Afterword - Swedish favourites
Favourite swedish films selected by contributors to the Afterword blogsite.
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- DirectorLukas MoodyssonStarsLisa LindgrenMichael NyqvistEmma SamuelssonIn 1975, the dynamics of a Swedish commune begin to change upon the arrival of a beaten wife and her two kids.
- DirectorLukas MoodyssonStarsMira BarkhammarMira GrosinLiv LeMoyneThree girls in 1980s Stockholm decide to form a punk band -- despite not having any instruments and being told by everyone that punk is dead.
- DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsVictor SjöströmBibi AnderssonIngrid ThulinAfter living a life marked by coldness, an aging professor is forced to confront the emptiness of his existence.
- DirectorRoy AnderssonStarsAnn-Sofie KylinRolf SohlmanAnita LindblomTwo teenagers fall in love over the summer, in spite of cynical and disapproving adults who dismiss their relationship as being nothing but young love.
- DirectorTomas AlfredsonStarsKåre HedebrantLina LeanderssonPer RagnarOskar, an overlooked and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl.
- DirectorVictor SjöströmStarsVictor SjöströmHilda BorgströmTore SvennbergOn New Year's Eve, the driver of a ghostly carriage forces a drunken man to reflect on his selfish, wasted life.
- DirectorAlf SjöbergStarsStig JärrelAlf KjellinMai ZetterlingAn idealistic adolescent suffering under the thumb of a sadistic schoolmaster falls in love with a loose girl who is bullied and tormented by another lover.
- DirectorBo WiderbergStarsCarl-Gustaf LindstedtSven WollterThomas HellbergWhen a police inspector is murdered in hospital, the investigation led by detective Martin Beck uncovers reports of police misconduct and a possible revenge motive.
- DirectorBo WiderbergStarsJohan BergmanMagnus HärenstamMonica ZetterlundSix year old Johan, a.k.a. Fimpen, loves football. One day his talents are discovered. It doesn't take long before Fimpen gets to travel around with the national team. Fimpen becomes an idol and media wants a piece of him all the time. It gets hard to catch up in school.
- DirectorRoy AnderssonStarsLars NordhStefan LarssonBengt C.W. CarlssonWhere are we humans going? A film poem inspired by the Peruvian poet César Vallejo. We meet people in the city. People trying to communicate, searching compassion and get the connection of small and large things.
- DirectorLukas MoodyssonStarsAlexandra DahlströmRebecka LiljebergErica CarlsonTwo teenage girls in small-town Sweden. Elin is beautiful, popular, and bored with life. Agnes is friendless, sad, and secretly in love with Elin.
- DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsÅke GrönbergHarriet AnderssonHasse EkmanThe complicated relationships between a circus ringmaster, his estranged wife and his lover.
- DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsBertil GuvePernilla AllwinKristina AdolphsonTwo young Swedish children in the 1900s experience the many comedies and tragedies of their lively and affectionate theatrical family, the Ekdahls.
- DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsMax von SydowGunnar BjörnstrandBengt EkerotA knight returning to Sweden after the Crusades seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague.
- DirectorKay PollakStarsTomas FrykAnita EkströmIngvar HirdwallReine lies to his mother about going to summer camp, instead staying unsupervised in Stockholm. The movie depicts his adventures and encounters around the city during summer break while his oblivious mother works.
- DirectorHasse EkmanStarsEva HenningUlf PalmeBirgit TengrothAfter a young woman commits suicide, her neighbors try to piece together why she did it by tracking down her acquaintances.
- DirectorHasse EkmanStarsTollie ZellmanOlof WinnerstrandInga LandgréAbout a number of people in an apartment building during a night full of dramatic events and entanglements.
- DirectorHasse EkmanStarsHasse EkmanEva DahlbeckUlf PalmeA journalist is writing a critical article about the prison service in Sweden. The magazine's editor in chief does not agree with him and removes the article. The journalist then plans to fake a crime to gain knowledge about life in prison.
- DirectorHasse EkmanStarsStig JärrelHasse EkmanElsie AlbiinAn out-of-work musician (Järrel) is desperate for work and when his best friend (Ekman) sees an add requesting a cellist he signs him up. However, the work is for a female, so he creates the character Märta Letterström and joins the trio at a small-town hotel. But being a woman is not as easy as you think.
- DirectorKjell GredeStarsStellan SkarsgårdKatharina ThalbachKároly EperjesA story of how a Swedish diplomat saved thousands of Hungarian Jews during the final months of World War II.
- DirectorGabriela PichlerStarsNermina LukacMilan DragisicJonathan LampinenA young Eastern European immigrant, working in Sweden, is faced with a painful choice when she's laid off from her factory in the name of efficiencies.
- DirectorPer FlyStarsEdda MagnasonSverrir GudnasonKjell BergqvistThe world famous Swedish jazz singer, actress and icon Monica Zetterlund's life through stardom and hardship.
- DirectorGustaf EdgrenStarsMai ZetterlingAlf KjellinSten Lindgren19th-century northern Sweden is the setting for a story of forbidden love between farmer's daughter Marit and Jon, the scorned result of an extramarital affair between a gypsy fiddler and a girl Marit's father Germund once loved. Germund warns his daughter not to have any contact with Jon, but it's no use after the night that Jon rescues her from being raped.
- DirectorSuzanne OstenStarsPia BäckströmMalin EkEtienne GlaserIn a fictional country, around 1912, student are rioting. There are cries for democracy and to overthrow of the old regime. The revolt is brutally downcast by the regime's forces. The leader of the rebellion is arrested.
- DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsMax von SydowLiv UllmannGertrud FridhWhile vacationing on a remote German island with his younger pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.