Faithless 2000  N/R, 155 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Liv Ullmann
Cast: Lena Endre, Erland Josephson, Krister Henriksson, Thomas Hanzon, Michelle Gylemo, Juni Dahr, Philip Zanden, Therese Brunnander, Marie Richardson, Stina Ekblad
Told through flashbacks representing the memories of a writer named Bergman (Erland Josephson), this is the story of how the marriage between Marianne (Lena Endre) and Markus (Thomas Hanzon) becomes unhinged. When Marianne takes part in an adulterous affair with Markus' best friend (Krister Henriksson), a bitter divorce and fight for custody of nine-year-old Isabelle (Michelle Gylemo) follows.
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Fanny and Alexander 1982  R, 200 min.
Genre: Family / Drama / Mystery
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Ewa Froling, Bertil Guve, Pernilla Allwin, Gunn Wallgren, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Erland Josephson, Harriet Andersson, Borje Ahlstedt, Christina Schollin, Allan Edwall, Jarl Kulle, Mona Malm, Pernilla Wahlgren, Jan Malmsjo, Kerstin Tidelius
Oscar (Allan Edwall)and Emilie (Ewa Froling) are successful entertainers, until Oscar dies leaving widowed Emilie to raise their two children, Fanny (Pernilla Allwin) and Alexander (Bertil Guve). Emilie remarries, and she and the children move into the austere home of her new husband, Bishop Vergerus (Jan Malmsjo). Lacking the comforts that Fanny and Alexander had known, the children are very unhappy–until their grandmother (Gunn Wallgren) takes them into her home and showers them with affection. Now, at last, the children find refuge. This film won four Academy Awards, including Best Foreign Film. Ingmar Bergman was also nominated for Best Director.
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Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg 1990  N/R, 115 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Kjell Grede
Cast: Stellan Skarsgard, Katharina Thalbach, Karoly Eperjes, Miklos Szekely B., Erland Josephson, Franciszek Pieczka, Jesper Christensen, Ivan Desny, Geza Balkay, Percy Brandt, Laszlo Soos
Based on true events, this is the story of Raoul Wallenberg, a successful Swedish businessman who became an amateur diplomat when he volunteered to go to German-occupied Budapest during World War II as an advocate for trapped Hungarian Jews. His efforts are believed to have saved thousands of Jews. But after the war, he was taken prisoner by the Russians and became a cold war pawn. Depressing at times.
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Kristin Lavransdatter 1995 N/R, 150 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Liv Ullmann
Cast: Elisabeth Matheson, Bjorn Skagestad, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Henny Moan, Rut Tellefsen, Erland Josephson, Lena Endre, Anne Kokkinn, Gisken Armand, Berard Arno, Jorgen Langhelle, Svein Tindberg
In 14th-century Norway, Kristin (Elisabeth Matheson) is residing in a convent awaiting her arranged marriage to a wealthy landowner (Jorgen Langhelle) when she meets and falls in love with a dashing knight (Bjorn Skagestad). Now Kristin must decide between the two men, and after much religious and social turmoil, Kristin follows her heart.
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The Magician 1958 N/R, 101 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Max von Sydow, Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Naima Wifstrand, Bibi Andersson, Erland Josephson, Bengt Ekerot, Gertrud Fridh, Lars Ekborg, Sif Ruud
Set in the 19th century, magician Vogler (Max von Sydow) is detained at a country manor where his illusions are pitted against those of a rational scientist.
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 Meeting Venus 1991  PG-13, 119 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Istvan Szabo
Cast: Glenn Close, Niels Arestrup, Erland Josephson, Moscu Alcalay, Marian Labuda, Jay O. Sanders, Maite Nahyr, Maria de Medeiros, Johanna ter Steege, Victor Poletti
Opera diva Karin Anderson (Glenn Close) falls in love with her conductor Zoltan Szanto (Niels Arestrup) in this sappy story. Wagner's "Tannhauser" is the centerpiece for this film which is more soap than opera. However, some will like it, according to some reviewers.
