Movies: Stellan Skarsgård

Åke and his world is a long, lyrical study of a Swedish country doctor of the 1930s. Åke is the doctor's six-year-old son, from whose point of view the film is told. His best friend is Kalle Nubb. Åke is very frightened of the janitor Bergström as we...

Cast and crew discuss the success of the novel, transitioning it to film and condensing it for the medium, and gender dynamics in Sweden....

Under the influence of signs and premonitions, a man allows himself to veer in and out of a love affair with his colleague....

Based on the novel by Maria Gripe, this is the story of two children, Klas and Klara, growing up in the poor Swedish countryside of the mid-19th century. Their father Albert is a glass-blower, famous for his beautiful vases, but still unable to earn ...

When Canadian director Sturla Gunnarsson set upon Iceland to film Beowulf & Grendel starring Gerard Butler and Stellan Skarsgard in 2004, they expected the usual complication involved in making a movie, but what they encountered made them wonder if t...

In desperation brought on by near-starvation, Helge Roos kills his master's ox to feed his wife and baby daughter, setting off a devastating and unexpected chain of events....

Peter-No-Tail (Pelle Svanslös) is a cat who was born without a tail. He compensates this by studying hard and, much to the dismay of his arch-rival Magnus (Måns), he receives a fancy university degree very few cats in the university town Uppsala, Swe...

A portrait of Denmark's most acclaimed and controversial director, Lars von Trier. A meeting with von Trier on a private level as well as with his film universe. Filmmaker Stig Björkman follow von Trier during a period of more than two years, meet hi...

This is a mock episode of the 80's-90's era tabloid show was created as part of the film's Internet promotion....

Short documentary of the making of Antoine Fuqua's King Arthur (2004)....

Swedish account of Raoul Wallenberg, the man responsible for the largest rescue of Jews during World War II....

Erik works during the summer at a filling station for boats in the Stockholm archipelago and devotes his spare time to amateur photography. When Erik falls in love with Sonja, who unfortunately is already engaged, he begins to sneak up on her with hi...

A young couple decides to sail around the world, hoping to get over the death of their young son. They set off in a used sailboat, whose previous owner had a fatal accident in the Bay of Biscay....

The young nobleman Inge is riding through Sweden, looking for his twin brother, Arild. He meets a group of gypsies who welcome him. They met Arild earlier and believe that the brother is Arild. Inge falls in love with the mysterious girl Isis....

Mother, father and child in the kitchen. They've run out of sugar and the child is sent over to grandma to get some. The child takes its every day route down the garden, over the fence, it crosses the street, gets the sugar and......

Swedish writer Stig Dagerman (1923-1954) was a literary sensation who after a few productive years, suddenly fell silent. Struggling with writer's block, Dagerman wrote the essay "Our Need for Consolation" about his inner demons and his quest for fre...

A man tells his wife about a dream he had last night, he was in Paris and the Eiffel Tower was missing. She does not understand however, what is this Eiffel Tower of which he speaks?...

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An innocent and beautiful girl, Linnea rents an apartment in Stockholm just before WWI. As she works for an old man who owns a photography studio she meets Anna, a photographer with whom she develops a complex friendship. Anna’s circus-performer boyf...