Victor Sjöström

Victor Sjöström

Born: September 21, 1879
Died: January 3, 1960
in Silbodal, Värmlands län, Sweden
Victor David Sjöström (20 September 1879 – 3 January 1960), sometimes known in the United States as Victor Seastrom, was a pioneering Swedish film director, screenwriter, and actor. He began his career in Sweden, before moving to Hollywood in 1924. Sjöström worked primarily in the silent era; his best known films include The Phantom Carriage (1921), He Who Gets Slapped (1924), and The Wind (1928). Sjöström was Sweden's most prominent director in the "Golden Age of Silent Film" in Europe. Later in life, he played the leading role in Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries (1957).

Movies for Victor Sjöström...

Behind the Scenes of 'Wild Strawberries'
Title: Behind the Scenes of 'Wild Strawberries'
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: June 11, 2013
Type: Movie
A behind the scenes montage from Wild Strawberries on 16mm shot by Bergman himself, narrated by Jon Wengström. First presented in this form on the Criterion Collection's Blu-ray edition of the film.
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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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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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Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown
Title: Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
Two part biography of Greta Garbo - 1. The Temptress 2. The Clown. Reminiscences of her early life in Stockholm, with excerpts from her films. Narrated by Bibi Andersson.
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Victor Sjöström - A Portrait
Title: Victor Sjöström - A Portrait
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
Documentary of the Swedish actor/director Victor Sjöström and his work - from Terje Vigen (1917) to Smultronstället (1957) Director Ingmar Bergman is interviewed about his memories of and experiences of Sjöström.
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Wild Strawberries
Title: Wild Strawberries
Character: Professor Isak Borg
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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Männen i mörker
Title: Männen i mörker
Character: Gustaf Landberg
Released: February 6, 1955
Type: Movie
When the men in the small mining community go to work, it is like any other day. They do not yet know that an accident will change everything.
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Kärlek
Title: Kärlek
Released: December 22, 1952
Type: Movie
A new young priest begins his duty on a small island. He assumes that the service should not be to demanding, so that he will be able to finish his doctoral thesis. But the life at sea is hard with severe accidents. He faces emotionally difficult situations related to both love and death.
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Hård klang
Title: Hård klang
Character: Klaus Willenhart
Released: September 15, 1952
Type: Movie
A small Swedish village has transformed to an industrial center with exports to Germany. A German opened a quarry some 50 years ago, after realizing the value of granite. Now WW1 begins.
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Kvartetten som sprängdes
Title: Kvartetten som sprängdes
Character: Gustaf Borg
Released: December 26, 1950
Type: Movie
A small Swedish town just after WW1. An accountant and his two journalist friends have entered the stock market. The result is not as good as expected.
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To Joy
Title: To Joy
Character: Sönderby
Released: February 20, 1950
Type: Movie
After discovering that his wife has been killed in an accident, Stig looks back on their relationship, beginning with when he and Marta were starting out as violinists together in an orchestra overseen by conductor Sönderby.
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Farlig vår
Title: Farlig vår
Character: antikhandlare Bladh
Released: February 28, 1949
Type: Movie
A young prostitute, Gullan Svan, is murdered one night. The police suspects that the murderer is a student, since she had a lot of students as customers. The murderer stole a picture of Gullan after he killed her, a picture which later is found in a rented tuxedo when the tuxedo is returned. Four students decide to solve the case, but it seems that the truth is even closer than they first suspected... Plot by Mattias Thuresson
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Jag är med eder...
Title: Jag är med eder...
Released: January 5, 1948
Type: Movie
Together with his wife Carin and their little son Lasse, Helge Tellberg is in the position of leaving Sweden to become a missionary in Rhodesia.
