Jan Troell Movies

Sören Mårtensson is a middle school teacher. His classroom occupied by half-grown children. His work is tormenting him and at night he is...

A tale of a young woman, Britt, who has two flings, but finds herself with difficult decisions when she finds herself pregnant.

A tribute and portrait of the Swedish filmmaker Bo Widerberg. Thommy Berggren presents slices and comments on Widerberg.

When Yohanna started the first grade in school, her classmates began bullying her. She kept getting bullied for six years. This is her story.

Jan Troell portrays the friend and photographer Georg Oddner. For more than half a century, from 1950 arriving in New York, Georg Oddner has lived...

Pianist Hans Pålsson is asked to write music for his friend Claes Eklundh's artwork. A documentary which shows the two men and their creating...

For nine years in the 1950s, Jan Troell worked as a teacher at the Sorgenfri primary school in Malmö (an experience he drew on for his study of...

A portrait of Radio SMT 92.8, a small local radio station in Trelleborg, Sweden, and its importance to the community it serves. The film observes how...

"Porträtt av Åsa" observes the everyday life of Åsa, a young child growing up in rural Sweden. Through quiet, observational scenes...

A lonely teacher muddles through a midlife crisis as he navigates romantic relationships and tries his hand at composing experimental music.

1966 - when Bob Dylan visits Sweden and Prime Minister Erlander has a difficult time with questions about housing. A special evening at the opera is...

Four short stories from Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland.

In room 1112 at hotel Riverton during Göteborg's 2011 film festival, director Jonas Selberg Augustsén brings together some of Sweden's...

A little boy is standing on a platform at the railway station in Malmö, looking at a steam locomotive that is going to leave for Simrishamn. The...

Aa self-indulgent TV theater dramatization of Sigmund Freud's thesis on Leonardo da Vinci.

A young Swedish boy tries to enjoy his birthday with his mother in the maternity ward and his father having forgotten about the occasion.

"Land of Dreams" - When the daughter Johanna is born in 1983, Jan Troell tells the story about his childhood Sweden and how things were when he...

1964 - the year when Astrid Lindgren's 'Vi på Saltkråkan' is shown on TV, UN Swedes smuggle weapons, Khrushchev is visiting, car testing...