Stig Björkman

A portrait of Denmark's most acclaimed and controversial director, Lars von Trier. A meeting with von Trier on a private level as well as with his film universe. Filmmaker Stig Björkman follow von Trier during a period of more than two years, meet him at work, at home and at leisure. Written by Fredrik Klasson

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This is the IMDB entry for the Scandinavia episode of The Century of Cinema series of documentaries. They were broadcast on television as a series but I think also shown at film festivals as individual films.

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The Scandinavian entry in the BFI's Century of Cinema series of documentaries

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Torun and Mikael have been married for a few years. When vacationing on the Danish coast, their young son Melker accidentally drowns. Torun initially blames her sister, who was supposed to supervise her children. Later she turns her anger and grief against her husband. Since none of them know what to do with their feelings, they start to drift apart.

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A documentary about repetition. People from different professions give their view on what repetition means to them.

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In 1984, ten Swedish directors joined together in the trading company Filmgrupp 10 HB to jointly produce a period document in the form of film.

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A Swedish writer is visiting Morocco. At his hotel, he stays next door to an Italian couple. He becomes obsessed with the woman, spying and following her. One night she knocks on his door.

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A psychological drama. The action takes place within a few hours in a woman's life. She is burdened by the decision whether she should leave husband and child in favor of an American she has fallen in love with.

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Literature graduate Orlando begins a love affair with the Foreign Ministry official Anders. She follows him to Argentina. There she learns that he is already married.

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A day in the life of Monika, an ordinary, modern (ca.1975) Swedish woman. Her surroundings are a lot sleeker than her daily existence, though; she's unemployed, her husband is gone, and she's alone in the midst of what ought to be the good life.

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Portrait of Ingmar Bergman, made while he was working on The Touch, about his professional and private life in the early 1970s.

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A singer whose companion hates whites falls for a white U.S. photographer in Sweden.

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This short opens with a confrontation between a Customs officer and Melbourne actress Robin Bryning naked in a tin trunk.

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How and why people refused military service in Sweden at the end of the 1960s. This is the reasoning of the Minister of Defense and the friends of non-violence and pacifists.

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Helena and Sten are a couple but the relationship is falling apart.

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About the "aware, free and unrestrained modern woman" Anna Susanna.

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An experimental short film about a young woman in a modern city environment in Stockholm

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Rarely in the history of the cinema, a company films productions will have marked the history and the culture of its country like "Svensk Filmindustri". Since its creation in 1919 by Charles Magnusson, Svensk Filmindustri have produced 1200 films including the major works of Mauritz Stiller, Victor Sjöström and Ingmar Bergman. The uncontested talent of the actresses Greta Garbo and Ingrid Bergman have given Swedish cinema a world recognition, a cinema that celebrates the power of the forces of nature, and where the inner life of its characters remains in our memories.

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A portrait of Denmark's most acclaimed and controversial director, Lars von Trier. A meeting with von Trier on a private level as well as with his film universe. Filmmaker Stig Björkman follow von Trier during a period of more than two years, meet him at work, at home and at leisure. Written by Fredrik Klasson

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Young children have adventures in a fantasy world.

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A psychological drama. The action takes place within a few hours in a woman's life. She is burdened by the decision whether she should leave husband and child in favor of an American she has fallen in love with.

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Literature graduate Orlando begins a love affair with the Foreign Ministry official Anders. She follows him to Argentina. There she learns that he is already married.

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Denmark is in deep crisis: the country is hit by general strike, during the holding of a NATO summit in Copenhagen. Meanwhile, a minister is kidnapped by extremists, and state power cracks down against politically-active leftists.

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A day in the life of Monika, an ordinary, modern (ca.1975) Swedish woman. Her surroundings are a lot sleeker than her daily existence, though; she's unemployed, her husband is gone, and she's alone in the midst of what ought to be the good life.

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How and why people refused military service in Sweden at the end of the 1960s. This is the reasoning of the Minister of Defense and the friends of non-violence and pacifists.

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Helena and Sten are a couple but the relationship is falling apart.

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About the "aware, free and unrestrained modern woman" Anna Susanna.

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