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Publisher
Lorber
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (132 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Daniel, a successful international conductor, returns to his childhood village in Sweden. Soon thereafter, the local church choir seeks him out to solicit his advice. He can't refuse, and nothing in the village is the same again. As the amateur choir develops and grows, he is drawn to the people of his old hometown, makes friends, and finds love.
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In midlife, two soul mates finally meet, and their passion is fueled by their duel love of music. Martin is a famous composer-conductor and Barbara is a gifted violinist. Abandoning their lackluster lives they plunge into a new and exciting world. When their blissful existence is threatened, Barbara is courageously determined to prove that love conquers all.
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2004], c1998
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sweet but lonesome Olof lives by himself on his family's farm after the death of his mother. Unable to read or write, he is forced to take people on trust. Olof must depend upon his younger friend Erik to help him with the farm work. Then one day, out of the blue, Olof places a personal ad in the paper. The ad attracts Ellen, a beautiful well-heeled city woman. Erik, also taken with Ellen, is determined to destroy her blossoming romance with Olof...
Publisher
British Broadcasting Corp
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 270 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In The White Lioness, Wallander is drawn into the case of a missing Swedish national while attending a police conference in South Africa. The second film sees Wallander back in Sweden, where a woman's body is discovered half buried in the forest swamps. And in The Troubled Man, Wallander is in a race against time as he embarks on his final case - the disappearance of his daughter's father-in-law.
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.
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (270 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Three new crime dramas based on the best selling books by Henning Mankell - Sidetracked, Firewall, and One Step Behind follow Inspector Kurt Wallander, a disillusioned everyman, as he struggles against a rising tide of violence in southern Sweden.
10) Show me love
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Story of Agnes, Elin and their teenage friends growing up in the small town of Åmål. Nothing ever happens until Elin shows up at Agnes' birthday party and Elin's life takes an unexpected turn. Stuck in the middle of two love interests, Elin tries to come to terms with her real self, and the courage it takes to be different"--Container.
Series
Criterion collection volume 263
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 188 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Told through the eyes of Alexander and his sister Fanny, we see the exuberant and colorful Ekdahl household in a Swedish town early in the twentieth century. Their parents, Oscar and Emilie, are the director and the leading lady of the local theatre company. Oscar's mother and brother are its chief patrons. After Oscar's early death, his widow marries the bishop and moves with her children to his austere and forbidding chancery. The children are immediately...
Publisher
British Broadcasting Corp
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (270 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Returns with Wallander in the next set of thrilling tales set in the beautiful landscape of southern Sweden. These stories follow Kurt Wallander, a sensitive but brilliant detective, a man who takes each murder case he works on personally and will stop at nothing in his search for the truth, even at the expense of his health and his family life. Beautifully filmed, Wallander is a compelling series featuring an extremely likeable and entirely believable...
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (474 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Torment: A dark coming-of-age drama about a boarding-school senior, Widgren, terrorized by his sadistic Latin teacher. When Widgren falls for a troubled local girl, Bertha, he finds himself caught up even further in a web of emotional mind games.
Crisis: Urban beauty-shop proprietress Mrs. Jenny arrives in an idyllic rural town one morning to whisk away her 18-year-old daughter, Nelly, whom she abandoned as a child, from the loving woman who raised...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 220 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Despite the success of their last major investigation, Detective Peter Wendel's Cold Case Unit has hardly risen in esteem at the police station. Besides which, they are understaffed and distracted: Jorma has quit, Caijsa's maternity leave is looming, and Peter isn't doing well after finally accepting his brother's suicide. But everything changes when a colleague is found killed. Peter knew the dead officer, who was also a close friend of Urban, his...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 268 min) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In An Event in autumn, Wallander finds the remains of a young woman buried at the back of his garden. When another woman's body washes up on the shore, Wallander searches for the connection. In The Dogs of Riga, the corpses of two Latvian men, covered in mafia tattoos, are discovered in Ystad harbor. When Wallander travels to Riga in search of the killers, he becomes entangled in a web of corruption. And in Before the frost, a childhood friend of...
Series
Criterion collection volume 766
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (168 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows the transition of a working-class boy into adulthood during World War I, in an industrializing rural Sweden.
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVd (79 mi.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Lena (Ingrid Bergman) is in love with her married boss, Johan (Lars Hanson), in this romantic drama that takes Sweden's declining birth rate as a backdrop and stirred up controversy with its depiction of abortion. While Lena dreams of marriage and motherhood, Johan's wife is staunchly unmaternal. Johan and Lena have a chance to be together, but their happiness is threatened by blackmail and murder. The great Victor Sjöström plays Lena's fiercely...
18) Easy money
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A poor business student is drawn into a world of crime when he falls in love with an heiress and begins mingling with Stockholm's wealthy elite.
19) Autumn sonata
Series
Criterion collection volume 60
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An international concert pianist visits her grown daughter after a seven-year absence. Aching with the memory of her mother's neglect, the introverted daughter explodes into a rage and the reunion turns into a shattering confrontation.
Series
Criterion collection volume 181
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide.
Description
Tells the tale of Lena, a young woman on her personal quest to understand the social and political conditions in 1960's Sweden, as well as the exploration of her own sexual identity. She shatters taboos as if there are no lines between fact and fiction.
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