Jan Troell

Renowned journalist Torgny Segerstedt declares war against Hitler as he criticizes Swedish politicians who tried to look away from the tyranny of ...

In a time of social change and unrest, war and poverty, a young working class woman, Maria, wins a camera in a lottery. The decision to keep it ...

Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.

Inspired by real-life Elsa Andersson, this mostly fictional movie tells the story of her upbringing as a farmer’s daughter, in the early ...

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

Knut Hamsun is Norway’s most famous and admired author. Ever since he was young he has hated the English for the starvation they caused ...

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 ...

“Land of Dreams” – When the daughter Johanna is born in 1983, Jan Troell tells the story about his childhood Sweden and how ...

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 ...