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Montenegro 1981 R, 96 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Dusan Makavejev
Cast: Susan Anspach, Erland Josephson, Per Oscarsson, James Marsh, Bora Todorovic, Marianne Jacobi, John Zacharias, Marina Lindahl, Lisbeth Zachrisson, Svetozar Cvetkovic
Susan Anspach plays the American wife of a wealthy Swedish businessman. One day she is kidnapped and held in a nightclub. To her amazement, she finds this den of inequity to her liking with humorous results.
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The Ox 1991 N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Sven Nykvist
Cast: Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Stellan Skarsgard, Ewa Froling, Lennart Hjulstrom, Bjorn Granath, Erland Josephson
For all but the aristocracy, life in mid-1800's Sweden was a constant struggle. This is the story of this struggle by a poor family to survive. Jan Troell's "The Emigrants" and "The New Land," based on a true story, were filmed several years earlier and told of those who left the Swedish famine and emigrated to the U.S. Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann also starred in those movies.
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Scenes from a Marriage 1973 PG, 168 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, Bibi Andersson, Jan Malmsjo, Gunnel Lindblom, Anita Wall, Barbro Hiort af Ornas, Rosanna Mariano, Lena Bergman, Wenche Foss
Told in six episodes, this film captures the emotions involved in a marriage that is failing. Ingmar Bergman and Liv Ullmann at their best.
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Sofie 1992 N/R, 145 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Sophie
Director: Liv Ullmann
Cast: Karen-Lise Mynster, Erland Josephson, Ghita Norby, Jesper Christensen, Torben Zeller, Henning Moritzen, Stig Hoffmeyer, Kirsten Rolffes, Lotte Hermann, Anne Werner Thomsen
This family saga took place during the early 1900s. Sofie (Karen-Lise Mynster) is a young Jewess who lived in Sweden and fell in love with a Gentile artist (Jesper Christensen). Their romance was not approved of by her family, and Sofie bowed to their wishes and married her cousin. Religious intolerance is the theme for this film as Sofie raises her son in a world filled with prejudice.
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To Joy 1950 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Stig Olin, Maj-Britt Nilsson, John Ekman, Margit Carlqvist, Victor Sjostrom, Birger Malmsten, Sif Ruud, Gunnar Rystedt, Erland Josephson, Ingmar Bergman
A failing marriage is examined in this early Ingmar Bergman drama.
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being 1988 R, 172 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Philip Kaufman
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche, Lena Olin, Derek de Lint, Erland Josephson, Donald Moffat, Daniel Olbrychski, Stellan Skarsgard, Bruce Myers, Pavel Landovsky, Tomasz Borkowy, Pavel Slaby, Pascale Kalensky, Jacques Ciron, Anne Lonnberg
In this film adaptation of Milan Kundera's story, Czechoslovakian surgeon Thomas (Daniel Day-Lewis) is an irresponsible lover whose sexual appetite is never satisfied. He falls in love with Tereza (Juliette Binoche) and marries her but continues his many affairs–particularly with Sabina (Lena Olin). In 1968, when Russia invades Prague, Sabina forms a friendship with Tereza while Thomas is obsessed with the collapse of his country. Well written, acted, and photographed.
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| 1. After the Rehearsal (1984)
2. Autumn Sonata (1978)
3. Brink of Life (1958)
4. Cries and Whispers (1972)
5. Face to Face (1976)
6. Faithless (2000)
7. Fanny and Alexander (1982)
8. Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg (1990)
9. Hour of the Wolf (1968)
10. Kristin Lavransdatter (1995)
11. The Magician (1958)
12. Meeting Venus (1991)
13. Montenegro (1981)
14. The Ox (1991)
15. A Passion (1969)
aka: The Passion of Anna
16. Saraband (2003)
17. Scenes from a Marriage (1973)
18. Sofie (1992)
aka: Sophie
19. To Joy (1950)
20. Ulysses' Gaze (1995)
21. The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
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