Sven Nykvist Movies

The beautiful student Katja shocks the conservative and rigid city of Wadköping by appearing in tail-coat on the big prom.

Based on the classic children’s story, seven orphan siblings and their goat make a difficult journey over the mountains to find new parents.

Documentary on production designer Anna Asp's work with director Andrey Tarkovsky, during the shooting of his film Offret (The Sacrifice).

Albert Engström's anecdotes of Småland have been put together to make a comedy film about Johannes and Cornelius, two smallholding farmers...

Portrait of the Swedish poet Dan Andersson (1888-1920). Brought up during poor conditions he finds work as a temperance preacher and educator. Bored...

In the beginning of WW II a Swedish ship in a northern French port is exposed to German air raids. The captain take a chance to leave the port...

What to do if you are stuck as a police officer in a boring small town, no decent crimes happen and you should actually make the big career at the...

A con artist arrives to a small island to swingle money from the fishermen.

Filmed around the time of the 1989 Oscars this documentary includes interviews with foreign filmmakers from a variety of disciplines about their...

From Bjørnson's novels about romance in 19th century Norway. Thorbjörn Granliden is raised severely by his parents who notice that he is...

Mattsson is a fisherman and widower in the Stockholm archipelago. He has two adult daughters that help run the household, Magda and Lena. Lena...

The singing vagabond Loffe suddenly becomes a man of the law.

A documentary behind the scenes of Ingmar Bergman's The Magic Flute.

Anna and Karl are a young couple in Stockholm, unable to find an apartment of their own. However, they play matchmakers to make their friends Fredrik...

A Swedish scientist couple comes to a small African village to fight malaria.

Bertil Lund works at the wholesaling company Everything for the Baby. The supervisor Fredriksson is considering promoting him to vice-president but...

A missionary film by photographer Sven Nykvist.

The film shows four women moving in a crowded, closed room to the music of Monteverdi. They represent women living by passing on a role that is...

Peter Brooks' adaptation of Carmen by Mérimée and Bizet.