Sven Nykvist Movies

The Scandinavian entry in the BFI's Century of Cinema series of documentaries

Portrait of the Swedish poet Dan Andersson (1888-1920). Brought up during poor conditions he finds work as a temperance preacher and educator. Bored...

Karin does not belong to the nobility but nevertheless marries the mentally ill king Erik XIV and becomes queen of Sweden. The king's skilled...

A con artist arrives to a small island to swingle money from the fishermen.

Sven Nykvist, best known as Ingmar Bergman cinematographer, made this film as a tribute to his father who was a missionary in Kongo in the early 20th...

In the beginning of WW II a Swedish ship in a northern French port is exposed to German air raids. The captain take a chance to leave the port...

A behind the scenes documentary of Ingmar Bergman's Autumn Sonata (1978), detailing every aspect of the production.

Filmed around the time of the 1989 Oscars this documentary includes interviews with foreign filmmakers from a variety of disciplines about their...

Albert Engström's anecdotes of Småland have been put together to make a comedy film about Johannes and Cornelius, two smallholding farmers...

A Professor comes home carrying a paper bag with food. Among the goods in the bag is apricot jam. His wife reacts strongly, since they always have...

Filip Palm works as a clerk. His hobby is creating inventions of different sorts. He has just received a big inheritance and has fallen in love with...

A comedy directed by Kurt Hoffmann.

Land owner Bill Bärnfelt sees a beautiful woman when he is out riding and immediately falls in love. But then his former fiancee turns up and...

Mattsson is a fisherman and widower in the Stockholm archipelago. He has two adult daughters that help run the household, Magda and Lena. Lena...

In a fictional future totalitarian society ruled as a one-party state. A teacher commits the crime to teach their students to think independently and...

it's the 1840s and a rural parish plagued by drinking and fighting gets a new vicar who has decided to instill law, order and fear of God into the...

What to do if you are stuck as a police officer in a boring small town, no decent crimes happen and you should actually make the big career at the...

In Norway in the 1600s, An-Magritt is born as the result of a rape.

Krister and his fiancé Brita return to Stockholm after a stay in Italy. Shortly upon their return Krister learns that all his assets left to...