Jan Troell Filmes

A portrait of Swedish film maker Jan Troell.

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

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

Jan Troell presents a brief, contemplative work centered on the problem of orientation and the challenge of finding direction. The film is structured...

A portrait of Radio SMT 92.8, a small local radio station in Trelleborg, Sweden, and its importance to the community it serves. The film observes how...

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

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

A little boy is standing on a platform at the railway station in Malmö, looking at a steam locomotive that is going to leave for Simrishamn. The...

Jan Troell turns the camera toward his own life and work, assembling a flowing mosaic of film excerpts, personal recordings, landscapes, and fleeting...

From 1957 to 1961 170.000 Algerians flee to Tunisia because of the war. Most of them walk by feet across the mountains and the desert, carrying only...

Protagonist Johan Ekberg has apparently worked at the railway, but is now relegated to a passive existence as a pensioner. He walks through the city...

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