Movies: Jan Troell

The film is based on a true occurrence in Sweden in 1988. A Finnish couple murdered a young boy and his parents when they prevented the theft of the son's bicycle. The film tries to describe the relationship between the dominant Jari, who calls himse...

1966 - when Bob Dylan visits Sweden and Prime Minister Erlander has a difficult time with questions about housing. A special evening at the opera is arranged with Harry Belafonte and Martin Luther King. Esrange is inaugurated and in China the cultura...

Inspired by real-life Elsa Andersson, this mostly fictional movie tells the story of her upbringing as a farmer's daughter, in the early 1900s, who dreams of getting away from the farm and becoming an aviatrix....

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Four short stories from Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland....

A lonely teacher muddles through a midlife crisis as he navigates romantic relationships and tries his hand at composing experimental music....

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From 1957 to 1961 170.000 Algerians flee to Tunisia because of the war. Most of them walk by feet across the mountains and the desert, carrying only a few of their belongings in their hands or on donkeys. As there is no clay in the desert they cannot...

"Land of Dreams" - When the daughter Johanna is born in 1983, Jan Troell tells the story about his childhood Sweden and how things were when he grow-up in the land of fairy tales and potential prosperity....

1964 - the year when Astrid Lindgren's 'Vi på Saltkråkan' is shown on TV, UN Swedes smuggle weapons, Khrushchev is visiting, car testing starts, the KDS is formed and the long-haired fashion starts trending - for guys....

Director Jan Troell films the process of making Bo Widerberg's last film 'Lust och fägring stor' ('All Things Fair'). The footage was compiled into this documentary by Stefan Nylén and Tomas Ehrnborg in 2015....

Interviews with Kjell who is a cancer patient, children who smoke and various celebrities on their views and experiences on smoking....

An interview with director Jan Troell, conducted by critic Peter Cowie, on his epic Oscar-nominated masterpieces, The Emigrants (1971) and The New Land (1972)....

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A film about Jan Troell who turns 90 this summer. We get to see Jan Troell's own pictures, but also a conversation about childhood happiness and the joy of creation....

Documentary about the making of Swedish film director Jan Troell's "The New Land" (1971) and "The Emigrants" (1972)....

A tribute and portrait of the Swedish filmmaker Bo Widerberg. Thommy Berggren presents slices and comments on Widerberg....