Movies: Pernilla August

A poetic portrait of the Russian writer, revolutionary, diplomat and feminist Alexandra Kollontai....

The Time-Bomb waiting to go off reflects the fear of the times in which we live. It’s central character, an important government minister, finds himself squeezed between the pressures of political office and the very real, personal security threat th...

A fantasy about repression and hidden menace....

A roundtable conversation was recorded for television in 2007 at the Stockholm International Film Festival....

As the successful actor Ingrid arrives at her daughter's 35th birthday party, her unexpected return is not as well received as she has hoped. Instead, her years as an absent mother come to the fore and the gap between mother and daughter are felt to ...

The Scandinavian countries are consistently at the top of the World Happiness Report, which is published each year by the UN. In the last 100 years, Scandinavia has managed to create a society based on solidarity, peace, tolerance and democracy. What...

A short Swedish drama feature....

A film about Alfred Nobel....

We follow Henrik Ibsen throughout his life. From early shame over his father's bankruptcy, via bitterness over the then conservative public life, to his older years as a national institution that tourists gathered to watch on their way to their very ...

A young girl is torn between marrying the old man herr Sleeman for money or the young hunter out of love....

Britt-Marie, a woman in her sixties, decides to leave her husband and start anew. Having been a housewife for most of her life and living in the small backwater town of Borg with few jobs available, she soon finds herself fending a youth football tea...

Saint Birgitta is probably the strangest woman in Swedish history - mother of eight, prophet, politician and the only Swede canonized by the Pope. Historical documentary series with Pernilla August in the role of Birgitta....