focus on Swedish language films

Cries and Whispers

$26.99 | 91 minutes

This film is about the elemental things: death and dying, sex, injury, repression, and the body as a fount of sustenance. No wonder Bergman chooses to focus on female characters, in this case three sisters--one of whom is dying of tuberculosis--and a maid who is the only one capable of caring for the ill woman&hellip…

Dangerous Moves

$17.95 | 110 minutes

Two very different men compete in the World Chess Championship Games. One is a 52-year-old Soviet Jew and chess master for the past 12-years, and the other is a 35-year-old genius who defected to the West several years earlier. Academy Awards: Best Foreign Language Film&hellip…

Early Bergman Box Set: Torment/Crisis/Port of Call/Thirst/To Joy

$61.95 | 474 minutes

Before The Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries established him as one of the great masters of cinema, Ingmar Bergman created a series of less well known, devastating psychological character studies, marked by intricate, layered narratives, gritty environments, and haunting visuals. These early films, which show the stirrings of the genius&hellip…

Erotikon

$26.95 | 106 minutes

This silent masterpiece of light comedy by Swedish director Mauritz Stiller is an irreverent look at high society that is ahead of it's time. Irene, the bored wife of a distracted entomologist, pursues a womanizing aviator, but she may actually be in love with Preben, her husband's best friend. Meanwhile, her husband seems to be getting&hellip…

Evil

$24.95 | 110 minutes

The Stjärsnberg Academy has a great reputation, but when Erik (Andreas Wilson) enrolls there after getting expelled from his previous high school he discovers an institution that is spiralling violently out of control. As the students inaugurate a reign of terror, Erik befriends his roommate, Pierre (Henrik Lundström), and tries to stay&hellip…

Fanny and Alexander

$26.99 | 188 minutes

Director Ingmar Bergman had intended FANNY AND ALEXANDER to be his final theatrical film and a summing-up of sorts of his entire cinematic career. (It was followed by 1984’s AFTER THE REHEARSAL, which was also made for Swedish television and subsequently released theatrically abroad.) FANNY AND ALEXANDER is the story of two children belonging&hellip…

Hamsun

$24.95 | 154 minutes

A compelling dramatization of the last years of Norwegian Nobel Laureate Knut Hamsun's life, when he and his actress wife shocked the world by publicly supporting the Third Reich and openly advocating the Nazi occupation of Norway. But the Hamsuns' controversial politics are strongly rooted in their unconventional and tumultuous family&hellip…

I Am Curious... - 2-Disc Set

$35.95 | 328 minutes

Two groundbreaking, naturalistic films from Swedish director Vilgot Sjoman are included in this collection. I AM CURIOUS (BLUE) and I AM CURIOUS (YELLOW) were intended as companion pieces and both are contained in this two disc set. Please see individual titles for further details&hellip…

Ingmar Bergman Trilogy

$69.85 | 266 minutes

This collection includes three of Bergman's greatest works, THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY (1961), WINTER LIGHT (1962), and THE SILENCE (1963). Bergman's stark, searing dramas put Sweden on the cinematic map. THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY: Four family members live with the trauma of a young woman's madness and search for the meaning of God. WINTER&hellip…

Kristin Lavransdatter

$26.95 | 180 minutes

Scandal, shame, and destruction beset the beautiful Kristin Lavransdatter when she rejects her arranged marriage and pursues a romance with the strapping young knight Erlend. In 1995, more than half the population of Norway bought tickets to see this critically-acclaimed medieval romance, directed by Ingmar Bergman protege Liv Ullman&hellip…