The Boy and the Kite
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…
Hamsun
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…
Their Frozen Dream
Poetic documentary about the polar expedition of S. A. Andrée which Troell had previously dramatized in “Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd” (1982).
Here Is Your Life
A working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving through a series of jobs and romances that gradually shape his future.
The Flight of the Eagle
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…
Zandy’s Bride
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…
The Emigrants
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.
Hurricane
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…
Who Saw Him Die?
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.
The New Land
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…