Ingmar Bergman
Series
Criterion collection volume 101
Publisher
Criterion Collection/Janus Films
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
Swedish
Description
A story of four women's search for spiritual peace. Agnes is dying of cancer and is visited one last time by her two sisters, Karin and Maria. These two become entangled in feelings of jealousy, manipulation and selfishness. Yet Agnes is able to transcend her sisters' pettiness to remember moments of staggering beauty as well as horror.
4) Shame
Series
Criterion collection volume 961
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Swedish
Description
An examination of the violent legacy of World War II and a scathing response to the escalation of the conflict in Vietnam. Two musicians live in quiet retreat on a remote island farm, until the civil war that drove them from the city catches up with them there. Amid the chaos of the military struggle, vividly evoked by pyrotechnics and by Sven Nykvist2s handheld camera work, the two are faced with impossible moral choices that tear at the fabric of...
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Swedish
Description
A scintillating screen version of Mozart's beloved opera showcases Ingmar Bergman's deep knowledge of music and gift for expressing it cinematically. Casting some of Europe's finest soloists, the director lovingly recreated the baroque theater of Sweden's Drottningholm Palace to stage the story of the prince Tamino and his zestful sidekick Papageno, who are sent on a mission to save a beautiful princess from the clutches of evil.
Series
Criterion collection volume 321
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
Swedish
Description
After a young girl is raped and murdered, her father plots revenge on those responsible.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Swedish
Description
"Through a glass darkly": A gloomy look at God and love through the eyes of a tormented family who search for God in a time of crisis. Plot centers around the mental illness suffered by the daughter, Karin. The first of a trilogy of films which explored man's relationship with God as Ingmar Bergman saw it. "Winter light": the second of a trilogy of films explores a tormented, widowed pastor who finds one winter day that he no longer has faith in God....
Series
Criterion collection volume 614
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Swedish
Description
Seventeen-year-old Monika and nineteen-year-old Harry Lund meet in a cafe. They spend a happy summer together, and soon Monika discovers that she is pregnant. They marry, but Monika is bored with taking care of the baby and the responsibilities of married life. She begins an affair with a former lover and their marriage falls apart.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
Swedish
Description
In 1846, Vogler's Magnetic Health Theater has developed quite a controversial reputation for its mesmerizing performances. The troupe consists of magician Dr. Albert Emanuel Vogler, his assistant Aman (his wife Manda disguised as a man), Granny the elderly potion mistress, coach driver Simson, and the sly barker Tubal. On the outskirts of Stockholm, Consul Abraham Egerman, Police Chief Starbeck, and Dr. Vergerus, the Royal Medical Adviser meet and...
10) The seventh seal
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Swedish
Description
Antonius Block is a knight, who along with his squire, are returning home from the crusades. Black Death is sweeping their country. As they approach home, Death appears to the knight and tells him it is his time. Antonius challenges Death to a chess game for his life. Antonius and Death play as the cultural turmoil envelopes the people around them as they try, in different ways, to deal with the upheaval that the plague has caused.
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