Victor Sjöström
Yönetmen · 1879 – 1960 · Silbodal, Värmlands län, Sweden
Victor David Sjöström (September 20, 1879 – January 3, 1960), sometimes known in the United States as Victor Seastrom, was a pioneering Swedish film director, screenwriter, and actor. He began his career in Sweden, before moving to Hollywood in 1924. Sjöström worked primarily in the silent era; his best known films include The Phantom Carriage (1921), He Who Gets Slapped (1924), and The Wind (1928). Sjöström was Sweden's most prominent director in the "Golden Age of Silent Film" in Europe. Later in life, he played the leading role in Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries (1957).
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Film8.1DramEn Uzun Yolculuğun Sonunda Yine Yalnızlık Vardır... Berlin Film Festivali'nde En İyi Film ödülünü alan "Yaban Çilekleri", yaşlı bir profesörün geçmişini ve varoluşunun anlamını sorguladığı bir yol filmidir. Yetmiş sekiz yaşındaki Profesör Borg, bir onur doktorası almak üzere Stockholm'dan Lund'a doğru arabayla yola çıkar. Yanında gelini Marianne da bulunur. Bu yolculuk sırasında, Borg'a kaybettiği ilk gençlik aşkını anımsatan genç bir otostopçu kızla ve kavgacı bir çiftle karşılaşırlar. Tanıştığı bu farklı karakterler ve gençliğinin geçtiği mekanlar Borg'a kabuslar ve düşler yaşatır.
Film7.7DramFantastikFilm aynı dönemlere denk gelen Dr.Caligari gibi flashbacklerin yoğun olduğu hatta iç içe geçtiği bir film. Başrol oyuncusu David Holm'u de canlandıran donemin ünlü yönetmen ve oyuncusu Sjöström zamanın tekniğini en güzel şekilde kullanarak mükemmele yakın bir anlatımla bir kişinin iç hesaplaşmasını yansıtyor bu filmle. Yeni yılın son gecesi son ölen kisinin bir yıl boyunca ölen kişilerin ruhlarını taşıyan ölümün arabasını kullanarak geçireceği efsanesiyle yola çıkılan bu filmde içki ve kumarla vakit geçirip ailesine gerekli ilgiyi göstermeyip ikinci plana atan bir adamın karısı tarafından çocuklarıyla beraber terk edilişinin arkasından gelişen olaylar anlatılıyor.
Film6.9DramSwedish film of the Kaj Munk play that was made into a far more famous film by Carl Dreyer in Denmark twelve years later.
Ordet
1943 · 15 votes
Film8.0BelgeselTwo part biography of Greta Garbo - 1. The Temptress 2. The Clown. Reminiscences of her early life in Stockholm, with excerpts from her films. Narrated by Bibi Andersson.
Greta Garbo: The Temptress and the Clown
1986 · 2 votes
Film6.0BelgeselDocumentary of the Swedish actor/director Victor Sjöström and his work - from Terje Vigen (1917) to Smultronstället (1957) Director Ingmar Bergman is interviewed about his memories of and experiences of Sjöström.
Film10.0DramSwedish version of Norwegian National Author Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson's novel.
Synnöve Solbakken
1934 · 1 votes
FilmDramMary and Georg love each other, but he is rejected by Mary's father who has suffered insecurity and sees his rescue in marrying Mary with the rich shipowner Harry Gordon.
Film5.4KomediRomantikFrau Bessie, once a madcap, aristocratic and modern Swedish fraulein, has become now a whimsical and conservative Swedish burgess after her marriage to Herr Thomas Graal. The destabilization of the marriage begins right at the wedding (which contains some hilarious incidents) when Frau Bessie announces the first Graal child must be a girl, creating a terrible conflict with her husband who is hoping for a boy. It takes a scandal to finally end the war between man and wife.
Film5.4DramA gardener's son has fallen in love with the daughter of one of the workers at the nursery, and the two are married. The gardener then kicks his progeny off the property and begins to act despicably toward his son's wife.
Film7.2DramA stranger comes to work at widow Halla's farm. Halla and the stranger fall in love, but when he is revealed as Eyvind, an escaped thief forced into crime by his family's starvation, they flee and become two of the many outlaws of Iceland's mountains.
Film9.0SavaşDramAn allegory of Germany's WWII occupation of Norway. Members of a theater ensemble join the resistance.
Film6.8RomantikDramA young orchestra violinist’s fear of mediocrity and drive for artistic success strain his marriage to a fellow musician. Told largely in flashback and shaped by Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, the film examines ambition, love, and loss in early Ingmar Bergman.
Film7.1DramTarihTerje Vigen, a sailor, suffers the loss of his family through the inflexibility of another man. Years later, when his enemy's family finds itself dependent on his benevolence, Terje must decide whether to avenge himself.
- FilmDram
The old friends Otto Berner and Charles Von Barton stands on separate sides in a political conflict.
Film6.1KomediSuçAfter the respectable Dr. Monro was found dead, the housekeeper and two engineers testify in court. A case of commercial delinquency and bribery is reconstructed on that occasion. Sadly only about half the film exists today.
FilmBelgeselA quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 films.
Minns ni?
1993
- FilmBelgeselDram
Snippets of Greta Garbo movies interspersed with provincial gigs of girls resembling Garbo. The film begins with one of the aspirants reading an issue of the newspaper Stockholms-Tidningen.
Film6.2BelgeselA tour of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio in 1925 shows the people who make the movies there, and gives viewers a glimpse at how movies are made.
1925 Studio Tour
1925 · 20 votes
- FilmDram
Doctor Arthur Born tries to produce a cure for the plague.
Film6.0BelgeselA short documentary capturing behind-the-scenes footage from the production of Wild Strawberries, offering a glimpse of Ingmar Bergman at work with his cast and crew during the making of one of his most celebrated films.
FilmDramA young doctor is found unconscious in the mountains and is brought to a Sami village.
Film7.0DramTarihIn 1803 the Swedish inventor John Ericsson is born. After a military career he went to England and became one of the first builders of locomotives. Despite large debts, he invents the propeller. In 1839 he crosses the Atlantic and builds ships for the US Navy. When the US civil war breaks out, the Federation needs a ship to match the Confederate 'Merrimac' and preventing the Confederation from exporting cotton to Europe. Ericsson builds the 'Monitor', a ship the Federation needs to win the war.
- Film5.9KomediRomantik
Thomas Graal's a screenwriter, is very fond of his secretary Bessie. Overtaken by a kiss by Thomas she runs away. In his misfortune Thomas writes a screenplay inspired by Bessie. But she has not been really honest with him. 31 minutes of runtime are missing and presumed lost.
Film5.4RomantikDramLena Bergström works in an office and is unhappily in love with her boss, Johan Borg. She decides to quit. Borg's wife won't have any children, and when she becomes pregnant she has an illegal abortion. For some reason, Lena's father believes that it is Lena who has had an abortion.