Erland Josephson
Date of Birth: Jun 15, 1923
Country: Sweden
Biography: Josephson was born on the island of Kungsholmen, in Stockholm, Sweden, as the son of Maud Gabrielle and Gunnar Josephson, a bookseller. Josephson was the leader of the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm from 1966 to 1975. He published novels, short stories, poetry and drama, and was the director of several films. In 1980 he directed and starred in the film Marmalade Revolution, which was entered into the 30th Berlin International Film Festival. [wikipedia.org]
Total Credits at Criticker: 59 (Actor), 2 (Director), 4 (Writer)
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In honor of the twentieth anniversary of Andrei Tarkovsky's death, student filmmaker Dmitry Trakovsky sets out in search of his favorite director's legacy. His journey leads him to fifteen moving interviews in California, Italy, Sweden, and finally, Russia as he attempts to come closer to the meaning of one of Tarkovsky's most enigmatic beliefs... that death doesn't exist.
Spöksonaten (2007) - TV Movie
The Ghost Sonata relates the adventures of a young student, who idealizes the lives of the inhabitants of a stylish apartment building in Stockholm. He makes the acquaintance of the mysterious Jacob Hummel, who helps him to find his way into the apartment, only to find that it is a nest of betrayal and sickness. The world, the student learns, is hell and human beings must suffer to achieve salvation. (Wikipedia)
With One Eye He Cries (2004) - Short Film
Short documentary about cinematographer Sven Nykvist and his work for director Ingmar Bergman.
Passion of Anna: Disintegration of Passion (2004) - Short Film
A documentary about En Passion.
The Search for Sanity (2004) - Short Film
A short documentary about Vargtimmen.
A Bergman Tapestry (2004) - Direct-to-Video
A documentary about Ingmar Bergman focused on the cast of Fanny and Alexander.
Saraband (2003) - TV Movie
In this sequel to Bergman's 1973 film "Scenes from a Marriage," Marianne and Johan meet again after thirty years without contact, when Marianne suddenly feels a need to see her ex-husband again. She decides to visit Johan at his old summer house in the western province of Dalarna. And so, one beautiful autumn day, there she is, beside his reclining chair, waking him with a light kiss. (Sony Pictures Classics)
Nu (2003) - Short Film
A man and a woman meet in 1960. They marry because that's what you are supposed to do. But something goes wrong on their wedding night... (imdb)
Marianne is a theatre actress married to an orchestra conductor, Markus. She becomes involved in an affair with their director friend, David, which leads to a painful divorce and battle for custody of their daughter, Isabelle. Although all of them are merely fictional characters created by Bergman, their experiences become very real and traumatic for him. (imdb)
Carl-Gustaf Nykvist's documentary about his father, Sven Nykvist. The film is based on Sven's memoirs with Sven himself as narrator. A journey to the place of birth, Moheda, constitutes the hub of the film and during the journey friends and memories emerge. (imdb)
A TV special featuring interviews with Erland Josephson and Ingmar Bergman.
På sista versen (1999) - TV Movie
When a department manager at Swedish Television threatens to relocate one of the less talented documentary filmmakers, the filmmaker puts forward the idea to film his dying father. (imdb)
Ivar Kreuger (1998) - TV Mini-Series
Ivar Kreuger was a businessman who influenced a whole world and whose fate is still shrouded in mystery. (imdb)
In the Presence of a Clown (1997) - TV Movie
Inventor Carl Åkerblom is a rosy-cheeked 54 year-old admirer of Franz Schubert - and a patient in the psychiatric ward of Akademiska Hospital in Uppsala, after having attempted to beat to death his fiancée, Pauline Thibault (imdb)
"A," a Greek filmmaker living in exile in the United States, returns to his native Ptolemas to attend a special screening of one of his extremely controversial films. But A's real interest lies elsewhere--the mythical reels of the very first film shot by the Manakia brothers, who, at the dawn of the age of cinema, tirelessly criss-crossed the Balkans and, without regard for national and ethnic strife, recorded the region's history and customs... (imdb)
Kristin is the daughter of a prominent landowner in medieval Norway. She grows up in total harmony with the ideals of the time: strong family ties, social pride and devout Christianity. She accepts the fact that her father has arranged for her to marry the son of another landowner. Kristin's beauty and purity create violent emotions around her. There are envy and attempted rape, murder and revenge. She seeks refuge from the world in a convent, awaiting the time for her marriage... (imdb)
Documentary following the life of a young ballerina at the Royal Swedish Ballet.
