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The Unbearable Lightness of Being

The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988) more movies like this

directed by Philip Kaufman
featuring Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche, Lena Olin, Derek de Lint, Erland Josephson

In Philip Kaufman's surprisingly successful film adaptation of Czech author Milan Kundera's demanding 1984 bestseller, Daniel Day-Lewis stars as Tomas, an overly amorous Prague surgeon, while Juliette Binoche plays Tereza, the waiflike beauty whom he marries. Even though he's supposedly committed, Tomas continues his wanton womanizing, notably ...

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Meeting Venus

Meeting Venus (1991) more movies like this

directed by István Szabó
featuring Glenn Close, Niels Arestrup, Erland Josephson, Macha Meril

Meeting Venus is based on a play cowritten by the film's director, Istvan Szabo. Glenn Close plays a celebrated Swedish opera star Karin Anderson who is slated to appear in an internationally-telecast production of Tannhauser. Ms. Anderson balks at the notion of working with obscure Hungarian conductor Zoltan Szanto. The much-anticipated ...

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Montenegro

Montenegro (1981) more movies like this

directed by Dusan Makavejev
featuring Susan Anspach, Erland Josephson, Per Oscarsson, John Zacharias, Svetozar Cvetkovic

Marilyn Jordan (Susan Anspach), an American-born housewife, mother, and socialite living in Sweden, is crumbling under the weight of her own existence. She deeply resents her husband Martin's (Erland Josephson) frequent holiday absences and his indifferent attitude toward their two children ("If they are going to grow up in today's world," he ...

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The Passion of Anna

The Passion of Anna (1970) more movies like this

directed by Ingmar Bergman
featuring Liv Ullmann, Bibi Andersson, Max von Sydow, Erland Josephson, Erik Hell

Liv Ullmann plays the widowed, crippled Anna Fromm, who while traveling on a remote island calls upon reclusive ex-convict Andreas (Max von Sydow) in order to use his telephone. After Anna leaves, Andreas discovers she's left her purse behind; he opens it, hoping to find some identification. A letter in the purse details Anna's unhappy marriage ...

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Autumn Sonata

Autumn Sonata (1978) more movies like this

directed by Ingmar Bergman
featuring Ingrid Bergman, Liv Ullmann, Lena Nyman, Halvar Björk, Erland Josephson, Georg Lökkeberg

Ingrid Bergman, the Swedish expatriate who became one of Hollywood's greatest stars, and Ingmar Bergman, one of the world's most acclaimed filmmakers and Sweden's most honored director, worked together for the first and only time in this intensely personal drama about the troubled relationship between a mother and daughter. Charlotte (Ingrid ...

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Cries and Whispers

Cries and Whispers (1972) more movies like this

directed by Ingmar Bergman
featuring Harriet Andersson, Kari Sylwan, Ingrid Thulin, Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson

Cries and Whispers stars Liv Ullman and Ingrid Thulin as the sisters of dying cancer patient Harriet Andersson. Both sisters have already had brushes with death: Ullman has had an affair which prompted her husband's suicide, while Thulin has long wanted to do away with herself, at one point mutilating her own vagina out of self-hatred. As for ...

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Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg

Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg (1990) more movies like this

directed by Kjell Grede
featuring Stellan Skarsgård, Katharina Thalbach, Karoly Eperjes, Miklos B. Szekely, Erland Josephson

This historical drama chronicles the struggle of Swedish businessman Raoul Wallenberg (Stella Skarsgard), as he fought valiantly to save the lives of the Jewish residents of Nazi-occupied Budapest. Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide

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Saraband

Saraband (2005) more movies like this

directed by Ingmar Bergman
featuring Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson

As the final masterwork of Ingmar Bergman, the world's most revered cinematic craftsperson, Saraband (2003) embodies the sequel to the director's 5-hour Scenes from a Marriage, produced and directed 30 years after that original epic. Here, Bergman revisits the two characters from that film, divorcees Johan (Erland Josephson) and Marianne (Liv ...

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Nostalghia

Nostalghia (1983) more movies like this

directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
featuring Oleg Yankovsky, Domiziana Giordano, Erland Josephson

Nostalghia is Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky's enigmatic work about a writer (Oleg Yankovsky) who, trapped by his fame and an unhappy marriage, seeks out his cultural past in Italy. Here he meets Erland Josephson, a local pariah who declares that the world is coming to an end. The writer finds this prophecy curiously more alluring than the ...

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Hanussen

Hanussen (1989) more movies like this

directed by István Szabó
featuring Erland Josephson, Ildikó Bánsági, Walter Schmidinger, Karoly Eperjes

Based on a true story, Istvan Szabo's Hanussen centers on an Austrian soldier (Klaus Maria Brandauer) who becomes clairvoyant after he is shot in the head during World War I. He is able to read minds and predict the future. Before long, he has foreseen Hitler and the Nazis' rise to power, and he soon finds himself in danger. Hanussen is the third ...

