Erland Josephson

Two young Swedish children in the 1900s experience the many comedies and tragedies of their lively and affectionate theatrical family, the Ekdahls.

A devoted wife is visited by her mother, a successful concert pianist who had little time for her when she was young.

A doctor in 1968 Prague struggles with monogamy to his wife's frustration, and then the Soviet invasion further disrupts their lives.

When a woman dying of cancer in early twentieth-century Sweden is visited by her two sisters, long-repressed feelings between the siblings rise to the surface.

At the dawn of World War III, a man searches for a way to restore peace to the world and finds he must give something in return.

A Russian poet and his interpreter travel to Italy researching the life of an 18th-century composer, and instead meet a ruminative madman who tells the poet how the world may be saved.

While vacationing on a remote German island with his younger pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.

A traveling magician and his assistants are persecuted by authorities in Sweden of the 19th century. Their capture, however, didn't bring victory to those in power.

A recently divorced man meets an emotionally devastated widow and they begin a love affair.

Chronicles the many years of love and turmoil that bind Marianne and Johan through matrimony, infidelity, divorce, and subsequent partners.

Marianne, some thirty years after divorcing Johan, decides to visit her ex-husband at his summer home. She arrives in the middle of a family drama between Johan's son from another marriage and his granddaughter.

An exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions of his early life come back to haunt him once more.

An imaginary woman recollects the painful experience of adultery to a storyteller.

Two violinists playing in the same orchestra fall in love and get married, but they can't get along.

Three women in a maternity ward reveal their lives and intimate thoughts to each other, where they face the choice of keeping their babies or offering them for adoption.

As an aging playwright interacts with the young lead in his play after everybody's gone home, he reminisces about her mother, whom he maintained a sexual relationship with before she died.

A critic blackmails a famous musician with his biography filled with the revelations of many of his women.

A bored wealthy housewife on the verge of insanity cuts loose with some lively Yugoslavian immigrants who delight in their bohemian lifestyle.

A story of how a Swedish diplomat saved thousands of Hungarian Jews during the final months of World War II.

Kristin, a medieval Norwegian noblewoman, grows up expecting an arranged marriage. She falls in love with knight Erlend despite social boundaries. Their affair causes scandal and political upheaval before her father permits their ...