Jan Troell
1931 (93 года)Jan Gustaf Troell (born 23 July 1931) is a Swedish film director. Usually, Troell writes his own scripts and serves as his own director of photography. His realistic films, with a lyrical photography in which nature is prominent, have placed him in the first rank of modern Swedish film directors along with Ingmar Bergman and Bo Widerberg.
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Coming to America: Jan Troell on 'The Emigrants' and 'The New Land'
Jan Troell, Peter Cowie
An interview with director Jan Troell, conducted by critic Peter Cowie, on his epic Oscar-nominated masterpieces, The Emigrants (1971) and The New Land (1972).
Coming to America: Jan Troell on 'The Emigrants' and 'The New Land'
Bergman - ett år, ett liv
Jane Magnusson
Ingmar Bergman, Lena Endre
A focuses on 1957, one of the most prolific years for the Swedish director. During the year he shot two films, opened two of his most celebrated films (The Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries), and produced four plays and a TV movie while juggling with a complicated private life.
Bergman: A Year in a Life
Sagolandet
Jan Troell
Ingvar Carlsson, Tage Erlander
"Land of Dreams" - When the daughter Johanna is born in 1983, Jan Troell tells the story about his childhood Sweden and how things were when he grow-up in the land of fairy tales and potential prosperity.
Land of Dreams
Hamsun
Jan Troell
Max von Sydow, Ghita Nørby
Knut Hamsun is Norway's most famous and admired author. Ever since he was young he has hated the English for the starvation they caused Norway during WWI. When the Germans occupy Norway 9 April 1940 he welcomes them and the protection they can give from Great Britain. He supports the national socialist ideals, but opposes the way these ideals are turned into action - that Norwegians are jailed and executed. His wife Marie travels in Germany during the war as a sign of support from Knut and herself.
Hamsun
Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd
Jan Troell
Max von Sydow, Sverre Anker Ousdal
The Swedish 19th century engineer Salomon August Andrée sets out to become the first man on the north pole. His idea is to launch a polar expedition using a hydrogen balloon, together with two friends. The balloon, "The Eagle", takes off from Svalbard in 1897, but the three men are not heard of again.
The Flight of the Eagle
Porträtt av Åsa
Jan Troell
A train passes the village Stångby in the countryside. Three-year-old Åsa comes running naked along a street and into a modern villa, located close to the railway track. She has just started her life, and the whole world is there for her to discover. Everything is new, so she looks with curiosity and thoughtfulness also on ordinary things in her immediate surroundings. Mostly she moves around in the house, plays with her toys, dances, reprehends the cats, looks out through the windows. Now and then her circles widens, as when her father brings her to a farm nearby, or to his job. One day her parents take her with a ferry to Copenhagen, where they visit the Zoo. Åsa is fascinated by all the various animals. She makes comments on their features as well as on how they feel.
Porträtt av Åsa
Uppehåll i myrlandet
Jan Troell
Max von Sydow, Allan Edwall
It's the mid 1930s and brakeman Kvist had enough of working on the train, jumps off and starts to walk on the train tracks in the middle of nowhere in Lapland, Northern Sweden, hoping to find new work and adventures. Based on the novella by famous Swedish author Eyvind Johnson.
Interlude in the Marshland
Stad
Jan Troell
For nine years in the 1950s, Jan Troell worked as a teacher at the Sorgenfri primary school in Malmö (an experience he drew on for his study of a teacher's relationship with his class, Ole dole doff (Who Saw Him Die?) in 1968); he lived in a house once occupied by Ingmar Bergman. In Malmö, Troell made his first film, Stad (The City), about a day in the life of Malmö, showing the life of the people from dawn until dusk.
City
