Jan Troell

In a time of social change and unrest, war and poverty, a young working class woman, Maria, wins a camera in a lottery. The decision to keep it ...

A small local radio station in the city of Trelleborg, Sweden. Very important to its listeners. A friend in the air.

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 ...

Poetic documentary about the polar expedition of S. A. Andrée which Troell had previously dramatized in “Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd” (1982).

A Swedish immigrant family struggles to adapt to their new life on the American frontier during the second half of the 19th century amidst civil ...

Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.

Inspired by real-life Elsa Andersson, this mostly fictional movie tells the story of her upbringing as a farmer’s daughter, in the early ...

A Swedish peasant family, ravaged by poverty, privation and misery in mid-19th century Sweden, set out on a perilous journey to America in hope ...

The film is based on a true occurrence in Sweden in 1988. A Finish couple murdered a young boy and his parents when they prevented the theft of ...

“Land of Dreams” – When the daughter Johanna is born in 1983, Jan Troell tells the story about his childhood Sweden and how ...