Jan Troell Movies

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

A small local radio station in the city of Trelleborg, Sweden. Very important to its listeners. A friend in the air.

The film depicts some people's innocent presence a weekday at the World Trade Center in New York. The powerful architecture of the twin tower still...

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

An interview with director Jan Troell, conducted by critic Peter Cowie, on his epic Oscar-nominated masterpieces, The Emigrants (1971) and The New...

A train passes the village Stångby in the countryside. Three-year-old Åsa comes running naked along a street and into a modern villa,...

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...

Movement, glance, rhythm and hints. Meetings on fragrant meadows and in enclosed training rooms. Joy, sweat, disciplined training and physical...

An artistic representation of Halland, Sweden. Four girls dressed in four different colors represent the four regions and rivers (Viskan, Ätran,...