Sven Nykvist Movies

One day, an exceptionally beautiful girl shows up at Josua Webmann's pawnshop to pawn a golden harp. Josua's apprentice, Klaas, immediately sees her...

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

Five conversations frame a flawed marriage in this film written by Ingmar Bergman about his parents. Guilt-ridden wife Anna (Pernilla August)...

Eva Dahl, a doctor's wife, starts an affair with a younger man.

A new foreman, Huus, arrives in a sleepy Danish village, much to the delight of the unmarried women there. However, Huus becomes very friendly with...

This short dance film presents four women moving within a narrow, enclosed room to music by Claudio Monteverdi. Conceived as a dance play rather than...

Fly-on-the-wall treatment of an ordinary day in the life of a prisoner in Stalin's Gulag. Closely adapted from Solzhenitsyn's classic novel based on...

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

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...

A 1988 documentary film directed by Alexander Sokurov, about the later life and death of Soviet Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky. The film was...

A young woman who is obsessed with Buster Keaton stays in the sanatorium where the actor was once a patient.

A young man,Erik, breaks into a photo store. But he is discovered by the night watchman and has to fly. During the flight he is picked up by cabaret...

Using original footage and interviews, family photos, and excepts from many of the actress's screen and stage performances, the film explores sources...

Peter Brooks' adaptation of Carmen by Mérimée and Bizet.

A dead and unknown woman is found in a canal. Police inspector Martin Beck becomes involved in the case. After several months the woman is...

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...

Love triangle between the big farmer, a farmhand and his sweetheart.

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

Based on the classic children’s story, seven orphan siblings and their goat make a difficult journey over the mountains to find new parents.

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...