The film focuses on the turmoil in the marital life of an affluent couple, their boredom, infidelity and subsequent estrangement. Eventually they finalize their divorce and settle down with their respective partners. But did that make them happy?
Bibi Andersson started her career with commercials and few uncredited and extra’s roles. Later she took acting training at ‘Royal Dramatic Theater School.’ At 15, she appeared in a commercial by Ingmar Bergman and further worked in 13 movies by the noted filmmaker.
Andersson’s debut film was ‘Dum-bom’ (1953). After appearing in drama-film ‘Sir Arne’s Treasure’ (1954), comedy-film ‘A Night at Glimmingehus’ (1954), she played a small part in Bergman’s comedy-film ‘Smiles of a Summer Night’ (1955).
Further Andersson appeared in drama-film ‘Last Pair Out’ (1956), TV-movie ‘Mr. Sleeman is Coming’ (1957), comedy-film ‘Summer Place Wanted’ (1957) followed by bigger roles in Bergman’s 1957 drama-film ‘Wild Strawberries’ and historical fantasy-film, ‘The Seventh Seal.’ In 1958, she starred in comedy-film ‘You Are My Adventure,’ and three more films by Bergman—TV drama-film ‘Rabies,’ ‘The Magician’ about a travelling magician, and drama-film ‘Brink of Life’ for which she, along with three co-stars, won ‘Best Actress Award’ at ‘1958 Cannes Film Festival.’
Thereafter, Andersson starred in fantasy-comedy film ‘The Devil’s Eye’ (1960) by Bergman, comedy-film ‘The Pleasure Garden’ (1961), drama-film ‘Square of Violence’ (1961) and Vilgot Sjoman’s drama-film ‘The Mistress’ (1962) which fetched her ‘Silver Bear for Best Actress Award.’
Further, Andersson appeared in ‘Pan’ (1962), comedy-film by Bergman ‘All These Women’ (1964), drama-film ‘Ön’ (1966), romantic-drama ‘About Love’ (1966), and ‘My Sister, My Love’ (1966). In ‘Persona’ (1966) a psychological drama-film by Bergman, she co-starred with Liv Ullmann in the role of ‘Nurse’ which earned her ‘Best Actress Award’ at ‘4th Guldbagge Awards.’ The same year she starred alongside James Garner and Sidney Poitier in her first American movie, Western-film ‘Duel at Diablo’ (1966).
Andersson’s further starrers include drama-film ‘The Girls’ (1968), and Bergman’s three films- drama-film ‘The Passion of Anna’ (1969), romantic-drama ‘The Touch’ (1971) and his TV-miniseries ‘Scenes from a Marriage’(1973).
Andersson’s American starrers were—espionage-thriller by John Huston ‘The Kremlin Letter’ (1970), ‘Oscar’ nominated fantasy-drama ‘I Never Promised You a Rose Garden’ (1977), Steve McQueen-starrer adaption of Ibsen’s play ‘An Enemy of the People’ (1978), Robert Altman’s sci-fi ‘Quintet’ (1979), air-disaster film ‘The Concorde……Airport 79’ (1979), James Toback’s ‘Exposed’ (1983), and TV-film ‘Wallenberg: A Hero’s Story’ (1985).
The last films Andersson appeared in, were epic films about fictional Swedish knight, ‘Arn—The Knight Templar’ (2007), sequel ‘Arn—The Kingdom at Road’s End’ (2008) and ‘The Frost’ (2009).
The film focuses on the turmoil in the marital life of an affluent couple, their boredom, infidelity and subsequent estrangement. Eventually they finalize their divorce and settle down with their respective partners. But did that make them happy?
Antonius Block, a disillusioned and exhausted knight returning from the Crusade, finds his country ravaged by the plague and is confronted by Death. However, believing that he must perform "one meaningful deed" before death, he challenges Death to a fateful game of chess that will determine his future and of those around him.
When popular actress, Elisabeth Vogler, suddenly loses her voice, doctors diagnose it as emotional stress and advices her to take time off. Accordingly, she moves to a beach house on the Baltic Sea accompanied by a nurse called Alma. The story focuses on Alma’s struggle with her mute patience, in course of which the two women’s persona melds as one.