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Railroad Workers
Title: Railroad Workers
Character: Stora Ballong
Released: December 26, 1947
Type: Movie
The north of Sweden in 1902. A team of railroad men are building a rail road from Luleå at the Bay of Bothnia to Narvik at the Norwegian Sea. One of the newest workers, Valfrid from the south of Sweden, is not accepted by neither Stora Ballong, the informal leader of the workers, nor the others. They refuse to talk to him but instead Valfrid gets help from the sworn enemy of the railroad workers: the greedy drugstore owner Blom.
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The Emperor of Portugallia
Title: The Emperor of Portugallia
Character: Jan i Skrolycka
Released: December 26, 1944
Type: Movie
The poor farmer Jan is getting very old when he becomes father to the girl, Klara Gulla. First, he sees the child as a burden, but when he receives the newborn child in his arms he is overjoyed. He does everything in his power for her during her. But when she as an adult leaves home, Jan can not come over the loss of her.
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Ordet
Title: Ordet
Character: Knut Borg Sr.
Released: December 26, 1943
Type: Movie
Swedish film of the Kaj Munk play that was made into a far more famous film by Carl Dreyer in Denmark twelve years later.
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There Burns a Fire
Title: There Burns a Fire
Character: Henrik Falkman
Released: August 23, 1943
Type: Movie
An allegory of Germany's WWII occupation of Norway. Members of a theater ensemble join the resistance.
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Striden går vidare
Title: Striden går vidare
Character: Andreas Berg
Released: October 20, 1941
Type: Movie
Georg Hammar works at the General Hospital and is engaged to the famous professor Berg's daughter Inga. But he is also drawn to the nurse Maria.
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Mot nya tider
Title: Mot nya tider
Character: Hjalmar Branting
Released: November 6, 1939
Type: Movie
A Swedish drama from 1939 about the social and political developments in Sweden from 1885 until the dissolution of the union in 1905. The year is 1885, Christina Nilsson sings "Fourteen years I believe certain that I was" in the Grand Hotel's Great Hall . She also sings from the balcony of the hotel and the panic arising among listeners outside the hotel. In Norway, talks about the dissolution of the Union and the Swedish socialists with Hjalmar Branting (Victor Sjöström) is in the lead for independence.
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Gubben kommer
Title: Gubben kommer
Released: January 16, 1939
Type: Movie
The old man, Carl-Henrik de Grévy, left his family many years ago, when the stock market collapsed. His sister Louise believes that he is dead and wants to get control of her brother's property, being the sole inheritor. The Sneijder's live on one of the old man's manors. They have also lost their money but as a sign of friendship he promised them before he left that they will stay there for as long as they live. Louise and her 'creative' lawyer is trying to find a way to get rid of the Sneijder's. It seems as if the only hope they have is that the old man returns.
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The Great John Ericsson
Title: The Great John Ericsson
Released: December 13, 1937
Type: Movie
In 1803 the Swedish inventor John Ericsson is born. After a military career he went to England and became one of the first builders of locomotives. Despite large debts, he invents the propeller. In 1839 he crosses the Atlantic and builds ships for the US Navy. When the US civil war breaks out, the Federation needs a ship to match the Confederate 'Merrimac' and preventing the Confederation from exporting cotton to Europe. Ericsson builds the 'Monitor', a ship the Federation needs to win the war.
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Walpurgis Night
Title: Walpurgis Night
Character: Frederik Bergström
Released: October 23, 1935
Type: Movie
Lena Bergström works in an office and is unhappily in love with her boss, Johan Borg. She decides to quit. Borg's wife won't have any children, and when she becomes pregnant she has an illegal abortion. For some reason, Lena's father believes that it is Lena who has had an abortion.
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Synnöve Solbakken
Title: Synnöve Solbakken
Character: Sämund Granliden
Released: October 21, 1934
Type: Movie
Swedish version of Norwegian National Author Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson's novel.
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Fröken, Ni liknar Greta Garbo!
Title: Fröken, Ni liknar Greta Garbo!
