Jan Troell Movies

It is Arild’s birthday, but his father has forgotten this and goes to work as usual. The mother is in the hospital to give birth. In the afternoon father and…

Zandy Allan purchases a mail-order bride, Hannah Lund. He treats her as a possession, without respect or humanity, until their shared ordeal as they struggle to survive develops in him…

In the middle of the 19th century, Kristina and Karl-Oskar live in a small rural village in Smaaland (southern Sweden). They get married and try to make a living on…

The desperate love affair between a young Samoan chief and an American painter, against the will of her father. Amid this man-made tension comes a hurricane so devastating, the lives…

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…

Sweden, early 1900s – an era of social change and unrest, war and poverty. A young working class woman, Maria, wins a camera in a lottery. The camera grants her…

The continuing saga of the Nilssons – husband and wife Karl-Oskar and Kristina, their several young children with another on the way, Karl-Oskar’s younger brother Robert, and some of their…