Max von Sydow Movies

A soldier, returning home from war, chances upon a stranger who offers to buy his violin. The stranger is none other than the devil.

A young woman faces an arranged marriage imposed by her aunts as the hour of her suitor’s arrival approaches. Adapted for television from...

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...

Using original footage and interviews, family photos, and excepts from many of the actress's screen and stage performances, the film explores sources...

Poetic documentary about the polar expedition of S. A. Andrée which Troell had previously dramatized in "Ingenjör Andrées...

The story of the desperate love affair between a young Samoan chief and a beautiful American painter, against the will of her father, the powerful...

Members of a devout Christian congregation try to start a new life in Palestine.

Audiences join two peculiar characters, an unusual dream therapist and his mysterious patient, as they dig up "live" spectacular reenacted classical...

A poor woman in a Swedish farming community struggles to feed her large family and is torn by her passion for two different men.

A documentary shot on the set of "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" by Cedric Brelet von Sydow.

A grumpy writer resists his wife's and agent's attempts to goad him into completing his latest novel.

Bob Robinson (1927-1996) and American photographer living and working in many parts of the world. Norway was one place. His book "Captured by the...

A crash-landed crop-duster betrays a fugitive and his girlfriend to Mexican bounty hunters.

Filmed during the first ever Guldbaggen (golden scarab) awards, it was edited and developed that night and shown for the first time to the guests at...

Starring Sigmund Freud is a video memento for Sigmund Freud's little-known film career. Based on an essay John Menick published in Frieze in 2011,...

A philosophical swimming pool attendant lives his life at the bottom of a pool. (stockholmfilmfestival.se)

A professor's convictions about modern sexual education and free love are challenged when his daughter decides she wants an abortion.

One of the greatest actors of the twentieth century, von Sydow is best known for his long creative partnership with director Ingmar Bergman, whose...

A devoted but controversial priest comes to a Swedish village. He encounters conflicts with the locals. The priest has some problems within his...

A new foreman, Huus, arrives in a sleepy Danish village, much to the delight of the unmarried women there. However, Huus becomes very friendly with...