Character: Self
Released: September 18, 1931
Type: Movie
Snippets of Greta Garbo movies interspersed with provincial gigs of girls resembling Garbo. The film begins with one of the aspirants reading an issue of the newspaper Stockholms-Tidningen.
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Father and Son
Title: Father and Son
Character: Hilding Harald Markurell
Released: February 16, 1931
Type: Movie
About the wealthy Mr Markurell and his son, Johan, who is closing in on his graduation, and their life in the city of Wadköping. Swedish language version.
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Scattered Pages
Title: Scattered Pages
Released: January 1, 1931
Type: Movie
Vera Nilsson is friendly with the poor neighbor boy Håkan, this is not seen kindly by Vera's father Nils.
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1925 Studio Tour
Title: 1925 Studio Tour
Character: Self
Released: April 9, 1925
Type: Movie
A tour of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio in 1925 shows the people who make the movies there, and gives viewers a glimpse at how movies are made.
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The Hell Ship
Title: The Hell Ship
Character: Dick
Released: February 5, 1923
Type: Movie
A naval adventure that focuses on the rivalry among the crew, particularly the indignation wrought by the behavior of inplacable Captain Steen. Dick, one of the sailors, is one of the most rebellious and draws up plans to exact vengeance. The opportunity arises, but an incident that may sink the ship changes the focus of attention. The lighting for the film and the composition of the scenes are regarded as the highlights of the movie.
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The House Surrounded
Title: The House Surrounded
Released: October 23, 1922
Type: Movie
Young Lieutenant Jeff Gordon is placed in an English town and he meets his loved one Mary. When the war starts in Africa his regiment is being sent to the desert.
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The Phantom Carriage
Title: The Phantom Carriage
Character: David Holm
Released: January 1, 1921
Type: Movie
An alcoholic, abusive ne'er-do-well is shown the error of his ways through a legend that dooms the last person to die on New Year's Eve before the clock strikes twelve to take the reins of Death's chariot and work tirelessly collecting fresh souls for the next year.
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A Lover in Pawn
Title: A Lover in Pawn
Character: Sammel Eneman
Released: October 11, 1920
Type: Movie
About loaner Master Samuel, based on a writings by Hjalmar Bergman
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Karin, Daughter of Ingmar
Title: Karin, Daughter of Ingmar
Character: Stor Ingmar
Released: February 2, 1920
Type: Movie
Karin Daughter of Ingmar is a 1920 Swedish silent drama film directed by Victor Sjöström. It is the second part in Sjöström's large-scale adaption of Selma Lagerlöf's novel Jerusalem, following Sons of Ingmar from the year before, and depicting chapter three and four from the novel. The critical reception was however unenthusiastic and Sjöström decided to not direct any more parts.
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Sons of Ingmar
Title: Sons of Ingmar
Character: Lill Ingmar Ingmarsson
Released: January 1, 1919
Type: Movie
Part one of an ambitious screen adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf's book Jerusalem.
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Thomas Graal's Best Child
Title: Thomas Graal's Best Child
Character: Thomas Graal
Released: October 21, 1918
Type: Movie
Frau Bessie, once a madcap, aristocratic and modern Swedish fraulein, has become now a whimsical and conservative Swedish burgess after her marriage to Herr Thomas Graal. The destabilization of the marriage begins right at the wedding (which contains some hilarious incidents) when Frau Bessie announces the first Graal child must be a girl, creating a terrible conflict with her husband who is hoping for a boy. It takes a scandal to finally end the war between man and wife.
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The Outlaw and His Wife
Title: The Outlaw and His Wife
Character: Ejvind a.k.a. Kári
Released: January 1, 1918
Type: Movie
A stranger comes to work at widow Halla's farm. Halla and the stranger fall in love, but when he is revealed as Eyvind, an escaped thief forced into crime by his family's starvation, they flee and become two of the many outlaws of Iceland's mountains.
