Sven Nykvist Movies

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...

Fact-based drama about the life of Marie Balter, who spent most of her young life in mental institutions. At age 16, she first attempted suicide and...

A documentary on Sven Nykvist lighting the movie-set during the shooting of Andrei Tarkovsky's film "The Sacrifice."

Alan Kennebeck is unable to accept a brief, realistic romance for what it is. Eventually it leads to his complete moral downfall. Triggered by the...

Shot on the island of Fårö, this documentary presents interviews with local inhabitants as they discuss work, family life, and the...

Peter Brooks' adaptation of Carmen by Mérimée and Bizet.

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

The night before her wedding, a nervous bride examines her gifts and picks out a book of romantic short stories. Hoping to while away the evening,...

The early stage experiences of a group of young, more or less talented aspiring actors, whose first steps on the stage are described. Among them are...

From Bern's salons at Berzelii Park in Stockholm. Exterior and interior from early morning until dawn the next day. Lunch and dinner. Entertainment...

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...

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...

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...

Karin does not belong to the nobility but nevertheless marries the mentally ill king Erik XIV and becomes queen of Sweden. The king's skilled...

Sven Nykvist, best known as Ingmar Bergman cinematographer, made this film as a tribute to his father who was a missionary in Kongo in the early 20th...

The stingy fisherman Ericsson lives on a small island north of Stockholm with his wife Johanna och her father Isak.

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

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...

After years of ignoring the shy cousin whom she and her peers taunted mercilessly as a child, a middle-aged woman (Ingrid Thulin) wrenches the poor...

The beautiful student Katja shocks the conservative and rigid city of Wadköping by appearing in tail-coat on the big prom.