Ingmar Bergman
Series
Criterion collection volume 537
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Swedish
Description
A traveling magician bringing his potions and mystical items with him is challenged by the Minister of Health, who believes the magician to be a charlatan.
Series
Criterion collection volume 139
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
Swedish
Description
A distinguished professor emeritus who lives alone with his housekeeper can only come to terms with his egocentricity by traveling back in time to his earliest youth, finding there the seeds of his failure as husband, lover, father. This film deals with the phenomena of old age wherein childhood memories return with ever-increasing clarity while great stretches of the prime of life vanish into obscurity. In Swedish with English subtitles.
Series
Criterion collection volume 11
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Swedish
Description
In medieval Sweden a knight returns from war only to find a ravaged homeland. He meets up with a group of traveling players and eventually confronts the embodiment of death with whom he engages in a game of chess for his life. The knight and Death play as the cultural turmoil envelopes the people around them as they try, in different ways, to deal with the upheaval the plague has caused.
Series
Criterion collection volume 229
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Swedish
Description
Marianne and Johan always seemed to be the perfect couple. But when Johan suddenly leaves Marianne for another woman, they are forced to confront the disintegration of their marriage. Chronicles ten years of turmoil and love that bind the couple despite their divorce and subsequent marriages. Portrays the brutal pain and uplifting peace that accompany a lifetime of loving.
9) Persona
Series
Criterion Collection volume 701
Publisher
Ab Svensk Filmindustri
Pub. Date
1966.
Language
Swedish
Description
An actress has inexplicably gone mute; a young nurse cares for her in a remote island cottage. While isolated together there, the women perform a mysterious spiritual and emotional transference that would prove to be one of cinema's most influential ideas.
Series
Criterion collection volume 101
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Swedish
Description
Two sisters, Karin and Maria, are keeping vigil for a third, Agnes, who is dying of cancer and can find solace only in the arms of a beatific nurse.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Swedish
Description
In this stark drama, Max Von Sydow plays Andreas, a loner who, despite himself, becomes involved with three of his island neighbors: a Machiavellian architect, his formless wife and the beautiful widow Anna (Liv Ullmann), a moralist who sustains herself with illusion. One of Bergman's first films to be photographed in color.
12) Summer interlude
Series
Criterion collection volume 613
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Swedish
Description
When she discovers a diary of a former lover, a ballerina recalls a summer affair filled with both happiness and tragedy.
13) Saraband
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Swedish
Description
Saraband is a revisitation to 1973's Scenes From a Marriage, as thirty-odd years have passed in the lives of former husband and wife Johan and Marianne. An inner prompting has sent Marianne to visit Johan in his ramshackle but finely appointed house in the middle of the forest, where she becomes a sounding board for the emotional wreckage she encounters there: Henrik (Johan's 61-year-old son) and Henrik's 19-year-old daughter, Karin. Henrik and Karin...
15) The Magic flute
Series
Criterion collection volume 71
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
Swedish
Description
An opera by Mozart in which a handsome young man is enlisted to rescue the Queen of Night's daughter from an evil sorcerer.
Series
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Swedish
Description
A peasant girl is raped and murdered in 14th century Sweden. When her killers seek shelter in her father's house, he kills them to avenge her death. Soon a spring appears from where the girl was killed and her father sees this as a sign from above.