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Jun 10, 2024 · Swedish master Jan Troell, director of the beloved classics The Emigrants and The New Land, returns triumphantly with Everlasting Moments, the vivid, heartrending story of a woman liberated by art at the beginning of the twentieth century. Though poor and abused by her alcoholic husband, Maria Larsson (Maria Heiskanen, in a beautifully nuanced ...
Jun 17, 2024 · star Edvard Persson. In 1958, Jan Troell, made a short documentary film, City (Stad, 1958/1960), which was inspired by Arne Sucksdorff’s famous, Oscar-winning Symphony of a City (Människor i stad, 1947) but portrayed Malmö instead of the Swedish capital. was broadcast on Swedish television in City 1960.
Jun 18, 2024 · Directed by Jan Troell, Hurricane is a crowning achievement within '70s disaster movie history—demonstrating how filmmakers from this era continue to shape the landscape of contemporary cinema.
1 day ago · The Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (formerly known as Best Foreign Language Film prior to 2020) is handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States of America with a predominantly non-English dialogue track. [1]
Jun 24, 2024 · Here Is Your Life (Jan Troell, 1966) – Criterion Collection; Hero (Zhang Yimou, 2002) Hero, A (Asghar Farhadi, 2021) Hero, The (Satyajit Ray, 1966) – Criterion Collection; Heroic Trio, The (Johnnie To, 1993) Hey There! (Reha Erdem, 2021) Hidden Life, A (Terrence Malick, 2019) High and Low (Akira Kurosawa, 1963) – Criterion Collection
5 days ago · Il Capitano: A Swedish Requiem is a 1991 Swedish-Finnish biographical drama film directed by Jan Troell, about the 1988 Åmsele murders where a family of three was murdered by Juha Valjakkala over a stolen bicycle. Antti Reini stars as Valjakkala, renamed Jari in the film, and Maria Heiskanen as his girlfriend Marita Routalammi, renamed Minna.
Jun 16, 2024 · Land of Dreams is a 1988 Swedish essay film by Jan Troell. Its original Swedish title is Sagolandet, which means "The land of tales". Through a series of reportages from contemporary Sweden, Troell uses the film to ponder on the country's transformation since his childhood, into a society he argues has become permeated by rationality at the ...
