Jan Troell Movies

A tribute and portrait of the Swedish filmmaker Bo Widerberg. Thommy Berggren presents slices and comments on Widerberg.

Interviews with Kjell who is a cancer patient, children who smoke and various celebrities on their views and experiences on smoking.

It's the mid 1930s and brakeman Kvist had enough of working on the train, jumps off and starts to walk on the train tracks in the middle of nowhere...

The film is based on a true occurrence in Sweden in 1988. A Finnish couple murdered a young boy and his parents when they prevented the theft of the...

A young Swedish boy tries to enjoy his birthday with his mother in the maternity ward and his father having forgotten about the occasion.

Filmed during the first ever Guldbaggen (golden scarab) awards, it was edited and developed that night and shown for the first time to the guests at...

1964 - the year when Astrid Lindgren's 'Vi på Saltkråkan' is shown on TV, UN Swedes smuggle weapons, Khrushchev is visiting, car testing...

An interview with director Jan Troell, conducted by critic Peter Cowie, on his epic Oscar-nominated masterpieces, The Emigrants (1971) and The New...

Movement, glance, rhythm and hints. Meetings on fragrant meadows and in enclosed training rooms. Joy, sweat, disciplined training and physical...

Four short stories from Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland.

The film depicts some people's innocent presence a weekday at the World Trade Center in New York. The powerful architecture of the twin tower still...

Documentary about the making of Swedish film director Jan Troell's "The New Land" (1971) and "The Emigrants" (1972).

A portrait of Swedish film maker Jan Troell.

1966 - when Bob Dylan visits Sweden and Prime Minister Erlander has a difficult time with questions about housing. A special evening at the opera is...

From 1957 to 1961 170.000 Algerians flee to Tunisia because of the war. Most of them walk by feet across the mountains and the desert, carrying only...

For nine years in the 1950s, Jan Troell worked as a teacher at the Sorgenfri primary school in Malmö (an experience he drew on for his study of...