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Thomas Graal's Best Film
Title: Thomas Graal's Best Film
Character: Thomas Graal
Released: August 13, 1917
Type: Movie
Thomas Graal's a screenwriter, is very fond of his secretary Bessie. Overtaken by a kiss by Thomas she runs away. In his misfortune Thomas writes a screenplay inspired by Bessie. But she has not been really honest with him. 31 minutes of runtime are missing and presumed lost.
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A Man There Was
Title: A Man There Was
Character: Terje Vigen
Released: January 29, 1917
Type: Movie
Terje Vigen, a sailor, suffers the loss of his family through the inflexibility of another man. Years later, when his enemy's family finds itself dependent on his benevolence, Terje must decide whether to avenge himself.
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Kiss of Death
Title: Kiss of Death
Character: Òveringenjör Weyler / Ingenjör Lebel
Released: August 25, 1916
Type: Movie
After the respectable Dr. Monro was found dead, the housekeeper and two engineers testify in court. A case of commercial delinquency and bribery is reconstructed on that occasion. Sadly only about half the film exists today.
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Hon segrade
Title: Hon segrade
Released: March 13, 1916
Type: Movie
Doctor Arthur Born tries to produce a cure for the plague.
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I prövningens stund
Title: I prövningens stund
Released: November 8, 1915
Type: Movie
Sven Nilsson has a wife and a little child. One day the child gets very sick and Sven has to find a doctor.
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Strejken
Title: Strejken
Released: January 4, 1915
Type: Movie
An old poor man steals some wood and gets sentenced to 1 1/2 years of hard labor.
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Högfjällets dotter
Title: Högfjällets dotter
Released: November 16, 1914
Type: Movie
A young doctor is found unconscious in the mountains and is brought to a Sami village.
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För sin kärleks skull
Title: För sin kärleks skull
Released: March 9, 1914
Type: Movie
The stock broker Franz Von Bierman has been speculating on the stock market and lost a lot of money.
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Livets konflikter
Title: Livets konflikter
Released: November 10, 1913
Type: Movie
The old friends Otto Berner and Charles Von Barton stands on separate sides in a political conflict.
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The Voice of Passion
Title: The Voice of Passion
Character: Daniel Barkner
Released: September 22, 1913
Type: Movie
A man undergoing a mid-life crises suddenly becomes irresponsible and behaves in reckless manner. His self-destructive habits not only creates havoc in his home life, it leads to other problems.
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When Love Kills
Title: When Love Kills
Character: Oscar Falck
Released: March 31, 1913
Type: Movie
After a harsh argument between her and her father, a young girl with artistic talent leaves home for a new life.
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Vampire
Title: Vampire
Released: February 17, 1913
Type: Movie
A lieutenant in love with a woman cheat on his money and forces him to forge a bill of exchange. He kills the creditor and flees abroad. A few years later he gets a job as a stagehand. By chance he run into the woman.
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Barnet
Title: Barnet
Released: January 13, 1913
Type: Movie
Mary and Georg love each other, but he is rejected by Mary's father who has suffered insecurity and sees his rescue in marrying Mary with the rich shipowner Harry Gordon.
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The Springtime of Life
Title: The Springtime of Life
Character: Cyril Alm
Released: December 16, 1912
Type: Movie
A motherless child has a tumultuous existence, but she eventually becomes a famous international opera singer. Past and present meet when she performs in her original home town.
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The Black Masks
Title: The Black Masks
Released: October 21, 1912
Type: Movie
"The Black Masks", a secret political society, involves the beautiful agent Lydia to apprehend an important official document. Lieutenant von Muehlen is a trusted member of another secret society. He is on the same mission.
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The Gardener
Title: The Gardener
Character: The Gardener
Released: October 16, 1912
Type: Movie
A gardener's son has fallen in love with the daughter of one of the workers at the nursery, and the two are married. The gardener then kicks his progeny off the property and begins to act despicably toward his son's wife.