From 1886 to 1907 in the life of Sofie, a Jew in Copenhagen who is nearly 29, with no marital prospects, living with her loving parents. An artist, Hans Hojby, meets Sofie and is entranced, asking to paint her parents and also sketching her. She's responds, but he's not Jewish, and the family reacts by encouraging a marriage to Jonas, a homely draper. Sofie accepts this plan, accompanying her new husband to his town and bearing a son. (imdb)
An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and the son of his chief enemy fall in love in this uniquely structured retelling of the 'The Tempest'. Intricate staging, graphic nudity, and lavish art production are part of this lurid spectacle. Shakespeare has never seemed quite the same. (imdb)
n desperation brought on by near-starvation, Helge Roos kills his master's ox and feeds it to his wife and baby daughter. No-one suspects anything until the meat is finished and Helge tries to sell the hide at a local market. He is spotted by the local vicar and, wracked with guilt, confesses. The vicar assures him that if he gives himself up, he'll be treated leniently, but Helge's sentence is far harsher than anyone predicted... (imdb)
A film about a woman in turn of the 20th century Switzerland, who is diagnosed as schizophrenic, and committed to a clinic for mental patients. She comes under the treatment of a Dr. Brokner, whose methods prove unsuccessful, and even lead to a decline in the patient's condition. Then, Dr. Gustav Jung takes an interest in the case, and through strong personal investment and perseverance eventually begins to understand the suffering of his patient.
Swedish national Raoul Wallenberg, newcomer to politics and international machinations, travels to German-occupied Budapest during WWII in order to effectively intervene in the fate of trapped Hungarian Jews, by providing them with safe passage to Sweden. Based on a true story. (imdb)
In 1968, a Czech doctor with an active sex life meets a woman who wants monogamy, and then the Soviet invasion further disrupts their lives. (imdb)
A man's story parallels Hitler's rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in the care of Dr. Emil Bettleheim. Bettleheim discovers that Schneider possesses powers of empathy and of clairvoyance, such that could aid suicidal patients. After the war, with one friend as his manager and another as his lover, Schneider changes his name to Eric Jan Hanussen and goes to Berlin, as a hypnotist and clairvoyant performing in halls and theaters... (imdb)
Documentary on the making of "The Sacrifice."
Fifteen strangers take part in an experiment to learn whether such a group can survive in a cramped disaster fallout shelter. (imdb)
Alexander, a journalist and former actor and philosopher, tells his little son how worried he is about the lack of spirituality of modern mankind... (imdb)
A documentary of the making of Fanny and Alexander
A newly-elected Pope Leo XIV finds himself accidentally locked out of the Vatican. Unknown to the outside world, he winds up in an impoverished Italian village, where his adventures ultimately teach the Pope and his new friends some important lessons about friendship and self-esteem. (imdb)
Swedish romance author Agnes Von Krusenstjerna endures a turbulent marriage with David Sprengel, a bisexual and collector of erotica. In a hallucination, Agnes is brought to a mental hospital in Venice, carrying her fictitious autobiography with her.
After the Rehearsal (1984) - TV Movie
Rational, exacting, and self-controlled theater director, Henrik Vogler, often stays after rehearsal to think and plan. On this day, Anna comes back, ostensibly looking for a bracelet. She is the lead in his new production of Stindberg's "A Dream Play." (imdb)
The Russian poet Gortchakov, accompanied by guide and translator Eugenia, is traveling through Italy researching the life of an 18th century Russian composer. In a ancient spa town, he meets the lunatic Domenico, who years earlier had imprisoned his own family in a barn to save them from the evils of the world. As Eugenia seeks to tempt Gortchakov into infidelity, he, seeing some deep truth in Domenico's act, becomes drawn to the lunatic.
