Jan Troell Movies

Documentary about the making of Swedish film director Jan Troell's "The New Land" (1971) and "The Emigrants" (1972).

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

Jan Troell portrays the friend and photographer Georg Oddner. For more than half a century, from 1950 arriving in New York, Georg Oddner has lived...

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

A tribute and portrait of the Swedish filmmaker Bo Widerberg. Thommy Berggren presents slices and comments on Widerberg.

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...

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...

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...

Pianist Hans Pålsson is asked to write music for his friend Claes Eklundh's artwork. A documentary which shows the two men and their creating...

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Jan Troell's 2008 film "Everlasting Moments."

About the difficulty of finding its way.

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

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

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