Erik Nordgren
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Monika, 17 years old and Harry Lund 19 years meet in a cafe. They spend a happy summer together, and soon Monika discovers that she is pregnant. They marry, but Monika is bored with taking care of the baby and the responsibilities of married life. She begins an affair with a former lover and their marriage falls apart.
Series
Criterion collection volume 139
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 180 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A distinguished professor emeritus who lives alone with his housekeeper can only come to terms with his egocentricity by traveling back in time to his earliest youth, finding there the seeds of his failure as husband, lover, father. This film deals with the phenomena of old age wherein childhood memories return with ever-increasing clarity while great stretches of the prime of life vanish into obscurity.
Series
Criterion collection volume 237
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([22] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
A sharp satire about eight Swedish aristocrats who become romantically and comically intertwined over a single weekend. Includes Director approved special edition features.
Series
Description
In medieval Sweden, a knight returns from war only to find a ravaged homeland. He meets up with a group of travelling players and eventually confronts the embodiment of death with whom he engages in a game of chess for his life. The knight and Death play as the cultural turmoil envelopes the people around them as they try, in different ways, to deal with the upheaval the plague has caused.
Series
Criterion collection volume 766
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (168 minutes) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 fold-out insert (16 unnumbered panels : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Description
This mesmerizing debut by the great Swedish director Jan Troell (The Emigrants, The New Land) is an epic bildungsroman and a multilayered representation of early twentieth-century Sweden. Based on a series of semi-autobiographical novels by Nobel Prize winner Eyvind Johnson, Here Is Your Life follows a working-class boy's development, from naive teenager to intellectually curious young adult, from logger to movie projectionist to politically engaged...
Series
Criterion collection volume 321
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (89 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A peasant girl is raped and murdered in 14th century Sweden. When her killers seek shelter in her father's house, he kills them to avenge her death. Soon a spring appears from where the girl was killed and her father sees this as a sign from above.