Franca and her husband Antonio decide to sell a yellow rug which was a gift of Franca's stepfather. One day, while Antonio is out, a strange man rings saying he wishes to buy the rug. But the man's visit becomes a nightmare. He kidnaps Franca and says he killed his wife on that same yellow rug. (imdb)
The title characters are children in the exuberant and colorful Ekdahl household in a Swedish town early in the twentieth century... (imdb)
Dubbelsvindlarna (1982) - TV Mini-Series
Principal Bertilsson live a peaceful small-town life in Kalmar. No one knows that in his basement waits a million kronor. The result of a successful bank robbery. (imdb)
This is a true story of the famous Variola epidemic outbreak in Belgrade. (imdb.ocm)
Marilyn Jordan is a bored housewife in Sweden who is liberated (sexually and otherwise) by her relationship with a group of gregarious Yugoslavs... (imdb)
Documentary 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. (imdb)
A Professor comes home carrying a paper bag with food. Among the goods in the bag is apricot jam. His wife reacts strongly, since they have always eaten orange marmalade. The Professor leaves his house and checks in to a hotel. (imdb)
Marta (Hella Petri) lives in a large country estate after retiring from her career as an opera singer.... Two women live with her, Claudia (Eleonora Giorgi) and Anna (Mariangela Melato).... Claudia and Anna are established in a lesbian affair and both depend on Marta like daughters would depend on a mother. Marta's brother Nicky (Erland Josephson) and his lover Picchio (David Pontremoli) arrive one day because Marta wants to take the two couples for a brief trip to Venice... (Rovi)
24 hours in the life of a German family near the Polish border on the day before Hitler announces that Germany has invaded Poland.
After having neglected her children for many years, world famous pianist Charlotte visits her daughter Eva in her home.
A woman ends a relationship, looking for a new purpose in life by "rescuing" her childhood friend and bachelor from his loneliness. They both set out on a journey discovering that being two is not the solution to their respective solitudes. The myth of redemptive love stops hence as a right a myth. (imdb)
An almost three-and-a-half hour documentary about the making of Bergman's Autumn Sonata.
I Am Afraid tries to summarize some of the totally real links between secret services, criminality & politics. (imdb)
Film focuses on love triangle between Nietzsche, his friend Paul Ree and Lou Salome.
Arvid, an incipent music critic, falls in requited love with Lydia while visiting her father's summer home.
A sensitive exploration of the tragic irony of the psychiatrist suffering with mental illness. Dr. Jenny... (imdb)
Scenes from a Marriage chronicles the many years of love and turmoil that bind Marianne (Liv Ullmann) and Johan (Erland Josephson) through matrimony, infidelity, divorce, and subsequent partners. (imdb)
Scenes from a Marriage (1973) - TV Mini-Series
Johan reveals to his wife Marianne that he has been having an affair and intends to leave her. She is distraught, and the film follows the trials and tribulations of the couple from that point onward. Originally a TV series screened in Sweden.
A family drama takes place in a mansion in the late 1800's. Karin and Maria watch over their sister Agnes' sickbed together with the servant Anna... (imdb)
Reservatet (1970) - TV Movie
A Swedish couple are trapped in their marriage and way of life. (imdb)
Andreas, a man struggling with the recent demise of his marriage and his own emotional isolation, befriends a married couple also in the midst of psychological turmoil (imdb)
An artist in crisis is haunted by nightmares from the past in Ingmar Bergman's only horror film, which takes place on a windy island... (imdb)
Aristophanes' Lysistrata inspires the contemporary Swedish actresses embodying its characters to end, perhaps, the war of the sexes.
When 'Vogler's Magnetic Health Theater' comes to town, there's bound to be a spectacle. Reading reports... (imdb)
The film takes place in a maternity ward within twenty-four hours. Cecilia Ellius is brought into the emergency ward after she starts haemorrhaging only three months into her pregnancy. She is suffering from a miscarriage and is brought into Room E, joining two expectant mothers, Stina and Hjördis. Stina is strong and healthy but her baby is overdue, while Hjördis is expecting an illegitimate child and has attempted an abortion.
Stig and Marta are a young married couple who play together in the same Swedish orchestra. He is ambitious and idealistic, but she is more somber and contemplative (imdb)