject of Mimi Pollack's only feature film was controversial. The model for Doctor Borg was the well-known Katrineholms lecturer Torsten Wickbom, who advocated modern sexual education in the school and family.
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Ingen mans kvinna
Title: Ingen mans kvinna
Character: Olof
Released: November 9, 1953
Type: Movie
Imber has a child with the dubious fiancé Erland. He is destructive and his unhealthy lifestyle subjects his family to starvation and the death of their child. Imber falls in love with Arne and a settlement between Arne and Erland unfolds.
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Miss Julie
Title: Miss Julie
Character: Groom
Released: June 28, 1951
Type: Movie
Based on the play by August Strindberg, Miss Julie vividly depicts the battle of the sexes and classes that ensues when Julie, a wealthy businessman's daughter, falls for Jean, her father's bitter servant.
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Only a Mother
Title: Only a Mother
Character: Nils
Released: October 31, 1949
Type: Movie
A poor woman in a Swedish farming community struggles to feed her large family and is torn by her passion for two different men.