Search results for "Jan Troell"
The Boy and the Kite

The Boy and the Kite

The Boy and the Kite
IMDb: 6.4
30

It is Arild’s birthday, but his father has forgotten this and goes to work as usual. The mother is in the hospital to give birth. In the afternoon father and…

Genre: Family, TV Movie
Hamsun

Hamsun

Hamsun
IMDb: 7.2
159

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…

Genre: Drama
Their Frozen Dream

Their Frozen Dream

Their Frozen Dream
IMDb: 7.1
61

Poetic documentary about the polar expedition of S. A. Andrée which Troell had previously dramatized in “Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd” (1982).

Genre: Documentary
Here Is Your Life

Here Is Your Life

Here Is Your Life
IMDb: 7.3
169

A working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving through a series of jobs and romances that gradually shape his future.

Genre: Drama
The Flight of the Eagle

The Flight of the Eagle

The Flight of the Eagle
IMDb: 7.2
134

The Swedish 19th century engineer S. A. Andrée sets out to become the first man on the north pole. His idea is to launch a polar expedition using a hydrogen…

Genre: Adventure, Drama
Zandy’s Bride

Zandy’s Bride

Zandy’s Bride
IMDb: 6.4
97

Zandy Allan purchases a mail-order bride, Hannah Lund. He treats her as a possession, without respect or humanity, until their shared ordeal as they struggle to survive develops in him…

Genre: Western
The Emigrants

The Emigrants

The Emigrants
IMDb: 8
191

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.

Genre: Drama, History
Hurricane

Hurricane

Hurricane
IMDb: 4.6
120

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…

Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Who Saw Him Die?

Who Saw Him Die?

Who Saw Him Die?
IMDb: 6.8
110

Sören Mårtensson is a middle school teacher. His classroom occupied by half-grown children. His work is tormenting him and at night he is haunted by nightmares.

Genre: Drama
The New Land

The New Land

The New Land
IMDb: 8
204

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…

Genre: Drama, Western