Jan Troell

It is Arild’s birthday, but his father has forgotten this and goes to work as usual. The mother is in the hospital to give birth. In the ...

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

The Swedish 19th century engineer Salomon August Andrée sets out to become the first man on the north pole. His idea is to launch a polar ...

The story of the desperate love affair between a young Samoan chief and a beautiful American painter, against the will of her father, the ...

Zandy Allan purchases a mail-order bride, Hannah Lund. He treats her as a possession, without respect or humanity, until their shared ordeal as ...

A Swedish immigrant family struggles to adapt to their new life on the American frontier during the second half of the 19th century amidst civil ...

A Swedish peasant family, ravaged by poverty, privation and misery in mid-19th century Sweden, set out on a perilous journey to America in hope ...

Sören Mårtensson is a middle school teacher. His classroom occupied by half-grown children. His work is tormenting him and at night he is haunted ...

A working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving through a series of jobs and romances that gradually shape his future.