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The Sacrifice (1986) more movies like this

directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
featuring Erland Josephson, Susan Fleetwood, Allan Edwall, Gudrún Gísladóttir, Valérie Mairesse

The Sacrifice, director Andrei Tarkovsky's final film, begins in Bergmanesque fashion on a small, remote island, where friends and family gather for drama critic Alexander's (Erland Josephson) birthday celebration. The revelry is interrupted by a radio announcement: World War III has begun, and Mankind is only hours away from utter annihilation. ...

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Faithless (2001) more movies like this

directed by Liv Ullmann
featuring Lena Endre, Erland Josephson, Krister Henriksson, Thomas Hanzon

Renowned actress-turned-director Liv Ullmann helms this bleak, nuanced film about marriage and betrayal penned by legendary filmmaker Ingmar Bergman. The story is straightforward -- Marianne Vogler (Lena Endre) is a beautiful actress who is married to Markus (Thomas Hanzon), whose job as an orchestra conductor requires numerous concerts abroad, ...

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Prospero's Books (1991) more movies like this

directed by Peter Greenaway
featuring John Gielgud, Michael Clark, Michel Blanc, Erland Josephson, Isabelle Pasco

Puzzle-master Peter Greenaway exposes another aspect of his peculiar obsessions to the filmgoing public. Prospero's Books uses Shakespeare as a foundation and then skips along to define its own lush territory. The books of the title are briefly referenced in The Tempest -- Prospero is a magician who gets to keep only a small fragment of his ...

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Hour of the Wolf (1968) more movies like this

directed by Ingmar Bergman
featuring Liv Ullmann, Max von Sydow, Erland Josephson, Gertrud Fridh, Bertil Anderberg

The Hour of the Wolf (original Swedish title: Vargtimmen) is Ingmar Bergman's spin on the demons that plague his fellow creative artists. Max von Sydow plays a painter who, while spending a summer in seclusion with his pregnant wife Liv Ullmann, is visited by bizarre and disturbing visions. Before long, Ullmann is also experiencing her husband's ...

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After the Rehearsal (1984) more movies like this

directed by Ingmar Bergman
featuring Erland Josephson, Ingrid Thulin, Lena Olin

Ingmar Bergman's After the Rehearsal stars Erland Josephson as a theater director named Henrik Volger. He is in the midst of mounting a production of a Strindberg play when he is visited by Anna Egerman (Lena Olin), an actress whom he has cast in the play. Volger was involved with Anna's mother, Rakel (Ingrid Thulin), an alcoholic has-been actress ...

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Ulysses' Gaze (1995) more movies like this

directed by Theo Angelopoulos
featuring Harvey Keitel, Maia Morgenstern, Erland Josephson, Thanassis Vengos

Winner of the Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, this drama centers on the Balkan conflict as viewed through the eyes of a filmmaker named A (Harvey Keitel). Director Theo Angelopoulos wrote the screenplay, drawing from personal experiences. A is a Greek émigré director who returns to his homeland after 35 years in the U.S., ostensibly to ...

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Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky (1988) more movies like this

directed by Michal Leszczylowski
featuring Brian Cox, Erland Josephson

This documentary of Andrei Tarkovsky was done by the co-editor of his last movie The Sacrifice. Michal Lecszylowski interviews Tarkovsky, considered the most important and influential Soviet director of the post-World War II era. Interviews with his widow in addition to television interviews of the legendary director give insight into the vision ...

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Sofie (1992) more movies like this

directed by Liv Ullmann
featuring Karen-Lise Mynster, Erland Josephson, Ghita Nørby, Jesper Christensen, Torben Zeller

Based on the 1932 novel Mendel Philipsen and Son by Henri Nathansen, Sofie was adapted for the screen by celebrated actress Liv Ullmann, making her directorial debut. Beginning in Copenhagen during the late 1880s, Sofie (Karen-Lise Mynster) is a devoted Jewish daughter who falls in love with the Gentile painter Hojby (Jesper Christensen). Her ...

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Scenes from a Marriage (1974) more movies like this

directed by Ingmar Bergman
featuring Liv Ullmann, Bibi Andersson, Erland Josephson, Jan Malmsjö, Anita Wall

Originally created as a six-part series for television, this film -- widely regarded as one of Ingmar Bergman's most powerful later works -- offers a close-up examination of a relationship as it slowly falls apart, and investigates the toll it takes on both parties. Johan and Marianne (Erland Josephson and Liv Ullmann) are a seemingly successful ...

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