The Journey to Melonia
After a shipwreck, a motley group of people end up in a paradise island called Melonia; two of them have sinister plans related to a nightmarish place called Plutonia. Per…
Hemsöborna: Ett yrväder i skärgården
Foto: SVT ”Han kom som ett yrväder en aprilafton och hade ett höganäskrus i en svångrem om halsen.” Få svenska böcker har en lika minnesvärd och citerad inledning som August…
Fanny and Alexander: Dark Christmas
Bertil Guve. Photo: SFI Ingmar Bergman would have been 100 years old next year, so in his honor Stockholm’s leading department store dedicated their annual Christmas window display to Fanny…
Virgin Spring: Faith and Fury
Birgitta Pettersson and Tor Isedal. Photo: SF Perhaps the most controversial of Ingmar Bergman’s films, The Virgin Spring was banned in Fort Worth, Texas because of its infamous rape scene,…
Ronia, the Robber’s Daughter
After a lightning strike that split a castle in half, two rivaling families of bandits occupy separate halves; one day, their kids do the one thing they can’t – become…
Bokhandlaren som slutade bada
Bokhandlaren Jacob (Allan Edwall) blir förälskad i världsvane Amelie (Margaretha Krook), men hon har en mörk hemlighet som avslöjas... Jarl Kulles regidebut är en av de mest sevärda Fritiof Nilsson…