Movies: Max von Sydow

One of the greatest actors of the twentieth century, von Sydow is best known for his long creative partnership with director Ingmar Bergman, whose psychologically probing dramas—including their most famous collaboration, THE SEVENTH SEAL—gave the act...

Carl-Gustaf Nykvist's documentary about his father, Sven Nykvist. The film is based on Sven's memoirs with Sven himself as narrator. A journey to the place of birth, Moheda, constitutes the hub of the film and during the journey friends and memories ...

A short documentary that was originally produced to promote the film at conventions and publicity events in the lead-up to its release....

The CIA hears of a KGB scheme to assassinate the Soviet General Secretary and enlists Stoner, an agent retired for 10 years, to go to Russia to investigate. He verifies the plot, but then has trouble leaving the country. In the meantime, the U.S. pol...

Broadcast live via satellite around the world on January 31, 1982, this special produced by the US International Communication Agency protesting the then recent imposition of martial law in Poland. Hosted by Charlton Heston, Max von Sydow, and Glenda...

Portrait of Ingmar Bergman, made while he was working on The Touch, about his professional and private life in the early 1970s....

A documentary shot on the set of "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" by Cedric Brelet von Sydow....

The story of Benvenuto Cellinin (1500-1571), a soldier and one of the most important craftsmen and artists of Renaissance Italy whose life was marked by many achievements and adventures, but also crimes. There is also the mini-series version consist...

A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 films....

A judge on crusade to take down the Italian Mafia uses a gangster turned state's witness (a so-called "repenter") and a New York banker to do it. But things aren't quite what they seem....

In the old days, Norway used to be a safe haven for Trolls, but not anymore. One day three young goats decide to get rid of an old Troll who lives under a bridge. Little do they know that he is the last survivor of his species, the very last Troll of...

Anders and Sylvia are set to be married, but Sylvia says 'no' and runs away at the altar....

A poor woman in a Swedish farming community struggles to feed her large family and is torn by her passion for two different men....

A retired professor has returned to his estate to live with his beautiful young wife, Yelena. The estate originally belonged to his first wife, now deceased; her mother and brother still live there and manage the farm....

Poetic documentary about the polar expedition of S. A. Andrée which Troell had previously dramatized in "Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd" (1982)....

This is a true story about forty Jewish children on their way to Palestine, who were blocked by the German and Italian occupation of Yugoslavia in 1941. Before finding a haven at Villa Emma in Nonantola in northern Italy, where they arrived on June 1...

A soldier, returning home from war, chances upon a stranger who offers to buy his violin. The stranger is none other than the devil....

A Romanian aristocrat retreats to a desert isle with his wife and servants on the eve of World War II....

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A young woman, living in a relationship, falls in love with a married man....