Also referred to as Wild Strawberries, the Swedish drama follows egotistical and irritable Professor Isak Borg who sets out on a car trip from Stockholm to Lund to receive his doctorate. Accompanying him is his pregnant daughter-in-law who dislikes him. As he meets a series of hitchhikers, he is forced to look into the emptiness of his life.
After his wife passes away, Fredrik Egerman gets married to Anne, a younger woman. However, his son Henrik starts developing feelings for his step mother. Anne starts loving him secretly as well.
Vogler is a traveling magician, who, along with his assistants are persecuted by authorities in Sweden during the 19th century. They request that his troupe provide them a sample of their act, before they are allowed to perform in public. Their intention is to expose Vogler as a charlatan, but it seems that both Vogler and his crew are too clever.
After getting divorced, Andreas finds himself quite depressed and desolate. He soon meets a woman named Anna, who has lost her husband and her son due to a car crash.
Thomas Stockmann is a doctor and amateur scientist who lives in a small town in Norway. The town receives a lot of tourists due to its nearby springs, which have therapeutic healing powers. However, Stockmann discovers that they are being polluted by waste from the tannery of the town, and decides to take steps to stop this contamination.
Arn is the son of a high-ranking Swedish nobleman, who is educated at a monastery. He falls in love with a woman named Cecilia, but unfortunately premarital relationships are forbidden. Therefore, after he becomes a Knight Templar he decides to go to the Holy Land in order to do penance.
Arn, who is the commander of a Templar garrison in Gaza, is commanded to join a Templar force that is intercepting the army of Saladin. Before he can home to Sweden and get married to his woman Cecilia, he needs to win this battle. However, things don’t go as expected due to the arrogance of Gerard de Ridefort, the Templar Grandmaster.
This Swedish documentary film shows us the ‘behind the scenes’, and making of the drama film ‘Wild Strawberries’ (Smultronstället).
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden is a fantasy drama film which tells the story of a teen girl Deborah, who is suffering from schizophrenia. Unable to determine what is real or unreal, she attempts suicide, and lands up in a mental institution. However, the hostile environment worsens her condition even further until Dr Fried tries to help her distinguish between fantasy and reality.
The story focuses on the relationship between a Swedish housewife, Karin Vergerus—who lives with her husband and children in a Swedish village—and David Kovac—a foreign archeologist and a Jewish survivor. They meet at a hospital and very quickly develop a relationship; but because of his mental scars, their journey is not as pleasant as it could have been.
The Mistress is a Swedish film which tells the story of a young woman who falls for a married man, leading to complicated situations.
This comedy film tells the story of a 50-year-old entrepreneur named Tullio, who is separated from his wife. However, due to religious reasons, he refuses to get divorced.
Black Palm Trees is a comedy drama film which tells the story of a young woman, who has been searching for a sailor named Colett, who had once saved her life from drowning. Her search eventually leads her to a small port in Rio de Janeiro.
A middle-aged divorced woman, who is a museum director, falls in love with a young woman. Things get complicated when her ex-husband also begins a relationship with the same girl.
The people in a small conservative town are shaken when they find out that the school teacher Franzen had published his own poetry anonymously years ago. Things get even more complicated when he admits that he also had an affair with a waitress named Fanny at the city hotel. When the people come to know that Fanny has a grownup daughter now with no known father, they start wondering if Franzen is the father after all.
This drama film revolves around the life of Bo Dahlin, a student, whose parents are divorced since both of them were unfaithful. Although he is engaged to a woman named Kerstin, he is actually attracted to another woman named Anita.
Leaving her rural Wisconsin background behind, Elizabeth Carlson moves to New York City and takes up a career as a fashion model. She meets and falls for unfathomable violinist, Daniel Jelline, and soon after, realizes that the musician actually is an espionage agent striving to bring terrorist, Rivas, to justice. Inadvertently, Elizabeth becomes a part of a dangerous international undercover scheme.
Maggie is a journalist who decides to expose her ex-boyfriend’s involvement with the illegal arms business. While she in traveling on an inaugural flight, he tries to bring down the plane.